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HORSEMEN BOOKING FOR JUAREZ. Fifteen Carloads of Racers Scheduled to Leave Latonia on Special Train. Cincinnati, O., October 27. The book program for the first six of the 100 days of racing tlie coming winter at Juarez, which is now in press, provides for 110 purse of less than 00. Secretary Ed Jasper will distribute this book among tlie horsemen the coming week, while the stakes already opened for the Juarez season will close next Saturday, November 1. The meeting will open 011 Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 27, when ,500 will be hung up. For the following live days, ,400 is provided for six races each afternoon. Eugene Elrod lias so far booked fifteen carloads of horses, now racing at Latonia, for shipment to Juarez on the special train which will leave here for that track on Tuesday, November 11. Capt. W. H. Fenchler. who, with superintendent Keegan, is attending to the interests of the club at Juarez, has sent word that many of the stables are already occupied with horses, and that applications for stables are coming in there every day from western turfmen who have not already shipped their strings to the track. Captain Fenchler reports that prosperity reigns in Texas and along the Mexican border, and that there is no disturbance within hundreds of miles of Juarez. The citizens of El Paso and Juarez are eager for the opening of the 100-days winter meeting at the Juarez track and indications are that it will be the most successful season of all at this big plant. Superintendent Keegan has the grounds aud the track in superb condition, and everything is practically in readiness for the opening on Thanksgiving Day. Tlie autumn weather so far in this section lias been ideal. All the horses shipped to Juarez from Vancouver and Canadian points arrived there safely and in good condition, with the exception of Rimifax, owned by E. J. Ramsey, which was attacked by pneumonia and died en route.
