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WILL TREAT HORSEMEN LIBERALLY. Management of Jockey Club Juarez Announces Policy for Forthcoming Meeting. El Paso, Tex., October 2S. When the 100 or more days winter race meeting at Juarez is inaugurated on Thanksgiving Day, this community will no doubt llnd Its population increased by four or live thousand peonle. This Is due- to the fact that thoroughbred racing conducted along hlgh-cjass lines has made tills southwestern city the greatest and best winter Tcsort In this section of the country. Racing has been a great factor in the increase of the population of this border city in the past live years. When the Jockey Club Juarez first threw oiien" Its gates in MOD, 35.0CO would have been a liberal estimate of the population. At present it is at least 20,000 more. Hundreds of bcatiful bungalows and apartment houses have been built, old liotels have Iecn remodelled and new ones constructed, the majority of them with the view of accommodating the iutlux of race followers during the Juarez meeting. And this Is not all. The increase In volume of business done by the merchants has caused El Paso to pass from the status of a border town and to become known as a thriving up-to-date, city. "The coming meeting should be the greatest in the history of the Jockey .Club Juarez. All signs point to this. Though there never has. been a shortage of material to draw from, the applications have leen so numerous for reservations this winter that it was found necessary to build 150 additional stalls to accommodate all who desire to come. In contrast to other organizations which are satisfied to go along and exist under stated lines, the Jockey Club Juarez has always adopted a liberal policy and shared Its success with the horsemen. In past years when the organization was feeling its way. the purses were, as a consequence, in line with and only equal to what horsemen expected at winter courses. But success for the club was followed by liberality with the horsemen. General .Manager Matt Winn, who is now conducting the meeting at Laurel, Maryland, has just an-iiouced that the Jockey Club Juarez has decided to add $,"00 a day to the purse moneys, which will total over 40,000 for the one hundred days scheduled, an average of ,400 daily. That a policy of this sort will reap its own reward may be expected. Undoubtedly more and better horses will be seen hen? this winter than ever before. There are only seven closed events scheduled to date, for the reason that stake events with an early closing do not measure up in quality or quantity with those that are held open until a few davs before the- are to be decided. Figuring along these lines. It Is Manager Winns intention to add more of such hugh-class events to his daily programs, an innovation that will be pleasing not alone to the horsemen, hut to the patrons of the course. The stakes for which blanks have been Issued and which will close November 1, are as follows: Juarez Handicap, for all ages, one mile; value ,500. Alio Nuevo Handicap, for all ages, one mile and a sixteenth: value ,500. Dos llepublicas Handicap, all ages, seven furlongs; value ..r,00. EI Paso Stakes Selling, for all ages, one mile; value ,200. Rio Grande Stakes Selling, for all ages, six furlongs; value ,500. Chihuahua Stakes Selling, for two-year-olds, six-furlongs; value ,200. Though the Juarez plant could not well be improved upon, several changes have been made since last season that no doubt will be appreciated. The drainage system was thoroughly overhauled during the summer and put in .perfect working order. There is not the slightest danger of dampness around the stables, a condition that has often given concern at other racing plants. A sick horse is a rarity at Juarez. . . .
