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LOOK FOR GREAT SEASON AT JUAREZ. Expectation Entertained That Approaching Meeting "Will Eclipse Those of Previous "Winters. El Paso, Tex.. November 1. Tlie fifth racing season of the Jockey Club Juarez will begin on Thanksgiving Day, November 27 at Its half million dollar racing plant just across the International border. The racing will take place every day- Sundays included, and will continue for 100 or more racing days. Racing in Mexico is permitted on Sunday, just as baseball and theatrical enterprises are accorded similar privileges in the United States. Until tho Jockey Club Juarez opened Its gates no track with American patronage ever had the right to offer its patrons continuous daily racing, week in and week out, month in and mouth out. Sunday is looked upon as a general holiday in all Latin countries, it should be remembered. Juarez, with tlie California courses closed to racing, now controls winter racing in the west and southwest, and during the past two winters its meetings have been highly successful. At Juarez tho sport is conducted along the same lines as on the big metropolitan tracks, under the protection of racing rules prououueed perfect by the Kentucky State Racing Commission. The manager of the plant.- M. J. Winn, has made an enviable reputation in this line at the New Louisville Jockey Club track in Kentucky, the Empire City track in New York and the Laurel course in Maryland, while the president of the Jockey Club Juarez is J. G. Follans-bec, a member of the Jockey Club and a turfman whose name counts for much wherever racing is held. Associated with these two gentlemen In conducting the winter meetings at Juarez are such eliicient racing ollicials as Judge Charles F. Price, W. II. Shellev, H. F. Brievogel, W. II, Fcuchler and Edward Jasper, while that eminent starter. Mars Cas-sidy, sends the horses away from the barrier. Horsemen, assured by past experience and knowing that Improvements completed this season have made the stables at Juarez unequaled for comfort and convenience, have already made unusually large shipments to the track, there being at present some 75 western owners quartered at the course. To the hundreds of horses already at the track there will be added from Latonia alone, where racing is now going on, not less thnn 230 racers. These horses will leave that track by spceial train on Tuesday, November 11, and arrive at Juarez Friday, November 14. The owners that will be represented in the shipment and the number of horses In each stable are as follows: Jeffersou Livingston. 25; F. D. Weir, 20; E. L. Fitzgerald, 14; P. T. Chiun, 12; Charles W. Gasser, 7: William J. Weber, .5; George B. Moreland. 1; Seymour Veil-ler, 7; Mrs. M. R. Farmer. S; W. C. Clancy. 14; R B. Allen, 1; Earl Linnell, 3; G. B. Morris, 3; Kay Speuce, 10; S. R. Howser. 2: M. Shields. 2; ,T. O. Kecne, 3; J. W. Young, 2; A. L. Austin. 2; W. II. Fizer, 10; W. Elliott, 5; A. O. Dunlap, 5; II. L. Rogers. 3: R. O. Egau. 3; F. M Hopper, 3; A B. Spreckels, 12; C. W. Crowley. C; L. C. Shole, 4; J. II. .Mead. 4; J. B. Respess. 4: J. Kellv. 3: Doerhoefer and West. S: B. E. Chapman. 2; W E. Phillips, 4; F. M. Otis. 3; II. R. Brandt. 2; I. Fisk, 2; C. II. Hughes, 2; J. Deavenport. 4: P. J. Miles, 5; O. K. Herndon. 4. This will be the biggest shipment that ever left any one place for a winter racing track, and with the horses already quartered at Juarez and to come in from other points before the meeting opens on Thanksgiving Day, it is likely that there will be close to 1,000 horses available for the racing. As is well known, the mode of betting at the .Tockev Club Juarez is by bookmaking. with the ever-popular big stands and big slates in use, and the ring is to be open to all reputable layers. On the opening dav ,500 will be distributed in stakes and purses, the feature race being the Juarez Handicap, value ,500, a six-furlongs dash for all ages, which has always resulted in a big tield of high class horses and a brilliant contest. The kind of hotel accommodations that race goers demand are available here in LI Paso, only a few minutes ride from the Juarez course. Tlie same luxuries in this Hue that are provided by New York, Chicago and other great cities are now obtainable here. The roads in El Paso and the country surrounding it are unexcelled and tourists, aware of this fact, do not fail to bring their finest automobiles to this wonderful city of the southwest. Much of its present prosperity is due to the successful management of the Jockey Club Juarez track. Though the meetings of the past two winters were wonderfullv successful, they will undoubtedly be eclipsed by the 100-days season soon to begin.
