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GOOD HORSES IN JUAREZ HANDICAP. Secretary Jasper Announces List of Thirty -Five Eligibles for Opening Day Feature. El Paso. Tex., November 19. Secretary Ed Jasper has compiled the entries for the vauious stakes to he run at the Jockey Club Juarez track the coming winter, which closed on November 1. Chief -interest at present centers in the Juarez Handicap, a ,500 event for all ages at six furlongs, that is to be the feature of the opening of the 100 days or more winter meeting at this course" on Thanksgiving Day. Thursday, November 27. This stake has thirty-live nominations.- including some of the most noted horses that will race tiie coming winter. The list includes Iron Mask, Roamer, Hobnob, El Paiomar, Orb. Sir Fret fill. Gold of Ophir. Thistle Belle. Napa Nick, Pay Streak, Jim Basey, Vested Rights, Redpatli, Gordon Russell, Colquitt.-Dorothy Dean, Colonel Marchmout, Kootenay. John D. Wakefield. Useeit. Hardy. Anytime. Foundation, Con-iiaught. Truly, Pan Zareta, Closer, Emerald Gein, Zim. Upright, Seneca, Mrs. Gamp, Mimorioso, Edith W. and Undaunted. In addition to tills event, on the opening day there are to lie five other good races of the overnight variety and the total of the money added for tills days sport is ,500. All the other stake events filled well anil are on a par in class with the Juarez Handicap. The track of the Jockey Club Juarez is now in excellent condition, as the weather here has been simply ideal. Recent heavy showers greatly benefited the course. From present indications It will he faster this season than ever before for an orient n;; day. There are now about 700 horses quartered in the stables at the course and the prospects were never so bright for great racing here. El Paso is now entertaining more visitors, though the opening is still a week away, than ever before 011 the eve of the beginning of racing here. Manager M. J. Winn is due to arrive here within the next twenty-four hours. The officials already hero include Acting-Manager H. F. Brelvogel and Secretary Ed Jasper. The war scare is locally regarded as of little moment. Three or four race horses were taken by drunken followers of Villas army have been returned to their stalls none the worse for their absence from the training quarters. What firing took place between the troops of both sides in Juarez did not break a paue of glass or splinter a post on the Juarez track. t
