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JUAREZ MEETING OFF TO GOOD START. Patronage Greater and Enthusiasm Keener This Season Than That at Previous Openings. El Paso, Texas, November 29. The opening days ! of the 1913-1914 meeting of the Jockey Club Juarez were marked by more liberal patronage and enthusiastic Interest than ever before in the history of this winter race course. The patronage has been remarkable for its high class, the best of El Pasos citizens being among the big throng, besides many notables from cities like New York, Chicago, St. IiOuis, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Ixmisville, San Francisco. Denver, Los Angeles and New Orleans. It has always been the rule here that no matter how brilliant the opening, the meetings have continued to improve and after the holidays the patronage from tourists has always greatly Increased. Judging by the past, it seems safe to predict that the season just launched here will prove" the most successful season held at this cours to date. This fall the weather is absolutely ideal In this section. It Is just like Juue in Kentucky, witli the trees in leaf and the grass as green as in the spring time in the blue grass regions of America. With Juarez racing as a pastime, HI Paso is a pleasant place in -which to spend the winter months. Seldom indeed does it happen that the sun fails to shine here, consequently the rigors of a northern winter are never experienced here. For lwth horsemen and horses it is surely a delightful place in the winter mouths. .Manager M. J. Winu and his associates, in selecting, Juarez as a. site for the greatest winter race track ever laid out on the American border, secured a spot that is destined to ultimately become the winter Mecca of all American racing folks. In less than live years it has already taken high rank under adverse conditions. Only two favorites won this afternoon, but the other four winners were well backed and their victories made inroads in the layers bankrolls. A good sized crowd was on hand and the races were well contested. Duriu. well-thought of by owner John Iwe, won the opening scramble. Brookileld. a eastoff of K. U. Bradleys, defeated Superstition with ease in the feature. The Texas crowd to a man had a wager on Royal Dolly, owned locally by J. E. Dwyer. Word was received at Juarez this morning that Richard C. Benson, trainer for the well-known east ! ern turfman and patron of thoroughbred racing, James Butler will leave New York the coming week with a carload of the yearlings which Mr. Butler purchased from the Keene estate last spring. Tlie shipment will comprise some of the most royally bred youngsters on tlie turf and will prove quite an addition to tlie large number of yearlings already here. Mr. Benson will turn the shipment over to John Lowe, who will train and race them here, while Benson will return to the east to take up the rest of tlie yearlings owned by his employer with a view to preparing them for raciug on tlie New York tracks the coming season. James Shilling, the Texas turfman, and brother of jockey C. II. Shilling, arrived today. His horses. Set and Virgle Caandse, will arrive Tuesday from Hot Springs, Ark. Fred Fenchler, one of the stockholders of the Jockey Club Juarez, came in from Chihuahua. He expects to remain for tlie season. Presiding Steward Charles F. Price appears to lie In better health than at any time since coming to Juarez. Much interest centers around tlie big band of yearlings that F. I. Weir has quartered at the Juarez course. Tills skilled trainer developed the champion two-year-old of 1013, Old Roseben, at his track last winter, and among the Other yearlings lie brought here last fall were the good two-year-old winners Edith W., Aunt -Mamie and Ida Lavinia. This season his yearlings number thirteen. They are all a royally-bred band and are sure to figure extensively in the early 1914 two-year-old racing at Juarez, and probably later on at the big spring and summer meetings in Kentucky and elsewhere in America. Only one in the collection has so far been named, that being the brown colt by Singleton Typical which lie secured privately from J. L. Madden, which will race under the name of Type. The others are: Brown colt by St. Savin Belle Swift. Bay colt by Mexican Eastern Shore. Brown colt by Hastings Wild Bess. Chestnut gelding by Yankee Hazing. Bay gelding by Ogden or King Hanover Lambent. Chestnut til Iy by Prince of Melbourne Dainty. Brown filly by Peep oDay Hauoverlne. Chestnut filly by Peep oDay Hattie Walker. Bav lllly by Yankee Busy Maid. Bay lllly by Yankee Dicker. Bav tillv by Yankee Laughing Elsie. Brown iilly by Stalwart Ariadne. Of these, tlie Belle Swift colt is a half brother to Incision and eight other winners; the Hazing gelding is a half brotlier to Aunt Mamie: the Hauoverine tillv is a half sister to the Latonia Derby winner, Joe Morris; ami tlie Dicker filly is u half-sister to Miss Edith. Dainty" and Lambent, which figure as the dam of two of the Weir yearlings, were superior race horses, while the Busy Maid lllly claims as her granddain the famous Rupesta, the best filly among the two-year-olds of her season. Weir never before had so many yearlings. Tom Hatfield, Louisville trainer, is making his first visit this season at the Juarez track. He brought here to race one two-year-old and the older performers Strike Out and Cloud Chief. Hatfield thinks the Mexico course the best track to- race a horse over that lie has ever seen and he is sure to be a regular here with his stable in the future, lie let J. W. Hedrick have his good old horse. Emperor William, and that stallion made a season this year in Pennsylvania, having been mated last spring to some thirty mares. Hedrick recently wrote Hatfield that there is a chance of the sou of Sain standing training the coming season and lie intimated that lie may attempt to get Emperor William back to the races. Hatfield thinks in time this horse will prove a successful sire, as he is a grand individual and if lie transmits his quality to his get. lie is certain to sire a superb looking lot of colts and llllles. Gynior. a two-year-old Oily in A. B. Spreckels stable, which contracted pneumonia on the ears during tlie trip from Louisville to the Juarez course last week and died upon her arrival here, was hot a total loss to her owner, as she was insured for ,000. Tlie California turfman carries some insurance on all his horses and, while tlie premiums he pays count up considerably In the course of a year, his experience shows that it pays in the long run. Gvmers case is one in point. Tills tilly was only niced once bv trainer C. AV; Carroll, having started at-Louisville in tlie fall. She was quite promising and richly bred, being by Voorhees Saccharate. All the rest of the Spreckels horses reached the Juarez course in superb condition and as most of the string are eligible to events for maidens, before tlie meeting is far advanced no doubt the baud uuder trainer Carrolls care will have a good winning record. . ... T. H. Crist lias named the only yearling he at present lias in training. The youngster, which is quite a promising racing prospect, will be known on the turf as Voiitella. She is a bay tilly by Joe Carey Sain Shot, the dam of Platinum, by Sain, and will be entered for the principal juvenile events to be run at Juarez during tlie coming winter. Jockev R. Small will do ho riding at Juarez this season, uliless it Is on lifjf own horses or those of J. W. Fuller. Small has seven horses of bis own in training here and is also helping to look after the Fuller string, which is made up of no less than eighteen horses. None of these twenty-five horses has raced since last spring. In October Fuller took some of his horses to Dallas, intending to race them there during the Texas State fair, but rain that fell just before the meeting kept him from getting tlie members or tlie stable in anything like racing condition and shortly after he shipped them to Juarez. There are four yearlings in the string. The Texas turfman has other youngsters of this age. but they will not be taken up for training untii after the tirst of tlie year. The four yearlings now in the Fuller stable at the Jockey Club Juarez track are all by Maichmout II., the sire of Injury.
