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TIMELY GOSSIP FROM JUAREZ. El Paso, Tex.. December 20. Racing at Juarez this season lias already been attended by some spectacular features. Four times, up to date, the mile has been run in ltetter than 1:38. and twice has the track record for five and a half furlongs been lowered. In one of the latter performances Pan Zareta ran the distance in 1:04 tinder the remarkable impost, for a three-year-old filly, of 124 pounds. This time equals Bringhursts American mark made at Churchill Downs, Louisville, last fall, when that smart two-year-old gelding- beat lieochares, Black Toney and Hawthorn, with 92 pounds up. As the winter advances and the cream of the S00 horses now quartered at the Juarez course begin to race, it will not lxs surprising should many of the American records be reduced. The track was in jierfcct condition up to Monday last when the first rain of the season fell. When there is no wind during the running of a race, horses perhaps run faster here than at any other spot on earth. The bigh altitude seems to help them in developing dazzling flights of speed. Pan Zareta has surely been a racing queen at Juarez. Up to date, she has won 13 times in the three seasons she has raced here, out of 18 starts. In four of the races In which she was beaten she ran second. All told she has won so far 2S races, including 13 as a two-year-old, and 15 as three-year-old. She is surely a worthy representative of her sire, Abe Frank, a distinguished descendant of Hanover. Unfortunately, the Newman stable has no yearling this season out of Caddie Griffith, the dam of Pan Zareta and of Calisse, winner of the Debutante and Clipsetta Stakes In Kentucky in 1911, as this now famous daughter of Raiicocns was barren in the season of 1912. Turfmen will keenly watch for the first colt that she foals, as any mare capable in successive seasons of producing two such stake winning fillies as Calisse and Pan Zareta may reasonably be expected some day to drop a colt of sterling merit. As his track manners have greatly improved, trainer L. L. Fitzgerald has decided not to geld his yearling black colt, which has been named Dr. Cauu. out of compliment to the paddock judge at Douglas Park, Churchill Downs and Latonia. Fitzgerald thinks highly of this youngster and expects him to win early in 1914 as a two-year-old. He Is a colt of unusual size and being a son of Cesarion may be expected to come to hand early. This youngster has a likely stable companion of the same age by St. Savin, which possesses much quality and is close in kin to Leonidas, which ran second to Hamburg Belle in the Futurity of 1903. These youngsters have done so well for this horsemen since their arrival at Juarez that he may next season go in more extensively for yearlings than ever before. When Vested Rights recently ran seven furlongs in 1:24 at Juarez and lowered the track record for that distance, he was still two seconds behind Rose-bens American record, made at Belmont Park in 1900. Nevertheless, he scored a sensational win. His race is two-fifths of a second faster than Jack Atkins Canadian record and has been eclipsed on only three three occasions in this country. At Santa Anita Park iu 190S Prince Ahmed ran the distance in 1:23, and in 1907 at Belmont Park the unbeaten Colin ran the distance in 1:23, but his performance was scored in the Champagne Stakes, mm over the straight course. Like Pan Zareta. Vested Bights is a product of the Newman ranch in Texiis and is a son of the Hanover sire. Abe Frauk, out of Gun Bessie, by Lord Dalmeny. He won five races as a two-year-old last seasou and he has won six races so far this year. His last performances indicate that he may stay as well as sprint. The Newman stable has a yearling half brother to Vested Rights, the youngster being bay in color and by the richly bred sire, St. Savin. Mr. Newman scut Our Bessie to Kentucky to lo mated with St. Savin in the spring of 1912 and tills handsome youngster is the result of the mating. G. L. Blackford, a Texas turfman, has a band of seven lusty looking yearlings at Juarez, in charge of trainer Wi E. CottrelK Six of the number are by the good race horse Meelick. winner of the Pasadena and Great Eastern Handicaps. Sapphire Stakes and Los Angeles, California and Crescent City Derbys. while the other Is by Lithos, a son of Brittauic. All of the Blackford yearlings have been named. The one by Lithos is a bay colt called Skinny B., and is out of Apple Bloom, by Cayuga, a brother to the tilly Casanova, the first two-year- old to win at Juarez in 1912. The youngsters by Meelick are as follows: Dcngro, ch. c, out of Gay and Festive. Lady James, ch. f, out of Behoove. Meelicka, ch. f. out of Glassweed. Mcelinkle, b. c, out of Lady Winkle. Silver Blossom, ch. f, out of Dona Hamilton. Vampire, ch. c, out of Paschal. Of these coming two-year-olds, Meelinkle is a half brother to Redpath, Dengro a half brother to Colonel McDougall, Lady James a half sister to Rosa Bonheur and Vampire a half brother to Lodestone. J. II. Mead has gelded his yearling, Dan Moran, by -Czar Adelaide Royer, by Sain, and will not attempt to race the youngster here until late in the meeting. His other yearling. Uncle Joe, by Filigrane looks like an early comer and Mr. Mead expects to race him in the first two-year-old contests at the Juarez track next month. Wade McLemore has written trainer T. B. Mun-ford that his weanling sister to the noted mare. Meadow, has developed into one of the finest-looking youngsters ever foaled at bis ranch and that she even outlooks Hay, the yearling brother to Meadow, which has recently been working brilliantly at the Juarez course. This valuable weanling filly is a brown in color and In this respect bears a marked resemblance to her famous sister. Mr. McLemore expects to make an early visit to Juarez and will spend quite a period here this winter. He wants to see Hay race and if he fulfils his yearling promise he, intends., to . enter him. .in .many stakes on the. Jiig -tracks throughout the. country the eomitig spring and for all the big Derby races of America in 1015. Earl Linnell will shortly retire from the turf. He has only the two-year-old Osaple in tralplng at Juarez and he lias made arrangements to turn that, horse over to another to handle within the next few days. 31r. Linnell intends to einbark in the real estate business in California. He likes racing, but as he failed last fall to secure a band of yearlings he made an offer for, he has concluded to drop out on account of only having one horse and little prospect of picking up anything but selling platers in the near future. Linnell lias been prominent on the turf for the last decade and during that period lias trained and raced a number of horses of note. He operated ;on the New York and. California tracks and for several seasons was well up in the winning list. Black Mate, Big Stick, Oxer, Amou, Ymir and Irish Gentleman arc some of the horses with which his name will ever be connected when the turf achievements of the horses named are referred to. James Butler, of New York, has sent eleven of his yearlings to the Juarez track in charge of trainer B. C. Benson. That horseman will remain here about six weeks and then return east to take up the other twenty-four yearlings now running out at the Butler farm. These make up the band he purchased from the estate of the late James B. Keene, paying over 1913.sh0,000 for the lot. The division lie has here consists of three colts and eight fillies and all look as if they will come to hand early. Mr. Butler originally bought thirty-seven yearlings from the Keene estate, but two have died. One of the youngsters he lost was a half-brother to Sysonby, one of the greatest performers that ever carried the Keene colors. He was beaten only once and his turf earnings totaled S4,438. Horsemen expect great things of the Butler stable In the two-year-old racing of 1914. He has a collection of colts and fillies that in Mr. Keenes lifetime would have been held well nigh priceless. The yearlings at Juarez in the stable of Early Wright, owned by W. H. Dupee, a wealthy Cali-fornian. are eight in number, four being colts and four fillies. Three of the colts and the four fillies are by Salvation, while the other colt is by Rey Hindoo, a son of an American Derby winner, Bey el Santa Anita. The latter youngster, a chestnut in color, is out of La Sinaioa. Those by Salvation are: Bay filly, out of La Cerita. Brown colt, out of La Beine Empress. Chestnut colt, out of Illusion. Chestnut colt, out of Chico. Chestnut filly, out of Colonia. Chestnut filly, out of Armadora. Chestnut filly, out of Escarolai Comstock and Lawrence, the California breeders, who raised these colts and fillies, regard them as. the best lot of yearlings ever shipped from their ranch, and in size and general conformation they compare favorably with any yearlings now at the Juarez track.
