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TIMELY GOSSIP FROM JUAREZ. Til Paso, Tex., December 117. Racing on each of the seven days of the week is now again the rule at Juarez. This arrangement will continue until the 100 days or more of the present meeting ends next spring. Tnis course is the only race tracK la the world that ever operated u winter meeting seven days each week, thus giving horsemen and the racing public action every twenty-four hours, mouth in and month outifc.?,. In sections artfWfVulted States where racing thrives, racing on Sunday is not allowed. Baseball and theatres turuish Sunday amusement for the public, but the gates of the race tracks remain closed, in Mexico conditions are different. Sunday is regarded here as a holiday and all classes observe the day as such. The early morning hours are devoted to worship, but before noon the days festivities begiu. This explains why the Jockey Club Juarez generally arranges to hare the most attractive races possible on Sunday and accounts for the big crowds that throng the course on such afternoons. In spite of the freedom allowed every manner of amusement in Mexico on Sunday, it is most noticeable that the average Sunday here is as orderly -is Sunday in the big cities of the United States, even in places where the "lid" is tightly on. From now on the meeting at Juarez will enjoy a boom that will reach its height after the holidays are over. Now that peace reigns all along the ltio Grande and the ruling powers of northern Mexico are ardent admirers of racing everything looks rosy for the meeting. With fully 800 horses to furnish the sport and more than GO good jockeys to ride them, the public will soon see racing at this winter track that will be mightily attractive. The best of the horses quartered at Juarez have not yet been to the post, but will be seen in action before long. Jockey A. Murray, now riding at Juarez, has contracted with George Cooney, of Helena, Mont., to ride for him again next summer. Murray rode for Cooney last summer on the Montana tracks with a fair measure of success. The Cooney stable wilt net indulge in a winter campaign this season. Lady Stalwart, Tim Judge, Clint Tucker, Fore Guard. Lay Low and other memlters of this string have been turned out at Helena and will not again be put in training until next spring. The veterans of the Cooney collection are now enjoying the first winters rest they have ever had since they first appeared on the turf. Murray recently celebrated bis thirty-fourth birthday, but is still more active around tiie nice track than many riders a decade or more younger. Ho rode bis first winner on a mile track at Hamilton. Out., his home town in Canada when he was nineteen years old and still claims that city as his home. Price McKinney, who has recently been elected a member of the Jockey Club, expects to be able to arrange his business so as to visit the Juarez track with Messrs. J. G. Follausbee and James Butler early in January. Mr. Butlers two-year-olds will begin racing here soon after the first of the year and as they are mostly out of mares now owned by Mr. McKinney, he has much interest in their performance, aside from the considerations involved in his friendship for Mr. Butler. Before leaving for 1he cast last week, trainer R. C. Benson set at rest a reiort that any of the great band of yearlings owned by Mr. Butler are for sale. The members of ills great string, both at Juarez and in New York, are not for sale for any amount. He recently refused the princely offer of 5,000 for one of his lillies. The entire collection here and in New York, thirty-five head in all, will in their entirety race in Mr. Butlers colors in 1!14. Benson said while here that the brother to Ballot had grown amazingly niiice last summer aud that another grand-looking colt in the collection is the half-brother to Peter Pan. He doubts if either of these two great horses were as good looking as these youngsters at the same age. F. D. Weir has received a letter from Lexington bringing glowing accounts of the superb appearauce of IL C. Applegate and Co.s sensational racer. Old Rosebud, in his winter quarters at J. D. Carrs farm near that city. Trainer Weir expects to have the great gelding taken up late in January to be prepared for bis Kentucky and Latonia Derby engagements. He will send one of his men from here to Lexington at that time to take care of the sou of Uncle until be gets back to Kentucky next spring with his racing stable. Weir has two other horses turned out with Old Rosebud, which will be taken up at the same time, they being Any Port and Grover Hughes. The latter has been gelded since be last raced. Weir says that he hears that Old Rosebud has spread out nud thickened greatly since last fall when he was first thrown out of training. He expects him to prove as- great as a three-year-old as he was us a 1 wo-year-old. When the Juarez mcetin- ends, train or Weir will take his big stable to Churchill Downs at Louisville. He will then have Old Rosebud, Grover Hughes and Any Port transferred from Lexington and the son of Uncle will get his Derby preparation over the Downs track. Old Rosebuds first start in 1!14 will be in the Kentucky Derby unless trainer Weir decides to send him to Lexington to start in the Blue Grass Stakes as a preliminary. Doe Allen, which has won here iwice this season In now passing out of bis tenth year, but still seems to jKissess the speed which marked his earlv racing, in bis last winning performances he ran five fur-lougs in 58, which is close to the record. This Is the fourth season Doc Allen has raced at Juarez and in his career he has won nine races on this course. Three of these he won during the winter of 1910-1911. In the winter of 1911-1912 he won twice. P. A. Dwver, his present owner, bought him about eight years ago from his breeder, J. F. Newman, of Sweetwater, Tex. He claims that he has won over fifty races witli him in this period of time. His sire, Lord Dalmeny, was in the stud at the Newman ranch for a number of years. Like bis son, he was long on the turf and won many races during his career. He was bred bv the elder August Belmont and was a son of The ill-Used, a sire much prized by that distinguished turfman. Lord Dalmeny died about the same time as did Raucoeas, another horse that left an impress on the Texas thoroughbred. Doe Allens dam. Add Ran. was a great race mare in Texas in her dav. She is by Rancocas. out of the famous Sal-lie Johnson. She now has a likely bay yearling filly by Abe Frank in the Newman stable at Juarez. Doc Allen was Add Rails first foal. The eleven yearlings that It. C. Benson brought here to race in James Butlers colors and which have been turned over to John Lowe to train are as follows: Bay colt by Ultimus Half Crown. Chestnut colt by Hippodrome Forbidden Fruit. Chestnut colt by Superman Deity. Bay fillv by Ultimus Chancery. Brown filly by Ultimus Mayfair. Chestnut filly by Superman Geisha. Brown illy by Voter Amhroslne. Brown Illly by Voter Steppiug Stone. Bav lillv by Delhi Skim. Brown lllly by Ben Brush Kunaway Girl. The names selected for these royally bred youngsters have not as yet been registered here. The yearling colt by Singleton, out of the great race mare Tiptoe, by Hastings, which A. A. Gregg recently purchased from Henry McDaniel. is named Slngletoe, A. Belmont, his breeder, conferring this name on the colt before selling him last fall. His dam, Tiptoe, was such a brilliant race mare that horsemen at the Juarez track are keenly watching the progress in training of this youngster and it looks as if Gregg has picked up a bargain in this grandson of St. Simon. James Osborne, chief assistant to starter Mars Cassidy, who has charge of the schooling of the horses at the Jockey Club Juarez course, says that in all his experience he never saw a better broken lot of yearlings than are now quartered here. Manv of the number already go away from the barrier like mature racers and run through the stretch as if already perfectly familiar with racing. There are undoubtedly many coming two-year-olds of quality here this season. News of the death of J. R. Wainwright in California was received with much regret by the turfmen at the Juarez course. The deceased spout several winters here when his string of horses was trained by the late Fred Luzader. Dr. Waldo Briggs. Steel King. Gypsy King. Al Mulier, Tremargo and Posing were some of the horses he raced at the first meeting here, while the next season he came here with the best he had in training, including the good mres Trance and Royal Captive. N. Kennedy, now riding in France, was his jockey in those seasons.
