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DOUBLE EOR J. W. FULLER DOROTHY" DEAN AND BLACK-EYED SUSAN WIN PURSES E0R TEXAN AT JUAREZ. Former Scores in Handicap Feature of Day and Latter Is Bid Up for Large Amount After Taking Final Race of Card. Kl Paso. Tex.. February A high, warm wind blew and at times considerable dust was Hying during the running of the races at Juarez, this afternoon. Five sidling races and one allowance race made up the program and. witli the exception o: the lirst race, which Anion won in a canter, tin card was hotly contested. J. W. Fuller sent two horses to the post and both won. Dorothy Dean beat a good lot in tie fourth race. She was established favorite and re maiiicd so at all times during the betting. Sin went into the lead from tlie rise of the barrit . and when at one stage of the racing it looked as if Belle of Bryn Mawr might make it troublesome fi ber jockey Taylor just let her out a bit and sii-drew away to a handy victory. Bird Man ran a phenomenal race in the fifth, in which he was pitted against a good lot of sprinters. Heretofore he had been racing out in front in nearly all his starts, but today he left the lN.st slowly. ,il though in motion. It looked at one stage of the run ning as if he did not have a chance and he turui-d into the stretch iar behind the Hying leaders, bit little jockey Mott. who is fast coming to the front stuck to the rail and. saving ground all the wa.. . sent him along and stride by stride he wore th m all down and passed Kduioud Adams, the well backed favorite, in the last twenty yards. Black lived Susan, winner of the closing race, was bid up from i;00 to ,000 by J. rmensetter and was bought in by J. W.. Fuller with the customary :?. advance. Price Mclviniiey. of Cleveland. O.. owner of tu: WIckliffe Stud, now located at Kingston Farm, near Lexington, which is owned by K. L. Baker in i under lease to Miss Llizaheth Daingertield. co: tinned today the report he was seeking to pmvhas Mi-Grathiana Farm, comprising 1S4 acres of lin. blue grass land, owned by Beasley Bros. The latter j re cattlemen and purchased the property eight vears ago. Mr. McKiiinev today telegrapned an offer of .o,00. or a little less than S4 an acre. M: . McKinney has a total of thirty-seven thoroughbreds and he believes McGrathiana Farm, which lie in tpicttnj last week, would make an ideal home for tlietu. Ho will leave here Monday for Chihuahua to inspect his mining property near that city. S. N. Holiuau arrived yesterday to solicit entries for the Dorval and King Edward Park stakes. lie will leave here Sunday night for Charleston. Jockey C. Gross aunniUKcil that he would leav f.ir Oakland. CaL. Saturday and rest at his home th-re until spring racing opens in Kentucky.
