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RACING GOSSIP FROM JUAREZ. F.l Paso. Texas. February 7. Tomorrow at the Jockev Club Juarez course the Yucatan Stakes, three and a half furlongs, will be decided. This is the lirst stake event of the season bete for two-year-old colts and geldings. Last year the sensational Old Rosebud won this stake and in 1912 it was won by the great Hawthorn, which won V.l other races at that age. In 1011 the distance of this event was half a mile, and Anion, the winner, ran the distance In :WV- which is American record time. K. L. Fitzgerald has gelded his black two-year-old. Dr. Canii, by Cesariou Ruth Parrisli, by Top Gallant, and this richly bred youngster will not race until late spring or early summer. Dr. Cann is a namesake of the Louisville veterinarian, who serves as paddock judge at Douglas Park. Churchill Downs and Latonia. He siiowed brilliant speed as a Yearling last fall. Fulla, a three-y ear-old tilly in A. K. Spreckels stable, which was taken sick at the Juarez course recently and removed to the El Paso side, lias died. She was by Voorhees Gariota, by Crigliton. and wis a promising racing prospect. She was insured for ,000, so her loss was not a total one to her Cali forilia owner. Dr. C. Cann has gelded for Ike Striker the three vear-old Colonel McDougall, which this turfman re-l-entlv claimed out of a race at Juarez from J. I. Ferguson. Therefore, the son of Buck Massie will not race until spring. Dr. Cann has also fired for ankle and knee trouble the lilly Margaret Lowry in P. T. Chinns string and no effort will be made to again" race her until she returns to Kentucky hi the spring. B. A. Jones. Parnell. Mo., turfman and breeder, has bought from J. M. Shilling the six-year-old horse Seth and this performer will be shipped in a few days to the Jones breeding farm for retirement to the stud. Seth raced well us a two-year-old and is bv the great French horse Adam, out of Purity, by Deceiver. He is a half brother to the good winners J. C. Core. Pure Favor and Colonel Preston, and he conies from the family of Freeland, Norfolk and that sensational horse of recent years, Hermis. Sons of Adam are likely to he much sought after in the near future for sires, and Seth will make a worthy companion in the stud to Harrigan and Blues at the Jones breeding farm, which has now a goodly array of stud matrons, principally young mares, most of which have good racing records. Quinlan and Iligel have thrown out of training until next fall, to give her a chance to grow and develop, their two-vear-old winner. Barbarita. Mrs. Nugent, dam or Barbarita. lias a likely yearling bay filly by Sir Irenus. a son of Kismet, by Melton. She is due to foal this- season to J. F. Crowley, a son of Ossary, which William St. Vincent raced with success. Airs, also owned bv these turfmen, is expected to have a foal this season by the great race horse Montgomery, and .Misprision, another mare that they own. is in foal to .1. F. Crowley. Quinlan and Iligel are .now negotiating to buy the live-yea r-old horse Nicias from J. C. Ferris, and if they secure that sou of Sir Iluon thev will in the spring mate Mrs. Nugetit. Airs and Misprision to this young horse, which was once a Kentucky Derby candidate of some promise. Herpes, the seven-year-old daughter of the .second Suburban Handicap winner. Pontine, has done the most successful racing of her entire career at Juarez this winter. She lias won six races at this meeting. She affords a striking illustration of how well some horses do in the winter at the Juarez course. Brook-fields racing furnishes another instance of remarkable Improvement in form. In eight starts here he lias won six races, which is more than he had to his credit hi his whole previous career. In buying lids horse for 00 J. H. Mead surely secured a bargain in this son of Yankee Gun. which has graduated in his hands from the ranks of the selling platers to a handicap performer. Mr. Mead left the Juarez course with his stable last week ami. according to report, was ,000 ahead on the winters campaign, all of whicli can he credited to the winning form displayed by the cast-off from the Bradley stable. Nat Moore, a few years ago prominent among Kentucky trainers, and who raced a stable of horses one winter at Juarez, is now out of racing -entirely and A. is prospering at Rosewell. N. M. where he is engaged in mining. Moore has all his life been a soldier of fortune and is a unique and interesting character. He was for a time a successful showman. The Jockey Club Juarez meeting, as was predicted, has daily improved in patronage and general public interest since the passing of the holiday season and the programs have exceeded in quality and attractiveness those of any winter meeting in recent years. The betting is now fast and furious, with many big operators on hand. Pleasant weather has prevailed here this season. Most of the time it lias been like May and June in the northern states. In fact, conditions have been simplv ideal for man and horses. That the meeting will wind up lu a blaze of glory is conceded. The war clouds have passed from this vicinity and it is now believed that Juarez will enjoy peace and prosperity for many years to come. Already Manager M. J. Winn Is planning a number of improvements for next winter, which will be made while the track is unused in the summer time. The casual observer, in loking over the mammoth plant in its beauty and present magnificence, finds it hard to see where it needs improvement; but Manager Winn can always find a place to make more inviting to the public and what he plans, is carried out. regardless of expense. On account of the floods in California, trainer C. W. Carroll, who has charge of A. B. Spreckels stable, has decided to have none of the two-year-olds owned by Mr. Spreckels shipped here from Napa Stock Farm this winter. He thinks it is too late to get them ready to race during the present Juarez meeting and for this reason regards it as useless to have them sent to join the Spreckels stable here. Trainer Carroll expects to return to Napa in a few weeks and then will select a carload of these youngsters for shipment to Kentucky for the spring and summer meetings at Louisville and Latonia. Before leaving Juarez at the end of the meeting he hopes to dispose of what horses he still has in training here. He came here with ten horses, but three of the string he shipped here from Kentucky died and he has sold two, which leaves him live horses in training at present.
