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HEARING THE END AT JUAREZ I j ONLY THREE WEEKS MORE OF RACING AT MEXICAN COURSE THIS SEASON. Tourists Patronizing: Sport in Increasing Numbers " as Close of Meeting- Approaches Three " Stakes Still to Be Run. . Kl Paso, Tex., February 2S. -Beginning tomorrow 1 -i Jockey Cluli Juarez will enter tiion the tinal mco weeks of its Ions winter meeting. Uliero are I n,,vo stakes yer to lie run. including the Chapultepec 1 1 1 i ti T i -;i 1 1. fur three-year-olds, three-quarters of a 1 . sei lor tomorrow: lhe Dos Itepuhticas Handi- ;rp- fur three-year-olds anil upward, seven-eighths J a iiiile, and the Supremo Makes, for two-year- 1 lis. .iie-liall mile. I he latter event is set for I s .Iclay, .March 15. while the los Bcpubiicas Handi- i -,. will lie run on Sunday. March S. There were entries for tin- Chapultepec llamliea ami several lhe starters in Hiis .5110 stake tomorrow will - I lure as entries in such iniportnnt races in Kcil-Mii l.y this spring us lhe Kentuc ky Derby, 0,000 . thd. l.atonia Derby. ,,omi added anil the Ken- j- i H-i v Ilamlirap, .0,000 added. These embrace k Ilodgc, Milton Itobloo, Kins Worth, Bird Man, j liiug. Kcdpalh, Orlt, l.larney and Manganese, ami I lliere is a lierliy possibility at the Juarez eourse j i will irihalily develop in Uiis stake. The great Im Xarctn won this stake last season with 122 pounds up. heating Iolipiilt. Truly. Vested Uiglns. , l.euili, Gasket, Stout Heart, Kl Paloiuar, Hasson . i.d Idle Tale In l:!:.1.-,. i.ast year was the first ,ie lliis event was run as a three-year-old stake. s the present meeting goes on into its last , i mull, the patronage appears to constantly increase , i.d many tourists have lately visited the eourse. a , ii imhei of whom had never before seen the Mexican , tinek. Some of these are llecing from the eold ii the north and east to eujoy for a few weeks a , winter climate which this season has been as : iialuiy :ind pleasant as spring time. They will j eoi.M- earlier anotiier winter ami their reports of , heir experiences is sure to help along the Juarez , mfr. . uv3Ui of JJU-t-ltU.".. .. ., V-v Weather and track conditions were ideal toduy ; lid il. patronage was if the same goodly propor- i lis that has been the rule of late. The feature of , iu ;iy was the Bio Blanco Jlandicap. an overnight , r.i.ee lhat had attracted seven entries, including grovc. Boh Ilensley, Orliu Kripp, Captain llurus. licit Getty, Roy and .apt. Marcluuont, tin- last i amed of which was making his racing debut. Ces-fcruve was the top weight and ruled a receding second choice. lie won by a neck from the favorite. Hob II nsley. in a hard drive, and Orlin Kripp was a lose up third. Daylight and Jimli, winners of the two opening aces were quoted at liberal odds in tin; betting. TIi-W followed the success of a favorite, The Mouk. : ihltinu. the winner of the fifth race, was also a lirst eh-nee. although of the receding sort. Liberal odds were laid against Ocean Queen, winner of the Hosing race. W. S. Heath let it he known today that he will race in Kentucky during the coming spring and summer. He will nominate his good three-year-old. Othi ll.i, for tile Kentucky and Uitonia Bcrbys and lor the valuable Kentucky Handicap. A. L. Kirhy, who has been handling the horses that J. 1$. Kespess sent here, is conliued to his apartment in this city with a severe attack of pneumonia. H. J. OConnell will have three horses to take liack to Kentucky to race the coming spring, after having disposed of his interest in Emerald Gem, General Villa and Anna Rose. The trio which lie will ship to Louisville at the close of lhe Jockey Club Juarez meeting are the three-year-olds Tigella, Kip Van Winkle and Boquiraui. None of this trio has won here, this winter, but they were not raced excessively and will be fairly fresh horses when they reach Kentucky. OConnell thinks Itequiram will be a useful til 1 y when the summer racing season rolls around, as she was not at her best as a two-year-old until after she went to Canada from Louisville late last spring. While Itequiram does not possess as brilliant a turn of speed as Emerald Ceiu, horsemen look uiion her as a better racing prospect all around than her late stable companion, which has shown anything but good post manners 1 in all of her recent races, while Itequiram is an xcccdingly good actor at the harrier. Trainer A. L. Kirhy. in buying the four-year-old 1 til ! v Garden of Allah from AY. 1!. Carson for J. II. Kespess, secured the daughter of Star Shoot for the stud. lie will take her to Kentucky with his stable when tlie meeting here is over and sooner or later she will be united with Dick Welles. Garden of Allah won six races as a two-year-old in 101.2. She was bred by Col. H. F. Clay in the Kuimymede Stud and her dam, Francis Hindoo, is fashionably bred. There is a demand for daughters of Star Shoot for stud matrons. W. J. Weber has bought for Kentucky racing I this season the six-year-old Furlong from J. Wilkins for .5Mi. This horse recently arrived from San Anionic. Texas, at the Juarez course. Weber may start him a time or two during the closing days of lhe meeting here just to lit him for early racing in the blue grass state. Furlong is a son of Hen Howard and Goorgie M., and raced impressively at the Juarez course last season. He never raced as a two or three-year-old. He is an exceedingly good-looking horse and if he meets with no training accident is likely to pav his way in Kentucky this season, as Mr. Weber will race him in selling races. Wilkins won occasionally witli him, but most of the lime he asked the horse to do too much. J. 0. Ferris will campaign his stable in Kentucky this season, with the hope of picking up some useful : horses to race at the next meeting here and perhaps also during the late summer and early fall at Vancouver and other far western courses. Jockey George Molesworth will go to Kentucky with the Ferris stable and ride as a free lance at Lexington, Louisville and Latonia. when not engaged for horses owned by his Tennessee employer. Molesworth had a good season in Kentucky in 1911. though he was injured in the spring of that year there and did not ride from May until fall. He had the honor of piloting Governor Gray when that noted gelding defeated Meridian in the Blue Grass Stakes at Lexington and he was also up on Messenger Boy wlicu hat horse won the inaugural Kentucky Eudurauce Slakes. Daisy Stevens, a daughter of Stalwart and Ariadne, hv Hamburg, which recently graduated from the maiden class in F. I. Weirs colors at odds of u25 to 1, is named for the wife of Hal Stevens, the Now York caterer who has the bar and restaurant privileges at the Jockey Club Juarez course. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stevens had a bet on the filly when she won. Daisv Stevens will be entered by her owner for the Debutante and Clipsetta Stakes in Kentucky this spring, along with Miss Fielder. Busy Edith and Ida. W. C Clancv ihas decided to take a rest from racing for a while at the close of the present Jockey Club Juarez meeting and before the sport ends here for the season, he will dispose of all of his horses at puilic sale unless he has been fortunate enough to previously sell them privately. His string con-sists of Gemmell, Little Jane, Kenneth, Garter. Booster, Balgee. Cosgrove, Peerless, Summerhill and Black Welles and it has been one of the most consistent stables here this season. Some of the . j- k j j , . , , , , , : j , , ., ; , , 1 I Clancy string have been remarkably frequent winners and more than one of his veterans are at pre- I sent at their best. Little Jane in particular can I be mentioned in this connection, she never before I having been quite as good as at present. Clancy 1 has not slated his intentions for the sca-on after he 1 sells his string, hut it is understood that he will 1 probably go to New York in the late spring lo p ir- I licipate in lhe revival of the sport in earnest thcie S this year. $ Wade McLcmore makes it a rule to mate his thor-oughbred mares so they will not foal until April J or May. He thinks the Texas climate is not suited -J to early foals and he has met with success with colts and lillics foaled during the two closing months of spring. Mr. McLemores greatest strike has -been with Dolly Haymaii. the daui of that good mare Meadow. This remarkable broodmares career -has been highly sensational. She was bred in Cali- -fornia by A. B. Spreckels and the Texas turfman paid .ri."0 for her when she joined his stable. Her dam died when she was three days old and she was ; taisiil ly-,ihe Ixittle. She nroved a high-class ik- ; foriiier Tin fneltirT7S?nIngJnl hnderl:19 : and running other creditable races. In the spring : of her four-year-old form, in a race at Los Angfles. : she broke a loot and after much diflic.ilty was finally shipped to the Mcl.cmoro ranch in Texas. Though j she was mated to Leonid that svring. she was si badly crippled that she laid around in the fields till , that summer, and her owner expected every day to hear that she was dead. As fall came on. however-she began to improve and the winter saw her in good condition. The following spring she gave ; birth to Lesta, her lirst foal and the following sea- , sou she produced Meadow. Mcl.enioie then mated , her to Macy ami the produce of that mating was ! tin- winner Ladv Macy. Next she was mated with ! Abe Frank and produced another winner in Lawn. . She has since been mated every year with Leonid and her foals are Truly. Hay and a yearling sister to .Meadow now at the McLemore ranch. Had Hay not recently been taken sick here and thrown out of training, he would, in the opinion of good judges, been another winner to the credit of this broodmare. Hi- is the only one of her produce that has failed to win. Mr. McLemore thinks Hay is her greatest prospect as a race horse, being the only coil she has yet foaled, and if he gets over his present sickness he will ship him to the ranch and make no attempt to train him until next season when lie is a three-year-old. Dolly Hayman is barren this year, but she will shortly lie mated again to Leonid, a horse that proved a bargain for the Texas breeder, who only paid ,300 for the son of Hastings when he purchased him for stock purposes. Meadow and Truly are two of Dolly Ilaymans produce that no money can buy from Mr. McLemore. Meadow goes to the stud this season and Truly will follow her there when her racing days are over. .Meadow retires wilii a record of 40 races won and earnings amounting to 7,077, a most creditable showing in these days. Trainer Joe Youngs Auto Bun lias gone wrong in training and as he cannot atTord to carry him along until another season, he lias decided to dispose of him as soon as a buyer comes along, looking for a four-year-old for stud purposes. Tlie city of San Antonio recently purchased the Fair Grounds property at that place for .f."iS,000, and at a fair now in prospect for that city during the coming fall, a running race program, in addition to trotting races, will be provided. It is said. Thor- oughbred breeders in Texas will make a strong effort next winter to get a racing bill passed in the legis-i lature to permit meetings ol short duration under racing commission rule as in Kentucky, with the pari-mutuel system of betting. The chief cities to operate tracks in case racing is thus legalized in Texas are Dallas, Iort Worth, Houston and San Antonio. Supporters of racing in Texas think the prospects are bright for the passage of a racing bill next winter.
