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HANDICAP TO LIGHT WEIGHT ORANGE BLOSSOM WINS AT JUAREZ IN CLOSE FINISH. WITH COSGROVE. Long Odds Obtainable Against Winners Chances Public Pick Winners in Races Contested by Unwieldy Fields Gossip from Mexican Course. El Paso, Tex., March 14. Large fields of wel!-tnatclied horses provided I lie siori :il Juarez today, t xccpl ill the fourth iiml sixth races. The former was a live anil a half furlong handicap fur three year olds and over anil was contested ly six sprinters of fiiir quality. Cosgrove, from the stable of V. . laney, I he lop weight, was looked upon by Hit layers as l he probable winner, but was rejected iy the lalenl in favor of King Worth and Furlong, which two brought up the rear at the finish. The Jighlly-wcightcd unino l.lossoin. the extreme outsider of the race, made all the pace and lasted to win by a neck from Cosgrove, with Lady Panchit-i ;i beaten off third. In spile of tlie unwieldiness of the Held. Ihe public choice. Fa fuer, was returned winner of tiw. opening dash loud Chief, quoted at Jo lo I, won the second I. y a neck from Sharper Knight and First Star, the I msI named being the favorite of the race. The i lii i rd race resulted in victory for another favorite when .Miss Clark was first at the linlsii, half a length in advance of Veno Von. Napa Nick won the iiflli by a wide margin, with Nifty, another long shot, ami Pajaroita. the favorite. uplaccd. The sixth also went to tin credit of an outsider when Cisko beat Ocean Queen, the lirsl hoice, in a driving finish. The management has announced three ladies days for next week, the final week of the meeting. Monday has been named as the extra day when women wjll be admitted free. Word was received here today from IL I. Wilson, president of the Butte .loekey Club, that the Butte meeting would open July 4 and continue for thirty days. lie stated that the city never was so prosperous as it is at the present time. I,. Burlingaine, father of jockey t. Burlingame. arrived here today from the east. He purchased -ceial l.orses at todays paddock sale to race on western tracks. Ten horses were sold for ,130. The prices offered for some were so small that the owners reserved tlieni. A wire from Robert Leigliton brought word that the Colorado Stale Racing Commission had requested that Manager W. A. Read of the Denver track ar-1 range a surety bond covering the amount, of purses to be distributed during the nineteen days meeting to be given there in June and July. This action was taken because of the indebtedness to horsemen resulting from the last meeting that was given there. Mr. Read lias gone to Vancouver to arrange tlie matter. S. .1. Kellev has decided to retire his mares Roberta and Kthcl Wicks, and a few days ago they were mated to the young horse Groat Jubiiee and sent to the ranch K el ley has recently bought for thoroughbred breeding purposes at Yslcta. aliout twelve miles from HI Paso. RolR-rta and Ethel Wicks are both riehiy-bred mares, the former being : daughter or Ort Wells, out of the good ior-fonner, Sweet Rillie, while the latter is by the good race horse, Kthelbcrt, out of Miss Wicks. Groat Jubilee is :t brother to the Kentucky Derby v Inner. Worth, and is an extra tine looking horse. licfore departing for Kentucky Dr. C. Canii applied the liring irons to several horses at the Jockey flub Juarez course. Velie Forty, owned by Mrs. II. Armstrong, was lired for knee trouble and for the same ailment he lired Droll for Howard Oots, While Jauicl. owned by S. A. Itcckham, underwent the ordeal for knee anil ankle ailments. All these borses will be out of training until summer, if their owners follows Dr. Canns advice. II. T. Ratchler will do no racing until the summer season after the Juarez meeting closes, owing to Ills good three-year-old r.Iarney going wrong in bis last start here. Mr. Ratchler blistered the coll and turned him out of training. lie thinks that by resting him at the farm for a month or two he will be ready to be put in training again in July or August. Blarney is one of the most promising colts of his age raced at Juarez this season. Early in tlie meeting he defeated in on" race such useful three-year-olds as Editll W.. It Itll Man, Manganese, Milton Roblee. Ding, Emerald Cent, Redpath and Osaple. His going wrong was a blow to his veteran owner, and had lie remained onnd it Is likely that turfman would have- been seen on the Kentucky tracks this spring witli his stable for the first time in several years. Defore leaving Juarez track this spring Mr. Ratchler will sell Dad Stearnes and turn Dr. Railey back to the owner of that colt, which will leave liini only two horses liesldes Rlarney lo ship back to his Texas farm. These are John Hurie and Ralchler. p. Sheridan will take Rubicon II and the throe-voar old tillv Gylti to Kentucky at the close of the ineetlng here. His speedy gelding Rack Ray, which he turned out in Kentucky last fall when the La-tonla meeting ended, was recently taken tip for training. Sheridan looks upon Gylfi as a promising tillv. He has had some luck in racing, as for instance he bought Rack Ray for 00 and only paid 00 for Rubicon II. Trainer F. D. Weir hears fine reports as to Old Rosebud, since that Kentucky Derby favorite has reached his Louisville training quarters. Tlie great gelding was recently measured and in girth exceeded his temporary stable companion, Orover Hughes. This illustrates how the son of Uncle has tilled out during the last winter and his development in every way, according to report, is all that could be desired. Trainer Weir said a few days ago that he intended to point him for his spring engagements with only the big stakes in view and that it was likely Old Rosebud would not face the barrier in 1014 until he goes to the post in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Col. W. E. Applegate has had some talk with several who have asked hint to set a price on the crack two-year-old of 1013. II. C. Applegate, in whose colors the great gelding raced, is likely to be the man who will be selected by his racing partners to name I lie price for Old Rosebud. There is no doubt that the 0,000 added "by I lie New Louisville Jockey Club lo the Kentucky Derby this year, has something to do with the inquiries as t" le price asked for the noted son of Incle. It unquestionably would take a big sum of money lo buy Old Rosebud, but if he proves as good a three-year-old as he did a two-year-old, with such events in sight as tlie Kentucky Derby, 0,000 added; the Kentucky Handicap, 0,000 added; tho Latonia Derby. 1914.sh,000 added, and the 0,000 Dorval Derby, such a brilliant performer would be cheap at any reasonable price. Oeorge Moreland will have three horses to ship to Kentucky when the Juarez meeting closes, namely Just Red, Miss Cottonwood and Tetnpy Duncan. Tlie latter two are maidens, Miss Cottonwood being a tbree-y car-old and Tempy Duncan a two-year-old. Moreland will so direct to Lexington with his string this spring and after that meeting will send his stable to Louisville to race at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park. He looks for Just Red to be a useful horse in Kentucky this spring. W. B. Carson recently had Dr. Cann Are the lliree-ycar-old John Marshall and will make no attempt to race that horse until summer. Jhn Marshall Is troubled with knee ailment. There Is no weakness in bis tendons so far as is known at the present time. Carson thought well enough of this colt last fall to enter him in several stakes here. Hay. the brother to Meadow, which recently lived through what seemed likely to be a fatal illness, wiil lie in condition to be shipped to Hie McLemore farm at the close of the present meeting. No effort will lie made to train him again until next season, when he will lie a three-year-old. Mc-Leniore was much put out over the ill luck Hay experienced. He believes him to be the nest colt yet raised on his Texas breeding farm and thinks he will prove this next season if lie sustains no ill effects from his sickness as a two-year-old. Dr. J. F. Keith, who recently purchased Nannie McDee as a future stud matron, lias now about twenty broodmares at his breeding farm at Sturgeon. Roone County, Missouri. He is mating them chielly to Tlie Friar, though ho has a few mares in foal to Magistrate, which sire is owned in his neiglilMirhood. Dr. Keith has only six yearlings this season, two being colts and four fillies. These will in due time be turned over to Kay Spence to train and race, the owner of Hodge being in a measure a racing partner of tlie Missouri turfman. Dr. Keith, a practising physician of high standing In Missouri for about forty years, lias long been in love with thoroughbred horses, and having now an abundance of wealth is able to gratify his desiiv of acquiring a band of good mares, from which he hopes in time to breed a number of good winners, lie means to add to his list of stud matrois to some extent in tlie near future and is in fact now in the market for any mares that are promising breeding prospects. Recent work-outs of horses in training at Juarez were its follows: Ada Kenneday Three-eighths in .!0!r,. Ajax Three-eighths in ;a. Ask Ma Three-quarters in 1:10. Ben Greenleaf Half mile in ":. Binocular Seven-eighths in l:STt. Bonanza Half mile in 1. Bula AVelsh Three-quarters in 1:20. Chanticlor Three-eighths in oOf.. Chas. Goetz Three-eighths in :7f.. Chilton Trance Three-quarters in 1:1!1. Dad Stearnes Three-eighths in 39. Duskv Dave Half mile in 515. Dutch Rock Three-quarters in 1:2S. Ed Howard Quarter mile in 23. Edith W. Seven-eighths in 1:40. Ellie May Half mile in 31. Flossie Half mile in 31. Furlong Half mile in 31. Good Intent Five-eighths in 1:07. Gylfi Half mile in 32. Jewel of Asia Three-eighths in .J7. Kemliome Seven-eighths in 1:40. Kid North Half mile in OS. King Radford Three-eighths in :?0. Little Harry Half mile in 33. Little Will Three-quarters in 1:10. Marshal Tilghman Three-eighths in .10. Orimar Lad Three-eighths in S. Palatable Five-eighths in 1:08. Pan Zareta Half mile in 33. Silver Tone Half mile in 52. Sir John Mile in 1:31. Stanlev S. Half mile in 55. The Cinder Three-quarters in 1 :20. Wahaloty Half mile in 52. Weyanoke Three-eighths in 38.
