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1 NOTES OF THE TURF. E. S. Gardner is still breeding thoroughbreds iu Tennessee. He has booked seven mares to Ivan the Terrible this season. W. AV. Darden has a yearling colt bv Ivan the Terrible, out of Miss Crawford, that he thinks is the best looking one ever sired by the sou of Pirate of Penzance. Old Honesty, which was taken to Porto Rico to go into the stud last season, was placed iu training temporarily and won several races in that island before going into permanent retirement. G. L-. Blackford, of Elm View Farm, Denison, Texas, reports the following foals, all bv Meelick: Ray filly Regea, bay filly Lithogene, chestnut colt Katherine Connor, bay colt Behoove, chestnut colt Flash-of-Night, chestnut filly Apple Bloom, chestnut colt Gay and Festive. These mares have all been returned to Meelick. Among the distinguished visitors at Juarez on tho Hosing day of the meeting were Manuel Chao, governor of the state of Chihuahua, who was accompanied by his staff and many officers high in the councils of the constitutionalists. Mrs. Francesco Villa, wife of the constitutionalist army Commander, was also a guest of the Jockey Club Juarez. The following horses were sold bj auction at Juarez last week: Christmas Eve, J. A. Cobtirn, 75; Mary Emily. J. Pelter, 75; Anne McGee, A. B. Sullivan, 95: Wishing Ring, George Linden-burger. 10; Burlington Bess. AV. A. McKinney, 00; Limbus, J. II. Lockie. 00; J. II. Reed. H. C. Adams, 5; Attica, L. L. Haufmau, 1914.sh0; Billy Meyer, II. C. Adams, 1914.sh0. Jockey Robert M. Small, who has attained marked success since he became connected with the J. AV. Fuller stable as trainer at Juarez last fall, will take the pick of the Fuller horses to Canada after they have been given a rest at the ranch of their owner at Wills Point. Texas. In the meantime Small will go to Lexington and Louisville, where he will take out a jockey license and ride for Gallaher Rros. Mr. Fuller is reported to be 0,000 ahead on the Juarez season. M. J. Winn, while at Lexington recentlv, spoke enthusiastically of the prospects of Juarez, which he predicts will, in the near future, be the greatest winter racing resort 011 the North American continent. Tho Juarez course," said Colonel AVinn, "is an ideal one. absolutely level and sale, and the nature or the soil is such that sore and inlirm horses soon regain their lost action." He pointed out thai horses which have raced successfully at Juarez, have con tinned to show good rorm when raced elsewhere. The last time made by the Juarez horses he attributes to the excellence of the track and to the ideal atmospherical conditions prevailing.
