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JUAREZ TRACK MAKES FINE SHOWING. El Paso, Tex., October 24. If there As any;, race v track hi the world that bears the aspect of being a, j i million dollar plant, it surely is the .beautiful ami expensive Juarez track. Its acreage lStai Sreatti thin that of any. other race track, in this country. t Its buildings have a niassiveness in construction that indieates .a vast expenditure of moufey. a d the track itself is the biggest in every way of i uj , course that horses now race over. No such stabling accommodations can be. found anywhere else as m.se tlie horses at Juarez., The wateiv drawn . from ", the great wells at the. Juarez track has been pronounced bv chemists to be absolutely pure. The first meeting at the Jockey Club Juarcztraclc . iu 1009-1910 was of 71 days .duration. 1 hat season ., the improvements at the great- plant were ou in a measure completed and since, tnen fully loO,-000 :. ,1 has Keen spent by the progressive: uiaua,e-meiit of this great track. .Now, aside from its wonderful i showing as a race track, it; pies cuts a i to the visitor the aspect of a beautiful park radiant with tlie tropical pianta that thrive only in: such i, a section as this race course is located in. There is little winter in the northern part of f Mexico where the Juarez track is located. Heie iu Kl Pas.o, across the river- from Juarez, .spring January and what could he P really sets in early in , better called a mild fall than winter. generally prevails l during the mouth of December. It is not extraordinary to. see a. Christinas Day at Juarez with ladies at the track without their wraps and men in their shirt sleeves. The air is always pure, and as little rain or snow falls in this section from November until April, there, is never any dampness to speak of. This explains why horses develop so well and maintain their health and best form at Juarez better than at auy other racing plant in all the world. There have been several winters when 700 to i00 horses have been housed at Juarez, with not a single case of sickness among them. Moreover, it is a climate for winter racing that does not stale horses, as demonstrated by the tuceesses scored by horses that go north from here iu the spring and race with .distinction on the Kentucky. Canadian, and eastern tracks throughout the rest of the season. It is a country or cll-inatie conditions, adapted lii every way to bring horses to their highest form, as illustrated by the racing records of such celebrated stars of the track as Old Rosebud. Hawthorn, Pau Zareta and Last Coin. The coming meeting at Juarez, which will be or r 100 or more days duration, will bring many new stables here. It is the sixth season of winter racing at this course and the high standing of the management of the Juarez plant insures at all times that every obligation promised to the horsemen will be made good beyond any question of doubt. . The meeting this year will begin on Thanksgiving " Day. Novemlwr 20, . and during the season there will be no purse of less than 00 m added ""oliiext Thursday, October "29, eight stakes that are annual lixtures at this course will, close for entries, they being the Juarez, Navnlad Ano Nuevo, Dos Republicas and Chapultepec Handicaps, md the Kl Paso, Rio Grande and Chihuahua Stakes. These events carry from S1.20O to ,500 in value. In addition to these stakes other events will be opened that will close for entries after the meeting has begun. . .. At the close of the Laurel meeting, Manager ,r M. ,r J Winn and his assistant, H. F. Breivogel, as well as Secretary Ed Jasper, will come here to attend to the details of preparation for opening th.-meeting. , Fifteen horses belonging to Kay Spence, C. V . Gasser and W. J. Duim have arrived at. Juarez from Louisville, Ky. Jockeys L. Gaugel. J. Henry and T. Henrv accompanied tins shipment. Tue horses were all in good health on arrival. John Green has arrived from ancouver, B. C.. with four horses. . Jaines OLearv has arrived and taken up his duty of assigning stalls to the incoming horsemej.
