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PLENTY OF HORSES FOR JUAREZ. Management of Mexican Track Is Figuring On from 800 to 900 at Time of Opening. El Paso, Tex., October 31. The shipment of horses scheduled to leave Latonia for Juarez November U, will be the greatest special raciug train that ever left any race track, to take part in winter racing.- There will be not less than twenty carloads of horses in this shipment, and perhaps even ; more. Ten of these cars are what are known as ; three door express cars, in each of which fifteen horses can be stalled comfortably and safely. The other cars in use for this big shipment can accomodate twelve horses. Already at the .Tbckey Club Juarez track there are a number of stables, which came from points in Canada and various other places in the middle west, also from Texas and Oklahoma. There will be quite a shipment ateo from the Maryland tracks and several of the big eastern stables will ship divisions of their strings here from New York. It is estimated that from S00 to 900 horses will be stabled at the Juarez. course by the opening day of tlie meeting, November 20. All that come will be assured of the best of stable accomodations, as there are more than 1,200 stalls available at this great plant aiid every one is in first class condition, sanitary and. otherwise. The one hundred or more days of racing in 1914-19ir at this great racing park will undoubtedly be a brilliant success. Ever since the Juarez track was opened in 1909:1910 it has always attracted the best of patronage, both from the ranks of horsemen and the general public. While it has its own rules, necessary on .account of its location in a country foreign to America, those rules conform to the rules of the American Jockey Club and are also similar in many respects to the rules which govern the race tracks of Kentucky under Racing Commission supervision. As a consequence turfmen not in good standing anywhere in the world are unable 1o find a refugo at this, now the greatest of all winter race tracks. A great array of riders will be seen in the saddle during the coining Juarez meeting. Tliese embrace many of the leading jockeys of this season in America, as well -a some of the crack American riders who have lately returned, to this country from England. Germany and France. This list includes J. McCahey, W. W. Taylor, F. Murphy, J. OBrien, A. Mott, A. Ncylon. Lv Gentry, E. Haynes, J. Kedcris, J. Metcalf. E. Martin, J. Hanover, F. Keogh, C. BoreL C. Van Duseu. G. W; .. .Carroll.. J. Campbell, C. Gross... L.TInrtwcll;- .Tv Loftns, T. Rice.-ai.MaTIandJ. jWcabe. E. McKwen, R. Small, F. Teaban; E. Penny pnd some of the best of tne latest developments in the apprentice line. James Butler will race the biggest string he lias yet had to represent him at the Juarez track, and the coming meeting there will also bring the debut on the turf of the Cleveland turfman. Price Mc-Kinney, who will have that much talked alwut coming three-year-old lllly. Ghetto Girl and several coming two-year-olds in his string, all out of young mares bred by the late J. It. Keene. Messrs. Butler and McKinney expect to snend considerable time this winter at the Juarez course. The horses that will participate in the racing this season at Juarez embrace many of the most popular as well as brilliant performers now on the turf and the youngsters which will take part in the two-year-old raciug there in 1915 are perhaps the most valuable and richly bred lot of this age ever shipped for raciug to any winter track. It may be that the two-year-old of 1915 that shines the brightest this winter at Juarez will return north and race as successfully as Old Itosebud. Hawthorn and Last Coin. Two-year-old racing always begins at Juarez on New Years Day. The youngsters are first asked to run three furlongs and later on the distance is increased to three and a half furlongs and finally to half a mile. One thing that makes Juarez the most attractive of winter race tracks is the fact that no better hotel accommodations can lie found any where than is now possible to secure here in Id Paso. Many of the leading horsemen and turfmen who spend the winter taking part in the racing at Juarez have their own homes and apartments in El Paso, and these accommodations are in buildings built on the most up-to-date lines and with all modern improvements and conveniences. Tlie railroad facilitfes leading from all points of America to EI Paso are unsurpassed. This border city is the gateway to California and Mexico anl is surely most appropriately named. El Paso being in Spanish "The Pass." A number of the traius running out of Chicago. St. Louis and New Orleans to El Paso are palaces on wheels, with every convenience and comfort known to the best class of the traveling. Some of these trains make no local stops whatever between the cities"" named and El Paso and only halt by the wayside to take on coal, water or supplies. It will be the sixth racing season of the Jockey Club Juarez. Annually the management of tk;.-Juarez track has announced a hundred or more days of racing and they have never failed to make good this promise to horsemen. As a feature of the long meeting last season, extending to on hundred and fourteen racing days. Manager M. J. Winn announced an increase iii purses for the closing days " of the meeting. This season a further increase has been announced.
