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1 , r , , , , ; i i , i 1 ; : i : ! . JUAREZ OPENING AT HAND LONG WINTER MEETING AT MEXICAN TRACK TO BEGIN THE COMING THURSDAY. Everything in Readiness for Successful Inauguration of Sixth Season of Racing Under Auspicos of Jockey Club Juarez at Course Near El Paso. El Paso, Tex., November 21. Next Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. the sixth winter racing season of the Jockey Club Juarez will be inaugurated. Tin meeting is scheduled to run for one Hundred days or more. Last year the meeting was of 114 days duration and it is likely the coining meeting will even exceed this In length. The Jockey Club Juarez has always been conducted along lines which rule on all great race courses and has furnished an excellent brand of raclug each winter. Its officers and officials have always been men of the highest standing and character. J. G. Fol-lansbee, its president, is a member of the Jockey Club and a New York turfman of renown. James Butler, its vice-president, is one of Americas foremost present-day turfmen aud owns oue of the most extensive stables of horses in training. Matt J. Winn, its manager, is connected in a similar capacity with the New Louisville Jockey Club, at Louisville, Ky., the Empire City track at New York, and the Laurel course in Maryland. W. H. Fcuch-ler, its treasurer, stands high iu business circles in Mexico and the United States. The racing officials at Juarez are all men of the highest integrity and enjoy a national reputation in racing circles. They are engaged during the spring, summer and autumn seasons of the year in filling official positions on the big tracks of the United States and Canada. Visitors to the Juarez course this season will surely be amazed. Improvements made since last spring have apparently produced an aspect of vast-ness that is difficult to describe. With its more than 200 broad acres covered with massive structures, built without regard to cos.t. and with every vacant spot adorned with the most beautiful of tropical plants, the inviting appearance of the grounds can scarcely be excelled. The Improvements include among other things the laying of 25,000 feet of lisnhalt for walks arid approaches to the grand-sfapd. In one- spot set out in plants since last Reason there may now be seen no less than fifteen different varieties of the beautiful semi-tropical plants. Since last season the stables have all been renovated. New kitcliens have been erected and the re-solling of the track makes the course itself safer and faster than ever. One great improvement is the .complete re-arrangement of the offices iu the building set aside for the administration of the affairs of the course. They are not only complete In every detail, but roomy and well furnished. An improvement calling for a big outlay of money is an immense wall just completed that surrounds the big plant. It will be of special service in protecting man and beast from harsh winds and the sand storms that sometimes, even if infrequently, visit this locality. The number of horses now at the track is perhaps greater than at any winter course in recent years, which is remarkable considering the fact that there are less .thoroughbreds in America now than in tweuty years past. The big breeding farms in Kentucky and elsewhere are coming back, but it will be several years before appreciable gaius aro observed. The Juarez course has already made a strong impression in such states as Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, Nevada, Missouri aud Kansas, and many new breeders of thoroughbreds have developed in these sections since the "track first opened for racing in 1009. There are many noted winners of races all over America and even abroad now quartered at the Jockey Club Juarez track, of all ages, from smart two-year-Kld8 to veterans of the turf that still retain their popularity with the racing public. Jockeys who enjoy the highest popularity among race follort-ers will be seen in action at the Juarez .course the coming winter. Some of them are already on the ground keeping themselves in the best possible condition by the daily galloping of horses. Never was the city of El Paso In a more flourishing condition. Its growth in the last few years has been phenomenal and it now covers an area, of ground extending for five .miles from the heart of the business district. The hotel accommodatious have kept pace with the growth of the city, and are first class in every particular. El Paso lias now become one of the most at-: tractive of American cities for winter tourists and it undoubtedly owes much of its present prestige in the great Southwest to its close proximity to the great Jockey Club Juarez race track, which has become, with the outlay of more than half a million dollars, one of the beauty spots of- all Mexico, as well as the most sightly course, horses have ever raced over in the winter time.
