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: FINE j OUTLOOK FOR JUAREZ CONDITIONS LEAD MANAGER WINN TO PREDICT BEST SEASON IN CLUBS HISTORY. Decision to Run Betting Ring Along Liberal Linos Is Announced and Plea3es Horsemen Fine Field in Prospect for Opening Day Stake. El Paso, Tex., November 23. Manager Matt J. AVinn, of the Jockey Club Juarez, is delighted with the manner in which the improvements that he outlined last spring when he departed for the east have been carried into effect. Tney exceed his expectations and in complimenting Superintendent Keegau upon his arrival from the east, Manager AAriun declared that Juarez is now as line a racing plant as : anv on the North American continent. Fifteen minutes after his arrival from Kentucky Manager Winn, accompanied by Assistant Manager Harry Brievogel and AV. II. Fencliler, treasurer of the club, was on his wav to the course. There he saw opened before his eyes a picture that he con- i ceived in his mind last spring, but which struck Uiin forcibly with its beauty, for even his mind failed to grasp the detals as they unfolded themselves before liim with the entire plant spick and span. His expression was, "It heats them all." The business activity and apparent prosperity of El Paso were among the things that impressed the manager of the Jockey Club Juarez upon his arrival and he predicts the greatest meeting in the history 1 of the Juarez track. He announced that the method of conducting the betting would be different from what it has been in the past two seasons. The association will finance the ring to the extent of 00,000 and will run it along such business lines that there will never be more percentage than twelve upon the bookmakers slates. No wager of any size whatever will be refused, so no matter how big a commission appears it will be accepted in the ring at the price quoted. Col. AA. E. Applegate will have charge of the running of the ring. Nine layers will quote odds on the opening day. It was easy to gather from Manager AAinns remarks iu connection with the announcement that it will not be long before the pari-mutuel system of betting will be inaugurated at the local course. He was the first of the rate tract managers to realize the advantage of.. this style .of wagering, and while it mav be some few years before the system is Installed, it appears certain to come ou other race courses in America. The news regarding the new arrangement in the ring is exceedingly welcome to the patrons of the club, for it means that they can get a wager down upon anv horse at the odds his form warrant. AVith the association handling the ring in the same way as the rest of the plant is managed, the coming season is expected to be the greatest in the history of the course. Probable starters in the Juarez Handicap, the feature of the opening days program, include Pan Zareta. Wilhite. Gipsy Love, Grovcr Hughes, Furlong, Hocnir, Brooklield. Grosvcnor, Othello, King AVorth. John D. Wakefield, Orb and Make Good. It was announced today that the Texas Futurity, long a feature of racing iu connection with the Texas State Fair at Dallas, would be run at Juarez during the latter part of December. This event, as its name indicates, is for Texas-bred two-year-olds, and last vear developed a keen contest, in which ,T. AA. Fullers Marchniont colt Little Will won by the narrowest of margins. A large and representative lot of Texas-bred youngsters is quartered at the course, and the running of the event this season promises to develop the same keen sport that featured its running last year. Applications for stalls by wire received within the past few days makes it certain that there will be considerably over 700 horses at Juarez by the time the meeting opens next Thursday, with at least a hundred more arriving before the first of the year. C. AA. Carroll, trainer for A. B. Spreckels. wired from San Francisco that he had left there with twenty-four horses. It. McCoy wired that he was on his way from Kansas City with Linhiook and Tom Coleman. G. L. Blackford, a Texas turfman, wired from Fort AVorth requesting ten stalls. George M. Aan Gordon, of Danville. Cal., asked for six stalls; the estate of J. J. Ferguson, of AAoodlands, Cal., asked for twelve: E. L. Krip. of Sacremento, Cal., ".r four, and AVilliain M. Mikel, of Carlock, 111., for eight. Late arrivals include AV. Phillips with Eck Davis; II. D. Poyneer, with Bird .Alan; L. A. Haymaker, with Bat Masterson and Amazement: T. B. Moots, with Split Second Chas. A. Harvey and Forger; Mrs. M. E. Dawson, with Bertha AAeaver and Iius-sell, and AV. II. Hendley. with Klma; W. II. Tulley witli Amity, ltockdale. Blue Beard, Chas. Goetz. Kate Shelley and two two-year-olds: I. Toiler, with Little Jane, Henry AAalbank and Island Queen, and Frank McCollum with Beaumont. Out of the nearly seven hundred thoroughbreds already quartered at the Juarez course, most of which "have been shipped from far-off sections of the country, only three have died. Seymour Aeiller lost his recent purchase, Olteilly. from lung fever, while Miller Hendersons Jester, sent bete in charge of AV. II. Flzer. died from the same cause, as did Netherbow. a promising two-year-old in the J. B. Clolier barn. All other horses at Juarez are reported in good physical condition. , AVord has reached here that Miller Henderson, formerly of the well-known firm of Henderson and Hogan,"will ship twelve horses from Lexington to Juarez within the next few days. Word from Maryland brings the information that a coutde of carloads of thoroughbreds will be shipped from Havre de Grace to tlie local course within the next few-days. Local interest in the sport is keen and Thursdays opening is being impatiently awaited. Local merchants are decidedly in favor of the sport, and the green and whte colors of the Jockey Club Juarez are seen everywhere, auguring well for the success of the coming meeting. Charles Dwyer, the only new man among the officials, is a son of the late Michael Dwyer. He will succeed Harry Iloman, who is on tlie sick list, as starting judge. Manager AAinn Is enthusiastic regarding the prospects for a highly successful winter meeting. The horses now here are the best in tlie history of the club. James Butler has not decided when lie will ship his horses here. This means that jockey Borel will not Iks on hand for the opening. Jockey Small will ride for the Yanke stable dur- ing the meeting. Bookmakers Byron MeNutt. of Butte, and Izzy Hamm, of New York, are among the arrivals.
