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JUAREZ RACING TO RESUME MEETING AT MEXICAN COURSE TO CONTINUE TODAY AFTER BRIEF RESPITE. Four-Day Layoff on Account of Adverse Track Conditions Is Over Sport So Far Marked by Keen Enthusiasm. El Paso, Tex., December 5. Keen enthusiasm has so lar marked the winter race meeting going on at the Jockey Club Juarez track. The immense crowd which saw the sport inaugurated there on Thanksgiving Day started the meeting off with a big boom. There is no question but tuat the management of the Jockey Club Juarez stands high in the esteem ot horsemen. Manager AViuu and his associates are leaving nothing undone to make racing even more popular here than ever. No track management ever showed more disposition to make improvements that will benelit the horsemen as wel as the general public, and a single visit influences all classes ot turf patrons to become an nuul followers of the sport here. The Juarez track management has carried into execution every promise made to horsemen. The Juarez management has never announced a race of any description that has uot been duly run off on the date set. for the same. In its second season fifty stakes were announced by tlie management anil every one of these events was run off as programmed, in spite of the fact that the carrying out of Us promises entailed an enormous loss that season. Then, too, in the years following the first and second meetings, when the racing became profitable to the management, instead of applying the. profits to wipe out the early losses, the bulk of the gain lias been spent on improvements to the big racing plant, which is now pronounced by every one second to no race track ever laid out in its completeness. Racing will be resumed tomorrow after a respite of four days. Conditions are favorable and the track is in fair shape. There is a- unanimity of opinion that the layoff was a wise precaution, as the quality of the sport would have suffered had an attempt been made to carry on the racing in spite of adverse track conditions that followed the heavy rain of Tuesday night. Even now the course ijrSTtttl slow. . r"Vhlle the track hasj,.Jiepn iinbad condition the past Tew days, the tvaHlBrOftykfepr their horses la condition by using the roads adjacent to the I ourse fur training purposes. , -Miller lleuderson "has lost a yearling colt by lung fever out of his recent shipment. The colt was by .Star Shoot Queen Dixon. The remainder of his horses are in good health. The string of Joseph Umensetter, which was delayed in Kentucky for some time owing to the sickness of some of the horses has arrived at Juarez. There were fourteen in the shipment, three of which lielong to other owners K. P. Dickerson having I.ackrose. I. P. Jeauuette, Mrs. Mack and the. Newmans Don Cortez. Lady Panchita, and Justice ioebel were left in Kentucky. A. B. Sprcckels has the largest string of horses, in charge of trainer C. AA Carroll, at the Juarez course that he has had since nearly a decade ago, when the sport flourished in California. Trainer Carroll brought here twenty-four horses. One is the uvq-yoar-old gelding Bang!, and another the four-year-old Ventura, a sister to Dr. Leggo. All the rest are yearlings. They are the best band of youngsters, in trainer Carrolls opinion, raised at Napa Stock Ranch in California in a considerable iiumber of years, and he looks for some good stake winners: to 1h developed out of the collection. Three of the yearlings in the Spreckels string are by Puryear D. and the last of the get of that horse, which is now dead. Mr. Spreckels recently bought Salvation, the sire of Jim Basey and other good winners to get a crop or two of colts and fillies by him. Salvation is still iu good condition, in spite of ids advauced age. The other horses Mr. Spreckels had in the stud at Napa Ranch are Voor-liees, Solitaire II.. Dr. Leggo and Big Chief. The first of the get of the latter are now weanlings. Mr, Speekels has promised trainer Carroll that he will make .a visit here in February, when some of his youngsters will be in good racing condition and ho will advise Carroll as to the exact date when be can come, so that he may be assured of good hotel accommodations for a stay of at least three weeks duration. This will mark the first visit of the California millionaire to the Juarez track, though his horses have been racing here ever since the course opened. K. J. OCounell has secured a contract on the apprentice rider, Howard Steins, a lad of eighteen Tears, from Syracuse, N. X., who bas been exercising horses for two years and a half, but has not as yet ridden in a race. The contract runs for three years from Oct. 22 last. He can ride now as light as 9S pounds and the seat he has on a horse and the fearlessness he shows in exercise work indicates that he may have a future as a jockey. J. P. Newman and Son have three two-year-olds in training at Juarez that have never faced the starting barrier. Two of them are sons of the richly-bred sire, St. Savin, which horse is now in Australia. They are named 111 Savin and Serf Savin, and are out of Our Bessie and Sainvoke. These two youngsters were pot put in training last spring, so that they might be given a chance to become fully matured. The one two-year-old that Newman and Co. raced this season by St. Saviu was Don Cortez. which was cut down in a race at Louisville last fall, after having previously won there, and is so highly regarded by them. Now that his racing days are over, he will be given an early chance it the stud. His first breeding mates will be selected from among the daughters of Abe Prank, son of the noted Hanover. This stables other maiden two-year-old, which has not as yet raced, is the filly, Ethel Frank, which like most of the stock coming from the Newman establishment, looks good and is a filly of some promise. This firm intends to race extensively in Kentucky and Canada next season, mid will in 101 J have the largest string they have cr.u-paigped since they begun racing. J. II. Mead has Irish Gentlemen turned out at the Payne farm near Lexington and the son of McGee will not he taken up to be trained until .Mr. Mead returns to Kentucky next spring with the horses he has racing at the Jockey Club Juarez course. He thinks that Irish Gentlemen will come nroiind by spring and race well on the Kentucky tracks again. "Kav Spence, before leaving Kentucky with the stable he now has at the Juarez track, turned out Hodge and the two-year-old filly Commauretta at I Lou Jones National Stock Farm near Louisville. He has arranged with Mr. Joues to take Hodge un about February and let him walk and trot around Miitil he returns to Kentucky next spring with the Jiorses he has here. The great gelding will be engaged next year In all the important all-aged events run on, the Kentucky tracks, including the Kentucky Handicap at Douglas Park, the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs and the Independence Handicap at Latonia. He believes that a winters rest will bring the four-year-old back to the races jiext Reason In the superb form which marked his aiinnlng at Juarez last winter and when he finished second to Old Rosebud in the fastest Kentucky Derhv ever run at Churchill Downs.
