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CLEAR SKIES AT JUAREZ RAIN CEASES AND SUNDAY FINDS BIG CROWD AT MEXICAN TRACK. Ringlimj, Well Served by Sloppy Going, Wins Overnight .Handicap That Has Place of Honor on Program Hackett Stable Takes a Purse. El Paso, Tex., December 20. Todays racing at Juarez took place under a clear sky, but the track was sloppy as a result "of the rain" "that had been falling tor nearly twenty-four hours. Horses at comparatively short odds accounted for most of the races. F. D. Weirs Ringling, especially well served by the muddy going, was returned an easy winner in the mile haudicap for all ages that served as the chief racing event of the day. Outrun in the early part of the race, she ran past the leaders on the last turn and went on to will by herself. That she would give a good account of herself was foreshadowed in the betting. Bryulimah, running coupled with Fathom as the F. S. Hackett entry, finished second aud Hocnir, the top weight of the race, was third. Palma was never headed in the opening dash and scored by a liberal margin over -Blacksheep. Nobleman, from the Yanke stable, was backed into favoritism, in the second and won with ease, Yalla-ha, the early pacemaker, barely lasted to beat Carrie Orme for second monej The first success of the formidable Hackett stable since its arrival from Maryland was scored when Mater won the third race. She was going always in front and her winning margin was four lengths. She was a receding favorite. The consistent Orimar Lad accounted for the fifth. He, too, led all the way by a goodly margin. Mer-curium, which had displaced him in favoritism, was unplaced. Rose Oneil, in accounting for the closing dash, paid the longest odds of any winner of the day, being an outsider in the betting Sleep-land was the runner-up and Lady Innocence, the favorite, came from, far back to be third. The weather was ideal today and a big crowd journeyed to the track. Mater was kicked on the inside of her foreleg while at the post and had an artery cut. She bled profusely after being returned the winner. A. A. Gregg arrived with Little Birdie, Jewel of Asia and Single Toe.
