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SEASON IS AT ITS HEIGHT rATRONAGE OF RACING AT JUAREZ NOW SHOWING GRATIFYING IMPROVEMENT Closing Date cf Mestins Definitely Set for Sunday SundayApril April 4 Budget of Timely Gossip Gossipfrom from Mexican Course Kl Paso Tex March 0 As now contemplated tuts prurient meeting of the Jockey Club Juarez will close on Easter Sunday which falls this year on April 1 This will provide one hundred anil eighteen racing days for this winters meeting at this great raping plant which is four days longer than the 10JT 1014 meeting which ran for one hundred and fourteen days ami came to a close on March 22 The closing date will be the latest ir the history of the Mexican course as in 19K the finish came on March 21 while in 1912 it was March 24 in 11111 April 2 and in 1910 the oi euing meeting of the big track on February 27 27Tho Tho present meeting illustrates anew that the JocUey Club Juarez always makes pood its promise us to racing dates Since the opening season there has never been a meeting here which has not only run tin hundred racing days advertised but in every instance has gone over the limit The meet Ing here js now showing daily improvement In patronage Many new faces are noticeable in the crowds in attendance and the racing lias been so attractive that many tourists have prolonged their stay in this city to enjoy more of the sport than they had originally planned on From now on the meeting is sure to enjoy marked prosperity and come to a close in brilliant fashion There is a linnet that never again will a meeting here be so handicapped by adverse weather conditions as fell to the lot of racing here in the early part of this winter Such conditions are unusual here and an ¬ other season the whole winter through may be as springlike as it was last season throughout Next season Manager Winn will have the track in such condition that it can be raced over under any weather conditions and no break in the sport even for a day need then occur occurThe The track was virtually back to its normal condi ¬ tion today having recovered from the effects of its drenching f earlier in the week Seven races were irg Titii and there wosjiu particular fiature the card being given over to the selling platers except for tle twoyearold race which was won in a romp by the much improved Frank Patterson whose previous performances in the colors of P T Cliinn hail been so disappointing disappointingThe The talent found the card somewhat puzzling yet managed to land on three of the winners Tony Koch Kenneth and Lenore Cal Cun at 10 to 1 was the only outsider to score In the lifth race which was contested by a fair lot of platers Bculah b beat the wellbacked favorite Mud Sill SillWith With tile return of gcod weather a big week end crowd visited the course and the betting was spirit ¬ ed edThe The ollicial timers watch must have gone wrong again as lie hung out 124 as the time for the last race of the day It was declared nnollicial by the stewards anil no time was hung out outJockey Jockey Cavanaiigh was suspended for live days fur rough riding and M Simmons was given ten days susiHMisioii for a similar offense offenseVlth Vlth the right advisers it is thought that Georg V Winglield may duplicate Marcus Dalys record on the American turf It is due in a large measure to his support that the racing 1111 introduced in Nevada has became a law and being a man of vast wraith now that he can see borses race in his own state it b likely he will invest heavily in thor imglilireds within the next few years lie already lias made some purchases in the thoroughbred line after having for a long time shown a keen admira ¬ tion for thw running horse His recent purchase of Montgomery for his stud may be said to mark the beginning of his career as a breeder and his friends predict that sooner or later he will expand his operations and locome as great a figure on the turf art Marcus Paly and 1 15 llaggin were in the days of old Like Messrs Daly and Haggin Mr Winglield owes his rise in the world of finance to the vast mining interests of the western country Associated with Nat Goodwin Tex Uickard and other prominent men Mr Winglield became a min ¬ ing promoter on a big scale and thus laid the foun ¬ dation of his present enormous fortune lie bought large blocks of stock in the Mohawk mine for as low is 1 cents a share and sold his holdings for 25 i a share Then he invested in Montana and Tonapah mining shares getting this stock for and I cents a share and selling at 7 and S a share In fact i i very investment he made proved a bonanza anil before he was hardlv known outside of Nevada he had become the richest man in that state Wiugtield spet his boyhood days in California going to Ne vana as a youth during the first gold excitement in that state His friends say be is now about forty years old There has hern no racing in Nevada aside from that at fairs since 109 when a meet ¬ ing was held at Ueiio under the rules of the Pacific Ji kev Mnb It is now surmised that race meet ¬ ings will ho held In the near future in several Ne ¬ vada towns including Keno Tonapah Las Vegas and Goldtiehl Keno lias a good track but it new grandstand will have to be built as the old one was destroyed by lire a year or so ago Tonapah and oldtield both have ooil location for mile tracks and It is understood that Mr Wingtield has se tiircil 8ii option on the properties It Is the belief Oi horsemen that racing at Keno under the parl miitncl system of betting can in time be made n reat success The city while not exceeding 115000 n population is a live town and its location will xrmlt it to flraw patronage from other western tics It being only six hours from Sacramento by iHil ten hours from San Francisco and not more than fourteen hours from Sslt Lake City and Ogdeii liif race track Is on the outskirts of the city and its not over ten minutes ride on the street cars from tli center The track needs some work because of Its Mjmewhat rocky soil hut with a proper overhaul ¬ ing can be made into a fine safe and fast course With a backer like Mr Wingtield behind racing at Ueno no doubt the state of Nevada will figure Tcditably in the sport It is regarded here as a good opening for racing in the west and Its suc ¬ cess under the parimutnel system of betting will IluJoubtedly tend towards the revival of racing some lu under the same system of betting In California JUKI other western states that are now closed to the Kport Some of the big cities in these states need only tie initiative of wealthy and enterprising men lke Mr Wingtield and favorable legislation Is sure t tt t follow The idea of such a revival of racing in tin n western states is to provide a chain of short in clings Inginning in June and ending early in October This will also be the program if a raelns bill IK enacted In Texas and the holding of such Hirelings will work to the livuflt of the Jimrcz track It will remain the one winter racing plant of this great potion and each new racing point in the district will be tributary to it itTickey Tickey A Mott has entirely recovered from his recent severe shaking up in a rie when one of his mounts took a tumble with him and is now again Aiwiag the form in the saddle which marked bis work In Kentucky last season when he won the lark Hnndlcap at Churchill Downs and the Lnfrmia Inaugural Handicap with James MeManus Belloo This cupable yomig rider still able to ride as light as 05 iwunds will ride in Kentucky again this year His contract employer N K Moody of Vancouver has already given E C Arnold and Co lirst call on Motts services for the Kentucky tracks this season The Arnold stable is in charge of the Lexington trainer W L Lewis Mr Moody will himself go to Kentucky with Mott this year He still has a threeyear contract on the little rider Good judges of a riders ability among the horse ¬ men here think Mott will do even better in 1015 than he did last season when he was eighth in the list of American jockeys with a total of 105 winning inotints to his credit
