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j jFAVORITES FAVORITES BOWLED OVEK JUAREZ FIELDS ARE SMALLER BUT PUBLIC FAILS TO PICK ANY WINNERS Joe Blair Is Victim of Bad Racing Luck in Days DaysFeature Feature and Fails to Place Purse Going to Im Imperator perator in Hot Drive with Grapeshot El Paso Tex March 27 The patrons of racing at Juarez this afternoon enjoyed a respite from the big and unwieldy fields that havo been the rule at the Mexican course for some time past but the public found the Winners hard tt pick nevertheless An allowance race at fiveeighths of a mile that brought titiethor such speedy sprinters as Joe Blair Imperator King Worth Grapcshot and Itoadmnstcr was the outstanding feature of the days racing Joe Blair was regarded as having the purse at his mercy but he was the victim of bad luck in the early part of the race on accmmt of having an inner rail position and was compelled to fall back out of contention Grapeshot set a sizzling pace all the way and it was only in the last stride that the wellbacked third choice Imperator got up to win by a nose The race was run in 58 58Not Not a favorite was nninltercil among the winners KaliInla was generally looked upon as the probable winner of the opening race but was easily bateii by Phyllis Antoinette the second choice Ella Pa trotic and Barnard wore heads apart in tho order named at the finish of the second Emelda was the favorite and was never prominent Another close finish marked the third in which Tower acted as pacemaker and lasted to beat Doc Allen by a neck Pay Streak whoso recent form has boon anything but good was installed first choice for this race and ran as dismally as in his recent starts startsButter Butter Hall was looked upon as best of those en ¬ gaged in tho fifth but third was the best ho could do Ann Tilly and Quid Nunc being placed ahead of him as named The sixtli yaw both the favorite and tho second choice Faleada and Bonnies Buck unplaced at tho finish Dalston won the purse in a drive with Oblivion Pride of Lismore completed the list of tlu days beaten favorites Ho ran ab ¬ solutely last in the closing dash which went to Uio ciMlit of Mario OBrien OBrienTlie Tlie stewards have refused the further entry of Pay Streak as he has developed Into a confirmed bleeder bleederMarie Marie OHrien was bid up from U 0 to 500 tiy R Jarette a former liookmaker and became his property propertyiMose iMose Newman a brother to Hart Newman pad his first visit to the course this season Ho intends to closeSalvation enjoy the racing until tho close Salvation which was mated last season to some of the choicest mares owned by A 15 Sprcckels and is still at the Napa Stud where he will end his days Salvation is now 2 years old which is just the age his famous sins Salvator was when the latter died at Elinomlorf Stud in Kentucky in inoit The famous California breeder secured tho grandson of imported Prince Charlie in order to obtain some fillies for future broodmares on blood lines which have made breeding successes for more than a cen ¬ tury of racing both in this country and abroad Although Salvation has already lived as long as his noted sire lie is still a vigorous horse and promises to bo effective for a year or two yet to come Horses appear to liv longer in the far west than they do in Kentucky and judging by Salvations present condition lie may not pass away for several years Trainer C W Carroll shipped the Sprevkels stable to Maryland from hero this spring instead of to Kentucky as ho contemplated doing when ho brought tho string to Juarez from California He said that had ho any horses of account older than two years old in the stable he would have gone to Louisville but as he has 22 youngsters in charge he went oast with the expectation of wooding out the stable and retaining only about half a dozen of thorn to make up the threeyearold division of this big racing aggregation in lOlli There are annually raised at Napa Farm a big band of colts and fillies and as they are all trained and raced each season by their owner every year there must be a goodly number disposed of to make room for the now mem ¬ bers of this the biggest racing stable now repre ¬ senting California on the American turf turfCal Cal Cnrn a fiveyearold gelding by Stem Winder now running hero is conceded to bo tho smallest mature horse in training Ho stands scarcely 14 hands one inch high and is built on tho linos of a minature horse all over So small is this gelding that ho does not oven come up to the requirements of polo pony racing for tho reason that he is so slight of frame that he would 12 unable to carry the weightKay required weight Kay Spence who had to undergo a sovera opera ¬ tion recently is now mending rapidly and will soon be able to leave for Kentucky in tho opinion of tin doctor attending him The few horses lu still has racing hero will remain until the end of the moot ¬ ing and arc being looked after for the Missouri turfman by trainer E T OConnell Spence has closed up all his business with the heirs of Dr J F Keith and what horses ho will race from now on will be owned by himself with tlie exception of those W 1 Weber owns that will remain ill his stable Speneo hears good reports of the condition of his crack fouryearold Hodge from tho gold ings training grounds in Kentucky and he looks for that son of Ivan the Terrible to approach this sea ¬ son his record as a twoyearold in 1M when ho won no less than fifteen race raceTlie Tlie report that jockey J Callahan Intends to quit tho saddle K incorrect as he contemplates riding before the present Juarez meeting comes to a close While ho has become interested in a business ven ¬ ture in this city lie has a partner in his invest ¬ ment and has no intention of quitting the track as long as ho can ride at his present light weight Ho has about recovered from the effects of his recent injury and expects to begin exorcising horses to get back into riding Condition within the next ten days Cal ¬ lahan has made quite a record in the saddle in tin last six years during which period lie has won lli races He is still able to ride at loss than one hundred pounds
