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STILL MUDDY AT JUAREZ" DAY GIVEN OVER TO INFERIOR SELLING PLATERS EXCEPT IN ONE CASE. *. Circulate Takes the Race for Two-Tear-Olds — - .-Willis Wins for McCarren— Mud Sill Outstays t Mercurium — Billy Joe a Winner. , El Paso, Tex.. liMto 8. — The Juarez traok was still slow for this afternoons raring i" spite of tin* prevalence of fine weather and the going was • again suited to horses that are partial to soft going. Tile card was once more given over to the chea| er J grade of selling platers. The only race without 1 selling conditions was a five-furlongs dash for two- 1 year-olds, for which Dr. I. E. Clarks Bank was 1 backed into odds-ou favoritism. Hank was so slow in getting into his stride that the race was well nigh over before lie figured prominently in the running. The piirse went to Circulate, the second ! choice, which had no difficulty in disposing of Rapid May. the early pacemaker. Bank ran up into third place at the finish. Another maiden emerged from the non-winning class when Bonnies Buck succeeded in In-ating the i poor hand, principally "lias beens." opposed o him in the second race. H* was held in highest esteem for th- race and got up from a slow beginning to lieat Lad in a hard drive. Fortune smiled upon Hugh McCarren when Willis led from barrier rise to the finish in the third race with 10 to 1 quoted against his chances. Auntie furl, the even money choice of the race, was beaten , by Hazel C. for second money. Tl*» f.itirth yielded up the second winning favorite of the day in Billy Joe. carrying the colors of It. 1*. Dickinson. Tlie soft going suited this son of Russell and Etliel T.. but he had to do his prettiest to wrest the purse from the rejuvenated Jake Argent. Another favorite succeeded in scoring in the fifth, which .went lo Category in a drive with the staunchly-backed Safranor. Mud Sill, the well-sup ixirled second choice, took the measure of Mer-ctirium. the receding favorite, for the final race. •Billy J »c was bid up from 00 to 00 by J. M. Shilling, but was retained by K. I*. Dickinson with the usual advance. A. Dwver arrived from San Antonio and was a vi -it...- ; the track to look after stable room for IP. iiis horses, which will reach here in a day or two. s. Itiuusey will pilot the Dwyer horses in their .aces. S. M. Henderson is threatened with pneumonia following the taking of a severe cold. M. J. Winn will spend the holidays at his home in Ix uisville. He plans to leave here aliout December 20. Jockey Guy earner has arrived from his home in ! »•« aiid will be ready to accept mounts in a few-days.
