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JUAREZ HORSES AND MEN * HOPE ANOTHER LIKE OLD ROSEBUD KAY SPRING FROM COMING TWO-YEAR-OLDS. H 4. Promising Apprentice Riders Attracting Close « r Scrutiny— J. C. Ferris Training a Capital Band t of Racers — I. Striker Flourishing. t t Juarez, Mex., December 12. — As the meeting pro- € gresses here it shows constant improvement in g every detail. Sew faces are now daily seen at the irack and interest grow? steadily. Some of the In-st of the great array of horses quartered here j have now begun to race and from now on the sport is sure to be up Jo the higb standard that has usually marked the long winter meetings at this track. f ginning on January 1, the two-year-olds will in almost daily and there are many promising youngsters now iu the stables at the track. Annually there has been developed here youngsters that haw made a big impression on tbe racing of the whole season of their two-year-old form, including such, stars as Old Rosebud, Hawthorn and Pan Zareta, all of which started for the first time ] here and each won .here its maiden race. I Old Rosebud won the Yucatan Stakes as early as ] February 9. and won a total of twelve races at 1 that age and headed ihe list of money-winning two- ] year-olds of 1913 with 9,057 won and then, as a 1 Ihrec-year-old, came out and won the record Ken- ] tucky Derby. Hawthorn won the same stake on ; February 29 and led the two-year-old race winners j of 1912 with a total of fourteen wins at that age j and was tbe real ante-post favorite for tbe Ken- tucky Derby of 1913. To this day many believe tliat bad he not been stricken with sickness on the eve of the race, he would have won it. Pan Zareta captured the Senoritas Stakes here as early iu the year here as January 14, and has since won a total of fifty-five other races from Mexico to ] Canada. This trio, by their records on the turf, shorn- that early racing is not always injurious to ; the future two-year-olds. There are here at present a remarkable array of 1 promising apprentice riders. One to graduate fro*n the maiden ranks in the last few days is C. Dris- i coll, who won his first race on Sharper Knight re- ! cently for his contract employer, I. Striker. This boy rode a few races in Canada last summer and 1 is quite promising as a jockey of the future, j Striker holds a three year contract on him from I last summer. The boy hails from Chicago. Other i riders of quality in the apprentice class now riding I here are T. Henry, O. Gentry, J. Morys, W. Brazel, C. Hunt, E. Cullen, H. Stearns. H. Phillips and C. ; Mergler. It is safe to say, with no accidents of a serious nature to these young riders that some of them will take high rank as jockeys during the coming racing year of 1916. Of the older riders here, of whom there are a great many, J. Loftus expects to be able to ride as light as 112 pounds and J. McCabe figures on doing 107 pounds all the time, if necessary. L. Gentry will again go to Kentucky next year and ride for J. B. Respess, with trainer A. L. Kirby looking after his outside mounts. He expects to be able to ride as light as 103 pounds here. J. Callahan has begun to get in condition to ride here and is now completely over his recent illness. He took sick before leaving the Maryland tracks for Juarez. A boy riding brilliantly here is A. Mott, and E. Pool is showing all his usual skill, while E. Martin is as good as ever. The latter drew the first suspension of the meeting for rough riding, and Pool next drew a lay-off for the same offense, but Martins sentence was much more severe than that meted out by the stewards to Pool. J. Grotb, the once good western rider, has gone into business in El Paso. He is done with riding and now weighs 137 pounds. j. C. Ferris has here what seems like one of the best strings he has ever campaigned at a winter track. No less than nine members of his present stable were bred and foaled at the Bashford Manor Stud of George J. Long, near Louisville, and only one meinlier of his stable is a yearling, that being a bay colt by Alvescot — Rosemeade. The other eleven members of the stable are Harry L., Raoul, Freeman. Lenore. Alda. Magikon, Rhodes, Asama. Ixila, Violet and Zudora. Harry L. was thought by both trainer Pete Coyne and Mr. Long at one time to have been the best racing prospect this Kentucky stable had possessed since Free Lance carried the Long colors. He proved a diappoint-ment. however, in Kentucky and never raced anywhere to the form be showed in private. It may be he will race differently at the Juarez course and, should he coine back to the marvelous speed lie showed in his work early as a two-year-old, Ferris will have secured one of the bargains of the entire year. Harry L. is a half-brother to Kudolfo, the winner of one Kentucky Handicap and second again in that rich stake to Luke McLuke in 1914. Freeman, another member of the Ferris stable, "was also a disappointment to bis owner: as lie is a half-brother to Free Lance, the Latonia IK rbv winner of 1912. He. too, may improve in tbe air of the Juarez track and prove a good breadwinner for his owner ,. _ J? _- Ike Striker, who but a few years back had not over two horses in his care, now has a string of a round dozen at tbe Juarez track and they are a handy »»and for winter racing. They embrace Rose Oneil. Shari er Knight. Tower. Hearthstone, Field Flower, Irish Kid. Colonel McDougall, Rye Straw Louis des Cognets, Spirella. Jimmie Hunt and Janus. It is a pity lie is a gelding as Hearthstone is bred well enough to be a good sire, being a brother to Highball, winner of the last American Derbv Striker has three mares in Rose Oneil, Field Flower and Spirella that will be a start for film as a breeder when they have to be retired. 4r no race track in the world do veterans of th» tnrf race better than at the Juarez course. Fverv dav nearlv is this illustrated. Only a few 5, • s;nce John Louis ran one of his old-time good i-ices and while be did not win. he was placed •nwi rieht there at the finish. He is now ten years is Swede Sam. which is «, I and of the same age ; «iio racing here and still showing speed. Another Uncle Jimmie Gray, whi m «m timer is the gelding ?BWlns? closing his ninth year. The latter has a wins ami scored his first win record of thirty-four IT two-year-old in 1908. He has been on the i « eight successive seasons and won in every tnrf for Horses at Juarez, as in the far • .... «f these years. w£t of America, seem to last longer in racing • ,,,„ ,,, rc ntuekv and on the eastern tracks. Once I In while a veteran shows up there, but here they eVnumXus » and not a few of them can still run , a good race.
