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. : : : : : WINNING TWO-YEAR-OLDS AT JUAREZ. • Jockey Records for the First Forty Days of the Mexican Meeting. El raso. Tex.. January 23. — The winner of the first race for two-year-olds here this year proved to I be the brown filly May W., a well-developed, good- 1 looking new-comer, a daughter of lien Trovato — Belle of Maytield. which, was bred by O. II. Chenault I at Spendthrift Stud, Lexington. Ky.. and sold by i him last fall at the l.atonia track to her present I owner for 00. She is a half-sister lo the stake winner Belle Terre and two other winners. May W. I is entirely of English blood on the dams side and her fifth dam was the famous race mare Dulcibclla. winner of the Cesarewiteh and other great races. Ben Trovato. May Y.s sire, was raced with much i success by Carroll I.. Reid. who still owns an interest in him, and in the latters colors he ran a I mile in 1:37%, a mile and an eighth in 1:52 on two l different occasions, and a mile and a Quarter in ; 2:04,. He is by Falsetto or Alvescot — Golden Boat, by Goldfinch, and richly and fashionably bred. .May W. is the first of his get to race. At the first meeting at Juarez of 1909-1910 the inaugural two-year-obi winner was Princess Industry, by Farandole — Work, owned by C. C. Van Meter, while in 1911 the first two-year-old race of ! the year fell to Royal Tea, by Right Royal— Tee- Ky Tee. then owned by Sam Lazarus. In 1912 L 1 Strikers Casanova, by Lithos — Apple Bloom, won this race, and in 1913 the first winner of this sort I from the Weir stable came in Aunt Mamie,, by 1 1 in le Hazing. In 1014 the lucky first two-year old Winner Of the meeting at .Inure/, was Silver Blossom, by Meelick — Dona Hamilton, owned bv 1 G. L. Blackford, while A. P.. Rpreckels Mona. by I Pnryear l . -Sevens, won the first two-year-old race I of the season of 1915. Of these early two-year-oM winners May w. l iBOka like she will prove the best, and at the close of the SSeetlag here she will be shipped to Kentucky 1 to make her first bid for stake honors. Besaaata, which ran second to May W. in the first two year- old race of the meeting, also belongs to Weir, and raced like S smart filly. She cost her present owner 25 as a yearling and is by Mart a Santa -Bessie Simpson. May . ran three eighths in 31-.. which is the record fur this race, but has twice been tied in it. first by Princess Industry in 1910 and agam by Sllvei Blossom in 1814. Just who Mr. Weir has named his good filly for has not been announced, but seme years ago there was ,m the turf a fast mare of this name which won n less than forty races. It is well enough to note in this connection that if this daughter of Ben Trovato can repeat the record of the first May W.. then her owner has in her one of the greatest finds of his entire successful career as a trainer and turfman. There has possibly never been a winter season of racing in which SO many good jockeys have been riding as have had had mounts at the present meeting. Lp to and including the first forty days of the meeting, which was on January 11. no le s than sixty-nine riders, many of whom are of mere than average ability, have had mounts, and of this number forty have finished first in one or more races and eleven others have guided horses in tin money, which leaves eighteen who have not, up to fhis date, succeeded in finishing first, second or third. In these first forty days the apprentice rider Hugh Shilling had the most winning mounts to his credit, his arena standing twenty-six wins to nineteen to the credit of T. Henry, another apprentice rider, but whose license will soon expire. Whereas that of the youngest Shilling has nearly a year yet to run. The only rider that has had his license revoked so far dariac the meeting is K. Hawkins, who was warned oil the course by the stewards for using a battery on one of his mounts. The table below gives a list of the jockeys riding here and their records dwrlag the first forty days of the meeting as noted above: Jockey. Mts. 1st. 2d. 3d.Unp. H. Shilling MB 20 12 8 -2 T. l [eery so M 5 9 47 B. Haynes 83 15 11 lo 4 1 C. Hunt mi 15 lo 14 il A. Pickens SS 14 11 15 4S A. Mott 47 12 12 7 M J. McCabe 81 II 4 7 2s B. Pool 49 10 13 8 20 R. Shilling 88 10 S 0 83 J. htorys »9 9 13 16 Gl C. Cross 65 8 12 11 34 T. Hayes 45 S ! 5 23 Y. OBrien 42 7 7 11 17 I., cullcn 88 6 9 S 32 Y. Sehamerhorn 51 0 I 3 ."7 II. Stearns 42 6 11 4 21 C. Dri-cdl 61 5 0 8 51 ■I. l/.ftus 30 5 8 3 14 K. Craves 15 4 2 3 i R. Gay 38 4 1 8 20 B Marco 33 4 5 0 24 L. Gentry 44 3 0 12 23 L. Martin IS 3 4 O 11 I. Mulhare 34 3 0 4 27 Y. Ortnes 34 3 3 7 21 K. Booker 12 2 2 0 8 W. Braael 33 2 4 3 21 O. Gentry 24 2 1 4 17 B. Hawkins 21 2 O 4 15 J. Howard 3". 2 4 1 20 M. Matthews 44 2 5 5 32 G. Moles worth 52 2 ti 6 3S D. Stirling 44 2 3 5 34 R. Urquhart 15 2 2 2 9 J. Acton 88 1 1 4 32 T. Buckles 21 1 0 O 20 C OMaboney 11 1 l 1 s A. Palms 32 1 5 5 21 II. Phillips 50 1 10 6 33 F. Smith 14 1 1 4 s R. Carter 2 0 1 1 0 G. Corey IS 0 1 3 17 K. Ieenev 14 0 1 1 12 ;. Garner .". o o i 2 T Hartwell 15 0 I 3 12 T. Hunt 9 0 1 0 8 J. Mason 5 0 O 1 4 1 . Mergler 40 O I 0 33 J. Murphy 3 0 2 0 1 T. Bobbins 7 0 1 0 6 J. R11ss.ll C 0 0 1 5 The riders thai have neither won races nor finished second or third in any race are II. Cavanaugh, B. Crawford. I. Bauer. II. Green. K. Hileman. C. Keelihr, E. McCown. J. Mclntvre. 1. Nelson. Q. Preece, R. Pauley, S. Ramsey, W. Rlchey, P. Sharp, S. Smith, A. Veatera, T. Walsh and C. Whit-beck. Of the younger riders here. II. .Shilling and T. Henry have developed the most ability. While the apprenticeship f the latter expired on the 21st ins*., he can still ride lighter than young Shilling and is the most finished Jockey at his weight developed here. C. Hunt will also soon lost his apprenticeship, but Shillings does not run out until next December. Another g 1 apprentice rider hi re is F. Craves, who was picked up in the east bv P. J. Miles, and his early work here suggests that he will deveb. p into a real find: in fact, an to his recent suspension by the stewards for his failure to keep Choctaw straight in a recent win ning race, his record to that date showed he had w-.ii Ifty per-eeat. of his mounts here ami up lo that time only one of his mounts had run unplavd under him. It was bene last winter that M. Garner first sfa wed high ability as a rider, but. good as was fie record he made daring the racing season of 1915. a an— her of good Judges have already expressed themselves as being of the opinion thai his work in the Saddle here then was got up to the work done in the pigskin this winter by the four midget riders, T. Henry, II. Shilling, C. Hunt and E. Graves. Owing to there being few races in which he can get a mount on a goad horse at weights at which Be can ride. J. I/.ftus has not bad his average number ..f mounts here this winter, but his work has always been gilt-edged on any horse with a winning chance and he is still the same brilliant post rider and finisher as of old. He keeps himself in first- hiss nl i t ion at all times, but finds it difficult in this altitude t keep down to the weight he can rich- at in the states. All around, there is aotblng lackin- in the riding ability of the jockeys accepting mounts here this winter and some of the younger fraternity which have been riding so brilliantly ale sure to be slars on any track they ride over in 1918.
