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PRELIMINARY NOTES OF JUAREZ RACING. Louisville, Ky., November 2. Judge W. II. Shelley returned tonight from Laurel, Md., where he was in conference with Col. M. J. Winn regarding details of the coming meeting of 100 days or more at Juarez in the coming racing season of 1910-1917. Gene Elrod, who has been in charge of the ring in the past at Juarez, also the mutuel department on all the Kentucky tracks, has been instructed by manager Winn to equip and send twenty-one mu-tuels machines to be operated on that course next winter. The Juarez purses to be distributed daily will amount to ,900. five of 00 each and one of 00. Manager Winn has given assurances that should racing and wagering justify it there will be an increase in the value of the daily purses. Four carloads, comprising the strings of Kay Spence, F. D. Weir, W. E. Applegate, J. Umen-setter, R. P. Dickinson, Wickliffe Stable, W. S. Trevey aiid others will leave Latonia this week. From Laurel several carloads will be on their way to the southern border at an early date and with the promise of a big shipment from the eastern Canadian tracks, which close -within the coming fortnight, it is expected that Juarez will have its usual large number of horses on hand when the barrier raises on Thanksgiving Day. Secretary Shelley is working on the first book of the meeting, which will be distributed to liorse-u.en by the middle of next week. All of the officials who have served the racing public at the winter meetings in the past, will be back in the same capacity, with Chas. F. Price as presiding steward; M. J. Winn and W. II. Feuchter as associates. John T. Ireland has been appointed clerk of the scales and associate judge; Mars Cassidy, will do the starting as heretofore. John Lowe, who has been east looking for racing material, left last night for San Francisco, Cal.. to arrange for the shipment of the horses ef C. W. Clark to race at New Orleans. Trainer Walter Jennings will ship the entire string of 48 head of A. K. Macombers horses to winter at Charleston, on November 15.
