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JUAREZ BECOMING LIVELY OWNERS AND HORSES REACHING THE TRACK ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE. Spenco Horses Arrive at Course in Good Condition and Are Twenty in Number A Division of the Wickliffo Stable Expected. El Paso, Tex., November 0. Ilorses are arriving daily at the Juarez race track from every section of the country. Many owners, trainers and race followers are also beginning to arrive here, having migrated to the Rio Grande, where the mercury is now floating around the 90 mark, from Reno, San Francisco, Tijuana, San Diego, Detroit, Windsor, Toronto, New York. Cincinnati, Baltimore, Laurel and many other cities where meetings have been held during the past summer, or where the turfmen liave been spending vacations. Forty horses from Reno have arrived and, Harry AVallhauser, who has nine head, states that this number will be more than doubled by other arrivals next week. Several carloads are also en route from Canada. Latonia and Laurel. The horses of K. Spenco arrived the latter part of the week from Cincinnati and include "Wilhite, Hocnir, Waremore, Blarney, Commauretta. Lady Worthington, Joe Blair, Some Reach, Yuen, Rutland Arms, Carrie Orme, English Lady, Mary Estelle, Marjorie 1., McMonde and four yearlings. Trainer Spence will have for stable riders Claude and Tommy Hunt. Terry OMally. stable agent for Mr. Spence, has arrived in El Paso and has engaged twenty-six stalls near the eighth post. He lias rented a house at the track and engaged a corps of cooks and is putting in a stock of supplies for the winter. He lias the comforts of twelve employes to look after. Messrs. Corrigan and McKinney. the Cleveland turfmen and owners of the famous Wickliffo Stable, will ship a number of runners to Juarez within a few days. Earle MeQuaide, stable agent, is expected to arrive here next week. Former jockey Carrol Shilling, accompanied by his wife, is visiting in El Paso. Mr. Shilling will probably ship several horses here from the east to campaign them at Juarez next winter. Track superintendent Frank Keegan will arrive the first of the week from Laurel to put the finishing touches on the Juarez track. The plant is now in good condition for the opening, Thanksgiving Day. Jonh Henry and Joe TTmensetter have wired from Kentucky that they will, within a few days ship their stables to the Juarez track. Harry Brelvogel, assistant- manager of the Juarez track, is expected to arrive here after the election. He will arrange for the opening of the plant and the installation of the mutuel machines. Elaborate preparations are being made by the business men of El Paso to extend a cordial welcome to the officials of the Jockey Club Juarez upon their arrival here this month to arrange for the annual winter meeting across the Rio Grande. The Chamber of Commerce has sanctioned the meeting and on Thanksgiving day, which will inaugurate the 100 or more days of racing, practically every member of this organization of business men will attend the opening. It will be "Chamber of Commerce" day at the Juarez track and indications are that all previous "first day" attendance records will be broken. The Chamber of Commerce is issuing a new booklet, in which this organization is featuring the Juarez race track with two pages of pictures and a brief sketch of the plant. The commercial men point to the Juarez track as one of the best institutions that El Paso possesses. In speaking of the approaching meeting, Mnlcomc Fraser, secretary of the Chamber of Commerse today said: "The business men of El Paso certainly sanction the Juarez races and will welcome the horsemen upon their arrival here. The meetings in previous years have been a great benefit to the city and the business men have the utmost confidence in Col. M. J. Winn, manager of the track and his officials. In fact we consider them residents of El Paso, members of our own circle of business men. "It is like a small city that has sprung up during the night, when the races open. The business men of El Paso profit by the arrival of the horsemen, who are known throughout the country for their liberal spending. The large department stores, hotels, apartment house owners, restaurants, in fact all business men profit by the Juarez races during the winter. It is an institution we point to visitors with pride. "If races in other cities are conducted on the same high plane they are here, then the business organizations of every city in the country should welcome the turfmen." There are more than two hundred thoroughbreds now quartered at the race track and this number will be greatly augmented within the next few days. It is believed that there will be fully 500 or H0 horses quartered at the oval before the meeting opens Turkey Day. James OLcary, who has charge of stable reservations, has arrived from the east and is busily engaged in assigning stalls to the horsemen arriving daily with their strings. Sv. H. Shelley, racing secretary of the Jockey Club Juarez, and Eugene Elrod, who will have charge of the mutuel machines, will arrive within the next few days from Laurel, Md. Col. M. J. Winn, manager of the track, is expected here for the opening.
