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GREAT SPORT AT JUAREZ CLOSE FINISHES FEATURE SPIRITED RACING OF YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. Bocart, Tze-Lsi and Bigtodo Only a Noso and Head Apart Mary Estellc Wins by Inches Lytle Bleeds. El Paso, Tex., December 19. There -was exciting siort :it Juarez this afternoon, the finishes in several of the races being unusually close. In the third race Mary Estelle, the favorite, had only a nose margin to the good over Certain Point as they crossed the deciding line, the liair having engaged in a long and thrilling stretch duel. In the first race, the favorite was not so fortunate, Milbrey surrendering to the superior speed of Lycia. after the former had been forced slightly wide, .being finally beaten only a head. The best finish of all, however, came in the fifth, when Ilogart, Tze-Lsi and Bigtodo finished a nose and a head apart respectively. Tze-Lsi and Big-todo cut out the pace to the stretch, while ISogart was held in reserve and then came with a splendid rush to win in the final strides. In the second race Smiling Maggie won easily. Finnigin, the best-supported one in this race, was cut off several times in trying to get to the front and finished in the ruck. Lytle, favorite in the fourth nice, set a fast pace for half the distance and then bled. Kay Sjence claimed Certain Point out of the third race for 25. Johnnie Fay, the Cincinnati bookmaker, is paying his first visit to Juarez and, after looking the plant over, expressed himself as follows: "It is one of the best-looking race courses that I have ever had the pleasure of visiting." Mr. Fay Will remain a few days and then proceed east. Bookmaker Izzy Ham was a visitor here yesterday en route to Tijuana. J. M. Shilling, who purchased Joe lUair out of his last race, sold him to O. E. West for 25. Word has been received here that Thomas J. Wellman, of Vancouver, 1$. C, who has served as presiding judge on British Columbia tracks, and is well known to horsemen in the northwest, lias left witli his regiment. Battery A., for the French front. The Jockey Club Juarez has issued a neat pamphlet explaining the method of calculating in the puri-mujtuels. Examples arc -shown demonstrating the straight, place and show calculations, with explanatory notes describing just how the value of winning tickets is figured. Rules governing conditions that may arise during the course of the racing are set forth in this book and here reproduced for the information of those who may be in doubt in regards to some of the points covered. -The rules-iurevus follows: In the event that two horses run, a dead heat for first place, whether the purse be or not be divided, the money in the straight mutuels is divided in the same manner as in the division of the place money. Should the dead heat be run off, it shall be subject to a new and distinct pool, and bear no relation to the original contest. When two horses run a dead heat for second place the division is made as follows: The winner receives his full share of one-half the place money, and the two dead-heaters receive one-half each or the balance, or one-fourth each of the whole. In the event that two of the field horses finisli first and second, or first and third, or second and third, the "show money" is divided into two parts, as in the place calculation, and apportioned to the two winning tickets there being no third one. If the field horses should finish first, second and third, the entire money in the "show" pool goes to the field tickets, no other tickets participating. Example Presuming that there are twelve horses in a race, named One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve. Each of these horses is sold separately except Ten, Eleven and Twelve, which are grouped in the Field. Let it be presumed that the horse named Four won the race and that Eleven was second, and Twelve was third. The "show" money is divided into two parts, not three, the Field ticket receiving one-half and not two-thirds of the pool," there being but two tickets participating one ticket representing the horse named Four and the other ticket representing the horses named Eleven and Twelve, which are included in the Field. Tickets only govern the apportionment of the pool, as one ticket may represent only one horse, while another ticket the Field may embrace three or more. For the same reason if three Field horses Ten, Eleven and Twelve should run first, second and third, all the "show" money would go to the Field ticket, no other tickets participating. If, while the betting is in progress, a horse should be excused by the judges because of disability or other cause, the pooling is not affected thereby, and all mutuel bets stand. The tickets purchased on the horse that has been declared are redeemed at their cost value, such amount being subtracted from the pool. If a horse should win a race upon which no straight ticket has been sold a remote possibility, such horse is eliminated entirely from the calculations, the straight money going to the horse which finished second. If a horse should run second upon which no place ticket lias been sold, all of place pool is apportioned to the place tickets sold on the horse that finished first, there being only one participating ticket, and not two as usual. If a horse should run third upon which no show ticket has been sold, all of the show pool is divided between the show tickets sold on the horses that finished first and second, there being but two participating tickets, and not three, as usual. Winning mutilated or torn tickets, which have not been presented for payment and recorded in pari-rautuel office thirty minutes after race is run, .will positively not be paid. When two or more horses are grouped in the field and only one starts, money wil not be refunded on the non-starters. Patrons are cautioned not to destroy tickets until official results have been announced.
