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, 1 : ; • : ■ 1 1 I j • 1 . | 1 ! j I ; , t SOME JUAREZ SUGGESTIONS j ; MUTUEL BETTING WINS INSTANT FAVOR AND .- i BRINGS INCREASING ATTENDANCE. I El Pauo Business Booming — Names of Two-Year- j Olds Now at Juarez Track — Trappoid a Much Improved Filly. a By Peter Clark. El Paso, Texas, December 31. — After twenty-five days of racing the attendance and betting in tin- pari-mutuel machines at the Jockey Club Juarez is increasing each day. The public has take-n kindly to tin- new form of betting here and the horses have been running to form. More than fifty per cent of the favorites have won brackets during the lust epiarter of the meeting. More than thirty per cent of the see-oncl choices have had their numbers hung up. Few long shots have won. The consistent running of the horses under the pari-mutuel machine sytsem of betting has restored confidence in the public. So successful has been the mutuel machines here that Col. M. J. Winn, manager of the track, and other officials, say the books have been thrown in the discard for all time. The mutuels will be used exclusively in the years to come at Juarez. Mr. Winn is now in Louisville with his family. Each year he goes east to spend the holidays. He is expected to return about the third or fourth of January and will take the helm now held by Harry F. Brei-vogel, his assistant. The track lias had many obstacles to overcome during the present meeting, but despite this fact the attendance has been much larger than in previous years. To begin with, the weather lias been worse during the first part of the meeting than it has for years. While there has been no rain or snow, terrific windstorms sweeping over this section of the country, has held El Paso in its grasp for days at a time. This has had a tendency to cut down the attendance. The high winds seldom sweep this section after the first ot the j-ear and this will prove a potent factor in the success of the meeting. The attendance will no doubt be greatly increased after New Years Day. The business men and clerks, who have always been strong patrons of the race game, have been so busy previous to the holidays that they have had little time to attend the races. There are more than 40,000 soldiers in the El Paso district. The majority of these troopers are militiamen from the east. They are men of means, as a rule, and have spent a large amount of money during their stay in the city. The monthly pay-roll of the militiamen alone amounts to more than a million dollars, while the expenditure for their upkeep during the same period of time is about two : million. This money, together with private allowances I of the militiamen, is being expended each month in El Paso, and the merchants have found it . re cessary to double their forces of clerks. The city is, today, enjoying a wave of prosperity never , before equaled in the history of El Paso. Soldiers Go to the Races. The militiamen have been good patrons of the races. Many of them have been mustered out of , si rvie-e here, during the stay on the border, and : those discharged in this manner have been regular patrons. The business men of the city have attended the , races well on Sundays and holidays, when their ; •tores were close-d. They have become strong • _ friends of the meeting since the installation of the mutuel machines, which is quite in contrast I to the Bowie system, which was in vogue during [ the beginning of the meeting. Rae-es for the two -year-olds will be contained I ii. the new book which will be issued this week by AV. H. Shelly, racing secretary. These races will be on the program two and three days each i week during the early part of the meeting. The youngsters have all been working well and I it is believed that out of the band will be developed several of pssd etnas, ta the past the Juarez : track has developed such horses as Old Rosebud, Hawthorn and others. The former won the Kentucky derby and is now in training at the local I plant. He has proved sound in his training and may face the gate here this winter. Frank Weir, owner of Old Rosebud will take him to Kentucky , this spring for racing. K. Spence has four yearlings at the track aud . they are a nice looking lot. Mr. Spence named ! his youngsters after fish. The chestnut filly by Ivan the Terrible — Miss Crawford has been christened Bed Snapper. She has shown much speed in i her schooling at the barrier. The bay filly by Ivan the Terrible — Skeptical has been named Perch. . The black filly by Dick Welles and the chestnut I filly by the same sire have been named Black Bass and Red Salmon. Frank D. Weir has three yearlings in training and he is also training one for W. E. Applegate. Air. AVeir has named his chestnut filly by Jack : Atkin — Helene, Helen Atkin. She has shown as l much foot as any of the young fillies now quartered at the over river course. His chestnut filly f ty Master Roberts — Chestnut Belle, has been 1 rameel Belle Roberts. She is also a nice filly. The Ben Trovato — Belle of Mayfield brown filly has been named Trovoto Belle. Mr. Applegate lias named his Dick Welles — Espere bay colt Fort Bliss. The name was selected by Mr. Appl.-gate after the army post, which is ou the outskirts of this city. Texan Yearlings Are Promising. Wade McLemore, the Texas breeder, has two yearlings in training. They are both biing looked after by his trainer, Tom Mumford. The chest- nut filly by Leonid — Kiora has been christened , 1 Kio, tlie first three letters in her dams name. The bay filly by Leonid— Golden Harvest has been : named Ethel. Dr. I. E. Clark, another Texas breeder and the owner of Sir Richard and other good runners, has two yearlings in training. Dick ATestel is trnin- ing the horses in the Clark stable he-re. The chestnut gelding by Everett — Panlita has been 1 named Panet. The brown colt by Everett— Succeed has been named Old Mac. Lovell and Timberlake have two yearlings in i training. They are both by Blues, which was a 1 grand performer a few years ago. The bay filly 1 by Blues — Addie Hawkins is calle-d Blue Addie-, . while the chestnut filly by Blues— Blue Gown has s been named Alice Blue. P. Hc-igel has a chestnut colt in training by r Gre-at Jubilee -Misprison, which is known as Prison Boy. Mr. Beige] at first thought of naming - the colt Convict or Lower Tier after her dam, but finally selected the name of Prison Boy, which was accepted by the Jockey Club. Samuel Rowan, an El Paso business man, who , this winter has branched out in the running-horse game, has two yearlings nt the course. A chest- nut filly is by Abe Frank --Kianiesha II. He . calls her Neither, and the filly has worked some , senational three-eighths out of the chute. His , other yearling is a chestnut filly by AVithers— _ Kate Moody, known as Numi-rute. J. A. BecktagtOB lias a bay gelding by Harrigan — Harney, Which has not vet been named. X. M. Barkhart has a bay filly by Smile — Mag- ■ garet M., which he has named Smiling Buck. This will make four horses running at the track whose • names start with Smiling. The others are Smiling ; Mag, Smiling Maggie and Smiling Annie. The- Hall brothers have two yearlings at the track which have not yet been named. One is by liarrigan — Alice Commoner and the other by Mr. Jack- .Miss Lamar. Ilallenger and Moffit have a chestnut filly by Abe Frank — May Day which has been christened 1 -At ay Frank. Miss Emily Morris has two yearlings at the course. One is by Meeliek — Modena and the other r b] Great Jubilee — Matilda MeConnor. The former r I as been named Emily M. and the latter J. C. . Harry. Trappoid and Oldsmobile Are "Bears." Trappoid, by Trap Rock — Outcome, owned by Joe I inensitter has proven erne of the best horses at the meeting. She has started four times at the over river course and won each event, and defeated such horses as Husky Lad, Lady AVorth- ington. Sir Richard, Little String. Commauretta. Pttsey Jones and Alda. la lur last race. Trappoid 1 : beat Sir Richard by a half length after a long * eliel through the stretch. The- Tixas two ycar-[ old hung on gamely and was the long shot in the ; event. Sir Richard, away well, took the lead aud J was only beaten in the final sixteenth. j ; .- i I j One of the hottest things of the meeting went wrong Saturday, December 19. The much-toutisei hot thing was Call Shot, in the final event, which was at five-eighths. After opening up a lead of five lengths he stopped badly in the final eighth ami was beaten a head by Goggety, an outsider in the betting. One of the most e-onsistent performers seen in years for a selling plater is Olelsmobile, the son of Bowling Green — Lady Dotte. This gelding, which has been only considered an ordinary plater, has shown wonderful form by winning four straight in the easiest manner possible. Never, at ary time in the races, has he been extended, and has captured them with the utmost ease. Mack Garner continues to lead the jockeys, with A. Carroll as his nearest contender. Both boys have been running noses apart during the meeting. Johnny Howard, Claude Hunt and George Molesworth have all been riding many winning mounts. Juarez in past years has developed quite a few apprentice riders that turned out to be as good as any of the products of winter race courses, sent to the east to compete with other apprentices. Several stables have given these boys their fir-t opportunities this winter. Among them are H. Gibson, an El Paso boy, who has shown in his short experience that he may develop into a clever rider. R. Troise, another local lad, had his first mount on the mare Clumsy Kate. This youth has already shown some ability and trainers say that when given orders he can follow them to the letter.
