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MANAGER WINN RETURNS FROM JUAREZ. Highly Pleased With Big List of Nominations for Kentucky Derby and Other Stakes. Louisville. Ky.. February !. — Hale and hearty, Col. Matt J. Winn, general manager of the New Louisville Jockey Chub, has arrived home from Juarez. After looking over the list of horss which have been named in the Kentucky Derby and tne number of letters from turfmen asking for reservations at the Downs next spring. Colonel Winn proceeded to forget about his troubles in Mexico and began planning to make the coming meeting at Churchill Downs the most successful in the history of the course. "We had to contend with many things at Juarez," said Colonel Winn. "At first it was Villa and then the typhus wound up the meeting." Colonel Winn left Juarez last Wednesday and came direct to Louisville. He will remain here until after the Kentucky Derby with the exception of a trip or two east to ljok after his many interests there. While here he will devote practically all of his time to making preparations for the spring meeting at the Downs. He is enthusiastic ahead tie awpM.ll and he pointed out that the best of the thoroughbreds in the nation will be on hand when the sport gets under way here in May. The Kentucky Derby is the apple of Col. Winns eye and he hopes to make tin- 1917 Derby even better than that of last year, when it was a real international event. Nominations, he said, had been received from all sections and it will be one of the most representative races in the history of the Derby. A. K. Macomber, who came to Kentucky last year and made- all the horsemen sit up and take notice, is coming to the Bluegrass state again this spring witli a stronger banel, if anything, than that of 1910. He has asked for fifty-six stalls at the Downs and his nominations to the various stakes are numerous. Among the big horsemen of the east whose e-olors will be seen on the Kentucky turf next spring are Schuyler L. Parsons, whose- Sharpshooter ran third in the Kentucky Derby of 1915; H. K. Knapp. who cut a wide swath in this state a few seasons back: Harry Payne Whitney, whose Regret is the only filly to e-ve-r win a Kentucky Derby, and a long list of other notables who rank high in the list of Ame-rican sportsmen. Col. Winn araa enthusiastic alwiut the- way the pari-mutuel system of wagering was accepted by the patrons of the turf in Mexico. He said that despite adverse- conditions and the Banker of horse racing there it was remarkable and augurs well for the sport in future seasons. Nearly all of the horses whie-h were unaltered at Janice have left for other parts. How e-ve-r. then are a few there which will remain in Texas until the fall racing season opens there. A few stables laid over then and will not move- until next month, when racing begina at Hot Springs, unci then the-be-st of the stables will head for Kentucky, where the rich stakes and purses have proved a golden magnet of sufficient power to draw the richest blood iu the land to Kentucky.
