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PROBABILITY OF RACING AT JUAREZ. Depends Upon Conditions Prevailing in This Country Next Winter — Kentucky Gossip. By J. P. fcCery. Louisville. Ky.. May -. . Whether or m t there will Ik- racing at Juarez aext winter depends entirely upon the turn conditions take in this country ill colliectioil with tin- great war. M. J. YVii.ii, who presides over ihc destinies of racing at Juar.z. as well at the Churchill Downs and I.anrel tracks, is inclined to believe tiiat conditions will warrant tbe making of another attempt to establish the pari mutuel system of betting in connection with racing at Juatez and. unless unforseeii derlopaseats biter veiie. it is highly probable that a meeting will *■ aimouiK ed to oo.-n at the Mexican track in No vember next. The chances are that it will be a shorter meeting than those usually conlm ted at Juarez and that it will be so arranged as to fit in with the date arrangements of other southern and western tracks to the end that there iu:.y be as little co.iflict as passable. There seems to be less turmoil along tbe Mexican border ju-t now than for several years, which eliminates cue of the principal factors that contributed to the premature closing of last winters no I ting at ihis track. How ever. Manager Winn is n.,t yet ready to rosassil himself definitely as to what may or may not I ■ attempted at Inarez. He is not planning as far ahead as usual for future racing at any of the tracks with v. hich he is id-ntif ied. inasmuch as he is somewhat concerned as to the ■ fleet which the war. if prolonged, will have upon sport of all kinds. While by no means an alarmist. In believes that conservatism should be the watchword in racing circles until normal conditions are restored in America, and he is shaping np the affairs of the orgaaizations with which he is connected with such a policy in view. While pot an important incident in itself, but in keeping with the spirit of doing whatever possible to meliorate conditions that hav-arisen, it may be mentioned in passing that Man ager Winn has arranged to plant the entire infield of the Churchill Downs race track, the sod af whi -h has not been disturbed far more than twenty five years, to potatoes at the close of the present meeting. This is a noted petato producing section and conditions arc regarded as favorable for the pro-duction of a bumper crop on the race track inli.i I. Fxpert growers will be employed t.» supervise the planting and cultivation of the crop. Poi5ularity of Kentucky Racing Exemplified. The popularity of Ki utucky racing is being strik ingly exemplified at Churchill Downs this spring. The same prosperous conditions have been pre vailing in Kentucky since the opining of the season as marked ihc recently ended series of spring meetings in Maryland. It cannot but be conceded that the turf is in an exceedingly healthy state wherever tin- pari mufucis nan been ii.nvduci d. !" lie who has the wolfaie of racing at heart, it is a real d.lgiht to observe the zest with which the public takes to the sport under tbe conditions gov erning it here and else « here where the mutin-Is hive beneficently served to dispel the lingering distrust and suspicion that formerly existed in the public mind over certain phases of the snarl. li is undeniable that the very atnseephere surrounding a pari-miituel meeting shows this. If for no other reason, those vitally interested in racing are under lasting obligations to the Kontii.-ki-Mis -who blazed the way along mntin 1 paths which others have since followed with such satisfactory resalts to themselves and to the great sport of racing generally, it is a striking tea tare of the mntuls thai racing always gathers momentum year after year wherever they are employed for the speculative end of the s]H.rt. The Kentucky meetings this spring have been no exception to the general rule. Lei ingtea had a highly successful meeting and the iiiron-ii-e at Churchill Downs lias be. n running about 25 per cent ahead of that of previous springs, which is about the same ratio of gain reported by the Maryland tracks that have held meetings this year. So far as can be seen, there is net a clou i in the sky liercalx.uts and imtlou! t. dlv tic- same banner Conditions that have been prevailing at Lexington and Churchill Downs wiil 1»- Continued at Douglas Fail: and l.alonia. The failure of the A. K. Maeombi-r stable to make a respectable shewing has been one ol Hie disappointing features of the Churchill Downs no .t hag. i; is inexpBcahle that an establishment of this strength, both as regards numbers and anal Ity, should have gone so far through the meeting without winning a race. Ilor-.-m. u are wondering ir the explanation is not to found in the unwieldy proportions of the string which trainer Jennings is trying to handle al and unaided. The general opinion is that it is beyond any one mans capability, regardless of his qualifications to properly train and manage the racing of half a hundred horses.
