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OWNERS CONSIDERING WINTER RACING Sportat Tijuana, Havana, and Juarez Certain,, with. New Orleans .on Doubtful List. By Ed Cole. J Saratoga, N. Y., August 29. Owners are beginning to think about winter racing and wondering just what will happen along that line. They know that Havana and Tijuana will run, but they are at sea concerning New Orleans, still hoping for the best. Some substantial pledges will have to come from New Orleans to encourage shipping horses there and they better come quickly or many horsemen will, plan to go elsewhere. Should New Orleans fail, Juarez will quickly step into the breach to provide a sport for horsemen to pick up a few purses. Manager Winn has planned to open Juarez in any event and will, begin after New Orleans, should the sport be resumed there. Juarez is but thirty-six hours from New Orleans and the jump only trifling when it is considered that there will be fifty days to fill in the season between New Orleans and the opening of the eastern tracks in the spring. Not until the New Orleans question lias been settled will Manager Winn definitely decide what he will do with Juarez, but horsemen are assured there will be at least fifty days of racing on the Mexican course. From all accounts quite a number of eastern horsemen, who have never before looked upon winter racing with favor, are contemplating a trial. They are beginning to realize that they can offset some of their expenses by shipping their cheaper class of horses to winter scenes. It is said that James Rowe will consign some of his band to one of the winter resorts. If he does, others will follow suit. It is almost a sure thing that the A. A. Reilly horses will be seen under colors this winter, in all probability at Tijuana. Naturally the eastern horsemen will not send all bad horses. They will ship a fair percentage of horses that can win races to practically insure expenses. Such being the ideas of some of the large stables, thd owners of moderate stables will be anxious to know where the rich folks arc going, so as to express their racing goods to the spot that is for them the greenest.
