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HORSE RACING IN MEXICO CITY Group of Americans Plan to Revive Sport There Next Winter Lease Secured on Hippodrome de dela la Condesa and Jockey Club ClubIs Is Organized NEW YORK N Y May 25 Mexico City third greatest in point of population wealth and social and commercial importance of the great Latin cities of the western hemisphere is to have firstclass racing Albert J Olivier an American long resi ¬ lient in Mexico and Central America he having at one time represented several Central American states in this country in the position of consul gen ¬ eral and a group of American associates one of whom is E F Dodson vicepresident of the New Amsterdam Casualty Company have organized the Jockey Club Internationale de Mexico for the pur ¬ pose of reviving thoroughbred racing in Mexico They will liold their first meeting of 100 days next winter Mr Olivier has for a number of years been successfully engaged in oil production in Mexico He has obtained from the Mexican government tho right to conduct racing in perpetuity and without competition in the federal district and he has se ¬ cured a permanent lease on the Hippodrome de la Condesa a splendidly appointed race course lying within the heart of Mexico Citys most beautiful residential section with a purchase option optionThe The Hippodrome de la Condesa occupies the center of a tract of 115 acres situated on a level area under the brow of the hill on which the castle of Chapultepec stands This tract was set aside for racing by Maximilian while that amiable Aus ¬ trian prince strutted as Mexican emperor some sixty years back and the race course was con ¬ structed under the direction of his empress Car lotta The race track is one mile and a quarter around and a splendid example of engineering It is the purpose of the JocUey Club Internationale to spend 1250000 in buildings and other improve ¬ ments this coming summer and another 7iO000 later on Going to the races in Mexico City a town of splendidly paved streets will be like jour ¬ neying to Central Park New York or Fairmount Park Philadelphia from the center of either town townOnce Once racing is established in Mexico City its permanently successful conduct is assured The Mexican metropolis according to expert estimators and enumerators of great banking institutions of the United States and other countries is now a town of 1000000 and growing For tho next quar ¬ ter of a century Mexicb City will have a floating foreign jwpulation of from 100000 to urOOOi Agents of capital of all countries are already crowd ¬ ing to the republic t the south of the Rio Grande to develop its dormant wealth wealthThat That the pecph of Mexico will take to racing naturally is to be inferred from the rapid strides this oldfashioned English sport has made in popu ¬ larity in all other Latin countries It has sup ¬ planted bull fighting in the popular esteem in Spain whose democratic and immensely popular king is its chief exoneiit In Italy it prestige is unshak ¬ able and at Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires one sees as good racing as is seen anywhere else in the world The Buenos Aires course is the most handsome course extant and the daily tiirnover of the pariinutiiel machines is upward of two and a half million dollars Because of the hold rac ¬ ing has taken in Buenos Aires the Argentine re ¬ public has become one of the great thoroughbred producing countries of the world There are many brilliantlybred stallions and mares of he best British French and American blood in the Ar ¬ gentine republic republicThe The quick fruition of Mr Oliviers plans Is to a high degree important to the thoroughbred produc ¬ ing industry of Canada and the United States Firstclass racing in Mexico will mean the bringing iiilo racing of from ln 000 to rOO000 a year in stakes and purses to enhance the value of the produce of the great stock farms of Kentucky Tennessee California Maryland Airgiiiia New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Missouri Texas Ontario and Quebec QuebecUltimately Ultimately no purse at Mexico City will be of smaller value than 1500 General Obregon and his government are enthusiastically behind the Olivier enterprise because Mexico needs horses for agricultural and industrial as well as military pur ¬ poses and Mr Obregon and his associate are keenly alive to the superlative merit of thoroughbred blood
