Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-07
JUAREZ RACING IS
ASSURED SUPPORT
Mexican Course Best in the West,
with the Exception of
Santa Anita
EXPECT EVEN DISTRIBUTION
Total of 100000 Will Be Put
Into Stakes and Purses
for Horsemen
EXPECT EVEN DISTRIBUTION

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Latt ]. Winn
and Lyman Davis, respectively gen.
eral manager "a general secretary of
the Yonkers, Juarez and Churchill
downs racing enterprise, left the 9TH
er day for Ell Paso, where many inn
provements are under way at Juarez.
Winn and Davis feel it their duty to
make a personal inspection of their
property. But this mission will not re-
quire more than a fortnight of their
time and they expect to get to Sara
toga about August 20, to do a little
work for the autumn meeting at
Churchill Downs.
Louisville has taken kindly to racing
under the direction of a commission
of eminently practical horsemen, and
due to the operation of the pari-mutuel
system of speculation, had a fine meet
ing last spring and it is expected it
will have a better one in the autumn.
But the racing at Juarez next win
ter will, the promoters of the Mexi-
can enterprise predict be the best ever.
The jockey club of Juarez lost a bit
of money by it's initial venture last
season, but that has not in the least
discouraged the stockholders.
John Culbert Follansbee, who is fin
ancially interested in the enterprise,
and who acted as a steward the bet
ter part of last winter, said the other
day that Juarez would give 100000 in
added money next season. There will
not be any races of the value of $780,,
600 or $25000, but the small events will
be substantial and overnight purses
will be good.
In making up. the Juarez program
for the coming winter Davis will strive
to so distribute his 100000 as to give
every man who takes a stable of
horses to Ell Paso a chance to earn
something for his time and trouble. 1t
is not good for winter racing to have
two or three stables win threefourths
of the added money while a vast ma
jority of owners get mere pittances.
Davis has been successful in arrang-
ing programs that bring to the post at
one time or another during a meeting
very nearly every horse at his tracks.
Juarez has a better equipped race
course than is to be found anywhere
in the west or southwest, outside of
Los Angeles. There are indeed only
two or three tracks belonging to the
Metropolitan circuit that compare with
it. Because of this commodiOus track
the first winter session at Juarez was
a marvel for consistent running. Many
an eastern hOrseman who went to
JdCkSOnN1ile last autumn DeCduSC liie
Florida course was the more accessi-
BILE and less expensive to reach of the
two has made up his mind to go to
Juarez next winter.
Every indication points to a re-
sumption of first-c,ass racing at Oak
land next winter, and it is not i'm
probable that Los Angeles will throw
it's gates open again. The California
courses have not secured a modifica-
ton of the racing laws passed at Sac
ramento two years ago by legislative
enactment, but the courts of the gold
en- state have all but annuled them.
Under the stakeholder scheme of bet
ting a man can get action in Calitor-
mia safely and eXpeditiously.
But a resumption of high-class rae
ing at Oakland and Los Angeles will
in no way hurt Juarez. Only a very
few will go to Jacksonville again.
Tampa and Pensacola are very small
places without facilities for the enter
tainment of big crowds of winter Wis
itors, and there will be nothing do
ing at New Orleans.