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Show - FOR THE PONY LOVERSf nnn nnn nnn nnn TURF. NEWS AND YARNS y By JACK SALLEE. Spe ia to The Tribune. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Nov. 20. Winter Win-ter racing is looming up near at band and horsemen will not have much longer long-er to wait before the bugle blows at Juarez, Mexico, the first of the winter win-ter courses to start the long season. Next Thursday, Thanksgiving day, Tcr-razzas Tcr-razzas park will get under way under the management of M. J. Winn, the Kentucky track manager, and prospects are that" there will be a g&od meeting across the Kio Grande. There are more than -lOO horses quartered quar-tered in Juarez now and there are to be a tew additions during the eomhm week. About one-half tae Kentueky horsemen who race t ir firings in tne winter cast their lot with ihe Mexican track. There sre enough horses now in Juarez to insure good lacing. Much interest is being shown in the work of Old Rosebud, the great fielding, son of Uncle Ivory Belis. which captured cap-tured the Kentucky derby in li'14 and then went wrong later in the year while being raced in the east. Trainer Frank Weir tried several times to get the great gelding back to the races, without with-out success. Then Ham Applegate, his owner, made a buggy horse out of Old Rosebud. This fall. Weir again put Old Rosebud Rose-bud back in training and he showed that the tendons ot' his forelegs had healed and were strong again. He I showed enough in his trials to cause Applecate to ship the son of Uncle back to Juarez, the scene of his earliest ! triumphs. Old Kosebud will be a o-vear-oid in January and before that i Trainer Weir predict? thnt he will have earned brackets again. The other day be was galloped a half in : 47 1-5. During the height of his career on the turf as a 3-vear-old, horsemen were of the opinion t"uat he was the jreatest racer of all tunes. At that time he could gallop with the best of them. It was believed by Trainer "Weir that he could run a mile around 1 :3'.i on a circular track. His last big rate in Kentucky in fact his last was the Kentucky derby, which he won with ease from Hodge, who is now rated as one of the best handicap horses in America. That day Old Kosebiul wound up half a dozen 'lengths ahead of Hodge in the remarkable time of L-'''e 4-.", a new record over a track that was nnv-thing nnv-thing but fast. It was a dr ing out track. Horses Lost in Fire. One of the biggest tires of re. out yeiirs on a racetrack vi-itod Honnings, a few miles out of 'Washington, last Monday night, nnd a stable bov and twelve thoroughbreds were burned to death. The loss is now estimated at 4li.0on. A pet dog knocked over a lantern and started the conflagration. The horses burned were Joe Ldebold, Coy. Talecarrier ami 1'rog, from t Instable In-stable of ti. J. Day; l'ride of lireen-way, lireen-way, Lillian Kripp and Or. Sullivan. ovned by 11. .1. I'rawford; Mrs. Jack, the property of (ieorge Swain, the former for-mer jockey; Houble Five and Kol'.it'.g Istone, from the barn of .1. V. Meii-j drick. One horse which wa not identified iden-tified w; found near a trestle from which he had fallen. Phil Sheridan's horses, including the great sprinter. Back Bay, were not amon.- those burned. About 17.') horses were rescued res-cued by stable hands and trainers Owners Own-ers suuoring losses, bm who did lint lose unv horses, are: , Tatty'1 And.'v son. Robert 1. Miller Samuel liu'., O-.1. O-.1. S. Tvroo, Mike Dalv, On 1 ' , ' ' tor, William Shields. A. K Sp-o.-k,.;..-Sandy M e ai;::hl on. daci, Phillips, Yi'. hum Bnreh and P. Sheridan. August. .Belmont, who had u.-inii-.-d ' for winter quarters al Bcnniugs, w., fortunate enough not to luno shinprd his horses. Much of his equipment ' 1ml been sent ahead of his horses, which wns lost. "Hill" Bailey, the negro swipe who lost his life in. tin, I'n-o, was employed by the Pay stable. Tia Ju;ma and New Oi k-ans. Mexic. will have two tracks runniip' tins winter, according to reports re" reived in Kentucky. Tia Jinma ,s (1,,. place designated bv tho promoters who claim that, thev hold n concession It is planned, according to the report to hold a short meeting tl,,s winter and test, the drawing e,uali.s f tion. Inasmuch j, rjhl the border from l alil'einm ,s v, bio that enough horse winch are si ill in the far west ,y ,ako t lie ' loumcv an.l give .li new cour.se a trial In New Orleans nearly all of the sta bios which are to winter theie are en the ground awaiting II,,. openi,,,, of Ihe Reason, which promises t be the best juice the passage of a n , ,,, Unnsinnn legislature seoral vear- .,,. prohibiting gambling on I lioro,,,. I, ,r,'., ', Scleral owners wloe le.pieds ler s' , room were I n I n.-,l down a, piu,.. ,'., ''"''t I" 'O'l pci miss,,,,, ln - . , l;r"M';1"1 --. Judge Mnrphv ,1, .,r.' thai he ,:, gnu,,. Io see to , 11-,.,, ,(,,,; is clean racm,. 11,,.,,. (,p. ,,,., -hi, P.irncnlar ,iln . . ' bv liorseiiiei, (o be ., ,,,,,,, , ) good of tho sport. Tl,ex bclioio iliat' ',1 i a inetin of ral dimensiorjs i hid ill New Orleans this wiDtor and it da j i not smack of ; killing?, '" ' "' puliing-L friendly races M and a" few otner stui of that variety it wiil po a hi way toward gettin? the nest ?ener; assembly to pas a bill permitting tT us of pari mutuel mahine. ; The cold wave of the present Teet sent owners to winter quarters wii their ycirlicgs, which have been a:lp tending ' " school ' ' regularly of lab" Thee youngsters now have been give anout r? 11 the work they are to unis'-'' go until early next spring. Thev ba? been broken and then given their siee. trials. Bowie Nears End. The Bowie meeting is rearir th clor-e and the endini; ox the sport i-a next week will n:a:k the closing of ;i fail teaon in the east. Tne marcel were put on at Bowie this fail, and ai i-ordinr to reports from there the ion'' j layers have takii to the machines ilk ducks to w ater and a? a result plav h? been very heavy. Whiie.it was an ei ' perunent substituting the machines fc, ;he bookmakers, the play has been sue-to sue-to guarantee the jockey club a bet -! ter dividend for the season than ia.l; been enjoyed in the past. Though the meeting at Havana 1 .1 still nearly a moctij off,- the vangtH " has arrived there. The purses there ar large enough this year to attract sex-': good horses, hut Manager Curly B:c-t tiaims that the joikev club th-are ha ; been more suecpstul in ee-curice bc-rse i Than he anti- ipated. He and hU a--s( ciates have done wonders to the trac'f at M:iriai:ao and it is now believed :hi it wiil withstand the heavy rairj tf da:;uary. Baity, tout and rubber, -who was foi : rr.erly with the siaide of the h:e "W. C . Whit:.oy. is wintering in Louisville. Hi " will be in T::e height of his glorv wb-a": the big stable of Harry Payne "h;:i2j , arrives for the winter. With Jitnnj ' Kowe V.ere with the Whitney horsa B.ildy is assured of a meal ticket iff the "hard, ciud months when work r : slack and mnr.ey scarce. One or tin borseniea the other day was ' ' kidoiri:'. I'm In v about betting on race horses az( r telling hnn that it wa wrong. ; , ' When Ah wuz sick. ' ' deniande ' Fuldv, "an' y ou-all come to see me : duinvt you see anythin-r a-Tall!''' "1 never noticed,'5 replied the turf man. t ' Weil. I m ies gwinter tcTl yo;i. roplie.i B:ildy. "You saw tbat'tsMt dar, didn t you? "Yes." was the replv. ' W..U. ' ' said Babiy. ' it wnz wl three iimes a d.nv an de smoke vr ralj lit ' up tiie chiuilov all day long, aa " he:ih yen git after me 'bout player df ! r.tces. What mo could you expec' frea . 1 a nigger ? " |