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Show HORSEMEN REJOICING Defeat of Idaho Racing Bill Raises Hopes in Juarez Sport Circles The news of the defeat of the anti-racing anti-racing measure in Idaho v. as the occasion oc-casion of great rejoicing and caused much optimistic comment among horsemen here. The recent action oi the Utah Ian makers and the pending pend-ing legislation In Montana and Idaho were tiavlng a most depressing effect on those turfmen who were counting on racing in the west, and it was welcome wel-come news which came from Boise. The Coeur d Alone Racing association associ-ation is an organization composed of men who have the sport at heart and the best evidence of their enthusiasm and sincerity is the plant they have erected at Alsn. It Is understood an extended meeting Is contemplated. I beginning some time in August, at which sufficiently alluring purses will; be offered to tempt the flower of' horseflesh in training. It goes with-l out saving thai the assurance of racing rac-ing at Alan will be the means of kr.-ping a great number of horses in the weal which would otherwise have gone east. A more than usually large crowd attended the races Sunday and was rewarded by a day of satisfactor sport As a matter of fact, as the season advances the attendance Increases In-creases and the Juarez track lately has taken on the appearance of Emeryville Em-eryville lu its halcyon days. The Inclemency In-clemency of the weather the early j part of the week put the track In a wretched condition, from which It ie just emerging into decency again, but there were condoning features in the mud and slop in that it made it possible pos-sible for some needy stables to get much wanted feed money The week's feature race, the El Paso stakes, run Sunday, was a selling eent, carrying a purse of $1200, and was won by Green Morris gelding Console In n driving finish from Hatteras What the race lacked in numbers and class was more than compensated by the thrilling finish, a head and head affair af-fair from the quarter pole to the wire Salesia has developed into a real race horse Her win at a mile Monday Mon-day on a tolerably good track was a repetition of her Thursday performance perform-ance on a heavy track and the fourth consecutive bracket earned in two weeks. She has demonstrated she can go in any kind of going and win at five-eighths or a mile. There is ain insistent rumor going go-ing around the Juarez track that II I Wilson of Butte. Mont , will be the manager at the Coeur d'Alene race track Ed Sheldon, one of the directors di-rectors and heavy stockholders In the organization on being questioned said he had heard nothing of such an arrangement and did not believe there was any truth In It. "Scotty" Ferguson, erstwhile horseman, horse-man, now a moneyed plutocrat of Seattle, Se-attle, is one of the late arrivals and will stay until the end. Scotty says the call of the hoof bents has an Irresistible Ir-resistible charm for him and the lure, even as far away as Seattle, was more than be could deny |