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Show GEO, W1NGFIELD BUVS A RACER Nevada Solon to Enter Racing FnU Takes Options on Properties for Mile Track. Juarez Mexico, March 13. The lat-1 est patron of the turf is George A. Wlnglield and now that ho can see horses race in his own state, Nevada. It is expected that he will invest even more heavily in thoroughbreds. Wlngfleldl recent purchase of Montgomery for his stud is the beginning begin-ning of hl3 career as a breeder Hia triends say that soon he will become I aj; great a figure as were Marcus Daly and James B. Haggin. Like these two predecessors, Wins-field Wins-field bases his financial ability to en-tor en-tor the racing field on vast western mining interests. He bough; large blocks of stock in the Mohawk mine for as low as 19 cpiUs a share and sold it for $25,000. Then he invested in Montana and Tonopaii mining shares, getting this Btocb (or 3 and 4 cents per share and unloading it at $7 and $8. Iu fact, every Investment that he made proved a bonanza, and before he was hardly 1 nown outside of Nevada he had become be-come the richest man in that state Wlngfteid spent his boyhood days In California, going to Nevada as a youth during the first gold fixcite-iuent fixcite-iuent in that stat- His friends say that he is now about 40 years old There has been no regular racing in Nevada aside from the fair meetings meet-ings since 19TO, v. hen a meeting was held at Reno under the rules governing govern-ing the Pacific Coast Jockey club. Reno has a good mile track, but a new grand stand will have to be built, the old one having been destroyed by Kre a year or so ago. Both Tonopah and Goldfield are good locations for mile tracks, and it is understood that Wingfield has secured options on these properties. |