Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-06
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
SOME GOOD IDEAS ADOPTED AS TO RAG
ING MATTERS.
Drivers to Wear Colors and the Positions
of Horses to be Announced Gen.
eral Business Transacted-No
Military Encampment


tary Hoag and Directors Boruck, Colby,
Shippee, Boggs, Coleman, Flint. Newton,
Flnnigan, Hancock.
The minutes of the last meeting were read,
corrected and approved. Directors stated
that the minutes should show that the SUI
appropriated for wing-shooting was for
State match. A committee from the For
ester Club was present and was asked to call
again in the evening. MIR. Chase, on behalf
of Theodore Winters, addressed the Board
relative to a settlement of the disagreement
between the Blood Horse Association and the
State Society, and the Encouragement OF the
running programme. Mr.. Winters propo-
sition was to allow the two-year old filled
race to remain the three in five race to be
rescinded. and that the remainder of the
So 600. some 81, $50, not consumed by filled
races. be given to the Association, it to ar
range eleven other races and secure their fill
ing SO far rs earnest effort can do so. 1t was
explained that resolution of the Association
to like effect that had been passed failed to
rsach the Society.
EFFORTS TO HARMONIC.
Mr. Boggs favored harmonizing matters if
possible, and said Messrs. Winters and
Coombs had said to him the blood horse men
had felt aggrieved that the purses were not
as large as for trotting, but were now willing
to 90 on and help the Society. Mr. Shippee
said leading men of the Association had told
him directly the opposite, and that they
would not take part, with the sum appropri-
ated, and because of the Sin-5 race. Mr..
Larue said the State Board had felt that the
Association had not treated it properly in
rejecting the programme without notice.
Mr.. Boruck favored inviting Mr.. Winters to
come before the Board and make direct
proposition. Mr.. Boggs made motion to
that effect. Mr.. Shippee opposed any ac-
ton by the Board changing its running pro-
gramme, and said even had the resolution of
the Blood Horse Association been received,
it would have made no difference. Every
year the blood horse men had pushed the
Society to do this and that, aud constantly
how the Society could yield any longer.
Mr.. Boruck said he was willing to conciliate
and harmonic, if possible, in the interests
of the Society. Mr.. Flint asked if Mr..
Winters appearance depended OF the RECESSION
of the 3.in-5 race? If So he was opposed
to the motion Mr. Colby and Mr.. Shippee
held the same views. Mr.. Boggs' motion
prevailed.
MR.. WINTERS
Was sent for and appeared before the Board
and addressed it. He had objected to the
first programme put forth, ami his objections
were understood. A 3-in-5 race, he held, no
gentlemen can engage in and protect himself.
He looked on such races as bids for rascality.
He had labored for years to have such races
abolished. He had not liked the discrimina-
ton made between two and three-year-olds.
If the heat race was abolished he believed
there would benoq QUESTIONED all the programme
being handsomely filed. On motion Of Mr..
Boruck committee was ordered to confer on
the subject and report back. The Chair APP
pointed Messrs. Boggs, Finnigan and Shippee.
Mr.. Shippee declined to serve aud the Chair
appointed MIR. Newton.
NO ENCAMPMENT.
Adjutant Guthrie and Captain Sbeehan of
the First Artillery Regiment addressed the
Board. Captain Sheehan said the guards
men objected to camping in Agricultural
Park, as it would be warm there, with no shell
ter, and would not prove school of military in
struction. 1t was difficult to keep the men IN
camp in the town when they live in camp a
week, and, in fact while the regiment would
ask 1000 he believed the guardsmen pre-
ferred not to have it, but to hold their en-
campment elsewhere and independently, but
would not do so in Fair week. The camp at
night here would, as before, draw people
from the Pavilion attractions. His advice
TO the Board was to drop the matter. Adju-
tant Guthrie took like view, and the whole
matter was dropped. Adjutant Guthrie
said, of course. the military would turn out
to receive President Hayes.
The Board was then addressed by repre-
sentatives of the corps of reporters which
attended at the races of the last State Fair
upon the necessity of compelling drivers in
trotting races TO wear distinctive colors and
to be neatly clad; also the necessity of a
black board on which the positions and colors
of horses and eolors of jackets can be an.
nounced in letters large enough to enable all
the people in the grand stand to see and
know the position of the horses after each
heat, and also the necessity OF placing names
on all the stalls.
RIDERS AND DRIVERS TO DRESS DEcENTLY.
The matter was discussed, and on motion of
Mr.. Boruck, the following resolutions
were adopted, and the members unanimously
expressed their approval of the reform indi-
Gated
Resolred, That in all trotting and pacing races,
and all running races, drivers and riders shall be
neatly clad and appear upon the track in apparel
unobjectionabe to the judges. That in running
and trotting and pacing races drivers and riders
shall wear caps and jackets of distinctive coors, cap
and jacket to be Of like color.
Reso'red That the Superintendent Of the Park
procure one dozen caps and knit jackets, OF dis
tinetve colors, for the Of drivers in trotting
races, the same TO be kept in the Secretarys office
at the Park, and taken therefrom and returned
thereto daily after by such drivers do not fur
nish their own jackets and caps, or those not OF
proper color.
RESOLVED, That the names OF al racing horses
IT, we'd
over the door Of the box stall of each Of such
horses.
The Chair stated that large blackboard
had already been ordered, and that it will
show the name Of each horse in the race, his
position in each heat, and the color of the
drivers cap and Jacket, and that it would be
50 large that the letters can be seen from all
parts OF the stand. The board will be set be.
tween tall standards, and lifted in grooves by
weights.
THE PROGRAMME.
The Board then took up and consider ed
its speed programme. On motion of Mr..
Boggs the Board, by seven to three, struck
out the three-in-hve running race-Ayes,
Larue, Finnigan, Coleman, Newton, Boggs,
Hancock and Boruck nays, Shippee, Flint,
Colby. The entry of the Dietz mare was
ordered Cancelled and the money refunded,
she having been previously barred in races
5, IA and 10, but entered by name under a
technic llity. But three entries appearing in
No. 13 the free-for. al trot, the purse OF
81, 500 was reduced $500. The purse in No.
IA was reduced also. The details of the pro-
gramme were further discussed without diff.
mite action resulting General : f. Sheehan
appeared and asked the Board relative to q
request of Colonel Dickinson, of the First
Infantry Regiment, S. f., as to whether the
society would allow that command 81. 900 as
part expenses of an encampment here in Fair
week. The matter was taken under advise
ment. General Sheehan was asked il the
troops of his command here would aid in the
reception of President Hayes. He said the
feeling was to do 80 if be came as President,
speeches for party, as men of all parties are
in the ranks. The Board replied to him say
ing the President would be here as its guest,
and that he came as President OF the United
States and would be received as such. What
he might do after his reception and while in
the State subsequently, it had nothing to do
with. General Sheehan replied that in that
case they would of course be glad to take
part in the reception if orders came from
headquarters, where the matter would be
properly considered and understood. The
Board, after some consultation relative &c
advertising, adjourned until p. NJ.
EVENING SESSION.
At the evening session the Committee or
| Speed Programme reported the running race:
as llows:
First Day-No l, closed. Running, two
year-old stake, three quarter mile dash I; 81
each, SIS forfeit Sl50 added second colt to