The daily gazette., 1883-08-17
THE TENTH ANNUAL FAIR.
The Purses to be TrOtted for at the Fall
Meeting of the Peninsula Agricultural
and POmOIOgicaI Association.

The Purses to be TrOtted for at the Fall
Meeting of the Peninsula Agricultural
and POmOIOgicaI Association.
The tenth annual fair of the Peninsula
Agricultural and Pathological Association
will be held in Middletown, commencing
September 18th and clio ing on the 20 b.
Ten premiums will be awarded for speed.
amounting to 50, 100. The purses will be
divided in four parts, the first getting one
halt, the second one-fourth and SO on.
On the 18th four trials OF speed will take
place. The first will be a running race for
a society purse of 500 and entrance money,
Jwo-thirds to first and one-thrd to the sec
ond, less $40 to third. 1t will be free to all
Peninsular horses. The distance will be
one mile and repeat. The second race will
be opeu to all Peninsular horses with no
better IT cord than $50. The purse of $150
will be divided into premiums of $75, S35,
S25 and SIS for the first, second, third and
fourth premiums respectively. The third
trial will be open to all competitors with no
better record than $50. The premiums will
be just the same as those for the second
race. The fourth race will be for purse
of $3.50 divided into premiums of S125, $50,
$40 and S25 for the first, second, third and
fourth hourses respectively. 1t will be free
TO all horses with no better record than 2.3l
The fifth race will occur on September 10,
and will be open to horses whose records do
not beat 2.45. The purse OF $500 will be di-
vided into premiums of 500, $50, $50 and
$50. The sixth trial will be for purse of
$3.50 divided as in the case ofthe fourth race
and will be open to all horses with no bet
ter record than 2.35. Purse No. z will con-
ia $500 divided into four premiums OF
$3.50, S75, $45 and $50 respectively, and will
be competed for by horses that have not
beaten 2.29.
On the last day, September 20, the eighth
race, open to horses owned on the Peninsula
only and that have no better record than
three minutes, will be for a purse of $3.50
divided the same as the second. The ninth
trial, for all horses with no better record than
2.4O, will be for premium of $500 divided
as the fifth, while the tenth and last contest
will be for purse of $3.50 divided into
premiums of $l75, 800, $50 and $35. All
horses may be entered for the latter which
have not beaten 2.26.
The entries close Thursday, Sept ember 6,
1888, at II p. M, to be made TO the secre-
tary, W. Scott Way, at Middletown, Del.
The following conditions are announced
Entrance fee, 10 per cent of the whole
amount of premium, all of the premiums
for trotting, unless otherwise specified all
trotting to be three in five to harness. to be
governed by the rules of the National Asso-
citation and all entries must be made in ac-
co, dance Herewith; horses entered in PENN
sular purses must have been owned on the
Peninsula 30 days prior to the fair; when
eight or more horses start the distance will
be $50 yards; horse distancing the field, or
part thereof, will be entitled TO one premium
only; in all the classes forr will be required
to enter and three to start; entries made by
telegraph must be followed by post; unless
entrance fees accompany the entry it will be
optional to accept or reject; no conditional
entries received; good day and track or no
race; tight box stalls, hay and straw free;
entries to be made upder cover and to state
color, sex and name of horse, drivers name
and owners name and residence; purses
will be paid on the day of race from the
stands.