Wichita eagle., 1888-02-23
INAUGURAL MEETING.
The Wichita Exposition and Interstate Fair
Ass0ciatiOn-inaugural Meeting,
June 5 to D. 1883.

| FIRST DA1-JUNE D.
No 1-Trotting; colts and fillies 2-years
old and under, owned in Kansas previou
to January l, 1888; purse 500.
dash: 2-year-olds, maidens allowed
pounds, Kansas bred colts ) pounds; purs
$500.
No. Stunning; mile dash, all ages
| purse $780,
No. 900 yards hose race: 16 men; purs'
| S75; LIST money, $50; I'd money, S23.
SECOND Daytime 6.
No. 5-Trotting; colts and FLIES, 3 year.
old and under, owned in Kansas previous
to January l, 1888; purse $500.
No. 6-Running; mile dash for 3-year
olds maidens allowed 8 pounds, Kansa:
colts 5 pounds: purse 300.
No. 7-Running; mile dash; selling al
No. championship hose race; purse
SIS; 1st money, $50; I'd money, S25.
THIRD DAY-THURsDAY, JUNE Z.
Mo- 9-Pacing; free for all; purse $500
No. 10-Running;one-fourth mile dash
purse 800.
No. 11-Running; one-fourth mile dash
all ages, selling allowances; purse $500
No. 12-At IL o'clock a. M: hook and
ladder race; purse $50, $50 to first, $50 to
second
No. 13-4 o'clock p. m: team race; purse
500, SIS to first. S25 to second.
FOURTH DAY--FRIEAY, JUNE s.
No. 14-Trotting; free for all; purse 1900.
No. 15-Running one and One-eighth
mile dash; all ages, selling allowances;
purse $500.
No. 16-Running; one mile and repeat;
all ages: purse $500.
No. 17-Firemen's couplers race; purse
$50 $50 to first, $40 to second.
FIFTH DAY-sATURDkY, JUNE 9TH.
No. Especial race for named horses.
Purse 500.
No. l4.-Trotting, colts and fillies 4
years old and under owned in Kansas
prior to June l. 1888. Purse 500.
No. l5.-Running, consolation purse,
half-mile heats; purse $780,
CONDITIONS
Trotting and pacing will be mile heats,
best in 5 to harness, except in the 2-year
old colt race, which will be half-mile heats
in to harness. and the 3 year old colt
race which will be mile heats, 9 in 3, and
will be governed by the Americat Trot-
ting association rules; per cent mus it
10 per cent of purse. Horses drawn the
night previous to race will only be held
for one-half entrance
Purses divided as usual, 90, 25 and Is.
Enteries close, pacing and trotting May
%, 1883 Running will be governed by
American rules. Selling purses governed
as follows: Horses entered at $1,000 to
carry weight for age, one pound off for
every hundred dollars, down to 81 800, win
ner to be sold at auction and surplus over
entered price, if any, be divided between
second horse and the association, if in case
of bad weather or other unavoidable causes
the association is unable to start one or
more of its races by three o'clock p m. on
the last day of the meeting, such race or
races will be declared OF and entrance
money refunded. Entry blanks will be
furnished by the secretary. Sealed bids
for booth and other privileges will be re-
ceived by the secretary and promptly re-
ported upon.
Stalls furnished free to all horses entered
in races who have paid their entrance fee
according to the conditions of the meeting
Feed, hay and straw at mark ct price will
be furnished on the grounds. Track one
mile in length Wichita has $4,000 people
and the largest transient population of
any city in the country; it is also a railroad
center. Rates of one fare for the round
trip have been secured
\ state tireme tournament will be
held in the city of Wichita during the
week of the race meeting The same rules
will govern this tournament and the
racing events that are used by the South
western Firemen's association of Missouri.
Full particulars and conditions of contests
will be mailed to each department in the
state at an early date by Fire Chief A. G.
Walden, of this city. A grand military
will be held during the week,
and a trades display will be made on
Thursday night, June Z, in honor of the
eighteenth birth year of the city of
W ichita. j. W. HARTZELL,
Secretary and Manager.