Wichita eagle., 1888-02-22
INAUGURAL MEETING.
The Wichita Exposition and Interstate Fair
AssociatiOn-Inaugural Meeting,
June to 8, 1883.
FIRST DAY-JUNE 3,

No. 1-Trotting; colts and FLIES 2-years-
old and under, owned in Kansas previous
| to January l. 1855: purse $500.
No. 2-Running; three-foucthS of a mile
dash; 2-year-olds, maidens allowed 3
pounds, Kansas bred colts pounds; purse
$500
No. drumming; mile dash, all ages;
purse 500.
No. 200 yards hose race 16 men; purse
s15; LIST money, $50; I'd money, S25.
SECOND DAY-JUNE 6.
No. 5-Trotting; colts and fillies, years
old and under, owned in Kansas previous
to January 1, 1888; purse $500
No. 6-Runnipg: mile dash for 3-year-
olds, maidens allowed pounds, Kansas
colts pounds; purse 5000.
No. Running; mile dash; selling al
lOwances; purse $500.
No. championship hose race; purse
S75; 1st money, $50; I'd money, SO.
THIRD DAY-THURsDAy, JUNE Z.
Mo. 9-Pacing; free for all; purse $500
No. 10-Running;one-fo fourth mile DASH
purse 500.
No. thinning: one fourth mile dash
all ages, selling allowances: purse $500
No. Pat II 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, $40 to first S25 to second.
FOURTH DAY-FRIEAY, JUNE s.
No. 14-Trotting; free for all; purse 1900.
No. l5-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-sATURDAY, JUNE 9TH.
No. Especial race for named horses
Purse 800.
No. 14.-Trotting, colts and FLIES
years old and under owned in Kansas
prior to June l, 1888. Purse 800.
No. 15.-Running, consolation purse,
half-mile heats; purse 500.
CONDITIONS.
Trotting and pacing will be mile heats,
best in ) to harness, except in the 2-year
old colt race which will be half-,nile heats
2 in 3 to harness, and the year old colt
race which will be mile heats . in 3, and
will be governed by the Americat Trot-
ting association rules; per cent must
accompany entry. In all races entry fee
10 per cent of purse. Horses drawn the
night previous to race will only be held
for one-half entrance.
Purses divided as usual 60, 25 and 15
Enteries close, pacing and trotting May
%, 1888. 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
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the association is unable to start one or
more of its races by three o'clock D. NJ on
the last day of the meeting, such race or
races will be declared off and entrance
money refunded. Entry blanks will be
furnished by the secretary. Sealed bids
for booth and other privileges will be re-
celyed 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 market 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 railroad |
center. Rates of one fare for the round |
trip have been secured.
A state firemen'S 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. e.
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
Wichita. j. w. HARTZELL,
Secretary and Manager.