Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-13
The Races.

The experiment of holding occasion
al races at Medicine Lodge having been
successfully inaugurated here, last Sat.
urday, through the enterprise of SAM
Stewart andMoDt. Cory, it is likely that
1t Will be continued, and that it will
eventually be the means of starting
county fair at the county seat. The
grounds used, the track on Judge Ellis
place, mile west of town, are admira-
bly, adapted to that purpose and if they
were provided with seats and shade.
there would be large attendance.
The first race Saturday was quar-
ter-mile dash. The contestants came
out in the following order:
LIST, Tonk Mills chestnut mare; End.
E. R. Germans by stallion Baby Cor
man." 3rd, George Browns gray geld
ing; 4th: the Lawrence filley, a green
animal, never handled until last week.
The contest was very close between the
two first mentioned, and the mare won
by less than three feet. Had the horse
the faculty of getting right down to
running from the first jump that the
mare has, he would have beaten her.
The next running race was a half
mile dash and the four contestants in
it came out as follows:
1st, The Tonk Mills mare; End, Mich
OILS Jack Rabbit 3rd, Taylor Mich
OILS raw grey gelding; 4th, Germans
brown gelding, three-year-old, by
Campbell's Legal Tender -
The result was surprise as the Mills
mare had been in a quarter race al
hour before and but few thought she
was good for another half. Jack Rab
bit" was known to be fast for half
and everybody was afraid of the Cor
man horse, but the latter left the track
and started for town and lost even third
money. The other horse was put in to
fill up, only.
The pace or trot was a creditable
race IN any country. There were five
entries and the result of the three
mile heats we're as follows:
Ewart's "Chief'-trotter . II2l2
Fields PAGER. ........ 1888
Clough's flley-trotter. 4l4I4
gelding ..,..................5l 5l0
Best time about 3:ll.
In the first heat it looked like the
Strong horse, an even, honest gOer.
would win first money, but the Ewart
horse, though green and great big
clumsy fellow, showed good stride af-
ter the first half, and he took the first
heat. The Field colt, Diamond
Joe, )" inbred, did steady hard work;
but his driver, Wash Shaw, was too
heavy and he was hitched to very poor
cart. d. Clough's filley, twO-year old.
made her first appearance in public and
the crowd and excitement was too
much for her and she broke badly and
frequently. She is coming mare,
however, and will likely make some
others of her class very weary before
she is much older. She is a standard
bred mare of Bucknum's old horse
The other ClOugh horse did show
much of gait and retired after the
second heat.
NOTES.
Header barges were used for judges
stands.
The HaZelton stock farm will have
horses here the next time, and II. B.
Steck will try and be on hand.
Nobody was up from Kiowa, and yet
Kiowa wants our people to attend their
fair.
Ice water was five-a-glass. That was
wrong. The understanding was that
it was To be plentiful and free. The
lake water was free. :
The mayor and two councIlmen took
in the sights from the road, and saved
their quarters.
There was not drunken man on the
grounds and but little loud talking.
Probably hundred ladies were out
and they enjoyed the excitement.
The Strong horse can beat 2:4O if he
has to.
Old man Clough is a good driver and
he likes it.
DIR. Miller saw it all and it pleased
him to see an interest IN handling bet
ter horses.
The boy who always runs an old
pillow horse around the track was there;
also the two boys who always have a
pony race, much to their own danger.
A rain would put the track in good
shape and the prediction is here made.
that this fall it will be kept not.