, 1891-08-02
RARE AND RACY.
The Programme Arranged For the
Fall Meeting.
1t Will be a Lively and Entertaining
Affair.
A Variety of Sports to Suit Every,
body's Tastes.

The following has been decided upon
as the official programme Tor the fall race
meeting Of the Wyoming Fair Associ-
alton to be held at Cheyenne, Sent. s. 9,
10 and IL. For new novelties and
interesting live running races it will I'M
~doubtedly be the most attractive meeting
ever held here. The total amount of
purses offered approximate SO, 500, which.
considering the fact that the meeting is
almost exclusively for runners, Is a greater
amount than ever heretofore offered for
that class of races. The success of the
meeting is assured as there is not a race
on the programme that has not been
guaranteed entries enough to fill. The
following is the programme:
TUESDAY, SEP 8.
Pony race, IA hands or under, weight
for age, seven pounds off Tor every inch
under; purse SIS; five to enter, three to
start; entrance fee 10 per cent of purse.
Ball and mallet race for ponies AL
hands or under; sweepstakes. hali-mile
dash; entrance fee IS; gentlemen riders.
Ball to be hit around the track with
mallet and if touched with hand or rider
dismounts the rider is disqualified. Each
rider to come in with the same ball he
started with. Colored balls will be used
and will be supplied to anv who wish to
enter in the race by Mr.. Percy Hoyt at
the Polo ranch.
Sweepstakes, Wyoming 3-year-o Odds, $50
to start with $3.50 added; 25 per cent to
second horse; weight for age. Entries
close fifteen days before the race. Entries
to be accompanied by halt the fee, bal
ance to be paid night before the race.
Cheyenne Club cup, usual conditions,
entries to be made fifteen days before the
race to secretary of the Cheyenne club.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9.
Roadster race for Cheyenne horses
used for driving as roadsters; half mile
heats two in three, five to enter, three to
start; entrance fee s.. Silver cup.
Mile dash, Merchants stakes, free for
all; purse, 800; SIS to first, $25 to second
horse; weight for age, 10 per cent entrance
fee.
Hurdle race, $50 pounds or over, up;
four hurdles, free for all; 800 purse, $75
for first and S25 to second horse; five to
enter, three to start, 10 per cent entrance
fee.
Another event to be filed according to
horses on the track.
THURSDAY, sEPT. 10.
Cow pony race, one-quarter of a mile
heats. best two in three; SIS purse, en-
trance fee So; five to enter, three to start.
To carry COW outfit and rider not to weigh
less than $50 pounds, horses to be judged
by competent committee and where ques-
ton as to eligibility of horses arise owner
must take affidavit that entry is a COW
horse.
Five.eighth of a mile dash, free for all,
weight for age; $3.50 purse, % per cent
to second horse, 10 per cent entrance fee.
Wyoming 2-year- oIds, sweepstakes, $50
entrance. $3.50 added, 25 per cent to sec
ond horse. Entries close fifteen days be-
fore the race. Entries to be accompanied
by half the fee, balance night before the
race.
Wyoming Fair Association Hurdle cup;
S25 entrance fee. so per cent. to second
horse, For horses owned in Wyoming
and Colorado two months before the race;
weight not less than l20. Value of cup
$500.
FRIDAY, SEPT. IL.
Cow-pony race l4.3 hands or under,
one-half mile dash; purse $75. Entrance
fee IS, IS per cent to second horse. Cow
outfit to weigh 100 pounds.
Novelty race, one mile, free for all,
purse $3.50, divided as follows; first to
quarter pole $50, first to half pole $35.
first to three.quarter pole $35, first to mile
pole $50; 10 per cent. entrance fee,
weight tor age.
Jymkohrna pony race, l4.2 hands or
under, sweepstakes S. entrance fee, dis
lance about one-fourth of a mile. Con-
ditions-Horses to be held at wire, hal
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umbrella, saddle and bride; at word go
they run to horses. open umbrella. light a
cigar, saddle horse and start: at one
eighth pole get off. take a drink, remount
and race home; umbrella up and cigar
lighted at finish. Standard size umbrella.
The Great Wyoming cup, mile and q
hall, value 81 600, S25 entrance fee.
Usual conditions to govern, Entries close
fifteen days before the race.
Except where otherwise specified in all
races five to enter and three to start and
10 Der cent. of the purse will be the en-
trance fee. Entries close at 7 o'clock the
night before the race. unless otherwise
stated.
All the entries except in the Cheyenne
club cup race are to be made to the secre-
tary of the association, at room 4, Corlett
block.
number of local horsemen we're anx-
ious to have a four-horse chariot race
with gentlemen drivers as one of the fea-
lures, but owing to the difficulty In secur-
ing the chariots and the four horse teams,
it was given up.
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