Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-07-13
A R DAYS FAIR.
The Ledger Is Heartily In Favor OF
the Move, We're 1t Practicable.

wants 1t bad; but can We I'VE one
is the question. There has been
some talk within the last few days
of a race meeting this summer or
fall at the Fair Grounds, the citizens
to guarantee the purses.
There can be no meeting held at
the Mexico track until the affairs of
the Association are Strengthened up;
if there is, the track will pay the
penalty. The Mexico Association
Is still a member of the American
Trotting Association, but an attempt
to have races would mean its imme-
diate expulsion. Were it possible
to secure the track for a meeting
this summer, races under the pro-
lection of 10 association would prove
a failure and a farce. There would be
no rules to restrict horse men and
drivers that they would care a snap
of the finger for and the whole thing
would be a regular hippodrome.
There are few-if any-horse men
who would care to start their horses
where no record could be obtained,
but would be subject to a bar instead.
A mark made by a horse in a race
for money where time is called con-
stitutes a bar, which is more unde-
sirable than a record. Under the
circumstances the Association has
no right to let the track to an indi-
vidual or persons to hold a meet
ing; besides, under its present finan-
cial difficulty, there are others who
have a say-so in the matter.
For arguments sake we will say:
Suppose we do go ahead and adver-
tise a three days trotting meeting,
with three C a day, a 5000 guar
anteed purse for each race, and
everything moves along nicely until
the day before the meeting begins,
without our being suspended or ex-
PEELED from the American Associa-
ton, and some horse man to whom
the Association owes money steps
up and makes complaint to Secre-
tary Steiner, then the whole thingis
stopped.
A meeting" over the track after
it had been outlawed would possibly
bring a few old ''skates'' to the wire
that the people would not care to see
and would be a disgrace to Mexico's
former reputation as a Fair town and
trotting horse center.
The plan is not feasible, nor will
it be carried out. To have racing
there must be horses, and men who
own fast animals will not pound
them around over a prescribed race
course for paltry purses.
Before another successful meeting
can be held at Mexico the present
Association affairs must be straight
tened up or the track pass into new
hands.
The LEDGER is at all times and
under nearly all circumstances in
favor OF any move that will forward
the interests-especially the horse
interests-of Mexico and Audraln
County, but thinks, in this instance,
that a race meeting over a non-asso-
citation track would be a complete
failure. This, also, is the judgment
of the veteran horsemen of this COM
munity.
1t may possibly be the case that
by next summer the people Will
want a fair worse than they did last
year, when Mexico had two of the
best race meetings it ever held and
patronized by far the largest number
OF entries of the fastest horses OF
any trotting meetings ever held in
this State, which were not appreci-
ated, either one, by the public, hence
the Associations failure. The LED
GER undertakes to say that by next
year we will want a fair and will
be given one, too, on a grander scale
even than those of the past.