The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-07-07
Attractions For Detroit's Great
Speed Carnival.

This is the week when the selections
are made for the big program of the
Detroit Drying Club, that occupies
the third week of the present month.
In four of the rich stakes that will be
competed for during the Blue Ribbon
meeting, the horses were named last
March, but the conditions of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers and the
Chamber of Commerce are such that a
nominator can substitute another horse
for the one originally chosen, at any
time up to July Sd. So out of the
twenty-three young trotters that were
at first considered good enough to try
for the $4,000 distributed in the
famous IN & M" there will doubtless
be some whose chances are not so ROSY
when tried in the early training this
spring. One thing is assured, the
fields will be large in all these popular
events for the old adage "money
makes the mare go" is particularly
applicable to harness racing. Besides
the $2l 900 guaranteed in the four
stakes arranged over three months
ago, the additional amount offered
in the classes that closed on Tuesday
of this week, brings the total list for
the Blue Ribbon meeting up to the
princely sum of $47 600. With this
golden magnet to draw them the fast
est and best known steppers in the
country will be at Detroit when the
great carnival of speed begins there
on the 18th instant. They come from
all parts of the continent and include
the crack stable which Thomas +.
Heating brought from California re-
Gently. This lot of flyers was shipped
a. N loin 70
they are now quartered in the spacious
stables at the Crosse Pointe track.
Among the sensations from the Pa
cific Coast is Searchlight, whose feats
at three and four years were go far
ahead of any other PAGER ut the same
age, that this gallant young horse is
looked on as formida Die rival o.
Star Pointer and the older champions.
There is also a phenomenal trotter in
the Heating stable, called Venus
Second. She made a successful debut
at Denver last month bat did not haye
to go faster than 2:l9l. 1t will require
much more lively clip than that to
get the money at the Michigan me-
tropolis, where all the speed of the
country is focused for the beginning
of the Grand Circuit.
The Blue Ribbon meeting is so ar
ranged this year, that those who go to
see the noted horses battle for the big
stakes, can remain to the end of the
week on their excursion tickets. On
Monday the Chamber of Commerce
for 2:24 PAGERS will be decided, and
there is a rate of a single fare for the
round trip from points as far distant
from Detroit as l55 miles. These
special tickets which include admis-
sion to the grounds, are good until
Saturday, and everybody who con-
templates gong to the races should re-
member that July 18th is the best time
to start. On Tuesday the an q NJ is
on and there is also the half fare rate
from points within 80 miles of Detroit,
and these tickets are also available for
return up to July Odd. The managers
of the Blue Ribbon meeting have
obtained special concession from the
Michigan Passenger Association this
year, and it remains for the loyal
friends of the high class sport furnish
ed there, to prove to the railroad COM
panies that Grand Circuit week at De-
troit is an event of national import
ance.