The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-17
Races at Agricultural Park Open
Yesterday.
PLEASE A BIG CROWD
SOME BEAUTIFUL FINISHES AND
GOOD SPORT ALL THROUGH.
Hot Race Between Miss Ransom and
Montana Queen Which the Queen
Wins-Judges Call It Dead Heat
March Takes Close Race From
Sea Queen.

crowd and the best of good weather,
opening day at Agricultural park yes
terday was a success in almost every
respect. Over LOCO people were there,
and they saw the best races that have
been given on any local track for years
There were big fields of entries in each
event, and every race was ridden to a
nnlsh with not suspicion of crooked
work or unfair riding
The only unsatisfactory thing about
the meeting was the decision of the
judges in the last event of the day,
the one-eighth-m running. Miss
hanson and Mountain Queen We're the
faVorites at odds of / TO and to 5.
Linviile and Corella, 4 TO l shots, were
the others in the race They got off
well together, Linville leading by a
head, with Corella second, Mountain
Queen third and Miss Ransom fourth.
Miss Ransom forged to the front inn
mediately. but the Queen drew up
gradually, and going under the wire
the first time she was a neck to the
good. Corella was three lengths back
and Linviae five behind her.
Mountain Queen and Ransom had it
nip and tuck all the way around the
second time, the Queen running a lit
tie stronger, apparently. Coming into
the stretch the Queen was a half
length to the good and Ransom had
five over Corella. They Numbered down
the stretch side by side and Ransom
drew slowly up. As they passed under
the wire the crowd roared with ap-
pTroval, for it was a grand finish.
Mountain Queen won by a head, with
Ransom three lengths ahead of Cor
ella and Linville nowhere. Time-1:S2.
Judges In a Quandry.
But the judges were in doubt. E. G.
&c Of NN1. do
them had beeen called away, and this
left @. r. Larrabee and Tom Harris
In the stand. Mr.. Larrabee caught the
finish, as did the others in the stand,
with Mountain Queen a head to the
good, but Harris was undecided. AT
first he complained that he could not
see it, as Ransom finished so close I'M
der the stand. Then he underwent an
other SpaSm of cereDration. and called
it a dead heat. This seemed such a
safe and non-committal position that
he chung TO it. The crowd gathered
around the stand and clamored to be
told the result, and Mr. Montgomery,
manager Of the meet, came up and de-
manded that some decision be reached.
Harris stuck to his decision and it was
announced as a dead heat and the purse
was divided. Some of the bettors grum-
bled, as much money had been wa
gered on the race but there was no
other way out of it.
Hal Brown. lately returned from the
grand circuit with much glory and
many dollars in his pocket. acted as
starter for the 2:30 pace, and pleased
the crowd by the vigorous and master
ly manner in which he ran things. The
race was d. gift TO Jupiter, DR.. Keysor's
speedy brown horse. Jupiter was
driven by his owner and took the race
in straight heats without a break or a
falter in any one of them. Tombstone
was a good second in the first heat,
but in the later heats broke badly
many times and was nearly distanced in
the final. The first heat was gone in
2:26A, the second in 2:2SA and the
third in 2:2724.
Favorite Beaten.
In the five eighths running, the favor
lite, Jake Krauses Gold Bug, was beat
en- out at the wire by March, a speedy
animal from Portley & Linkendorfs
Butte stables, in finish that aroused
much enthusiasm. Gold Bug got the
better of the start by a length, Jersey
Maid being second and March third,
the other starters, Know Me and
Hymn, trailing. March had SKINNED up
abreast of Gald Bug as they passed
under the wire on the first round, and
was a head to the good, with JERSEY
Maid the same distance back, and
Hymn close up. A blanket wauld have
covered all four. They ran all to-
gether To the quarter pole, and here
they began to string out a bit, although
Gold Bug and March were still fight
ing il out side by side at the front.
Down the stretch they came kicking
through the dust at sounding gate.
March and Gold Bug were going it
neck and neck all the way, with the
others pounding along in the rear and
everybody using whip and spur. 1t
Il hot Mar
and Gold Bug at first, but the Butte
mare poked her nose to the fore as
they came under the wire and won by
an eyelash. The crowd roared approval
as the silken bag containing the prize
money was lowered to her owner from
the wire. where it had been literally
hung up" during the race. The time
was 1:0Ss4.
In two straight heats New Evans
brown mare Dinah Watts won the
quarter-mile. best two in three. Phil
Ward was fractions at the post and
after falling on his juckey, Tom
O'Brien, in the first attempt at start,
he shook the inexperienced youth off
when Starter Smith called them up
again He was then withdrawn. Dinah
Watts got the better of both starts, in
the first heat having two lengths over
Blue Sign, who was a Slight favorite
at three to five. The gray mare could
not make up the distance, ana oman
Watts won by two lengths, with Ethel
Otto. who had made a strong race from
poor start, third. Time-24 seconds. 1
The finish in the second heat was in
the same order, Dinah Watts winning
by.a half length from Blue Sign. and
Ethel Otto being third. Time-24 sec
onds.
Sea Queen Defeats Bill Howard.
Bill Howard, the favorite in the half
mile, was beaten out rather easily by
Jake Krause'S mare Sea Queen. How
ard used TO be one of the fastest horses
in the mountain Circuit, and is still a
pretty goer. but Sea Queen proved
his superior. After long delay at the
post, principally owing TO the fractions |
ness of Bernice and La Belle they got |
away, with Howard a length ahead of
the bunch. Sea Queen STROBE at his |
flank around the turn and by pretty |
burst Of speed in the back stretch i
opened UP three lengths before they |
passed the quarter pole. Howard was
going gamely, with two lengths TO
spare over Pat l., while Pat had the
same over Bernice. 1t was a process
sion into the stretch, and Sea Queen |
had increased her lead TO four lengths
under the wire Howard was second, |
with three lengths to spare. Pat L. /
third, by q head over Bernice, and Ber- |
nice a length over Riches. Know Me, |
the sixth horse, was nowhere. Time |