The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-24
LAST DAYS DOINGS,
From Sundays Daily Gazette.

From Sundays Daily Gazette.
Although the attendance was not
so large as the day before, a good
crowd was present yesterday to wit
ness the closing day of the fair. The
days racing programme, was prob
ably better than that of Friday in
that a higher class of attractions was
offered, but the different races lack
ed the excitement which was a feature
OF those of the preceding day. Better
time was made and new track records
were established, but with the excep-
ton of the first heat in the free for
all and the five-eighths handicap he
finishes were not close enough to en-
thuse the crowd Betting was well
kept up and both the book makers and
pool box were we'll patronized.
The first race was a mile run for
which there were five entries. Pin
ero was scratched, leaving Little Joe.
T~innyberry, Nannon and Maggie 3.
to start. Tinnyberry first acted badly
While scoring and after she had re-
gained her head Nannon took a no.
ton to be foolish and made the start
a hard one. After repeated failures
the bunch was finally sent off. Nam
O. from the first took the lead and
maintained it to the finish, with Tin
nyberry a close second. Little Joe
came next and Maggie some distance
behind. Time, 81.
The horses for the "slow race"
mile heats, best two in three. were
now brought out. Lady j., School
Girl, Monte and Billings started,
Sweden having been drawn. Billings
secured the pole, with Lady ]: second,
Monte third and School Girl on the
outside. Monte was averse to scor-
ing and gave an exhibition of plunging
and rearing. which while at first
amusing at last grew tiresome. When
finally they received the word it was
a fight between Billings and Monte,
but the little fellow broke when round
ing the second turn and fell behind
all the others. School Girl from being
last now forged ahead until she was
second and crossed the wire in that
position, with Monte back to third.
and Lady J. a trailer. In making the
first turn of the last half Lady j.
broke down, having gone lame, and
was led from the track. This left
only three to finish the heat. Monte
and School Girl broke repeatedly, but
Billings did not go off his feet once
and trotted with the regularity of a
machine. The finish was fairly good.
Billings, first; School Girl, second;
Monte. third. Time, 2:34.
AS the card was a big one, the
judges announced hat they would
sandwich in the free for all and call
ed the horses entered for this event.
The entries were, Wakefield, Glib,
Hard Case and Chick McGregor. The
knowing ones predicted fast time and
pieces for the track record of the
day before In this they proved, to
be correct. Hard Case drew the
pole, Glib second place, Chick third
and Wakefield fourth. After repeat
eddy scoring, made necessary by
Wakefield's antics, a start was Sc
cured with Wakefield trailing a lit
tie. but under full stride. In round
ing the first turn he closed up the
gap and passing the others began to
with Hard Case for the lead.
He could do no better, however, than
lap the leaders sulky which posi-
ton he maintained until down the
stretch, when he was a short
neck behind. After the second turn
Of the last half had been rounded
showed himself to be a dog !,
and quit. Rice piled the whip vigor- |
'usly and finally received a response, I
it was too late. Hard Case and |
lib were fighting in front for the ,