The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
RACING AT FAIR
 COMES ID AN END.
Meet Was More Successful
 Than Expected
LAWS HANDICAP RACING
The Fair Association Had No Sources of Revenue From the Races Ex- cept the Entrance Fees.
 Summaries of Races.

With the exception of the running race yesterday afternoon, the events on the racing programme at the state fair were uninteresting after those of the two pre- vious days. The races did not call for fast time and the drivers were not prone to drive their horses to the limit, there fore the best time was a little worse than 2:18.
 It was getaway day and the best horses were not entered in the races. The crowd was somewhat smaller than on the previous days and had it not been for the one running race there would not have been interest enough to hold to- gether those who were there.
 The running race was Queen Frieze's all the way. the other horses being beat at the wire by a length. The distance could have been increased to three or four lengths just as easily had the jockey on the winner pushed her in the stretch. He finished looking backward with Tom Paden's head at the tail of his horse and Golden Prince some distance in the rear. Nora S. touted to win the race was way back in the selling plate class.
 Horses Start Even.
 The four horses got away well together. but in the back stretch Queen Frieze took the lead and never relinquished it. although at times she was only half a length to the good. Down the front strentch the horses came with the head of the second horse at the stirrup of the rider on the leader. In the back stretch the second time the winner forged farth- CT to the front, with Tom Paden clinginS hard to second place. In the turn the second horse pushed the leader and in the beginning of the stretch 1t looked as if the race would be worm and exciting but Paden was not up to a burst of speed and the jockey on Queen Frieze pulled up and allowed the others to close in.
 Next to the running race the unfin- ished free for all trot was productive of the best time and the most interest. Cas- tie, driving Gold Standard, won easily. as was expected. This gave him three heats and the race. The time was 2:16 on the last heat Summer Fearn, the winner of two heats on Friday, was sec ond, with Van Meter third and Briggs fourth. rst
 In the 2:24 trot Henry I. had cinch that was surprising to the crowd. Many thought Briggs or Anna Gay should have trotted the winner a good heat or two, but Castle did not have to use his whip in any of the six circuits of the track. The time of the three heats was never better than 2:23.
 Lord Curzon had as easy thing in the T trot It was three straight heats with nothing that could give him a really hot heat. Bad News was depended on for one good battle. but was not equal to the call, Lord Curzon coming in without any trouble. Black Bird jumped after the winner in two heats, but was never bet ter than a bad second except when Dri- yer Thomas held the Lord. The best time was 2:1S%.
 Summary of Races.
 The summary of the races was as fol- lows:
 2:24 class, trot-
 Henry L. (Castle) ..... ................1 1 Briggs (@ ...... .................. 224 Anna Gay (Thomas) ........ .........5 2 Abdiah (Abshire) ..... .......\........4s UT. 0Tdy tWaltOn) ........ ..........3 D
 Time of heats: 2:26A; 2:261s; 2;25A. l 2:20 class pace
 Lord Curzon (Thomas) .............111 Black Bird Hayward) ..............282 Bad News (Brassffeld) ...........623 Jenks lKerlin) .........................33 5 Annie Caffee (NewelD .........45 English Walnut (Williams) ..........* .*4s Louise tHulD ..... .............5 4 Nora (Patchen) ....... ............77
 +Thrown out by accident
 Time of heats: 2:21%; 2:1S%; 2:1S%.
 In the third heat of the pace there was a mix-up after the first bend was made the second time which resulted in Annie Caffee running away around the track without her driver. Neither the sulkies, drivers or horses were injured and the only result was in throwing one of the horses out of the money.
 Good Racing. Yesterday finished the racing for this meet, which was far better than any one expected. Considering the fact that no pools were allowed and that the fair association had no source of revenue from the races except the entrance fees. the meet was excellent. Horsemen state that if the law would allow the making of books that the fair grounds would | not be able to accommodate the crowds that would flock to the races. 1 Despite edicts put out and the abso- 1 lute refusal to allow pools. there was a hand book running throughout the en- tire meet and betting was indulged In by all who wished to risk little money on