Arizona republican., 1903-01-02
FINE EXHIBITIONS
Rare Sport at the Race Track Tester
 day-Today's Programme.

The racing tournament has now pro- gressed far enough to begin to show re- cuIts. Yesterdays programme was decidedly interesting o1c and had all the people that stood outside the grounds. and rubbered. paid the admis- sion fee and crawled iato the grand stand the attendance would have been notably lar-e. As it was there was very gCod-sized crowd and the sport highly satisfactory to all.
 The first race of the day as auGJunc- cI was the unfinished three minute stake trotting race, ot which five heats were run the day before, no horse get ting three of them. The contestants were Oal,wCod, with two heats to his credit. Miss E0ydel!o with two heats to her credit and Maydeilo with one heat marked up. OakWCod. driven by George Richardson. won the race in the first and only heat yesterday, being the sixth heat 1f ,ha race The time was 2.2SA. which is the fastest sixth heat ever made in Arizona and fastest time eyer made in trizg"u by d three-year- old. Tn previous record for three ycar-ol5s was made here by Iowa Chief it being 2.3ji= TEc'e was something Of a caiuoi.cuOc also in the fact that that record was also made in the sixth heat of race. OakWood won Co his support r.auv new admirers yesterday and thc aC-.iTstion of his owner and trainer, T. X. PIatt.or and George Richardson, w"s increased a hundred fold. And there is good reason for it. O75wCCd w5s worked d while last spring. then stood in the stable all summer tI Nr. Richardson who han died C. F. E1oN's string on the grand circuit, returned about two months ago and begun putting OakWood in condi- ti0p, finding him soft and entirely out of khape for racing. Saturday night he got restless in his stall and in paving off a board h. ran two nails in one foot. He vas giyan prompt attention but it was feared he would be unable to start in the race. He did not lie down to rest from the time of the ac- cident till Wednesday night, after the first days racing, yet he got two Of the five heats and yesterday broke his own record. If iH condition today which he probably Will be, he will start in the 40 trct.
 Tn ether stake race run yestcrl1y was the quarter mile for yearlings and it was c.Ually as Interesting though not so long drawn out as he ether race. It was two heats in three and Miss Poll owned and driven by J. k. Wheat won the first two heats. The second heat was a trifle the fastest and was made in STA. The other horses COmpet- ing were Cake Walk owned by ". Eames Of Mesa, Lady Vesta owned by W. ". Tiffany, Tommy Lawson owned by ". Barkley, Iddie owned by V. E. Cieary. They started in the following order: Lady NastO, Miss Polly Iddie. Tom Lawson and Cake Walk. An in teresting thing regarding the race is the fact that the horses all finished the second heat in the exact order O; the finish in the first heat That order was as follows. Miss Polly, Cake Walk, Id die, Lady Nesta and Tom Lawson.
 The amateur road race was a beauty and provoked as much interest as any thing that has yet been done at the track. Dr. Hughes with his horse Bill lie Baker won the race in 2:29L only half a second behind Oakwood's rec ord in the sulky. Walter Bennett's horse Tom was about a length behind