The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-01
RACING CIRCUIT
INCLUDES ZION
Salt Lake Gets Berth in Western
Racing Association.
SPRING AND FALL MEETING
BEST HORSES IN COUNTRY WILL
COME HERE TO COMPETE.

A deal was contaminated yesterday
which will without a doubt make Salt
Lake one of the most important horse
racing centers in the entire west. The
proposition, which certainly looks good
from the racing public's point of view,
carries with 1t a spring and fall meet
ing of at least ten days continued rae
ing at which over 500 head of the fast
est runners in the country will be an
attraction.
For some time there has been a
movement on foot to organize a west
ern circuit to include all the principal
cities. and now that the plans have
progressed far enough, the details have
been given to the public for the first
time. An organization to be known as
the Western Racing association mas
been formed including the following
towns: Sacramento. Salt Lake, Den
yer, Butte, Anaconda, Great Falls, Spo-
kane. Seattle and Portland, and it is
proposed to hold spring and fall meet
ings of at least ten days duration in
each one of these places.
The Western association is backed Dy
San Francisco parties, with plenty OF
capital behind them to insure its sue
ress. Zeke Abrams, one of the best
known followers of the turf and race
meeting promoter. is acting as the
representative of the new association
and for the past several days has been
IN Salt Lake working up this end of
The circuit. Yesterday he closed a con
tract with NJ. E. Mulvey of this city
10 handle Salt Lakes interest in the
new association. after which he de-
parted for his home in San Francisco.
Circuit Is Now Complete.
When seen by Herald reporter yes
terday Mr. Abrams said that he had
been quietly working on the proposed
circuit for the past three months and
now had all the towns lined up.
salt Lake will get the same class
Of racing as seen in San Francisco,
Chicago. New Orleans, New York, or
any CT the big eastern racing centers,
said Mr.. Abrams. The same horses
that perform on these tracks Will be
sent out on the circuit of our new as
ISOLATION, which includes this city. At
the present time there are about 300
of these flyers at Oakland, and as soon
as the winter season closes out there
these horses will at once be sent out
on our circuit. The people here will
see sport such as they have never seen
before, and when a field of ten or
twelve of these flayers faces the post 1
am very much mistaken if it does not
open their eyes. We will ship in
whole trainlOad of horses, accompanied
by small army of trainers, handlers,
Jockeys and stable boys, and people
VIII think a circus has struck the
town when the combination arrives.
We VIII give our first meeting in this
city about the 1st of June, and you can
say that at least two big stake events
will be pulled off during that time"
Track Question Still Unsettled.
The question of a track has not been
settled yet and will not be until It is
definitely known whether a mile track
win be built here this summer. Either
Callers or the fair ground track will
do, but the association would much pre-
fer a mile track, if one is built. II
is the intention to get as many local
horse-owners interested as possible,
and local horses will be offered all
possible inducements to try their
speed against the imported flyers
Mr. Abrams has made several trips
TO Salt Lake the past winter in work.
ing up the proposition and this was
the last town in the circuit that he
secured. He had just closed a deal
and said before leaving that no pos
sible contingency could come up that
would spoil the associations plans
The fact that this city is at last
going to have first class. up-to- date
racing will be received with extreme
satisfaction by the sport loving pub
lie Efforts in the past have been
made at times to get the best there
Is in this line, but heretofore the
schemes have never been properly
handled The new association seems
to have plenty of backing and the right
kind of men to carry their plans
through, all of which is good news to
local race-going persons.