The news & observer., 1905-10-13
FIeetest Horses in Two
States to Run.
PURSES ARE LARGE
Five Horses Mnst be Entered for Each
Race. TrOtting, Pacing and Rum
ming Races With the Best
Blood in Virginia and
Carolina.

The race entries of the North Caro-
lima State Fair have been prepared
for publication by C. G. Fox, of Phil
adelphia, clerk Of the course. The
list is excellent, and all the classes
have filed except the 2:1S trot. Ac-
five horses must be entered for each
race, and there must be at least three
to start. In the 2:1S trot there are
four entries, and the horses will be
permitted to go by and additional en-
trance fee being paid, SO as to be in
accord with the conditions. 1t is
possible that an entry or two, which
may have miscarried, will still be re-
ceived. All entries mailed prior to
II o'clock last Tuesday night are elgi-
BILE.
A letter was received, which had
been mailed at Greensboro on Tues
day, that simply contained scrawl
in lead pencil in these words: II will
also enter Bette Jones in some
classes. 1 want three starts for the
two horses" This is supposed to have
been written by horseman who filled
out an entry blank and neglected TO
enclose it in the letter Clerk Fox
has been unable to put the hp~~
Bette Jones" in the list, as ther
nothing to go by as to the classes
which the entries are intende
whether for three trotting or tn
pacing classes. The sender of the
ter will, no doubt, turn up next we
when he will be given the opportur
of rectifying his mistake. This
give two additional entries for each
the three trotting classes, and II
fill the 21S class, which lacks
entry Of the number required to fill ~.
AS the entry list now stands there
are six horses named for the 1922
trot six for the 2:17 pace, ten for the
2:35 trot seven for the 2:21 pace, four
for the 2:1S trot. seven for the 2:13
pace, six for the 2:27 trot and five
for the 2:27 pace; besides five, four
and six entries respectively for each
of the running races. This is a very
excellent showing and ensures good
races.
In the list will be found some fast
ones including Mary Dell" the
chestnut mare that established the
record of this track (2:16) one year
ago. Other good ones are Minnie
Thompson" (2:17 Id, and Sadie
Temple" (2:1S 1-2), the Roanoke
Wa.) horses that are great rivals.
These horses have had several tits
this year, and are expected to race
here for blood. Either one Of them
can break the track record.
"Fleety ], another Roanoke horse,
is a green four-year- -old, that has al
ready obtained a mark of 2:21 ga, and
is said to be capable of going consid-
erably below her mark if hard pushed.
The city of Roanoke in Virginia,
since the construction of the new race
track and training course there in
1903, has become great headquar-
ters for horsemen. 1t is pleasing to
know that the best horses which have
been trained on that track will be seen
here next week. In addition to the
running horses of the Jamisons, at
Roanoke, the same horsemen will
bring a number of colts of running
stock, and arrangements are being
made for several gve-eighths of a mile
dashes by them which will prove one
of the greatest drawing cards of the
Fair.
The names of some of the horses
will strike one as peculiar, but none
more SO than that of "Tearoleon.
This is not a case of mis-spelling, as
some might suppose. The Tyrolian
Alps of the ST. Louis Exposition re-
ferred to the valley of the Tyrol in
leon is a word compounded from the
pedigree, the sire of the horse
having been Red Leo and the dame,
TEA Rose
Butcher Boy was formerly driven
in a butcher wagon in Pennsylvania
and sold originally for a mere song.
He was found to be speedy. animal,
and has been several years on the
race track. Billy Gormly'' is named
after his owner. Conductor Corbett"
bears the name of we'll known con-
ductor of West Virginia, on the Nor
folk and Western railroad. Quick"
is a very good name for a horse but
Clam" is a slow one. The latter re-
fers to a production of the coast, and
to offset it there should be one
named Tar" another North Caro-
lima production.
Mary DEL is a compound of Mary
land and Delaware, the horse hailing
from Baltimore. She holds the track
record.
MI. C. G. Fox, the clerk of the
is here to stay until the races
are over. He is getting out the most
attractive program and official score
card ever seen at Southern race
track, and it will be issued daily as
a Roosevelt souvenir of the great
North Carolina State Fair of 1906.
Colonel Robert Hough, of Balti
more, who will be the starting Judge
next week, will not arrive in Raleigh
until next Tuesday morning. He is