The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-14
BIG CROWD is OUT
Fair Grounds Filled for Races
Thursday.
Three Year Old Pace the SEN
satiOnal Event.
OSTRICH ON THE TRACK
Goes Two Heats Against q
Pacing Horse.
Record Breaking Attendance at
the Carnival.
OSTRICH ON THE TRACK

wa Boy. going in the three year old
pace for purse of $500, furnished the
only racing at the meeting at the fair
grounds yesterday. which was at all
sensa tionaL In the second heat of this
race Beazley and Silver Tip came
down the stretch under a hard drive
just like a team and passed the wire
so close together that the judges de-
Cided it dead heat and the other
heats Of the race were all hotly con-
tested. 1t was as good a three year
old pace as will be seen anywhere All
Of the other races, with the exception
of the two running events, which fur-
nIshed a little excitement, were OF an
ordinary character. the winners IN
each of them seeming to clearly out
class their fields. WhirlWind, the much
heralded trotting ostrich, made its ap-
pearance on the track for the first
time Of the meeting and went two half
mile heats with horse as pace
maker The crowd did not seem to
enthuse very much over the per
formances of the ostrich but the big
bird certainly presented a novel sight
Perha ps the real feature OF the
meeting yesterday wa the crowd in
attendance There were between sew
en- and eight thousand persons on the
grounds and all Of them were on hand
to see the races. The big grand stand,
NiAtIti HAS q o-d AAilS 20 betNAAN u 11AA4NT
thing over three thousand, was packed
full by . O'Clock Not only was every
seat taken but the people were packed
in three deep in front of the bottom
row of seats and along the sides of the
stand. There was easily that number
between the stand and the track. The
rail clear up the head of the stretch
was lined with persons three ana four
deep and in the quarter stretch were
between two and three hundred rigs,
n frr
and six occupants to single rigs which
accommodated but two.
In the grand stand we're twice as
many women as men and, dressed in
their gayest of gowns, and wearing
gayer hats, they presented rather in
spring sight when they rose en- masse
to get a better view OF the finish Of
each of the heats and races
Starter Kennedy called the races
promptly at half after one O'Clock and
he met with better success yesterday
than on any of the other days of the
meeting in getting the fields away 10
fairly good starts without much delay
at the post The three-ye year-Old pace
was the first called. Beazly rushed off
at the start of the first heat and main
tanned the lead right around to the
finish, winning the heat in handy fash
ion and it looked as if this horse was
going to have things his own way in
taking the other heats and the race.
But when the stretch was reached in
the second heat Silver Tip came along
with rush and caught UP with Beazly
Who had been leading all the way.
Then ensued as pretty a drive down
the stretch as has ever been seen.
Both drivers Piled their whips and
shouted encourage cement to their horses
and they tore down the stretch at
lightning speed just like team
Strain and urge as they would neither
driver could gain bit of advantage
and they rushed under the wire on
such even terms that the judges de-
clared 1T dead heat. Ihls rafting
finish i'm the second heat seemed to
take the tucker out of Beazly and the
best he could do in the other heats was
TO finish last but with one win and a
dead heat to his credit ne got away
with the second money. Silver Tip
took the other three heats handily al
though he had to pace some to win
the last one from Rambling Red. OF
tawa Boy. owned by Charles II. Sam
son. and the only local horse to start
yesterday, made a good showing in this
race considering the fact that he has
been a trifle lame for the last few days
and was up against some of the fastest
three-year-old PAGERS in this section of
the country
Billy Moore was odds and away the
best horse in the 2.20 pace, although
he did finish fourth in the first heat
1T looked as though his driver did not
make much of an effort TO have the
horse Go his best in this heat In the
succeeding three heats Billy Moore took
them as he pleased. Coinetta, who
took the first heat. had all he could do
10 beat out Golden Bow in two of the
last three heats for second place
There was nothing to the 2:23 trot
but Symboline a big bay mare. who
took the three straight heats in handy
fashion. Although the track was
lightning fast and in the best possible
shape no unusual time was made, the
best mile being the second heat of the
fhree-year-old pace, when the time
was 2:171s
Four horses. Miss Anable. Leila Hfu.
Fauetta and Arco Springs. started IN
the mile running race and Miss Affa-
BILE who finished second in the Derby.
had no trouble in winning it. although
she had to run some TO do it. She
took the lead at the start and was
never headed although Fanetta came
good and strong in the stretch The
race was run in las L. just three
quarters Of a second slower than the
Derby time.
In the four and one-half furlongs
running rare. there were seven start
ers and John Griffin, who Won a race
Yesterday. led the field from the start
ana won out hN half a length from R.
H. B.. who followed him in second
place all the way. All of the other
horses in the race made a great rush
down the stretch and were in a bunch
at the finish with Mrs. Rob. having a
shade the best of IT half a length be-
hind r. NJ. B. for third place
The Ostrich Grace"
The ostrich is a greater success as a
bad dream than as racer He can
travel IN very short time from one
given point to another=ff he so de-
sires.-but he Is erratic ia his ways.
and foolish in the head. He is liable to
start ike q canned" greyhound. but
e down e rest MS weary tail-feataers
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