The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-03
PRIZES ANNOUNCED
s2,oo0 TO BE AWARDED IN sTATE
 FAIR STAKES.
Partial List of Events Includes Con- tests for Two and Three-Year Olds, As Well As Class
 Knees

Two thousand dollars will be paid in prizes to the winners of the stake | races at the big State Fair, which will be held by the Alabama Agricultural Association in Montgomery. October 22 to 27.
 While the race program has not yet | been completed that portion of it re- ferring to the stake races has been ar- ranged, and was given out by Secre- | tary Adams yesterday afternoon. of the stake events, there will be s'x races, two for two-year- -olds, two for three-year- -olds, and two for horses eligible to the 2:21 and 2:ls classes re- spectively. The program so far as completed follows:
 Event No: Mile race. trotters. for two year olds; purse, $200.
 Event No. 2--Mile race, pacers, for two-year- -olds; purse. s2oo.
 Event No. 3-Mile race, trotters, for hree-year-olds; purse. $500.
 Event No. 4-Mile race, pacers, for year-olds; purse, $500.
 Event No. 5--Mile, race trotters, for horses eligible to the 221 class; purse, $500.
 Event No. 6-Milo race, pacers, for horses eligible to the 2:1s class, purse, $500
 The last day on which entries will be received will be June Is.
 The first four events on the card will be run in mile heats, first prize going to the best two out of three. The purses in these races will be di vided as follows: First, 60 per cent; second. 25 per cent; third. Is per cent.
 In the last two events, the race will go to the entry having the best three out of five heats. and the purses will be divided half going to the winner, 25 per cent to the second horse. 15 per cent to the third, and 10 per cent to the fourth.
 The nomination fees for the first four events, have been set at $10. half of which will be due at the time the en- try !s made, and the remainder on Au- gust 15.
 In the class events. the nomination fee has been placed at $25. of which $1o will be due June 15, Sl0 on August IS. and $5 on October l. It Was fur ther announced that by paying an ad- ditional fee of $10, the nominators will be allowed to substitute other horses in these events for the original en- tries. provided the horse entered shall have been eligible to the class on June IS
 In addition to the stake events It was announced there will be a com plete program daily of trotting. pacing and runnings races the cards for when will be made public within few days.
 An idea which has been suggested in connection with the fair, which seems to meet with popular approval, Is that the Association declare fair week a homecoming week" for Alabamians in other parts of the country While no definite action has been taken in regard to this matter 1t will probably be considered at the next meeting of the executive committee.
 The idea a sexplained by one promi- nent stockholder of the Association. is to advertise the fair week in various parts of the country, as a week which Alabamians in other parts of the coun- try shall select as the time for their vacations and annual trips home. There are thousands of young men who have gone out from this State within the last few years, whose relatives remain