The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-11
ON RACE CIRCUIT.
Big One Is Being Planned for
the Nest.
VIII Include Topeka and Other
Large Cities.
BRING GOOD HORSES.
Large Purses viii Serve TO
Attract Them.
Recent Race Meet Here Fur
nishes the Inspiration.

Plans are in the making for the es-
tablishment in Kansas for next fall of a
regular circuit of race meets for har-
ness horses, and the bangtails as well.
which viii compare with the circuits of
this sort in the various states Of the
country, and at which purses viii be
hung up that viii attract the best class
of horses in training in this and other
parts Of the country, and furnish a SER
les of races in various parts Of the state
which have never been equaled.
These plans are being promulgated
because of the success of the race meet
ing in Topeka in September and also
the success which has attended similar
meets throughout the state during the
fall. Officers of the Kansas State Ex-
position company have started the
movement for the organization Of 4
state circuit on a scale which has never
before been attempted.
The regular annual meeting Of the
exposition company win be held proba-
Diy sometime next week, at which the
affairs OF recent race meet will be
wound up and officers for the ensuing
year elected. There is no reason to be-
neve that there will be any change in
the executives OF the association and
that all of them, including r. 7. Kriepe,
the secretary, who managed the race
meet of this year in so successful a
manner, will be reelected
As soon as this meeting is held the
executives of the association win be-
gin active work looking towards the
| creation of a state circuit It is their
idea that the interest shown in the
high class races here in Topeka and
in otheEl places in the state during the
fall warrants the esta bIishment of such
proved by the promoters of race meets
in connection with the county fairs in
other parts of the state
There is no doubt but the making of
cir n of "a
the cream of the harness and running
horses in this section of the country,
just the same as they are drawn to
other states where these circuits exist
Men having high class horses will fol-
low a consecutive circuit where sub
stantial purses are hung up, more read
lily than they will jump from place to
place where there are only a few good
sized purses.
OF course n few of them wiz go after
the big purses every time. and where
Il. ere are 8, lot Of them their n1Ta Der is
eorrespondingly greater, as was evil
denced at the race meeting here in Sep
TENDER when the number Of large and
substantial purses hung up was greater
than at any other race meet eyer held
in Kansas. And It is the idea of the
men who promoted this meet that If
other towns, .ythere racing is popular,
can be induced to offer good sized
purses, and if they can be welded to-
Rether IN 8 circuit with consecutive
dates. the class or horses attracted to
the state will be even better than the
fine array which was at Topeka this
year.
It is proposed to organize circuit
embracing eight or ten cities in the
state and possibly some in Oklahoma
The plans are that in four or i've Of
the larger cities, such as Topeka,
Hutchinson, Wichita and Blackwell.
ok. the racing association agreed to
put up say six or eight 81, 600 purses,
principally for the two and three year
old events, and other good classes as
was done in Topeka last year Big
purses for the youngsters attract the
largest stables of. horses in training.
and big purses for other good classes
helm to swell the list. For the rest of
the circuit towns will be selected where
the associations are willing to
put up substantial purses for all classes
and it is certain that such circuit viii
bring to Kansas next fall series of
race meets. which will in a way prove
worthy of the state as one of the fore
most places where high class harness
horses are bred and developed.
It is too early to make definite an
nouncement as to just what cities the
circuit will comprise, for the plans for
it are merely tentative as yet, but the
representatives of racing associations in,
other towns are enthusiastic over the
proposition, and it will not take long
to fix I'D the details, when the promoters
of the scheme get down to work, ana
these promoters are Topekans who are
Officers or directors of the Kansas State
Exposition company.