The San Francisco call., 1906-06-13
HORSEMEN GATHERING
At DENVER FOR THE
BIC ANNUAL MEETING
Runners and Trotters Of the
Highest Class VIII
Take Part.
BY LEE DEMIER.

DENVER, June 12-with the great
est array of running and trotting
horses ever gathered at a Colorado
track and q gathering of the most
prominent horsemen, jockeys and offi-
cials ever assembled in the West, the
annual nineteen day racing meet opens
at Overland Park Derby day, Saturday,
June 16. 1t promises to be the most
successful and satisfactory event of it's
kind ever held in the Rocky Mountain
region.
The downtown hotels are rapidly fill
ing up with bookmakers and horsemen
from California. The cafe in the Tenn
pie Court building, owned by Fred
Koch, Denver's noted sporting man, is
headquarters for the incoming horse
men and bookmakers.
@. A. Wahlgreen, secretary of the
DenverOverlapd Racing Club, is busy
getting everything in readiness for the
opening of the meeting and predicts
that the card for the opening day will
be the greatest the Denver people have
ever seen.
Il have visited tracks all over the
country" said Mr.. Wahlgreen, and
have seen the best trotters, PAGERS and
thoroughbreds, and / say without try
ing to overpraise our track that we
have the highest class and the largest
number of horses which have ever been
assem- bled for race meeting before in
I the West. We have horses which will
leave Denver and go to the cities east
and west and beat the best horses
which will race there.
The Colorado Derby to be run on
Derby day will be a great race, but it
will not be alone. We have an all-star
card for that day. The A. T. Lewis &
| Son stake will bring out a field of trot-
/ ters which are seldom seen in one race.
The opening scramble for the runners
| will bring out a fast field of stake
1 horses such Corn Blossom and Fly
/ ing Fox, which is running this year
under the name Aaron j.
In the 2year-old race will be a
/ bunch of the youngsters which will
later appear in the Bennett & Myers
stake, and they will put up a good race.
There will be one or two other good
races as WELL
Secretary Wahlgreen has certainly
worked hard in raising the class of
sport at Overland Park and deserves
the hearty support of the horsemen and
Denver public in general.
The Denver Derby field will be made
up of the following well known 3-year-
old performers: Miss Topsy Theo Case
Lena j., Lord Nelson, May Thorn and
| Valencia.
Fred E. Mulholland, for several years
the popular and efficient presiding
Judge at Overland, will not return, hav-
ing accepted similar engagement al
the ninety-day meeting at Seattle
! Judge Mulholland will be succeeded by
one of the best judges and recognized
authorities on the American turf, q
g. Stebbins, who has been officiating al
Montgomery Park, Memphis, during the
spring meeting. Judge Stebbins is
known to horsemen the country over
as fearless and impartial official whc
plays no favorites and is ever on the
alert
Both the runners and harness horses
will be started this season by Ed Trig-
Ter, the competent young man who
made such an enviable record for him
self at Overland last season.
The handicapping will again be taker
care of by Wally Weaver, whose cour-
tesy and capability have never beer
of whom pay him the compliment OF
placing entire confidence in his judg-
ment and rulings
The class of the horses eligible In
the Brown Palace Hotel stakes is high
The list includes such well known per.
formers by Ed Gaylord's Rubric NJ A
Hathaway's Skillful, w. -. Chambers
The Major, L. Ezelrs B1umenthal Va
lencia and Lena j., Derby candidates
Corrigan and Corn Blossom owned BY
H. E. Rowell, and Kickshaw, the prop.
erty of t. Licalzi.
The following jockeys are on the
ground at Overland Park and are ex-
ercising their charges every morning
]. pullman, G. Bullman, Travers Bar
rett, Sandy, Meriarity. F. Sullivan, Sin.
gieton, Dunavan. Fowly, Shillings an6
Fucon.