Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-25
RACE CONDITIONS
ARE ANNOUNCED
Entries for Next State Fair Pro-
gram Must Be On
Sept. 10.
All POINTS FllllY COVERED
ALL POINTS FULLY COVERED
with Exception of Special Rulings
American Trotting Association
Regulations Govern Events.

Conditions under which the horse
races will be run at the next state fair
Oct. 5-1O, have been announced as
follows:
Entries TO harness races to close with
the secretary. Saturday Sept 49, 1908.
Entries not declared out at o'clock
p. m ON the day preceding the race.
shall be required to start, and dcclara-
tion must be In writing and made at
the office Of the secretary at the track.
Races will b. divided into four
moneys, 80. %. 10 and 10 per cent. I'M
less otherwise specified Entrance fee,
5 per cent of purse, and per cent ad-
xlitional from money winners. En-
trance to running races free. Purses
divided into three moneys. 60, 30 and 10
per cent. When only two starters ap-
pear. they may contest for the en-
trance money paid in to be divided
Sc 2-3 per cent TO the first and 80 l-S per
cent 90 the second Six or more to
enter and four or more TO start. but
the management reserves the right to
hold a lesser number Of entries and de-
duct proportionate amount of the
purse.
A horse distancing the field shall re-
ceive first and last money; in no other
case shall horse win more than ono
money.
The management reserves the right
to declare one starter a walk-over, In
which case one fun entrance and one
half the amount paid In on the other
entries viii be paid. When only three
starters, appear, the money will be
divided so, 30 and 10 per cent. All
harness races. mile heats, best three In
flve. No race longer than five heats,
money to be In accordance with the
summary at the end of the fifth heat.
Topples not barred.
The management reserves the right
to start any heat after the fourth score
regardless of the position of the
horses.
All races not filing satisfactorily
to the management may be declared
off.
Racing colors should be claimed
with entries, but must be named by
p IN. on the day preceding the race.
Colors must be worn on the track in
all races, and must be clean and re-
spectacle. Colors will be registered in
the order in which they are received,
and If not named. or when colors con-
fiict, drivers and riders will be re-
CURED to wear colors selected by the
secretary.
The management reserves the right
W NiidDSt liit libui anu uttNt vi any
race or to sandwich heats OF any two
races And the right is reserved to
declare off or postpone any or all races
on account OF the weather or other
sufficient cause. Conditional entries
Will be treated the same as regular en-
tries, and nominators held under the
rule Any race that may be started
and unfinished on last day OF the meet
ing may be declared ended and money
divided according 10 rank OF horses IN
the summary.
Records made on or after Aug. 81, 1908,
no bar. Nominators in any race that
should fail TO fill, may on Sept 25 1908.
transfer their entry In such race to
any other race of the classes that have
filled In which their horse was eligible
on Sept. 10, 1908.
Otherwise than as hereby specified
IN these conditions. rules of the Ameli-
can Trotting association, of which this
association Is a member) TO govern.
Weights and special conditions for
running races will be announced each
day before entries close.