The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-25
FAIR RACING PLANS
MONTGOMERY ASSURED OF GRAND
 CIRCUIT HORSES.
The Racing at the Fafr Next october Wf1 Be the Best Mentgom-
 cry Hnn Had.

The State Fair to be held in Mont gomery next october will be far and away the most successful from both a financial and artistic standpoint. of anything ever attempted in this sec tion of the South.
 This Is not simply lot of con. shot at random. but a statement made ad- visedly in all good faith and one that the people of this section of Alabama and the South will see verified in every particular long before the next eight months are numbered among the days of history. It's a pretty far cry be-, tween this 25th of February and the 18th of october, but in these days of swift action the men that don't look pretty far into the future are liable to have several packages of grapefruit handed them done up in neat packages labeled Asleep at the switch"
 Last October the State Fair at Yan- diver Park opened on Thursday. Octo- ber 24. and lasted until Saturday. Mo- verhber 2. That was ten days. and in- ciudfng the sacred concert on Sunday, November B. made eleven days. Next fan the fair will open week earlier than last year and close on the day that 1t opened last year. There will be only six days this time, opening on Monday, October 19 and closing on Sat- urday, October a. but President Forbes of the Fair Association, said yesterday that those six days will be filled to the orim with the highest class of attrac- tions and entertainments ever given at State Fair in the South.
 Last week up in Nashville there was meeting of the Southern Fair Circuit in regard to the racing end of the game to be held during the different State fairs. The circuit was reorRanized Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham. Mont gomery and Macon making up the five cities. each of them to have some of the highest class harness racing ever had outside of the Grand Circuit. Nash vile gets the first dates from Mondav. September 2i until Saturday September 26, one week.
 Then comes the Memphis dates. from Monday. September 2s until Wednesday or the following week. October 2. nine
 Birmingham begins then on Thurs oay' October 8, ending on Satur- day, October IT, nine days, followed bv Montgomery, from Monday, October Ie untli saturday, October 24, six days. |
 The cream of the trotting and pacing horses that have been racing over the tracks of the Grand Circuit always Ea.ner a.,, as the harness meeting of the every October in Lexington. Now. in order to make 1t profitable for the own CTS or the big stables at Lexington to of the Southern Circuit, the purses gwen at the latter tracks would have 70 pc large enough to justify it. That Is rsscs. 5gsse Wnat the 2fhclals of the Southern LircuI propose to have happen. At two purses of 5ioOo esch Win Vi The he JIiy. riysn PSrt Sr tn tws SIX aavs ssys FsssiRg 5 st yahdiysr e day will be given and fof inc other tonr days, purses averaging Sl00 a day vii Mil ,nsas make the purses .fo be given for for
 Now, the owners who wYrf not tal<a q having $s.600 hung up, are few and carrb ear bbe.ween; ,,S, and they would gladly and saying that SIX horses are nomi- days. t would make los horses to be An entrance lee Of Sso for 10 ss each of of these JOS horses would put @324O to the credit or the Montgomery State Fair, the $s,600 pursoses for the six days racing. 1t has been demonstrated that nothing can draw people to State Fair llke @ good racing. and with the class of racing that will be assured by the E,v- Ing or the above purses, the people who come to Montgomery will undoubtedly see {ne highest class racing ever given Of the two Si.0Oo pilrses. one will he TOT z.zl trotters. and the other for 2:Ia pacerss ana there is no question of the Iact that both events will be well filled
 Last year, there was lamentable scar city Of trotters on the Southern cir cult. but next fall, 1t looks ag if sll this VIII be changed. Reports from the horsa sales in Lexington are that Southern horsemen are buying up lote or trotttnR material to be used on tha south ern circuit next fall. Over in th . Thcmas- Whitehead stable are two that can start in the 2:21 trot Otway Boy. Q bay horse by Electric out of a dam by Wilkes Roy, and Elita Arion. a hal mare with a trial of 2:20. She is ~ Or.on out of a dam by Liberty Beli. Wlll Ewing will probably have some in his stable that can get in this class Willie Galloway may have one or two also. There will be no trouble in fllIin . the 2:16 pace, and both of these races VIII bring hundreds of people to Mont Eomery and the Fair. At the rate the stables over at the track are filling up. there win be some great horses here this summer One of the latest to come is a 4-year-old mare, the I.ase- ter and Whitehead of Birn1ingham. VIII send to the Whitehead-Thomas stable in Montgomery. Her name is Armada. pacing mare, by Silent Brook out of Emma. . mare by Onward soc ond dam by Dictator. As a 2-year-oId she paced a mile in 2:24 IA and last year paced a mile in 2:11. At that rate 1t will take a good one to keep in