The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-16
ENTRIES ARE FINE
Some Great Races Are Planned
for the State Fair
A GALAXY OF HORSES
Meet At Hamline During the Annual
Exhibition of Agricultural Soc
iety Will be Great

Never in the history of harness
horse racing has such an array of
PAGERS and trotters been entered to
participate in a western circus race
meet as there are in the races to be
run during the state fair this fall. C,
NJ Griggs, vice president and SUPER
lntendent of speed of the Minnesota
state fair, has probably given more
thought and time to the arrangement
Of a racing program than has ever
been given by any living man.
The state fair races this fall will
be run under an entirely different sys-
tenn, than ever before. With the ex-
ception of the $4,000 trot and the S.,
OOG pace ell races will be run under
the three-heat system, every heat of
which must be race, as 80 per cent
OF the purse goes to the winner of
each heat, the other 10 per cent going
tn the horse standing best in the sum-
mary. Mr.. Griggs has also abandoned
the time honored custom of deducting
5 per cent from winners, as is the
case at all the meetings on both the
grand and western circuit.
AS result of these liberal condi-
tions the largest and fastest lot of
horses ever before entered in the West
are now numbered on the entry list
for the state fair meet.
The great racing feature of the en-
tire fair is to be the grand challenge
championship trot for purse of S.,
600 to be raced on Monday, Aug. 81,
the first day of the state fair. This
is not only the greatest race of the
Minnesota state fair, but it will be
the greatest harness horse race of
the year; in fact, it is doubtful if
there has ever beofre been an equal
number of such celebrated horses en-
tered in one race. When the idea of
pulling off this big event at the state
fair was first mentioned to the edi-
tors of the various horse papers most
of them expressed their doubts as to
the state fair securing enough en-
tries to fill it.
Under the conditions it was neces-
sary that at least three of the entries
must have records of 2:06A or bet
ter, in order for the race to fill. AS
there are less than a dozen horses in
the United States in racing form who
have such records it was quite rea-
sonable that the horsemen should ex-
press some doubt regarding the filling
OF such an important event. To the
surprise of not only Mr.. Griggs him
self but of the entire harness world,
the entries which closed on June 10
showed nine of the most famous
horses CT the world ready to partici-
pate in tEis great event.
E. F. Gears, probably the best
known harness horseman in Amcri
ca has entered the famous High
BALI; ]. A. Crabtree of Atlantic City,
Mass, has entered the no less fa-
nous "Sanoma Girl" Calvin Proc
tor of Hobart has entered Watson" :"
who took the measure of "Sanoma
Girl,'' last fall, but at time when
it was claimed that she was not in
good condition. The other entries are
such wonderful racing machines as
the bay mare "Angiola,' owned by
S. S. Smollinger of Iron Mountain, Mo
Mr.. Smollinger has also entered his
celebrated brown mare "Daffodif'
w. B. Taylor's bay mares early Alice
and May June" c. d. Mulcahy OF
La Porte, Iowa, the brown mare "Aun1
Jerusha,' and F. Maybaum's bay geld
ing Wilkeshealt This race will pro-
badly bring out the largest crowd that
has ever assembled at the state fair
grounds. If either ''Highball' or $50
noma Girl" were to give an exhibition
against time it is doubtful if the graro
stand and bleechers on the state fair
grounds would hold the admirers OF
the harness horses who would want
to see them, but what will be the
result when the greatest collection OF
horses that have ever faced starter
meet on the state fair grounds track
which is now conceded by all horse
men to be the fastest track of the
circular type in the world.
IL the 2:O4 'Hamline Pace" to be
raced on Wednesday Sept. 2, there
is an array of PAGERS equally ia.
nous as the trotters in the Grand
Challenge Champion trot, to be raced
on Monday. The entries in the 2:O4
pace include Dana Patch" the best
daughter of the famous Dan Patch,
owned by the International Stock Food
Co., of Minneapolis. Dana Patch
last year paced 2:05A, and she shows
every indication of getting within
/ few seconds of the mark of her won
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