The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-01
HERE ARE RACES.
All the Entries for State Wide
Fair.
Large Fields Are Booked for ALI
of the Racing Events.
DIR. NASH ONCE MORE.
Winner of Last Years Derby to
Try Again.
Kansas Futurity for Two Year
Olds Promises Well.

All the details for the fair week races
were arranged at a meeting of the d.
rectors of the Kansas Exposition COM
pany held late Monday afternoon and
everything promises to move like clock
work While the fair opens Monday
the racing programme does not COM
mence until the following day and then
there will be plenty doing in this line
| for the remainder of the week.
The opening race Tuesday will be the
Kansas Futurity for two-year-olds
with eleven entries. The second race
is the 2:1s trot with a five hundred dol
| lar purse There are fourteen entries
| in this race and number of them are
picked for first place by the dopesters
who have watched them this year and
last. The list Of entries includes En-
mola, the bay mare who captured nrst
place last season and ]. E. W., who
was not entered last fall but captured
the first prize two years ago.
The 2:35 one thousand dollar pace is
on the programme for the first day,
also with fifteen entries which means
a long race with possibility OF
number of heats before 1T is finally set
tied. There was another entry in this
race, Reuben J., owned by j. r. Levy
of Peoria Illinois, but he dropped dead
| a few weeks ago just after he had won
his race in a town in the Illinois cir
| cult.
Tuesday will be Derby day and the
six entries this season are well enough
matched to make the event one OF
especial interest. There were just the
same number of starters last fall ana
Dr. Nash who carried away first
money in 1:4215, is again entered and
will make a try for the first place with
fast field to contend against. The re-
naming five entries are unknoWnS as
far as the Topeka track is concerned
but horsemen who know them say that
there are several in the bunch who viii
beat the time made by DR.. Nash last
year.
Wednesdays races include the three
year old pace, with five hundred dol
| lar purse with seven entries, all or
| them out of town horses with the e1-
ception of Edith V, entered by G. II.
| Samson. The 2:13 five hundred dollar
pace closed with ten entries with but
one Topeka entry, Gypsie Wood, owned
by H Mcmillan.
There are fifteen entries in the 2:3o
| trot for which a one thousand dollar
purse has been hung up and nearly all
of the entries are from out of the city
and a majority of them from otner
states, North Dakota being represented
| In the event by, Helen of Troy, black
mare owned by NJ. J. O'Conner or
Courtney. North Dakota. Wednesdays
racing closes with a six furlong dash
| for purse of $3.50.
Thursdays racing win open with a
three-year-old trot for an $500 purse
with fifteen entries. One entry In TINS
race was cancelled on account OF the
horse being out of condition. This is
conceded to be one Of the most inter-
esting events of the meeting with
possibility that first money will go to
any one of half dozen horses who are
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five hundred dollar purse is the second
event of the day and the heats in these
| two races will alternate until the races
are decided as it may take half a dozen
or more heats to determine the winner
in either of the events. There are
three others being cancelled for cause
| by their owners or by the management
| of the fair.
Closely following is the 2:1S pace
with another purse of $500 hung up as
the prize. The races of the day close
with the Topeka seven furlong dash
with a purse of $3.50 hung up for the
| winning galloper and the Commercial
club five furlong dash with a purse of
the same size as the prize.
While it was intended that the best
day, If any should be so considered,
should be early in the week the offer
ings for the closing day. Friday, sug-
gest some mighty fast races and pos
Sibility of a track record or two going to
smash If the track proves to be fast.
The 2:15 trot for a $500 purse comes
first of the programme with nine en-
tries and the dopesters have refused
up to the present time to even make a
guess as to which the horse will carry
off first money.
The second race will be closely fol-
lowed by the $500 free for all pace with
six entries and 1t is on this race that
the fair association stands to lose an
extra hundred dollars which they have
| offered If the record of 2:09A is beaten.
| If the track is in good condition the
horsemen who ought to know, say that
there is a good chance for this time
| to be beaten.
The third race is the 2:27 trot for
another $500 purse with IL entries.
There was a chance that a number of
other horses would have been entered
| in this race had it been possible to
| get around the thirteenth entry which
| the owners and drivers Stunned. A 2
wear old trot will close the harness
races for the day and week the last
race of the meeting being a hurdle
| with a prize of $3.50 hung up for the
successful mount.
The committee at meeting held
Monday afternoon decided to again Of
fer family tickets as in the past, good
| for six admissions for 81. These tickets
may all be used by one person at one
| time or at different times as desired
or for different people at the same or
different times as the holder desires.
| The only restriction made is that the
| tickets must not be detached. This