The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-06
IT'S RIGHT
IF IT'S HERE
CLASSY RACES
ON FIRST DAY
Fair Meeting Opens and in
Spite of Threatening Wealth
er a Big Crowd Is Present.
Today's Program

= First. race, three minute class. y
trot or pace. purse S400-FanDy l.. y
Loo r, May Flower. King Wasatch. \
+ Bay Demon. DIR. Abel Road Bird \
: Teddy. Roanoke. Bill Dugan.
= Second rae. 2:20 class. trot or \
= pace. purse S5OO-CIimber. ConsueIla. \
4 Bessie NJ. Wiletts. Bay Gelding. Dan 4
= Z. Sagoline, Billy Sherbert. Prince y
\ Third race. three-quarter-mile \
= dash, purse s150-Maid of Orleans. \
= Pink Coat. Duke of Orleans. Mrs y
= Mugent, Bin Bagwell Altgold, Nancy \
= w. Miss May Bowdish. \
y Fourth race, mile and a quarter y
: run; purse $2SO-Neva WEIGH. Mike y
= den,, SpondGlix. Chauncey Was y
= worth. Nebassor
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Rain or shine. the races at the state fair
will be held every day this week is the
announcement made at the close of the
first days meeting at the fair grounds
yesterday. The track was heavy and the
going poor. but this did not keep a big
crowd from seeing as fine a card of run
ming events as has been seer in this state
for many day. Five races in all were
run off and the fields were made up of
classy ponies who raced to the wire in
every start.
The arrangements for racing are better
this year than they have ever been. Not
only are all the accommodations superior
put the manner in which the different
events were pulled off shows that there
are men behind the game who know their
business Director Lester Freed made IT.
his special business to see that there were
no delays between races, while Starter
Frank Devin of Sacramento used the bar
rier to perfection and got the horses away
well punched The fair management GER
talnly made hit with the public by Civ
Ing their special attractions inside of the
race track, so there was something doing
every minute of the afternoon.
Books were not made on the races, but
two sets of Paris mutuals were well
played. In several instances the winners
paid well. Nearly all of the horses are
new to the public. although there were
enough local runners on the track to keep
up interest in the races.
Mile Run Is Feature.
of the day. The field got away well
punched and the race soon settled down
TO five horses running neck and neck
They passed the stands in this order at the
Around the track they again circled with
out any change in their positions, Knowl-
edge coming under the wire winner by a
head with Miss May Bowdish holding onto
the pace.
The second race, the seven furIongs had
the stands guessing to pick the winner.
took the lead on the first turn
and held II to the three-quarter pole when
Norfolk showed to the front On the turn
Neva Welsh stepped to the lead but Salvy
L. came through the pole and took a
lead as the field entered the
stretch. Half way to the wire Norfolk
was forced TO the front again and came
under the wire good half d length to
the good.
In the third race Weldon. local horse
was a faYorite with the crowd. but got
away badly at the start Weldon never
got better than last position through the
race and when il was finished the judges
set Jockey Porter down for three days.
it was his fault that the horse
did not make better start and showing
in the race
The Results.
First race mile-Duke of Orleans
HuIlcuD first Snagg Lator CWarren)
second, Susie Gregg (Martin) third Time
531h seconds.
Second race. seven-eighths mile-Nor-
folk Morgan) first, Salvy L. CTopin) sec
ond. Neva Welsh (Morris) third. Time
:351z
Third race. half mile-Talien Is. Smith
first. Western (HullcuD second, Ontario
Oregon (Blanton) third. Times seconds.
Fourth race, mile-Knowledge (Hullcut)
first. Miss May Bowdish (BoreD second,
Belden (Aguayro) third. Time-1:54
Fifth race-Sarah Meyer Smith first.
Sam F. CMcBeath) second, Teddy (Martin)
third. Time-251z seconds