The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23
FIVE THOUSAND
At OPENING OF
RACE MEETING
Big Crowd Sees Good Sport,
and Is Fairly Successful in
Picking Winners.
B00GER RED WINNER
OF CULLEN HANDICAP
ESTHER M. LOSES HER RIDER
AND COMES UNDER WIRE
IN FRONT.

Five thousand people saw the opening
of the spring race meet Of the Utah Jock
ey club at the Fair Grounds yesterday
afternoon and were given an intensely
interesting entertainment The track was
fast and every race was exciting
There were two fancy features Of the
races yesterday One was booked: the
/ other wasn't. One was the exciting Gull
[ len handicap, i'm which four Of the fast
| est horses on the track We're cOntenders,
B0oger Red, the favOrite, not only with
/ the bOokies, but also with the spectators,
winning haudily. The other was the won
I derful race run by Esther NJ, who lost
her rider al the first turn, and kept in
| the race Unguided, finishing a length
ahead Of GOssiper ii, who was given first
money The crowd was wildly enthusi-
astic and the plucky race OF the rider
/ less horse called forth prolonged ap-
plause.
The weather yesterday was threaten
/ ing. but the storm held off until after
| the races were over. The cloudy weather
! did not interfere with the attendance nor
/ with the enthusiasm Of the people. The
| public seemed TO be race hungry and rel
/ isEed keenly. The enlarged grand stand
/ was well filled and all the boxes were
/ taken Throughout the grand stand and
/ the boxes there was an unusually large
number of ladies.
Pretty New Clubhouse.
marked by the opening Of the pretty new
I club house Of the Turf and Field club,
just east of the grand stand From the
roof of the new and gay little bungalow
/ which is the home of the club more than
/ one hundred members and ladies watched
the races. I'm the enclosure there were
more than fifty automobiles, which were
used by the club members in going to the
races.
Among the more prominent people who
were at the Turf and Field club house
/ yesterday were Mayor and Mrs. J. s.
T Bransford. Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Evans
Samuel NewhOuse, Elmer T. Rainey and
/ Miss Rainey of South Dakota M and
I Mrs. Ernest Bamberger. DR.. r.. Taylor
Caddy of New York, Colonel Fitch Mui-
lard of San Francisco. Judge w. f. King,
r. ". Sloan. Mr. and Mrs. Henry DIM
/ WOOdey. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. d. hiurtaugh.
Mr. and Mrs. L. -. Gordon, Mr.. and Mrs.
p. J. Moran, Mr.. and Mrs. H. w Throck-
morton. Mr.. and Mrs. Ira futile. Senator
and Mrs. Benner X Smith john S. Critch-
low. J. c. Lynch. C.. j. Crabtree. Ezra
Thompson. Miss ShOebridgP. Colonel O.. r.
Loose. J. G. Mcdonald. Mr. and Mrs.
William Reid mr. and Mrs. r. l. Saw
ID. Freed ar. and Mrs. r. IL Fitzger-
AID. Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace BransfOrd,
Dr.. and Mrs. W f. Ellerbeck. Dr. L. r.
Hummer. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hardness,
Mr. and Mrs Lee Dinwoodey. Judge Com
nor ODea, Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Sny-
der. Gideon Snyder. AIRS. J. d Wood.
Mr. and Mrs n. II. Walker. Mr.. and
Mrs. A. j. Davis. Dir. SeybOuld 7. Fergu-
son. ID. c. JackIing. Senator and Mrs.
Thomas kearns Tod Goodwin, Jack
Keith. Henry Mccormick. Albert McCor-
nick. J. c. Wells. Ferd SuOuse. Mr.. and
Mrs John CondrOn. Mr. and Mrs. Ben
b. Haywood, Miss Haywood, Miss kath-
crime Judge, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Nc
Caskell, Mr. and Mrs. David Keith, Miss
WOOley. hfr and Mrs. Z. A. Earls, Lewis
3. Mccormick. General Fred Draper Of
] ~oe rr Wood Turner
Betting Ring Crowded.
Under the grand stand the betting ring
was crowded to overlooking. There are
twelve books every one of which did a
rushing business. The bOOkmakeTs, how
lever. had rather a bad day Of it. The
bettors were unusually fortunate in pick
ing the winners. Hereafter. in the third
race. and Bo0ger Red in the Cullen han
dicap. were heavily played and brought
home the money TO their hackers. There
was an unusually large amount Of money
placed on BO0ger Red al even and to ;.
Most of those who played Ethel Day
played her for a place, so that the Gull
len handicap was particularly disastrous
race for the bOOkie5.
The first race was held for half an hour
waiting for the crowds that were ar
irving on every car When it did start
fit resulted in a smashing Of form. Billy
Myer. 4 to ]. won easily, and Nelma C.,
the favOrite, was out of the money A
feature OF LffI iuNe W a. llA1 EaA4H-A9AAA
ride of Jockey Williams. The yOungster
is new TO the game and Billy MyeF was
his first winning mount
After two other good races came the
Cullen handicap Each Of the four horses
was given a hand as il appeared on the
track From the cheering of the spec
tators it was easy to be seen on which
horse the money had gone. The cheers
began when BO0ger Red got off I'm the
lead at the quarter and kept increasing
it all around the track GloriO was
scratched.
Esther MS Stunt.
The interesting feature OF the fifth RAGS
was Esther NJ S phenomenal run. Esther
NJ. was fifth in crOWding bunch al the
quarter when she threw Jockey Nelson
Bon Ton and Esther NJ were crowding
/ each other and fra some way the jockey
fell as the horse plunged. He got out
from the mix uuhurL Esther H. kept
in the race. gaining steadily on the other
T horses. She came by tho grand stand for
the first time i'm third place. ON the
back stretch she passed al the other
horses except GOssiper fT She was neck
and neck with him az the turn and COM
inc into the home stretch she passed him
at terrific pace and went under the
wire a length in the lead.
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