The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-06
SPEEDY HORSES COMING
Sensational Automobile Races
Also at State Fair
FOR THE WORLDS RECORD
For Supremacy-Exposi
Begins October is.

Brilliant turf events in the harness
races in the way Of new and sense
tional features, and automobile COZ
tests, for the championship Of tha
world on circular track the last three
days of the Fair, Will make the TWEEN
ty-fourth annual exposition of the
| State Fair of Texas, which opens AT
Dallas October Is, and continues six
teen days, long live in history. Fifty
! thousand dollars in purses, stakes,
cups and trophies will be awarded in
! the speed department, and men, well
| known in the great racing circuits OF
| the North. predict that this program
of the Fair, will be the great Southern
| event.
| In the speed horse program, the of.
| ferings are divided as follows: Six
! harness stake races of $1,000 each; five
| harness purse races of $1,000 each:
| eight harness purse races of $500
! each; and other purse races that will
| be made up each day before contested.
Then there will be four great stake
| races for $1,000 each in the running
classes; four great steeplechase races,
| all $500 each with subscriptions adj
ded: and four running races each day
! in addition for purses from 5000 to
$500.
All the above stakes have been filled.
| Tile horses entered are the great
est on the American turf The steeple-
chase horses entered were features
| OF the New York and Philadelphia
meets last spring and their work
| promises to be sensational. Dan
| Patch 1855 IA and Minor Heir.
1859 IA, two of the worlds greatest
race horses, Dan Patch holding the
worlds record for the mile. will race
for supremacy on the afternoon Of
| Monday October 49, These horses
cost their owner 100000 Dan Patch
costing $4,000 and Minor Heir SAC, goo.
The race will be for the world cham.
pionship.
Manufacturers of automobiles have
notified the State Fair management
that they will make the State Fair
automobile meet the Southern event.
The management will offer $4,000 in
cash prizes in the races that will be
held Thursday Friday and Saturday
of the last week of the Fair All the
great drivers of the Union will be here
The harness track, upon which the
races will he held, has been banked
in order to protect the automohilists
who declare they will lower the track
record made by Barney Oldfield in his
Green Dragon. In other words these
daring drivers are going to endeayor
TO make this mile in less than ~ sec
onds, and will bring the greatest rae
ing automobiles in America today to
Ea IN a
will be for supremacy and as the re-
suit will demonstrate the superior
qualities OF each automobile, the
drivers are preparing for a test SUI
preIne. Officers will be stationed
around the track as the automobilists
when going the mile in less than sixty
seconds. will have no opportunity OF
stopping their machines should a break
come There will be hundred mile
races. novelty races, roadster races,
and races of every conceivable de.
scription. and it is declared that Dat
las will be the Mecca of the entire
automobile world during the last three
week days of the Fair.
A splendid program for the entire
sixteen days of carnival has been "a
ranged. Each day will have new and
! uOftt lGdi W tS, anu ilAtlF Will bCh Oll7
continuous round of amusement en-
tertainment and educational features
from Saturday, October l6, to Sunday,
October 81. The special days desg-
mated so far follow: Saturday, DC
tober 16. Children's Day; Sunday, DC
tober II, Sacred Concert Day; Mon.
day, October 1S, Dan Patch Day;
Tuesday, October 10, Confederate
Day; Wednesday. October 20, Mothers
Day; Thursday, October 81 Dallas
Day; Friday, October %, Panhandle
Day; Saturday, October %, Press Day
and Travelling Mems Day; Monday
October %, G. A. K. Day and Won
ans Relief Corps Day; Tuesday, De-
tober 26, Spanish War Veterans Day;
Wednesday, October q, Prosperity
Day; Thursday, October rs, Ramsey
Day; Saturday, October 80. Prohibi-
ton Day; Sunday October 81, Sacred
Concert Day.
The dog show at the Fair promises
to be the center of popularity. Five
hundred aristocratic CANNES OF all
breeds will be exhibited in the new
building which has been erected for
The EXPRESS purpose.