The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-01
WHY MURRAY
SELECTED
OGDEN
WHAT GREAT RACE MAN-aEx-
PECTS TO ACCOMPLISH.
He Is Known as the King Of Start
ers-Ogden Has the Best Half
Mile Track.

The people of Ogden are looking
forward to the greatest race meeting
ever held in the State OF Utah, which
opens on May 9Th. They are relying
on w NJ Murray. who Is the man
ager, but who is not new in the game,
As he managed two race courses sue
cessfully in New Orleans and was the
first to come TO Utah last fall, holding
a thirty-day successful meeting under
the most trying conditions, as the
weather was cold and raining But
Mr. Murray, like others who come to
this great state. recognized Its great
possibilities and its agricultural and
mineral resources. He had not been
here week when he said, II will run
q Utah derby In three years from now
with horses bred In the State OF
Utah" He saw that the breeders and
farmers would soon recognize the ad-
vantage Of breeding the thorough
breds. where as yearlings they could
get three times the price they can for
horses they breed. When he left Salt
Lake last fall he left for Ell PaSo,
Texas. where he ran a Today winter
meeting Mr.. Murray has been max
ing his plans all winter to obtain the
greatest horses that ever raced in this
city.
The Utah race meet has been ad-
vertised in every paper of note In the
union; the United and Associated
Press have made applications to take
the results of these races which Will
be published in the principal papers
of the United States.
At the present time Mr.. Murray Is
refusing stall rooms for the best race
horses that ever raced on the Pacific
Coast, proving conclusively that the
horsemen have faith in MI Murray In
following here with such high-class
thoroughbreds He recognizes in Og'
den the greatest half-mile track In
America. there being NO other track
which is banked up on the turns in
such an advantageous manner.
And now it is up to the people OF
Salt Lake and Ogden to appreciate the
efforts of the association and the tre-
mendous expense they have been put
to, by giving them their full support
The principal thing in the racing
game is for every horse to have fair
start Mr. Murray at the present time
stands alone. There are good start
ers and princes Of starters, but he is
the "King of All Starters" Mr., w. M
Murray's work of the last two years
is universally recognized by horsemen
and followers of the thoroughbreds as
the king of them all. His greatest
enemies, which public men must have.
ioip in saying he stands alone. or
course. he has had the experience
which makes man know his business
thoroughly He started out as an eX-
ercise boy, riding at so pounds. Then
he was good jockey until his great
desire for beef-steak made him seek
the field of assistant starter.
He spent 10 years as assistant start
er, working for such men as Judge c.
III. Pettingill. who has been for great
many years one ofthe associate Judges
in New York and California; also for
Fitzgerald and Tom Flynn, These
gentlemen started on the principal
tracks in America,
For the past nine years the King of
Starters has been at his gate in Pim-
leo, Buffalo, Canada, Chicago, Mem
phiS. New Orleans, Montana, Salt
Lake. Utah and Texas and he has a
clean record