Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-27
Special to Times Republ,can.

teresting horse race at the Iowa state
fair this year will be pulled off tomor-
row and the fastest race will be pulled
| off Monday. The most interesting race
is the 2:22 pace Saturday afternoon,
for the simple reason that there are the
most entries in it and the horses are
green and the winning of the race
means more to the winning horse than
the winning of any other race
The purse for this race is $1,000 but
the winning of the money is not of so
much Importance in the estimation of
the owners of the horses as the reputa-
ton of winning the race and any of
them would forego the money if his
horse would but get under the wire
! first if by foregoing the money his
horse could be made to win honestly
There are seventeen entries for this
race.
The fastest race is the 2:05 pace for
Monday afternoon. Some of the fast
est horses in the United States are
entered for that pace. There is Donax,
with a record of 2:O7A; Spill, with a
record of 2:o614; Red Bow, 2:04A:
Don Roma, a:06A; and Tony Swift,
2:05A. The fastest time ever made on
the Iowa state fair race track was by
Citation last year when it made 2:06A.
OF every 1000 people who sit in the
amphirheater at the state fair and
watch the races 999 will be willing to
bet money, or maybe chocolate drops
Or something, that the east end of the
race track is lower than at any other
point. If you are the one person out
/ of the thousand take the bet for you
| will win. The race track at the state
! fair this year IS cut on new pattern
, and is expected to be the fastest track
west of rhe Mississippi river. The low
est points on the track are just at the
wire and just opposite the wire. The
highest places are at the middle of
each turn. The difference in elevation
is as nearly twelve inches as a sur
veyor could get it.
There is philosophy in the construc-
| ton of the race track. Just after start
| ing off at the wire the horses will have
to climb one foot to the middle of the
first bend which climb is expected 10
| help the driver to keep the horse on
1
and comes into the first stretch 1t has
a little down hill which will help the
horse on some and turning the second
/ bend it must climb another foot. Then
on the home stretch it has down
hill grade of one foot TO the sixteenth
of mile which helps it to speed again.
1t is figured that turning the bends a
horse must slow up anyway and to
climb little grade there Keeps the
| horse on its feet and helps it on the
turn. The thing that makes the track
| look lower at the east end is the fact
| that it runs into a cut.
/ Saturdays races all around will be
about the most interesting this year.
In addition to the 2:22 pace there Will
be three year old pace and three run
ming races OF four furlongs, six fur
longs and seven furlongs, the first two
for 800 each and the last for 5000.
And in addition to these the Des
Moines Driving Clubs wagon race for a
cup.
Don Roma year old which goes
in the 2:o5 fast pace Monday went It's
first race on the Iowa race track a
year or so ago and fell down just as
it went under the wire.
Quite a contest is on down in JEFF
ferson county to ascertain who the ten
oldest living native born residents are.
The ten are to ride in "Bill' Coops' OK
cart about the state fair grounds and
they consider it quite an honor. Sec
rotary Simpson of the state fair has a
list of applicants who wish the honor.
They all give the dates of their births
back in the early '3os.
Des Moines is to have its share of
the big "doings" this year. AS soon as
the state fair is we'll out of the road
along will come the army nlaneuvers
on Sept. 20 and on that day President
Taft will be here to review the troops
and make an address. There will .hen
be but brief breathing spell and the
corn exposition will be brought in early
in November.
The corn exposition will be a big af-
fair. It will be held an the new col
iseum. There will be many big prizes
for the best corn in the state. The
Iowa Corn Growers Association has d.
vided the state into twelve districts
and prizes will be offered for the best
corn in each district and also for the
best corn in the state. A $500 silver
cup As to be given for the best bushel