The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-18
CROWDS KEEP UP
At OGDEN TRACK
Longer Course All That Is
Needed to Make Utah Gen.
ter of Racing Game.

ogden. May 1.-THE attendance at the
Ogden races each day and the interest
taken i'm the racing game although IN IT'S
infancy in way. would lead one to be-
Ieve that before many months this state
may be the center Of the racing game
All that is lacking is a longer course
The feature event on today's card was
the running of the Broom hotel handicap
which proved to be a one-horse race,
FardeIIo. the odds-on favOrite, winning
all by himself.
tomorrow is ogden day. The feature
event viii be the running of the ogden
day purse at half-mile for spTlnters.
This race should be a crackerJack from
start to finish. with sucn speed cOursers
as Jack Nunally. BOoger Red, severn ul'
and FardellO as cOntesters- Inc Welshts
are nicely arranged, making II almost
impossible to guess the probable winner.
The results today:
First race. three furlongs. selling. mai
den -olds-Silver Grain, SANDY,
6 to /. won: Fred Stone. Archibald, 3 TO
/. second; Geneva, Mondon, to ], thlre-
Wicked Roberta and Sea Green delayed
in start. Fred Stone was of nicely
leading to scratch, where Silver Gram
took lead winning easily by one lehslH
ahead of Fred Stone, Geneva, Sea Green,
c. 5. Harvey. Roberto, Endure ana
Wicket in order named.
Second race. four furlOngs, three-year-
olds and up-Gene Wood, Archibald, 10
]. won; Priceless Jewel Taylor, TO .
second; Billy BOwlegs, Peak, TO ], third.
Time, - %.
Off to a nice start. Gene Wood leading
all the way, winning by two lengths
Priceless Jewel. the favOrite, was sec
ond by three-fOurths Of a length ahead
Of Billy BOwIegs. Buna. Sir Preston.
Kuropatkin and Happy Chappy also ran.
Third race. five furlOngs selling, Tor
Al 81
won: Gabriel. Sandy. TO 1. second; Coon
ey Neff, Sullivan, 10 to ], third. fime'
] :06 Is.
Gabriel off in lead. holding same to
stretch turn. where he ran wide IN
stretch BonfiIs coming through on rail
won by length and half ahead Of Ga
brisl. Cooney Neff. Ham Beauty, Ban
thel, Pallas. Alice Collins, Waitiere, fin
ishing in order named.
Fourth race. Broom hotel handicap. one
mile. for three-year-olds and up-Fardell0,
BOrei. ] to .. won: Mary F.. BOrel, TO /,
! second; Rey Del MUndO. Hartman, TO 1,
third. Time, 1:47 IS.
Fardello was off in his stride and won
/ in a gallon. II was no contest. Mary
| F. was second by half a length ahead of
/ Rey Del Mundo, and GrOtto finished as
/ named.
/ Fifth race five furlongs selling four
| year-olds and up-PlatOOn, Peak. even.
won; MaZapan. Baird. 2lz to /. second
Susie Gregg, Cotton, ~ to L, third. Time.
I 1.C5 Is.
Off to a nice break. Platoon taking the
/ lead at once and winning easily by six
| lengths Mazapan was probably best. bat
she was cut off and had to go around
I field. finishing second by half length
/ ahead of Susie Gregg. Antara. Nappa,
/ Glendenning, SwaggeTiatOr and Gaga also
ran.
Sixth race, seven furlongs. selling. four
year-Olds and up-Surety. MandeTs. AZ to
/ /. won; King Brush, Mondon, to ],
| second: Markie Mayer, BOrel 10 l. third.
/ Time. 80 40
King Brush led field TO stretch turn.
where ne ran wide. and Surety coming
through N rail Won easily. Markie
Mayer was third by one length. LibertO
/ lost his rider. Patriotic. Tom Shaw. Lee
vora. Boloman and Oriflam also ran.
Track Gossip.
Tab Mazapan. Sine is right on edge.
and would have won her last race with
a better break.
Jockey Borel rode two winners at good
odds