Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-09
MAKE READY FOR
SALT LAKE MEET
UTAH JOCKEY CLUB COM
PLETES ARRANGEMENTS
Fine New Plant Is Being Finished
and Visitors Are FIocking In for
Opening of Forty Days of
Contests, May %
Especial to The Herald.1

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SALT LAKE, May S.-Manager W.
w. Finn and his associates of the
Utah Jockey club are going ahead
with the expenditure of thousands of
dollars in completing great improve
ments at the fair grounds track to put
the plant in shape for opening day.
and already the place looks like new.
The Utah Jockey club, which is pro-
noting the meeting, has paid $4,000 in
hard cash for the fortyday lease upon
the grounds and has deposited $4,000
with a local bank to guarantee that
the meeting will run the scheduled
forty days and that the purses will be
paid as advertised.
The men who are promoting the
meeting are local business men of
great wealth and of undoubted stand
ing in the business, social and political
life of the city and state. Most of
them, at least, are Salt Lake City men.
John Condron, the president, is a
wealthy man, proprietor of the Cullen
hotel and a leader in political affairs
OF the state. Ben Johnson, vice presi-
dent, also is a wealthy man of Salt
Lake City, one of the most prominent
attorneys in the west and also lead
ing politician. Wealthy sportsmen,
representing both leading parties in
Utah politics, are associated in the en-
terprise, and they have the active sup
port of the entire business community
here. 1t is4 expected that the meeting
win attract thousands of visitors from
the half dozen states in this part of
the world, and it is looked upon as a
great advertising medium.
The management yesterday gave the
street car company a guarantee of an
attendance of 1000 persons day, when
closing a contract for street car serV-
ice, which indicates the prospect for
sufficient attendance to make the
meeting a big success. The city is
filled with visitors, attracted by the
meeting, and the hotels are crowded.
No race meeting ever held between
the coast and the Missouri river ever
was gracd by the attendance of more
high class horses than those now
stabbed at the fair grounds track.
Glorio, Jack Nunnally, Booger Red,
Blagg, Boas, Del Cruzador and prob
ably fifty others in this class already
are here. The best stables at Santa
Anita and Emeryville, except those
htat were shipped to eastern tracks,
have shipped here, and the Cullen hotel
corridors are thronged day and night
with faces that were familiar to race
goers at these tracks. Fully dozen
books will cut in opening day. and
Manager Finn says he expects at least
eighteen to be in line when the first
bugle is blown.
Judge P. P. Pomeroy, who will pre-
side in the stand and fill the position
of racing secretary and handicapper,
will arrive Sunday noon and begin the
work of registering the horses, MAX
ing up the program book for the first
eight days of racing and issuing the
stake book The stakes close tomorrow
(Monday) night and the number re-
ceived already has exceeded all eXpec-
tations. Judge C. V. Henderson, who
will be paddock and patrol judge, also
is expected today. Starter Dwyer al
ready is here.
Visitors from Los Angeles will not
feel like they have entered a strange
city when they get here. There are
so many Angelenos here that one cam
not walk half a block without meeting
someone he knows. Others are arriv-
ing each day, and before opening day
rolls around there will be a colony of
about 200 here from the City of Angels.