The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-06
NIGHT RACES
D w A
CROWD
BUT THERE WAS TOO MUCH DE-
LAY EXPERIENCED
People Had Their Patience Tested
Waiting fer the Horses to Appear
Jockey Discarded His Weight.

The races yesterday were good. in
fact it may be said the races them
selves were all that could be asked for
but the time intervening between the
races was long, very long. Manager
GlaSmann received many severe roasts
for the delay between the races, in
fact he admits hat the delays were
unbearable and that no one regretted
the slow work more than ne did. He
says;
The long waits simply made me
nervous. but any race meet that | may
he connected with hereafter will start
promptly at the appointed time and
will be pulled off without any delay
whatever Different men were ap-
pointed to take charge of the various
parts of the race management and
they were high-priced men and were
placed in the positions for the express
purpose of expediting the races.
Never again. while / am manager
will | permit any of the authority To
go out of my hands"
Everybody was satisfied with the
races themselves. 1t was the delay
that created dissatisfaction The night
racing was good. There too. delays
occurred. The sixty arc lights around
the track and the twenty arc lights
scattered around the grounds made a
beautiful illumination and pretty
scene, and sitting In the grandstmd.
In the cool OF the evening and watch
ing the horses race around the track.
was pleasing and agreeable. and es-
pecially so because the heat OF the
IL "a oh ,al
ly attend the races said it was the
most pleasing race meet they ever
had attended so far as the weather
was Il factor.
The Herald says Of the races that
there was not light enough. and the
Tribune SAYS:
Attracted by the fact that they
would be enabled to witness horse.
racing by electric light. several hun
dre1 people went out TO the fair
grounds this evening The course was
brilliantly lighted with sixty arc lights,
set fifty feet apart, which enabled
those in the grnndstand to see the
horses and their riders at almost any
point of the track"
Considerable delay was occasioned
by waiting for the arrival OF the Salt
Lake trains before the afternoon races
were started. This delay necessitated
the postponement OF the third and
fourth races. but President Glasmann
Of the Fair association announced that
all present would be given tickets en-
titling them 10 re-cnter the grounds
in the evening. which appeared to have
satisfactory effect
The results follow:
First race, five furlongs-Black
Domino, Vesia, Magnoi1oio. Time.
1904 1-5
Second race, six fulongs-Huapala,
Glaucus, Dick B, B. Time. is 3-5.
Fifth race. four and half furlongs-
Gipsy Vice. RomanofI, Joe Wells. Time,
SIS
Sixth race, one mile-COppers, Bel
den, Glaucus. Time, las.
Evening events First race. four
and half furlonSs-Joe Wells, Gypsy
Vice. Lissak. Time, So
Second race. six furlongs-Dick B.
B., Romanoff, Dorothy Ann. Time,
lis.
Third race. four and a half furlongS
j. w Fuller, Black Domino, Mag.
nofcia. Time, $50 IL.
Fifth race, three-eighths OF a mile
Joe Wells, Dora Rain, Bernardo Time,
not recorded.
The fourth race on the evening card
was called of. In the fifth race Gabriel
with Ferris up finished second. but
when the jockey was weighed in at
the end Of the races he was found TO
be ten pounds short. having dltched
his ballast. Gabriel was disqualified
and Dora Paine given second place.