The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-07
FIVE TRACKS ARE
IN NEW CIRCUIT
Extra Attention Will Be At
tracted to Handicap of
$4,000.
CHATEAUGAY ANNOUNCES
RECORD HARNESS STAKE
Columbus Company to Give
Horsemen More Racing for
Richer Prizes.
BY JAMES DocKERALL.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK. May 6.-Another new
trotting circuit. known as the Green
Mountain circuit, will draw extra atten-
tIon to the new $4,000 handicap.
Five tracks are included In this cir
cult. with short shipments and $4,000
for purses. The start Will be made at
Middleburg, VT. Rutland, VT. and Fair
Haven, VI.
The new circuit has secured mem
tion. 1 Entries Mt les to % the early closing events
will close May Is. when payment of
per, cent OF the purse will be due. These
early purses VIII be on the nomination
plan and entries can be transferred or
sold UP to and including July 10. when the
last payment falls due.
The good half mile track at Rensselaer,
Park. Troy, N. Y, is now busy place.
as several trainers are actively engaged
In preparing their horses for rich purses
on half mile tracks.
The $50 900 will be divided among the
seven first horses as follows
Twenty three per cent. or $500; 1Sa
per cent, or S3100; 4i per cent, or S2SS0
$3.50; ia ei per @ cent % or s2a5o, and ios per
cent, or $1,000 AS stated the entrance
fee will he Ia per cent while Sd per cent
will be deducted from each winner. or on
the same system as five to enter and ftvs
deducted.
Record Harness Race Stakes.
a stake. that will be a record for har-
ness racing. is announced by the Chat
eaugay Agricultural society Tor It's an
nual meeting to be held the week Of Sep
tember IL.
a handicap for trotters valued at 500
900 is an inducement offered to frotting
horsemen In New York state and the
country.
The northern part OF the Empire state
has had the reputation OF being The great
est center OF harness racing, yet few nave
a f,.tr. far oil hs.fn
place where for the first time i'll the
history of trotting sport. purse as valu-
able as this will form part OF rae
Ing programme for two-lap oval.
The National bank OF Chatcaugay and
the First National bank OF Plattsburs
guarantee the full payment OF the rich.
purse to the winners
The society is composed of several of
the leading citizens of the town and some
from Plattsburg. 1t owns what Is con-
sidered the best and newes, half-mil
The Columbus Driving Park company
reports an entry list OF total OF loo
purses for the first annual international
breeders race meeting to he held Au-
gust 1926
Racing of High Order
The list insures racing OF a high or
der. and includes the names OF every
that while Columbus is out OF the grand
circuit. the association still has strong
hold on horsemen.
The biggest entry has been made TO the
s5000 the Buckeye purse for 2:l2 trot-
ters, the list containing thirty seven en-
tries. This Is the feature of the second
week and might be considered as due to
the fact that racing stables will be there
in larger numbers than In the first week.
The Columbus Hoster purse. the main
event OF the first week. has thirty en-
tries.
Next in line is the $4,000 Board of Trade
purse for 2:07 class PAGERS. with twenty
four entries. this also being for the sec
ond week. Perhaps the most sattsfac-
tory list received is for the $4,000 Co
lumbus purse, which has only sixteen
entries. yet 1t is for the fastest class
trotting on any early closing card. the
2:09 trot.
Instead of the three days racing at
Fort Erie and nothing doing until the
opening OF Readville. as had been ar
ranged for the grand circuit proper,
horsemen now can be kept occupied every
day and race for at least s5oooO more
than they would have run for. for
Columbus is sure to make IL an eight-oay
programme to include the $4,000 or
early closing purses already announced.
and surely at least $4,000 more for class
races to complete the card. besides the
$1,000 Kentucky Stock Farm futurty.