The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-19
Horse Lovers Can Get Line on
What Is Coming From
Norfolk Entries.
ATLANTIC CITY SHOW
COMES ON EASTER WEEK
Many "Delinquents" in Harness
Events, Owing to Large
Purses offered.
BY JAMES pocKERALL.

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\ NEW YORK, March 1S.-Interest OF
racing men is now concentrated on the
coming meetings at Belmont park and
| Norfolk. The Norfolk management is
arranging for special feature days dur
ing the meet. There will be several
ladies' days and charity day A
portion of the receipts taken in at one
day will he donated to some charit-
able institution or organization.
There are at present sixty horses at
the track, and shipments arriving every
day. In addition to the large number
of applications received some days ago
the manager has received entries rang
| ing in number from three to seventeen
from the following from Jacksonville:
Sam Louis, I. Burttschell, James
Fitzsimmons, r. j. Fox, J. Carson, J.
A. Bennett, millionaire turfman; j..
| Hatfield. J. w Healy, NJ Hogan, H. j.
Kennedy, William Martin, James Nc
Laughlin. A. Molinelli, f.. F. Miller, w.
Shields, A. Simon, W. G.. Saunders, w.
o. Scully, J. r. Thompson, i. Regan,
+. T. Miller, f. Trotter, William Wal
ker, T. d. Weir, p M. Walker, X. e.
| W. anu w. " w llSDH.
| Among the horses to be seen here will
be the Niger, Mon Ami, My Gal, Guy
Fisher, Hoffman, Martin w. Littleton,
| King Avondale, Via Octavia, Tom Mel
ton and Flying Squirrel.
| ii is probable that the Eastern sea
son will not begin before May l5 when
Belmont park will lead off.
Bob Levy will race at Norfolk from
April ) to &c, inclusive, and his meet.
ing will be followed by a three weeks ;
meet at Pimlico. The Norfolk meet
| Washington Jockey club spring session
/ at Bennings. August Belmont, Richard
| t. Wilson, Jr., Samuel C. HiIdrcth,
Richard +. Craman and Captain T.. B.
| Cassatt have planned TO send their
| precocious runners to Virginia. Pres
ident Manley and Secretary Riggs have
arranged for Pimlico liberal pro-
| gramme,
Several $1,000 Purses.
Entries will close for the early clos
! ing events of the August and Septem
Der meetings of Hillsgrove track on
April ]. The management of the
Rhode Island and Dover, n. H., tracks,
announced their early closing list by
sending entry blanks to 5000 horse own.
ers. Four meetings are to be held in
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two tracks, with total of twenty early
closing evests.
| The IIillsgrove August meeting will
begin July 81 and extend TO August g.,
] inclusive. The four $1,000 stakes of
fered are as follows: 2;16 pace, 2:24
pace, 2:l7 trot and 2s24 trot. The Sep
tembcr meet will extend from the 4th
10 the Sth and will also have four
| $1,000 purses. as follows: The Crown
| 1. %oI e. A n q
and 2,24 trot. In addition $500
purse will be given for the free-for. all
| PAGERS.
| The August meeting at Dover will IN.
clude 214 pace, 2:19 trot, 1924 trot and
l2:25 pace, for $1,000 each, the races be-
lginning August IA and ending August
l17, Six purses are up for prizes
| Kentucky Holds to Dates.
Directors of the Kentucky Trotting
Horse Breeders association recently
lvoted to refuse the request of the Grand
Circuit stewards for change of dates
Tor open their fall meeting on October
10 instead of October 3, as they had
lalready announced. This is the date
Ithev' have selected every year.
Few trotting horsemen, especially
ltl.ose interested in mile.track racing.
lever entertained the hope that this re-
quest would be granted and Lexington
dates carried week backward, al
Though President Devereaux and his as.
lsociation, assisted by number of prom,
inent horsemen. did everything in their
power TO bring about the desired
change.
! It is now understood that the stew
Iards extra meeting, which was called
lby the president of the circuit and held
in this city during the last midwiuter
sale, was originally for the purpose of
discussing some other means of com.
| pleting the formation of the 1911 Grand
| Circuit. with the belief that the Lex.
ington directors will eventually decline
to entertain the suggestion; vet this
special question was never even dis
cussed
Atlantic City Horse Show.
Secretary Walter J. Buzby and Man.
lager Charles w. Smith announce that
) be at the ''Million Dollar Pier,'' At.
lantic City. on April 1929.
, The Atlantic City horse show for
Years has been the most important
nine event of the year, and as it is
the FIRST of the season it has always
/, drawn bi" fields Of novice horses, max
ling it the most interesting and attrac-
Tive to followers of the show ring.
Many harness and saddle horses
which have closed their show season
in the championship classes at the
national show have made their debut
in Atlantic City and gained their first
ribbons there,
An attractive point of this Easter
/ week show is the attention the man.
agement pays to the strictly American
\ bred horse-the trotter and the light
harness roadster-of which there are
always good fields of competitors and
entries of the highest merit, showing
which IS also due to the impartial judg-
ing.
4 The prize list, which will soon be is
L suad will confair n total 90 oie.k4, ;.