Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-27
HARNESS RACES
At ONTARIO ARE
SPEEDY EVENTS
Good Sport Is Provided on
the Oregon Track-Buck-
aroo Sports Furnish
Plenty of Fun.
(Staff Correspondence.)

Ontario. Sept. 27.-The Malheur
County fair has distinguished itself
this week from the fact that Q. great
string Of the highest class Of PAGERS
found on any racing circuit west of the
Rocky mountains is stabbed here this
week. Most Of these great PAGERS are
entered for the free for-all pace Friday
afternoon. Among these PAGERS Is
Bland S.. owned by McDade Of Van
couver. British Coluwmbia. Bland s.
has mark of 2:06A. and is considered
one of the fastest horses over a half
mile track in the country. Then there
is Ella Pcnrose with mark of 2.07A,
owned by Joe Carson of Winnipeg, who
also has here the great horse Foster,
which has mark of 2.09A. Halle D..
owned by Morgan of the south land. is
also here. This great mare, has a
mark of 2:osA. At the fair recently
held at Baker. Oregon, Halle d. paced
the mile there, over half mile track.
in 2:10A.
The great PAGER, Gen. Huertus, is
also here this week. THIS horse has a
mark of 2:O9% and IS owned by Ander-
son of Weiser. Gen. Huertus holds the
ontario track record of 2:17 made here
last year.
William Hogoboom's speedy PAGER
Alerdow, having a mark Of 2:09k, is
also here.
There is no such Lunch Of PAGERS
as these anywhere else in the west to-
day. 1t is probable most of them will
be at the Intermountain fair at Boise.
Big Crowds.
There were over 1000 people at the
Malheur County fair grounds Wednes-
day, many Of whom came from Boise
Meridian. Nampa, Caldwell. Parma
Nyssa, Payette, New Plymouth, Fruit
land and Nveiser. The splendid band
Of 20 pieces from New Plymouth fur
nished excellent music throughout the
day. The fair association arranged
splendid amusement program for the
day, as it is doing every day of the fair
consisting of two really splendid aero.
plane flights, harness and running
races, and all sorts OF buckaroo sports
These sports consist of riding wild
bucking horses, rop:ng contests, trick
horse riding. coyote run with three
greyhounds. wild horse race. etc.
Fifteen in Wild Horse Race.
The wild horse race is By odds the
most exciting feature Of the buckaroc
sports. 1t is made the last feature Of
the afternoon program. because Il
usually requires fully an hour to COM
plete this great stunt. Fifteen WILD
horses that had never felt a saddle OF
bride were used for the wild horse
race Wednesday. Each horse, in turn
Is first roped around the neck, taker
out Of the corral in the center field OF
the race course, led out on the track
and brought in front OF the grand
stand. Then the two front feet of each
horse are lassoed ard held tightly to-
gether, and the horse liz thrown to the
ground and blind folded. all of which
is more or less difficult to perform due
70 the extreme wildness OF the horses
which pitch and toss and kick in an
effort to get away. After the Is horses
are blind-folded. the signal Is given
by Harry Chapman. who is chairman
of the buckaroo sports, and then all
saddle their horses. mou- them. and
the first horse to go once around the
track and come first under the wire In
front Of the grardstand Is declared the
winner.
Winners in Wild Horse Race.
1t required 40 minutes to get the Il
horses blind folded and saddled, and II
took just five minutes for the winning
horse to make the half mile and come
under the wire first. The winning
horse was ridden by Murray Morton OF
s Ontario; second horse In was ridden by
Earl Mccullough Of New Plymouth;
third horse in was ridden by Hick
Lockett Of Ontario, and the fourth by
Bob Gavin Of Star
The Real Fun.