Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-26
SIXTEEN FAST
HORSES ENTERED
FOR BIG Event
2:l2 Trot at Coming State
Fair Will Be Great Contest
For Big Purse

In making up his list of entries for
the $4,000 2:12 trotting event, which
closed August 9th, Secretary Manager
A. H. Lea, of the State Fair Board
overlooked two entries which had been
received prior to the original closing
date, June 1st, and reserved over,
which will bring the total in this big
stake up to 16. the same number of
entries registered for the 2:OS pace for
$4,000 and the 1925 pace for $3.50. One
of these new entries, Copious, by La
i Copia Beatas, with winrace record Of
2:15 IA, comes from Moose Jaw, Can.
ada, a distance-of 1882 miles to start
in the Portland Day classic. He is
owned by r. H. Taber, of Condie, Can
ada, and entered by w. r. McGeer,
agent and driver. of Moose Jaw The
other entry is A. r. G., by German Hal
Blonde Chimes, owned by Jos. Mcclure
of Denver, Colorado.
The filling of these three events
with entries from California, Idaho,
Montana, British Columbia, Washing.
ton and Oregon gives assurance of
starters a plenty in all of the 20 har-
ness races scheduled for the State Fair
program, for which over $4,000 in
purses have been hung up. There are
also many entries in prospect for the
series of running races, in which there
are two scheduled for each of the six
days program, principal among which
are the IA miles Portland Derby for
$500 and the mile handicap for 1880,
and entries are coming in almost daily.
The latest inquiry to have been re-
ceived for entry blanks in the running
races comes from Hamilton +. Corbett,
of Portland who has two speedy
thoroughbred sprinters, Boise and May
Dieudonne, which he probably contem-
plates starting in some of the big
stakes.
Lone Oak track continues unpre-
cedentedly fast and the horses left in
training here, ID horses having left
early in the week to participate in the
North Pacific circuit at Centralia-
Chehalis, Elma, Spokane, Walla Walla
and North Yakima, are making the
most of the opportunity to get in first
class condition for the State Fair meet.
Helen Mistletoe, George L. Parker's
Portland game little Hal B. Pundeta
mare worked out fast mile yesterday
morning in 2:0S flat, the best she has
made in her workouts to date, and she
did it without apparent exertion. With
John E. Kirkland, her trainer, up she
did the first half in 1:06; the last half
in 1:02, and the last quarter in 80 Ia.
| Helen Mistletoe is entered in the 2:25
pace, $3.50, with field of 10 and Mr..
Parker's enthusiasm over her chances
of getting in on the big moneys is in.
creasing daily. All of the other horses
in training here for the State Fair
meet are showing up in splendid form
and improving at every workout.
Included in the bunch of steppers
which left the Fairgrounds track early
in the week, to start in the principal
events of the North Pacific circuit, to-
gether with their best workout records
on Lone Oak track, are: Peter Cook,
Ballston, with Savage Right and Lot.
tie Ehsel, trotter, (2:15); Sam Bush,
with Edd Dennison s (Portland) King
Zolock, PAGER, (2:14); Harry Davis
with Sunny jim, PAGER, (2:0S l-4;
VIM. Bringert, Vancouver, Wash, with
Hal Edo (2:10), and Hi Ho (2:O9),
both PAGERS; Eddie Brain with Burnt
Wood, trotter (2:1O, George Newbill,
of Ballston, Oregon, with Wallace Hal,
PAGER (2:13 1-2), and Bonniola, trotter
(2:l5); DIR. A. G.. Smith, Salem, with
Helen Hal, PAGER (2:14), and Complete,
trotter (2:l5).
Aside from these Roscoe Stats took
his pacing mare, Chiquita GLIB to
Marshfield to take part in the three
days. racing cards during the big Rail
road Jubilee, where he won the half
mile pace against a field of four, in
tcludng a California starter, on Thurs
day, and he is entered in the big mile
harness event scheduled for Saturday.
VIM. McNames, with his two sprinters,
Sterling and Maxwell, also went to
Marshfield where his horse Sterling
won the mile race on Thursday and
both of his horses were entered in the
| Friday and Saturday events.