Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-20
HAVE HORSE RACES
At MONTANA FAIR
FINAL FIVE DAYS
Purses for Various Events Will
Amount to Nearly
$4,000.
(Trjbune's Helena Bureau.)

Helena. Aug. 19.-Five days Of horse
racing, with seven races to be run on
each of those days for purses aggre-
rating $1,000, have been provided for
In the racing program just completed
BY the state fair management. The
races will be run on the last five days
of the fair. consisting of three running
races. two harness events and two re-
lay races daily.
For the running races. which will
be pulled off on the half mile track.
$3.50 has beer hung up, for which the
purses will range from $50 to $500,
money to be divided 20. 20 and 10.
Rules for Intermountain Fair & Rae
Ing association will govern. all to be
overnight events, with conditions to
horses in attendance. Entries will
close at 10 a. III. each day, no entrance
fee will be required, owners must fur
nish clean and respectable %colors, and
horses must be in paddock 20 minutes
before the race is called and Jockeys
must make weight each day by l p. m.
Harness Racing Program
The harness racing program has been
arranged as follows:
Tuesday. September 26-2:14 trot,
Wednesday. September 27-2:25 trot.
S4OO; 2:15 pace. $500.
Thursday. September 2S-2:2O pace,
800: free-for-all trOt, $500.
Friday. September 29-2:1S trot,
$500: free-for-all pace, $500.
Saturday. September 80 = Three
Years and under, mixed gaits. $500; spe-
eials arranged to suit horses.
All harness races will be conducted
under the rules of the American Trot-
ting association, entries to close Fri
day. September 1, entrance fee of $40
to accompany entry. starting fee of S.
race. records after June IL, 1922. to
be no bar and all horses to be entered
In the name of their owners. All har-
hess races will be run in onc-mile
heats: the OLA trot. free-for-all trot,
e:15 pace and fre~e-for-all pace to be
run best three in five, with all other
faces best two in three.
Two horses from any stable may be
dominated for any one event with the
privilege of starting one. The money
will be divided 30, %, Is and 10.
Two series of relay races Will be
run, with 81 500 hung up for the mems
selay and $3.50 for the inter-tribal
Indian relay.
will be a race with a purse of $500
10 be divided 500, $40. $50 and $40.
with an additional purse of 5000 for
the best time in five days racing to be
divided 500. $50 and $40.
Thoroughbreds Are Barred
Five strings are to be entered and
.horoughbreds are barred. An en-
rance fee of S25 will be collected which
will be refunded to strings finishing
the five days
For the inter-tribal Indian races a
purse of $210 will be divided each day,
kT0, $50, $40. $50 and $40, with a 5000
purse for best time in live days racing
20 be divided $50, $50. $40 and 500.
Only one string can be entered from
my n Montana tribe. and Indians
must wear full tribe regalia and ride
indian ponies.
In each of the relay races, two miles
will be run daily, each horse to run
: half mile. race to start with rider
b saddle and change saddles and horses
It end of each half mile. Saddles must
be of stock type weighing not less
lhan 90 pounds. Horses must be
PANIED and described not later thar
Sunday. September "A, ard the same
lorses must be used throughout the
week unless permission TO change on
recount of injury is granted by the
Judges.