| Show H. H I I. WILSON SEES BRIGHT FUTURE FOR Western Vestern Horseman Intimates s Season Will Open Here Hereon on May 15 5 IT II I. I Wilson general manager of of- th the r. r Lagoon oon Racing association ns la is In Salt Lako CIl City en route to his old home hi in Ohio where he will spend with his hll mother Tills This is one of Mr lr Wilsons Wilson's annual trips and nothing nothingS of general up tie on oi nil all transcontInental transcontinental trans trAns- continental railroad 1 lines linc Inca would v uld preT prevent pre pre- v vent T nt nt him from seeing hi his hil aged mother during tho hoda holidays s While Whilo here Mr Wilson has stated c that the outlook for or the spring race meeting is very bright While It I has not been announced officially the Butte Butto Buta horseman has intimated that tho that seaSon season sea sea- son will WU open at tho the Lagoon about May lay 16 15 for tor a period of ot fifty da days or mote more This will vIll wi bo be on ono one of or the longest r ratio race co meetings that hai bat ha been held in the th west vest since the tho California tracks closed Tho The coming meeting will wil take toleo the of tile the tie Coeur dAleno dAlene and Salt alee mccUn meetings s of or last Jast year meaning that the tho 1913 racing will 1 continue until un un- til tJ About August Augustl 1 the tho time when he the early meet this eason a-eason season closed Mr I Wilson declares that b by extending tile the tle meeting hero here he can secure the bet best horses in America America and make this the meet of or the tile United d St States tes luring during the he two or three months It It Is la in progress Mr lr Wilson lson 1 In very ver enthusiastic the prospects prospect of racing in this thi country countr and particularly in the tho tho west He Ic says a I 1 believe hele e that tha t sooner r or la later tel the entire entre country countr will wil come to see that racing means the heightening of ot tho the standard of thoroughbred hor horses hores t something that tho the United States has prided Itself on for years rears ears The Te recent horseshow horse show in New ew cw York when the tho for for- el eign n llor horses hornet eR and riders carried oft off or the tl first st pries prizes has brought the army of officials of- of out tiit with wih the statement that something must be bo done to maintain and aUl even en e ral raise e. e the standard of or our horses General Wood oo of ot the army has lies declared that t thoroughbred gh bred racing racinG is 11 th tho greatest aid al to the racing game gamo and nd that personally he lie would like to see the high bred animals racing racing all allover allover al over the countr country Tho Tile lack of or racing In this country countr and arid its is boom in r France has cost UM ut 1 sonic some of the bet best stock In the UnI United il States Only a few feu- ew da days a ago o worth of or horseflesh h was shipped to France including the the great r at stallion Peter Peler Pan valued at at a cool Our OUI last meeting at the Lagoon In fact ever every meeting that that has he been en held at at this resort has proven pro that racing can be put on as sold solid a a. 3 basis as sS an any business enterprise I believe e the game gamo in Utah Is as clean as it I can be made The Thc officials severely se punished every attempt at crookedness s and as aR a result there w were re few attempts I look 1001 forward forward for for- ward to a a. n season that wilt will wil eclipse an anything any thing thinS the Int intermountain country ha has seen B By that I T mean that the standard standard stan stan- dard of or races will wil be above the tle av average average aver aver- rage r- r age found nn anywhere In this countr country country- and arni that the class of or officials employed 1 will wil prevent nt the he least criticism Mr 1 Wilson will wl leave lea hero here In a 3 f days cars for fol the cast east but but expects to return return to Salt Sal Ll Lake e shortly after the first of tH the year car He lie has ju Just t completed a tnt th through h California antI and the tho northwest business condition i and dech declares declares' oM that in in the country countr are more mor solid than those these found anywhere on hJ hh Journey journe o of several thousand miles nilles |
