Show NEW RACE TRACK ABOUT COMPlETE Buena Vista Course Opens for Visitors by the End of the Week i i ii MANY STABLES COMING OFFICIALS ARRIVE AND ALL PRE PREDICT PREDICT PREDICT DICT GREAT MEETING Next Sunday wilt will be inspection day at atthe atthe atthe the new Buena Buen Vista Viata mile race course of the Utah Jockey club the manage management management ment having set et aside this day for the tM benefit of the throngs who are desirous of lr visiting the plant before the real racing season ason begins During the past week scores ors of people have bave made the Journey journer to the track and all alt have expressed ed themselves as II delighted with the work which has hail been accomplished A few ow weeks ago Buena Vista was Wail a barren waste taste but within the last month Gen General General General eral Manager W W IV V Finn has trans transformed transformed formed this bit of desert into one of the lest best IH st race courses in the country To ro Todo Todo rodo do this the Utah Jockey club cub has ex expended expended expended No admission will be charged next Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day The grounds will w l be free to all who to visit them and everything there will be wide open The management however desires to call attention to the fact that visitors making the trip by automobile or other vehicles must mu t go straight out Second South street streel The entrance for teams teama is at t that end of the track and teams will not be allowed to enter from any other point of the course courte Over thoroughbreds will be quartered quartered at the track for the opening day Sept 18 IS and some of the equine stars of the American turf will ill participate at atthe atthe atthe the coming meeting The management is daily dally receiving applications from all the turf centers for or stall reservations and these are being complied compiled with so 50 far as possible Were there sufficient room hundreds of horses in excess s of the num number number ber her named could easily be had but of all the applications Manager Finn Is pick picking picking pickIng ing only the best Twenty carloads of horses will arrive in one shipment from Vancouver B C where the racing ends this week at Minora Park and Included in that shipment will be the cream of the runners now participating at the Brit British BritIsh ish Columbia track Track Is Fast An idea of the speed of the new trade tract may be gained from the fact that Satur Saturday Saturday day da Glorio the grand stallion belonging belon ng to W V P Fine breezed tuo of ofa ofa ofa a mile in 88 III seconds This is 18 at the rate of a mile mlle In A few minutes later the property of W Hawke traveled a quarter in 24 which is equiv equivalent equivalent alent to a mile in 13 From these fig figures figures ures it is believed the track will be ex exceptionally exceptionally fast and that the mite mile will willbe willbe willbe be made in at the outside When hen It ItIs ItIs Is considered that both these the e thorough thoroughbreds thoroughbreds thoroughbreds carried their trainers and not jock lee ies something of ot the speed conditions of the track may easily be seen Enthusiasm m over the be coming meeting here is seen at the British Columbia and Canadian tracks Scores of horsemen from rein these points have communicated with Manager Finn regarding the meet meetIng meetIng Ing and all have expressed ed a hearty de do desire desire sire to ship here No doubt the liberal purse offerings of the Utah Jockey Jocke dub club have much to do with the insistent de do demands mands of thoroughbred owners to race racel at l t th the new track The Oregon Short Line will wiD run a ape i ili U train from Butte and Idaho Idabo points Inri on S pt It 16 which will bring in the i h of 5 racing enthusiasts from rem those sections p The h grand stand is now completed and fIJi has a stating sating capacity of The paddock is practically finished and the judges staid will be done today By Bythe Bythe Bythe the middle of the week the timers stand will be completed comp ted together with all the fence work This feature has been a tre tremendous tremendous tremendous undertaking in Itself Entrances ces are in readiness and the board walk leading from the Salt Lake Routes station direct to the grand stand will be done by Thursday The track is in perfect condition and Fine am and Hawke declare it to be the fastest and safest track they have raced over in iny years y rs Officials Here Presiding Judge P P Pomeroy arrived Saturday evening from Chicago and As Associate Judge and Representative of the Pacific Jockey Club Frank St D Skin Skinner nor ner together with Starter Richard Dwy Dwyer er or will arrive the latter part of the th week Clerk of Scales J W Hayman Haman HamanI I is g already on hand and the other officials officials dais will be here during the week Practically all the officials of the Utah Jockey club will assist the Utah Fair association u in their race meeting It Is the intention of the club to help in every eve way possible and Secretary Horace S SEn Ensign En of the State Fair association has been glad to avail himself of their services services ices loes Mr DYer Dwyer will act as starter and the other officials of the Utah Jockey club will hold similar positions during fair week at the Fair grounds A big iron tank with a capacity of 10 gallons and a wooden tank with a capacity of gallons of water have been erected at the track and a gasoline engine installed to keep these tanks filled This water will wilt be for the sprinkling sprinkling sprinkling ling carts in keeping the dust duat laid on the track Four artesian wells which have haye been sunk are giving a heavy flow of splendid water Everything points to a highly success successful successful ful meeting and the th management of the Utah Jockey Jock club has every reason to feel proud of its efforts to not alone give Salt Lake City and Utah the best and cleanest race ra e meeting ever held here but also in the erection of one of the finest and most moet modern racing plants to be he found at any ny point on the North Ameri Amen American American can continent Barney Schreiber known from coast to coast as a horseman has written Man Manager Manager Manager ager Finn to reserve eighteen stalls for him His string now at Vancouver will willbe willbe willbe be shipped here at the close of that meet meeting meetIng meetIng ing Mr Ir Schreiber also owns one of the largest breeding ranches in the world and among the horses he has bred are Sain Sam Jack Atkins Sir Hercules and other fa Ia famous famous racing stallions Included in the i string to come here are such well known kno n performers as Banbridge Ban bridge Judge Cronin i Guy GU Fisher Buchanan Donovan Colonel Holland Dr Mayer Kiora Green Dragon and Chester Krum I |