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Show RACERS MAKING TliliS Hill Africaltoral Park a Busy' Place, George Edwards Selected as 0ffcia! Starter for Coming Races. Joe McGregor, Anglo Duryea and and June Wilkes Will Race at Agricultural Park. The Agricultural park racetrack fairly hummed with the hoof-patter from tho speedsters now located at. tho fair grounds, In their work-outs yeatorday morning;, shaping up for the grand moot which will commence just ono week .from today und last through until July CO. Some Great Runners Here. Judging from yesterday's preliminary stunts, Manager Jones of tho Utah Racing Rac-ing association is aure to make good his promises that tho programme beginning begin-ning July 27 will bo the greatest ever offered of-fered tho lovers of good horse racing In the State, as tho fifty or moro horses already al-ready stabled at tho track give evidence of possessing speed such as local experts are not used to. And theflc are not by any means tho cream of the rurmers on the "Western "racing circuit, as manj of the star performers per-formers are entered in the meeting at Colorado Springs this week and will not reach this city until Thursday or Friday, Fri-day, Frank Loomis After New Horses. Manager Jones announced yesterday that a tolegram from Driver F. B. Loomis of Denver said that he had gono after the mare, Martha B., and would havo her here to tako part In tho harness events. This mare won tho great 2:14 paco nt Denver, establishing a mark of 2;C9, and Is looked upon by good authorities authori-ties as one of the coming leaders in championship cham-pionship races Three-Cornered Race. It was absolutely settled yesterday that tho much-talked-of three-cornered match raco between C. H. Thompson's Joo Mc-Gregpr, Mc-Gregpr, Dr. Humelbaugh's Anglo Duryea Du-ryea and June Wilkes, for a $3W purso and a side bot, will take place at tho State fair grounds at. Agricultural park on tho Elks' Purple day, July 27. In a 2:22 class paco race. In which the fourth horSo will bo F. II. Hodgden's Allco Thome from Pueblo. This will be practically prac-tically a race within a race, as the standing stand-ing of tho three local horsea In regard to cutting up the money will bo taken from tho order In which tho three finish, regardless of where the Colorado horso comes In. The rivalry between this trio of Salt Lake animals is of long standing, and much interest has been aroused among tho local followers of the sport as to which Ib tho better horse, and (julte a bit of money will be wagered oi the day of tho match George Edwards Is Official Starter. Tho veteran horseman and racing expert. ex-pert. George Edwards, has been appointed ap-pointed as official starter of both the harness and running events for iho entlro en-tlro meet, and a more capable man for tho place could not havo been picked. The Ilaverly brothers and their famous horse, Antonius, were duo to arrive In tho city last night, and will go out after a pleco of tho purso money. Many of tho horsemen from Denver, in the harness line, aro mourning a most regrettablo Incident of tho meeting In the death of the fnat trotting stallion. Sllverslgn (2:10Vi). the day after ho had trotted In 2:11U to a wagon. Silver-sign was owned by Judgf U. A, Colburn -f Dcnvo i gentleman of position and substance, sub-stance, president of tho Overland Park association, and so enthusinstlc a horseman horse-man that ho Is often seen up behind his trotters and pacers In their races. Silver-sign Silver-sign wao his favorite horso, and was a gamo and handsomo as well as a very fast ono. Ho was by Silverthorn (2:15), darn Leah, by Ensign (2:2S), and was an own brother of Klrkwood Jr. (2:10). tho two holding he distinction of being tho two fastest trotting stallions yot produced from ono slro and dam. Klrkwood Jr. mado his record last fall at Lexington and was sold later for export to Italy, whoro ho has slnco been racing with success. suc-cess. Of the two brothers, though Klrkwood Klrk-wood Jr. secured slightly tho faster record, rec-ord, Silvorsign was, many think, really the laster horse Indeed, his mllo in 2;11V4 to a four-wheeled wagon shows that. As an Individual ho was also. In both ap-,pearance ap-,pearance and action, much tho moro Impressive Im-pressive of tho two. Hla loss will bo felt heavily by Judgo Colburn, wIiobq luck, on tho whole, Is not as good with his horses aa It deserves to be. |