Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-03-30 | Page 10 | Santa Anita Judges for Salt Lake Meet

SANTA ANITA JUDGES . FOR SALT LAKE BEET i One Thousand Horses May Stop ; Over on'Wnv to the East! W. W. Finn, manager of the Salt Lake forty-day race- meeting, scheduled to begin May 22,. Is negotiating with the Santa Anita race track officials to accept ac-cept like positions for the meeting in this city. Judge Pomeroy will accept the position posi-tion of racing secretary and clerk of scales, and It is believed that Randle will accept the appointment as treasnror of the meetlpg. Dick Dwyer. who bo- j gins his final season al the Santa Anita j barrier tomorrow afternoon, will be asked j to accept the appointment as starter j and a proposition so strong that he wlii I be unable to decline will bo made hint. It Is understood that an eastern racing Judge of prominence in the turf world will bo appointed presiding judge and "a Los Angeles man will be given the associate as-sociate Judgeship. There are about .100 head or turf horses on the Pacific coast and about one-third of this number will be shipped to the east for tho summer racing season. All ' these horses will stop over in Salt Lnkn and many horses which heretofore have remained In California will also como as far as this city to take in tho meeting. meet-ing. While tho purses are not as large as those given at Santa Anita, the smallest purse will ho 3250 and a few 1000 handicaps handi-caps arc slated.