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Show mm races 'Logistilla and Proper Stalled at Fair Grounds for Season. PROFESSIONAL FOLLOWERS OF THE TURF ARE HERE Fair Grounds Track lias Been Converted Into a Beautiful Beauti-ful Course. ITha-biK "liorse special" from-Los VnVc es came in over the Bolt Lake iou"l. Sunday morning at HMO o'clock, SriUinp a small army of horsemen, iodew bookmakers, and the profos- : iW following of ll.o turf, and ho horses vcvo quickly removed, from the !Cot to the fair pounds. The seen, reminded the small boy of what ho o ,1,- served when Iho circus made camp in 1ho early morning hours of arrnal in town. The bedding down and the a Ung of the stalls, the merry laugh a i Uic "flarlcy" rubbers, the scurrying Mther and thither of the jockeys, train-JrS train-JrS and owners, all bent on settling ,n-U ,n-U 'their long summer tracksidc quaHe s afforded a kaleidoscopic ciiccfc. as tho cloning hours came on. the coming lo hind of the out-of-town turfites as own hoi el crr'Vi;raid the horses, eight palace horse ex press Pullmans, a conch and clmu car, i lion ul- l nc iau VPd vestcrday pSI -Towel. Aa-t.AagJ. Al.cc OoL Pnlit--Proper, VoltTome. P. J. KeUy-Cobblcskill, Mazapan, a.r nBrown-Ladv Kilty. V G Woods Contingent. W K Beesloy Probe. Gallivant. ica Whfllock-Allcnburg. U0Krdime Gone, Once A ?vniEobarl Tnvlnr George. ,tf." P Sipplo-JIcrmau Doyle, Bud J3Dr?"JT. G. Brown-Sly Ben, Bob I Fred -Warren Tim 0 'Toole. W Hoae & Co. Logistilla, Grace G. Aje-r Parker & "McDonald-Good clGSipcr H, Charles P,Y.n.T. 3,cc & Co. Agreement, Salvage, Kir?gUr WaUhauscr-Tano Laurel Free Knight The Bear, The Bear, lloyal BThc Maple stable Hador. Several hundred people strolled to the fair grounds during the afternoon to 're the horses. The course is far moic -pridilly than it has been in many a lay and speaks -wonders for the work dono under the direction of General Manager "Finn and his corps ot assistant assis-tant during the last ten days. President Presi-dent John Condron expressed a hcaitj satisfaction at what he saw. In the radiant spring sunshine the course, and rounds, having as a background tho Ueavilv snow-clad mountain sides, never appeafed more picturesque, causing an observer to remark that even Santa Anita Park is not moro attractively situated situ-ated than our own racing park. The betling ring has ncen completely changed and is now commodious and we'll "appointed. The new club house will be situated to tho cast of the grandstand. The paddock will bo found away at tho west end of the. stand, while the course is being entirly re-fenced re-fenced and painted. The courso is one of the safest, and fastest in the country, coun-try, and it is safe to say many a halt-mile halt-mile world's record will bo hung up before be-fore the close in July. Asked their opinion of the race courso, btuiirt Polk, "Billv?; Hong, and other owners, pronounced pro-nounced it the best half-mile courso in tho world. Tomorrow the trainers will start to gallop their charges in a slow and gradual preparation for the mecl-iucr mecl-iucr ahead. I A successful and a brilliant meeting at the fair grounds seems now to be assured. The influx of horses and horsemen has but begun, for the contingents con-tingents from Oakland and the Texas circuits have yet to be reported. The San Prnnciseo "horse special" leaves on next Thursday, while the Lone Star horses may be looked for about May 15. Five cars of horses leave Los Angeles An-geles tomorrow night, carrying with other stables that of George Baldwin, nephew of the lato "Lucky'7 Baldwin; W. St. Vincent, aud W. P. Pine. Fine did not come, on the special Sunday, bub he'll bo along on next Thursday morning with Gloriot and his other stars. By tho time the Utah Jockey club is ready to ouen on May 22 there will be about 400 horses stabled within the track and about the neighborhood. Fairgrounds Notes. Two of the most famous race horses in America are now at tho fair grounds Proper and Logistilla. "Jack" TCecne, who has raced and trained in Russia. Germany and every-where every-where where tho thoroughbred is known, will be here with Jockey Sco-ville Sco-ville tonight. Kecnc is one of the beat-liked beat-liked men on tho turf. The California papers publish a be-latcd be-latcd bulletin from tho Santa Anita judges, in which several turfmen were reinstated on the last day of racing in the Golden state, including Jockey Mar-tin. Mar-tin. U. Z. de Armau, John Peltzer and T. Murphy. Trackman Watson has tho fair grounds cushion ready to race over now. He has had on two teams working the scrapers and tho harrows for several H days. 1 In connection with the trackBide clubhouse, tho Utah Jockcv club is ar-Hl ar-Hl ranging for an automobile enclosure H', capable of holdity ma.ehiuea. |