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Show HUE STRING DF RACING PURSES ATSTATEFAIR ProgTam Calls for Five Daily Event for Which Prizes Reaching Total of $1200 Daily Will Be Awarded i Eight thousand dollars In purses will j be hun un for ra fmm mt th Mint.. tat. fair. This action was taken Thuraday at th meeting of the executive execu-tive committee of the .tat. fair association. asso-ciation. Th. racing program haa been outlined by L. 8. Cordon, member of th. committee and director of that department de-partment of the fair. Ther will be mora than 100 horses entered In the program and the races give promise of being the best ever given st a state fulr 111 Utah. The purse, ar. the greatest that have been hung up at a fair fn the Intermountaln country. According to the plana which have been outlined, ther will be racea every day of the fair. On Monday, the opening open-ing day, there will be five rare, and this number will be pulled off every day. The purses for each day aggregate aggre-gate 11200. records of IfZrare no bar. Three-heat plan. exrVpr that In z-year -old evente. It shsll h two best In three will prevail. pre-vail. The money on all raee will be divided 10-25. 11-10. lee. 10 per cent of purse, which shall be awarded to the owner of th horse stsndlng best In th summary.' Th money divided In the f-year-old race shall be 10-25, U-10. Ther will be no entrance fee to horses that start and no deduction Two horses from ths same stable may be entered In the same race, but only on can start. On horse may be entered en-tered In two racea If no start Is mad It will be held for on entrance horse to be named ths day befors by 1 o'clock p. m. If no start la made one horse will be held for I per cant of th purse. Trotters will be allowed three seconds In mixed race. En. tries close September 10. Another matter that was considered was a proposal for fireworks display on a percentags basis, th offer being be-ing mad by on of th largest fireworks fire-works manufacturers In th country. General Manager Sutton presented hi. plan for a great electrical parade which Is to be given on th night following fol-lowing th opening day of fh fair, the parade to be mad through th principal streets of th downtown districts dis-tricts snd to be under th management of M. M. Warner, Jr., custodian of the Capitol, who promises something wsy out of tns ordinary. All ths horses that ar ntered for th races will be In the parade and all animals that are sbls to follow sn suto and which are entered for exhibition at the fslr will b Included. |