Show IrA In BOARD I GETS LICENSE TO RU RUN RAGES RACES I Ogden Chamber Also Favored Lagoon Meet Denied Announcement that the Ogden chamber of commerce will expend to equip a racetrack in InVest West Vest Ogden for the 1926 racing season stirred horse racing lacing In Utah Wednesday The announcement announce announce- merit ment was made by the racing racing committee committee com corn of the Ogden chamber sil shortly after it had received a permit fr from m thc tho Utah racing commission allow v Irl lug ing It to hold a race meeting The Ogden d chamber of commerce I an announced that a the racetrack ac will be constructed d on property in West Og- Og d ll bought twenty-five twenty years dg ago rO by the chamber for a manufacturing center It further intimated that there theop are remnants of a nile mile nl and one half mile trask on the property tint may be easil r tl According to those close to cham charn- ber bel officials it was learned that th the chamber of ot commerce would not ac ac- I lually put up the money for the new equipments equipment but would sponsor the that has the money at Its disposal to put In the tine track The Thee e j e will be made for stables grandstand putting track In shape dim ana making It ready for tor a mee LAGOON BUBBLE BURSTS Tire The Lagoon racing bubble U burst ayL h r T Tuesday night When the commission n ml unofficially refused to allow noise hone racing on the Lagoon mile mUe track or any other track located in a rural community While the commission ion can take no official action until May 11 ii 11 on which date the Redd bill re reviving reviving re- re horse racing with the pan pan- betting in Utah becomes s effective ef at- f- f the commission compos composed of B. B F F. F Grant chairman James II Waters VatErs secretary and Gage B. B Rodman Rodman Rodman Rod Rod- man expressed that opinion force- force At a meeting held at the Newhouse New New- house hotel TU Tuesday night the commission commission commission com com- mission granted permits for a racing meet In 1925 to the Utah State Fair association and in 1926 to the Og Ogden cm chamber of commerce The application lion Hon for a meet presented by the Canadian syndicate headed by bv Joe Cattarinich Leo Ico Dandurand M M. C C. C Dewar and W W. C C. Billy Murray o ot of Montreal for a May 16 date at Lagoon Lagoon Lagoon La La- goon was denied Denial of the tha application for the Lagoon meeting was based members of the commission said on their re reluctance reluctance reluctance re- re to permit horse racing to Invade rural communities The boards board's attitude was that racing meetings where stables must be Imported imported im Im- ported should be held within the en envIron environs environs en- en vIron of cities of sufficient size to afford police protection WILL COST S Sanction of ot the state fair meeting for forty-five forty da days s 's in July September Septem Septem- ber and October means It is said the immediate expenditure of for Improvements at the fair fall grounds Js track Under the agreement entered Into a week ago between the state fair board and Fred Dahnken and W v V P. P Kyne of San I Francisco the Pacific coast group will pay over to the fair fall board An additional will be be- banked according to the tIne demands of the fair fall board The entire will be expended In In Increasing Increasing increasing In- In creasing the seating capacity at the fair Calr grounds and improving the stables and track for a thoroughbred thorough thorough- bred racing meet The being advanced by the San Francisco group of promoters will be repaid from the tine state fair boards board's share of the net earnings If the agreement runs the life of oC ten years During the first three years ears on third one of ot the net earnings earnings' goes to the state fair fall board an and thereafter thereafter thereafter there there- after the net earnings are to be di divided divided divided di- di vided equally between the promoters and the fair fall board the agreement fail fall because of any action of ot the tine promoters then the fair board retains whatever portion por per tion of the that has not been r repaid from Its share of the earning earnings earn earn- ing ings Should the state abolish racing racing rac rae ing big or through any fault of the fair tall boat boara a the agreement be broken then the state Is to repay the or balance due lue without interest one one- half at the end of five years and arid onE half at the end of or ten years ears OPENS IN JULY According to Mr Kyne hors horses s will willbe willbe willbe be brought here from Tijuana and other oUter Mexican racing tracks t He lie lId did not make any announcement as all to flip flie opening date of ot the July m meet meet- ct- ct lag Ing S i to th the executive SC session slon of 01 the racing commission held Tuesday Tues Tur-s- day night it granted a a. hearing to Mr l Dewar and Mr Murray Murra and Vera Kera Decker owner of the Lagoon property property prop prop- erty who had executed a year five-year lease with a purchase option on the track Chairman Grant pointed out that any agreements made previously pre PI to the sanction of ot the commission commission commission com com- mission must have been at the 11 risk sit of the parties In the deal T The E commissions commission's action In denying denying deny deny- ing the Lagoon application and und the granting of permits to the state fair board and the Ogden ch chamber r of commerce will be confirmed at Jt th the first official meeting of or the commission com corn mission May 11 it was announced A special train consisting of ot ten carloads of race horses passe passed l through Salt Lake early Wednesday bound front from Tijuana Mexico to Omaha according to local Union Pacific Railroad company officials The train made up of ot ten special express cars and o one e sleeper contained contained con con- tamed horses |