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Show 'Bible Derby' Planned as Milford Labor Day Race Meet Attraction TWO FEATURE RACES HAVE $100-ADDED PURSES The Milford Lions may not have been listening in on Scripture Scrip-ture quoting, but they've come up with a "Bible race" as a feature fea-ture of the annual Labor Day Race Meet. "There's a passage in the Bible that says something like 'The last shall be first and the first shall be last'," Mayor Ray Kizer and Commissioner Hy Tolley pointed out in announcing an innovation in Utah racing, "so what's wrong with using those same rules for a horse race?" And they have some novel rules: Only Beaver County mayors and county commissioners may compete; com-pete; each rider furnishes his own horse (the slowest crow-bait he can find), but the horses will be placed in a corral and the contestants, contest-ants, blindfolded, have to ride the mount they catch in a grab-bag type scramble; the owner of the mount that finishes last wins the race and a "wreath of roses" made of sunflowers and presented by the Milford Lady Lions; no spurs or whips may be used but the county officials and mayors can kick as hard as they wish in their efforts to win the race by defeating their own horse. Distance is a half-mile half-mile and 70 yards, which will send the racing officials past the stands twice. "We've been trying to get Mayor Martell Easton of Beaver into a Milford horse race for several years," Mayor Kizer said, "but he always swore we'd never get him on anything but a slow horse. Now we've got a race just made to order or-der for him, and if he can find a slower candidate for the glue factory fac-tory than we've got in this end of the county, Mayor Martell will take home the sunflowers." Four other races will feature the Labor Day card, according to Hy Tolley, co-chairman with Mayor Kizer. Two of the races will be outstanding, made up for faster horses, and will carry $100-added purses. One will be 4y2 furlongs, the other 5 furlongs. A kid pony race will have a purse of $15, and 70 of the gate receipts will be divided to make up purses for the other four races on the card. Entry fee for the $100-added races will be $10. All horses will be entered and the races made up Saturday evening eve-ning at a meeting of horse owners and the race committee, starting at 8 p. m. in the Milford Library Building. Entries will be closed after this meeting. |