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Show EDUCATING THE RACING 'PUBLIC. By Jack Royle. The Salt Lake annual fall meeting. That announcement an-nouncement Is going to mean something, not only to the sport lovers of Salt Lake, but to the entire country. It has been proven by the present meeting meet-ing of the Salt Lake Racing association that the city can and will support racing when properly conducted and the city will be scheduled for a thirty-day fall and spring meeting each year in the future. It was an experiment, pure and simple sim-ple when the Salt Lake Racing association determined de-termined to extend the races scheduled for fair week and the experiment has been a complete success. suc-cess. The success is due not so much to the quality of the horses brought here for the meeting, meet-ing, as to the way in which the races have been handled. Every detail received attention from the management and the sport furnished has been most satisfactory. There has been a minimum mini-mum of delay both In the paddock and at the posl and rowdyism, which has been the bane of previous pre-vious meets, has been strictly suppressed. It has been a campaign of education and the Salt Lake public has been an apt pupil. Two weeks ago the local sport lovers would have thought any man who approached them and said in a confidential whisper, "Billy Maham breezed a half in .52 this morning," was crazy. Now every ev-ery ear is attuned' to catch the slightest whisper which concerns the breeding, past performance or present condition of any horse now in training at the local track. When the meeting was scheduled for 1G days racing, 183 horses were brought here and were entered in the different events. When it was decided de-cided to extend the meeting to Nov. 14, thirty horses were taken to California to fulfill previous engagements. To supply their places the management man-agement of the association have arranged for fifty fif-ty more horses which will arrive early next week. The standard set during the first fourteen days of the meeting will not only be maintained but will be excelled. On Saturday the Educator Handicap, Han-dicap, 7 furlongs, has been arranged. This race will bring the class of the horses in training in Salt Lake to the barrier and will be one of the features of the meeting. Next Wednesday will be Ogden day and the big race will be the Ogden handicap at one mile. A week from today will see the running of the Merchant's handicap at BYz furlongs. In addition to these handicaps an attempt is being made by the management to arrange ar-range for a 5 furlong race with gentlemen riders. rid-ers. Such a race would be of absorbing Interest, but must necessarily be for a short distance, as few of the local gentlemen jocks can ride at less than 125 pounds. Frankly, most of the horses now being raced at the local tracks are platers. They stand but little show of getting within the money of the big handicaps on the coast, but they do stand excellent excel-lent chances of pulling down the money in the selling races which form the largest part of the programs at both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Francis-co. Platoon, Knowledge, Yada and several others have been stake horses In their day and as has been shown during the present meeting are still capable of "bringing home the bacon," as Mrs. Joe Gans, Sr., is wont to observe. Two or three of the colts now in training here give promise of developing into material for the big handicaps and their progress is being closely watched. The present meeting has been a splendid ad- . vertisement for Salt Lake. The ontlre northwest north-west and the coast is watching the reports of the local races with keen interest. The local pool rooms of Butte, Billings, Missoula, Seattle. San Mose, Los Angeles and Helena are getting a bigplay on the local jaees and considerable local money is being sent to those places to be placed. Continued on piigo 17J A FISH OUT OF WATER. Continued from pago 5 There are at present 35 jockeys riding at the local track of which the best are undoubtedly Nelson, Manders and Morse. The bettors who have followed the mounts of the first two have made a handsome profit. Morse has hpd -fewer mounts, but has shown excellent judgment. A number of the entries have suffered from poor rides, but the work of Starter Murray has been of the highest order. During the first fourteen days but one horse was left at the pc t and that was due to the boy who had the mount. The fact that the spring and fall meetings will be a permanancy will mean that the class of the horses seen here will steadily be bettered. The death knell of racing in the east has been sounded sound-ed and the horses npw being campaigned at Belmont, Bel-mont, Saratoga, Gravesend, Sheephead Bay and the other New York tracks will undoubtedly be brought west. The Salt Lake race goers have not as yet acquired ac-quired the real Peruvian touch in rooting their choices home. One old time Tanforan Jane attracted at-tracted 'he attention of the whole stand Thursday as she rooted Valencia home in the third race. "Come on, you Valencia," she shouted, snapping her carefully gloved fingers. Come on Little Hoss. Take her up to the front, you MjcBeth! Sit down on that hoss! Come on you Valencia." A man on ttie ground near the rail with a ticket on Valencia clutched tightly in one hand shouted shout-ed angrily, "Quit riding that horse. Do you want him to carry over weight?" But the majority of the crowd around her assisted with numerous suggestions sug-gestions advising her, "Draw your whip, sister." "Go to the bat," etc. Not a trifle abashed she continued to root Valencia home until she had passed the finish when the Jane sank calmly back in her chair and began to dope out the third race. The books have had several bad days and all through the meeting well played favorites have landed the money for their adherents. |