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Show Horses Continue To Come For Meet; Ten States and Mexico Represented Not since the old days of racing a I. the famous Lagoon track has Utah had such a gathering of race horses as are here for Mil-ford's Mil-ford's first spring race meet. Though the racing meet does not begin until Friday, continuing Saturday and Sunday, horses, owners and trainers have been arriving for more than two weeks past with more expected Friday forenoon. And those enjoying "the sport of kings" along with highest class night show acts direct di-rect from the coast and big dances each night are promised three days of real entertainment and many times their money's worth. All parts of Utah are represented repre-sented among the 125 horses which are here for the meet, including in-cluding Trenton and Tooele in the north part of the state. The largest out-of-state representation representa-tion comes from Washington, with approximately 20 head of fast stuff from various towns. Two are here from Agus Caliente, Mexico and other states from which horses have come include Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Ne-vada, New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho Ida-ho and Wyoming. Several of these race strings have been mentioned in past issues of The News including includ-ing the two entries from Agua Caliente which Anna Lee Wiley has been training; but other later arrivals include Theda Watson, Palm Springs, who is bringing her famious racing mare Sally Rand. Others who most recently have joined the popular trek to the Milford meet include L. E. Bryson of San Angelo, Texas, with two head; A. S. Farnsworth of Rexburg, Idaho, with four head; J. E. Stevens and Bert Baze, both of Sunnyside, Washington, Washing-ton, with four head each; Ray Price of Phoenix, Arizona, wtith" three bead; and Stanley Oliver of Telluride, Colorado, and Riley Heser of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Colo-rado, with six and one head, re-spectivelf. re-spectivelf. Nevada has added to her representation with three head owned by Frank Calloway of Ely, one by Jack Robbins of Elko and one by C. W. Lane of Las Vegas. Wyoming has an entry by J. L. Guilford of Dubois. Among the Utah horses are the famous string of six head owned by Dr. L. D. Stewart of Payson, several of whose race horses made good showings in Beaver county in 1938 and 1939. Hans Chamberlain's Gracie Allen will be here from Orderville and it is hoped that race fans will at last get to see this horse do her stuff. I R. E. Wrinterrose of Cedar City will have Tip-pi-tee and Tip-lpf- 1 tan "among those present", and Bob Fenton will have several of his race string here from Paro-wan. Paro-wan. William Dalton and G. Bent-ley, Bent-ley, also will be here from Paro-wan, Paro-wan, while the south end of Iron county will be represented by Par- i ker brothers of Kanarraville, with j three horses, and Verl Kelsey of New Harmony with two. Harry Lane of Delta has three horses here and Sevier county representation represen-tation includes entries from former for-mer Sheriff V. M. Fairbanks and Eloyd Morrison of Richfield and Morris Burr of Salina. |