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Show Race Meet Called 'Grand Success' The Milford Spring Race Meet was a grand success from, all angles. More than 4000 paid admissions ad-missions were chalked up at the turnstiles as the homefolks, home-comers home-comers and visitors from neigh boring cities filed through the gate to watch the 26 well-matched races Purses paid to horsemen totaled $2345, which included purses on the two special races, one a match race between Covihtess O and Thunder, won by the up-state horse, and the other a Brother Charlie-Timp-anogos special, with Shower Man going along for the exercise. Timp took down-first money, but many of the cash customers 'figured that Charlie's tack was on wrong, or he was decidedly off form. Mr. E. L. Smith, secretary of the Milford committee, announces he will have complete financial report for release next week, but preliminary pre-liminary check-ups show a neat profit which will be turned into the town recreation fund. A few complaints were heard, mostly concerning the absence of "important" personalities, the cost of programs and refreshments, and the scratching of county-owned horses in some of the races. Programs were 25c, while at most race tracks the price is 35c to 50c, in addition to the same amount for a daily racing form. Soft drinks sold at a dime, and at the Kanab meet many patrons were charged a dime for a glass of water. The scratching of horses mainly was because the owners didn't think they could win in the company com-pany they were entered with, or because no jockeys were available that suited them. Many owners entered their horses with the favoriteBilly fav-oriteBilly Dalton listed as their rider, without first definitely contracting con-tracting Young Billy's services for that particular race. The concession operators paid generous sums for the privilege of selling refreshments at the meet, and still charged nominal prices for thier wares. On the larger tracks, an alleged hotdog a hunk of bun with a weiner inside costs a quarter. Mr. Frank Martines, president ot the Utah State Racing Association, told Milford race committeemen that this race program was the finest he had seen in the entire Western United States. Its advertising adver-tising value to Milford is inestimable, inestim-able, and the Milford Volunteer Fire Department received more than $100 and the general race commitee more than $400, from sale of the programs. Milford could have "invited" any of the prominent movie stars to attend the meet, and advertise the fact they had been invited, but for the persons to actually attend the meet and make public appearances is another matter, calling for cash outlay for expenses, and salary. Movie stars are too much in de- mand to travel around for "good will." The Milford race meet was a grand success from every point of view, and already, before the final tally of this meet is completed, responsible re-sponsible individuals are planning a bigger and better meet for 1947. |