People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Chicago Races. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Races.

The Northwestern Association of Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeders give their annual trotting meeting at Washington Park, Chicago, commencing Saturday, August 17th next, and continuing to Saturday, August 24th. There will be three or more races each day, and the purses to be contended for amount to more than fifty thousand dollars. The entries include the best horses in America and embrace nearly all of the surprises in harness racers that have appeared this season, and it is admitted that more fast voung trotters and pacers have been uncovered this year than in any ten previous years in the history of harness racing. There is, as a rule, more appreciation for the standard bred trotter and pacer in the country districts than in the busy cities. Horse fanciers in large cities do not have the leisure nor the roads for true enjoyment of this noblest of sports. It is only on the soft green lanes of the farm districts that the speed of voung harness horses finds best development. But there is not a better conditioned nor faster track in America than that at Washington Park, Chicago, and the Northwestern Breeders have arranged a splendid program and hung up liberal purses for the young breeders and developers of the country as well as for the more experienced and hardy campaigners. The grounds and stables are ample in dimensions and the club house, grand stand and paddocks commodious and comfortable far in excess of any other track in America. Arrangements have been made with the various railway companies to sell tickets at reduced rates, and every effort made by the very capable secretary of the association, Mr R. L. Allen, to presort the very best and strongest racing program of the year. This meeting more clearly and absolutely represents the breeding interests of the north west than any other that is given and should have the encouragement of all lovers of the harness horse. Any one of the days between the 17th and 24th of August is sure to prove interesting to visitors at Washington Park.