Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — STATE FAIR RACES [ARTICLE]

STATE FAIR RACES

Purses Are the Richest Ever Offered at the Indiana Exposition. The richest purses ever offered at the Indiana State Fair will be awarded for the trotting and pacing races at the exposition which opens on September 9. The sum to be divided among the winners amounts to >24,600, or twice the amount of any other year in the history of the fair. There are thirteen events on the list in which the purses amount to >BOO for each contest. There are a number of special events in which much larger sums will be awarded. On Monday, there will be a 2:12 trot for which >2,100 is offered, and a 8:30 stake trot with >2,000. On Tuesday, there will be a 2:25 stake pace, the purse amounting to >2,000. There will be a 2:15 stake trot on Wednesday for which >2,000 is offered. The big event of the racing program will be on Thursday when the Western Homeman stake of >4,100 for three-year-old trotters will be divided and >2,000 will go to a 2:11 stake tret. There has been a large number of entries in all these classes and the best horses of Indiana will contest. A generous number of horeea from the grand circuit will be at the Ind iana fair and all told about 600 trotters and pacers will be on hand. The races are to start promptly at 1 p. nr, each day that visitors may see ever) heat and still have ample time to return home in the evening. The band concerts and vaudeville at the grandstand will make the attractive. In other years the grandstand has not been large enough to hold all the people who desired to see the races, and, with the increase In purses and the high quality of horses that will be seen, the coming races will be closer and more popular than gver. J. C. Porter will write your tornado, cyclone, wind storm, and fire and lightning insurance on both live stock and buildings. Now is the time to insure at reasonable rates in an old reliable company. Sept. 11