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FINE MEETING IN PROSPECT NEW TRACK NEAR COEUR DALENE, IDAHO, TO BE OPENED ON MONDAY. Racing1 Holds Out Promise of Being Best of the Year in the Far West Track Faster Than Other Inter-Mountain Courses. Spokane, Wash., Septemlior 8. What gives promise of being the most successful far western meeting of the year will open on Monday next at the new track of the Coeur dAlene Fair and, Racing Association at Alan, Idaho. Some 000 horses, representing the pick of the stables that have been racing In Utah, Montana and British Columbia all season, together with additions from the east, will participate in the racing and should provide sport of a high order. All is in readiness for the opening of the meeting, so far as the new plant is coucerned. It has been entirely completed and horsemen aro well pleased with its appointments. The course itself has been well settled, horses having been working over it for several weeks. It will he a faster track than the other courses of the inter-mountain region. Virtually all of the horses that have been racing at Anaconda will lie shipped here as soon as that meeting closes to join the several hundred already quartered, here. Special trains will leave Butte and Anaconda Sunday laden with racing folk and horses. The management will be disappointed if the ojening day crowd does not exceed 5,000, so keen is the interest that is taken locally in the sport. The opening week of the thirty-six-days meeting will be featured by the running of two 1.000 stakes and a 00 handicap. The rest of the purses will lo of the 00 variety, making it the most attractive western meeting of the year from the horsemens standpoint. Well-known western racing officials will supervise the technical end of the sport, the roster being as follows: Presiding judge. Robert Leighton; associ-u ate judge, F. St. I. Skinner; starter, Richard Pwycr; clerk of the scales, Ihil Reiliy; paddock judge and timer. J.. C. Dinue; steward representing lacllic Jockey Club, F. St. I. Skinner. The olilcers of the Coeur dAlene Fair and Racing. Association Include M. D. Wright, president; W. E. Sander, vice-president; K. S. Shelton. general manager; F. W. -Smith, secretary; A. V. Chamberlain, treasurer; W. W. Finn, superintendent of construction. Witli the exception of one week, when the scene of local racing will be shifted to the half-mile track of the Spokane Inter-State Fair in this city, the sport will continue at the Idaho track until October 23.
