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GOOD PURSES AT MINERAL SPRINGS Program Book of New Indiana Organization Provides Tor Daily Distribution of 3000 Among Horsemen When it was announced some lime ago that the inaugural fifteen days meeting of the Mineral Springs Jockey Club at its new track near Porter Jnd would iKsgin October 7 it was with the proviso that there would be no racing at tlio new course on those days when the professional base ball teams of Chicago would be playing for the city champion ¬ ship Therefore in order to avoid such conllict the opening of the new track will not take place until Saturday October 12 The management has issued the program book for Hie first six days of the proposed meeting It provides for a distribution of 3000 on the lirst second third and fourth days 2800 on the lifth day and 3200 on the sixtii day hlx races are carded for each day with 5400 as the minimum purse value There arc only a few 400 purses twentyseven of Ihe thirtysix races programmed being for 500 purses and two carrying values of 800 each One of the SSOO races will be run on the opening day and the other on the follow ¬ ing SaturdayThe Saturday The program Is built to fit all sorts of horses and will surely appeal to all classes of owners It should attract good horses It is provided that the racing shall be under the rules of the Indiana Jockey Club which has been organized to exercise jurisdiction and which will recognize the rules of all established racing bodies bodiesThe The exercising track at Mineral Springs a new thing In race tracks is now roadv for the horses to gallop over It is forty feet wide and straight as the surveyors could lay It out It is three quarters of a mile long and should be a grand place for gallops or fast nveeighths of exercise work The race tratik proper is also practically finished find Is a thing ot beauty It is eighty feet wide with stretches a quarter of a niiie long leaving turns of the saint1 distance It is as safe as a track could be made and should be a fast course courseWork Work on the grandstand is progressing rapidly It will be modeled after the Harlem stand with a concrete floor throughout It will be two hundred feet long with promenades ollices for the adminis ¬ tration of the track business lounging rooms and everything needful
