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DENVER RACING PLANS ASSUME SHAPE. Edwin Gaylord to Manage Two Meetings at Overland Park this Year with Pari-Mutuels. Denver, Col., January 10. Edwin Gaylord. millionaire mining man of Cripple Creek and Denver, will manage twenty-six days of mixed harness and running racing in Denver this year. There will be two meetings of thirteen days each at Overland Park, the tirst running from Saturday, .Tuse13 to Saturday, June 27, inclusive. The dates tor the fall meeting will depend upon those of other Colorado tracks in order to avoid possible conilict. Rook-making will not be tolerated. Those interested in the revival of racing under control of the state commission recently appointed by Gov. E. M. Amnions have secured what they consider competent legal advice to the effect that the pari-mutuel system of lietting may be used without valid objections. There wili absolutely be no attempt made to sell liquor at Overland Park, which is located in a dry ward. This tratlic used to be considered one jf the necessary adjuncts of prolit making in the past, but in the future it is to be abolished witli-ut any subterfuge or pretense. Mr. Gaylord will secure the track under lease, .vith an option of purchase, from Henry M. Wol-cott, the owner and a patron of racing for many years. The Denver track, in common with twenty jther tracks in the state, will be operated under the supervision of the state racing commision. which oody. upon its organization, will assume the entire csponsibility for the proper conduct of harness md thoroughbred competition in Colorado. This commission, the members of which have been appointed for terms of from one to live years, will appoint a secretary, who will receive the nominal sum of 00 a year. He will get his salary when the tracks pay their small assessments, which must sustain the commission in its expenses. Henry M. Wolcott. who owns the track, conducted the highest class of racing at Overland Park for many yeans. Among his elliclent secretaries were Charles K. Rhodes and J. Codman. His present representative is Henry Ilanuington. Mr. Gaylord lirst. took over the local track in 1897. Later he turned It over to Judge E. "A. Colburn, from whom it passed successively to G. A. AVahlgren and later to the Colorado Inter-State Fair Association. Mr. Gaylord came to the assistance of the latter association and helped that organization in conducting the last successful meetings held at the famous course. It is history among horsemen the country over that from the construction of the track until it was at last relinquished by Mr. Gaylord as manager for the Inter-State Fair Association, every purse offered was promptly paid off. As a harness and running horseman Mr. Gaylord is known the country over. In the harness horse division he has owned the trotters Charlie Mack. 2:17, Conlienza. 2:191, Lee Crawford, 2:12. and Major Grier, 2:13. His best pacer was Darkaway. 2:12. Well-known running horses in the Gaylord stable at various times included Rubric, Celeres, Setback. Anna McGee. Anion. Kenneth, Cousin Carrie, The Sprinter and Toledo.
