MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 295 



SPEED. 



To the President and Members of the Executive Committee of the Mich- 

 igan State Agricultural Society: 



Gentlemen — As Superintendent of the Speed Department, I desire to 

 submit 3'ou the following report: - 



Our free-for-all class for trotting horses did not fill and we did not 

 have to pay the purse. 



Eeceipts and disbursements for this department were as follows: 



Received for entrance money |2,550 00 



Received for score card privilege 116 36 



Received for pools 409 00 



Received receipts from grand stand 3,485 75 



16,561 11 



Attractions, including fire teams and Maccabees $1,632 80 



Disbursements in ten classes 4,800 00 



Paid Sleiner dues for 1903 50 00 



Paid Snider, starting judge 75 00 



Geo. Ward, secretary and advertising 162 95 



Kerr Drovis 25 00 



16,745 75 



We had a very successful meeting. Our races filled, with the excep- 

 tion of the free-for-all trot, which we did not expect to fill when we 

 offered the purse, but did it so that no horseman could say that he did 

 not have a place to race a fast horse. 



Our starting judge did remarkably well, and our judges of the races 

 did all they could to show they meant to deal fairly with the horsemen 

 as well as the public. 



Mr. Nealy, driver of Nellin Online, was fined -flO for laying up the 

 third heat in the 2:14 pace. Mr. VanAuken, driver of Minaloyd, was 

 fined $10 for laying up the first and second heat in the 2:14 pace. Driver 

 of Glen H. was fined $15 for laying up the first heat in the 2:25 trot. 

 After he was fined he immediately went on and won the race. 



We believe we have reasons to congratulate ourselves on the large 

 success of our meeting, and I think the success was due largely to the 

 amount of purses we offered, as several meetings were declared oft" and 

 not a success in other towns. 



I would recommend that we offer for our races the coming fall not 

 less than $500 per race. 



Respectfullv yours, 



EUGENE PIFIELD, 



Superintendent of Speed. 



On motion, report was received and referred to proper committee. 



