The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-02-14
MONTANA HORSES IN THE EAST.
The Races that Jocko, Gilt and Thady are
Entered in, and the Horses They
vii Try to Down.

times give the list of entries for some of
Montana horses, Jocko, Gilt and Thady,
that ran on the Helena track last fall,
are entered in the following races. Gilt,
chestnut filley, by Tom Sawyer, dam by
Gilroy, who won a half-mile dash at
Helena, defeating the winner Of the Pi-
oneer stakes, is entered at the Coney Is
land fall meeting in the September
Kstakes-a sweepstakes for 3-year-olds,
entrance 500, $25 forfeit, with $1,000 adj
Ided, second horse to receive 5000 out of
the stakes, one mile and three-quarters.
In this race Gilt will have to meet,
among others, the crack 2-year-elds Of
last year, George Kenny, Pizarro,
Barnes, Kinglike, Gano, Lucky B., Joe
Blackburn, Magnate and Renegade, and
if she can get a place in that company
she is a good one. Gilt is entered at the
Chicago spring meeting in the Illinois
Oaks for ~3-year-old %fillies, $50 entrance,
$500 added, 500 to second, n mile and
a quarter; also in the Illinois Derby, $50
entrance, 81 900 added, 5000 to second,
where she willmeet, in addition to some
of those mentioned above, Lord Raglan,
Boldholder, Ascender, Punster and Jack
Gilmer's Pierre Lorillard.
Thady, by Tom Bowling-Colleen
Bawn, is entered in the Illinois Oaks.
Also in the Green Stakes, for 3-year-olds
who have not one prior to Jan. |, 1888;
$25 entrance p. p, 5000 added, 500 to
second, n mile and q furlong. Also in
the Illinois Derby.
Jocko, by Cariboo-Reply, who was
second to Lady Preuitt in the Montana
Derby last fall, second to the same in
another race, and won a mile dash, a
three-quarter mile dash and a mile heat,
in two straight heats, beating Lady
Preuitt in the last race, is entered in the
following races: At Chicago: Board of
Trade Handicap, a sweepstakes for all
ages, $50 entrance, 81, 600 added, 5000 to
second, one mile. and a half. Jocko will
have a hard crowd to down in this race,
the entries including such we'll known
horses as Pearl Jennings, Blazes, Ali
unde, Boatman, Monogram, John Davis,
Katie Creel, George Mccullough, Ada
Glenn, Wallensee, Harry Gilmore, John
nSullivan and Jim Douglass. Also in the
Merchants Stakes, all ages, $50 entrance,
$3.50 added, 500 to second, one mile and
q quarter. In this, besides some of the
labove named, he will find himself pitted
against Lucky B, Gano, and the re-
noWned racers, Ida StanhOpe, Apollo
winner of the Kentucky Derby of '82),
and Checkmate cold Check" winner
of more races than can be ~remerabered).
This will be a still harder field than the
other. The son of Cariboo is also in the
famous Garden City Cup, which has
been won by such celebrated flyers as
Mollie McCarty and others of equal note.
Tt is an all aged stake, $50 entrance,
| 81, 800 added, $500 to second, two miles
and q quarter, and in this he meets
about the same field as in the Board of
Trade. Attorney Island, Jocko is enter
ed in the Autumn Cup, a handicap for
all ages, $3.50 entrance, $500 added,
$500 to second, three miles. Also in the
Great Long Island Stakes, an alleged
sweepstakes, $3.50 entrance, $1,000 added,
$500 to second, and the Woodlawn Vase,
for the subscriber winning it two years
in succession, four miles. Montana's
| champion has got terrible work before
| him in these two races, for he will meet
such renowned horses as Herbert, Hia-
Wassa, Wyoming, Aella, Greenland, the
famous Monitor, and firofie, Carley B.,
| Gen. Monroe, Compensation, Hilarity,
Free Gold, Strathspey, those good mares
Ella Warfield, Ida Stanhope and Pearl
Jennings, Apollo, Creasote, and those
champions of the. turf, Checkmate, Eole,
Bushwhacker and Bend Or, in the first
race, and among the othersi in the second
are Thora, the fieetest daughter Of the
great Longfellow. It lookslike folly for
Jocko to try to win in such company,
but he has not run as a 2-year-old, and
| only six times as a ~3-yeaT-old, IS sound
as a dollar, and Mr. Allen, his trainer,
is no fool and knows what kind of a
| horse he has got and what he has to run
against, and would not pay $500 entrance
for those two races unless he considered
| he had some show. Every Montanian
| will wish the son of old Cariboo the best
| of success in his eastern battles.
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