The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-22
Ben Lomond and Lady Preuitt
Winners.
Race for TWo-Year Odds Post
poned till To day.
JUDGES,

be kept so during the whole meeting.
Watering carts will be kept sprink-
ling the track every night. thus lay
ing the dust and preserving the firm
ness of the course. The manage
ment is sparing neither pains nor ex-
psnse to make the meeting this year
pleasant to all visitors and satisfac'
tory to all contestants for purses.
Square racing will he demanded,
and it may be set down as a fact,
and all should understand it right
now, that as far as the judges and
management are concerned, no un-
fair jockeying or "chucking'' of races
will be permitted. Charges have
heretofore been made that square
racing was the exception, not the
rule, on the Butte race course. The
truthfulness or falslty ofthese charges
cuts no figure in the present meet
ing. There will be no occasion t. re-
iterate them at the close Of these
races If the desire Of the manage
ment and the will of the judges shall
be carried out.
THE TROTTING RACE.
The first race called was the 2::39
class, trotting, 8 in 5; purse $3.50; 10
per cent. to first horse; 20 per cent. to
second, and 10 per cent to third.
THE same per cent. ofthe purses will
be awarded in all races during the
meeting. REP
For this race Huntley & Clark named oh. s.,
Ben Lomond. jr., 8 yrs, by Ben Lomond; dam by
Morgan Sumpter.
Sam Scott named oh. S. Rancho 70, by Clark
Chief, jr. dam Mary Eagle by American Eagle.
J. H. Durgin named b. g. Bozeman Boy, aged.
7. Hardwick named br. 6. Brown Jim, aged.
At the pool box Ranchero aud Ben
Lomond took turns as favorites,
Brown Jim and Bozeman 10y being
In the field.
The horses got off we'll together,
but Jim and the Boy DOR pulled
away from the other pair, and keep
ing the lead came down the home
stretch like double team, and passed
under the wire together, making a
dead heat, Ranchero a length or two
behind, and Lomond at his wheel.
Time, 2:422.
The unexpected result of the first
heat did not discourage the friends of
the beaten horses: At the pool box
they still remained favorites, Ranch
ero leading as first choice, and jim
and the Boy selling in the field. At
the tap of the bell the horses came
up for the second heat, looking as
fresh as new blown daisies. At the
fourth trial they sot off well together,
Brown Jim leading. Before reaching
the first quarter Lomond crowded
Jim and the Boy off their feet, and
had the pole by two OF three lengths
at the half-mile. He maintained the
lead to the home stretch, when Booze
man Boy, mistaking the nature of
the race, passed him on the run, and
his driver not being able to check
him, he came nnder the wire on the
same gait, Lomond a close second,
Ranchero third, and Brown Jim q
bad fourth. In consideration of his
slight mistake, the judges placed thu
Boy fourth, and gave the heat to To-
mond. Time, 2:42.
Lomomd was nov the favorite at the
pool box, Ranchero selling as a close
second and the others, as usual, in
the field. After scoring four or five
times the horses were sent off for the
third heat Lomond slightly in the
lead. This was a splendidly trotted
heat between Lomond and Rancho
70, but the latter losing his feet at
the turn to the hOmestretch the
former took the lead and came under
the wire a length ahead of the Deer
Lodge horse in 2::3955. Brown Jim 3rd
and the Boy distanced.
Lomond had now won two heats |
and pools sold and betting made IN
his favor. On the first trial the
horses We're sent off well together.
At the quarter pole Lomond broke
and Ranchero taking the lead MAIN
tanned 1t to the wire which he passed
under in 2:41. LomOnd q close Sec
ond and Jim a poor third. The fifth
heat was an exciting ONE. The horses
were sent off on the second trial.
Before making the first turn Brown
Jim crowded Lomond to the pole and
he in turn crowded Ranchero and
took the pole from him. But the
Deer Lodge horse trotted around
them both, regained his place and
without a break or a skip came under
the wire, winner of the heat in
2:42. Brown Jim was sent
to the stable for foul driving.
Before the last heat was trotted the
judges announced thai the first heat
of the running race would be run
while thr trotters were cooling and
now called up the horses for the
RUNNING RACE.
This race was for the mining
mining mems purse, $500; mile heats,
two in three.
J.T Gilmer named b. s. Red Boy, a. 121 lbs.
Hundley and Preuitt named br. 70. Lady
'reuitt, 4 yrs. ia lbs.
Lakin and O'Mara named b. e. Narrow !
4-yrs., 119 lbs.
D.. Covington named s. +. Gllt, 3-yrs.. l0i lbs. !
w, G. Palmer named CHI. S. Australight, 4-yrs,
II lbs. I
Red Boy was a prime favorite in
he pools, with Lady Preuitt second
nd the field third choice. For the I
.rst heat the horses came up we'll to- .
ether, Red Boy having the pole, s
.ustral!ght I'd, Gilt Sd, Narrow G
auge 4th and Lady Preuitt on the fl