The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-25
A QUEEN OF THE TURF
Remarkable Performance Of an Ana
conda Flyer at Sacramento.
How YOlo Maid Ast0alnheh the Natives
snd Won . special Pacing Rs&se
In Three straight
Heats.

In describing one of the leading attrac-
tions at the California state fair at Sacra-
mcnto last Thursday. n dispatch tn the
San Francisco says:
The event Of the day, the pacing race,
free for all, for "a purse of 81 10, three i'm
Ave, was "a big thing for the pool box.
Nine-tenths of the people had come out to
see the PAGERS in their fight for
and il would appear that every person was
DESTROYS of having some pccuniary inter
est i'm the event. Yolo Maid, belonging tn
Marcus Daily, and driven by II. =. Quinn
ton. was "a strong ~favorite AT $3.50, against
u. A. Hickok's horse Adonis at $40 and
the Pleasanton Stock Farms Gold Leaf,
driven by Andy Mcdowell. The first heat
gave AN intimation of what the race was
tn bs.--the fastest race ever driven ina this
state. and one which will hug close Jap to-
the memorable Little Brown jug race of
years ago. when the fastest mile in IA race,
2l1|. was made. as the worlds record.
Outside of that Johnston's pace against
time. = !O6H. stands alone between Yolo
Maids time and the worlds record.
Those who were placing their money In
the box had many ideas which they he
licved would eventually bring them out
winners. The talent played Adonis heav-
lily as u semi-short order, believing he
would ~outlast Maid i'm "a split heat race,
ON heats by those who knew her To he
equal to a 2;12 gate. There WAS a hope,
too, that Leaf would come i'm for g few
IDEAS only helped the betting.
Yolo Maid started of as though shot
out of n gun and travelled faster than has
ever before been seen around that track.
Adonis followed - length behind when
the Maid was at the quarter i'm 33L, while
herself some distance in the real There
was no change of position at the half Ina
1:O5H, but the crowd, the majority of
At the clip that the Maid was going
n looked the queen Of the pacing world:
She was h~ree-luarters at g second ahead
~ Hrnyvu l.ssrfS ftp,px, Stns. Slpo-3I an hnu,.
ever, i'm the last half mile because she did
not need her full speed to win, and as she
was quitting. Quinton was using the whip
hut il was not SD much on the mare as OH
the shafts. Adonis. behind whom hickok
shape, and the general impression was
that. he was pushing the Maid mt such n
gait that l. would never come back I'm
the succeeding heats. In the
Andy Mcdowell was coming along slow
~ that he might come within the red flag.
J2:12L, is the best that has ever been seen
in this state, excepting Gold Leaf t2;11E,
in "a trial, and il Is the four-year-old rec
ord of the world. There has never been a
trotting trial or heat in California To
THE second heat was virtually a rcpeti-
ton of the first to the homestrctch, when
Adonis, instead of closing up as he did i'm
the first, remained about six lengths be-
hind to the wire. Gold Leaf was last but
pulled up. Yolo Maid was e,sed in tho
last dozen strides, owing tn the action of
Quinton's brother. h held up. his hand
tn him to stop the mare. AS Adonis was
not coming up to her. The Judges saw
Quinton. DR., as he ran out on the trat k to
notify his brother, and when Orrin Hic-
kok, behind Adonis, made his complaint.
they called the youngster UP and fined
him 81. The time Was 2:i4E-
The admirers of Gold Leaf went in
heavy ON her for the third heat, as Andy
Mcdowell had done nothing but lay her up
during the two previous heats. Andy was
out for this one beyond "a question, but i'm
his anxiety overdid the business and sent
the mare off her feet ON the first turn and
catching her feet again. The Maid had
matters all her own way to the finish, hut
Mcdowell drove Gold Leaf ont at "a 2:1C
\ gait until half way down the homestretch
Adonis to- come i'm second. Time, 2:15L..
The San Francisco Chronicle, in com
menting on the event, says: 1t was the
greatest pacing race ever seen i'm the
next to the best heat ever paced. Brown
jug pacing u heat in "a race i'm 2:11A. The
three heats. paced i'm 2:l21S, 2;14E and
considered that all the starters were four
year-olds. The winner, Yolo Maid
is by Alexander Button out of q
was bred and raised by Geore.
w. Woodward of Yolo county. e.. X
Hoppin of the same county bought her ns
"a tw~o-ycar-old and she paced her frs
race here as a t~hree-year-old last year. ant
before tho season was over made the three
year-old record of the world, 2:14: Las
year Is. &: Holly of Vallejo bought her fol
cult. where she defeated everything shs
started against, making "a record of 2;123.
at Butte. She is now thc roperty of Mar
CTS DAILY of Mont.
The Hog Driver Was " SENATOR.
From the Chicago journal.