The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-13
The penalty is fine not exceeding $500
and imprisonment for six months. This is

The penalty is fine not exceeding $500
and imprisonment for six months. This is
most just law. In the fall of 1883 we'll
known PAGER, who bears the name of one Of
I the best reinsmen in the country. won a
race over Kentucky course in 2:1s. The
ing him in the 2:20 class. Last year this
same horse won six-heat race in the fol-
lowing fast time, the track being slow the
first two heats: 2:17A, 2:16A, 2:15119a, 2:151aa,
2:181S, 1:1sA. This is only one case in many
that could be cited, and it is to root out
this palpable system of fraud that Mr..
Thomas has introduced the bill named
N. Y. Sportsman.
Some great horse sales have taken place
during the year, but they are not all over
yet. "At no time in the history of the
American thoroughbred has a sale taken
place Of greater importance than that of
Belle Meade, which will be on the Path in
s .:since 1873 the annual sales of the Belle
Meade yearlings have reached the grand
total of $313, AS for 518 head-a large sum,
but a mere bagatelle whom we take into
consideration the fact that the sons and
daughters of the nine stations which have
stood at Belle Meade since 1870 have won
upon tho turf NO less than one million eight
hundred and thirty Thousand three hundred
and eighty-nine dollars in stakes and
purses. This is truly grand showing, and
unparalleled by any breeding establishment
in the world.
ing the four years that his get have been
running they have won $151, 779. or more
than half the total amount that fourteen
years. yearlinRs sales have made up. Last
year the get Of Iroquois won So, $50, and
Enquirer $43,O80.
Whips and Tins.
Montana is represented in the lakewood
handicap, to be run at Chicago, by Spokane.
12A; Argenta, 4. 1O4; Nevada, 5, 100. and
Emma Nevada, ), 80 pounds. For the Great
Western handicap there are Nevada, ITO,
and Spokane, 124.
on March Is between an American and a
Mexican horse. The stake was deposited in
the branch of the Ell Paso National Bank at
Paso del Norte. The American won, but
the Mexican will not surrender the stake,
and the Americans have brought suit in the
United States and the Mexicans suit in the
Mexican courts for the same. This is the
first case of this sort on record.
Isaac Murphy is said to have contracted
with the Dryers to train and ride the horses
which they viii have at the Kentucky meet
ing. He weighs 133 pounds, but will train
off in the neighborhood of 70 pounds before
going into the saddle.
Inc InOSG ValudOlo race ever run was
worth $25O, 900 to the winner. 1t took place
in Natchez, Miss, in 1886, and was match
of $500 bales of cotton side between j.
F. Claybournes Susan Yandell and Walker
Thurston's Rodolph. 1t was play or pay,
and the cotton staked was worth quarter
of million. A few hours previous to the
time set for the race Rodolph took the big
head and Susan Yandell had walkover for
the prize.
The most heats ever won by trotter were
captured by Goldsmith Maid, she having
332 heats better than:3O to her credit. She
won during her turf career $4,000.
Horses are not injured by labor any more
than are men, and it is only by exposure,
over-exertion and neglect that they become
jaded out at a time when they should be in
their best condition for usefulness.
1t is claimed for horses raised on the
range that they are more wiry and tough
than horses raised on q farm. and that thew
retain their vitality to greater age than
horses that have too much care bestowed
upon them.
E. F. Nash. of Deer Lodge, who has been
driving the horses of S. E. Larabie, has
hired out to C. x. Larrabee and will remain
in Montana another year. Nash has driven
quite number into the 2:30 list, and is
sure to increase his score with the material
now at his command.
The largest sale of horses ever held by
one establishment in the history of the
world was the Middle Park thoroughbred
sale which took place in England in 1872.
Three hundred and thirteen animals were
disposed of for $512.575, an average of
q ,575 Der head, says the Cleveland Plain
l97 brood mares and 129 foals.