The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-08

dropped three colts. They are small, but
gu are alive and doing nicaly, being per-
fectly formed and as lively a crickets.
Montana Regent is declared ont Of all en-
gagements and passes into the hands Of d.
II. Mosher, having been bought by that
gentleman from ]. II. Aorrissey.
Blonde and the pacer I. @ Lee, both on
the Montana circuit last year were defeated
last week in a free-for-all ut Denver, M. II.
time 1854.
WhitestookinRs, ZIG, is the fastest trotter
q unknown breeding. Guy 2:10A, is the
fastest trOtter without any Hambletonian
blood. Palo Alto, record 2:12A, is the fast
est trotter out of . Thoroughbred.
When Hermit went to the stud in 1870 his
tee was % guineas; in 1875 il was increased
SoO Ruineas was readily paid. Hermit will
be succeeded by his son Friars Balsam.
California advices say that Electioneer is
slowly but surely dying. After lying down
ne has to be lifted up. The almost certain
ty that he will never see another season is
probably the reason that Senator Stanford
has withdrawn all the Electioneers from
the market.
A mare owned by Fred Kilburn, Of Grown
Point, Ind, foaled colt May Is by George
Gordon, pacing record 2:27M. The mar g
was thirty years old the day before the colt,
her first one, was foaled. This mare and
Grattan's Jessie appear to be the champion
aged producers.
A race meeting at Moree. Australia, was
brought to strange conclusion. The river
rose rapidly and submerged q portion Of
the course, and the horses in the last race
had to plunge through two hundred yards
Of water breast high. Ono was drowned,
his rider escaping.
That the American trotter ID moving some
in Europe, is shown in the time of Blue
Belle, who won the race for 5000 forms Ut
Vienna. May 10th; having trotted the mile
record prior to this event was 22sH, made
at Kingston, n. Y, in 1885.
There were five starters in the 2:& class
at Holyoke, Mass. at the recent trotting
meeting, and the winner Gilbert B., had
such walk-over that an Investigation was
made, and a protest was entered on the
ground that Gilbert was none other tina n
the famous old gelding Driver, with q
record of 2:19.
G. X. Larrabee, formerly of Butte, but
now of Portland, Ore, has purchased from
Volney 0iddings, Mason City, Iowa, the
brown colt Imperialist, three years, by
Woodford Wilks, dam Topsy, by Swigert;
granddam Lady Jane, by Goldsmith's Alb
dallah; great granddam by Richards Bell
founder.
America has . lot yet to learn in large at
tendance at the races. According to the
Cheshire (EnR.) Observer, mo less than
$1,000 passengers arrived at the Chester
general railway station on the cup day,
which is stated to be by far the Greatest
number ever recorded on any similar occa-
sion. They were conveyed in 81 special
and 228 ordinary trains. The Cheshire
Lines railway company brought $4,000
passengers into the city, bringing up the
total to 1900 passengers on both systems,
and it required very little stretch of imagi-
nation to compute that double that number,
or close upon $1,000 people, were in attend
ance at the races on the cup day.
A copy of the programme for the summer
meeting at Washington park, Chicago, has
been received. The book shows not a little
taste in its make up. The club announces
Saturday, June q, as the date on which the
American derby will be run. There are 124
entries for this race, to which 1880 is
added, and some of the best entered
are Protection, Bill Letcher. Honduras,
Sinaloa, Swifter, Ell Rio Rey and Heller
Shelter. The last named should make a
bold bid for the stakes. Riley is not in it.
In the lakewood handicap Terra Gotta has
top weight, 128 lbs; Proctor Knott, 121;
Spokane, 124; Santalene, 123, and Los
The prices paid for some of the famous
trotters show that some of the greatest per-
foumers were pur chased very cheap. Here
are few examples: Maud s., 2:08M, $3.50;
Director, 2:17, 500; King Almont, 2:2lA,
$500; Epaulet, 2:19, $3.50; Tucker, 2:191L4,
$235; Noontide, 1904, 800; Rosa Wilkes.
2:181l, $500; John W., 2:23s4, $7s; Flora
Temple, 2:19N, $3.50; Maiolica, S2:l5.
$500; Princeton, 1923, $245; Guy, 2:1O, $780,