The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-22
A FUTURITY CANDIDATE.
Sir Matthew Put Up as a Winner by q
Sporting Authority.

sporting Authority.
The Breeder and Sportsman of Aug. Ii
has this to say of Marcus Days promising
colt, Sir Matthews: "a week ago, in an
article bearing upon the greatest two-year-
old race of the year. which is to be run a
fortnight hence at Coney Island, we gave
what we supposed to be the five most
formidable candidates. We are now COM
up to that time had done nothing, but on
Tuesday last, won the great Junior Cham
pion stakes, which is the second largest
two-ysar-old stake of the year, with Dago-
net second and the western colt Bashford
third. From this time till the shouting over
Matthew, by Sir Modred out of
Embroidery by. Virgil, will be in
every turfman's mouth. We feel
particularly proud Of the whole affair be-
cause Tuesday was emphatically a Califor-
MIA day at the east. At Saratoga, Racine
beat Eon at one mile and seventy yards,
lowering the record for that distance. An
hour later Rinfax and Los Angeles ran
first and second in another important event.
And then, rs if we had not seen glory enough
for ono day, the welcome news was flashed
across the continent that Sir Matthew had
pulled down the rich junior champion,
worth something like $50, 600 to the winner,
'"The victorious colt was bred by J. B.
HagRin. at the Rancho del Paso and sold
last year to Marcus DAILY for S2,4OO.
His dam was Virgil from Finework by Lex
ington. from imp Filagree by Stockwell.
Filagree was the dam OF Alta
vela, by vandal, a long way the
Nela was a total failure as a broodmare,
though mated with all the best sires of that
era. Of Sir Modred, tho sire of Sir Mat
thew. it is hardly necessary for US to speak,
for no horse ever imported to America has
ever accomplished as much in his first
three seasons, If we except bennington and
st. Blaise. We do not care who breeds or
owns the victorious horses, so long as they
are bred in California. We are GLAD of Mr..
Days victory because he is an earnest,
modest, unassumlng gentleman, who al
ways runs to win, whose horses are ALWAYS
out for the money! and whom to know,
IS to respect for all that is genial, kind
hearted and manly. Mr.. DAILY is one of
about a dozen men that alone stand be-
tween the public md the most desplcable
Jobbery ever perpetrated in the name of a
manly sport. And that is why we throw
up our hat when the "copper" and green
are the first to flash by the post.
Sir Matthew was telepraphed to us for a
sure winner of the great Eclipse stakes, run
In June at Morris park and worth S24, go to
the winner. His stable companion, Tam
many, by Iroquois out of 1%ullahoma (dam
OF LULA Dldchburnl Dy Great IOIn, was put
into the race merely to make pace for Sir
Matthew, and not a dollar of the stable
money was put upon him. Judge of the
CONSERVATION of the DAILY stable. then, when
they found they had picked the wrong colt
on the strength of a private trial; and that,
the great Sir Matthew being pumped out at
the end Of four f%urlongs, the despised Tam
many had to go along and win the race for
them. The stable got an inkling, q week
ago, that Sir Matthew was rounding to and
recovering his form, when he won the Cam
den stakes; and his victory in the Junior
Champion, Oh Tuesday, showed that
the running for the Camden was correct,
This puts sir Matthew at the mead of the
dangerous ones for The Futurity, u race
that has never yet been won by a Califor-
nla-hred horse: and if he should win it,
Sir Modred will head the list of wlnninp
glres of the year. which he would have done
IN 1880 but for Torso's fiuke defeat of
Tournament in the Lorillard at Long
Branch. AS Sir Matthew will have to put
up a penalty Of five pounds for his VIC
tories in the Camden andJunior Champion.
and az Daponet ran second to him on Tues
day. Wa look Tor tho Futurity race to lie
between these two colts and His Hiphness.
Mr.. Daiy winnings in tn ee stakes won by
his stable since June foot up 1863, 1856. This
Will give him confidence to 90 on with the
game. and we hope that the future will be
full OF successes for him.