The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-02
NOT 50 BADLY TREATED.
A Butte Horseman's Unfair Kick At
the Montana State Fair
Directors.
Marcus DAILY Said to Be After
Another Great Pacing
Mare.
Californtn Harses Leave for Portland
Brokers Runner 6old-The Case
Of the Horse Faust

Before the Butte MINER mas Any AuipuoA
reflections to cnst on the Montana stato
fair 1t would do we'll TO read the rules re-
parding trotting stakes. The Miner IN lts
issue Of yesterday, referring to y. Y.
Bticker, or Butte, says; During the com
ing season he expects to add several more
crack trotters to his string, and next year
will star the circuit, missing only Helena.
At that place the gentleman claims TO have
received anything save a square deal dur
ing the seven days of so-called racing
there. knowing that to enter his animals
for next year would be only to invite q rep
clifton of the same he has concluded to
leave Helena out. As nm illustration OF the
unfair treatment he received, ne was NOT
permitted to start his colt Meteor in the
two-year-old trotting race on the second
day Of the meeting, and as a consequence
Magenta had a walkoyer. by not allowing
Mr., Broker to start his colt the association
saved the added money. In several otner
instances during the week Mr.. Broker got
decidedly the worst of it, and finally be-
coming disgusted he took his stock from
the track and returned to Butte before the
meeting was finished" The rule i'll regard
TO trotting stakes, a perusal Of which would
prevent any IuTlu6E uAJubp " ApAoADhs AS0~S
"a follows: each nomination must be
accompanied with $40 and a full description
of the animal. A second payment OF Slb
on each nomination is due on or before
June /. The third payment for starters OF
1926 must be paid as in other races, through
the entry-box before six O'Clock p. m. OF
the day preceding that upon which the
race is to take place. A failure to make the
payments MS above specified declares the
nominations out of the stake Meteor
was nominated by her owner for the MUIR
sery stakes. The first and second pay
ments we're made. The last payment
was TO have been made through
the aentry box on the evening
preceding the race. This was not done,
aad the only regular entry for the race was
Magenta, who had a walk over. AS Tor
Mr.. Bricker leaving before the meeting
was over, it is only necessary to stare that
he filed all his engagements here.
Marcus DAILY, not satisfied with one great
paoer like Yolo Maid, is negotiating for the
purchase Of Pussy Cat, the two-ye ar-old
pacer that has shown a mile in 2:2l4. z.
w. Leavit, Of Boston, bought her q month
ago for $4,000, and he promises to show
2:l6 or better at Independence. Should
Pussy Cat be able to break Managers rec
ord Of 2lG155, Mr.. DAILY will take her at a
price said to be not less than $4,000.
The suison stock farms stable got
express yesterday. Manager Tryon is SO
we'll pleased with his experience here that
no will bring the stable back next year. Be-
fore leaving he bought of Sam Scott, of
Deer Lodge, the chestnut horse, Gold Ea-
gle, six years. by Ranchero, dam Lady
Fleming by Toronto Chief. The price
paid was $500.
Dave Bricker, OF Butte, has disposed of
the last of his running stock, his colts
Honshell and Excuse Me going to Matt storm
for $1,000. Honshell was sired BY. SPRING
box, dam Geneva. and is a promising ami
NAL. Excuse Me was sired by Dudley, dam
Claret. Both were shipped to Portland
with storms stable. MIR. Broker will keep
his trotting and pacing stock. which CON-
sists of Ida D., Irene 3. and D. G. b.
The Montana state fair, after figuring up
reoeipts and expenditures, finds itself out
about $4,000.
The match race between Eddie r. and
Kildare, WAS declare off yesterday AZ H. r.
Baker desired to ship his stable to Chicago.
n. The Fa ust Case.
The Breeder and Sportsman, in it's last
issue, says: ''Two years ago a three-year-
oln colt named Faust, by Florida 4e2, out
OF Claire by Bayard 80, trotted through. the
Utah-Montana circuit and got q record of
2:181. Last year he was ruled off for some
thing, but reinstated after the close of the
season. Last week he started in a race at
Butte, but was ruled out of the race on
account OF his mixed gait at the conclusion
of the first heat. The race went on, and a
threat was made to tie up the pool-box with
an injunction, but it failed of accomplish
ment. The parties controlling the horse
Faust did not deny the right of the judges
to exclude their horse from the race on &C
count Of his combination gait, for the rule
governing such GASES was too plain before
them. But they commended that, once the
holse was allowed to start in the race, he
should have been allowed to finish it, as the
judges could have seen his faulty gait be-
fore starting. This does not necessarily
follow. A false gated horse might trot
squarely enough in warming up and even
trot two heats ms squarely as old Patchen
or Occident; and then, becoming tired, re-
sort to all sorts Of hoppy-kick tactics to get
duties of judges they are given
certain discretionary powers, and the horses
are exclusively in their custody from the
tins that the bell rings to bring out the
horses till the fiat goes forth from the
stand, announcing the result Of the decid-
horses in the race. These Montana judges
were given no powers that do not, of neces-
sity, belong to the judicial officers Of any
race: and, as they acted we'll within the
significance of a rule that Disseminated in
favor of tho p%ure-gaited horse against the
'skiver,' anything like an injunction
against the booksellers paying off the
money in accordance with the decision of
the judges, would be laughed to scorn. The
rule under which those judges acted is so
plain that a boy 10 years old can interpret
it's significance without much danger of
misconstruction; and the owner Of q
mixed-gaited horse, when he enters his
horse IN the several Glasses to which
he is eligible. does 30 with the
full and complete knowledge that whenever
his animal violates any one Of the rules un-
dor which the race is trotted, he ia liable to
punishment. He takes those chances when
lie enters for the race, and hence he must
not squeal when his medicine is poured out
into the spoon. Those Montana judges are
unfortunate only in the fact that few others
have this courage to initiate them"
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