The Helena independent., 1892-08-14
TIE MONTANA HORSE.

RI vi THE MONTANA dOHSE. J. -.."
The mines Of Montana first gave this
country reputation in Europe which
is destined to be sustained by the Mon
tana horse. The London Daily Tele-
graph Of July 20 devotes an editorial OF
more than a column, evidently from the
hand of it's gifted editor, George Angus
tus Sala, to the development OF speed IN
horses in this country. 1t takes for it's
text the announcement of Marcus DAILY s
latest purchase in England and says:
Few are aware that the American word
"ranch," which recalls many sad memories
to English. and still more to Scotch invest
ors, is derived from the Spanish rancho ~
which means comrsdcship, or good-fsllow-
shin. We learn that Mr.. Marcus DAILY pro-
poses to send the magnificent thoroughbred
yearling which he bought last week at New
market. to bis ranch or stud farm. in the
Bitter Root Valley, in Montana. The Amer
loan purchaser, who had the courage to give
four thousand one hundred guineas for Mr..
Brodrick Cloete's colt by Hampton, is the
impersonation of that od-fellowship
which, as a ranch owner. he might be OK
pected to represent. Little cause Is there
for wonder that the United States should
be regarded with affection and gratitude
by the sons and daughters of Erin's isle.
It ia in the northwest of the American
union that such Irishmen rs Messrs. Mac
KAY. Fair, Flood, OBrien and Marcus
DAILY accumulated fortunes so vast that Dr..
Johnson's description of Mr.. Thrsle's
brewery as yielding ''potentalities of
wealth beyond tho dreams of avarice"
sinks into insignifioance by their side.
Like all Irishmen, MIR. Daily is keen
sportsman, and holds horses in the highest
respect and honor. Within the last five
years he is reported to have spent mo Q than
. million dollars in the purchase Of thor
ouRhbreds, and the spectacle presented by
his ranch in the Bitter Root Mountains is
said to be ''sicht for sair Gen." rs a
Scotchman would put it. He is at this
moment the owner of two of tho best race
horses in the United States, named Mon
tana and Tammany, and the recent success
of the former for the City and Suburban
stakes, which in the American phrase, he
''captured" at Shespshead Bay. in the state
of New York, was the signal for as hearty a
burst of cheering as that which saluted the
Duke of Westminster and his ropular
trainer, John Porter, when Orme won the
Eclipse stake at Sandown rark on Friday
last. For Mr.. Marcus DAILY is known to bs
what his compatriots call "a whole-souled
man." who spends his money with OPEN
handed generosity, and. as Juvenal has it,
does not care to pinch and make himself
miserable in order to leave an immense
fortune behind him for Others to enjoy.
The Telegraph evidently has keen
eye on Mr. DAILY and his raids on the
old world for fast horseflesh. 1t thinks
it was great day for English raisers Of
thoroughbreds when Salvador, of Eng
lish stock, covered mile in one minute
thirty-dvehnd half seconds, and ecipsed
all recordsin the old world or IN Australia.
"The feetness of Salvator,' says the
Telegraph, "has made those Americans
half mad to acquire more and more of
England's best thoroughbred blood and
the depression among those owners of
unsold yearlings, who, during the two
July meetings at Newmarket, could not
SOo a cAt loA tAOlL lolo, WOuld bo SUN
deeper had not Mr.. Marcus Daily dis
PEELED the gloom by showing that money
will not stop an American when he
wants to buy" But still the Telegraph
marvels greatly at these Americans and
their ways. 1t says: "It is curious to
read that among the wild mountains of
state which yesterday was the camp
ing ground of red Indians, buffaloes
and grizzlies, an English colt, which
cost almost as much as the United
States gave for the whole territory of
Montana-lf, indeed, they gave any
thing at all--will soon find his perma
nent home, in that clear and elastic
atmosphere, 1000 feet above the sea-level
where roaring and diseases of the
respiratory organs are unknown"
Ihe Telegraph will open its eyes still
wider when Marcus Daily sends to Eng
land some of his Montana bred horses
to kick the dust in the eyes of their
English cousins. That is what we are
coming to at no distant day