The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-04-20
OF HORSEMEN
N HORSES.

DR.. HasbYouch will DO ready to race worry
early this yeAr.
Morris Park IN. W may be reached BY
trolley oars this year.
b. q. Holly thinks Sir Francis should
win the American derby. $
All three Of the judges At tho current San
Francisco meeting arc newspaper mon.
r. J. Dwyer's Reclare Is coming around
all right. and at present docs not 90 al all
lame.
Tho proposed changes in tho standard
rule for %trottets will not take effect until
can. l. 1896.
KEPT, b. b.. five years, holds tho French
lsottinQ record for native horses, made in q
Voo-mile race at 2:3O11.
Walter Maben. who drove STEAMBOAT. will
Srain for j. b.. butcher 81 Son, Pawling. N.
T., this season.
Dance. has foaled a colt to LonRfellow. and
so a full brother to Riley.
Tho st. Louis Jockey club nnd tho East
st. Louis Jockey club will both commence
their meetings on April 20.
Simeon q. Reed has bred Tho entire lot
of two-year-old hllies that he bought last
year 40 yearlinRs. without an exception.
Billy Button. 2:1SA. now 10 years old.
has won thirty-Ave races and 10S heats in
2:3O or better during his twelve years ON the
turf.
jackson I. Case. tho owner Of Hickory
Grove stock farm, Racine, Wis. has been
reelected for q third time a. mayor of that
city.
The fastest three ~trotters the get Of any
one sire are Sunol, 2:08l4; Palo Alto,
2:Oss4. and Arion. 2:1Oh, all by Elec-
tioneer.
It is reported that Garfield park will bc
opened May |: The track 10 being kept
grounds.
The death Of Lobasco. whose 2:1Os4 is the
best in a race for Il trotting stallion. is q
big loss to J. G. Ladd. of Beatrice. Neb..
who owned him.
Lucky Baldwin is said to have a great lot
Ut two.year-olds. by Cheviot, Of whom much
is expected. One of the best is a bay Ally.
out of Atlanta II.
The spring meeting Of the Washington
Jockey club. which begins on April q. will
last twelve days. There are now at the
track more than 15O horses.
stricken with analysis the beginning OF
last week. He has now recovered sufh-
oiently to be around again.
Charles l.. Railey. the we'll. known sad
die horse dealer. has purchased from Mrs.
Lexington rss,s1 K9., fos s sl.ooo. '"'"' As''
William T.. (sire Of Axtell. 2:12). by
George Wilkes. dam Ladv Bunker, by
Mambrino Patchen. will be trained and
csmpaigned during the coming season.
George Iugraham Seney. a great lover Of
the trotting horse, and who once owned an
extensive breeding stud located at Ber-
nardsville, N. j., died in New York last
week.
j. j. McCafferty feels confident that he
has a very great chance for the American
derby with Hugh Penny: Some recent
trials have shown that the Luke Black
Ir-o Cn11iNr u;j1 ba Nh1o IN akav Tho din.
tance.
A. M. McAllister. owner OF Redina, was
ruled off at New Orleans for using thrent-
ening language against Sheridan Clark.
clerk of the scales. II seems McAlHster
threatened to kill him II he ever caught
him in Cincinnati.
PERCY Taylor's imported Ally Coliseum
died at Garfield Park. Chicago. last week.
She was by Ossian, winner of the ST. LeRer.
out of Coiumbine. who won many races.
She cost So, 500 as q twO-vear-old, and was
very highly tried before lenvinR England.
The McCafferty string will be split up at
the close of the Memphis meeting. a por-
tion going" to Nashville and the rest to st.
Louis. Among the latter contingent will
be Helen Nichols. This FLY ia in great
Hampden park announces four Ruaran-
teed stakes, to be trotted at its August
meeting. The first is $4,000. for 1929 class;
the second is $1,000, for 2:40 two-year-olds;
the third is 81, 500, for $50 three-year-olds;
and the fourth is 81, 800, for 2:25 four-vear-
olds.
The famous English JOCKEY, j. Watts.
who was under contract to ride for the late
Abingdon Baird. having. become released
BY the latter's death, has now signed q
three years. contract to ride for Sir John
Bluudel Mapes for q retainer of $4,000 per
year.
Anumber Of stations that are making a
senson in California this spring will be
trained later in the year. Among these are
Racine. Flambeau. Peel. Geoffrey and the
" Australian horses, Loyalist and Mer-
rive. Flambeau, it is thought. will stand
q preparation.
Manager, 2:09M, Nutwood's fastest pacing
son, will be in Doble's stables soon. That
will make seven horses there whose time is
between eo4 and 2;13]44, as follows: Nancy
2:O8sl; Manager. 2:0994; Denmarch, 2:1l15;
Axtell, 2:12. and Rsina. 2:131aa.
G. l.. Fair is in Chicago, and has brought
to that point ton horses In training. These
Floodeate and Dare. 70 El Rey. the two
year-old full brother to 70 Tambien; Glib
son, Princess. three. by imp. Cheviot, dam
Music, and some two-yoar-olds.
One of the fastest races ever run in Eng
land was that of %Juvenal. who won the
Nottingham Spring handicap on March q
last, he going the mile in 1888 1-h. Juvennl
is q four-year-old, and carried 100 pounds.
The only horse which holds a better record
for a mile is Bendigo, who, in 1856. won the
Lincolnshire handicap at a mile in 1886 4-5.
with III pounds up. He was the five yea,s
old.
From California ZONE reliable reports of
the fine younQster Yo Ell Rev. the 1927, 600
brother TO Yo Tambien, who worked half a
mile at Sacramento recently in fifty Sec
onds over a heavy track, with his head
pulled around to his side. On the same
day Flood Gate outran Dare three-quarters
easily. doing the distance in 1:19. Among
the fllies in the Fair stable. Ella Lewis is
said to bo the most promising. Richard
Harvey will start east with the string in
about two weeks.
A embarrassing track adapted for
winter work has been invented in Australia
by H.. Byron Moore. secretary OF the Vic
toria Racing club. The track itself ia com.
posed of Trinidad asphalt. tar, tan and
some other substances. and when 10 be used
has a coating of tan laid on the top of il.