The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-22
MISSOULA'S PADD0CKS
Racers From Everywhere Being Quar-
tered at the Track
SHOULD BEAGoOD MEETING
Trying to Arrange Dates Between
Those of Portland and Ana
conda-Bicvcle VS.. Trotter
the Event for May 1.

MrssouLA, April 2l.-With colts making
quarters in 35 to 80 seconds at this time OF
year and old campaigners hitting Oft the
back stretch at a swifter clip than that on
their workouts. there is no disputiug the
fact that Missouia is a great place for the
early training of horses. The animals now
ut the track are improving rapidly in form
and some of them are already fit for
race. Ii has been great horse weather for
week and the trainers have improved 1t,
as ca n be seen by visit to the track any
morning while the horses are being
worked out. No prettier sight can be
witnessed than these flyers at their exer-
else, and the crowd of morning visitors at
the track is getting larger every day. Such
prominent horsemen as Juige Reeves,
Tylar Thompson, Gust Moser, Frank Hig-
gins. w. A. Mentrum and others are regu-
lar in their attendance and manifest
lively interest in the trial spins of the
flyers. The grand stand has been well
populated every morning for week and
there have been numerous watches held
on the horses as they have been sent
along for quarters and halves.
Local horsemen express themselves as
confident that there will be the usual ex-
They have received, they say, reliable in
formation that good meetings will be held
at the leading tracks in the state. A strong
effort will be made to give good meet
ing here, TO be held between the Portland
and Anaconda races, and horsemen say
that they already have assurances of
enough money to insure the success of the
meeting. There may be some hitch when
il comes to raising the money, but the
present prospects are good. Missouia
certainly ought to hold a meeting. The
local track is an excellent one and good
meeting would advertise its superiority as
a training place and would bring here
every winter several good stables that
would take advantage of the early season
TO get their horses In shape. Whatever
money the town subscribes to race
meeting would seem to be n good invests
ment. The opinion that there will be
circuit in the state this year was greatly
strengthened by the statements made by
w. L. Sullivan, the veteran turfman who
was here last week in the interests of
Ayers & CO., the pool sellers. Mr.. Sulli-
van stated that he had good reasons for
believing that the racing in Montana this
year would be better than ever before
and that meetings would be held at the
usual places.
Mr.. Sullivan, in speaking of the Cali
fornia stables, said that they are I'M
usually good this year and that the horses
that will be sent out from there to the
tracks IN the Northwest will be, as a
whole, the best lot that has ever repre-
sented the Golden Gate at outside meet
ings. He stated further that he ha1 found
a better class of horses at all of the west
ern tracks outside of California tina n has
been seen in the West for years, and he
felt sure that race-goers would see this
year some of the best sport that has ever
been Witnessed on any track.
There was received at the track last
night an important addition to the horses
in training. in the arrival of the stable of
Trainer MCGOWAN of Orleans, Neb. The
string consists of six trotters, headed by
Delbert, q handsome 3-year-old, with a
race record of 2:2l and separate mark
of 2:l5. Delbert is by Gameleon, dam
Atlanta by Attorney. With Delbert is
Galtama (0,a full brother to the 3-year-
old, and Eva Brown, who has a 2-year-old
mark of 1886. The others are all likely
youngsters and all are comfortably quar-
tered at the track. where they are resting
from their long journey. 1t is a source of
much satisfaction that such n fine lot of
horses as these will train in Missoula. II
Delbert fulfils the expectations of his
friends, he will materially lower his rec
ord here and will add to the reputation of
the local track.
Taken altogether, there is now as fine a
lot of 3-year-olds ut the track as can bo
found anywhere. DIR. Puff, Glen Arthur
and Delbert form n triumvirate, whose
reputation is already established. They
are known to be fast and are expected to
be faster this year than last. The con-
verting of Glen Arthur to q PAGER re-
moves him from the rivalry that will
exist between DIR. Puff and Delbert, but
he is likely TO find plenty to do IL he
beats Hal Corbett, the Bay Bird PAGER
that James Carrigan is working. This
colt is comparatively unknown, but he is
wonderfully speedy fellow and, having
been roaded all winter, is in prime condi-
ton this spring. He promises to be in
the front rank and his bay nose is liable
80 be dangerously close to the nervy little
iron gray when they meet.
Trainer Carrigan has his string quar-.
tered at the track now. having moved out
week ago. DIR. Puff. Lucien. Hal Cor
bett and TO Long make a string that is
hard to beat. They are all Bay Bird
youngsters and all bid fair to reach the
mark set by DIR. Puff last year. Every
one of them is In fine form and their
work comes easy TO them. They have
not been given quite such fast work yet
as some OF the other stables have had,
but they are coming up TO IL all right and
their present pace is very gratifying 10
their owners and friends.
George Ayres has not yet fully recov-
q f.no h he
being loaded for shipment from Deer
T1HUa haf his L. Il A.. a.