The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-10
AT THE DRIVING PARK
And Now the Training Season DraW1th
On ApaCa
SOME REAL CRACKER JACKS
At the MissouIa Track n Number
of Very Fine Horses Are
Chartered Awaiting the
Opening of Spring.

opening OF SpTblEs
MIssoUIA, March 9.-Life at the driv-
ing park is once more IN evidence and the
season of active training is close at hand.
Before the warm sun, the drifts of snow
that have been banked up against tho
high fences at the track, are rapidly dis
appearing and, in few days the harrow
will be put TO work on the oval, to pre-
pare II for the use of the joggers and gal
lopers whose owners and trainers are nm
patiently counting tho days which must
elapse before active training can oegit'
The track association Is sinking Two
large wells just west of the big water
tank that will furnish an abundant water
supply for horsemen who are training at
the track This will DO convenience
that will be appreciated by tho horsemen,
rs they have heretofore been dependent
upon the supply furnished by the Grant
creek ditch, which is not always good
drinking water, especially during the irri-
eating season. The stables and build
inqs of the track, which were thoroughly
overhaued last summer, are in excellent
condition this spring. In n few days tho
Missoula driving park, which is one oil
the favorite training places in the state
will be ready for the real work OF training
and will be busy place.
Higgins Brothers stables is already
comfortably established at the track and
the string of gallopers and joggers that
will represent tho Missoula stable this
season is getting down to hard work. At
present the horses are exercised and
worked on the smooth level road east of
the track, but they will be put on the oval
as soon as the ground is in shape. The
horses are all "very fit" this spring and
take kindly to the work. Trainer Jeiirles
has his hands full now, with the long inc
of flyers that he is fitung for victory, and
every hour that can he used is taken adj
vantage of. The horses that he is work.
ing are the following: Runners-Bll
Howard, St. Croix, Midget, French Lady,
Miss Elm. Jack the Ripper and Alta; trot-
tiers and pacers-Brino Tricks, Antrlma,
Florida and Miss Puff, half sister to
Tylar Thompson's DR.. Puff Mr. Jeffries
is also handling Jack Nelson's colts, Nio-
letta and Donaldson and Olive c, a speedy
youngster from S. l.. Larabie's Willow
Run Stock farm.
Up. McEvoy will work good string at
tho track this spring, having several local
horses in charge in addition to his own
flyers Antioch, Glen Arthur and lrene
l.. have all become familiar figures on
the streets here during the winter and
Missoulians are beginning to take local
pride in the work of these horses. Mr..
McEvoy is handling II. II. Hanson's Chris
Peterson to good advantage and the big
fellow may be expected this season to
show some of the speed of his Bitter Root
sire. He has plenty of bottom and is a
slayer from away back. j. b. Losee's
Dalgamar, the youngster who had some
trouble with his legs last year, is as sound
as a dollar and moves like clockwork
when Mr. McEvoy lets him go some. Hal
Corbett's Emily Marshall and T. A. Dom
kin's 3-year-old Janarac illly are two COM
paratively unknown colts, but they give
promis Sc OF developing speed under Me-
Evoy's skilled hand.
Almost any day now you can SEQ Jim
Carrigan out on the dry country roads,
Jogging DIR. Puff and hardening him up
for his seasons work. The game colt has
been driven ali winter and is in splendid
shape this spring. Nobody blames jim for
prefering to drive the doctor rather than
eat. No finer colt was ever seen in this
town and he promises to be even better as
a 3-year-old than he was in his 2-year-old
form. Nobody knows how fast he can GO,
ms he was never pushed last summer. Mr..
Carrigan also has Hal Corbett, Bay Bird
pacing colt, and Lucine, w. A. Mentrum's
fast one.
Up at Hamilton, the horsemen are in
the midst of their training, having had tho
colts at work on the track for moro than
n week. Bob Smith has as fine a lot of
gallopers as ever moved beneath "A saddle
and he can show you half a dozen or more
Montanans among them. There can never
be more than the one Tammnny, in the
estimation of the men on the Daily ranch,
but there are some mighty likely colts in
the lot that gallops around the track every
morning, under Bob Smiths watchlul
eye. 1t is we'll worth the trip to SEQ these
blue blooded youngsters at their regular
work. They are all race horses from the
ground up.
Ben Kinney has some harness col Is
that are moving we'll, and the speed that
they show would make many an older
horse take the dust. To see Ihe v, airing
and 2-year-old sons and daughters of
Prodigal, Mascot and Mclroi speed
around the standard track like old cam
pa gners, Is a sight never TO be Iorgotteu
Some of them show eighths and gu r ers
that are surprising. They are promis-
ing lot and work ike veterans.
w. A. Mentrum and p. J. McEvoy spen
some time al the Daily ranch this week
and they are as loud IN their praise of I'll,
colts up there a native Bitter Rooicr
They looked At the colts IN tho stables
and on the tracks and both # them sa,
that they never saw finer lot Of colts.
1t is too bad that Keith & Mcleod
Roxy and McEyoy's Irene l.. cannot b,
driven together ali the time. They max
the pretuest aud spccdicst team thar ha
ever been seen IN these parts. They wer
hooked up Friday for "a spin aul ever,
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