The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-14
Butte Department.
TURF AND TURFMEN
Tips and Facts by Horse Authorities
in This Country. No
WINNINGS AND BIG LOSSES
Movements and Plans of Owners
and How They Have succeeded
and Their Chances OF Future
Success on the Track.

The racing season In the East will
be opened this week and with an inter.
mission of 10 days will be continued
until late in the fall. The first meet.
ing is at Washington, under the new
management. and judging from the
list of entries for the stakes and the
people interested there should be better
sport than has ever been seen at the
capital The Blemton string is ready
at the track and Henry of Navarro
Dorian, keenan,, Hastings, and the lot
of 2-year-olds seem to be in good con-
dition. Other stables will go there in
short time. and when the racing sea-
son begins ii is probable that the ac-
commodations of the course will be
tested. The Washington handicap is
the first stake to be run off and al
though Henry of Navarro will not
start, there should be a good race.
Each day thereafter a stake will be
contested and the meeting will come
TO close on May 2. Morris Park will
then be opened. followed by Gravesend
Coney Island, Aqueduct, Brighton
Beach, Coney Island again, Gravesend
and Morris Park to close the season.
From all the stables there are re-
ports of great trials by 2-year-olds. but
until they have been tried in a race
little knowledge can be gained of this
years CROP as trials count for but little
when II comes to racing, says the
Sporting News. Almost every trainer
has a world beaten and some, there
fore. are likely to be disappointed when
their charges come to sport silk Some
of the get of the great race horse,
Tammany, will be seen for the first
time. and their work will be watched
with interest as he was such a high
class animal. Other stations will be
represented for the first time and the
guessing is good this year.
The best racing of the year should
come from the 3-year-olds, for the
cracks of last season are all in good
condition and there are several with
old scores to settle. AS has frequent
ly been the case. the richest stake for
this class will not have them all the
Realization having a good lot i'm,
though Handspring and Ben Brush are
missing, and the Tidal has neither Re
quital nor Ben Brush. This will take
away some of the interest although
there are plenty of good ones left.
Reports from New York are to the
effect that Clifford is looking better
than ever this spring and will be a
hard horse TO beat in the early handi- !
caps. AS 1t now is, he is about the
only horse in the East to make any
claim TO class, with the exception OF !
Henry of Navarro. His throat trouble |
has disappeared and his cure Is on a /
line with that of Longstreet At one
time the latter was supposed to be a 4
roarer, but one or two races late in the |
fall at Gutenberg cured him. Last
season Clifford showed two great es-
sentials to class-speed and the ability
TO pick up weight. However, he has
Z hfaxH flyf.
Sir Walter is showing all OF his old
form In his early spring work. Yet IL
must be admitted that his form has
never been of the first-class He is the
horse which misses being of the first
rank and yet has no marks Of a selling
platter. He could always make a good.
game race. but seldom good enough to
win in good company. However. he is
In the Eastern handicaps with light
weight. and may prove the surprise
party.
The handicaps are. as usual, the. most
spoken of now and the speculation
about the Metropolitan, to be run Nav |
y, Is confined to the owners. The
Brooklyn and Suburban have a differ |
ent rank and the books have been omen
Tor some time. In the Brooklyn.
Henry Of Navarro is. of course, the
faVorite and even at this early date no
better than to l can be had against
him. In the Suburban he is quoted
even higher, for 2Is to l is about the
best given. Clifford is next in favor
NJ to ! and to respectively. These
,dds are little short of ridiculous. as
he possibility of non-starting is an
important factor and the bookmakers
'eem TO have much the best of IL in
very way. Sir Walter, that sterling
horse. who has got the place many
lines I'm big races. is third choice. while
Sankipoo. Keenan,. Counter Tenor and
dalma follow about equal choices.
Riley Grammar was In Memphis last
week. He said that the story tele
'raphed from Little Rock about him
having made killing on Charley Pat
erson's Suisun last week was a fake.
lie did not bet on the colt and his book
Won only $l39 on the race.
James Rowe expects that One Love
Viii prove the best 3-year-old fiIly seen
n many years. She has improved fully
= much as Requital and grown and
lied out so that she is now a fine ,
boxing race mare.
With the downfall of Chorn racing
oses a jockey who might have haan |
ne of the very best on the turf His
areer In the saddle appeared pecuIIar :
those who watched him closely. AT ;
INES they Were willing TO swear that :
e had no superior. but at other times !
hey were forced to revise this opinion
hen he rode some inexplicably had
aces Now that IL has been shown a
lat ne was utterly and boldly crooked 4
ANY OF his bad performances can be
lotted out 50 far as they affected his
al ability. In many. IL not ali. in
-ances they can be attributed TO his
esire not TO win instead of TO lack OF
bility. In his good races Chorn show
skill that could not be mistaken n