The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-16
Butte Department.
TURF AND TURFMEN
Tips and Facts BY Horse Authorities
in This Country.

in This Country.
WINNINGS AND BIG LOSSES
Movements and Plans of Owners
and How They Have Succeeded
and Their Chances of Future
Success on the Track.
In Russia recently the two-mile rec
ord was reduced by the bay horse Pol
kan to 1850. The purse was $4,000, and
the previous record was 4:59h.
Kansas City is determined to have a
big lot of choice PAGERS at its next
horse show, as 1t has hung up a prize
of $1,000 in gold for sidewheelers to be
shown in harness.
Minnehafa, one of the great brood
mares of the age died recently at the
ripe age of IS at the farm of her own
ers, L. !. Rose. at Los Angeles, Cal
The Rhode Island State fair will be
held at Narrangansett park, Provi-
dence on Sept. z to IL. and the special
programme of stakes and purses will
foot up close to $4,000.
The San Ginsto purse for 1898, one of
the best trotting futurity events in
Italy. has filled remarkably well. Fiji
teen entries have been sent from Amer
lea, the nominations being w. II. jan
vier OF New York, Rumble & White Of
Danbury, Conn.,, and b. j. Tracy of
Lexington, KY.
The Pennsylvania and New York
trotting circuit was formed at Scran-
ton, Pa, on April 10. The associations
and dates are as follows Allentown,
June to IL; Bethlehem, June 16 to 10;
Scranton, June 22 to rs. and Bingham
ton, July / to 4. J. Roth is the presi-
dent of the circuit and II. A. German
of Bthlehem. Pa, is the secretary.
Three well-known trotting sires have
recently gone over to the great ma
jority. DIR. Herr, by Mambrino Patch
en-. dam Forest Telltato, by Edwin
Forest, died at Paris, Ill. He was %
years of age. Abdallah Mambrino. foal-
ed in 1870. died at Danville. KY, the
property OF f. ID. Falconer. and at
Comstocks, N. Y, Bona Eide, foaled
also in 1870, has passed away. He was
by the great sire of trotters, Rysdky's
Hambletonian. All three were pro-
ducers of speed, though none of them
were in the first rank.
The latest idea with the view of
making trotting races shorter has been
evolved by Palmer S. Clark of Red
Oak. Ia, an old newspaper man, and
now secretary of the trotting associa-
ton of that place. He offers two purses
of 5000 each. There will be three heats
20 each race and each heat will be
looked upon as a race, and 5000, or one
third of the purse will be divided In the
m n hn hfo Il.
decided. The same will be done in the
next two heats. Under this system 1t
will be impossible to lay mp heats, and
a 'man who wants to win first money
must get to the front and keep there.
Higgins & Co. of Baltimore writes
the Mercury: I'VE have accepted a
commission on DIR. Rice. 81. 500 to $50.
to win the Brooklyn handicap, and ne
gotiations are now pending with
view to filling us up"
Ida Pickwick is doing well at the
Louisville track, and her legs are APP
parently I'm good shape. Charles
Hughes has her I'm charge. and is hand
ling her carefully with announcement
that she will be herself again this
season.
f. Simms of Paris, KY. has bought
at private SAFE OF fQ 1OTIlkan, the
stallion Isaac Murphy. Isaac Murphy
was foaled in 1882. and is by Virgil
Mary Howard dam of Pearl jennings
etc.). He was a stake winner himself
and with very limited opportunities I'm
his brief stud career has sired such
stake winners as Joe Murphy. winner
of the Melbourne stakes and holder OF
the two and one-eighth miles record;
Kitty Scott, Emma and Kowalsky.
Everything by him which have been
trained were winners.
"Curley" Browns starting machine
will be given a trial at Bennngs, as
well as that controlled by Sullivan &
Clarke. Browns machine was the one
used by Fitzgerald at New Orleans.
and those who saw IL claimed that IL
worked satisfactorily. though there
were one or two bad starts the fault
of which is laid at the door of Fitz-
gerald. There is no doubt. however.
that the jockeys were as much to
blame as Fitzgerald. Willie Ham
claims that he can beat this machine
by watching the movement of the start
er when the horses are all well lined
Willie was always good at getting
away, but It seems to be a pretty hard
matter to beat a machine.
Leo Swatts. as clever a bookmaker
as ever marked a slate. is just $4,000
loser by mis- trip to the coast. much of
which undoubtedly found its way TO
Chinatown. Eddie Marks. a prominent
and wealthy bookmaker Of New York
was interested in Swatts' book and
Lew Morris also had an Interest
Swatts is an excellent card player, and
has been winning large sums at his ia
vorite pastime, which more than or
set his share of the losses I'm the book.
Morris has been very successful with
his wagers on the outside. so that up
TO date Mark, the third partner OF the
book. is the only loser by the Pacific
coast transaction.
Oakley's big $4,000 Derby will be run
of on May 20. The entries for this
grand event are high class and the
Derby will undoubtedly be one of the
greatest that has ever been run in the
West. The Oaks will be run on June
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