The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-02
Butte Department.
TURF AND TURFMEN
Tips and Facts by Horse AuthOri-
ties 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.
Harry Stone, a well-known trainer and
driver, who has had horses on the Mon
tana track. leaves for Great Falls to-day.
Harry is a good man in his business. and
is a valuable acquisition to the horseme1
of Great Falls. and If he locates there
will surely do we'll
Sutton the full brother of Dlggs, pur-
chased some months since by Hankins IL
johnson, the Chicago turfmen, was ship
ped east on Saturday in charge of Louis
Ezell. Sutton has been in charge of Galen
Brown, who speaks very highly of the
youngsters work.
II. NJ Ripley, a well-known gentleman
rider of London, England, is believed TO
be dying as a result Of Banquet III. fall
ing upon him at the first hurdle at the
great Sandown hurdle race at Sandown
park last Saturday. Banquet III. is owned
by Captain Aiken, but was formerly the
property of Michael Il. Dwyer OF New
York.
a special to a Chicago paper reads: NJ.
Doyle has declined an offer of $1,000. the
largest made in Kentucky this season for
a yearlng, for the colt by Imported Or
der. out of the dam OF Sister Mary. The
tender came from a California turfman.
The San Francisco Examiner says:
'Racing in the Montana circuit promises
TO be unusually interesting this year.
The ups and downs of sporting life are
probably illustrated more forciby in the
racing line than any others. Visitors to
the Gravesend track who go by the way
of the trolley are often piloted there by
the once crack cross-country Jock"
Charlie Post, who Is motorman on the
Flatbush avenue line.
brother to Diablo 2:09A. owned at
lakewood Park Stock farm. California. is
said TO be quite as promising as his re-
nowned brother.
A practical test of a new plan of d.
viding money will be made a Red oak,
Iowa, and Lincoln. Neb., next June. The
associations at these points offer four
purses of 5000 each for 3-year-old trotters
and for PAGERS of the same age. the
portions of $500. and every heat TO be con-
sidered finished race. The sums of $500
will be divided into the usual four mon
eys, and awarded by the judges at the
conclusion of each heat. the same as is
now the custom at the finish of a race.
Jockeys should be made to ride their
horses out for the show. There is a big
bulk OF public money played on horses TO
run third, and often by careless riding
Jockeys burn IL up. When they see they
can't win they drop back in the rut and
allow horses TO get the show who do not
figure. Hence form students are Begin
ming to hesitate about placing their mon
ey far out on the board. A few words of
caution from the judges will stop their
careless work
Duke & Wishard's Ramapo is entered i'm
the Newmarket handicap TO be run at the
second spring meeting. on May u. and
in the Manchester cup. at Manchester,
Whitsuntide meeting.
johannesburg, in the Transvaal South
Africa, was little heard of before Or
jim began his famous march, says the
New York Mercury. Yet Il IS distinctly
sporting town. Gambling Of the fercest
description is carried on. Every one in
the place has an interest in racing. and
about every man. woman and child has
small stake on the result.
The betting at the race track Is small
compared TO that which takes place on
the outside. In the Standard and Dig
gers News, which is styled the author
lied government gazette for Witwaters-
rand. of Feb. S. appears an announcement
OF monster sweeps on the johannesburg
Autumn handicap. to be run April 1.
The sweeps are advertised at 100000
or half a million doallars. There are two
at quarter of a million each.
The way these sweeps are worked is af-
ter the manner Of a lottery. There are
so many entries I'm race. Tickets in the
sweeps cost a pound. or s..
few days before the race drawing
takes place in which there are a certain
number Of tickets bearing the name of
horse Other tickets are blank The mon
ey is divided with percentage less 10 per
cent, to the company conducting the
sweeps.
Every man holding ticket on any
starter I'm a race gets part OF the money.
but the exact value OF the ticket is not
known until the race has been run. For
instance. in the ordinary sweepstakes OF
s250,OOO there were 100 tickets drawn. each
on the first. second and third horses.
IL IS a practical lottery. the result Of the
race deciding the winners OF the prizes.
Frequently auction sales are held at
which holders Of tickets on starters dis
pose OF their chances.
McNaughton & Muir have sold the 4
year-old colt Basso TO John Flynn, a Ca
madam. for $500. after he won race at
Newport last Wednesday.
According TO a San Francisco paper Ed
Corrigan now has the exclusive right to
operate starting machines on all the race
tracks in the United States. Mr.. Corrigan
owns the Gray patent. which was in
vented in Australia. and got out letters
patent on Il in the United States as soon
as he had bought the right II appears
that a man named Forbes got out a pat
ent on a starting machine some time ago
but had never put the machine into prac-
teal operation. Mr.. Corrigan has just
bought all the rights OF the Forbes pat