The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-26
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.


The road race at the local track Sun
day was a hot one. In the first heat,
Jonathan Blake's Ranchero Frank won
first place, w. j. Cox's Monte Cristo
second and Norman Charles Black Cy-
clone third. Nellie s., Billy Patterson,
were distanced. The second heat re-
suited same as the first Five hundred
people saw the race and whooped and
howled as the horses made the finish.
There will be another race Sunday, In
which some new horses will start
A Lexington dispatch says: Yo Tam
bien is dead. She was brought to Nc
Grathiana two months ago and bred to
Hanover, and yesterday afternoon.
while romping in the paddock with
Hessie, w. H. Laudeman's mare, she
ran against the fence and the end of
rail penetrated her abdomen, entering
on the right side. near the fourth rib
and, piercing the diaphragm, punctur-
ed the bowels She lived fifteen min
utes.
Yo Tambien's triumphs on the turf
are fresh In the minds OF horsemen,
she having raced until last season,
when Chris Smith, her owner, conclud-
ed to place her in the stud, where he
hoped she would achieve fame equal to
her dam. Marian. the producer of more
fast-class horses than any other mare
on the American continent.
Admirers of Handspring and Hast
ings are already discussing the pros
poets OF another meeting. Both colts
are engaged in the Belmont stakes, to
be run off at Morris Park June 2, the
closing day of the present spring meet
10 hn araIxr stnly
they can try conclusions in before the
Brooklyn and Coney Island meetings.
The distance of the Belmont is one mile
and three furlongs, just three furlongs
greater than the Withers.
In the event of Handspring going to
the post in the Belmont, he would be
obliged to shoulder 125 pounds AS he
Is in the Brooklyn handicap at the
comfortable impost of 1903 pounds Mr..
Dwyer may elect to reserve his colt for
battle royal with the older cham
pions. The Belmont is the only re-
naming stake engagement Handspring
has at Morris Park. They are handi-
caps The first is the Pocantlco, May
rs. at mile and a furlong. over the
hill. and the second the Toboggan, MAY
30. down the hill. the Eclipse course
six furlongs.
1t may be that the OWNERS of race
horses to-day are not as liberal as
were those of a decade ago; or again
II may be that old Pooh Bah Harcourt's
Increase In the income tax has brought
about a more general observation of the
discreet policy OF silence; but one thing
Is certain-one no longer hears OF the
humping presents to jockeys that so
frequently formed the topic of racing
mems conversation in the latter half of
the eighties Ii is doubtless all for the
best and yet, with story at the bot
tom OF my inkpot, the point of which is
perhaps the first liberal douceur that
Fred Archer ever received, II would be
not Inappropriate to resurrect Watts
Merry Hampton thousand. Woods
Sandiway" monkey, or even the level
hundred that the Duke OF Portland
gave George Barrett for reducing him
self to ride Langwell I'm the Stewards
Cup. But I'm not going to do It,
twenty or y years ago on a bright
and glorious sunny afternoon, and the
CHEEKY old racecoure at Yarmouth they
were weighing out the jockeys who
were TO ride the many starters In the
Norfolk and Suffolk handicap. 1t may
be question for my friend, Spencer
Brown, to settle, whether the race had
advanced or declined in the affection of
the neighboring farmers, for whose
horses the vent was originally framed,
but | should think IL was fully as pop
ular as ever IL was. on this occasion
there was a biggish field, and still. at
least, one great raking steed, fully
qualified TO run, was being led round
and round the paddock with but little
prospect OF running. Her name was
Big Jemima.
She was little bit rough. but a
striking mare, and her name was Big
Jemima.
Her owner, a brusque and burly
farmer. stood with hat in one hand
and big cotton handkerchief in the
other, hopping the beads OF perspira-
tion from his notified forehead. 1t was
rather the sweat of veNation and anNi-
ETY. than of undue exertion, for the fact
was that, second to none as Ee consid-
cred his mare. he couldn't get a Jockey
for love or money. Fred and Harry
Jeffery. Constable Morley, Wood
Morris, Parry-all were engaged, nor
was there 80 much as an apprentice
hanging about the dressing room. II
was at this juncture that the clerk OF
the scales came up and heard of the
old fellows dilemma. The official
glanced at his card, and mentally ran
over the list OF available horsemen. An
inspiration occurred to him
where's that apprentice OF Mat
Dawson's?" he said. Whats the boys
name?-oh, Archer. That's it-now,
he's a likely lad; why not get Archer"
The proposal was not entirely cheer
ing TO the old man. but he had no
choice, and I'm rather a lugubrious
frame OF mind he sought the tail. lanky
lad with the cynical countenance who
had been pointed out To him in the pad
dock. The boy smiled amusedly as the
farmer showed him the mare. rough in
her coat. indifferently groomed, and
with little but her size to recommend
her. Archer eyed her up and down, and
seemed in no hurry to weigh out TIL
the old fellow wound up a warm eulo-
GUM on his steed with:
.Xell. theer she Is an II YOU win on