The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-18
Butte Department.
GOING OF THE FLAG
The Australian Starting Machine Be-
coming Universally Popular.
EXPERIMENTS AT lNGLESIDE
Glencoe, a 1O-Year-Old, Is a
Splinter Not to Be Sneezed at
Pitsburg Phil Goes to Eng
land-Horse Gossip.
EXPERIMENTS AT lNGLESIDE

recently, says the san francisco Ex-
aminer. for while most race-goers are
quick to admit that the device in the
majority of cases beats the red flag
hollow in sending nags away on an
even line, there have been complaints
loud and deep at the number of cattle
which have been left at the post. In
the absence of other explanations peo-
pie have been prone to think that Cald-
well has had his fields all heads and
points on sundry occasions when pull
ing the trigger. and this would seem
to be another argmunet against Mr..
Corrigan's contention that ANY one
can work the gate" When a man like
Caldwell. who has grown gray during
years of flag brandishing, cannot get
the nags just right every time. how on
earth is n tyro at marshaling horses to
make a success with the barrier?
Talking Of the gate, the Australian
Referee just to hand relates an expe-
rience which may be repeated in this
country some day, so that American
jockey clubs would do well to have
rule ready framed to meet the emer-
gency. 1t appears that in the weller
handicap at Canterbury. near Sydney,
on Feb. /, the wind blew the machine
from its fastenings, and the field think
ing IL was an official start set out on
the journey. The starter tried TO call
the horses back, but they went on and
completed the race. The state of af-
fairs was explained and the nags were
sent out to run again. AS luck would
have IL a horse named All There won
on both occasions, so all concerned
were satisfied.
According to the Australian papers
an addition has been made to the gate
which makes ii apparent that 1.-The
man with the white flag" has had. his
day on antipodean race courses. The
new plan is to attach the white flag to
the top of one of the starting machine
posts, the flag disappearing as the
barrier moves mechanically. The in
novation appears to work well and is
likely to be generally adopted.
A sister to Domino in John Clay's
string is. IL anything, too pretty for
real good one. She goes with the same
rubber action of her fast sister, Correc-
ton. She is perfect picture and al
most a model of what a filly should be.
An Arkansas man-Mr. McVeigh-
has an old bush horse at the Little
Rock track who has shown himself ca
pable Of making things mighty inter
esting for some of the sprinters. His
name is Glencoe, and he is 10-year-
old stallion, by The Congressman.
Glencoe has not been seen on any of
Weigh has been taking I'm the county
fairs throughout the Southwest, and
has won a pile of small purses with
him. He is an enormous big fellow,
fine looking. and is now somewhat too
high in flesh, but is being worked and
will be ready to start here. He worked
a half Sunday morning in O:52A, the
fastest time made that day, and could
have gone faster had he been better
ridden. He went the first eighth in -
seconds, after which the boy began
holding him up. At about five furlongs
Glencoe will be hard to beat.
G. z. Smith Pittsburg PhiD sailed
for England Thursday on the White
Star steamer Majestic. The we'll
known turfman intends taking in all
the principal meetings during his stay,
IL the English style of racing and bet
ting suits him.
He remarked yesterday: Il play
horses on public form. by my own
judgment, and what / see of the early
morning work, but as / shall only have
public form TO rely on over there, com
bined with secondhand Information, l
do not think / shall stay long. / may
stop long enough to see the Derby run.
but hardly expect TO be away so long as
that"
ne 1Noth lIdch WIS IdSI tne
other morning and some sensational
work was done. Bill McGuigan was up
bright and early, and had a bunch of
2-year-olds out before the sun was up.
His Pirate of Penzance-Miss Lexing-
ton colt-the one for which he paid the
paltry sum of $35-worked a half in
O:49%. the fastest work ever done by a
PenZance colt. The colt worked by him |
self with a heavy poy-about lis
pounds-up. The fractional time was,
0:23z, 0:37. 0:49A. He ran splendidly I
from start to finish. and was never
urged in the least. This colt is undoubt-
edly one of the fastest in the West, and
II nothing goes amiss with him he will
certainly make things warm in the 3
year-old stakes, in which he is well en-
gagged.
Secretary r. L. Allen of the North
western Breeders association, Saturday
announced the entry list of the seven
stakes which closed on March 3 In
them a total of LAG entries of high-class
harness horses have been received.
There were eight stakes in all closing
on that date. but one. the Champion,
$1,000. for 1898 foals. eligible 10 the 2:2O
class. trotting. did not fill
A careful perusal of the entry list
demonstrates that the best stables in
the country are represented and ample
assurances have been made that they
will all race here for the liberal money
offered by the association. That will
make the meeting fully up TO the stan
dard Of past years All Objectionable
features will be carefully eliminated,
and the meeting conducted strictly ac-
cording TO the present requirements OF
the state laws. as was the case during
last years meeting.
In addition TO the racing features,
Mr.. Allen writes that negotiations are
now pending for the appearance OF
some Of the harness kings and queens
in trials against the watch. Then there
will be the horse show that viii open
the weeks sport and the bicycle exhi-
billions that will close IL, making a
week Of the most varied sport possible. .
OF the stakes that closed on March .
the Juvenile and Hopeful received the
most entries. % each. The Calumet
and Lakeside come next in popularity,
with % each.