The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-21
RACING IN THE EAST
A Pennsylvania HOrSeman Takes
PeSSimiStic View of II.
MARES AS RECORD HOLDERS
There Are 20 Entries to the Sub
urban Handicap of 1890, and
Include a Grand Lot of Trav-
eIers-At Coney island.

c. F. Predmore, a well-known Pitts
burg horseman. takes a very pessimis-
tic view of racing in the East this year
He says that If the laws in Pennsylva-
mia would permit betting, he knows OF
two men that would put up 100000 for
a first-class track in Pittsburg. II that
be the case that law must be repealed.
Dubois Bros are busy nowadays
sampling the Superior 2-year-olds. and
overseeing the jogging Of Carbonate,
Sulphide and other good ones. Umba,
with a 3-year-old record of 3:24A, has
been put to pacing and is extremely
promising. Sulphide is growing and
filling out, and If nothing happens will
jolt the 3-year-old pacing record off its
pedestal.
Trainer ]. II. Young will have a strong
and promising string OF Axtells this
year. and expects to be in front more
frequently than he was in 1895. In ad-
dition to those good ones Praytell. AK
telloid and Axmaid, he will have a 3
and 4-year-old that could both beat 2:20
last fall.
Knapsack Mccarthy has entered into
an engagement to drive the horses of
William Kelly, New York, during the
are Dan Cupid. 2:091a; Ernsie, 2:16ls;
Jane. 2:13h; Charles Greene, 2:19h
Ferguson. 2:25A; u. S. Bond, fast but
erratio PAGER Annie Mace, by Robert
McGregor, and others. 1t is supposed
that Frank Agan and one or two 9TH
ers of the Hubinger horses will be in
the stable.
Since 1s45, so years ago. Is trotters
ri a mr. record
never once has a stallion worn the
crown. Eight mares and seven geld
ings IL the division, and since 1880
ma es have monopolized the distnc-
ton. with the exception of the one
short day that Jay-Eye-See was cham
pion. To-day the fastest trotting rec
ord. 2:03%, is held by a mare, the next,
2:ol. is held by another mare, the
third. 2:04%, is a gelding's, and the
next, 2:05A, is held by a stallion.
Here are 20 entries to the suburban
handicap of 1896 They are: Henry Of
Navarro, Dorian, Keenan,, Handspring
Flora Thornton, Senator Grady, Prim-
rose, Bright Phoebus, Lazzarone, Nan
XII Pooh, Halma, Connoisseur. Saragos-
sa, Vinctor, Dutch Skater, Domino
King Arthur H., Hornpipe, Emma c.,
Sir Walter. Lake Shore, Belmar, Cliff
ford. Counter Tenor, Stephen j.. The
Commoner, Stowaway and Claudius
This list includes all of the best of the
old lot we had racing last year. and
the entry of Domino would seem to con-
tradict both the stories that have lately
been afloat concerning him. to-wit, that
he was In the stud I'm Kentucky soiling
down TO cover mares, and that his feet
were so bad he would never race again.
Halma was about the best 3-year-old
we had in the West last year. and
Bright Phoebus. IL we take the form OF
the Realization as correct, about the
best in the East, but perhaps neither
OF them can win the big handicap
From the entries IL looks as If the West
had a better chance of winning the
handicap than ever before. 1t was
thought that, i'm view of the very few
horses we have up to good handicap
form in the all-aged division, a lot of
3-year-olds might be entered but they
seem to be as scarce as usual, IL not
more so. The Handicapped has a fairly
hard task ahead of him. but not quite
so hard as he had in some former years
for all the old cracks came together last
season. 1t will be interesting, how
ever. to note whate weight Is assigned
10 Domino. II he is handicapped on
his best form he must get i'm tolerably
close to the top; whereas. il he Is
weighted I'm accordance with some form
he showed last season, he will get i'm at
about 16 pounds. Then a howl would
go up that he was pitchforked into
the handicap, and he might run away
with the money. But then. again. ne
might not. especially over the mile and
quarter of ground
The entries to the different stakes OF
the Coney Island Jockey club, which
closed Jan. l, are plentiful considering
all things. In the Futurity of 1905 SS5
subscriptions are made; TO the Tidal OF
1897, 10; TO the Suburban of 1896. 2s; TO
the June handicap, 81; Grass inaugur-
al. 10; Swift. "a; Spendthrift. %: Foam
II; Great Trial, ZIG; Double Event
los; Zephyr. IS: Spring. IS; June. N,
Surf, IS; Vernal. 50; Daisy, "A: Pansy.
90; september. Is; Great Eastern, 40:
Autumn, SIS; Flatbush. 80. This show
ing Is very good indeed, though not
near so large as i'm former years. II
must be that there are fewer horses I'm
training than there were some time
ago.