The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-03
Butte Department.
TALK OF THE TURF
What the Year 1896 Will See in the
Horse World.
SOME PROMISING COLTS
A Spring Meeting at the Old Ben
nings Track-The Hamiins Are
Building the Latest Thing
In Horse Cars.
SOME PROMISING COLTS

kins. 1O9; Lorenza H., 107.
Second race, seven-eighths of a mile
-Welterweights, Lonnie B., III; San
Marcus, los; Morven, Bernardo, Craw-
ford, Jim Corbett. 1923; Pearson, los;
Hanford, 120; Artemus. 120; Billy Nc
Closkey, los.
Third race, handicap, mile and
quarter-Claudius, no; Sir Walter. 30;
Del Norte. 1O2; @. B. Morris, 90; San
tiago. "a.
Fourth race, one mile-1mp Ivy. 80;
Heartsease, 80: Santiago, 104; Ike L..
Raindrop. los; Polaski. 1903; Lucretia
Borfia, IS.
Fifth race, three-fourths of a mile
Alihaba, 70 FL Rey, 100; Seaspray. 1903;
Catch EN-, 81; Imp Utter. Kathleen,
Quirt, 90; Minnie l.. McLight, Main
stay, Remus, log.
Weather clear; track fast.
Laurel, 2:osA by Brown Hal, a:121k.
will be bred in the spring to Thistle.
2:13A.
1t Is said that an offer of $4,000 was
recently made for Geneva, 2:11h. and
refused.
Alcidalia, 2:15x, by Sir Walter. Jr..
2:1sH, was bred by Col. w. A. Tower,
Lexington, Mass.
DR.. kirkland. Creemore, Ont, has
lost by death from Inflammation the
stallion McMurtry.
Hope that a limited racing law may
yet be passed in New Jersey early next
year has again revived.
Guaranteed stakes worth $4,000 are
offered by the Brooklyn jockey club
for the spring meeting OF 1896.
Artillery 2:21h. is this year repre-
2:12h, Vernon, 2:20. and Archie, 2:231h.
1t Is related that william Simpson
has just refused a second liberal offer
made by European fanciers for
Bouncer.
w. r. Janvier has sold to III. Fleisch-
mann the Melrose mare, Florence
Jones She was shipped to Europe
Immediately after changing hands.
"Oh. you may produce decisions to
prove anything. but to say a horse race
IL q lottery is a misuse of the English
language;"-Judge Ingraham.
John Sheridan. the Toronto, Ont,
dealer, who bought Altoneer from DR..
McCully, has shipped 421 horses to
England during the year now nearly
expired.
The Pine stud was incorporated at
Albany. N. Y. Dec. IL, for the purpose
or breeding and dealing in horses at
White Plains. N. Y. Capital stock,
1t is now claimed that Wild Hunts
man, after having been spotted by the
Latonia judges, was successfully
rung at the st. Asaph meeting under
the name OF FOLK owens.
A number of yearlings and brood
mares. mostly disappointment of Eng
lish importation. the property of
Messrs. Morris and wyndham. were
sold during the Pimlico meeting at
Baltimore by public auction. and
Drought very low prices. Several
mares brought but s25, and a yearling
py the great English sire Sheen, out of
Ermine. sold for $40. His sire's fee is
1000. 70
the Gogebic PAGER, Afrite, 2;OsIS
goes into winter quarters with prob
ably the best racing record of the
year. He started in II races, and was
first ia times and second twice
8. s. Rowland is authority for the
statement that a spring meeting will
be held at the old Bennings track.
Fear Washington, ID. c. Last fall
Messrs. Belmont and Rowland OBJ
tanned control of a majority of the
stock in the Washington Jockey club.
and IL was expected that something
would have TO be done by them before
this. The announcement that racing
is TO be revived at the national capt.
tai only came a day or two ago The
spring meeting of 1896 will be the first
held in several years on the Bennings
property.
Edward Willets & Son, Rosyln, L. l.,
are shaping up a whole string of ISL
and Wilkes colts to campaign next
season. Island Wilkes has a record of
2:13%. and is out of a mare with three
in the 2:20 list. and has proved con-
clusively that he can sire speed of a
high order. The proof of the pudding
is in the eating. and those who know
the colts are confident that the string
will be cut next year.
IL Is more than likely that Detroit
will be the leading market for Ten
nessee bred yearlings in the future.
Several thoroughbred breeders have
announced their intentions of selling
at Detroit next year. The city of
straits is destined to take a very high
place among American cities where
racing is the favorite sport of the peo-
pie.
John A. Goldsmith is buried in the
Blooming Grove cemetery. Washing
tonville, ". Y. Goldsmiths of four
succeeding generations have found
their last resting place In that quiet
spot.
II the style and substance of the
colts sired by Alcandre previous to his
expatriation may be taken as ex-
amples of the family he is to found in
Austria nc will prove a bargain to his
purchasers
Colonel Pease, woonsocket, r. l., has
leased the driving park in that city for
one year from Jan. 1, 1896. with the
privilege OF extending the lease for
four years more. Consideration, 81, 600
annually.
Ambulator. the 3-year-old pacing son
of Ambassador. holds the 3-year-old-
pacing five-heat record over a half
mile track. His mark is 2:l6%, and a
gamer colt never looked through a
bride.
c. ]. & H Hamlin have let the con-
tract for the construction of the mos
approved horse car ever built. II is &c
4 be ready by the beginning of mex
June, and the Village farm horses viii
be shipped in IL from town to town.
fa.sA statistician figures out that dur
ing the seasons of 1894 and 1895 jos
Patchen took part in &C. heats. o.