The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-24
Butte Department.
METROPOLITAN FIRST
1t Will Precede the Brooklyn Handi.
cap this Year.
STABLE LADS AS STUDENTS
The Morris Racing Confederation
VIII Employ an instructor for
the Boys-Fred Foster Denies
Reports In Circulation.


Reports In Circulation.
Owing to the fact that the meeting
of the Westchester Racing association
will precede that of the Brooklyn
Jockey club, the Brooklyn handicap
will not be the first important event of
the season as in past years, the Metro
politan taking its place. Therefore, the
Brooklyn Jockey club has decided to
penalize the winner of the Metropolitan
as follows: IF handicapped in the
Brooklyn at 125 pounds, or over, to
carry pounds extra, If under 125
pounds. pounds extra"
Hinde & Baker, South Elkhorn, KY,
have sold to Senator O'Brien. Still
water. Mich, a yearling bay colt by
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by Stratford-
BY and BY, by Bonnie Scotland, ETC..
for 81 600
1t is a good plan, a mighty good plan,
this latest of the Morris racing confed-
Grafton, TO offer its stable lads a chance
to obtain something of an education
while at the same time earning their
living in the saddle and around the
stables. Messrs. Morris have engaged
a young lady to instruct the boys in
the "rudiments of education" other
wise known as 1.-THE three RS" and as
the school has been in full blast for
more than couple of weeks and the
boys are still eagerly taking advantage
of the opportunity to learn something,
the venture may be set down as a COM
plete success. Harry Griffin, in his
Guttenburg days, once attended night
school, and the smattering of knowl-
edge he picked up there stood him in
good stead when he had a better chance
Harry Griffin before them 1t is not hard
to coax youngsters, however wild, to
try to study a little every evening, for
ii is the dream of every exercise lad to
become some day great Jockey. The
man who gives the boys a chance" is
always doing well and deserving of
credit for the same.
Entries to the stakes offered by the
new Memphis Jockey club for the
spring meeting, which begins April O.
are coming in rapidly. 1t will be sew
eral days before the list will be COM
plete, as all entries made by owners in
California and other distant points
have yet to come. From those already
at hand the outlook for the spring
meeting is most favorable. Up 10 to-
night the entries to the several stakes
were as follows: CASTOR Hotel stakes,
81; Lassie stakes. So; Bramble stakes,
20; Arlington Hotel stakes, 20; Luehr-
man Hotel stakes. 46; Tennessee oaks,
81: Tennessee Brewing company
stakes, 81; Peabody Hotel handicap, As:
Montgomery handicap, 40; Tennessee
derby (lS9O, 113.
The second installment of $40 due on
entries made last year, for horses en-
tered in the Tennessee derby of 1896,
has materially reduced the number OF
eligible starters Outside of Ed Corri-
gan, Green b. Morris. Galen Brown
and the Santa Anita stable, all of whom
are in California, and yet to be heard
from, Fl have paid their second en-
trance money. Those who paid the Sec
ond installment of $40 think they have
a chance to win the richest stake of the
Memphis meeting, with its $1,000 guar
anteed.
Among those still eligible to start in
the Tennessee derby are: King WILL
lam. Captive, Ben Elder. Lady Inez, Sir 4
Play. Sallie Cliquot. Beau Ideal and
Frontier These do not include any OF |
the 10 entries made by Ed Corrigan, at
least three of whom will be sent to the
post. as they have all shown stake form
In races recently run at San Francisco |
Fred Foster, who claims to be the ex- |
owner of that celebrated thoroughbred /
DR.. Rice, makes most emphatic denial .
OF the report that the wilmer of '94s
Brooklyn handicap has been outlawed
In the first place he denies that he
owns the horse. His brother, Matthew
Foster is. according to Fred. the sole
and proper owner of DR. Rice. Second 4
~, Fred Foster insists that neither Sec I
rotary Il. c. Hopper of Latonia or any
other racing official has rejected the
horses entry, save the secretary of the
Gravesend track. and that refusal was
que 10 the entry coming in one day
after the stakes closed
DR.. Rice is celebrated horse. and
the rejection of his entry would mean
a great deal. There is no doubt i'm the
world that the sale OF the horse by Fred
roster TO his brother would hold water
In any court in America. Mat Foster
has the bill of sale in his possession for
the horses DR.. Rice, Eloroy and Sull-
ross, sold by Fred Foster to George and
Matthew Foster for a consideration OF
$4,000 The document is all right.
and all the lawyers in South Dakota
could not find a flaw i'm IT, In the eve
OF the law Fred Foster does not own
Dr. Rice. But then the eve of the law
and the optics o. the Turf congress
magnates have their own different and
peculiar methods of looking at things
especially such things as bills of sale
for crack race horses from owners con-
nected with outlawed tracks 10 their
nearest and best friends.
The apprehended action Of Secretary
Hopper in refusing the entry OF DR.
Rice amounts 10 this much. Hitherto
y mas been the invariable custom OF
the Turf congress TO conform 10 the
letter of the law in such cases. When
horses entry was challenged on the
ground of his real owner being an ont
law. bill of sale. often fictitious. was
accepted as conclusive proof OF the
morse ehgiDility. If Mat Foster pre-
sents his bill Of sale TO the secretary
" the Turf congress. and IL that gen
leman while acknowledging it's entire
egality refuses, for good and sufficient
'easons, 10 accept the entry, il will
show that the Turf congress is deter
mined TO enforce the spirit OF the law
Ind TO cease accepting the letter there
D.. In other words. il the Turf con-
yress. while lacking positive proof. is
'aisfied that the DIR. Rice bill OF sale.