The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-18

Gay s races ne WOulu go east Dy tne
next train. He hardly knew a winner
yesterday. Babe Murphy alone cost
him $1,000.
The sensation of the past week was
the announcement in leading con-
temporary of the sale of the champion
trotter Alix, 2:3A. to a prominent Wall
street operator, who recently bought
the ex-champion PAGER Mascot, 2:04.
The Mercury promptly contradicted
the story. as in an interview with a re-
porter of this paper Monroe Salisbury.
who was at the Hoffman house, stated
that the mare was still in his hands,
and that with the champion gelding
Azote. 2:04A, she would be shipped
west on Saturday or Sunday.
Where there Is so much smoke there
must be little fire. There is no doubt
that Mr.. Salisbury was willing to sell
the peerless mare, and that so far as
he was concerned the sale was practi-
cally completed, but he lost sight of
the fact that he only owned a half-in-
terest in her, and that Morris Jones of
Red Oak, Iowa, owns the other half.
To have the queen of the trotting turf
in his broodmare list when his racing
days are over is no doubt Mr.. Jones
ambition. and he probably put a per-
emptory veto on the sale.
Monroe Salisbury is one of the most
romantic figures on the trotting turf.
He is a typical western speculator He
has touched the $5,000,0 900 mark and he
has touched zero. He made a great
fortune freighting on the overland
route, lost money building railroads,
sunk fortune in copper, and then for
several years conducted the most phe-
nomenally successful stables ever seen
on the trotting turf.
Last year the luck turned and the
stable lost heavily, and though il was
no secret that the master of Pleason-
ton looked upon the ex-champion pac-
ing stallion Direct, 2:0515, as the apple
of his eye, he decided to sell him. his
colts and fillies, and practically go out
of the breeding business. When he
brought this stock east he stopped at
Lincoln, Neb., and took on Alix and
Azote. intending to drop the two cham
pions at Chicago. where Trainer Nc
Henry. who will probably drive them
next season. would take them in
charge.
But when the stable got to Chicago
there was a wild and woolly west storm
on, the streets were sheets of ice and
snow. and Mr. Salisbury wisely de-
cided to keep the champions in their
warm car and bring them on to New
York.
His many friends will watch with in
tNiC7A Niit VI Is. McDOn-
aid in Europe. He is one of the most
popular and successful trainers and
drivers OF the empire state. and has for
years made Buffalo his headquarters.
lie has made an engagement with
Henry Fleischman of Berlin, Germany.
TO train and drive his stable, which in
cludes such good ones as Favora.
2:12lA; Shadeland Delmonia. 2:15Ik:
Miss Bowerman. 2:21A, and a lot OF
other fast trotters. Mcdonald took
over fast 3-year-old of his own by
Patchen Wilkes. dam by Almonarch.
Louisville, KY, will hold a trotting
meeting of the first rank ON Sept 2S to
Oct. IL. with a programme of $40. 600
This meeting will be the week before
Lexington's, which will last two weeks.
with bill of fare which will foot up
TO 100000. Nashville will follow with
a one weeks meeting, and a $4,000
card so that the four weeks sport
VIII foot up to sl50.0O0 This will bring
the season up to Nov. and will be a
brilliant wind-up for the year. 1t Is
safe to say that some records will
drop.-New York Mercury.