The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-10
Suite Department.
BUTTE And ANACONDA
Manager Upton Writes an Open Let
ter to Horse Owners.
SEWN WEEKS OF RACING
ether Meetings VIII Be Held In
ontana Helena's Dates Are
Aug. 1o to 2e-Marcus L aly's
String Turf Notes.
SEWN WEEKS OF RACING

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Ed A. Upton, manager of the Butte
and Anaconda tracks, has sent the fol-
lowing open letter to the different horse
papers and owners of racing stock:
Your attention is respectfully called
to the race meetings, under my man.
sgement, the coming season, at Ana
conda and Butte, Montana, three
weeks (June 30 to July 49, at the form
err, and four weeks July 20 to Aug 15)
at the latter, with a ship of only q
miles between them. Liberal purses,
! and, probably, stakes will be an
nounced, and the programme so ar
ranged that a horse eligible can be
raced at least once a week during the
two meetings.
I'm Montana the laws are liberal and
the people lovers of sport Of all kinds.
especially racing. At both Anaconda
and Butte business of all kinds is ex
cellent, and their prosperous people
know but little of the depression now
affecting almost every part of our
country. The races, therefore. promise
to be well attended. and the bettings
heavy-heavy enough, in my opinion, to
enable an owner who backs his horses
to win more money than he can win ON
any other circuit of seven weeks dura-
ton. Helena's dates are Aug. 10 to 20.
Otner meetings IN MOnIdnd Will more
than likely follow Butte. At the close
of these meetings horses can be
shipped east and trotted and raced
through the months of September and
October at the very best meetings In
the middle and western states. and at
the great meetings in Louisville, Lex
ington and Nashville.
81 trust you will give this matter your
consideration and conclude to enter in
these races, and be at Lexington, KY,
in October. If you expect to be with
us in Montana, please write me imme-
diately what classes will best suit your
horses"
Billy Randall will have a string on
the Montana circuit this season.
Bob Smith was in town yesterday
and says he will have a strong stable
this year.
Matt Byrnes has arrived at Sleeps
head Bay from Monmouth Park with
the Marcus DAILY string, says the New
York Mercury, all of which look
healthy and as forward as any horses
1 have seen this season.
Primrose ii. has fined down into quite
a good looking horse.
Senator Grady looks more like a race
horse than he did three months ago
when he was loaded with beef. This
short-legged, old-fashioned sort, who is
now a gelding, is not much to look at
but should he show up again in his .
year-old form, his chances of putting
one of the great handicaps to his cred
IL would be great.
Hamilton IL. has furnished as much
as could be expected for one of mis-
type, and is a lengthy, bloodlike, high
class looking colt. He is one that is
r1lx t.a oh ole IN
the best of this year. as for some
reason or other he went off all Of
sudden just prior to the Futurity. and
never showed up in public within 20
pounds of his real form.
Silver II. does not appear TO have
grown much taller, but he is a rare
stamp of a short-legged weight carrier.
Del Paso H., who is full brother to
Ludwig, is of a different type TO his
elder brother, being a bit on the legey
order. He stands close TO 1868 hands,
and, although not muscular horse. he
has filled out and furnished consider
ably during the winter months. lie will
do to bear in mind in some stake event
where he will have all the allowances.
Butte, 3-year-old imported bay colt,
by Hampton-Buttermer was not
handled last fall. In color he rs a hay,
with black legs. He is bloollike and
high looking colt, with lots of
substance, and II he does not race he
will belle his looks.
The following are the 2-year-olds:
Chestnut colt, by Iroquois-f5namei;
Devils Dream, b (, by Chitabob-Tem-
pc; Catch Fly, CHI Z, by Inver1ess-Fly
High; Mistral H., CHI C, by Floraatine
imp. Close the Door; Cockern 1hy, oh
T. by Friar's Balsam-imp. Irony: bay
filly, by Salvator-Firenze; che smut
colt. by Salvator-imp. Oran, by Bend
Or; brown colt, by Maxim-Donnella;
chestnut colt, by Salvator-Miss Wood
ford; bay filly, by Salvator-reacher.
and bay filly. by Maxim-P-ecicsa.
These youngsters are OF good aver
age size, and there are several in the
lot that look good enough TO he first
class, and in the hands of this past
master in all pertaining to The art of
developing a young racehorse they will
get every chance to show their rettle.
April 4, in the palatial breeding es-
Establishment of j. Malcolm Forbes in
Milton Mass, there came into the
world during the forenoon hours a
brown filly which by birthright should
make the fastest trotting mare in the
world.
The parents of this little FLY are no
less than the renowned mare Nancy
Hanks, with a record of 2:04, and the
equally famous stallion Arion, with a
record of 2:07%. This is a combination
which Mr.. Forbes has sought for a long
time, and which was the end he had
in view when he acquired Nancy Hanks
and Arion over a year ago.
The fact that this combination gives
the fastest possible average speed to
this youngster makes the advent OF the
flly of greatest interest to lovers OF
speedy horsefiesh all over the country.
Dr. Osgood OF the Harvard veterinary
school attended the great Nancy off,
/, cially. His report TO the anxious own
er last night was conveyed in the regu-
lation phrase, Both mother and child