The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-07

| ezuelan AFFAIR, the poor owner can have
| no cause to complain. especially as In
the latter country stakes worth as high
| as $4,000 are on offer. and the quality
| of the horses such that one of our SELL
| ing platers would be a way up up top
| per.
The westchester stake programme
will when issued be pleasing to owners
as the stakes for 2-year-olds will range
in value from $1,000 up to $4,000.
Nelly McGregor, 2:14, Montrose, 2:1S.
and HOUR. 2:17. are all in foal to Arion.
2:o7%.
George Engman says he is going TO
sell the Brighton Beach racing prop
erty.
Pittsburg Phil. Riley Grammar, Nose
| Gunst, Adolph Spreckels. Jim Flood.
| George Wheelock and various others of
the same stamp, are making IT warm
at times for the bookmakers doing bus
| mess on the San Francisco tracks.
The most valuable races on the Eng
lish turf this year were the Sandowne
park eclipse stakes worth $46, $50, won
by the French colt, lie Justicier; the
Prince OF Wales stakes, worth $44,975.
won by lie Var. and the Jockey club
| cldhcSt WOTIu Sf4,SOU, WOn ny LdNtnO
Howard Philips lately returned from
France, will take back with him high
| class trott1ng stallion and a few mares
TO replenish Gordon Benefits stable.
| 1t Is possible that Mr.. Bennett may
start a breeding farm In France before
very long.
At the Navarro cafe, Lexington, met
last week the directors of the Kentucky
association of trotting horse breeders.
| They selected the dates of October 6
| to 16 inclusive. for their 1896 meeting,
which they intend to make the great
est in the history of their society. The
| subject OF opening another Kentucky
| futurity for 1896 was discussed and 1t
was decided to continue the stake for
| another year under the former condi-
tons. entries to close March Is. The
general sense of the meeting was that
| the programme of 1895 should be closely
copied in 1Ss6.-Horseman.
Altolxa g yrs.) 2:27A. by Allerton.
2:09A. The above is the best 3-year-
old in Dawson county, Montana, and
| in the opinion of many good judges
few, If his equal, have yet been foaled.
AS a 2-year-old his handling was very
Indifferent, starting only once, at Butte,
Mont, and was a close third in a field
by DIR. Puff in 2:2sA. a 2-year-old
owned in Missoula. DR.. Puff was by
Bay Bird, who is also a son of Jay
Bird, the sire of Allerton, 2:09A. DR..
| Puff's dam is Kate Wilkes, by George
| Wilkes. DR.. Puff secured a record of
/ 2:16A the past season in California as
a 3-year-old. Altoka, who is by Aller-
ton, 2:09A. is by Jay Bird, who is one
| of the best sons of George Wilkes, is
an inbred, tracing to Jay Bird through
both sire and dam. His dam, Atoka,
| who is a great brood mare, Is also
daughter of Jay Bird. Attention was
| first called to Jay Bird as a sire, when
his son, Eagle Bird, appeared on the
turf and took a record of 2:3014 as a 2
year-old and beat some of the best
| colts of his age, including Baron
wilkes. Charley Wilkes. Carlisle. and
others.
The horse that brought the greatest
fame to the Jay Bird family was that
| iron-sided caTnpaigner, Allerton, 2:09A.
| The Jay Birds have two prominent
| characteristics. so prominent that they
| stand conspicuously to the fore. These
| are gameness and capacity to train on.
| Nearly every one of Jay Birds get ex-
| emplify these characteristics, notably
Allerton and Eagle Bird. Allerton, the
sire of Altoka, was campaigned as
2-year-old. winning every race but one
that he started in that season. and as
| a 3-year-old took a record of 2:1Sh,
| and II is the opinion Of horsemen that
Altoka would have done even better.
as a 3-year-old, but for a bit of Ill luck
and temporary lameness, as at Ana
| conda, the past season, when he Sc
cured his record of 2:27A early in Au-
gust, he showed a half mile in 1:06, a
| 2:12 clip.
Allerton has 10 to his credit In the
2:30 list. Though his stud career is of
a recent date other sons of Jay Bird
are string speed sufficient to prove that
his grandsons will also breed on.
Altoka will make a short season in
the stud after which he will be cam
paigned. His fee is put at $50. and for
| such a great colt this Is very reason
! able.
/ believe that a stallion should come
| from a lengthy line Of blood that has
produced a high rate of speed with uni
| formity; also that a stallion should
himself be a performer or. II unframed.
should show ability TO move fast 1
also believe that a stallion should be
constitutionally sound and of sound
ancestry to transmit the racing and
rtaining-on qualities. Atoka, with
only one seasons training, has the
speed instinct fully alive in him, and is
| an inbred Wilkes. He has an unusual
concentration of tried blood through
sire and dam, as tested blood is bound
| to reproduce itself In one way or an
other. While Allerton. the sire of AL
| toka. has 10 representatives in the 2:30
| list. II should not be forgotten that he
| is a young sire with quite a number of
| his get yet to be brought out. They
perform early and realize for their
owners, and owing 10 the purity of
their gait, give little trouble for their
| trainers. IL.