The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-02
Butte Department.
GYPSY GIRL DID IT
She Made Three ghths Of a Mile
Record in Anaconda.
A COLUMN OF HORSE TALK
In Regard to Training 2-Year-Olds
Certain Betting Features Inter-
dicted-Crannan the Sport
A Bookmaker's Tip
A COLUMN OF HORSE TALK


F, In the running race records pub
lished yesterday Gypsy Girls three
Fights mile in 0:34, which equals the
worlds record. was omitted. She made
1t at Anaconda in the summer of 1892.
II seems that various other owners
who campaign racing stables of trot-
tiers and PAGERS are coming to c. j..
Hamhn's way Of thinking about the
effect sof training 2-year-olds. When
the interdict against the training OF
colts and filaies went forth at Village
farm there were in its paddocks faster
and more promising youngsters than
had ever before been taken up and
broken by its trainers. which fact. Of
course. lent force to Mr.. Hamfin's con-
tention. Now comes the report that
Monroe Salisbury will campaign no
more 2-year-olds. 1t has been said.
however. that the Village farm string
of 1896 will contain a few 2-year-olds;
so 1t would seem that Mr. Hamlin has
changed his mind somewhat of late.
With this precedent to go by, II may
safely be ASSUMED that IL there are ANY
more D1rectlys dn the paddocks at
Pleasanton about May next, they will
come east ready for battle with all
corners. The man who owned a sturdy
colt as fast as the little black son of
the little black rascal. and would not
campaign him. should be turned over
to the commissioners for examination
as to his sanity.
A yearling ally by imp. Great Tom,
out of Drift, by Enquirer, has been
highly tried this fall and found lack
ing in nothing. She is the property OF
Mora Sharpe, whose purpose Is to race
her next year and retire her to the stud
In her third year.
Men who loudly predicted last spring
that the anti-gambhng laws would
bring ruin to both the racing business
and the horse-breeding industry. find
themselves now facing an unexpected
condition of affairs. Enforcement of
the law, II is true. has pretty effect
ually squelched such tracks as depend
ed for support upon the income from
the bookmakers' fees and the gate pat
ronage of bettors and. as the sport had
degenerated 30 that nearly every track
in the country was run on this basis,
the situation may look rather dark to
the superficial observer. In many parts
of the country racing with betting feat
pres has ben interdicted altogether; In
other parts IL Is conducted under ever
narrowing restrictions. while only IN
anu IDe oOuLn are the man
ayers allowed to run wide open. De-
spite this. however, thoroughbreds are
selling for high prices. and there Is a
growing inclination on the part OF
wealthy turfmen to increase and
strengthen their stables. Certainly the
horse industry must be In pretty good
shape when colts like Requital sell for
$4,000, and yearlings bring $1,000 or
more under the hammer. while. as for
the raising end of the business, there
must be something encouraging in
sight to induce men to keep up expens-
i've establishments and enter into keen
competition for the best bred and most
promising of the youngsters offered in
the market. And this situation is made
the more emphatic by the fact that
there ds absolutely no demand for trot-
ting, road or work horses, and the
prices for these grades are lower than
ever before heard of. In only one way
can this be explained. and that Is on
the hypothesis that turfmen have con-
fidence In the future of the sport, and
see in the prospective much fame and
dig pecuniary gains for those who own
and race winners.
Probably the best advertised man in
the world OF sport to-day Is Riley
Grammar, the young plunger, who Is
known IN every betting ring in the
United States. He has at different
times been accredited with winning
sufficient ITO pay the national debt CT
the United States. and with losing
enough to deplete the Bank of England
reserve. Out here in the wild and wool
1y West we have been inclined to be-
aieve q good deal of 1t, too, but I notice
that prominent eastern sport critic
ansinuates that a good deal of Gran
mans betting is done for the purpose
of influencing the odds, and that the
bulk of the big wagers he is a party to
are never heard of after they are re-
corded.
That bool1makers occasionally do re-
sort to little subterfuges for the pur-
pose of influencing betting is not the
closest kind OF a secret, and while an
instance i have in my mind Is a trffie
Moray with age. II will bear recapitu-
lating. II was at Bay District, Just
three weeks ago. when a certain rag
named Jim Corbett was a pronounced
outsider In a six-furlong race
Here. Charlie" said a well known
penciler TO a friend, make a few small
bets on Corbett. No one is backing
him."
Charlie sauntered away while the
booklets head was turned and placed
three five-dollar pieces at 100 to l in
different parts Of the ring. The bookie
noticed this and hurriedly beckoned to
him.
What are you doing. Charlie?"
Doing what you told me to; playing
Corbett."
But. bless my soul: I meant in my
book. j wanted you to boost him."
Anyhow, Corbett won and the sport
ing Jots told next day how the shrewd
penciler won 81 500 on the outsider.
To-Day at San Francisco.
Following are entries and weights for
to-day's races at San Francisco: First
race. eleven-sixteenths OF a mile. SELL
ing-Elsie. Ida H., NicNac. virgie A.