The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-07
Race rack and
Stable Gossip

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Recreation has apparently recovered
from her dangerous sickness of last
summer and is now taking steady
work. This fine daughter Of Morello
was easily the best 2-year-old in Cali
fornia last spring and may again be
able to assert her supremacy.
Two or three Of the smaller 2-year-old
stakes at Brighton Beach are to be
dropped next year. Stakes for older
horses will be substituted, and the
value Of the Brighton cup will be in
creased. 1t is the ambition of the man
agement of the track by the sea to pro-
mote long distance racing.
The Bright Phoebus weanlings at
Walter Hobarts breeding farm near
San Mateo are said to resemble the
Realization winner
There Is one horse in the McCafferty
string at New Orleans that win not be
sent to the post and is not expected to
Win a dollar. yet he is welcome to all he
can eat, and the best stall In the barn.
This IL old Buroh, the first thorough
bred that John McCafferty ever owned.
Four years ago the old fellow was
sent to a farm near New York city,
and il was arranged that he should end
his days there. For two or three years
Burch received the care that his owner
cheerfully paid for, then his landlord
grew careless and when McCafferty
found that the old horse was being
neglected he had him sent 10 where the
stable was then racing. and since then
the old fellow has been carried around
the country,.so that his owner can see
him every day and know that he is be-
ing properly cared for.
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Chicago, during the meetings of 1887,
1855, and 1889, will easily remember
Burch. The bookmakers doing business
at those meetings viii recall the first
killing made by McCafferty, when he
touched up the betting ring for a good
many thousand dollars with this same
old fellow now living on a pension.
Such creditabIe turf historians as AL
Taylor. John Roche and Tim Mccall in
discussing this same old horse, Burch,
a couple of weeks ago in Chicago,
agreed that II took McCafferty an en-
tire week 10 collect his winnings when
he made his KILN with Burch, and
the amount Won was variously esti
mated from "a whole bunch to more
money than a mule could pull ON a
down grade asphalt pavement" Hay-
Ing been 50 fortunate with a race horse,
IT is quite natural that his owner
should feel kindly toward him. 1t Is
something out of the ordinary, however.
fer an owner to go beyond kindly
feeling for l1-year-old race horse,
and carry the old fellow around the
country, SO as to know that he receives
all the care that can be given.
How Bureh Won. and in winning laid
the foundation of Johnny McCaffertys
success. Is best told in the Georgian S
own language:
Il had met him in race down at
Latonia said MeCafferty, and he
failed to get a place. George Hankins
mare Hnntress. Won IL and the show
money that | WAS playing FOR was Won
by Bonnie King Then | went up TO
Chicago and bet n bit OF money on the
old fellow and he and | got left at the
post. OF course, | felt pretty sore. but
! waited until ! had him in a seven
furlang race With Fan King Every
body from Evanston To Englewood that
knew anything about horses. said il was
a sure thing for Fan King. and the
hooks him him at | to ;, while there
WIS 10 or IL tn / against Rurch. | had
a Texas friend of mine up in the bet
ting ring playing all the money | could
raise on the old fellow. and | was down
below the grand stand waiting for the
call to 20 to the post Down from the
direction af the betting ring came one
Of those gallus-looking crap-shooting
coons, and lust as he WAS opposite
where ! WAS standing watching old
Rnrch walking around under a blanket.
he met a black boy coming up from the
stables. Go on up there. boy, an get
your checks down on Fan King. said
the Colorado maduro coon. Not for my
money said the black boy No Fan
King for me. fuh listen to me an Ill
tell you all about dis race fore 1t been
run. First yuh hear de bell go b-r-r-h:
den dey all say, Look al dat Fan
King. What did | tell YOU? At de
quarter Fan King by four lengths an
hot sports lonkin' araun' to see Who dey
Will ask 10 join EN- in a small bottle
At De half. Fan King by two lengths.
an everybody jollyin' derselxes. sayin'
dat he's just playin' with those dogs.
In dc stretch by a length. an folks
snappin, off der fingers an gaspin'
Come on, sweet Fan King. BE true to
me. Fan King. Den comes ole Bnreh
up alongside an he say, Good eNenin'
Mr. Fan King. Where you all think
you're gnin'9. An Fan King he say.
Why. howdy. MIR. Burch. | amt goin'
10 place IN particular just peramhn-
latin roun' for de air. Den Rurch he
say. Well. seuse me II | leave You
abruptly. Mistah Fan King. hut I'm
sahleeged 10 hurry II the wire. kase
Massa McGaHefty and Mistah Jack
Howard done eNpectin me home.
After the race had been run and
won. said MIR NcGafferty. 4 could not
have given a better description of IL
than WAS given before Ne Went To the
post by that black stable boy. and SO
long as I have the lueIe aid Burch Is
sure Of good home. "- Exchange.
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