The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-07
Race rack and
Stable Gossip

Entries for to-day's races at Oak
land:
First race, three and half furlongs,
for year-olds-Prince VIII, Clarendo,
La Condisa, 102; Gold Scratch, The Mil
Ter, lO2; Rainer Amoltopec Buena Ven
tura, 107; E-Come, 100; Master Buck,
no.
Second race, three-quarters of a mile
The Dipper, SO; Appreciation. a. Mel
yin Burnham, loS, sybaris, INDIAN, 1o7;
Third race. mile and q half, handi-
cap-Marplot, So; Claudiana SIS; Los
Prietos. so; Collins, 100: Wheel of For
tune, 1913; Judge Denny, 1O5; Garland
Barr, 106.
Fourth race. the Follansbee handi-
cap, seven-eighths of a mile-Imperl-
Gus, 80; Blarney Stone. IS; Official, Col
onel Dan, IS; HohenZollern, George NIL
Ter, Torsion, 100; Summer Time. 1O5,
Paul Griggs, 107: Flash Light, Kamsln,
los; The Swain. 115; Traverser, 116;
Buck Massie, 124; Ruinart, 126.
Fifth race, mile and a sixteenth
Harry Thoburn, 101; Osric H., Mercutio
104; Cabrillo, Judge Denny, 1906
Sixth race. five and half furlongs-
Highland Ball, 9S; Attainment, 1903;
Florimel, los; Lone Princess Monitor,
10; Woodford Filly, Napamax, III:
Midas, .11S: Ed Garland H., Rio FRO,
lis; AL Koran, Herfnoso, 11S; / Don't
Know, 100; Koenigen, SLY, 1874; Lucky
Dan, 1856 Lolo, 12s. (The Dipper and
Appreciation, Purser's entry: Colonel
Dan and Traverser, b. & W. entry.)
Raining: track muddy.
Form of to-day's races at Oak
land:
First race-Buena Ventura, Clarendo,
Gold Scratch.
Second race-Sybaris, INDIAN, Ca
tawba.
Third race-Collins. Judge Denny,
Garland Barr, Wheel of Fortune.
Fourth race-B. & w. entry, Paul
Griggs, George Miller
Fifth race-Judge Denny, Harry Tho
burn, Osric
Sixth race-Woodford Filly, Napa-
max, Ed Garland.
A colt from whom great things are
is Cherry Pit, by Eolus. out
of Cerise, and. consequently, "A full
brother to the great Morello Cherry
Pit is owned by r. W. Walden & Son.
who have also a full brother to Russell
and full brother to Gibraltar in their
string of dozen 2-year-olds. Gibral-
tar viii be G. G. Maflitt's standard
bearer at the Fair Grounds track and
is by Stonehenge, out Of that good mare
Chemise.
Ed Tipton's proposition to match the
half dozen 2-year-old trotters by Prodi-
gal against the get of any other trot-
ting sire for $4,000 a side has led to talk
about n sweepstakes race for the get Of
named stations. Upton says he will
enter Prodigal in Il race of this kind
for 900 a corner, up or down" His
idea is for several breeders to nominate
their horses. each breeder contributing
say $1,000 to the pot. the payment of
hi
such nominated sires. eligible to com
pete in the race when say years old
short time before the date of the race
each nomnator would be required to
name the starter chosen to represent
his horse in the contest. and pay in an
other $1,000. This plan would insure
a rich plum of something like 500 900
to be trotted for If 10 or more breeders
could be induced to enter. The owners
of such trotting stations as Baron
Wilkes, 2:1S; Arion, 2:07A: Kremlin
2;07% STEAMBOAT, 2:0712 Allie Wilkes
2:15' Delmarch. 2:111a: Direct, 2:051a:
Prodigal, 2:16; Onward. 2:251s, Patchen
Wilkes, 2:29h Chimes, 230&; Athe
to Arion, 2:07A). and others
would be relied on to make up the
sweepstakes All of these horses are
owned by wealthy breeders. such
race" said Upton, would do the horse
breeding interest more good than all
the other colt races that will be trotted
IN the next three years"
w. f.. ID. Stokes, the owner of On !
ward and Patchen Wilkes. asked Tip |
ton last Saturday whether his chal- |
enge. published that day in the Sun. |
would hold good for yearlings by Prod |
gal as we'll as for 2-year- Yes" |
said the Montana man, sit goes for s. |
year-olds, 2-year-olds. yearings or |
colts foaled this year" Stokes said |
hat he would confer with his partner, I
Peter Duryea. about the matter, and \
minated that a race might perhaps \
Do ARIA nped -NnM Ynrl, Sun