The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-12
PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHTER
Manager Upton Returns From q
Trip to California.
MANY FAST ONES COMING
Assurance Given b Montana Race
Track Manager That His Paddocks
Will Be Filled This Year The Big
Handicaps-Genera Horse Talk.

Entries to the 20 stakes for the sum-
mer meetings at Butte and Anaconda
close next Saturday and Ed. A. Upton,
who has just returned from a trip to
California and Oregon. reports the
prospects bright for a large list of en-
tries of the very highest class. especial
ly in the all-aged division.
1T Is almost certain" he said to a
Standard reporter. that among the
entries from California to h Silver
City and the Copper City handicaps.
will be Senator Bland. !Ostler Joe, The
Roman. Satsuma, Buck Massie. Fleur
de Lis, Rubicon. Buckwa, Installator,
Vinctor. Flashlight. Grady, Loeb Ness,
Salvation. Wheel OF Fortune, Fonso-
vannah. Linstock and Grammar; from
Montana there will be, in all probable
ity. Scottish Chieftain, Byron. McClel-
land, Grand Sachem, Tammany Hall
H., and Palfurni, and / will be sur
prised IL there are not three or four of
much the same class from Kentucky
and other Southern points.
Il am not prepared to say just who
will make entries, but we will get the
majority of the good horses now run
ming in California, and l know we will
have twice as many thoroughbreds as
we had last season, and that was the
greatest number ever assembled at a
Montana meeting. The reason is sim
ple-we will have no trotting: hence
owners of first-class runners feel more
like starting them or our track. The
Silver City handicap. to be run on July
4th. will be as good, If not a better race.
than was the Burns handicap at Oak
land last Saturday.
The great difference between the
horses that we will get this year and
those that we have had in the past lis
their class. Last year we had really
no handicap horses for long distance
racing except n Bland and 'Ost-
Ter Joe. This year we Will have from
20 to 25 racers that a good Handicapped
can bring together nicely, and that
means great racing.
In California there are some great
sprinters and of the lot May w. Is
about the most consistent. Tea Rose,
O'Connell, McLight. Montgomery, Paul
Griggs and one or two more, however.
belong to the same class. n the
slightest disadvantage will beat IN
one of them-it's a wonderful lot, and
as we nave several stakes for horses
Of that class / expect most of them to
be i'm Montana during the coming year.
What is the best horse in California?
Well, that's a lard question to answer.
because they go at different distances;
but the handicappers seem to give the
place of honor, over a distance ground,
to Senator Bland and The Roman. In
Geyser Ed. Corrigan has, in my opin-
ion, a good, possibly a great horse, and
in Won't Dance he has a mare that Is
hard to beat. But the best horse for his
owner is Satsuma. Many horsemen call
Traverser a dog but Il like him be-
cause a horse has to catch him to beat
him. and 1t takes a very fast horse to
catch him.
About the Montana people in FRS
CO.? Well. there are quite a number of
them, all apparently in good health. as
well dressed as the best, and they have
money. OF course l don't know wheth-
err they got it at home or have won II
on the horses: but they look n act as
though prosperity abounds in their
camp.
THE Montana bred horses are popu-
lar in California, and i think that
horsemen, as a rule, prefer horses bred
in Montana to those raised in Califor-
mia. That may sound queer. but the
trainers with whom i talked on the
breeding question incline toward the
horse raised in a high altitude and con-
tend that only bad luck has kept the
Montana horses from making really q
great showing"