The San Francisco call., 1898-08-11
California Horses Make
 a Fine Showing.
MORGAN THE LEADING RIDER
WILLIE MARTIN TAKES TOD
 SLoAN'S GOOD JOB.
Tommy Burns May Sign Belmont Contract-Turf Tittle-Tattle From Near and
 Far.

Marcus Daily, as usual heads the list l of winning owners at the Butte (Mont.)
 meeting with $50O5. Then come two
 other Montana turfmen. w. D. Randall
 and H. L. Frank, with $44S0 and $441O. H.
 Byrnes & Co.,, who had a lot of Rancho ] del Paso horses under lease, are well up
 with $3245; the late B. c. Hollys CaHfor-
 mia horses won S3035; E. F. C'Daggte') ] Smiths California flyers, $2570; Sunset
 stable $22S5; F. T. Wood, s2135; Farrar & 1 Tuberville of California, $1935; T. Garnet | Ferguson, $1720 Pueblo stable, $170O; J. | R. Thomas, $1465; J. c. TWohy S14Oo; J. l w. Mott, $1260; H. F. Edwards & Go. | of San Francisco, SPAS; E. F. Fredrick- son of San Francisco, $1130; w. l.. Stan ! field, $10S5; Mrs. Carrie Reed, $lO75; T. E. Latta, $1O6O, and Stricklin & Howell, $1055. 1 These are the only owners whose strings captured over $1000
 | The little German horseman, c. P. Fink, ! sold NeWSgatherer to James Curl the l other day at Hawthorne for 5000. Since ! the sale the brother to Reporter has won a good race at a mile. The hrst tune the i gelding won here last winter he was at 6O l to in the betting
 l Conlon, who had a young man arrested in Sausalito last Monday for stealing SloO from him, was very much in error. The magistrate before whom ne laid his trou- bleS found the cash safely tucked away in an inside pocket of the complainant, and apologies to the arrested one were In order, and an offer to make matters Pierre Lorillard talks of selling out his entire racing stable in England and re- turning to America next season, notWlth- standing the Lorillard-Beresford stable is a heavy winner this season. The mil lionaires health is much improved. Be
 sides, Trainer John Huggins wants to come back to this country at the end or the year.
 Dolore, a very ordinary selling platter
 in California, broke the Butte track rec ord when she went mile and sixteenth in 1:4S12 last Saturday.
 Evidently Marcus Daly remembers well
 the result of the duels between Miss Woodford and Freeland, The Bard and Troubadour and Domino and Henry of Navarro, for he recently said to the rep resentatiye of the New York Tribune, after the owners of Ornament had tried to drive him into matching Hamburg against the four-year-Old crack:
 II do not believe in matches, although did race Tammany against Lamphgnter; l believe in racing for the prizes offered by the clubs and abiding by the results Of the contests. However, l Will not stand in the way of anything that Will leave my horses to my trainers 1udg- ment, and never interfere with his man agement.'
 Tommy Burns, king of the hghtweights around Chicago since Clawson left, will ride for MT. Belmont in the Futurity, and may be employed by the, jockey ciub's
 
 all of next.
 There is talk of the formation of horsemens protective association at Chi cago-in fact a petition Is in circulation among the owners. This petition declares that men have charge of racing affairs there not interested in single race horse and merely owning the tracks. They also declare that these men are degrading theI sport of kings. The racing men also de- sire a voice in the selection of starters and assistant starters, judges and stewards. It is to be hoped the as sociation in course of formation around the Windy City will accomplish more than the one organized here last winter.
 Willie Martin, by many good Judges pronounced the best horse pilot in this or his reputation for always trying to win as a Fordham or an Isaac Murphy, signed a contract the other day in Saratoga to ride for the Messrs. F'leischmann during the season of 1899, according to the Ctn- cinnati Enquirer. It Is this firm that only receive a salary of not less than &5,000 per annum Tod got SIT 300, it is alleged. That Martin should ever leave Pat Dunne will amaze those who know the clever pigskin knight well, for only last winter he declared he would remain with Dunne as long as the latter wanted him.
 Morgan the great fine in the ranks of the Jockeys at Butte, Mont, heads the list of riders at the meeting there, with twenty-one wins to his credit. Joe Fig cts Al Shaw third with fifteen. Then follow Duffy with fourteen Powell eleven Beauchamp. Wilson and Mike Hennessy ten, Holmes nine, Tommy But Ter eight, Ed Ames seven and sullivan provement since he left here last spring At that time he was not considered even "a fair boy