The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-14
Race Track and
Stable Gossip

Gentlemen: Mr.. Marcus Daily author
ICES me to consign to your fall sale all OF
his trotters i'm training and a few of the
very best yearlings ever raised at Bitter
Root Stock farm. There will be about q
head. all %trotters. excepting two young
PAGERS, both extremely fast. In fact, ev-
cry one has been tried sufficiently to war
rant the belief that a more select consign-
meRt of young %trotters has never been
offered. There is not a weedy one. every
one has speed. is royalty bred. and with
one exception not one Is older than 5
years. There is not one of bad color, and
those as old as 2 years are city broken
and ready for use on either the track or
road. Most of the 2-year-olds and year
lings are heavily engaged i'm the big
stakes for 1899 and 1900; and as there are
in the lot many bright prospects for great
stake horses, parties desiring TO try for
big colt events will do well to take into
consideration the speed. breeding, indi-
viduality and the unusual good heads of
this Offering. Full pedigrees will be sent
you later. but right here | will say that.
In my opinion, no man or company has a
lot of mares superior. II equal I'm individ-
uality and breeding TO that at Bitter Root
Stock farm. Certain IL Is that / have new
or seen or read of "A lot like them. and
the youngsters that you will seel are the
pick of their foais of 1894. 1895. 1896 and
1897. The culls-and by culls | mean those
that are short on speed, even il good look
ing-have either been disposed of or con-
signed TO the pillow. and nothing but the
choicest will be sent to New York.
A most of the consignment are by
Prodigal. record 2:l6 to high wheels. ! will
give you some facts about him and his
get. He is but II years old and / think
that when the facts are weighed the pub
lie will agree with me that no greater
young sire. especially of early and ex-
IRENE speed. has yet lived. lie has, all
told. living or dead, but % colts older than
yearlings. the first of which, six i'm num-
Der, came I'm 1891. None of these were
tried at Bitter Root farm, all being sold
at auction as yearlings; but from them
have come Potential (sire of Potento,
2:17A at 3 years.. India SILK. PAGER. 2:l0s4.
and Dan M, PAGER, 2:15A. In 1891 and 1892
he was in training and covered but one
and eight mares respectively; hence the
returns for 1892 and 1893 gave him but one
and six foals respectively, and of the sew
en-, Practical, record (2:2lR, () 2:l9l4), |
was the only one trained, the others being
put into the stud, If fllies, or gelded and
used on the roads. If colts. OF those in the
stud one is the dam of the 2-year-old Phi
lotus, that promises TO trot close to 2:20
by October
"In 1894 the books show a return of q
foals. of which several are dead and many
sold and on the road. This was a great lot,
and i'm Il we find John Nolan CA. 2:12a4
China Silk 90, 2:16A, lined separately Cat
- in the Kentucky Futurity in 2:13A I'M
PROVIDENCE AHfs -s-Vs " IMAM ih'''
go. 2:l7I4: Liberal. Wilderness. S~paetlum,
Gamin, Caption and Frugality. all known
from their trials in public to be fast: also
Annagallis and Welcome Home. fillies,
that Mr.. DAILY selected because of their
speed. s%oundness and good looks for use
i'm the stud.
'Of the foaIs now 3 years old there were
originally just 30. OF them only Limerick,
Cuprum and DIR. Spelman have started.
and each has "A race record better than
2:2o, and | think that at least seven more
can trot better than 2:25. Most of these
will be sold in your sale. His get that
in 1896 numbered just five. one of
which Is dead. None have started.
Summing up. Prodigal has sired. in
Guiding those dead. just - colts older than
4 years. 40 older than 3 years and 20 older
than . years, and but Is older than year
lings, and of them about % are young
mares that were retired to stud (after
showing speed and given no opportunity
to make records; yet 10 OF his get have
race records from 2:10A 10 2:20, and al
seven have made their records az
2-year-olds and 3-year-olds, the average
of the 10 is faster than 2:l7, and will be
faster by fall. as eight of the 10 are now
out racing for the money"
Since the above was written John No
Ian CD. who started for the first time this
year, has won the famous Charter Oak
$4,000 stake i'm 2:09i2; Dan NJ. has re-
duCed his record To 2:09A lmproVidenCc's
record has dropped from 2:20 10 2:l3l4;
that of DIR. Spelman go from Elsa to
2:l3&: Laurels go. has trotted in 2:l54 and
Wilderness ca. in 2:lS. All these records
were made I'm h~ard-fought races, not one
NJ Prodigal's get having ever started
against time.
Prodigal is certainly the greatest young
i'm America.
The New York Sun gives the following
account of the great Charter Oak purse
race:
AT the grand circuit meeting to-day, in
one Of the best harness races of the year.
The big bay l-year-old trotter John Nolan
scored a w~ell-sarned. clean-cut victory
Il other high-class horses for the
Charter Oak purse of $4,000. The race
was trotted under perfect conditions of
and track. and the winner beat
he best time ever made In the classic
event since John Goldsmith landed the
Charter Oak stake with Direc-
tor r. years go.
After the withdrawal of James But
er's invincible colt. Directum Kelly.
grandson of the first Charter Oak winner.
norsemen looked upon the race as an open
Dne, and half a dozen t]rotters had a
strong following when Frank Herdic be-
to sell auction pools on the result.
NJ. Hanna's Matte Patterson sold for
800: ]. +. Hubingers John Nolan, $50; G..
J. Hamlin's Battlcton. s50; A. X, Miller's
Big Timber. $50: Alvinsea Hayward's
Stamboulet. SIS; Henry Br~oistedt's George.
\. w. Hubinger's Belle j., $25; Henry
Ed Lock, SO. and the field. SIS.
The faVorite scored i'm fourth place In
he first tier of starters. and when Frank
shouted CO. the handsome lit
lie bay mare from Cleveland shot into the
cad. snatching the pole from the fielder.
Philip f.. before the first turn was reach
d. Spinalong. John Nolan. Stamboulet
and Big Timber quickly drew clear of
he big field and chased Matte Patterson
Ip the back stretch in a bunch two or
hree lengths away. Willis Foote made n
irivc for the lead with John Nolan as the
tying squadron swung round the upper
urn. and the shapely big bay gelding re-
'ponded handsomely. closing the gap until
MS nose was at the leaders wheel half
way down the home stretch.