The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-16
Cash EVENLY DIVIDED
The Shorts as Well as the Wise
Ones Get q Rake-Of.
BIG CROWD WELL PLEASED
To-Day's Features the Butte Selling
Stakes. a Hurdle and Four Other
Races. in Which High Glass
Horses VIII Start.

Money was pretty well distributed at
the track yesterday. two ~favorites. two
second choices and two shorts taking
the purses. The track was good. wealth
er. as usual. perfect. the crowd enlarged
and the speculation lively. The races
were all well contested. and the mile
finish was very interesting.
The card for to-day is one of the best
yet offered this year, consisting of the
Butte selling stakes. value 81. 600; a sew
e~n-eighths, in which Torsida, Bitter
Root, Hero and Los Prietos are TO
start; a hurdle handicap, a mile selling.
q five-eighths and a three-quarter.
High-class horses are entered in all
races. and some excellent runs will be
made. Yesterdays winners n form
(ollows:
Lo 10. FIVE and a half furlongs, lilo.
,Kootenai. four furlongs, :50h.
z Distinction, five and a half furlongs,
l:osx.
Hero, one mile, 1:43.
Robair, six %furlongs. 1:16h.
Pat Tucker, three furlongs, :34A.
Five and q Half Furlongs.
A field of eight sprinters left to a fair
etart, and Lo Lo, who at first sold in
the auctions for IS and IS, and later
went up to $50. I'm the favorite class.
jumped into the lead and stayed there
40 the finish. III passed the three
quarters a length and a half in front
of Red Bird and Tammany, heads
apart. q length in front of Mike Rice,
n others strung out. Tammany
worked for first place, and into the
stretch was only a neck short of IL, but
10 Lo wasn't going to be overtaken.
Mike Rice came out OF the bunch and
challenged the leader. but the goal was
too near, and so he took Tammany's
place, and Lo Lo won in a drive by a
head, Mike Rice second, a length bet
ter than Tammany. two in front of the
rear bunch Time, lilo.
One-HaIf Mile.
The big money players had San Au-
gustine picked out for a winner and
bid him up to $50 in the pools. Eloper
sold for SIG, kootenai at first in the
field for s.. and later individually for
$40. The field of eight, by bad acting.
delayed the start about 10 minutes, but
finally broke away To a fair one, San
Augustine leading, with Kootenai and
the others close up. kootensi was a
head in the lead at the three-quarters.
San Augustine second. with Prince
Farewell and Cazedero close in. Koot-
enai and San Augustine entered the
stretch heads apart, two lengths in
front of Eloper, who was a length ahead
of Chilcoot Pass. coming up. In a
drive Kootenai passed under the wire
ahead better than San Augustine. sec
ond. Chilcoot Pass third. a length in
front of Eloper. Tim :50h.
Five and a Half FurIongs.
Trappean, Torpedo, Florimel. Distinc-
ton, +. F., Billy Mathews and Loeb
Ness lined up and set the auction box
working in profitable order. money
pouring in on Distinction at SIS a throw,
while Loeb Ness went for SIS, Trap
pean SIC, p. f. $1l and the field s..
Then Distinction sold for s25. Loeb Ness
s16 and ms rest $40. Distinction looked
every inch the WHINE The start was
good. the horses breaking almost
abreast. Distinction had il all his own
way, however, and at the half led by a
length and a half p. f. and Loeb Ness.
heads apart. At the three-quarters the
positions were the same, except tha
Loeb Ness had taken p. F.'s place at
second. Distinction was two lengths in
front at the head of the stretch. going
smoothly, Loeb Ness next, two lengths
ahead of =. F., Torpedo in the bunch
working forward. The finish was easy
for Distinction, who won. three lengths
better than Loeb Ness. second. who was
four in front OF Torpedo. third. Time.
b:os&.
One Mile.
This race was worth the price of a
seasons ticket-it was all right for the
spectators. and for nearly all of the bet
tors. except the Barracan hackers and
they admit that it was a contest of
exceptional b%rilliancy. Five racers,
among which no dead thing ap-
peared, faced the starter, and the grand
stand saw a good start and the hottest
finish of the season. Devils Dream led
Wm. OBJ. Barracan. Hero and All
Smoke across the tape. and at the first
turn VIM. OBJ. showed his shoulder in
20 the clear in front of Hero, two
lengths in front of All Smoke. Barrican