The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-17
ANACONDA news.
THEY ARE DOING WELL
The Anaconda Harness Horses
Now in the East.
GO TO ELKHART THIS WEEK
r. w. R.. Messrs. Smith and Reynolds
Horse. Took Third Money in Peoria
Thursday-An Account of Que
rist's Great Race.

The Anaconda harness horses con-
tinue to distinguish themselves in the
East. George w. Reynolds and l.. w.
Smiths trotter. f. w. r.. distinguished
himself i'm Peoria Thursday. This horse
has been very lame and when he start
ed Thursday in the 2:26 class trot for
a $500 purse IL was the first time he had
appeared on the track in a race for sew
eral weeks. F. w. r. did not take the
race. but he secured third money. His
owners have private advices from their
trainer tina the horse showed great
speed, his actual time being caught by
c. w. French as 2:1s. This showing as
very gratifying TO the animals owners.
The coming week the Anaconda contin-
gent of harness horses viii go TO Elk
hart. Ind. The Peoria Herald of We'd
nesday contains an account or the great
race trotted by Querist in that city
Tuesday afternoon for a parse of 81
800. ]. V. Collins, the owner OF Quer-
list. received a telegram the day of the
race. giving the time made by his
horse as 2:13. Fortunately that mark
was not quite reached the fastest time
being 2:1sH. This is fortunate because
IL does not bar Querist from entering in
the 2:l3 class. The Herald's account OF
the race is as follows:
Querist and Bertha Lee were selling
favorites at odds of ? to 2. Querist had
drawn number 10 in the start and was
hardly in telephone reach of the pole
horse, but there were men on the
grounds who knew him and waved
their large wads of long green in the
air and proclaimed loudly that he was
a "gazaboy'' and the hot stuff" AMI
that he had ~"bazazas' in his makeup
to do the honors for his class. This
was the status of affairs when Mr.. Up
,degraff announced that they might go
and settle the matter. True to predic-
tions, Querist surged promptly to tho
front before the quarter post had been
reached and made the rest of the buncn
feel as the Spanlards in Manila bay felt
after Cousin George Dewey had Inter-
viewed them. 1T was a procession 20
the stretch. when the entire bunch
seemed to TAX on some ginger AMI
closed up the gap rapidly. The finish
was intensely exciting. The trailers
were showing so much speed that both
Querist and Rena. his nearest ~neighbor,
became excited and did "a hootchia-
kootchie dance under the wire. How
ever, as they were easily the winners
and as their fancy performance did NOS
give them any undue advantage, the
Judges overlooked the lapse from rec
titude and gave them first and second
place. Alice Dorman ended third. Time,
2:l5h.
second heat.-Querist was selling at
odds of ) to 2. with Rena a strong sec
ond. The favorite showed some impa-
thence in the scoring. but settled down
10 win the heat with Rena %scraping his
whe all of the mile. The finish was
again close. The honest little mare did
her best to get under the wire first, AMI
one could not repress a feeling of re-
greet when her impolite partner
stretched his nose just enough TO get
under first. Had she taken her squirt
20 lengths sooner she would have won
the heat. Alice Dorman was again in
third place. Time. 2:13&. 1t was after
announcing the result of this heat that
Starter Updegraff scored the wheel Of
ortun and it's brazen-lunged advo-
Gates n was mildly rebuked by Sec
sretary Voorhees,.
Third heat.-Although the bookies
had been dealt a blow in the solar
plexus in the last heat, they came up
smiling for the third. and. as it sub
sequently proved. the last of the race.
-Querist had advanced on the boards 40
odds of 10 TO 3. while Rena had the call
cfor place. The little mare was piqucd
at her failure to snatch victory in the
preceding heat and she acted badly,
landing well back in the hoi polloi be-
fore the quarter pole had been passed.
IT was a foregone conclusion that un-
less he fell dead Qurrist had the race
and first money, so il settled down To a
race for place and a pretty contest IL
was. Dolly Mahutz was a likely candi-
date until she acted smart. while Per-
sey. an Ohio horse. shot out of the
bunch like a l3-inch shell from the bat
tleship Iowa and supplanted her. 1t
was a superb struggle down the stretch.
Alice Dorman struggled hard to hold
her third place, but Persey led her by
a nose.