The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-13
HE'S A GREAT TROTTER
Querist, Owned by j. ". Collins.
Wins a Fast Race.
THERE WAS LARGE FIELD
But the Anaconda Horse Took the Race
In Three Straight Heats in Red Hot
Time-Pat McEvoy Held
the Ribbons.

]. v. Collins was the happiest man in
Anaconda yesterday. Some people are
made happy easily. but such is not the
case with Mr.. Collins. 1t takes some
thing k winning a horse race to put
NJ. Collins in the seventh heaven. and
that is where he landed yesterday af-
ternoon when the telegraph informed
him that his horse Querist had won a
$500 trotting race in Peoria, Ill.
Early in the afternoon he received a
telegram from c. w. French saying:
''Querist has won the first heats in 2:l3."
About an hour later, which was an anx-
ious sixty minutes for Mr.. Collins. he
received a telegram saying: "Querist
wins third heat; time 2:13."
The performance is a truly remark
able one. The purse was of 81, 500, of
which the first horse receives $3.50. 1t
was a 2:30 class ace. n that such
time should be made in a race of that
character is far from ordinary. To win
Querist had to beat John Nolan, owned
by j. H. Leonard, and twelve other
horses in the field. Nolan beat Querist
In much slower time a week or so ago,
and he was the only horse that Mr.. Col
Inns feared. John Nolan. like Querist,
is a Bitter Root farm bred animal, and
was purchased by Dave Bricker of Butte
a few years G and by him sold to Mr..
Leonard
Querist also comes from the same
farm. To express Querist's pedigree in
the language of Attorney Crutchfield OF
Missoula, who is said to ave recently
visited the farm and to have inquired of
Sam Lucas what horse was a certain
colts pa. Querist's pa is the famous
trotting horse Mascot, and his ma has
| plenty of blue blood in her. being Queen
Wilkes, who is also the dam of the ia
nous trotter Improvidence.
Querist is a 5-year-old gelding, and
was purchased by Mr.. Collins when a
2-year-old. Since Mr.. Collins owned him
the horse has been started in one race a
| year, but up to the present season never
made much of a showing. In fact luck
seemed against him, as after the one
race for one reason or another, he
would nave to be withdrawn from the
track. h yea 1t was feared at one
time that he would not be able to race.
In shipping him to Denver the horse got
fast in the car and rubbed all the hair
and skin off one of his hind quarters. 1t
was hearing of this accident hat took
Mr.. Collins to env and Omaha re-
Gently. He says that the animal had a
| patcn OF SKIN OH one OF MS quarters az
large around as a mans hat, n in his
Denver and Omaha races this had the
effect of making him go lame, and'prob-
ably accounts for John Nolan beating
him.
According to the news received by
Collins yesterday, he believes that al
three heats were made in 2:13. Getting
this mark will very nearly confine hin
to starting in the free-for-all class mex
i NYnor IInrcnrann nFhn Ghna1I6 EnnNF Gnz
that Querist's race yesterday was tht
fastest mile that Pat McEvoy, his train
er and driver, ever drove in his life. TIL,
only thing that is troubling Mr.. Collin:
now is to find some means of spending
all the money that his game trotter i,
winning for him. He is open to receiv,
suggestions under this head.