The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-12
Montana Race Meetings Will
Eclipse Previous Attempts.
FAST ONES COMING
Star Performers Who Have Made Them
selves Famous on the Eastern Tracks.
Values Of the Purses Enormous.
The Big Stake Events.

are looking forward to that time with
anticipations Of pleasure. These yearly
carnivals OF sport have become this
city's chief occasion for recreation and
relaxation from the ordinary cares of
everyday business. Especially Is this
true of the past W seasons OF horse
racing, since n new management has
put life and energy into the racing BUSH
ness In Montana.
The racing season of 1898 will he a
record breaker in Montana. both In point
OF attendance of horses and horsemen.
and I'm the value Of the purses hung up.
The purses for the stake races range
from 81 900 to $1,000. N some of the
events have as many as 81 entries. The
entries are in every case OF a high class.
many of the best horses in the United
States being FAMED. The races In
Montana this year will consist entirely
Of running races, harness races having
proved unsatisfactory In the past. AS
the races begin at Butte this year. in
stead of Anaconda. as heretofore. the
people Of this city will be given an
excellent opportunity of sizing up the
fast ones before they appear upon the
home track. The railroad company
will doubtless provide for the opera
lion OF "a SDtt1dl race tTdin IN
aconda and Butte for the accommoda-
ton of Anaconda visitors, many OF
whom will daily go to Butte.
The Montana circuit opens at Butte
on Saturday, July 2. upon which date
the Montana Derby. at a mile and a
quarter. will be run. The stake is worth
$500, and 36 nomination have been
made. They include some of the best
3-year-olds I'm the country. Among
thpoa nanAd ora. Han d'Or TOrgidA.
Grand Sachem, Glorian. Open Doors.
Imp. Bitter Root. Borgia. Frank
Thompson. Watomba. Los Prietos and
Tammany Hall ii. On July 4 the Sill
yer City handicap, value $1,000. one
a quarter miles, for 3-year-olds and up
ward, and the Young Miss stakes, val
ue, 81, 900. at a half mile. for 2-year-old
fllies. will be run. The former of these
two races will call out such sprinters
as Senator Bland. Scottish Chieftain,
OstIer Joe. Salvation. Byron McClel-
land. Flashlight. Fonsovannah. Joe
Clark, Letcher. Open Doors and 20 9TH
ers. Such a field was not equaled in
the entire season at Oakland and lngle-
side.
The fourth stake. the Bitter Root, Tor
2-year-oids ($1, 000), a half mile. comes
on Saturday. July 9th. and has 46 nomi-
nations: the Silver Bow stakes Hl.00O).
for 2~-year-olds, -four and one-half fur
longs. Wednesday, July IL. 46 entries:
Saturday. July is. is the day set for the
Butte Selling stakes, all ages $1,000
seven %furlongs, 40 entries. The North
western handicap, the Hot Times
stakes. the Inter Mountain stakes, the
Yellowstone handicap and the West Side
handicap will be run at Butte July IL,
July %. July 30. Aug. 2 and Aug. 8, re-
spectively. Each has 40 or more en-
tries of a high class.
The Anaconda meeting will begin
Thursday. Aug. II, with DAILY day. and
close on Saturday. Sept. 10. The stakes
as a rule. are on the same general line
as those at Butte. with a larger average
entry list. The stake days are Aug. IL.
10. IL. 20. %. q and Sept. 3, 5 and 10. Tit
big attractions will be the DAILY stakes
Aug. IL. 1t will be at one N one
eighth miles (S2. 0O0). for 3-year-olds; the
Labor Day handicap S5,000), one and
one-quarter miles, 3-year-olds and up
wards. Sept. 5, and the Copper CITY
handicap Isl, 5000, one n ~one-quarter
miles. 3-year-olds and upward, on the
closing day, Sept. 10. These three big
events have, respectively. II. II and AZ
nominations. For the DAILY are named
among others. Grand Sachem, Afghan,
Borgia, Bitter Root. Goodrich, OF
Flanders, Torsida, Glorlan, Tammany
Hall H., Han dor and Missioner. In
the Labor Day handicap will appear
Poet Scout. Ogden. Isidor, Makallah,
Senator Bland. Scottish Chieftain. Ra-
miro. Bitter Root, Joe Clark. J. II. G.
Judge Quigley. Grady, Ostler Joe. Sal
walton. John Havlin. Han dor. Silve
H., Byron McClelland. Tammany Hal
III. and Banished.
The Copper City handicap has much
the same class of horses.
Altogether the races at Anaconda VII
he Just "A trife superior to those II
Butte. The meeting In this city. OF
course. will be shorter. and II seems "a;
though those i'm charge tried to make
up in quality what they lack In guam
tity. This years racing season In the
i've cities viii eclipse anything that ha'
ever been attempted in the racing line
i'm Montana. The horses mentioned
above are but a few of the cracks thai
will perform in Montana this year, but
these are enough to show of h q
high order the sport on the Butte and
Anaconda tracks will be.
In fact. the entries for the stakes are
" a class that big Eastern tracks
would jump at to obtain for Their
handicaps.
Ed A. Tipton. manager of the Butte
and Anaconda tracks, said yesterda,
H.. the cours of a general conversation
There are very nearly 200 horses IN
Butte now. The stabling capacity a
both tracks will be taxed to its utmost
That means not fewer than 500 horses
most of them already tested In races
and very few not ready to race. Horse
men will not ship so long a distance
unless they have thoroughly tries
horses. From the start at Butte oi
Jul, . to the finish at Anaconda oi
Sept. 10 the meeting promises sport o
the very highest order.
Every morning scores of men visi
the Butte track to watch the horse
work. and some heavy betting will b
the result of the Information gained
These early morning crowds will b
larger after thte arrival of the horse
from Hamilton. Portland. Denver. 81
Louis and Chicago"
III you desire to have a i'm glass Q
beer, call for Anaconda"