The San Francisco call., 1898-08-08
A "Find" in the Jockey
 Line at Butte.
H. L. FRANK A HEAVY LOSER.
BOSS CRoKER MADE A "RUN- UP"
 RECORD IN ENGLAND.
A California Turfman Proposes Some Reforms That Would Be Hailed With Joy by the Fair
 Minded.

inc Butte, Mont, meeting WnlCn enQeQ last Saturday can be put down a sue
 cess in every way, notwithstanding the
 fact that comparatively few high-class horses competed. The best flyers that raced at the big mining camp were Scot tish Chieftain, Mekallah, Miss Rowena, Lucky Star and Ostler Joe. The news papers of San Francisco were well rep resented, Fred E. Mulholland of The Call acting as presiding judge for two weeks, later as the associate of Ed Hopper in the stand, while Ben Benjamin of the Chronicle has been patrol judge. The attendance at the track has been very large, but the betting was not so heavy toward the close as at the beginning. Joe
 Langendorfer and Fred Edwards have done eXcellently with the string they leased of the San Jose turfman. J. Naglee
 Burke, Dolore and others more than pay
 ing their way.
 H. L. Frank of Butte was a heavy loser at the Butte meeting and it was
 rumored that he intended leasing his horses and quitting the game. Mission CTS win of a stake on the 2d of August
 may, however, cause him to change his
 mind. Joe Piggott, who rides for MT.
 Frank was accounted the best horse pilot
 there. Piggott loves San Francisco, and
 while he likes Butte some and is well
 treated there, he declares he would
 rather be a lamp-post in Frisco than the
 City Hall at Butte"
 One of the finds of the Montana
 meeting was MOTSdn, WHO Cdl Iiue at
 102 pounds. He is considered more than
 fair" and San Francisco critics may
 have chance to judge as to his capabll-
 ities next winter it He So q. claims inns to be an
 At the Belle Meade sale next October
 there will be disposed of thirty-six year
 lings, seventy brood mares and the
 two well-known stallions, imp. Dandie Dinmont and the unbeaten Ire mont Tulla Blackburn and the Cali fornia-bred mare Fairy are on the cat alogue. The latter brought s10,000 at auc- ton when she was retired to the, stud
 The Omaha running meeting, booked to run from August IS to September ', has been declared off as the exposition was not being patroniZed as well as was eX- pected.
 The racing stewards of the St. Louis Fair Association held meeting on the night of August and decided to close the present race meeting at the conclusion of the regular ninety days, as per the breed CTS racing bill. Thus the meeting winds has been well patronized by both the public and the horsemen, racing belng more popular there than In Chlcago, where a syndicate has been running the books, and as matter or course oIetlAS
 Tod Sloan rode the first two winners at Saratoga Saturday and finished third on Sir Hubert His winners were Dr. Eich- berg and Damien. who raced out here two years ago in Pat Dunne's colors. Martha II, here last winter. won the HenQTlG beating Laverock, Lillian Bell, Kenmore Queen and other good ones.
 Peixotto, Dolore and Duke of York II. all bred in California, won at Butte on the closing day-last Saturday.
 Burns & Warehouses bay colt Excur- sion (by Take Notice-Picnic) won the Merchants stakes ct Detroit on Satur- day, running the five furlongs in 1:O21a. At Chicago this summer third was the best he could do, though much was ex- pected of him all the time.
 Water Girl, a recent winner at Saratoga, is by imp Watercress from Parthenia, the famous race mare by Alarm.
 Good Hope, St. Louis winner, Is a 2-year-old sister to Lottie Mills, being by Colonel Clark out of Gratitude. Lottie Mills was perfect gold mine for years, and is now, we believe. among the brood mares on Barney Schreibers stock farm
 One of the greatest sensations on the English turf this season was Richard Croker's purchase of the 2-year-old colt, Little Saint, out of a selling race at San downe Park, where he gave the largest sum on record for a selling platter, viz: 1900 guineas.
 The colt thus run up to over $S000 in a selling race cost 600 guineas as yearling, and Is mighty well bred for selling platter, being by Friar's Balsam (sire of country) out of Little Emily, by Wis | dom second dam Lady Emily, by Dis tun (sire of Imp. Charaxus).
 A California turfman who considers that certain racing men are in receipt of quite "a shade" at 1ngleside, while others are favored at the Oakland track to a marked extent, proposes the following plan of re- form where every one will receive the same treatment, which will be fair: Pro- grammes should be issued at least a month in advance, so that no race can be made for the horse that has won but once since April 19 or some other strange date or condition There should be six entry boxes, or one for each race. The entries should be opened in plain view of the turfmen interested As the entries are taken from the box they ought to be turned face upward and fifteen of them taken in rotation. If any entries remain they should be left out of the race even though they might belong to some spoiled darling of the club. In this way a poor owner has as good a chance of starting his horse as the more wealthy and flaw ored one. As matters are now. it is said, tries thrown out with great Regularity, simply because 1t pleases those in author ity so to do. There should be but two selling races per day. one where the top price is $2500, the other for, say 5000. Our racing friend thinks there should be five handcappers; that they should all turn in slips with the horses names and the weights they think correcD by a certain hour; then the secretary's duty would be to add up the figures and divide them by five thus striking an average" He also believes that racing reporters make the best racing judges, and he believes they Cat least those who have had, say, five years experience or tnore) should be the ones to have charge of matters in both the judges and stewards stands.