The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-04
HORSES FROM MONTANA
II. L. Frank Talks About the
Races in San Francisco.
SOME OF HIS FAST ONES
Animals Don't Become Acclimated Any
Sooner Than Man Does. Which
Fact Must Be Consid-
cred Also.

III. l.. FRANK is mack from 10 days
trip to the California race tracks and
is evidently greatly benefited by his
trip, for he looks better than he has
looked for years. MIR. Frank went
partly for recreation and partly to see
how his new stable is getting on.
Everybody in Butte is interested in the
success of Mr.. Franks stable. for every
one of his horses is a Montana horse,
born and bred on the Bitter Root stock
farm.
1T is a hard luck story said Mr..
Frank with a smile, when reporter
called to ask him how the Montana
horses are doing on the coast. Some
people have an idea that horses from
these mountains can go down to the sea
and have no trouble over change of CHI
mate but it is such thing. \ horse
has to be acclimated the same
man. l Wore my heaviest clothing in
San Francisco with a big top coat and
yet l could not sit in the stand with any
comfort. l shivered all the time. Yet
the CalifornanS didn't suffer. / didn't
get acclmated in all my trip, and it is
just as hard for horses to make the
change as it is for men. 1t takes three
or four weeks for the California horses
to get into condition in Montana and
the Montana horses have just as much
trouble in going to d lower altitude.
But in addition We have had dis
tressng amount of sickness among our
horses. OF the IA horses we have only
been able to start three. There is
kind of epidemic around and the horses
are all catching it. Some have had it,
some are having it, and all will have 1t.
| The only horses we have started are
| Bland, Missioner and Punter. Bland
! was not sick but we worked him rather
| too hard. He won the mile and a quar-
| ter race in good style on muddy,
sticky track that was just like putty. 1t
/ ard n h Aysxr
sore, and for two days he couldn't go
cut of the barn. But instead of resting
| him we worked him in the mile and a
half race, which ne did in so. He was
| looking well then and eating hearty and
| we prepared him for the mile race. But
| he was in no shape for il. We didn't
| know it at the time, but he was losing
| flesh all the time. | don't think Bland
! should really have lost any race down
/ there except the mile and three quarters
race. We couldn't win that because we
/ had been working Bland on the Oakland
track where our stalls are The Oak
/ land track is hard while the Ingleside
! track is soft and cuppy He got leg
weary after the first mile and couldn't
| go the distance. But ] am well satisfied
/ with Bland. / am confident he can
| beat Howard Mann, who seems to be
| considered the best of them all. In
| fact / esteem Bland the greatest and
| best horse racer in California.
Il wanted to give Bland another race
! before | left California, but Mr. Camp
| bell advised strongly against it. and so
did the veterinarian i wanted to see
| him run once more to satisfy myself.
| but l took their advice. We will give
| him slow work for a while and will
| probably not start him for month. In
! fact we don't propose to start any of
/ our horses for a month or six weeks.
In that, time some of them will be
ready to race but the stable will not be
| actively racing inside of two months.
/ All my horses are rounding to and Will
! be prepared for slow work very soon,
and will gradually get up into racing
! form"
How did you like the work of Punt
| er and Missioner
II believe Punter and Missioner are
suffering from the effects of the
catarrhal fever, which both have had
| very bad. They had it before they left
here and it usually takes horses a long
! time to get over the effects of that dis
ease and sometimes they never recover
| from it, But that was not so in our
case. The first race we started Mission
| er in the back stretch, and the last turn
was heavy going while the home stretch
| was drying and hard in the center.
/ Missioner doesn't like heavy going, and
when he got into the heavy going he
| fell back. When he reached the stretch
and struck the harder ground he passed
| finished second. He would have beaten
| Sir William in a few more jumps. That
! performance has encouraged us to be-
lieve that with time and proper hand
ling he will recover his speed.
| "Punter however, has not shown us
anything which would warrant US in
| believing that she will get into her old
| form again in the very near future. She
| is looking well and seems to be feeling
fine and We hope she will come around
| all right in the course of time
| How about the colts?'
I'VE are delighted with the colts Mr..
Daily selected for me. 1t is pretty good
| guess to pick one good race horse out
| of 20 yearlings, but ! believe l have
three good ones out of the four. and /
| am not entirely sure but the fourth will
show up all right Two of them have
| suffered from the general sickness and
two are doing well. Three of them /
believe will make good race horses and
the fourth has never been fit to gallop.
and so we can't make line on him. |
think Mr.. DAILY showed wonderful
judgment in selecting these colts for
me. and demonstrates that he is a great
| judge of horse flesh. | don't believe
any man but Mr.. DAILY could have gone
to the ranch and selected four colts
which would average as we'll as these.
Both Mr. Campbell and myself are very
much pleased with the colts. We are
not at all alarmed about the ultimate
success of the stable. Things couldn't
have come worse. We lost Amazonian
three days after we landed there and
we considered him the best colt in tho
bunch and the best colt ever sired by
Tammany. His death was great mis-
fortune both to me and To the Bitter
Root stock farm"
"Yule?"
"Yule to my mind is going to be a
great race horse. She is game and
consistent filly and has run in the best
company down there and had always
been in the money. With equal chances