The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-22
Track and
Stable Gossip

The lord chief Justice Of England
Lord Russell, has a few horses In
training at James waugh's establish
ment, Newmarket.
@. II. Havill has refused an offer of
10000 for his crack flly Algareta.
The standards tips picked the six
winners at Oakland Saturday.
Montauk. the 5~-year-old chestnut
gelding by Strathmore. out of Spina-
way, Is rated as quite a timber-topper
IN England. Montauk on several occa-
sion recently has beaten the best of the
ngiish Jumpers, and as "A result is sad
died with 1i5 pounds i'm the two-mile
s2'5oo hurdle race at the Kempton park
meeting.
1t has been reported that Ben Brush
was showing lameness In his morning
galIops. There is no truth i'm this.
Brush continues 10 jog and gallop at
the head of the string as usual. and
looks the same as ever. He usually
leads the string of six belonging TIA NJ.
r. Dwyer in "a strictly business-like
way, while those behind him are at
times bucking and giving their riders
all the trouble possible. All the Dryer
string have been kept going steadily
during the winter. Brush is still "a lit
tie heavy. IL being only a matter of
conjecture when he will be ready and
tit.
Henry Brown. the little colored light
weight who graduated from Virginia
Bradiey's stable, and rode last season
for w. ID. Randall, the Montana horse
man. has signed to ride this season for
Timmons * Marks, owners Of Mar
n. Ia.,tII
A Louisville (Ky.) dispatch to the
New York World says that PIaudit.
the present favoritc for the n
derby, was clipped not long ago and
caught cold. This has caused the colt
To fall off 20 pound i'm the last two
weeks. The colt Is reported to b. re-
covering. however, and will no doubt
be In form again long before kentucky
derby day.
Charley Thorpe's riding i'm California
this winter has really been remarkable. |
Up tn the beginning of this week he
had 101 wins to his credit out of 81
mounts. This is an extremely high
percentage. Besides, ne has ridden
second 81 times and third So. Clawson
stands second with 40 wins out of 416
mounts. and Conley third with IS wins
out of 23l.
With a stroke of his pen Jockey Sloan
has settled "a question that has long
disturbed the people of two continents.
IL is merely the spelling OF a name, but
same spelling, on rather mis-
has driven scores of proof
readers To strong drink and upset the
well-balanced brains of racing
throughout this and the
country. All of which goes to
show that after all Ilpr, ia Snnatbipp
IN n name.
When Sloan first came out this way
was as modest as any Missourian.
wasn't known to racing fame at
hat time, so he spelled his name like
The plain men of the prairies would,
James II. Sloan" He won several
races and the II. developed into Tod
rod with one lower case q. Success
to him, and with success letters
added to his name, and Tod developed
nto Todd. After "a time Sloan went
and while searching i'm the ruins
If the Porkopolis tracks for his family
rest. crossed riding boots supporting "a
he was interviewed, and some
Misguided compositor touched the key
IF "A linotype and the name sloane"
vas given To the world.
Then Sloan crossed the ocean to Eng
II is a matter of tourist history
on the register of the Hotel Metro
,ole the name y. Tod Sloane is in
cribed. Sloan had parted his name i'm
he middle and was doing a grand
ight-and-left with Fighting Lord
harley Beresford" and Others of the
'rince of Wales set. The mere SPELL
ng of a name did not keep him from
engineering his stirrups or shooting I
with the mobiles of England.
Back across the water Sloan travelled,
nd out of the confusion of hotel tags
N his many IrIinkg the mama =" rN,lI
'loane" was deciphered.
He came West, and from his combi-
alton of names registered at the Said
Yin, where he is known by the vulgar
3 His Todlets," as James Tod
loan" And now, to settle the question +,
pr all time, Mr.. Sloan has given to the
his n real genuine sigma
lre. And there you are. Let the war &,
18th Spain pr~oceed.-San Francisco s
$
George Barrett. the English jockey, is /,
cad. Barrett was "A good rider, but /,
carcely "A great one. He was a can't :
n judge of pace. had beautiful hands.
nd at one time was q upon as
he natural successor of Fred Archer.
ike many another knight of the pig
Sin, he fell by the wayside. Barrett
pde Common, the 1891 ''triple-crown"
900 guineas-Derby-St. Leger winner.
ut his most sensational riding was
one on La Fleche. one of the great
Il mares that ever looked trough a
ride. La Fleche was purchased when
yearling for 81. 500 by Baron de
.irsch. and during her racing career
on Sl55, $50 for the deceased philan-
D~emagogue. which in n 2-year-old
ice at the Aqueduct spring meeting :,
ls9. nearly caused the death of @
Martin, died a week ago to-day =,
the Bennings track. Demagogue q,
as by MagnetiZer. out of Decoy, and a
himself To be "a race horse at o.
Beach last summer, when he e
illoped away from Previous. Fonsa- e
innah and others I'm the Free andi- II
y. At the Gravesend fall meeting b.