The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-31
Race Track and
Stable Gossip.

dealer, Of course, excepted. Trainers,
however. know full well that The
s~pringlike conditions which obtained
last week may be quickly changed into
the leonine ones more usually charac-
teristic of the month and they have
! consequently taken advantage of the
mild weather to hustle their horses
along. At Memphis Ornament has been
going great guns all week. and daily
augments the number of his admirers
among the trainers and track follow
ers quartered at the Montgomery Park
track. Schorr's trio OF 3-year-olds-
Lieber Karl. Presbyterian and Wilson
are doing well, and the son of imp.
Prestonpans will be in condition TO give
a good account Of himself March 70, the
day of the Crescent City Derby. At
Louisville Plaudit. all reports to the
contrary Notwithstanding. Is in good
shape and Is rapidly reaching racing
form. The son of Himyar has been
crippled. as stated. but has. not been
sick "a single day. Hamburg's recent
adverse health bulletin also was a ca
nard pure and simple. as the colt Is IN
fine condition. Tillo Is striding along
at Morris Park and Is "a great favorite
with the Westminster colony of turf
men. and DIR. Catlett is recognized
among the Coney Islanders AZ a dan
gerous factor I'm the Brooklyn handicap.
Typhoon III. and First Mate are on their
way to Morris Park, and shortly viii
be re-enforced by Algol and others of
the Schorr string.
Big winners at the Frisco racks this
season are conspicuous by their alb
sence. Charley Quinn, George Whee-
lock. Joe Rose and Jack are
all, however. fair winners. Newman
made quite a diminutive incarceration
on O'Fleeta and Joe Ullman. and has
still his rabbits foot with him. The
Eastern plungers on the coast as a
rule are losers. Dave Gideon and Ed
Purser have each had a specially hard
run of luck. Corrigan, while he
trained his own horses. had purses
thrown at him. He has again put ii.
Williams i'm charge of the stable. and,
though the latter is "A very capable
man. IL is scarcely likely that he can
maintain C~orrigan's record OF IL purses,
a~ggregating s7,265. i'm II days of rae
Ing.
Ornaments entry to the Carter Han
dicap at the Aqueduct April meeting,
coupled with the generally expressed
doubt of his starting for the Montgom-
cry Handicap. and the placing of con-
siderable Louisville money on him in
the future betting on the Brooklyn. has
made the slashing son of imp. Order a
decided favorite for the big race of the
Gravesend meeting. The betting, how
ever. taken as a whole. has been ex-
ceptionally light, and the public appea
to have at last learned that ante-post
wagering is a pretty risky business,
from the want Of Ia run for your
money" standpoint alone.
DIR. Crowley has a weanling by Foul
Shot, out of Nalentia. by H~idalgo-Yum
Yum. OF which he nourishes great ex-
pectations. Billy Kirwan's good mare
Ray. by Little Phil. hould foal to Foul
shot around March %, and the two
owners are already arranging a double
event Futurity race to be run by The
two prospective Muskets in their 2 and
~3-year-old careers. Ray was a very
speedy mare i'm her time, and to-day
holds the Gloucester five furlong track
record of 1:00A.
Apropos of the naming of race horses,
the A. III. and d.. IL. Morris youngsters
are nearly all named by the widow of
the late John "A. Norris. though her
daughter-in-law has been generally
credited with the difficult task. Mrs.
Morris musical and apt nomenclature
has for years challenged the admira-
ton of tuprfmen. This year, however.
the widow of the founder of Morris
Park track has sprung a jaw-breaker
ON the betting ring by naming n Nor
ris Juvenile Huitzilopochtli, after one of
the Incas of Peru. The correct pronun-
citation of the cognomen Is "Whit-lo-
pokd-li.' but IL Is a safe proposition
that the bookies and rail birds will
have a name of their own making FOR
the colt should he be able To pack the
weight of such a name and hold his
own with his contemporaries.
]. T.. Mcdonald and certain others OF
the big Eastern bettors have an
nounced their intention of crossing the
herring pond and of akin n bonfire
of the British betting rings by playins
the American horses. j. X. keenes st
Cloud H., in the Lincolnshire Handi-
cap: Aug. Belmont's Bridegroom H., In
the Derby: Pierre Lorillard's Diakka
in the cup races. and Mcdonald owl
horse. Rensselaer,, i'm the timber-top.
ping contests, will be the mediums used
i'm the proposed raid on the English
bookies. This Is as IL should be. II
denotes patriotism and makes betting
but IL is a mighty hard task TO beat the
astute John Bull at his own game of
his own ground.
American plungers on the Englisl
turf have come and the same have
gone-broke. Theo. Walton, the Phila
delphia "boniface." was the one Ameri
can plunger who beat the British book
les acomin' and agoin'. Walton woi
81. 800, 900 in a single season In the Eng
lish and French rings, and of his hug
sum $500, 900 was gained by Walton'i
pluck i'm following FoXhalrs fortunes II
all his races. IL was no great strain oil
the nervy plunger to play Foxhall II
the Grand PriN de Paris or even In tn
great handicap of the English back
end season. the C~esarewitch. IL tool
a whole heap of grit. however. To risl
thousands and tens Of thousands o
dollars on Foxhall in the Cambridge
shire Handicap. u two weeks late
than the Cesarewitch. in which keene'
great colt had to pack the steadier o
lo6 hounds against the best-bred ant
fastest milers in the world. Foxhal
won all three races and rubbed into GU
English cousins the good impression q
American th~oroughbreds already mad
by Iroauois.
.'Foxhall's year" as IL Is entered II
many an English turf calendar. wa
when Walton caught the British book
saS acomin'.