The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-21
II WAS A GLORIOUS DAY
Tempo Beat the Montana and
: California Records.
SHORT HORSES WINNERS
Out OF Four Races Only One Was Taken
by the Favorite- Much Credit Is
3 Due the Fine Starts Made
by Pat Regain

Great Falls, Sept. 2o.-It was q glo-
rious day and the management is more
than happy tonight. The day was
a record-breaker all around. There
were $500 people who passed through
the wickets, there was $1,000 that
passed drought the pool boxes and
there was a race in which Tempo's
time beat the Montana and California
records. The day was all right in
every respect. There was a strong
breeze blowing, n of the kind breezes
which Great Falls alone knows how to
put up, but it did not seem to effect
the running of the horses. The time
was fair in all of the races. and in the
third race it was exceptional In con-
sequence of these manifold blessings
the image of the meeting are open
ing wine his evening. Nevertheless 1t
wal a day of short horses. Out of four
races but one was taken by the favor
ite, and that the one in which the
people did not feel the surest of the
favorite's victory. All of them were
races of the first class and much of the
credit of the racing is due to Pat Re
gan, the starter, who has little to say,
but works quietly and constantly In
the interests of the meeting. He has
not made a bad start yet, and several
of the starts have been as near perfect
as it is possible for a human being TO
achieve. The position of starter is not
n sinecure in any country, and Regain
is about the only man in the state who
can say that he has really pleased the
public in his work. 1t is an absolute
fact that not a single kick has been
heard on his starts from the grand
stand or the horsemen, n the starter
who can make that record is certainly
phenomenal. AS an instance, he man
aged to get Hymn off. a thing which
is said not TO have happened before In
two years.
To-morrow's card: First race, handi-
cap. three and a half furlongs-Clare
NJ, III; Dutch, 126; Lou Watkins, 1l5;
Miss Rowena, los; Pat Tucke ll6:
Tammany, 10S; Red s., ia; Oman
Watts, 103.
Second race, thirteen sixteenths of a
mile, selling-Mike Rice, 107; Miss
Remsen, 102; Masoero, 107; Uncle True,
1902; None Such. 102; Joe Cotton, 1OI;
Moscow Boy, 102; Decapo, los; Lorena
IT,, 10; watomba, 1872; Encino,5 Ito;
Rapido, 107; B. & w, ITO; Doubtful.
107; willmeter. 105; Midas, ITO; Alicia
107: Torpedo. 107.
Third race, eleven-sixteenths of a
mile, selling-Highland Ball, los; Shell
lac, 101; Wenoma, 1O7; Bill Howard
1i5: Little T. G., SO; Ricardo, SO.
Fourth race, hurdle, handicap, one
and one-quarter miles-Granger, 14l;
]. o. c., 1876: Lord Chesterfield, 100; Nc
Pryor, 1874; Rossmore, 100.
Again the third race was the feature
of the afternoon, and the manner In
which it was run proved that the
crowd was not wrong in its estimation
Of the race. The bay horse Scottish
Chieftain sold as ~favorite, and another
former DAILY horse, Tempo, took the
A,t the hating yuag nrnttV evenly
divided between the three horses, Los
Prietos having been scratched. The
time, 2:06h, or as one timekeepel
caught it, 2:06 1-5, beats the record fol
Montana and the California circuit, anC
II was a rafting good race from star
10 finish. Timekeeper McMahone kind
ly caught the time for the OF
quarter posts, and here 1t is: One
quarter, IA: one-half, ASA; three
quarters, 1:14; one mile. 1:411a; n anC
derful race throughout n 1t is an
other testimony to the ~fastness of tn
Great Falls track. Tempo, a hors'
which was sold for $40 some time ago
was the winner.
THE largest amount OF betting in tn
afternoon was done in the first race
when over 81, 900 was in the place mu
tual box alone and the other boxe
compared favorably with this.
The talent caught it luckily on thi
race, for they had Howard placed TO
the winner, and the result showed tina
their guess was correct, but in thei
choice for second place Ciprian
slipped up. over at the start Mr.. Ega
had quite a little trouble in gettln
them punched properly. but after tn
horses had burst through the barrie
several times. succeeded, and CipTian'
Howard. Mike Rice and Moscow 30
got off in the advance. They held 10
gether pretty well to the turn n ther
MOSCOW Boy seemed to have the Leaf
but Howard gained steadily until CON
ing into the homestretch he took tn
front, winning by half a neck froi
Mike Rice. who was half a lengt
ahead of Moscow Boy. Time, ZIG.