The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-18
Of JOHN NOLAN
The Great Bitter Root Trotter's
+, Performances.
MATCH FOR ANY HORSE
I His Earnings Aggregate sl5J9oo-His
Most Remarkable Rscord o n b
Eastern Tracks-Fastest Five
Mile Heat on Record.

With reference to the remarkable
performance of John Nolan. the Bitter
Root t~rotter. at Lexington last week,
the New York Sun avs:
John Nolan's winning performance
in the Transylvania places him at the
hea of all winners of the year., and
gives to the 4-year-old son of Prodi-
gal a record as a campaigner which
has never been equaled by any trot-
ter during his first season on the turf.
His earnings aggregate $500. Since
June 10 he has started i'm II races, win
ming eight and getting a part of the
purse in all except one. Nolan not
only wound up the campaign with the
fastest ive-heat race on record, but
placed to his credit a race in which
the time of every heat was better than
2:10.
John Nolan started in the 300 class
at Denver before the middle of June.
He trotted two races of eight heats
within three days. and though beaten
both time by the California stallion,
George w. Mckinney. the Montana 4
year-old split h heats n gained a
/, record of 2:1411 in the first winning
milesof his career. His next start vas
at st. Joseph, Mo, where, on July D,
he defeated Mckinney, Querist, Major
Chew, and other sensational green
ones in straight heats. cutting his rec
ord down to 2:13%. 1t was here that
w. o. Foo saw him and bought him
for ]. T.. Hubinger of New Haven. pay
ing something like $4,000. Foote did
not start him again until the opening of
the grand circuit of Detroit. The raw
4-year-old started there in the 2:12 class
and won again, reducing his record to
2:12%. At Cleveland he was distanced
in the second heat, and for the first and
only time during the campaign failed
to win any part of the purse. He did
not start at Columbus, but won at Fort
Wayne the following week. 1t Buffa-
10 he was beaten by Timorah for the
s., 900 purse for 2:30 trotters, getting
second money. At Glens Falls he trot-
ted a heat every day between showers
for three days, but won his race in
straight heats. At Boston the follow
ing week he won a $1,000 purse, going
from there to Hartford. where, on
Sept. 6, he pulled down the Charter
Oak purse and owered his record to
2:09k. After the Hartford race he was
laid up nearly three weeks, his next
start having been at Louisville, where
he won the $1,000 Douglass purse. gain
ing a record OF 2:0S.
While most of the horses that started
put with this wonderful 4-year-old last
IN lay long since fallen by the way
size, ne mas teaul improved UNTIL
he is now deemed to be a match for
almost any horse on the trotting turf.
He is rangy rather a rugged in
appearance. n nine out of 10 circuit
followers have persistently moderated
him ever since he appeared in high
society. the general belief being that
he could not train on under severe
work. Nolan was bred by Marcus
DAILY Of Anaconda. Mont. He is by
Prodigal. 2:16. and his dam is Fanta-
STA, 2:17%. a mare hat trotted to her
record when Is years old. She was by
Ranchero, a son of Clark Chief, jr.,
and her dam, although announced in
Wallace's Year Book as unknown. was
Lady Kate. by Toronto Chief, jr., a
horse raised on Long Island by Simon
Bovine, the father OF Il. X. Bovine of
John r. Gentry fame.
DAILY sold the winner of the Transyl-
vania yesterday. when young, TO j. III.
Leonard Of st. Joseph, Mo. He was
trained by Dick Benson and driven
in his first races this year By DIcN AL
len The great 4-year-old was regis
tered under the name of Free Liver.
Leonard changed his name to John
Nolan in honor of a big hearted Irish
man of Cripple Creek. Col. The horse
was inclined to pace last year, but he
struck a trot near the end Of the sea-