The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-11
TODAY THE FLAG FALLS
Opening of the Anaconda Race
Meeting to Be an Event.
BIG DAILY STAKE CARDED
Some OF the Best Horses at the Track to
Contest for the Purses-Everything
in Good Shape for the Aus
picious Occasion.

The races will begin this afternoon.
The track has been deserted for a
year. but now it is all polished up for
the annual occasion and the buildings
n grounds never pol prettier.
Everything is in ship shape for the
suspicious opening. To-day's card
warrants a tremendous attendance. be-
ing one of the most attractive offered
at this seasons meeting on the West
Side. The five weeks meeting at Butte
has given the race patrons an oppor-
tunity to get a line" on the horses.
and form playing will be the rule from
the start, except in those races where
untried horses will start. OF the $50
horses at the rack there are about $50
yet to show their form to the average
patron of h track and these will give
the wise men an opportunity to exer-
else their judgment.
The city is rapidly filing up with
prominent horsemen from San Fran
cisco. Denver. st. Louis, Portland,
Spokane. Helena, Chicago and other
outside cities. besides well known
Butte and other turfmen of the state.
A large number of Butte patrons will
make Anaconda their temporary abode
during the races. while the greater
number will make the daily trip from
the big mining amp to the Copper
City. The railroad facilities and &C
commodations between the two cities
are unsurpassed anywhere. The time
schedule for the Butte public during
the races is as follows:
Leave Butte at Los o'clock p. M, ar
irving at the race track at 2 o'clock.
Returning, leave Anaconda at Q
o'clock p. m, arriving in Butte az
$50.
The crowds from suite will be taken
direct to the grand stand. thus doing
away with any delay which otherwise
would be caused by transfer from the
city to the grounds:
The races will begin promptly at 2:30,
instead of 3, as was the rule in Butte.
By his arrangement the visitors will
nave ample time after the races to
come to the city and eat dinner or
otherwise refresh themselves before
the train pulls out for home. The So
600 DAILY stake is the feature of to-day's
programme, and this alone will draw
a big crowd, and it is expected that
Butte will come down in a body to add
10 the b~rilliancy of the initial day. The
card is as follows:
First race, handicap. three furlongs-
Red s., 112; Lou Watkins. 121; Dutch,
153; Rather, Ill; Pat Tucker, 10; Glare
N, los.
Second race, selling, six and a half
fu~rlongs-Duke or York H., 1O3; Ner-
vosa. 1872; Encino, 107: iii Rice, lis:
Negligence, 1903; Lorena IL, los; New
Moon. los; Carness, 106; Willmeter, 104;
Creedmore L., LOG.
Third race, 2-year-olds, five f%urlongs
-Ventoro. 106: Rey Hooker, 109: May
Beach, 1903; FL Mido. 106; Larva, 106.
Fourth race, the DAILY stake. one and
an eighth miles, value s2,000-Grand
Sachem, lis: imp. Black Cap, 10; imp.
Missioner. lis; Torsida, 122: Tammany
Hall H., lis; Los Prietos, 112.
Fifth race. over four hurdles, one and
an eighth miles-Granger, 1870: Univer-
sity. 1870; Viking, 1853: Lord Chesterfield,
1872; ]. o. c., 156; Texarkana. 126.
Sixth race, selling, six f~urlongs-
Florimel, 105; Hymn, 107; Col. Cody,
110; Robin HOOD H., 1903: Rossmore. 107; |
DR.. Marsden, 107: Hermanita, 1O5; 3.
& w. ITO; Ida H., 105; Mary Barnes,
los; Belle de Mutt, 9S; Little Tough,