The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-01

off before snow flies again, fer as soon
as the races close in Butte. the scene
will be laid in Anaconda, and when
the meeting closes there, politics and
candidates will appear to keep things
warm until frost comes.
The management has arranged a
most acceptable programme for the
coming week, when nearly sl4. 600 in
purses and stakes will be hung up. The
Yellowstone Handicap is carded for to-
morrow. This is for 2 and 3-year-olds
at six furlongs. The West Side Handi-
cap is on Saturdays card. The card
for to-day is:
Entries for To-Day.
First race. selling, five and a half
furlongs-Captain Vose. 126; Midas.
124; Castake, ia: Reel. ia; Uncle True
ia; Lo 10, 124; Jim B~rownell, III; Lady
Ashley. 1917: Little T. G., 112; Howard.
l16: Negligence, liz.
Second race. maiden 2-year-olds. four
and a half furlongs-Xenia, 10; Snow
Bells, 10: Distance. 1903; Cazadero, 1903:
Alice Rix, 1O5: Ventoro, 10; Lime
Water. 113; Chilcoot Pass, 100; Sun
light. los.
Third race, selling. six furlongs-Etta
H. 105: Sallie Goodwin, 101; La Mas
Gotta, 101; Quicksilver, LOG; Pendian
Butte. 1O5: Juanita. 101.
Fourth race, handicap, three fur
l~ongs-Paddy, Ill; Dick Whooten, 1l0;
Jubilum, 112; Gray Dick, 10; Blue Jay,
1909: Mamie Glenn, los; Clare N, llS;
Silver Jim, 109.
Fifth race, selling. seven furlongs-
Mike Rice, Ill: Coda, 109; william OBJ
109; Montallade, Ill; Robair, ia; Peix-
otto, Ill.
Sixth race. selling, one mile and 20
yards-Veloz. Ill; st. Distaff. Ill;
Reolia. IS; Paul Pry, 1l6; Masoero,
113.
Tod" Sloan's fame as a jockey has
extended to South Africa. According
to a London cable. a South African
turfman by the name of Simons has in
structed his London agent to offer Sloan
an engagement at s25,0 900 for the season
Of 1899.
Advices from France are to the effect
that the imposition of the $40 duty on
imported horses has raised the prices
of native animals materially. Five
American importers are now in France
seeking Percheron and French coach
stations and mares. One small lot of
stations of the latter breed has already
been shipped from Havre. consigned TO
an American gentleman not previously
connected with the trade.
The war has no apparent effect upon
the export trade in horses except to in
crease prices. Up to jun l the statis-
ties at Washington show that for the
previous IL months we exported 46,7O7
horses at a total value of 81. $40. $50. If
the expectations in July are an average
we shall hav an expectation for the
year of over Sc. 000, 900. For the previous
period the figures were 80. 925 horses at
a value of 81. 332, 3SI. This is a highly
satisfactory showing. When to this is
added the large purchases by the gov
eminent of horses which will go to
Cuba and Porto Rico which will never
come back to this market. II is safe to
say that the day of returning prosper
ity for the breeders is at hand. So far
as Kentucky is concerned the surplus
common stock is practically all gone
and with il ont of the way there must
be an advance in prices OF all the
grades. Farmers will make nc mistake
next season in breeding their best
mares to good sires. But if they want
to breed remuneratively they should
breed to we'll bred trotting sires of good
size and handsome individuality. If
they do not get a fast trotter they are
likely to get a handsome carriage horse
or roadster, n in either case il will
pay them.
A Lexington correspondent of the
/ Spirit sends the following interesting
statistics: II give you some figures be-
low. which / nave never seen in print.
and, though the subject may perhaps
be outlawed now. it might. perhaps. be
interesting, as showing that the Lex
ington track, though holding no worlds
records, is pretty warm when IL comes
to racing: During the meeting last fall
there were contested 12S heats in The
average time of 2;12&. Twelve heats
were trotted in 2:10 or better, 80 In 2:1o
or better. pacing; AZ heats were trotted
between 2:1o and 2:15: IA were paced IN
same; six heats were paced in f:07 or
better. The fastest trotttng heat was
that of The Abbott. 2:0sk, in the Tran
sylvania. The fastest pacing heat was
that of Planet. 2:05ls. in the 2:05 pace.
There were only two heats slower than
2:20 during the meeting-2:20A and
2:21ls, in the Lexington. for 2-year-old
trotters. Seventy-two thousand dollars
was hung up during the meeting. over
$500. 900 passed through the auction
pools during the meeting. One hun
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars
was wagered in the pools on the Tran
s~ylvania. the greatest and the heavies.
betting race in the world, for harness
horses. All goes well down here. The
farmers are getting good prices for
their products. Government has nearly
cleaned out our supply of cheap horses.
and quite a number of buyers are tim
ing green 'uns and buying them, too,
when prices are r~edsondDle. onf
stables are full; entry list likewise,
and. weather and wal permitting, we
will have a great meeting here this
fan."
J. w. Brooks. handicapper, clerk OF
the scales and third judge for the Cali
fornia Jockey club. is back after max
ing a trip to his home at Crab Orchard.
Ky. to Louisville and st. Louis. says
the San Francisco Call. He reports
1.-THE game in a very prosperous con-
dition in the Missouri metropolis, owing
to open competition in bookmaking cir
cIes. Barney Schneider has recently
added 100 acres TO his breeding estab'
lishment at Bridgeton, Mo-. and now
has all the room he desires for tht
breeding Of blue-bIooded race horses