The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-08
ANACONDA news.
OCCUPYING THE STALLS
Several Carloads of Race Horses
Arrive From the Butte Track.
The OPENING THURSDAY
Everything Being Polished Up for the
Reception OF the Thousands of Visit
tors to the City-Successful Run
ming Meeting Is Promised.

After a year or quiet the race trdCh 10
beginning to assume an air Of bust
ness, and things are iivening up to a
great extent. The doors of the stalls
are swung open to receive the hundreds
of race horses that are arriving from
Butte, the operating force is at work,
the finishing touches to the track have
been applied, the betting ring and grand
stand polished UP and the rusty hinges
of the main entrance gates oiled-in fact
nearly all arrangements are completed
for the reception of the great crowd
which will witness the opening days
programme of the race meeting to begin
Thursday afternoon.
The horsemen are beginning to ar
rive with their e~quippages. their attend
ants, jockeys and enthusiasm, for 1t is
predicted that the meeting will be the
greatest, most successful ever held in
the Northwest. The city is all dressed
up to receive the thousands of guests
who will enliven IL during the next
month Anaconda's hospitality Will
be extended as is its custom on occas-
ions of such import and the visitors
are assured of ample accommodations
anu InOSl COuI ltouo 'NNN~
has lust witnessed the closing of an eX-
elusive running meet, and the race pa
irons of this city, enthused over the
signal success of the meeting over
there, will welcome the new departure
of the management OF the association
here, and no doubt Is expressed that the
experiment will prove as gratifying as
has been the result OF the carnival In
the big sister city.
Saturday night two carloads Of horses
were brought from Butte and yesterday
IA carloads arrived, n by Wednesday
all Of the stables will be quartered at
the track. AS no announcement to the
contrary has been made II is more than
probable that the same of1cials VINO
acted at the Butte meeting will do duty
at the Anaconda track. The services
of these officials have been generally
considered competent, n while, as a
matter of course, the action of the
Judges at times was questioned by those
most concerned, no fragrant violation of
the rules of the turf has been record
ed. Starter Ferguson has given general
satisfaction. He has been particularly
careful at every start to give the horses
equal chances at the breakaway and
he has had some of the worst acting
lots that ever mixed up to wear on the
patience OF a man. 1t is a mater or
record at the Butte meeting that he has
ndu int HIlldlltSl ptiNNiNotN VI 49,
starts ever charged up to a starter in
Montana. 1t appeared at times that he
was unduly harsh and severe with the
Jockeys under his command, but his
manner toward them was readily I'M
derstood when ii was considered that
jockeys want the best of a thing at the
start as well as at the finish and that
they take desperate chances to obtain
il, and it is at such times a starters pa
thence is put to the test and his per-
suasive powers applied.
This year the number of touts on the
circuit is small in comparison, and the
giver of tips" has done little business.
He is working in a community compos-
ed of men who are quite competent to
Judge for themselves and who never
make a practice of looking to interiors
for advice. The paddock is accessible,
the horses can be seen, their record
is open, and the man who wants to
speculate may acquire all the fnforma-
ton obtainable by careful observation
and without the volunteered advice or
assistance of a ~"touting wise man.
This the touting element is becoming
sadly aware of as the long, dry days
pass.
Messrs. Fitch and Lowry, the polished
and versatile sellers of auction pools.
are at the head OF their class. Either
of them can get up in a crowd and
make pools as fast as Dutch can 80
three furlongs with 1876 pounds W They
have "a way about them which takes
in any betting crowd. a sarcastic vein
of humor is sometimes discernable in
the course of Mr.. Fitch's exhortations
which Is decidedly delectable as well
as unique, and while Lowry is not re-
markably humorous. he, like his asso-
ciate, possesses all those admirable
traits so essential in the makeup of a
most popular gentleman. There will
undoubtedly be a very large crowd at
the track Thursday. The rich DAILY
stakes will be contested for by a field
of the highest class horses in the North
west, besides the other events will merit
a big turnout and speculation. August
is usually a fair month and weather
conditions will no doubt be about right.
Indications point to one of those hugely
successful meetings for which Montana