The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-12
Race rack and
Stable Gossip


successful horse owners in the world
During the past season Mr.. Madden
campaigned 81 horses, of which two
were 4-year-olds, IL were 3-year-olds
and is were 2year-olds. The aggre-
gate sum earned by the Madden string
in stakes and purses was s63,615 OF
which amount Hamburg alone won
S43 335. This showing Of the great colt
was the more remarkable. as he was
not eligible to start in the Fhturlty,
race which he would without question
have captured, and the added value of
which would have just doubled the
earnings of his 2-year-old career
Next to Hamburg. Plaudit was the
best breadwinner in the Madden stable.
Plaudit did not come into his present
owners possession until Just prior TO
the running of the Futurity. Brown"
Dick bred Plaudit and became respon-
sible for his engagements. among which
is one in the St. Louis Derby Far spent
as the season was. Plaudit earned $500
for Mr.. Madden and many good judges
believe that this son of Himyar WILL i'll
his 3-year-old career. Guido his relative
in blood, The great Domino himself
Rowland who had in the early spring
been tried out To be the superior of
Hamburg. made a most ingloriouS es-
say in the Futurity and was the most
overrated and disappointing horse in
the Madden menage. Rowland, herald
of trumpets in the opening days of the
81 campaign, after his usual perform
ance in the Coney Island classic, which
was supplemented by crushing defeat
at the heels of Archduke and Salabar
over the last five furlongs of the Futu-
rity course. dropped clean out of sight
and carried the hole with him. His
earnings footed up just $4,000 a mere
bagatelle for "A son of Hindoo which
was expected to emulate the doings of
his daddy" Partridge, with $3.50 to
his credit and Oxnard. with 81, 420 We're
the only others of the long string that
broke into four figures, but with $63675
earned by the running of his horses,
and sac. 100 received for the sale of
Hamburg, MI Madden had nothing to
complain about.
j. $. Curtis, the Englishman who
purchased Method. by Order Victorine,
a full brother to Ornament for $4,000.
and has Royal Stag in the Brooklyn
handicap has three American horses in
training in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES H., In
dian Chief II. and Pearl RouX.
English cables report the acceptance.
with the single exception Of Pierre Lor-
lizards Diakka, Of the weights as
signed the American horses in the big
spring races.
The opening handicap of the English
turf year is the Lincolnshire, at a mile,
which is scheduled to run at Lincoln,
March %. In this race James X.
keene's St. Cloud IL. is allotted 119
pounds. and his stablemate, Voter is
given III pounds. Pierre Lorillard,
though he declared Dial<ka with 12i
pounds out, has accepted with Sandia,
who is in with III pounds. OF the trio
left to uphold the honor of the stars
and stripes, Voter. on the strength of
his victory in the Metropolitan handi-
III
confidence of his owner and the shek-
els of the ever-increasing American
colony located in London,
Voters best performance last season
was not victory, however. Aug. "a. at
Sheepshead Bay. in the siX-furlong
Fall handicap, with l27 pounds up, and
over an ideally English track, muddy
with soft footing. Tod" Sloan, who
had the mount on Voter. attempted the
impossible task of setting such terri
tic pace that Hastings, then at his best,
was successfully killed off. The speedy
son Of Frar's Balsam, however, had to
stall off the challenges of fresh horses.
each of which had big pull in the
weights. and which had laid back be-
hind the pair of pacemakers. Among
these was Ornament, the superior to
Ben Brush in speed, to which Voter was
conceding eight pounds. 1t is "a mat
ter of history that Ornament won the
belief that single handed Voter would
have vanquished Ornament with CON
summate ease.
That the English bookmakers thor
oughly appreciate the magnificence of
Voters essay that day, is amply proved
by the short odds of Is to 1 offered
against him last Saturday. despite the
fact that six weeks must elapse prior to
the decision of the race.
In the great Jubilee stakes. to be run
May 7, at Kempton Park. one of the
swell suburban tracks which surround
London. American horses are partic-
ularly well represented. The Jubilee is
a mile handicap. and the following are
among the acceptances: James Il.
keene's Voter 30 pounds. and st.
Cloud H., 115 pounds; Pierre Lorillard's
Sandia. 122 pounds, and BerZak los
pounds, A. Cockburn's David H., rs
pounds. and Richard Cookers Dobbns,
rs pounds. 1t will he noticed that the
Handicapped of the Jubilee allots Voter
three pounds more than he is assigned
in the Lincolnshire. This is i'm itself an
indication that the compiler OF the
weights evidently regards Voters VIC
tory as largely Ringing upon the ques-
ton of decentralization. In the Jubilee
Voter will have nearly seven weeks
longer than he has in the Lincolnshire
to overcome the Nagares of the Eng
fish climate. 1t is somewhat of a leap
in the dark to predict the winner of a
race 1900 miles distant and several
weeks off, but if Mr.. keene's entry is
sent 10 the post fit, the horse that beats
Voter will know there is "a new coon in
town.
Dare devir' Fitzpatrick, the former
jockey and starter who died in Sara
toga two days ago. was one of the most
widely known characters on the Amer
lean turf. He had an exceptionally long
career. As long ago as 1880 Fitzpatrick
rode in jumping races in the East. and
was able to get as low as loo pounds
for races ON the flat Probably his first
race of national importance was the
Suburban of 1885. in which he had the
mount on Rataplan, the favorte. He
rode u grand race that day, but his
mount succumbed To the superior speed
of Pontiac and Richmond.
Fitzpatrick was then ur3er contract
to ride the heavyweight mounts for
Commodore kitsan, the widely known
owner of the Northwest. Andrew Nc