The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-02

nj easily with weight up in lilo. TAM
many Hall III. vas sent three-auarters
for his head. Rey Hooker worked
three-quarters in 1:19. Bitter Root
worked three-quarters in 1:21h with
Piggott up, and carrying from l2o to
125 pounds. Miss Rowena worked three
eighths in :3s very easily. Los Prietos
worked three-quarters in LEO with a
| stable boy up. Velencienne worked
three-quarters In 1:24k.
The probable mounts in the Derby
will be: Bitter Root. Piggott; Torsida.
J.. Sullivan; Grand Sachem. J.. Morgan;
Tammany Hall IL, Hennessy; May
Boy, Manning. and Los Prietos, Beau
champ.
Great interest will be felt here in the
Realization stakes to be run at Sleeps
head hey on July 4. There is every
chance that Plaudit, The Huguenot,
| Previous and Hamburg will join Issues
in that race.
Ben Kinney has gone East with six
of the most likely harness horses ever
turned out by the Bitter Root stock
farm. Following are the horses: I'M
providence az, 2:20. by Prodigal out Of
Laura b.; My Trick (2). by Milroi out
of Electrix; Cuprum (3), by Prodigal
out of Cameola: Laurel go, by Prodi-
gal out of Laura b.; Handspring l2),
by Prodigal out of Anna Wilton; Linn
erick (3), by Prodigal out of Anna Will
ton. The horses will appear In Indiana
on the Grand circuit and at Lexington,
Ky.
The recent trotting meeting at Den
yer, says the New York Sun, brought
into prominence several young horses
from the far West. whose names bid
fair to become familiar to all followers
of harness racing before the campaign
o-lc lvnIacS THAR hrpiCinO contests qf
Overland park so early in the season
send them to the dry dock, they are
likely to be ugly customers for the
Eastern contingent to handle. Nothing
like the race for %trotters of the 2:45
class was ever seen in the Grand cir
cuit or elsewhere probably. In the
first three heats of this BILE
contest three green t~rotters finished
heads apart in 2:14A. 2:14, 2:1411. The
first two heats went to John Nolan, a
5-year-old bay gelding from Montana
that never started in a race before.
This is perhaps the first time a trotter
ever gained a record below 2:15 in his
first winning heat. This horse is prob
ably one of the good things that Ed
Upton had in mind when he offered
through the Sun last winter TO match
the get of Prodigal, 2:16, against any
family of trotters in the country for
SIS, 900 or $25, 900 a side. John Nolan was
DTeu Dy mdTcuS LAZY, dHu rs ny
gal out of Fantasia, 2:11%, by Ranch
ero, 2:2112, the son of Larabie's Clark
Chief, jr. His dam gained her record
last season in a race at Butte, Mont,
when she was 16 years old.
John Nolan is in the stable of Dick
Tilden. Great as he is, he was beaten
in the race at Denver by the bay geld
Peter w. Hodges of Los Angeles, Cal.
After forcing Nolan to trot the first
two heats in 2:14h and 2:14 the Cali
fornia horse outlasted the Montana
trotter and won the next three heats
in 2:14A. 2:19&, 2:1S. George w. Nc
Kinney is by the good campaigner and
trotting sire Mckinney. 2:1lh, he son
of Alcyone and Rosa Sprague, by Gov
ernor Sprague. He trotted seven races
in California last year and although
he did not win a heat he was good
enough to finish second once or twice
in 2:20. Mr.. Middlemay. who finished
within a nose of the Mckinney horse in
2:14Ik at Denver, is a bay gelding by
Marsh Murdoch, 2:245. who is a son
Of Ashland Wilkes, 2:17h, the sire of
the great PAGER John r.. Gentry, 2:0Ok.
Having won no heat. Mr.. Middlemay Is
still eligible to the 800 class. 1t is said
that all three of these remarkable
young trotters will start in the 800
Merchants and Manufacturers stake
race at the Detroit Grand circuit meet
ing next month.
The Denver meeting brought out some
notable PAGERS as well as sensational
trotters. The much-talked-of 5-year-
old Anaconda, 2:0sA. by Knight. 2:22h'
son of Woodford Wilkes, paced three
heats in 2:O9A, 2:09A, 2:1OA, beating
Carbonate. 2:09, and some others. He
is in the stable of Thomas Heating, and
is entered at several Grand circuit
meetings. Anaconda was bred by John
b. Haggin at Rancho del Paso. near
Sacramento, Cal. Two PAGERS game
new records below 2:10 in the 2:12 race
at Overland park. Roberts, a chestnut
gelding by the Iowa trotting horse Ar
rason. son of Abe Downing, 2:2o%. wor
the first two heats in 2:09h and 2:10A
then giving way to Raymond M, a
big, black hoppled stallion by Thorn
dyke. a great-grandson OF Volunteer
; Roberts started in the race with a rec
| ord of 2:11A and Raymond NJ. with
mark of 2:l4h. After winning two heats
, in 2:O9A and 2:14h, Raymond Nj. was
! beaten the race in slower time by Andy
McDowelrs chestnut mare Lena N, by
|. Sidney. The Western horses are due a
: Omaha this week.