The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-24
ONE MORE SEASON ENDED
Some of the Turf Events We're of
High-Class Quality.
SOME OF THE BIG EVENTS
Inose Who Keep Track Of Racing Mat
tiers Are OF the Opinion That
Affairs Are in Fine
Shape for 1900.

! The racing season closed lost Satur-
day at Morris park, and it is said by til >
knowing ones that the racing was what
It should have been. Whatever The
reason, there is recognition of the
fact that the racing at Morris park was
all right The contests were good, sis
sport clean, the programmes excellent
| and the management efficient and alert.
| Creating the enthusiasm that it did, the
meeting will leave racing IN splendid
shape for 1900. 1t will be 200 early fur
month yet to review the year. but tine
| most casual glance down the line shows
| that this years horses are of as high
| class on the average as ever battled
for supremacy. Bar the bunch Of cell
| ing platers, the average class of horses
engaged was higher than it was in any
| one ofethe past half dozen years. Speak
| ing of three-year- olds. an authority
says:
| 1T is true that in the three-year-o
division we have not seen any which
was able to concede weight to the older
| horses, and we are likely to argue
therefrom that our three-year-olds are
| not strictly first-class because we can
recall some years in which a sensa-
tlonal three-year-old was the king of
the turf. The argument is faliacouS,
| and 1t is so because it enormously
starts out with the assumption that
| our older horses this year We're but the
| equals of the older horses of the years
| har
year-old foaled in this country that
could have conceded an ounce to such
| handicap horses as Imp, Don de Orc or
Banastar, and the inability of the
| three-year-olds. therefore, to beat such
horses argues not bit against their
Glass;
Herbert's remarkable mile at Morris
park last Thursday was an eye-opener.
especially with reference to the start
ing question, said w. H. Rowe in the
Telegraph. Herbert's work has been lid
ito stake form, but his record has been
more or less moderate because he is one
of the sort who can never, except under
extremely good luck, show their true
form in short races under the present
system of starting. After spending hun
dreds of years in breeding race horses
who shall possess stamina and energy,
the breeders of to-day seem almost
forced to breed cat-like animals. who
shall be able to get away from the
barrier. for with the bulk Of our races a
short distances, an inability to get run
ming quickly from a standing start is a
tremendous advantage nowadays.
I believe that many of our champions
of other days-horses who have subse-
quently gone into the stud and done
their full share in the propaga ton and
Improvement Of the breed-woud have
been only comparatively mediocre per-
formers under any such startl' ng
regime as now dominates our local race
courses. Those who have noticed Her
bert's general inability to hop off at the
start, but his manifest ability to run
as fast and stoutly when once settled
in his stride, did not fail to take ad-
vantage of the long price about him
last Thursday. I repeat that his mile
was an eye-opener for it proved him to
be genuinely good colt. just the.
stamp whom nothing but such absurd
starting as we have could possibly pre-
vent from accomplishing a nice array
of genuinely good victories. AS to
Herbert's pedigree. we know that he is
another of those Alberts,'' and, like
the rest of them, he can run some. His
DAM Bonnie Ola. was only four years
old when she produced Herbert and Is
by Elkwood, out of Leda, she by King
fisher, out of imp Leightonia, by Fav-
onius.
The two-year-old problem. while not.
solved, is near enough so to let it go by
without the holding of post morton,
remarks a horseman. We have seen
sufficient to know that we will be bound
to have at least a dozen of good three
year-olds to begin next season with. and
that is more satisfactory. except to the
hero worshipper, than to have one who
outstripped his fellows. And, so far as
n he ;e
cerned, the three-year-old form is
much more important and much more
interesting than the two-year-old form
can be. If the racing secretaries of al
the associations have not phenomenally
large entries for their -year-old
events, then all signs will have failed.
The comparative failure of big stables
this year has been marked. And the
reason for 1t? Simply because, in the
bulk OF instances, they have had the
quantity. but not the quality. They
have been trailing in the ruck equally
in stakes and in overnight events, and
while all men wish to see liberal pur-
chasers rewarded with good returns,
yet the failure of these stables. COM
paratively speaking, is tribute to the
truth of the old and much-quoted saw
Ing of Lord George Bentinck that there
are only two places In all the world
and under it. The broad democracy of
the turf and its never forgotten rule
that the only class 1t knows is the class
of the horses, is it's proudest boast. On
the turf there is always free field and
no favor, and talent in handling horses
and judgment in placing them will win.
It is at least one place where mere
money doesn't make the mare 60
The removal Of large portion of
the studs of James r. Keene and of
William C. Whitney from Kentucky
in the first case to New Jersey and in
the second to famous old Stony Ford |
Is a matter for congratulation. No one
glories in the loss of the great Blue
Grass country, but everybody does
glory in the sentiment which inspires the
change, says a New Yorker Kentucky |
has been the home of the thorough |
bred because of the love for him which |
every sportsman entertains. Now that |
it has been proven that horses of as