The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-05
Race rack and
Stable Gossip

talks loud, apologies for winning sc
| frequently, and saves every cent which
his horses win. Those Brutus young
sters have been gold mine to him.
| His father raced before him. Col
lected on the farm were band of GU
riously assorted mares that had run
| and been retired under the fathers
| management The old stallion died
and Boots went to look for a horse to
take his place. He found Brutus at
Palo Alto. The horse was young, I'M
tried. we'll bred. but unsightly to look
upon. Boots is not a stickler for
beauty, and he bought Brutus for $500.
Palo Alto has been sore ever since.
His first crop sent out Peter the
Great as star, and Torchbearer and
others as second fiddles. Peter the
Great was probably near first class.
Boots set sail for the East with his
collection, and though Peter went off
and never got back again to his early
form, the stable won enough money
to pay expenses, and Boots got $4,000
for Peter and Torchbearer from AL
bert Cooper. That was a bad horse
trade for Albert. but a fat fortune for
Boots.
Since that trip to New York Boots
has confined himself to the West, and
keeps right on bringing out new Brut-
uses and winning with them He has
an especially strong combination of
them this season, and thinks they are
good enough to win and sell. Just
now there is an epidemic in the San
Francisco stable and Boots is not do
ing much with them, but for a while
he was averaging a race or two a
day with them. In number of races
won he probably leads the owners rae
ing West. His horses are as remark
able for their ugliness as they are for
their speed endurance and other cam
paigning qualities.
Another western man who thinks he
can cut a figure East this season is
the Montana man, w. D. Randall. He
has been winning a few at San Fran
cisco himself He is associated with
Marcus DAILY, and has handled horses
for Daily for several western seasons.
He has got together a number of good
ones on his own account. Ostler Joe.
Ballister. Montanus and Miss RoWena
are his best Eight horses will make
up the stable, and should nothing oc-
cur to prevent, Randall will get here
about the time of the opening of the
Brooklyn meeting. Ostler Joe will be
the stable dependence for expenses
money. The old horse is taking a rest
in preparation for the campaign.
Marcus DAILY has a pair of well-bred
S-yearolds in training for the Brooklyn
derby. One is called lamar. He is a
well-turned colt by Tammany, out of
Oriole. the dam of Ogden who won
the Futurty of 1896 and beat some of
the best of the handicap horses last
season in races of a mile and a fur
long and under. This colt Mr.. Daily
believes will prove a better horse over
distance of ground than Ogden was.
In conformation and general appear
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other DAILY candidate is Tagharne, by
Inverness, out of Tradewind, the dam
of Gotham and Geisha He, too, is a
promising colt.
The California Derby, like the Cali
fornia Oaks. is likely to turn out me-
diocre contest, through retrogresson
of form in the leading candidates. The
latter race lost most of its interest
through the enforced retirement of
Barney Schreiber's pair, Miss Marion
and Rosebeua
Testers grand colt, Sam McKeevor,
who promised we'll as a Derby card!-
date early in the season, but who has
been very sick animal for three
weeks, is rounding into form, and may
get in shape to start for the classic
3-year-old event However, Western
horsemen are of the opinion that Nc
keever is out of consideration as a
winner or that race.
Another prominent Derby candidate.
First Tenor bowed tendon slightly
in his last start six weeks ago, but
he seems to be in pretty fair shape at
present. He has been troubled some
what with tender feet, but Burns ana
Waterhouse are confident that in tie
next three weeks First Tenor will run
and be fit to carry the stable money on
Derby day.
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working fine, and, if everything contil-
ues favorable, will go to the post heav-
lily backed on Derby day
Olinthus also is in good shape looks
like French plate mirror in the san
and is full of the ginger that made
him the cinch California 2-year-old of
'9S. He is being given special prepara-
ton for the Derby.
AS the long line of disguised looking
sports slowly filed out of the track
after the last race. a pretty girl. who
was standing with an escort awaiting a
car said:
George, who are those men, and why
do they look so downcast? Is to-day
the last day of the meeting or was
there any trouble inside?"
No, Lucy, to-day is not the last
day was the reply: land neither was
there any trouble. Those men you see
dlt WI are h1lpWn DIS Wise gaZabdlS.'
They are the fellows who know it all.
Some newspapers write them us as the
talent They sit up half of the ni-ht
studying dope and come out here the
next day cooked and primed and ready
to pick them one, two, three. Gold
bricks. did you say? Why. certainly
there would not be the slightest trnu-
BILE in selling any of them one. Money?
Yes they used to have it once upon a
time, but they have been such good
come ons of late that it is doubtful if
they have much left. Oh no. they won't
commit suicide. They'll be back to-
morrow armed with dope and figures
and just as confident as ever"
But, George, who are these jolly
looking fellows wearing such bright
smiles and smoking those big, fat ci-
gars?"
Those, why, they are the 'bookies'
The men who stand up on a block pos
ing as martyrs and anxious to hand
over their hard earned wealth to the
above mentioned talent. They are the
men who don't know a thing. Who
have accumulated money in order that
they can relieve, the distress of the dope
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