The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-15
Race rock and
Stable Gossip

Under the head of Handsome Wins
Out" the New York Telegraph of Sum
| day prints the following.
The story of the horse Handsome,
| the 7-year-old son of Hanover-Cinde-
rela reads like unto that of prodiga1
son.
The champion Western 2-year-old of
his year "a season which brought oft
Handsome, Leo Lake, Lissak, Frank
X, Diggs and many other good ones),
a campaign on the coast, many sears
from the veterinary's iron, knocked
around the Oregon county fair circuit,
a tramp horse to be lost sight of alto
gether then returned to take his place
at the head of one of kentucky's noted
breeding establishments, Is his record.
Leo Lake, belonging to Ed Corrlgan,
had shown the best early form of this
lot of 2-year-olds. and his performances
at the early Southern meetings war
ranted the belief Of his owner that he
was pretty close to ffrst-class.
When he met Handsome in the Sen
sation stakes at the. Latonia spring
meeting it took his best efforts to beat
the son of Hanover by short head
Mr.. Corrigan thought if his colt was
first-class the other one could not be
far away and he Immediately purchas-
ed him from that old colored owner
and trainer, Brown Dick for $4,000
and $500 more if the colt won the
Hdye Park stakes a1 Washington park
and another 500 If he won the Cod-
gress Hall stakes at Saratoga. The colt
| was shipped to Chicago and won the
| rich Hyde Park stakes and many other
| good races there, though he failed in
the Congress Hall. That winter he was
| shipped to the coast, and after Win
ming a number of races he broke down.
He was under the care of a veterinary
and his skill was all exerted to get
the colt into racing shape again, but
without avail.
Mr.. Corrigan finally sold him to
Zeke Abraham, a San Francisco man
who had a fancy for high-class equine
bric-a-brac, for almost nothing. Mr..
Abraham could do nothing with him
either, and he was finally traded to
parties who took him to Oregon and
campaigned him around with little
| success, and about two years ago he
was an outcast in a strange land and
finally lost sight of altogether.
Last spring, when Milton Young lost
by death his sterling sire Hanover the
breeders of Kentucky began to look
around for one of his get that on breed
ing and performances would be most
likelyt to fill his place in the stud. Hand
some was generally regarded as the
one, as aside from his good racing rec
ord his dam, Cinderella, had produced
such good performers as Terrier. Hast
ngs, Plaudit, Glenheim and Others.
DR.. j. D. Meet has been engaged since
Hanoyer's death in an effort to rF-
| claim Handsome. By vast amount
of correspondence he was traced to the
Interior of Oregon ana by the liberal
| use Of printers inks in the Portland pa
pers. he was finally located about 100
miles from that city, doing stud SER
vice on a ranch.
Negotiations We're at once opened and
his owner named a price which Meet
accepted by wire. The horse was ship
ped by express and reached Hartland
stud at Versailles, Ky. two weeks ago
and arrived in excellent condition.
So, after years of buffeting around,
Handsome is now black to the place
where he was foaled to take the place
Of the premier stallion, with the hope
that he will be a worthy successor to
his sire, the great Hanover.