The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-22
Race rack and
Stable Gossip

While there was no racing on the
Montana circuit this year, still the SELL
| timent in favor of racing is as strong
| If not stronger than ever. This fact is
| made apparent by the very heavy play
the pool rooms are enjoying. Had COLI
ditions been different the season in this
| city would have been successful to a
| degree as far as the little Ranchero
| park would admit; but things took an
| unfavorable turn there and what prom
| iSed to be a lively month of the sport
came to sudden and disagreeable
| close 1t is believed that the circuit
! will resume business next year, still
| there has been no word of authority
| given out on that score The belief is
| founded on the almost unanimous de-
| sire for racing. Butte is one of the hot
| test racing cities in the country and tie
patrons of the turf here have declared
on more than a dozen occasions their
preference for racing next season.
The racing season of 1899 shows five
new worlds recC DIS. Four Of last years
new records and Mary Blacks tie of
the three-quarters were all made at
Washington Park track. and the fight,
which is the most meritorious of all,
only just missed coming into this year
by one day, as Buckwa, carrying 104
pounds reduced the two and quarter
mile mark by 5A seconds, 1T Oakland,
Cal, Dec. 81, 1898. That track also is
responsible for Dunois' new seven and
one-half-furlong record, made Feb 81
and the Bachelors new four-mile rec
ord, made Feb. %. The latter clipped
three seconds off that held by Fellow
craft since 1874
1T was not until September that any
old landmarks We're again removed, an /
then .Carnero did the trick at one and
one-sfxteenth miles at Hawthorne, fol-
lowed by the fleet filly George at six
and one-ha1f furlongs on the sa me
track. The last new record to be made
was by Firearm. which. on Oct. 3, at
Morris Park, clipped a quarter of a
second off that held by the black whirl-
wind Domino since 1898. Fast time has
been made all over the country this
year. and it looks as if the art of MAX
ing and keeping a track is yearly i'm
pare Firearm and Domino or George
with such as Weinberg. The new rec
ords to date are: Three-quarter mile
Firearm a., 100 pounds, Morris Park,
n. Y. straight course), Oct. 3, 1:0S3i;
six and one-half furlongs, George (3),
1872 Hawthorne, Ill. Sept. 1s. 1:1sh;
seven and one-half furlongs, Dunois
o. Oakland, Cal, Feb. 81. 1924 one
and one-sixteenth miles, Carnero (5).
| 107, Hawthorne. ILL.,, Sept. S, las; four
| miles, The Bachelor (6), 113, Oakland,
Cal, Feb %, 7:161s.
Racing is an expensive game, and the
man who starts out with stable Of
horses must exercise extreme care in
| looking after expenses, or he will soon
| ind a big balance on the wrong side
of his ledger. Expensive as it is in
| this country, however, it is still more
costly in England The following from
| Il he 7 L. all L. 80 Il,a
many opportunities of spending money
| the race horse owner enjoys, or, at
| least. experiences:
| 1t is the owner who takes the in
| itial risk of paying enormous prices for
the services of sires on the hypothesis
| that he may obtain a good foal as a
| result of the speculation, or still larger
sums for the foal when it is success
| fully launched into the world, though
without any promise that appearances
| in this case, its make and shape-will
be to any appreciable extent borne out.
| 1t is the owner who pays a matter of
e150 per annum for the keep and train
ing of each animal possessed by him.
who ventures considerable sums in EN-
tries, huge proportion of which are
mere lottery tickets, producing larger
proportion of blanks than is the case
with an organized lottery. Upon the
owner fall the heavy travelling expenses.
jockey fees and other incidentals: SO
it is clear that he has established a
right to be considered when there is any
division of spoil to be done. No one VINO
has not had to do with the practical
side of racing ownership could conceive
the extent to which the owner is 'bled
| in the shape of fees. Whatever he does
a fee stares him in the face, no matter
how much to the convenience of other
people his act may be. For naming his
| horse
gets half a crown: for the clerical
trouble of entering a horse in race
there is another half crown third pay
ment of two-and-sixpence being exacted
for weighing the jockey. Registering
colors, an enforced provision, costs (
Shillings per annum: if registered fol
life, an obvious convenience to the reg.
istrar sovereigns is the charge. II
you race under an assumed name you
are charged $40, as though by way c1
conformation, it would seem, though fol-
what is not clear; and there are Other
smaller charges. When. by way OF
salve for these varied disbursements
the owner manages to win a few hun
dred pounds, there is the stakeholder
waiting for him with his one-ha1f, or
what is more frequent, l per cent"
! Western turfmen who have returned
from their campaigns on Eastern
tracks tell queer tales of the doings o,
the metropolitan racing circuits thi
season. According to one turfman
whose word can hardly be doubted
| nearly every prominent owner, traine
and Jockey in the East was und
strict detective surveillance the entir
season. The jockey club stewards hire,
Pinkerton men by the scores, and the,
had instructions to shadow their mel
night and day. over $500 was eX
pended by the jockey club for the serv
ice of Pinkerton men, and very few. i
any. prominent horsemen escaped bein;
shadowed Night and day the sleuth
were close at hand and nothing escape,
that was done. minute reports bein!
turned in by the Hawkshaws to tn
jockey club. This state of affairs wa
brought about by the charges of crook
edness made almost daily by the press
So far as is known very little WA