The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-14
Race rack and
Stable Gossip

John Madden has not sold anything for
a day or two You know Madden does
not like to have people say that he runs a
sale stable. Many horses has he sold, it
is true, but if you should look over the
Madden career you will discover that he
has done some buying. He bought those
that he sold, and their value was in
creased through his management of them.
Nothing is said of the yearlings for
which he has paid good dollars and never
got a gallop out Of them.
Madden has his own way of buying,
as he has his own way of selling. He
scares a breeder every time he visits a
over bunch of yearlngs picks out one
or two or three and asks the price, Not
so Madden. 1t is his habit to carefully
inspect the output of farm. a lot of a
dozen or so by sires that he likes.
He may pass them over for a time and
come back again. He picks out what he
thinks is likely, but he never says which
one it is. He makes an offer for the
whole lot. He banks on one or two and
taxes a chance at the others, hoping
that out of the discarded lot may come
one or two that will pay for the whole
He has bought that way for a number
of years. and has never missed his guess,
yet. Almost every fast performer that
he has cut loose was one of a band. The
funny part about Madden's buying is
that in nine cases out of ten he names
a figure which is just about what the
breeder expected to get. Which shows
how much Madden knows about values
But Madden will not be in the market
as a buyer much longer. He has been
gathering together a more than respect
able stud down in Kentucky, has put
Russell at the head of it and within two
years he will be turning out yearlngs
for other folks to pay for. The Russells
are not bad colts. Lady -ontrary is a
filyy worth thinking about twice. The
mares which Madden has bought are of
the highest class, either as producers or
as representatives of blood lines.
In racing way Madden is doing fairly
well this season. 1t would not be far out
of the road to say that what with the
profits of his sales and the stakes and
purses which he accumulated before the
sales, Madden has already this year ia
ken hundred thousand dollars out of
the game. 1t is worth while studying a
proposition that will pay like that.-New
York Telegraph.
1t is now authoritatively announced.
says the New York Telegraph London
correspondent, that il all goes well with
Flying Fox in the interim, the great son
of Orme will surely start in the Doncas-
ter St. Leger. Beginning with the Two
Thousand Guineas at the Newmarket
first spring meeting, Flying Fox has gone
on and won the EPSON Derby. the Prin-
cess of Wales stakes, at Newmarket July
], and the Eclipse stakes at Sandown
Park. The first three successes We're
achieved with consummate ease, and with
every indication that nothing would sue
coed in stopping the Kngsclere colt for
his valuable engagements during the re-
mainder of the year.
At Sandown, however, Flying Fox was
evidently sore, and although winning cas-
lily. showed the effects of his hard work
-Four races is not hard work. may oe
the comment of some; but surely such do
not stop to consider the magnitude of
the task imposed upon the colt in carry
ing out what might be called double
event. policy. namely. that of attempting
to sweep the board of the 3-year-old
classics and the 10000 triple event in
the same season.
Isinglass won all six events. but he took
two seasons for the job. winning the Two
Thousand. Derby and Leger at 3 years
old and the Princess of Wales, Eclipse
and Jockey Club at 4. Ladas, after win
ming the Two Thousand and Derby in
his year was unable to cope with Ism
glass in the Princess of Wales stakes
and no 3-year-old has ever won all three
events. So, as will be seen, Flying Fox
has already created a new record in 60
ing on, after the Two Thousand Guineas
tn wi In both of the nrSt
two GlOOOO events, and even should he
miss the ST. Leger and Jockey Club. his
aforementioned quadruple feat would in
itself stamp him as colt well above the
ordinary run of classic winners.
At the time of the Eclipse it was no
secret that the Duke of Westminster
meditated passing by the St. Leger and
giving Flying Fox special prep for
the Jockey Club stakes, which will be
run some three weeks later; but there
were many who refused to believe that
the duke would sacrifice his chance of
adding another Eaton bred champion TO
the list of triple event" winners. and. as
the result proves. these latter We're right
Flying Foxs most dangerous St. Leger
opponent on paper is the American bred
Caiman, who ran second to him in the
Two Thousand Guineas. But keen OBJ
servers of that race have always been of
the opinion that the third horse, Mr..
Rothschild's Trident, was not ridden out
and could have been second, and this in
itself adds much interest and uncertainty
to the st. Leger problem.
The ST. Leger will be run on Wedncs-
day, Sept 6, and then Flying Fox will
be pointed for the Jockey Club stakes,
run at Newmarket on Thursday, Sept rs,
and from the fact that he will meet the
pick of the 3-year-old division in the
former, while both 3-year-olds and A.
year-olds are eligible to the latter. will
be seen the magnitude of the task inn
posed upon the great colt from Kings
clere.
The ST. Leger is at one mile and three
quarters, while the Jockey Club stakes is
at one mile and quarter over the course
at Newmarket, which is known as
Across the Flat" 1t is straightaway
and is considered a really better test of
genuine stamina and staying ability than
the mile and a half Derby course at Ep-
som, with its gradients and turns.
Much interest is felt in England in the
purchase by Mr.. Lorillard of the Ameri-
can 2-year-old David Garrick and The