The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-25
FAST HORSES IN A GREAT conrEs'
Joe Patchen's Victory Over John II,
Gentry Was Annoying to Andrews.

II.
Gentry Was Annoying to Andrews
To be beaten on ones home grounds
with all the local friends and partisans
witnessing the disaster is unpalatable.
but that was only a fraction of the
discontinue of Andrews, the driver of
john X. Gentry, at Goshen on Wednes-
day. Joe Patchen was driven by his
owner, Henry Haws, and so Andrews
was defeated by an amateur. one who
could neither be hustled or cajoled,
and who, when Andrews tauntingly
called out as Patchen was turned ahead
of him for a start: Wait; you're not
afraid, are you?" Mr.. Haws replied
that he was not afraid of the inquirer,
in or out of the sulky. Mr.. Haws hav-
ing had the good fortune to draw the
pole in the first heat, knew full well
what that meant on a half-mle track
when such speedy horses were racing
for it afforded such a short space of
time for the outside horse to brush
past on the straight sides.
Drawing the pole settled the race. as
it proved, for PatChen was sent eff at
his best and kept at it, so that Gentry
could never get past. 1t was extremely
fortunate for the Pennsylvania that
the result of the first heat was no worse
for Patchen than dead heat for if
it had gone to John r. Gentry, the
black stallion would have been defeat
ed, as he could not have passed Gentry
on the small track any more than Gen
try could when Patchen had the mole,
This race will make the Empire City
clubs big pacing special all the more
attractive, and worth more to the as
ISOLATION in the way of advertising than
anything clever Mr.. Tomans could
have done with printers ink. Presi-
dent Hook of the Goshen track, had
! the track record of 2:06 pointed out in
anticipation of a better one in the
pacing match. but it will have to go
up again, as the dead heat in 2:0S was
the best of the three heats.
Down at ReadVille the New England
ers have been Witnessing some great
racing this week in both divisions of
the sulky sport On Monday there
We're two stakes and that for three
year-olds, the Futurty of $4,000 was
won in decisive fashion by Idolita Ec-
stacy after finishing second in the first
heat in 2:16&, could not repeat, and
was last of four in both subsequent
heats. X. LIS brother was another that
could not go the clip, and Mamie W.
unexpectedly took second place to the
first colt. Maist drove so well. Hal B.
showed himself to be keyed up to con-
cert pitch by taking the Neponset
stakes for POS pacing, each succeeding
heat being better than the previous one.
and the last in 2:0SA. Marsh turned
another great trick on Wednesday,
when he won the 2:12 purse with Who
Is it, the grey gelding Senator Jones
purchased at the late Cleveland sale.
A good many fought shy of this fast
Californian because of his puffed hooks.
but his Readville race shows that it
was good business to buy him. That
| other Californian, Owyhee, was 4 hot
| favorite and Who Is 1t was despised
| outsider till he came home in 2:O9ia in
| the first heat. There was then plenty
| of hedging money forthcoming on the
| gray who came up from behind in the
| straight and won in good brush by a