The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-01

ANACONDA NEWS.
HAD A NARROW ESCAPE
Morgan, the Half-Breed Indian
Jockey, Nearly Meets Death.
THE ANIMAL WAS KILLED
Change of Training Plans in Marcus
Days Stable-Racing Dates-Ben
Holiday Still in Training at
Churchill Downs.
THE ANIMAL WAS KILLED

at the Aqueduct track. The New York
journal prints the following about the
accident:
1.-THE racing yesterday at Aaueduct
was diversified. A horse was killed, a
Jockey had fall that would have
killed 999 men out of 1000, and the
judge once more rendered a verdict
With which the great majority of the
onlookers disagreed. Spencer rode three
winners, two at least by sheer good
work in the saddle Favorites and out
siders divided the card between them.
'The horse killed was William Lake
lands Squire Abingdon. Maybe the
name of the Inflated young sportsman
who came to an untimely death in New
Orleans half dozen years ago was a
hoodoo. Anyhow this namesake of his
met a weird death.
1t was in the fourth race. an affair
for cheap selling platers, at one mile
and 70 yards. About a sixteenth of =
mile from home Squire Abingdon was
going well up. with a fighting chance
of victory. Then something happened,
and when the dust settled the horse
was lying, with his head where his ,ail
should have been, kicking out his last
gasp, blood pouring from his nose,
mouth and ears.
.89 An overWise policeman, who did not
know enough to ask a horseman's ad-
vice. began pouring lead seven shots
In ALL into the back of the poor brute'S
head instead of into the front of the
skull, and so Squire Abingdon passed,
and was presently dragged off the
track. His owner thought he struck a
post. Other trainers believed that he
fell through an attack of blind stag
gers. More probably he simply crossed
his legs and turning somersault,
broke his neck. rupturing the big YES
sci of the neck, whence the excessive
bleeding.
Morgan. his Jockey. the breed
Indian, had a miraculous escape from
lnstant death. He landed beneath the
horse and was dragged out bodily. He
was not stunned, but laughed and
joked when Fred Taral, who had won
the race on Concord. went to sympa-
thize. At that she- sustained a disloca
ton of the cl avicle,a which is a tedious,
nasty thing to heal, far worse than
fracture of that bone. He may not ride
again in three months. it is said
Marcus Daly's stable. to which Nor
gan is engaged, has undergone a COM
plete change of plans. Allusion to this
was made in Yesterdays Journal, but
the plans were not fully matured until
yesterday In the first place. the pro-
posed sale which was to have been held
at Morris Park early next month has
been abandoned and Fred Mossom will
campaign the lot he now has in his
stable and all the S2-year-olds that he
brought East, and put in Lakelands
care, with the exception of the gray
filly, Motley, to whom Lakeland las
taken the greatest fancy. Lakeland in
no way sewers his connection with Mr..
5Daly. He retains the two older horses,
Scottish Chieftain and Isidor, and later
will probably take many of those now
In Mossoms charge when it becomes
necessary for the latter to go back and
look after the yearlings in Montana"
In the Eastin & Lara bic stable at the
Downs until lately there was trim
and shifty little 2-year-old FLY from
which the stable expected great things.
But bowel trouble manifested itself,
and the filly became so sick that she
had to be thrown out of training and
was sent back to the farm near Lex
ington a few days ago She is by Han
over, out of Mollie L.. and is therefore
a full sister to the mighty Ben Holla-
day. Her name is Lima Holiday. The
name Ida was sent to the jockey club
for registration, but by mistake it was
entered as Lima, and so the name will
stand. She is as different in appear
ance from Ben Holiday as day is from
night, although she, like him. is a rich
bay color In conformation she is very
slender and small. while he is a big
morse. She is very speedy. and Mr.
WINNER regrets that he will not nave
her in his string this season.
The dates for the race meetings this
season are as follows: San Francisco
and Oakland. until May IS: Newport
KY, April to May 10; Aqueduct, N.
T., April II ITO May 4; Louisville, Ky.
May to 20; Westminster. N Y. Nav
to rs: Toronto, Canada, May 20 to q;
Latonia. May 90 to June "a Gravesend,
N. Y, May 81 to June Is: Hamilton.
Canada, May 80 to June a. Montreal,
Canada, June to "a; Sheepshead Bay,
N. Y. June II to July 4; Fort Erie, Can
ada, June 2S to July 10: Brighton
Beach, N. Y, July to Augusut 5;
Windsor. Canada, July % ITO August -:
Saratoga. N. Y, July &c to August 25;
Highland Park. Detroit. August IA to
September 8: Westminster. N. Y, Ocro-
Der to 21: Aqueduct. N. Y. October 90
to November 7: Washington, D. c.
tBenning0, November II to 80.
In it's report of the Aqucduct races.
the Spirit of the Times says: Marcus
DAILY captured the two 2-year-Old four
and half furlOng events, the first
with Montanic. by the Suburban win
ner, Montana, in SO. and the second by
a head with Sadduce, by Bathampton
In :561a. The former. Montanic won
with supreme case and should be a
horse of some class
A false report has been circulated.
says the Spirit of the Times, that Ben
Holiday had been stopped in his work
He was at work at Churchill Downs
On Saturday last.
Among the mares recently shipped to
Fresno county TO be bred to Montana
is the noted Splinter Gypsy Girl The
mare has a nice bay colt at foot by i'm
ported True Britton.--Breeder and
Sportsman.
Dan Dennison will leave for Bitter
Root farm soon, says the San Francis
co Breeder and Sportsman. He has
done so well with Marcus Days horses
that he will probably have a string
from the Bitter Root. farm on the East
ern circuit.