Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-18
THE HARNESS. BRIGADE.
POINTS FOR THE ADMIRERS OF
THE FAST PAGER AND TROT-
TER

San Francisco Call: Tom Keating's
Searchlight and Anaconda wen more
heats in 2:10 than any other three PAGERS
in the world. Anaconda has twenty
seven heats to his credit in 2:1O or better.
while Searchlight has twenty-three. Next
on the list is Dan O., with fifteen. Fully
one-half the miles made in 2:10 or better
in 1898 were made by California horses.
Budd Doble, Orrin Hickok n General
Turner, three of the most famous knights
of the sulky, could be seen sitting togeth-
er in the grand stand at Ingleside on Sat-
urday. General Turner has been driving
horses for forty-four years, and is worth
a quarter of a million dollars.
According to late reports, Klatawah
has filled out wonderfully and promises
to get a low mark this year.
Sable Wilkes (2:1S) has thirty-one in
the 2:30 list and twenty-seven Of them are
trotters.
Cricket, 2.1O to a high-wheel sulky, is
to be bred to Searchlight, 2:04A.
There are more harness horses in train
ing in Californit this year than in fully
eight years before.
Andy Mcdowell recently purchased the
bay mare Bay Star (2:23A), by Kentucky
Star. According to common gossip, Bay
Star could trot a mile close to 2:1O last
| year.. She is to be named for the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers $4,000 stake.
Pete Williams expects to campaign
Monterey (2:09A), through the grand cir
cult this year. Williams has the horse
at Los Angeles just at present.
Maud s., (2:OSB) is now twenty-five
years old.
w. j. Andrews will take John r. Gentry
(2:00K) to Jewettsville, near Buffalo, for
an early preparation on the covered mile
track there. 1t was here that Andrews
trained the pacing stallion in 1896, the
year he made his present record. Gentry
was never better, so his raine says.
The Charter Oak stake for 1899 will be
for 2:16 class %trotters and will be worth
$500 and to the winner will go a cup
worth $500.
An eastern turf writer thus comments
on a California stallion: "~Steinway,
2:35A, is certainly a remarkable sire. Nine
of his get are in the 2:15 list, seven in the
PIP list, including Klatawah (3, 2:05R;
w. Wood (D, 2:o7; Agitato (D, 2:O9;
Cricket, 2:1O, ~Sylvanway (3), 2:1OA; AL
gregor, 2:11; Free Coinage co, 2:11A."
If Mascot, 2:O4, is again campaigned it
will be his seventh year in public.
Director, 2:17, is now % years old.
Detroit has nnounc the following
stakes for the blue ribbon meeting: Trot-
ting, Merchants and Manufacturers
stake, $4,000, for horses eligible to 2:24
class; Hotel Cadillac stake, $4,000, for
horses eligible to 2:16 class; Pacing,
Chamber of Commerce stake, $1,000, for
horses eligible to 2:24 class; Hotel Nor
mandie stake, $4,000, for horses eligible to
2:10 class.
Russia has made regulations that prac-
tically bar American t%rotters from rae
ing in that country, but the American
trainer is still welcome, avs a New York
exchange. The veteran, George Fuller,
sailed for Russia a few days ago under
a three years engagement as head train
er of the trotting department of the inn
perial stud. During his thirty years ex-
perience here he handled and drove to
their records a long list of 2:3o perform
ers. A few among them were Pancoast,
Patron, Ponce de Leon, Philonides, Bow
Bells, Wistful, Boreal, Autrain, Green
lander, Alabama, Nutbreaker, Earl Bal
tic and Daydream.