The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-25
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The multitudes of friends of old Dan
Dennison in Butte will be pleased to
hear that the veteran horseman is
putting winners over the plate at San
Francisco. Dan was in Butte during
the last race meeting here and he
didn't have a little bit of good luck.
He began by defending a suit brought
against him by a man who thought he
had fallen heir to Dams string from
the fact that he had a bill against the
venerable turfman Lord Chesterfield
was a poor Investment, and Dan, after
watching the old jumper finish two,
TOUR, six, regularly, began to think that
his days of fortune on the race track
had ceased to be.
But Dan has struck the gait he used
to travel and he can, after all, attrib-
ute his good luck to the bad luck he
won here. 1t was during his last visit
to Montana that he contracted to take
a string of Bitter Root horses to Cali
fornia. This was the turning point in
his latter days career Dan is a striking
illustration of the ups and downs on
the turf When he was relieved of
w. OBJ. Macdonough's string six years
ago he was a heart-broken man, and
the years of activity and repeated fail
ures since then have left their impress
upon him. He has aged 20 years and Is
far from the cheerful and humorous
Dan of old, even though phenomenal,
unexpected and unprecedented success
has now come to him.
A few days ago saw the third sue
cessive victory of his 3-year-old chest
nut fflly Gualala, by Imp. Gold Finch,
out of Imp. kiss-Me-Quick. Each time
she has met and defeated with impress
sive ease better and better fields Of
CT a
fastest of the 3-year-olds now running
in San Francisco. At 60 to 1 she gal
loped home in front of Jennings crack
colt Lavatore. six furlongs, in lila. At
20 to l she made Goal Runner, Rey
Hooker, Strongoli and Miss Marion look
very cheap, winning in canter away
off. 1t was thought that Satsuma could
take her measure. 1t was the same
old story, and the talent has finally
awakened to the fact of her trans
cendent ability. Ella Boland won her
second start on Jan. 2S, defeating
Burns & Warehouses; Lomond and a
big field of 2-year-olds.
Much of a fellow is that Dan Denni-
son, Irishman and Southern gentleman,
remarks Charles Trevarthan. A combi-
nation of those two personalities was
brought about in this wise. Dan, young
and wishful, sailed away from Ireland
for American shores so many years ago
that he is not willing to tell when. The
buffeting storms drove his ship far to
the southland, and instead of landing
in the conventional way at Castle Gar
den Dams good ship found berth in
the harbor at Charleston, s. c., and SO
the lad from the Emerald land became
Southern gentleman. He relates his
adventure with pride and points to mis-
personal excellence as demonstration
of the difference between Il landing at
Castle Garden and a blow in at Charles
ton.
1t doesn't cost Dan great many dol
lars to train a stable. He has flock f
boys of his own getting that know ev
erything from rubbing to training a
horse. All of them have been Jockeys
until such time when nature weight
ed them out of the game. Too heavy to
ride for the father. they each in turn
| became his stable boy, and Dan doesn't
pay large salary list. These boys are
his dependence and dependents, and in