The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
Race Track and
Stable Gossip

number of horses from Bearmouth,
Drummond, Philipsburg and Anaconda
will be brought here to contend for the
purses. There is provision for rs horses
at the track and the owners and train
ers say that it is as cheap to keep the
horses there as it is in their own
stables, which they would do in any
Those owners now at the track are In
hopes that a series of races may be
given this month. and on this account
they are staying at the track. They
were induced to go out there by the
poster announcement that a weeks
racing meet would be held beginning
July 8. That meeting was failure be-
cause of inadequate and cheap trans
portation facilities from the city to the
track. Dave OConnor, who will as
sist in the proposed meeting, is arrang-
ing for the transportation of patrons,
so that they will be to an expense of
about a dollar on the trip, including
admission. The grand stand will be
rooted this week and other necessary
improvements to the grounds made.
The track is in good condition.
The great and only saduccee has
been trimmed at last There was no
disgrace in the beating. though, as his
nose was the first under the wire. l
can't say that approve the findings of
the judges in this matter; but as l
don't want to start this column off with
a howl, I'll let it go this time, says
Rogers In the New York Telegraph.
But watch the race, watch the race.
There was joy in Park Row Monday
night. What with Montanic and Or
deal it shows that you can't keep the
newspapermen down.
incidentally there was joy among the
50 and S. pikers over Saduccee's dis
qualification, as they couldn't bet on
Saduccee at 1 to 8; so, rather than keep
off the race they bet on Montanic. The
lawn was covered with men shaking
hands and hugging each other after the
numbers were changed, but they were
not the big bettors.
There is one feather importer who
can't go up to the fiat tonight, for s
particular Violet Vendome is taking a
bath in her own burning, saline tears.
The st. Charles spaniel receives no
caresses. Altogether great gobs of
murky gloom hang over the fiat, and
Violet is consumed with grief. for did
not this perfidieus wretch promise her
5000 ring which she had admired
when they strolled down Broadway the
other evening. No amount of explana-
tions will assuage her grief. That ring,
Violet, cost 5000.
AS the horses were going to the post
| feather importer, who always wants
good things, stepped up to a book
maker and said, It'll bet you 5000
| against 5000 on Saduccee. / want that
| 5000 to buy a ring"
There is no use going into the har-
rowing details; there is no use de-
scribng the sickening fear that
| gripped his heart when he saw them
| working with the number board. There
| is no use telling of the cold sweat that
! drenched his clothes. He only gasped,
| xvi will never believe me-" and she
| didn't; and now she says she'll not
let him bask in the sunshine of her
smiles for anything less than an auto
| mobile.
Steve L'Hommedieu tore a large hole
in the betting ring. Rumor says he
made 100000. 1t is certain he made
a large sum, but guesses of that ma
ture can generally be cut in half and
be nearer right.
Judging from the tone of the above,
1t is evident that the writer is of the
opinion that the race was Job"
Baseball in Butte is taking the place
that football formerly held with the en-
thusiasts in this city. Most any kind OF
an old game of baseball draws crowd
these days.
Billy Woods is putting the Armory
in good shape and will soon have a
complete gymnasium outfit where he
hopes to see the ladies as well as the
men make themselves at home.
| Two examples at least will be seer
on the trotting turf this season, show
ing that trotter can be made to pace
and vice versa without the use of hop
pies. Rose Croix, the DAUGHTER of Jay
Bird, that has a trotting record o.
Il o. laz al, H., H.
ord of 2:15R. She Is in M. e. Me
Henry's stable and does not wear hop
Piles. The other performer referred t.
is the 3-year-old filly Extasy, by Baroi
Wilkes, that last year took 2-year-olC
pacing record of 2:1OR. She recent.
trotted a mile in 2:19a in a matine
race at Lexington, Ky. She is in tn,
stable of that veteran trainer. Charlie
Marvin, who years ago astonished tn
turf world by capturing the world
trotting record for stations. witt
Smuggler, horse that he had con
verified from the pace to the trot. Mar
vim is now one of the Oldest men act
lively engaged in training harnes
> horses, but his hand has lost none o
!, its cunning and he is pretty certain t
spring a few more sensations on tn
track before he retires.
The New York Telegraph says tina
I 1t is one sure thing that trainers gen
orally are now using hopples much les
than in former years, and while ii ma
!, take little longer to get green pace
: | to go as he should, without resorting I
straps, most of the men who are work
ing that kind, seem to perform til
slower method. rather than to run tn
risk of securing a PAGER that will rae
: only with the aid of the hoppies. a S
i the case with nine out of every te
stated with those appliances. The az
ton of few of the big associations
. barring hopple wearing horses fro
their races, is having a very. marke
! effect, for it is now almost impossib
to sell horse for anything like goo
| price that must wear hopples There
/. no need of any further legislat' o
l against hopples. They are gradual
! being RELOCATED to the old harness room
there to molder or be cut up for string
In a few years museum managers wi
be hunting the country over to find
> set of hopples to place in their cur
halls, and enterprising horsemen ma
be going about giving special eXhib
|. | lions at the tracks with a hopple