Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-11
HORSES.

1t Is to be reared that imp, the wonder
full black mare, who has 80 endeared her
self to the entire race-going population
OF h country, will not he raced much
longer.
When Imp came back to the judges
stand after her race in the Brighton
handicap it was noticed that her pasterns
were bleeding. and her trainer said thai
1t was due to her peculiar stride. When
she races her pasterns touch the ground,
and the experts say that as the mare
grows older her ankles will grow weaker,
and that finally she will not be able to
race at all, unless at the expense of great
physical suffering. Her immediate dis
ability is due to his fact. In touching
the ground with her pasterns she must
have run on a stone, n 1t tore the skin
from a point just inside the ankle. When
she ran next her trainer put the boot on
the injured leg, and had a blacksmith
equip her with bar plates. 1t is said that
the bar plates were responsible for her
loss of speed. Sh started again on Tues
day without the boot, and in h race
struck herself so that the C covering
| the wOund was torn of. is what Is
| atling her at the present time, and her
| trainer says that all announcements that
she will not start in the race for the
Brighton cup are premature and not war
ranted. He hopes to bring her around In
time for the big race.
Tha sort of luck that gained for the
! master of the Santa Anita ranch the
sGbriquet of Lucky" Baldwin seemed for
some time past to have deserted the
stable. With the first race on the card
there came a change, however. In this
event, a dash of five and one-half fur
longs for maiden 2-year-olds. the stable
had two starters, FOrkfOrd and Nal
donado. The first named might just as
we'll have remained in the stable. The
oeher was the goods. There were nine
other 2-year-olds in the field, Handy Man,
Gallanthus, and Robert Waddell being
among them. Handy Man was selected
as the good thing and played accordingly
but he was neither a Handy Man nor a
| handy horse when the finish came. There
was only one in it then, and that was the
brown son Of Amigo n Esperanza, VINO
| carried the black Jacket and Maltese
cross and sash. Ridden by Alexander,
h was regarded as a rising star In
| California last winter, he made the field
| behind him look like 30 cents, and he did
| not appear to be doing his best at that.
/ That they are not all dogs that eat oats
under the caves of the Baldwin stable Is
now evident.
An old follower of the track has this
to say regarding the breaking of records:
The fast time reported from day to day
/ from the various race courses OI Tic
ecountry has revived an old subject. Wise
folks, who pretend to profound knowl-
ledge of the mysteries of horse racing,
scoff at fast time, even to the extent of
demeaning the quality of the horse that
makes a new record. The uninitiated
likes fast time. The majority OF turf
patrons and others have a notion that
running horses were made to gallop as
swiftly as possible, n like to see them
break records. as they like to see trot-
tiers and PAGERS clip off seconds or frac-
tions thereof from figures established in
days of old by Maud s. and Nancy
Hanks. Hal Pointer and John R. Gentry.
| When the runners beat records the
crowd does not attempt to explain away
their fast performances by arguing that
1.-THE tracks over which they gallop are
short Of the distance set down on the
programmes. The records made by
horses his year on recognized legitimate
tracks are genuine and will stand every
test. The only mystery about the mat
ter is that the horses which run fast are
sometimes inferior to those which run
slower, and the track superintendents
who are up to h times yield to h pub