Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-26

bcll6 ouI VI lIuIIA1u6 I'll liz early p1AI VI
the season in consequence Of a quarter
crack, Mr.. Corrigan finally got the good
tilly ready for a race recently, when she
ran third to Hilee and Bill Garrett. Yes
terday when on the track for work the
mare split her left front hoof and may
not be trained further this season.
Pat Cicil shipped Chappaqua and three
other horses. to Kentucky, where Chap
paqua will run in the Greensboro derby
next Tuesday, the other horses being
turned out on the Civil farm at that
place. C%happaqua will be returned to
Hawthorne later to run with other horses
Of Mr.. Civil at the fall meeting.
Great Bend has been temporarily re-
tired for a brief season by Trainer Ben
Vincent, who thinks the horse became
stale, this being an explanation of the
defeat by Found. Mr.. Vincent will have
the horse ready to race during the late
ran campaign. as he now seems to be
doing we'll.
In a widely published letter on the
time of English race horses. it has been
stated n koroSkO, 3 years old, with
l03 pounds, ran the last mile at EPSON
IN 1888 20. and that Caiman ran the same
distance over the Lingfield course in the
same time. Another performance claimed
for Lingfield is that Harrow, 8 years old,
with 12S pounds. ran the Lingfield mile in
1884 40. The writer of the letter asserts
that he also times Gisho the last mile at
three-quarters of a mile in :O6 2-5, and
Virginia Earle. five furlongs, in O:56 2-5.
His argument. however, is only that the
English tracks mentioned are faster than
any tracks in America. while he admits
that nearly all the other English tracks
are much slower than the average trek
in the United States. The American
jockey, ]. T. Sloan. who has been riding
In England for the past three years,
when asked about the time credited to
the horses named at Lingfield and Ep-
som. said that it was in all probability
quite accurate, but he Went further than
the letter writer in explaining the mat
ter. Lingfield Is not only fast. but also
gives a short mile, down hill all the way,
with a gradual decline of 80 feet, with
the additional advantage for fast time
that the wind usually blows straight
down the course. The EPSON mile, too,
is dow hill. Comparison of the time of
races between England and America.
therefore, would lead to nothing but
error. The average Of speed is about the
same in both countries. 1t has been
nearly 200 years since Flying Childers
ran the mile in England which he is said
Childers' reputed feet long ago died, but
far back in the records are many vents
run in time that compares favorably
wtthfthe best performances in America.
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improved steadily, first because the race
horse is bred more for speed NOT than
he was rs years ago, and is in better
condition. The Improvement has been
about equal, here and In England, how
ever, no matter how fast horses may run
down certain British hills.
Whatever William c. Whitney does he
does thoroughly. Whether it is aging
the foundation of a mighty navy or rae
Ing q Stahla nf fhnrn1luhhraa horSoS tho
eX-secretary of the navy does not trust
his high-priced and royalty bred young
sters to the hands of a lot of poorly paid,
inexperienced stable boys, or to the un-
successful blockhead who is working for
his board and keep. When he wants his
y%earlings 'let down. for trials he en-
cages the best riding talent at the tracks
about New York to go up to his farm at
Westburg and do the trying OUT OF the
youngsters. The babies are expected to
show a high standard from a racing
point of view. With this idea in sight at
all lines the yearlings are given the
benefit of the best jockey talent ON the
American turf.
Here is a little gossip on the worlds
championship from the pen of Rob Roy
Benton, of the Boston Post:
"a constant reader writes me in refer
ence to the championship of the world
and my alleged statement that Jeffries
had never beaten an English or Ameri-
can champion. OF course, I did not make
such a statement; in fact, it was nearly
the reverse, as Jeffries defeated Fitzsim-
mons, the then worlds champion. He
then goes on to say: 'Jem Smith, I think,
was champion of England, and success
fully held it against Kilrain. slavin de-
feated Smith, and was proclaimed cham
pion of England, and he, in turn, was de-
feated by Peter Jackson, who was also
champion of Australia. Jeffries defeated
Jackson (but not the Jackson of old) and
then defeated Fitzsimmons, who was
champion of the world.
"My friend argues well, but he dopes
out wrong. Kilrain fought a dead heat
with Jem Smith, who was proclaimed
champion of England, BECAUSE they were
short of one, owing to his having beaten
Jack Davis and ALT Greenfield, both Of
which battles I saw, over fourteen years
ago. My friend forgets that Jem Smith
was still considered the champion of Eng
land when Dan Creedon beat him. The
argument advanced shows that my cor
respondent is a close follower of the
game, and I like to hear from such read
ers occasionally.
'He discloses that he is admirer of Pet
er Jackson, and while the old black glad
iator was a good pugilist in his day, I
cannot figure that he compared with the
present day heavy weights. Peter Jack
son was very good when James ]. Cor
bett, little better than a novice, and not
10 pounds, gave him the fight of his life.
The club called it no contest as an ex-
cuse for robbing the men of the purse, an
old Frisco game, n then circulated the
story about Jackson's bad leg to square
matters some.
"Just as a clincher, I want to add that
in my opinion, any pugilist capable
enough to be champion of America Is
really a worlds champion"
Prince Poniatowski. the California
sportsman, who is at the head Of the new
racing organization at San Francisco
was a visitor at Gravesnd race track yes
terday, says the New York Evening Sun
The Prince met a number of prominent
eastern horsemen and explained the
character and object Of the new Califor-
MIA racing organization. 1t is compos-
ed, he says, of men of wealth and stand
ing on the slope, who are in racing pure
Ivy for the fun Of the thing. They have