Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-21

drove him with great confidence E, andi IN
the first three-Quarters opened q q sOf
at least ten lengths on the field: but then
McHenry took Impetuous out Of the
bunch and maue play for the flying lead-
er. The task looked hopeless, but the
driver knew his mare, had respect for
breeding n confidence in both her speed
and courage.
Quickly she got away from her COM
pany but to catch the son Of Baron
Wilkes was a different dertaking.
Inch by inch, as it were,' she gained on
him, but 20 yards from the wire his neck
was in front. Then it was a head, then
a nose, both drivers doing tn cir best.
Then as they shot to the wire the filly
pushed her nose in front; out it took the
official decision to settle the result with
the spectators. The time, 2.15A, was the
fastest 2-year-old neat of the year, and
tied the worlds race record for 2-year-
olds, taken in 1882 by Silicon. Stfange
to say. the next heat was but a repetition,
of the one above described, except that
McIIenry made his drive sooner, won
more easily, and the official time was ex-
actly the same, 2.15A.
In a word, two successive heats had
been trotted in record tines onething
unheard of in a race. The greatest colt
race the world had ever seen had gone
upon record, and the highest honors
had fallen to the black filly, whose sire
had begotten Jay-Eye-See (2.1O), n
whose dam was bred exactly like Maud
c. 12.0SA).
From all sides came congratulations
for her breeder and owner, that prince
of sp%ortsmen, the late Major II. C.ss5Mc-
Dowell, and the horse papers fr ON ocean
to ocean We're e~xtravagant in their
praises for both the flly and the colt:
but the wise men in the trotting game
predicted dire disaster and no winnings
for either the next year.
Oakland R1rOn. hnwRVpr Wnn the
Kentucky Futurity, worth S20,O 900, and
was returned the largest winner in the
year. Impetuous was SO good that Nc
Henry pitted her, as early as June II,
against a great field of all ages at Du-
buque, la. The field was large and the
race a desperate one of seven heats, but
she got the decision, n for her future
wonders were p~rejudiced. One month
later, at La Crosse, Wis, she met an
other large field of all ages. of even
higher class than that at DUBUQUE. The
race was a desperate one of five heats
Impetuous winning two heats n tax
ing her record (2.13), the fastest three.
year-old mark of the year.. A throat
trouble, which finally retired her, ther
came on her, but McHenry, who still
contends that she was far and away tn
best trOtter he ever drove, had an op'
GRAFTON performed by which she breathet
through a silver tube while racing.
Thus handicapped, she won the mem
orable 3-year-old stake that fall Il
Louisville, defeating in six hard heat
her old rivals, Oakland Baron, Pans.
McGregor, Killona and Ath aino, AM
stamping herself as one of the fastest an,
gamest youngsters the world ever saw.
The next spring she was retired, pu
to breeding and in 1897 produced b,
Directum (2.05A) a colt now owned b.
N. w. Hubinger Of New Haven, an
said to be of high class. When ba
l health forced the retirement of the lat
Major Mcdowell from the breeding
ranks E. A. Upton purchased Impetu
GUS for Marcus DAILY. She was barren
and this is her first foal at Bitter Root.