Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-30
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Jockey O'Connor has shown most re-
markabe Improvement in his work in
the saddle since last fail. When he first
came out west at the beginning of the
season his work was slovenly and his fin
ishes remarkably weak efforts. New he
seems to have acquired the knaCk of
making a horse run for him and can
hold his own in a nose finish with the
best of them. The experience gained by
him this winter will prove invaluable,
and before the summer season is over
at New York, O'Connor will doubtless be
considered one OF the stars OF his pro-
fesson.
Captain S. S. Brown, of Pittsburg. has
increased his offer for Garry Herman
to $4,000, but it has been refused. Chas.
Head Smith, Garry Herrman's owner.
has offered $4,000 to j. j. McCafferty
for the Puritan, but McCafferty wants
$4,000. Garry Herman will be shipped
to Memphis shortly.
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Morocco bound volumes of Goodwin's
Guide have been received. They are for
sale at 81 per set ard contain summaries
of all the races run in the United States
during last year.
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The English Jockey club has taken ac-
ton to prevent the excessive running Of
two year Odds by passing a law reducing
the value of the stakes in which the
youngsters take part. This should tend
to minimize the evil, as owners will re-
serve their promising two year olts for
the richer stakes which they will be
eligible for when moro natrra1 CON.
servative owners have tried to have SIM
Mar legislation enacted in this country
and about a year ago, F. r. Hitchcock
introduced resolution at a meeting Of
the Jockey club to the effect that be-
fore June LIST. no two year old shall run
In any race with more than 81 900 added.
The resolution failed to go through at
that time, but the seed was planted,
and good judges think it very proba Bile
that before long the subject Will be aga IN
brought forward and accorded a more
cordial Observation-Disclosures and Sports
man.
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Reforming kicking horses and mules by
electricity is the latest use to be made
of the subtle fluid. The negative pole
is attached to sheet of iron in the rear
end of the stall. When the horses hoofs
strike the iron wall the circuit is COM
pleted and the animal receives a shock
in the head and legs that may be made
strong enough to cause him to ink twice
before making the second kick.
Those who attend the closing out sal
at the Corbitt farm in June, 1898. and
secured mares with foals at foot by ORC
Wilkes, oil. for very small sums were
he
Wilkes since he was located at Mount
kisco Farm, are very highly thought
of by eastern horsemen and are held at
high figures; ST. was recently refused
for yearling by him out of Belle Arch
er, 2:12A.-Breeder and Sportsman.
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Abraham Lincoln used to be fond of
telling a story of a lawyer IN a western
town who desired the nomination for
county judge On the morning preced-
ing the evening on which the county con-
vention was to meet. the lawyer applied
to the lavery stable keeper in his viii
lage for horse and buggy in which
to drive to the county town, sixteen miles
distant, where the convention was to be
held.
Give me the best and the fastest
horse you have, SAM said he. so that
l will have time to go around and see
the boys before the convention begins"
The livery man. however, was support
ing a rival candidate and gave the law
yer horse that outwardly appeared per-
feet, but broke down before half the
journey was completed so that when the
candidate arrived the convention had ad-
journed and his rival had been norlin-
ated.
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lowing Afternoon, knowing that it was
useless to resent the trick played on
him. he said to the owner:
Look here, Smith. you must be train
ing this horse for the New York mar
kat. You expect to sell him to an I'M
dertaker for a hearse horse, don't you
Well, it's time wasted. I know from his
gait that YOU have spent days training
him to pull a hearse but he'll prove a
dead failure. He's already too slow; he
couldn't get a corpse to the cemetery il
time for the resurrection breeder ant
Sportsman.
The American trotter is a thorough
bred and the PAGER is simply trottel
With a slightly different gait.
We have smiled at the EngIis L. but, a.
usual. they are right says TrotWood il
the Horse Review There are no pacers
they are all trotters. The English
thornughbred has three gaits two O
them the walk and the trot. being merely
preliminary, or incidental: the Other, TIN
sallop, the object, the instinct of his life
The thoroughbred trotter is reaching tn
SAM point. He is acquiring only thre
gaits-the walk, the pace, the trot. TIVE
Of these-the walk and the pace, or tro
whichever of these two Gaits he is les
eyre,t aD-will be his instinct and oh
ject. But whichever he adopts, he vii
still be a trOtter.
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