Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

| Ing stock and horses in training three
weeks ago, though his identity then
was concealed under the name of the
earl of Clonmel, who acted as his agent
in bidding and buying The horses in
| training viii be added to the hitherto
small stable Mr.. Mackay has maintain
ed in this country, the best known ami
NAL (which is the Brooklyn handled,
winner of 1899. Banastar In the lot
bought at the Bitter Root sale the most
noted horse is Frankfort the three
year-old brother to the celebrated Ham
burg. Others of note are Hartman,
Choate and Cathaire Mo. all two-year-
olds. AS these are all heavily engaged
in the most valuable stakes Of the
eastern turf, and Mr.. Mackay has a
capable Jockey in George Odem, the
Mackay stable promises to figure prom
lnently on the metropolitan tracks in
the future.--Breeder and Sportsman.
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The oldtime race stallion Jerome
Turner. 2:151a, is still hale and hearty
ana was show ring winner with his
colts at the Texas fairs last fall He
is owned by d. B. Connolly, a: Sher-
man, Texas.
Jockey George Odom is in New Or
leans. He has been signed to ride next
season for Clarence Mackay, son of the
bonanza king. who purchased Frank
fort, the full brother of Hamburg,
Which was sold at the Dakv sale.
Odom's contract calls for him to do
l0o pounds and he is to receive re-
tainer of $4,000 for the season. He
will ride in New Orleans for the re-
mainder of the meeting.
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Jockey Cochran. who is the smallest
Jockey riding at New Orleans, has
signed to ride for j. ]. McCafferty, the
eastern turfman. next season, and his
salary is said to be $4,000.
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Inc California war continues and both
tracks will. as a result, wind up the
season losers instead of winners. as
they would under normal conditions.
Meanwhile there is pending in the leg
lslature of that state a measure limit
ing racing on any one track to 80 days
IN any one year. The bill was intro
ouced by Porter Ashe, famous as the
owner of Geraldine few years back.
He says that despite the fact that the
committee to which the bill was re-
ferred reported unfavorably upon it, he
has great hopes of it's passage, and saws
that when it is brought up for final ac-
ton he can tell the country legislators
enough of his personal experiences to
prompt them to support his measure,
Eastern racing dates are as vet unde-
termined. President Belmont, of the
Jockey club. has been out of New York
Tor over month because of ill-health.
and in his absence his associates have
done nothing of an official character
Ihis is why the eastern body has not
adopted definite position upon the
western trouble, or at least indicated
that it manted nothing to do with it.
AS soon as he is capable of again at
tending to business, the first action
of the Jockey club will be the distrihu-
ton of dates for the coming year. There
VIII nave to be some changes made as
Sagatoga is now owned by the Jockey
ciub and WILL of course, receive better
treatment than while it was in the
hands of an notwithstanding Life.
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No race that has been run in this
country m recent years has attracted
one-half so much attention as the COM
ing fourteenth renewal of the great
American Derby. which will be decided
over the Washington Park track at Chi
cago. on June %, and which promises
to bring to the post the grandest field
of 3-year-olds that has ever faced the
flag in America. This classic, which
was inaugurated in 1884, has now be-
come one of the richest stakes for 3-year
olds in the country, and has an esti-
mated value of over $4,000 this year
to the winner says Sandy Griswold. OF
the nlnety-three nominations that the
stake received, twentyth three are al
ready stake winners, twelve of them
coming from the east and eleven from
the west. Among these are such noted
performers as Alord Scheck, winner of
the Kenward and Hyde Park stakes at
Washington Park, the Congress Hall
and Grand Union Hotel stakes at Sara
toga and the Westminster lightweight
handicap at Morris Park; Ballyhoo
Bey winner of the Futurity and Flat
bush stakes at Coney Island: Beau CAL
liant, winner of the Great Eastern
handicap at Coney Island. the Prospect
Park handicap at Brooklyn, and the
Matron stakes at Morris Park Bellario
winner of the Deeh and Golden Rod
stakes at Conel Island and the Nursery
handicap at Norris Park: Blues, WIN
ner OF the fremont stakes at Brooklyn;
Bonnibert, winner of the Laureate
stakes and National Stallion stakes at
Morris Park. and the Fleishum and Pep
per stakes at Saratoga; Brutal, winner
of the Westminster handicap and Junior
Champion stakes and Tanforam; Car
more, winner of the Produce Exchange
stakes at Oakland: Commando, winner
of the Zephyr and Great Trial stakes
at COney Island the Montauk ood
Brighton, jr.. stakes at Brighton Beach,
and the Junior Champion stakes at
Brooklyn. COnroy, winner of the Holly
handicap at Brooklyn. and the White
Plains handicap at Morris Park: Dick
Burgess, winner of the Kindergarten
stakes at st. Louis: Far Rockaway,
winner of the Grand Union Hotel stakes
go half at Saratoga: Garry Hermann
winner Of the Hammond stakes at
Lakeside, Juvenile stakes at Hawthorne
Youngster stakes at Harlem, and Cham