Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-30

There will be one or more harness races
| each day at the meetings to be given at
Butte and Anaconda. Sixty days racing
will be given. The programme for har-
ness races will be announced on or before
| May 18th.
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Mr.. August Belmont. although promi-
nently identified with thoroughbreds. is
| a great admirer of a square going trot-
| ter one that steps high. is free gated,
| stylish and of such a disposition that the
owner can drive him. Mr. e. H. Harri-
man, some four or five years ago, when
| he had Stamboul in the city, took Mr..
Belmont out riding one day in a cutter.
and Mr. Belmont was very much inn
pressed with the desirable qualities
which STEAMBOAT displayed-bei horse
of fine manners and very brushy The
| horse that can out-brush Stambou on
! the trot has never lived. The late John
/ \. Goldsmith trained Stamboui one year
! in California. and one day brushed him
| an eighth of mile in JAZZ seconds over
the Stockton track. Mr.. Belmont bred
grand daughter of Volunteer to STAN
! boul with fine success, and has now sent
| TO Goshen to he bred to him. very
handsome trott:ng bred mare called
! Rainbow. by King Rene. dam Fiddle
| String by Fiddle Stick, son of Lexington
S,amhoul has one marked characteristic
! which Will appeal to all those who have
/ been influenced by reading the recent
article OF General Tracy's in which the
General animalverts against the PAGERS
!+-Stamboul always sires trotters He
has forty-four in the go list four of
them are in the 2:12 Hst-and he has
never sired a racer.-Spirit of the Times.
| a horse going a mile in $50 covers 50 %
feat per second: in 2:25, it is 35.4l feet
yer second: in 2:20 it is 31.7l per second:
in 2:l5 it is S9.11 fest per second; in 2:1O
il is +o.93 feet per second: in 2:O5 it Is
4-.2t feet per second, and in 2:03 it is 1853
feet per second The distance in ensr-
getic force between a mile in 2:30 and
a mile in 2;O3 is 7.3S feet per second 1t
is the pace that kills-that exhausts
vitality and strains tendons. The horse
that runs a mile in 1:35 covers 55.57 fsrt
| Per second. a test that seems beyond
physical capacity. None but the best of
lungs can sustaiu action of the pure:t
kind at this hieh rate uf speed for u
mile.-Breeder and Sportsman.
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The coming races at Butte and Ana
conda are att acting Widespread ;.tte'2-
ton all over the country. Horses that
race in Montana can return in time for
the California state fair at Sacramento.
s.
, Attention has lately been directed ,h2
world over to the cream colorei horses
used III tie British royal coach. Some
inquiry has been made to the breed TO
which tbs Sc horses belong. To that .lle,-
ton reply may be made that much differ
ence OF opinion exists as to the ORIGIN
! of the tribe Some authorities call these
! horses breSd, others only variety.
The fact probably is, according 10 tie
best authority. that these cream cplolet!
horses are a distinct breed. originating
III Denmark, but trans, ,anted r. holly
into Hanover. The royal horses of Han
over We're whte-Who has not heard o.
the white Horse of Hanov + and
white horses were used in the kings
coach. At one time or other an ingenious
chamberlain conceived tl,a lea OF rus-
ting cream coloreG horses in the 1ftte m &
coach and ever afterwards horses Of that
hue of coat We're bred ard inaintatfe a
in the royal Hanoverian stables The
probability is, however, that 10th the
whites and the creams will soon he rep
resented solely in the stables of he Brit
iSh crown. for we learn that for III, past
TWO decades or so the HanoEeriar stu i,
have been kept up as they should haze
b en- if intended to supply aFy great
number of the beautiful coaehnrs for
which they have been so justly cele-
brated.-Breeder and Sportsman
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The nraSant o,,+,o,,- =; It,,
horses will reach a nr:ca .s h:o, ~ :,
what we ca1 tha boon do,.s -.
tro.ter-25 wears 900 II is . n,,s..5.
however 70 c,n,nora tba so.oSl., -,
pricaS wiz, The ,,riaax. ~ ,c,7,, -.
five vaars AGO ev+ra,,a s,,aaa ,,.,, 80 -.
cee,,ino1,, r,ra ,h.+ c,l, f ~ g - -.