The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-09-04

but except for those with strong
glasses it was confused mass, the
cOlOrs not even being distinguisnaL,e.
There were two false breaks and the
crowd was getting impatient for the
word, when suddenly tine familiar cry
OF They're off rang through the
stand. 1t seemed to electrify the
crowd and everybody was on his feet
echoing the cry. At first it was wild
scramble for position. Saturday was
the first to show, with King Hanover
Hyphen. Yankee and De Reszke close
at his heels.
1t was fine start for AL except
Homo. who wheeled at the flag and
was left. At top speed they came in
to the bend in the main track like a
line of of cavalry and at points all
eyes could see the brown, blue and
brown cap of king Hanover's a neck
before PentecOst. Lus Casta came
next. De Reszke, Caughnagay and
Barron were we'll up. and as they
flashed by the half mile 1t was any
body's race. To everybody's surprise
Nasturtium. the pride of the Whitney
stable. was away back in the ruck.
In the last furlong there came for
the heart breaking dash to the wire
King Hanover was gradually drop
ping back and Odum sent Lux Casta
to the front, closely followed by Pen
ccost. Yankee. De Reszke and Bar
ron.
THE favorite is beaten" walled the
crowd. LUX Casta WINS" shrieked
those who We're over anxious to an
nounce the result. But the race was
not over yet. O'Connor drew his
whip on Yankee, and the colt respond
ing in the gamest manner. quickened
his stride and foot by foot crept up on
the flying leader. Odom was hard at
work with whip and spur on Lux
Casta In an effort to earn the coveted
honors, but Yankee. with long even
strides, was not to be denied.
A hundred yards from the wire the
wO were head and head. Lux Casta
hung on gamely. and for few strlues
neither could claim an advantage. 1t
was stirring struggle, outer fight.
and the monster crowd was cheering
and shouting. Then came the cry,
Yankee wins" as foot by foot he
drew away and passed under the wire
length and half in front. Lux
Casta was an easy second and Barron.
closing with a rush, earned third mon
ey by head from De Reszke Then
came Pentecost, King Hanover, Gun
fire and the others. Nasturtium was
tenth and far back. The time was
1903 Is.
Then came the usual scene. me
band played Yankee Doodle" the
crowd hailed the winner and his
jockey. O'COnner. took his place in the
floral horseshoe. The Futurity of 1901
was a matter of history and long will
live the name of it's gallant winner.
The stake was worth $36,91O to the
winner while the second horse earn
I'd $4,166.66. and the third horse $2,-
oS3.34. Two thousand dollars went
to the breeder of the winner, L.. to
the breeder of the second horse, and
$500 to the breeder of the third horse.
The total stake was $46.9iO. A. Feath-
erstone, whose jockey rode the win
ner, got twenty-five per cent of the
winners share for allowing O'Conner
to ride. William c. Whitney also had
some balm in the fact that he owns
half interest in Yankee, although it
was a keen disappointment not to see
his cO!ors in front. Those at the
start say Nasturtium was off Wen.
but jumped at dark spot in the
rack, losing time and being shut out.