Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-02
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SADDLE AND SULkY 9
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The. officials of the San Francisco
Jockey club are trying to arrange tour
curneIed race to come oft during the
present meeting at Tanforan, IN Whicn
Sam Loates. Tod Sloan, Lester Reltl ana
the Jockey who has ridden the mos, WIZ
ners since the ee,inG opened Will rae.
The weights are to he assigned with
great discrimination, and the intention IS
to have the jockeys draw for their re-
spective mounts In this way all VIII
have an equal break. Such race would
prove a great drawing card.
The Prince of Wales. now King Ed
ward NII heads the list OF winning
owners in Engiand for 1900. lie won
si4,,.9a5 lie mas been racing for fifteen
wears. in which time he has earned $40
Gao. In 1886 his winnings, thanks 70 Per
simmon amounted to Sl34. U.o. This year
Diamond Jubilee a full brother to FER
snnon is responsible for the KING
premier position. and is also an addition
to the triple heroes BESIDES
winning the three great classic events,
tine king a so won the Grand National
steeplechase, which is the blue rlhhon
al cross country events with an lrish
bred horse named Ambush. This makes
4 record never before accomplished by
any owner. When the season opened II
looked as though Lord William Beres-
ford's American bred gelding Democrat
and r. r. Dewar's Forfarshire We're bet
Ter horses. but Democrat went wholly
wrong and Forfarshre did not train on
as expected, and in addition met With
an accident in the TWO Thousand
Guineas through the rough riding OF
Sloan OH Disguise II. Diamond Jubilee
is among the list Of horses that have
Won 100000 and more as two and three
wear Odds His total winnings up to date
have been S1l5 .925. Among the twenty
three horses which are in this class as
winners. Diamond Jubilee is only beaten
as a three year-old by Flying Fox t3I,-
Ala and Donovan e3S. 43S. The best judges
in England think that Diamond Jubilee
will be a heavy winner as four-year-
old but it is unlikely that he will crowd
the opulent lsinglass or the mighty
Donovan from their positions a the top
of the winning four-year-od list, for
hose horses have been the only ones pro-
duced in England which have Wn more
than $50, 900 in their racing careers. The
late Lord William Beresford and his
string Of American horses finishes second
in earning. While Lord Durham was
third. j. a. Drake Of Chicago Won 30
races, amounting to s52.9a0. He is fifth
in the winning list. James r. keene is
twelfth in the winning list with s3s.4o0
won in five races. Richard Croker is at
the bottom of the list, with a total If
S15,370.-Breeder & Sportsman.
Says Ed Upton: LAS to hopples there
never was but one set on Marcus Days
ranch. and when he saw them, maybe
there wasn't some strap breaking. He
didn't leave enough OF them to MAKE a
boy a bookstrap.'
"What do I think of the Tod Sloan
matter? Well. in my opinion, Sloan has
been treated very leniently by the stew
ards" said Sam Loates recently. Warn
ing a jockey that he would not he given
a license is unprecedented in English
racing. The usual custom is to refuse
an application. Under the present con-
diton Sloan is not denied the privileges
OF the English Jockey club tracks and
can enter any of the enclosures open to
the public. While, had he made applica-
ton and then been refused a license, he
would not have been allowed on the
premises. AS To the merits of the case,
/ know nothing. The stewards are an
IDENTIFY found something against Sloan
which they did not like. With the riders
Sloan is as popular as anyone. and
am sorry to see him in trouble. In Eng
land YOU know, none of the riders bet on
the races. The American boys are a bit
careless in this regard, and this UNI
doubtedly helped Sloan into trouble
Enoch Wishard, Richard Croker
trainer, has good lot of horses. They
are all in fine fettle and taking strong
sallops. The best of this string are DR..
Shepherd, the American bred horse, Corr
bets Bay, and Flambard.
The 2-year- olds which have appeared
al New Orleans thus far will not amount
to much. Some fairly good ones have
raced in California. But as none of
them will be called upon to run further
than three furlongs for the present nc
estimate OF their true value can be made
DIR. Scharf and Cunard are probably the
best of the lot.
All of W. c. Whitney's English horses
ere now in good shape. Recently they
We're given some sharp exercise. OF thu
lot E,lkhorn and kilmarnock moved par
ticularly we'll. kilmarnock was in bat
shape with one of his feet and legs al
a result of a fast trial for the Brighton
Beach cup when he left for the othe
side but he is now all right.
hummer. the TeXas-bred Splinter I
Register Emma Gregg, is the king O
sprinters at New Orleans this winter.
his last start at the Crescent city trac
he picked up 103 pounds and reeled ("
six furlongs in 1:l5i4, defeating Chafli
O'Rrien by neck III a hard finish. Bun
mer is the pony-like horse that broke a
kinds of records at kinloch last fall.