The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-14
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
HARNESS RACING is NOT DEAD
'DM MONTANA, SAY OLD GUARD

the defeat of some OF the classiest
trotters of the Middle West. To get
home for victories, McGarvey put
Blue Finch's nose first under the
wire in the 2.18 trots at Helena and
Billings recently.
Blue Finch has a worthy stable
mate in Kitty Denton, who was pick
ed up in 1920 and changed overnight
from a driving horse in a livery
stable to a fast one of the turf. In
that year Kittie won seven races.
While Charley McGarvey has been
in the harness racing game in Mon
tana for years, his greatest horse was
Earnfold, the remarkable 2:10 PAGER,
who beat everything in the heyday
of racing in these parts. The great
gelding was foaled on the DAILY ranch
at Hamilton, and as a three-year-old
was at the peak of his career. King
Amos was. sire of Earnfold and New
Lode, out of Rapidan, who Mr.. DAILY
purchased for $4,000, was the dam.
Jack Anlow and F. c. Davis of the
Harrison Avenue hotel are owners Of
probably the best PAGER under Mon
tana colors. He is Walter H., son
of the great Dan Patch, and besides
being a racer of merit and one who
holds a mark of 2:04h, made at the
Sedalia, Mo-, track several years ago,
is a sire that has sons and daughters
making their mark in the harness
world.
Peculiarly the great stallion was
recently saved from death when he
was the only one of IA horses taken
from a stable fire at Fort Dodge,
Iowa, where he has been quartered
since this years racing season. Wal
ter was purchased by the Butte horse
men from a Minneapolis man named
Stockings. The horse has a mark of
So seconds for half a mile on ice,
and made Duty Highwood, a famous
eastern PAGER, stick up a mark of
2:04k in two heats, in his first hard
race. That was at Sedalia.
Butte-bred Mares Corners
Others on the Anlow-Davis string
are Nine Mile Belle, a three-year-old
foaled in the environs of Butte, and
Mountain Maid, another Butte bred
animal. The Belle, now quartered
with Walter H., at Fort Dodge, has
made fast time in workouts and great
things are predicted for the seal
brown mare when she starts on east
ern circuits next season. Mountain
Maid, a daughter of Walter H., is a
four-year-old and will start her rae
ing career next summer, under the
Anlow colors. She has been in train
ing around Butte for weeks past and
is receiving the careful tutoring of
the veteran horsemen who own her.
Nyh;1o DJa1foX~ II orJ hio frun a0rn-i
ing daughters are aces In the Butte
home tracks is Bessie D. The fast
mare was seen in action here several
weeks ago and made a great impress
sion on the TURTLES who watched the
events arranged by the old
guard of horse trainers.
Ed Madden, formerly with the
DAILY people at Hamilton, has been
in the seat in all of Walter HIS races
and will also pilot the two coming
mares who break into the game next
season.
Both Anlow and Davis have been
familiar figures on Butte tracks in
the past. They owned such a speed
merchant as Nigra, 2:16A, and now
have Cantleta, a t~rotter, by Latrado,
who is now in winter stable at Kear-,
ney, Neb., and has been a money!
getter for the Butte men.
GrOgan Was in East
With Pete Grogan, owner Of the
stables, South Main street,
Butte people are familiar. All know
him as a ~horseman, but only his
know that for the last several
years he has intruded on eastern
with Montana bred horses to
cop some of the best purses of the
fair meets. Queen Bird, a seven
.year-old PAGER, with a mark of
2:19h and at present stabbed in
Butte, Is Grogan's best bet and was
brought back from Minnesota and