Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-08-23

wa WAGE, 4-year-old, carried 100 pounds
S St averaged within a fraction of so
4eeS per second to set his mark
One other worlds record, which still
stands, was set on the Butte tract.
some years later when Atoka. a 6-year-
o!d, ran three furlongs in 33l seconds
Atoka carried los pounds in weipEt
| 6oth BOB Wade'S and Atoka's records
were set on a regulation oval track.
8. +. Larabie'S stable was Started
ntucn carrier than Marcus Days and
az one Tune MS horses were rated with
me best in the country. Larabie was
porn in New York in 1864 and came
10 Montana by way of the North PI9fte
river trail and the Bridger cu.off IN
Virginia City in 1864 Six years later
ne was IN Deer Lodge as a member of
Ihe banking firm of Donncll Clark &.
Larable. r. w. Donnell had been
wholesale grocer in Helena and Vir-
glnla City from 1868 to 1869. w. A
clark later became one Of the famous
copper magnateS.
Ben Holiday Most Famous
By the l88Os Larabie was wealthy
and breeding horses at the Willow
BROOK farm near Deer Lodge His most
famous horse was Ben Holladay Be
SIDES Holiday he owned Bonnie Aus
trallan, Vice Regent. Beth Brock,
Poet Scout, High Tariff. Julia L. Paul
Pry. Julia Kinney, Halma, Trolley,
Gongese, Staffa, Decapod. Celtic, Bard
Czarowitz, Mary Black. KinIey Mack
and Macleod of Dare
Larable chose only the best Dndi-
greed horses for his stud and they all
had records Of t0rebcars who had
proved themselves capable Of high
speed and courage LaraJic often
vowed that II was his intention 70
nave oo the pest stud in America ana
horse publication paid him the COM
had bred so many high-cIass race
horses from so few mare"
OF all Larabies horses, however,
none was as great as Ben Holladay,
son of Mollie L and Hannibal. Ben
Holladay was entered in u races in
1893 and won 4, placed second in 3,
third in and fourth in 2. His win
nlngs were Sl,765 In 1896 he ran 10
races. winning ,, placing second in 8,
third in 6 and fourth in g. His win
nlngS We're So 235. In 1898 he won
out OF races and placed second in
and third in 3 That year he won
Sl2,8 10 make total OF S25835 won
in four years.
In the Morris Park handicap, Ben
Holiday carried the huge weight OF
1873 pounds at a distance OF 81 miles
He romEed through gunbo mud TO
win in the time of 4:O7 The only race
at that time that could compare with
this performance OF Holidays was
that OF Carblne. the great Australian
horse, when he won the Melbourne
cup. Carbine carried l45 pounds and
won from a field of 80 horses in 1924.
He did not. however. race through mud
as Holiday did.
In recalling the race. Fred Taral,
the Jockey, said that Ben Holladay
ran away with him and he could not
even pull him up after the finish Hol-
laday WAS foaled in 1893 and first APP
peared on a race track in 1895 at
by LOngfellow-MOllie McCamp by
Hunters Lexington. After Larabie
started racing his horses in the big
time he trained at Louisville, KY Peter
Winner was his trainer.
Poet Scout Also Famous
Poet Scout. another brilliant per-
former bred by Larable, started racing
owned by Tom McTague of Deer
LODGE. Poet Scout was foaled in 1888
by Longfellow. dam GYPSY. by War
dance He first appeared in the La
tOnia derby where he ran third to
kingman and Dickerson. Later. at
Monmouth Park, he won the Shrews-
bury handicap at II miles with ll8
SA-S
of the baSt performances on record at
that distance and weight. AS 4-year-
old he won the handicap from Race
land and other good horses.
Halma made his debut as 2-year-
old but showed best the following year
when he came in first five times and
second once in six starts. That year
he won a total of sl3635. His victories
included the Kentucky derby and the
Latonia derby.
Marcus DAILY. the copper king, was
born in Ireland and came to New York
when he was Is. After working as
newsboy and later a bank messenger
he accumulated enough money to go
to California From there he went to
Virginia City, New, and after few
years landed in Butte.
After DAILY became wealthy he 10
Gated a breeding farm In the Bitter
Root valley al Hamilton. It is said that
he was first attracted to the site when
he and George Hearst, father OF VII
liam Randolph Hearst, went into the
Bitter Root valley to scout TIMBER
supply for the mines at Butte. In the
bottom lands they found wild grass
that grew higher than mans heao.