Montana's Racing Novelties, Daily Racing Form, 1897-03-14

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MONTANA6 RACING NOVELTIES Todays RACING FORM displays on the end of the Montana stake advertisement the condition of Manager Tiptons two now stakes Both are novelties in their racing lines and each is guar ¬ anteed at 1000 The Ravalli Stakes is scarlet in its anarchy of allowance when compared with the old black and white of racing conditions There are no penalties to mitigate the liberality of weight gifts to those who have raced and been beaten beatenThe The Yellowstone Handicap is still farther out of the beaten path Its a handicap for three yearolds and under at a mile There is no record of such conditions ever being launched before beforeYet Yet both events are in line with modern rac ¬ ing implements They reflect Ed Tipton He always did break away from the lines like the man of ideas that he is He used to chinook harnessdom by his race conditions as secretary of the Kentucky Association Yet under Tip ton the Kentucky Association rose from the dead to the first place among harness racing associations Tipton is evidently injecting his ideas into racing Explaining the conditions of his new stakes the Montana manager writes Maybe Im out of line again Im apt to make such side trips Some of them in the old days were erroneous The fellow is wisest who does ¬ nt make the same mistake twice Some of my mistakes before the day of decision were trumps some were frosts The balance was with me and Im going on The average en ¬ courages me meTiptons Tiptons a brainy fellow The Montana enter ¬ prise shows his nerve and sense From nothing it has grown into a two months continuous rac ¬ ing corner with liberal gifts palatial estab ¬ lishments and high class surroundings surroundingsOf Of course Tipton had and has a noble backer Marcus Daly a liberal every day man who loves the sport and hasnt any of the flubdub ism of wealth to stilt his liberality liberalityThere There isnt any racing enterprise in America more worthy of support than that of Montana


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