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PLANS FOR RACING IN MONTANA. Hut to. .Mont., February 25. The outlook for racing in Montana this season is bright. It Is probable that : he circuit will consist of thirty days here, begin- niir July 1: fourteen days each at Anaconda. Great : Fills and Deer Ix.dgo: the Montana State Fair meeting of six days at Helena and six days at Missoula ; where a new track is to be built. This will 1 give horsemen a circuit of eighty-four days of cou-Hnuous " racing in this state. It is not unlikely that the Montana State Fair I stakes will bo increased in value. There is talk of : establishing the value of the .Montana Derby, one and one-quarter miles, for all ages, at ,000, and 1 of increasing the values of other stakes proportion- 1The horses that have spent the winter in Montana , 1 have been favored with pleasant climatic conditions. i So fir there has been but one brief spell of cold weather in this locality. There are about seventy - thoroughbreds In winter quarters in this vicinity. 1 II I Wilson, president and general manager of th-2 -Unite Jockey Club, has three, which he will dispose of because his time is occupied with other interests anfl he finds himself unable to give his stable the attention ; it should have. William Gemmell has ten bead. Including Swarfs Hill and Fancy, both of k .which were tired at the close of their campaign of r v last year Frank Howard has eight and feels doubtful about .Tack Paine and Lyte Knight training successfully again. Rogon is wintering well and thero iW every Indication that he will stand training the ! coming season, all traces of the ailment which handicapped , him last season having disappeared. His le"S are hard and smooth once more and he is going along soundly in his exercise. George Palmer, who has Free and Phil Connor, lias been employed in the mines during the winter, but will follow the state circuit again this season. J. Tonkin has eight horses running out. A partnership has been formed to race under the . k name of Morris and Welch. This concern has pur-I I chased Force and Duncraggan and arc on the lookout t for something of stake calibre. Thomas Welch, one i of the partners, will go east shortly to look over a I few horses that he has had in mlud for the purpose.
