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# # Marcus Daly Park Name of New Track Being Built at Butte ♦ ® BUTTE, Mont., May 20.— Montana, with a legalized pari-mutuel racing bill, is soon to have a return of the thoroughbred sport under most favorable circumstances. Racing is to be inaugurated in the thriving city of Butte on July 13, to continue for twenty-five days. The forthcoming meeting will be under the direction of R. James Speers of Winnipeg, Canada, who is primarily responsible for the splendid meetings held at Polo and Whittier Park in Winnipeg, and at Chinook Park, Calgary. The Butte meeting will follow the spring racing at Winnipeg, after which the fall meetings at Calgary and Winnipeg will be held. With the sport about to be held at Calgary — this meeting began May 18 — there will be a continuity of racing in the West until September 16. All plans have been completed for the erection oi an up-to-date racing piant calling for an expenditure of 00,000. The site for this plant is in the LAke Avoca division, within street car distance from the heart of the city. The grandstand will be built to accommodate 3,500 people comfortably. The club house will be an ornate structure with a spacious ▼eranda in front with a sloping lawn stretching down to the outside rail. An exclusive wagering department will be provided for the club house guests. The main mutuel pavilion for the general public is to be a replica of one so popular at Whittier Park. The paddock, jockeys quarters and administration building are to be comfortable structures of the most modern type. The plans call for ten separate cottage barns of sixty stalls each and these will be added to if the occasion demands. They are to be electric lighted. The racing strip is to be a three-quarters mile course, with a five-eighths chute on the back stretch and a mile and seventy yards chute leading in a straight line to the front stretch. This will assure a straight run for the thoroughbreds of over a quarter of a mile coming out of both chutes before a turn is reached. Liberal purses will be offered with a feature handicap provided daily for the better class horses. The officials who will have charge of the impending Butte meeting are as follows: R. James Speers, general manager ; Charles F. Roe, assistant general manager; George W. Schilling, presiding steward ; H. D. Monroe, racing secretary and handicapper, and James J. Donovan, starter. A signal honor has been paid the memory of the late Marcus Daly in naming of the new Butte plant for him. It was this beloved Montana breeder and sportsman who, back in the early days of racing, was one of the first to import the English thoroughbred horse. His celebrated Bitter Root Farm gave Ogden a Futurity winner to the turf. Tammany and other great equines first saw the light of day on his haras. The noted sire Sain, which produced many winners for the late Barney Schreiber, once roamed the pastures of Bitter Root Farm. It was Daly who imported a mare in foal from England. This was shortly before Marcus Daly passed away, and the mare was sold to the late James R. Keene. This foal turned out to be the immortal Sysonsby, which vies for honors with Man o War as being the greatest thoroughbred horse of all times. When the Butte plant is finished those entering the main gate will find emblazoned in gold across the entrance the name "Marcus Daly Park." a -
