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Opening Day at Butte Track Delivers Mixed Racing Crowd
The Butte track opened with about 3,000 in attendance,追 with officials estimating up to 5,000 in the grandstand. Races featured Mount Hood defeating Erudition in the Derby heat and a set of two year old sprints won by Huachuca and Doublet, with Tuberville riding two winners. The day saw tension over possible betting restrictions and crowd sentiment favored racing despite subdued excitement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Paris Mutuals
Little Sprite
Mount Hood
Finlen
Perringer
Eerudition
Snow Peaked Knoll
Oregon
Erudition
Havey
Ferguson
Huachuca
Irma A
E. M. Brattain
Valencienne
Doublet
de Capo
Jim Hale
Tuberville
Ada N
Quibo
Spike
Chappell
Gauntlet
Rio Chico
Linden Ella
Tom Calvert
Delgado
Kitty Kelly
Stanfield
Odd Eyes
Julietta B
Burdock
George Perringer
Westfield
Ingram
Frazier
Campbell
Ruiz
J. B. Shaw
Julien Oriole
Duffy
W. L. Stanfield
St. Carlo Flibbertiflibbert
Prior
Duckey
Midsummer
Jim Brownell
Jean Spencer
St. Distaff
Mutuals
Piccolo Riellito
C. L. Jones
Herald- Santa Rosa
McCarthy
J. J. Morgan
Riley Agneta
Phil Archibald
del Allen
William Boyer
W. Campbell
Prince Royal
Sallie McAlister
H. Stuart
W. Db. Randall
Imp. Cavalier
Apache-Play Toy
Rice & Burrougs
Lamplighter-Tampette
Brodine
Oo. P. Ramigh
Brg Burdock
Matt Byrnes
Abra Daly
Holmes
Harry Thatcher
Ostler Joe
Barney F
Tubervile
Billy Randall
Great Falls
Helena
Anaconda