. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXXV. No. 24. No. 22)4 UKARY 8TEEET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1899. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAR The Green Un's Gossip. T E. Keating Bat for a couple of hours in the office of the Breeder and Sportsman last Friday, looking better and feeling better than he has for two years. He really begins to look like a healthy man and if it wasn't for that little trouble lie had recently with his eye no one would discover much of a change in his former health ful and ''wiry" appearance That eye trouble is a very queer case and Dr. Barkan of this c
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXXV. No. 24. No. 22)4 UKARY 8TEEET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1899. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAR The Green Un's Gossip. T E. Keating Bat for a couple of hours in the office of the Breeder and Sportsman last Friday, looking better and feeling better than he has for two years. He really begins to look like a healthy man and if it wasn't for that little trouble lie had recently with his eye no one would discover much of a change in his former health ful and ''wiry" appearance That eye trouble is a very queer case and Dr. Barkan of this city, who is so suc- cessfully treating it, will make it the subject of a lecture soon before the medical association. A little vein smaller than the finest cambric needle became congested with a little particle of blood which, owing toa faulty circulation, was not forced through the The clot was not larger than a grain of the finest sand, but'it was just in the spot where it obscured the vision and at first was like a cloud, and afterwards divided objects seen by that eye so that but half of them were visible. Electricity and massage are renewing the circulation, owever, and a pair of dark glasses are all that are re- uired by Mr. Keating at present and they will soon be discarded The trouble is in but one eye, the other being as perfect as ever. Keating says that Owyhee 2:11 was the best horse for what he could do that was on the Grand Circuit this year and his - winnings of nearly $10,000 is certainly proof of the statement. His miles were trotted close up to his mark all the time, and when tne time was along about 2:12, he says ' Owyhee was 'Johnny on the spot'." all the time. He will not take him East again next year but the horse with the Indian name, which the Eastern turf writers are trying to give a Hawaiian derivation, will remain at Oakwood Park Stock Farm arid be bred to a number of select mares. Keating is to have the last son of Beautiful Bells in his
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