. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 386 mjc gvetbev attfr *§p&vt#mix*u | t December 17, 1898. aod lose me the race. So I laid him up, bat got inside the lag. I took do chances the Dext time, got him away well and won, though he was so tired after that heat that I was certain he could not have trotted another mile better than 2:40. I believe I did right to lay up the heat, and by so do^ iog won the race and the money. It may be that those who are such sticklers for the rule will say that a race as slow as 2:26 don't count anyway, but the rules are of as much im- portance to ub up here in the m
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 386 mjc gvetbev attfr *§p&vt#mix*u | t December 17, 1898. aod lose me the race. So I laid him up, bat got inside the lag. I took do chances the Dext time, got him away well and won, though he was so tired after that heat that I was certain he could not have trotted another mile better than 2:40. I believe I did right to lay up the heat, and by so do^ iog won the race and the money. It may be that those who are such sticklers for the rule will say that a race as slow as 2:26 don't count anyway, but the rules are of as much im- portance to ub up here in the mountains as they are over there on the Grand Circuit in the East. Yours, Yreka. Death of Sebra Brigfifs. DIRECT LIKED A HARD TRACK, So Mr. Salisbury Had it Scraped Down to the Bed Book and beat Hat Pointer. Monro* Siliabury, "the Kiog maker," was in the Bkeeder and Sportsmas office one day this week, looking op the pedigrees of a few trotters that he has his eve on for 1900, when he expects to have done with the Klondike region and aeain be going down the line on the bis: eastern circuits with a string of champions. He is in better health than for years past and of stout and robust frame. A little lighter than before he crossed the ChilcoM last year, and therefore, he says, in belter condition to make the trip again. His prospects in the northern region are good, and we hope he may uocover a goodly pile of the yellow nuggets. If he succeeds the easterners will have to look out for him in 1900, as no man living has a better eye for speed than he, or knows better bow it can be gotten out of a horse. The old days when he had the little black rascal, Direct, are among the pleasantest in Mr. Salisbury's memory, and his eyes twinkle as he relates some of the incidents of those campaigns. "I used to have many a wrangle with Hamlin," said ne, "over the way tbe track should be worked. A good man and a thorough horseman is Hamlio, and ae sharp as men are made wh
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