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Show Impromptu Race. " Horseflesh is deceiving. Yesterday Judge Foster and Bol. Roberta thought"Fanny McCornick" couldn't go worth a cent, and laid a wager of $2o with Col. Patrick that he couldn't drive her a mile in a buggy, at Agricultural Agri-cultural Park, inside of 3.10. The cononel doflcd his coat, jumped into his buggy, and drawing the strings over the mare, sent her twice around the hall-mile course in 3.0S, and Thursday is not the day upon which she makes her good time. Messrs. Sharp Walker, H. E. Brown and Ctipt. Paul acted as Judges, and Col. I Kahn was time-keeper. "Fanny" 'is a goer, certain. Col. Patrick's . avoirdupois is somewhere in the vicinity vicin-ity of twenty stone, while the buggy is only a tritle lighter than a lumber Wiigou, and yet tho girl stepped ofl like the wind. The challengers are ! now trying to get up ft bet that she I cannot take a grist to mill at rate 'of a mile in 2.50. |