Show ROBERT I I HAS SPEEDY RIVAL Horseman Imports Pacer Facer to t Lower His Bis Hs Colors DEAL WORKED UP OP ON QUIET ALPHA W WITH A MARK OF HAS ARRIVED Now Now it is tho the horsemen While base baseball baseball ball bal fans fans bicycle fans ten tennis tennis nis and golf enthusiasts have been mak making makIng ing lug for a strenuous season the corning comine com in I summer r the thc horsemen have hac been keeping quiet but events show they the have been doing a great reat deal of or thinking of or late Inte In fact fact they the have worked so quietly that It was wa not known until yes yesterday yesterday r that a fast pacer had been shipped into Salt Lake for no other reason than to clean up the track with Robert I J the big Dig chestnut pacer nacor owned by Ezra Thompson The new horse horae Is none ione other than Alpha oter W an nacor Dacer with a mark of ofos os 8 The ho horse hore arrived in the city yes yesterday J yesterday 6 and In a few rew minutes the word had hind been passed pas d around that the animal could be b seen seon in a box stall stal in Tom Torn Mc Mb lI Coy Coys s stables where it i was care carefully carefully fully watched by those who ho had hd put up their money mone for the animal Horse Comes From Montana McCoy the animal and said eaid it I was WES for J 3 T Richards of Salt Luke Lake Tom om left leC for Montana on a secret mis mission mIssIon sion slon several days das ago and after looking the horse over paid tho the price asked and put her in a car ear and ad brought her hor home borne The rite he owners were Flemins brothers of or I Elliston Elston Mont and tho the marcs pedigree Is as long as the name nume of o a Russian and I Japanese battleship combined She Sh is a full ful sister to Bob Dol Fitzsimmons one of tho tim biggest winners Inners in harness races Tace In recent years Looks Like Syndicate Buy While hie McCoy MeCo said tho the horse hore was pur purchased purchased chased for tor J T Richards others who claim they the know said the te mare was really real owned by a syndicate s of local horsemen who wha who are after afler Mayor Thompsons scalp For years there has ha been a rivalry be between between tween different factions facton of horsemen in Salt Sal Lake as to who had bad the fastest horse hore It I bean beiran a a couple of years back when or Thompsons Vesta C was the of Salt Sal Lakes Lake s turf turL Then Ten Sarah Green and Crab Apple came come along and took the honors honor away from Vesta C For a year ear Mr Thompson was after a a horse hore fast tast enough to clean up the local bunch and finally inal landed land d Robert Rober J I Last year oar Mr Ir Thompson n had the th satisfaction of sitting In the grand grain stand and seeing sedan his new find literally wipe up the track with wih every horse In the state It I was a day da for Mr Thomp Thompson son soil and nil all al winter lone Ion he has ha had it iton iton itOn on on the tho other horsemen at the meetings of the thc midwinter grand arand circuit club which are arc held every day da the fun eun un shines at McCoys stables Now there is 15 a different tale talc to tell tel nab several of the thc wise ones are arc predicting that Robert I will i be sent to t the hay as soon as Alpha V W getson getson the local track Others arc are still staying with wih Robert I and there promises to be o one ic of the greatest horse races ever held in the city when these two thoroughbreds set get et to together together o gether sether |