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Show UTAH'S FAST STOCK- Inc.. to b Srnt to th. Kit.-Shpod Track at Zad.pandenc , Inwn. C. W. Green has purchased a trinity of promising colts by Equinox, dam Dixey by Nutwood for which he paid a "lorg" price. He if owner of Clover Dale farm at Independence, Iowa, which has now become the Lexington of the west, and where the Nutwoods' are bred for Charles Gilmore. Ho has leased two mares for two years for $1")00. Beauty by Nutwood will bo bred to Axtell. Incas is to bo shipped to Independence to be given a record of 314 on the kile-shapyd track which was designed by WiKipms the owner of Allerton and others and the original owner cf Axtell who sold to a syndicate for IIO.j.OOO. Speaking of Incas, Mr. Green said to a Times reporter re-porter "In my opinion there is no limit to his speed. He is the fastest green horse I ever saw and Utah can be proud of bim. His record is now 2:2J over a slow track." Dixie No. tiOO, owned by Charles Gil-more Gil-more of the Wasatch stock farm, located loca-ted three miles from Salt Lake, is to shipped to Independence to be bred to the best Wilkes stallion in the world Axtell, record 2:12. He also ships Equinox. Equi-nox. The youngsters that are to contest as yearlings this October are betraying some wonderful bursts of speed and Hon. Frank 11. Dyer is of the opinion that Utah vyill yet become the rival f California. Slade, the Maori, is solicitous to again meet Captain Charlie Lang in a contest of twenty-live rounds. The captain has signified his willingness to accommodate accommo-date the Australian, the meeting to take place in six weeks. An opinion prevails pre-vails that the Maori is a little too premature. pre-mature. If he got the worst w'th the captain in a ten-round bout it would be ditlicult to imagine what his condition would bo at the end of a tweuty-tive round contest. The chances are that a flock of sheep in the San Pete valley would be without an owner. George La Blanche is down at Payson trimming up his feathers. Jim Williams, Salt Lake's favorite pugilist, is billed for a ten-round contest con-test with Billy Houston of Payson -both aro equal in weight. La Blanche is behind be-hind Houston, whi!o Jim Gushing is looking after Williams. If the two meet no doubt some one w ill know it and the Payson sports will vary likolv add to the exchequer of tho Salt Lake sports. |