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Show FOREIGN-BORN STALLION f DEVELOPS GREAT SPEED Jlj The trotting stallion, Willy. 2:081. that 9 secured his record at Grand ftapids, Mich., ! Is the first foreign-born performer to en- H ter the 2:10 class In this country. lie Is Bl the property of Louis WInans, a well- W known American, who has made his home. IK In England for quite a. number of years. IB and who regularly each season races a Hi string of trotters and of runners at the )M most Important meetings across the ;R water. t mm This spring, however, he shipped four , HI of his best trotters, Allen Winter, Sillko, ' (H Dora and Willy, to this country in charge r' VI of his trainer, Al Pennock, and entered Bj them In all of the more Important cvcnls jH to which they were eligible. , IBM The European racing methods differ very ''Kl much from those in voguo in this coun- ')mm try, more especially so with regard to the iflifl manner of starting and tho distances nc- VUm gotiatod, consequently It was nut reason- H able to expect that Dora and Willy would MM naturally labor under considerable of a 9mM handicap during the early engagements. 'RB At Grand Rapids both made their Initial Ijfl appearance, the mare receiving third fl money in a four-heat raco. and Willy sec- -H ond money In one that went tnc limited Immm number. At Kalamazoo the past week' jMl Willy won the 2:1C trot without equaling" i:' fl his Grand Rapids record, while Dora won 5 pj tho 2:21 trot, taking a rocord of 2:15J In jf BJ the first heat. II, J Willy, 2:0Si. is by Wliburn M., 2:27. 1 fl and has an abundance of the charactcrls- H tics of his grandslre. Wilton. 2:19J. be- Ing an especially handsome Individual and f n strongly made at all points. Willy has 3f 6t been a very successful performer across- Jl ll the water, winning eight cvonts and ?S5-i 1 Ul In 190S, and tho same number of races J &J! and $7980 last season. As a long-distanco BB trotter he is ono of the very best that: S Hf ever appeared on the Continent. He will i B bo obliged to nice In tho 2:16 trots, owing mm to his bar, which was derived from kin 3? Trieste race of 15 miles over a five- F mm eighths track and in which ho trotted tho third half in 1:05 and finished thd S"1 last eighth at almost a walk. His J WM achievement still stands as the best for 3 mM the track, and had "Mr. Ponnock known -3. that he was setting a now record ho savs .3. that he would have given other trotters 4' a real mark to shoot at, as Willy could ft J have negotiated the distanco considerablv 'if faster. TJiis stallion Is worth examining 1 El nil over, as he is right in cvory wav, while as a racing machine he Is slmplv 'if: perfect, attractively galled and one of T J the most persevering Imaginable. f |