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Show nil ni mi li iteti. mier llnuks en I slarllia VV likes Villi Its llieir Hhiai ia, Mo , Oct. 23, Tho eytsof the nation will le ou thuHedalla race (rack this wtek, where .Ssnoy Hanks nml Martha Wllkts nruto try ronolu-sIoib ronolu-sIoib against time, which has now lieeu rtpeatedly beaten , Theiuestlou agitating thu world la thu irospectnf striking the two minute gait this u i ek. The Missouri Htato I atr nuo latlon bus nude ubllo tho rorrammu for tho fall trotting nieitlug, which Itgau today and eh Is October 29lh. It comprises com-prises slxlein events, lucludlug thu races against records by ancy Hanks and Martha WlUn, lor pursts uggru gating (12,(100. Today Doble will drive Martini Wilkes over thn Itile track, anl tomorrow will send Nancy Hanks to bint her ncord. Fur Ihu inhibitions which MsrthuunJ Nancy will give, thu association will pay Air. Dot le JiOOO. Thn e times now within a very few months Nancy Hanks has made a new record. Ou August 17th she trotted In 2 07, outdoing Hunol by u second aud Maud H by a sue-nml sue-nml and a half. Ou August .11, when she had the udvautage uf a klleshsed track, she lowered the record by two w hole siconds. Then another riductlou of ono and a quarter stounds stuod to her credit at Terre Haute. It should bu noted, ton, that Nnutydlil thu third quarttr In that last race In 20 seconds, which la at tho rule of a mile lu 1 39. The history of Nancy Hanks Is worth careful recital In view uf the great things exf eoled of her at that meetlog. Hliu Is a tlsrk lay, small sired, not to txeted fifteen hands high, and wn horn nnd bred In Keutuckv. Hhe insdo her first npieariincu nt Harrodsburg, July .11, lbn, and lost one heat or a race, Hits only one deftnt scond In her eventful life. Hhe won seven rates that year and closed with n record of 2 2I. In 1600 sho won six races, scoring 2 HI nt IifXluglun, August JS In lb Jl she met Allertonat Iudeptmlente, Ia , and lowered her retard lo 2 12 III that rate. At Cambridge city, Ind , she mate tho quarters thatytar In . I.j, M, 32 und M, iho mlleiii2 00'j. this yeur's ncord is tol I above. Hhe Is now Ihe property of J. Malcolm Forbes.who paid $ 10,000 for her. Hhe Is six years old and was sired (y Hart Itoswtll ot Islington. She Is by great slr Happy Medium out of Nancyl.ee by Dlilat r, lur dam Hophy.by Alexander's 1-d-win Fornst, tho next dam telug,a daughter of J: Iwln llrown's Fllot. |
