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Show SOE HORSE TALK ' OF LOCAL STEPPERS According to a weekly paper of San . Francisco, devoted principally to horse-. horse-. raising, the slowest race run here on Decoration Dec-oration day was in better time than the fastest one run on' the same day In a special spe-cial meet given by the Gentlemen's Driving Driv-ing club of San Francisco, This speaks well for the local horses, and baa been the , subject of much comment among the. boi semen of the city. . W. R. Hutchinson, the owner of Mary H.. (he old mare tha won three straight hrrats In the last meet, has lately refused Jn offer of Before H. W. Brown took he mare in charge some time ago to train : r, Mr. Hutchinson offered to sell her for r si;-j. e - W. A. Thompson, who recently came here from Kansas, has several fast step- pers. which may be seen on the local track before, the season Is over. He tried one if his animals put yesterday, and succeeded succeed-ed In covering a mile In 2:33. . Dr. Ellerbeck's mare, Lady Smith, went the last half of a mile yesterday In 1:10. Brown's Zeltoka, a . three-year-old, was put over a "mile yesterday In 2:41 and a t so-y earmold sired by Altoka went a Quarter Quar-ter In 41 seconds. e Weimer't green pacer covered- & mile In 2:24 at the' workout yesterday. Salisbury's horse was also put over the course, In 2:25. |