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Show WHY THE MAJOR BEAT LOTJ. Memphis Turf Writer Gives Peculiar Season for Dillon's Defeat. A Memphis turf writer asks if the infatuation of herfvalet and grief which followed the separation from another little friend was responsible for Lou Dillon's defeat by Major Delmar in the Memphis cup rate. The trotting queen has been separated from a valet for whom she showed a peculiar attachment attach-ment for over a year: Her former attendant lived in Peoria, 111., and gave up his position to study stenography at his home. Millard Mil-lard Sanders, Lou Dillon's trainer, says that never was there a closer friendship existing between any pair of lovers than between Tommy Waugh and his charge. "Waugh seemed to hold a spell over her," said Sanders. "He was the only man on earth I would have trusted Lou with without a bridle. But with or without a halter, she would follow Tommy anywhere. She seemed to know he was her good friend, and since they parted I have noticed Lou show that she felt the separation In many ways. She likes her present attendant all right and there Is nothing that he can do that he does not do for Lou's comfort, com-fort, but some sort of a life partnership partner-ship seemed to exist between the former for-mer boy, and the help around the stable has also noticed it." Animal affection has often puzzled horsemen. Ornamental, the quadruple Western Derby winner and conqueror of the best In the East, grieved so after separated from a yellow dog which had been his stallmate for a year that the dog was hunted up and restored. Highball, the last American Derby winner, had for his roommate "Doc," a small common cur, and when Highball High-ball was being trained last spring for his Ill-fated Beacon "Doc" was always escorted to the railing of the track, and with an attendant was held so that Highball could see him when taking his morning work. Other noted thoroughbreds thorough-breds have had chums, but the theory that Lou Dillon's grief over the loss of her valet Is the first ever offered probably prob-ably explaining the reversal of form by a trotter or runner. |