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Show Even One Horse Stable Expensive, Henry Finds an a la king, onions, potatoes and radish as. . "And keeping him In proper clothes costs plenty, too. Ha has to have a blanket to wear out to tha track, a blanket to cool off In and a blanket to wear after he's bean cooled off. Then there are saddles, bridles, atirrupa, - whips, combs and brushaa. By HENKY M'LEMORE United Prase Sparta Writer HOLLYWOOD, Dec. IT (UP) Oliver Hardy of the Laurel and Hardy Hardys, owns a racing stable which has two distinctions. First, It Is composed of only one horse. And second, the lone stead, Mannleb y name, has kid ney trouble. Until quite recently Owner Hardy's stable was much mors extensive: twice as large, In fact, because he had another horse, ons Tedslm. But Hardy, with a shrewdness that brought him much acclaim In equina circles, cir-cles, sold Tedaim when he was repeatedly outgalloped by Mannla, kidney trouble and alL In morning morn-ing workouta. And to be outgalloped outgal-loped by Mannia la not to have galloped at alL "I gave Tedslm every chance to make good," Hardy aald to ma today aa ha whisked a grain of oats from his lapeL "I have rode him myself In tha morning workouta, work-outa, and It was very humiliating humiliat-ing to have amaller men and amaller horses rua by ua." Mannia will carry tha green and white silks of the Hardy stable sta-ble In the coming Santa Anita meet How far or bow faat Mannia Man-nia will carry the silks Is a debatable de-batable question. Hs has nsvsr been in the money yet, but In one breath taking race at Bay Meadows Mead-ows he came very near to not being be-ing last I asksd Hardy how ha came to choose green and white for his silks. Was it because of sentiment? senti-ment? "Indeed not," hs answered. 1 left nothing to chance. My choice was based on science and reason. I hsd my horoscope cast and tha young lady who did it aald aha saw green and white colors corns thundering down In tha Derby, the Prsaknesa, the Belmont the Futurity and tha Santa Anita handicap. She aald I must have green and white." I asksd if hs found tha business of operating a stabls an expensive one. "Yes, Hsrdy said, "even a comparatively small one such as mine. When I bought Mannia ' I thought he couldg et along on j oate and hay and grass. But those things are just appeUsers for a horse. My feed bills read like a seed catalog. Mannia eats everything, apparently lettuce, 1 tomatoes, carrots, spinach, chick- |