Deseret Evening News | 1900-07-28 | Page 10 | Why Devonshire Lost

WI 1 LOST JOST Mo More yarns and ghost chOit turl are of Dt steeplechase and 1111 hurdle raring then than any other beach of equine spun port litre I Is one I was WAI at on one of the tb meetings In Eon land a te few years RIO ago sail 01 a known plunger and ami as you IJU au 1111 in inthey n they pay JV more attention to the ate tep p chasing over there than they do to In this On on one occasion a hw hire named Devonshire was u one ot of ter th 1111 en rs In a big field and L a small mall P 1 laid against his hla chances II lie was a a If 11 horse a voracious feeder and full tricks a fact that turned up after the therace race was u run ills stable wu was down on him I Iman mn man and nd they Ie stood tood to win a null un unI I favored him el even n t I tt II flying start and he took the barrel and the Liverpool Ilk Ilke a bird I 1 nl eer standing a dozen lengths from frum th the des ish hh and nd was 1111 watching the Tact race when my attention was AI drawn to a ear rot headed hade chap In jeans and el pens fler I a veritable yokel who to a mn man standing alongside Jt wont finish see He hit hlf p e does dOI the bloomin dog stop sm Im sea Ie hit III dont dontI I 1 was Interested and amu amused eJ but tf rev seamed m my of the hI rue Presently Devonshire came a down don lengths In front and when h n juet opposite where whre I 1 was w standing tM the TO re kel made a megaphone ot of his hll hands handl D shouted Hats Devonshire stopped II as If I 11 hed lees bf D shot folded uk back his ears 11 1 nn tall tail turned around and ana If Int lack back over the track and In the distance near Dear his hll stable tout bat Th The crowd was the happiest man of the lot was wal t the so ICI I spoke poke to him and he Bald that he be used to work In Deon tR and had taught the brute to run lr till hll QUArt quarter whenever he would Mar hear the 01 cry of Irate l The hal had b n ht charged for tor some trivial cause CUl and had taken this method ot of g II HI Iq square with his recent employ r ha have A shilling down r n horse horN In the race ce but he be was a th Ih mar mer when h Ift Nest IMP chap In the crowd Devonshire turn tall tal and scoot for tor cO cOer ov oven er en