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HAMBURG IS SOUND A fake interview telegraphed from New York recently credited Marcus DaJy Day with conceding that Hamburg is unsound The interview was a lie pure and simple for space filling purposes but it has sufficed lo elicit the following state ¬ ment meant from John Madden Hamburg was sounder at the close of the season than he was just before the Great Trial was run so sound was he that I offered to bet 5000 and agreed to give Malvolio Alveoli 20 pounds in threequarters treasurers over Latonia Antonia one of the hardest tracks in the west This I certainly would not have offered had I thought him sore He won each of his last five stakes in a gallop His feet and legs are absolutely clean and sound with the exception of a small windpuff windsurf in the center of the knee nowhere near the joint Hamburg was foaled with this puff and on an inspection of the Max photograph of Lady Reel the same puff may be seen over her knee Hamburgs Hamburg perfect action will carry him through the sea ¬ son even if he should develop bad legs I began the training of Hamburg before he was one year old took him up on December 15 1895 Any person not acquainted with Hamburg would bo readily deceived He has at a slow gait a careless way of going which many would call soreness My only hope is that Mr Daly Dally will not send Hamburg west to fill his engagements as my horse Plaudit is in the same stakes and if Hamburg starts in these events I shall cer Acer ¬ tainly taxingly scratch Plaudit
