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SPE OS FOK HORSES A recent dispatch from New York says In a raco a few days ago Glade Run wore spec taclos a fact which has caused much comment among horsemen Tha glasses were designed by Pittsburg Phil Smith Glada Run is owned by yonng McGill who is Pittsburg Phils nephew nephewThe The Gravesend track was full of sm all stones and gravel which were thrown back with some force by the hoofs of tho flying thoroughbreds Shaw who rode Glado Run in his races re ¬ ported that tha horso Boomed to b o bothered a great deal by dirt and small stones striking him in the eyes and the result was the eyeglasses eyeglassesThey They are really only an improvement or an addition to the ordinary blinkers There is a clear pioco of celluloid which comes down from the cup of the blinkers over the eye thus affording a perfect protection from dust and dirt and at the same time enabling a horso to see perfectly Glass might be broken by a stone but tho celluloid is not easily fractured fracturedEspecially Especially are such glasses valuable on days when tho track is muddy Often horses who woar the cup blinkers come back with eyes filled with mud
