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THE DOUBTFUL ONES AT LEXINGTON. Because Secretary Campbell Scott Is spending a vacation in the south; because no stakes have been announced and because the dates allotted by the American Turf Association for the spring meeting at the Kentucky Association track are -only ten weeks away," dispatches from Lexington say some folks down in the .old blue grass town are getting fidgety over the outlook for racing. These fidgety ones most probably are the chair-warming oracles and patriarchs who assemble every morning at the Phoenix Hotel to publicly express between drinks their private opinions of turf affairs in general; who spend their afternoons before the Hanover Clubs blackboard, prognosticating, commending and condemning; who put in their evenings at Horsemens Headquarters reiteratiug their speeches of the day, and who are always first In line at the secretarys office with the request for season badges for the entire family and one for Colonel Skeezicks from Po-dunk.
