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MRS. LANGTRY AN OWNER AT ELEVEN. "Mrs. Langtry, who after a long and rather depressing period, recently won a race in England, le-gan her sporting career at the age of eleven," says the -Toronto Sunday World. "She was the daughter of the Dean of Jersey, and races, with small stakes and few rules, were then held on the little Island. She and her younger brother bought a racing mare appropriately named Flirt of uncertain age and more uncertain forelegs, paying 2.50 from their pocket money sayings for the prize. Flirt was housed in the Deans stables as an alleged hack, and the children put her through a course of training that consisted of a daily exercise gallop on the common. But there was good blood in the mare, and she turned out to be as plucky and lucky as her mistress, for she galloped away from the others In her first race and netted 50 to her owners. This early disposition toward racing has become a fixed habit with Mrs. Langtry, who is never more happy than with her horses."
