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MARTY BERGENS HUMOR. Another yarn about the dead, jockey Marty Bergen has cropped up Which runs as follows: At Brighton a couple of seasons back Bergen put old Buttons in a selling race. He had patched the cripple up and thought lie could win. John Boden asked hlin just Before the start what he thought of the race. "Why," said Bergen, there would be nothing to :thls race If Buttons had a good rider." "You dont say," said Boden. "Who is going to ride?" "I am," was the reply.
