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JOCKEY MENTRYS IMPROVEMENT. There has been noticeable improvement in the riding of the little boy Mentry at Oakland and horsemen at the California track see in him the making of a jrood lackey. Meal I y is under contract to George P. McNeil and has been with the horses less than two years. Ue has ridden six winnev. nine seconds, seven thirds and been forty-four tiine-s analacedj this vjc lie rode hi- first Winner when Ue got home ill frolil with Tttafl II knrf] ; It 1:. said of ti i il i that he has .1 |00d seat knows uhal to do with his hands and is not afraid to take a chance and come through on the rail whenever there is the slightest opening.
