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PARTNER OF COLIN AND BALLOT. Jimmy Rowes fat little roan pony, the stable familiar of high and mighty thoroughbreds, had a busy day of it and appeared to feel the importance of his job in the manner it deserved. The roan pony leads Colin and Ballot and all the stars of the stable out from tho .barn to the paddock, and up the track for the warming-up gallop before the race. Down the stretch he breezes in front of Colin, bis fat legs pounding the track in a desperate effort to be sporty and like his great companions. After Colin wins he goes out to the stand to lead the triumphal procession to the paddock for the cooling out. And after Ballot won he met this victor with a hoss smile and escorted him to the cooling out spot. Then the nice little days work being done, the Flatbush and Century stakes won aud everybody happy, lie took them all back to the barn up the stretch, Colin and Celt and Ballot, and he probably had as good a measure of oats as any of them at feeding time. lie deserved it.
