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SOMETHING NOVEL IN RACING. During the recent meeting at Pimlico the stewards - made a novel discovery, says the New York Sun. Tliej found that a saddle made of aluminum I and weighing practically nothing had been used by jockeys who wished to conceal the fact that 1 tliey were overweight when they went to the scales s to lie checked before the races. The saddle, it was 3 learned, was the property of a former steeplechase - rider, who had been in the habit of leasing It out. An investigation is under way.
