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KELLY HEROIC TREATMENT A FAILURE. Horsemen wintering in New York in their daily gSffeettaSM at tbe Hoffman House and other favorite resorts where horsemen for years have b-en in the habit of congregating, when not discussing handicap weights or the racing situation, amuse themselves telling stories. One of them the other day in relating his experiences with different hors"S said: "Do you remember that mare. Mamie allan. wliieh Harry Stover had some ten years agol Sho was one of the worst run-out propositions that ever wore hair, and for all I know Bhe may have gone into retirement still possessed of the desire to bust tliroiiRh the outside rail at the head of the stretch. "I saw a big cook named Kelly try to cure her of the trick, and it cured him of euriug envy banes. He told Msnt that he could keep her in on the stretch turn, aud Harry gave him a chance to prove it one morning down at New Orleans. "When the mare was saddled Kelly armed hitnsVlf with a hickory essnry spoke, but Stover made no objections, for he knew the mare- pretty well, and only heroic treatment could have any pos-ible effei-r. "Kelly ler her -tep around the turn out of the backstretch in her own fashion, but at about the tliree-lurlong post he clucked to her and punched her with his heels. She had a world of speed and sailed for that stretch corner like a Quarter horse. "When she hit the corner t»ut sou went, and then Kelly aft busy with the eSMSf spoke. He hit the mare such a smash tietwecu the cars tUat in-knoeked her down. "Well, they picked Kelly up over near the brick ham. and when they looked him over it was about even hotting that he belonged in the morgue. He was carried off to the hospital, and all he saw of the races for the rest of the season was an. aeea-sioual dope Sheet that lie boys carried H|. to him. "l»id it cure the mare: I should say nut. She ran out in her licit race."
