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ELLISONS ONE HARD-LUCK HORSE. 0. It. Ellison, who is known all over the country as "Lucky" Ellison, has one horse in his stable with which he is far from being lucky. In fact, he styles this one, J. C. Core, his hard-luck horse. "J. C. Core has always been a hard-luck horse; for me." said Charley Ellison, after the defeat of Garry Hermanns sou the other day. "He has fallen and bled and has had about every other sort of bad racing luck since I got him, including a severe spell of fever at New Orleans last winter, which undoubtedly affected his wind. "I lost one of the biggest bets I made last summer on him at Saratoga, ,500. I thought be was In an easy spot that day, but he ran like he was of no account. I have won just one race with him in the year and a half I have had him: but as a three-year-old he worked a mile and an eighth in 1:5-. and they thought he would prove to be a crack. I would have won him out several times over at New Orleans last winter if he had not taken sick J -but I guess that spell of fever knocked him out completely." II. T. Griffin had much better luck with J. C. Core than Ellison has had. Griffin claimed the horse in his early two-year-old form from the late Capt. S. S. Brown, who bred him. In his first start in Grillius colors be finished second, but the next time out ho beat Frank Gill. He won bis next race also, and was then bid up and taken from Griffin by "Whitev" Langdon for $.1,000. Langdoti subsequently selling liim to Tom Welsh for ,500. Ellison bought the liorse from Welsh and. directly and indirectly, be has probably cost bis present owner pretty close to 0,000.
