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REPORT OF COLINS LAMENESS CONFIRMED. York" "Tl,ne 28.— Erancia r. Hitchcock and »-?ew Ihoinas Hitchcock. Jr.. have returned to America I rum Bnrope. While abroad rhev witnessed the victory of W. K. Vanderbilts Negofol in the trench Derby and afterward attended Ascot on Cold Cup day. Speaking of American horses now In England. Thomas Hitchcock. Jr.. said: •"Ballot did not have much chance the day he started. He was tini heavily weighted. Colin has gone lame and will not be continued in training. I saw Sir Martin. He did not apiKNir to have suffered anv injury from his Derby mishap, but he did not look well to me. He ran in the Royal Hunt Cup. at Ascot, hut was given twelve iMiunds more weight than any three-year-old winner of the event had carried. In order to have won he would have had to show that he was twelve pounds better than any other horse of ills age tluit had raced for the Hunt Cup."
