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ESTEBAN IS NEARING CHICAGO. Thoroughbred Engaged in Long Distance Test Races in Sprints En Route to Meet Expenses. Lima, O.. July 10. II. II. Weatherly, who set out from New York 3Iay 22 on the six-year-old thoroughbred gelding, Estehan, on a 2,000-miIe ride to Chicago and return for the purpose of demonstrating the powers of endurance of the modern thoroughbred, passed through here yesterday. 3Ir. Weatherlvs progress has not been as rapid as planned, for the reason that at various points along the route lie found it necessary to stop and replenish his funds, on account of his original financial arrangements for the trip having gone awry. Estebans racing qualities were called into requisition to meet the emergency. At Heading. Pa., where 3Ir. Weatherly discovered that he would have to shift for himself, Estehan won enough by finishing second in :491 in the. final of a half-mile sprint run in three heats", to carry himself and his rider to Johnstown. There he again ran to replenish the exhausted exchequer. The race this time was over a mile and a half course. Pitted in relays against Estehan were three of the fastest horses in the locality, each of which ran a half mile. Estehan had no difficulty In beating each of his adversaries from 0 to 10 lengths and ran the mile and a half in 2:3S. The proceeds of the race sufficed to take the pair to Pittsburg. From Johnstown to Pittsburg, Estehan made a wonderful showing by covering seventy-eight miles over the mountains in a single day. At Pittsburg, Estehan again raced. With 135 pounds up, against 100 and 98 carried by his opponents, he finished second in a half-mile dash before a big holiday gathering at Schenley Oval on July 5. Continuing the journey, Estehan covered the 325 miles between Pittsburg and tliis place in six days. .Mr. Weatherly is not pushing the horse bow. as he intends attempting an eighteen days continuous riding return trip from Chicago to New York city. He probably wiil reach Fort Wayne, Ind., in a day or two and" will put In a few days there before entering upon the final hundred miles of his westward trip.
