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J ■ ] ] : j j i MYSTERY IN WARFARES FAVORITISM. W. aderfal talea are rife about what Warfare, the new Lincolnshire favorite vice Spanish Prlaee, can do . with the "dear departed" Eton Boy at their haadi cap imposts. .s.i remarkable are these yarns that the suspicion arises wlnther a little Oriental iniagimi Hon baa not been at work, as so frequently happens in I he ca--,- of ••private wonders" in big handicaps. I Warfare belongs to this category. For a potential Lincolnshire winner his form is wretched. Seven I failures, some of an abject character, comprised his record when he went to Warwick in November and ! smashed up Luxembourg and company in a trumpery plate, and the utmost recomuieiidation of him on the ••book" is that this last race was his best, and suggested improvement in the future. But when ; this is admitted and duly allowed for. what are such animals as Luxembourg aad the other victims oi Warfare when judged by Lincolnshire Handicap j standards! They could hardly win the race with a "pontage stamp up." as the saying is. Oeaae- ; quently it behooves us to examine the Warfare ip"s- J lion from other aspects. Back in the "good old days" of Fred Swindell, say. a case like this would have presented do mystery, hut the present genera ; lion of owners seem to be more impatient la lle-ir ! methods. Not owe in fifty thinks of deliberately patting l horse by for I year or over for ■ particular coup. Something of the "get rick-quick" plan now enters into the business. Mystery and imagination are each powerful magnifiers, and together they would make a Mont Blanc , oat of a worm cast. Warfare is a mystery horse to the exteal of lacking all "I k" justification lor his favoritism, and if imagination lias not been playing tricks with his abilities, and his connections have not been deceived respecting them, in- presents ; a ease of an animal improving out of all knowledge ! from three or four years of age. Such traasforaaa lions are not uncommon among younger horses, but ii rarely happens thai ■ three-year-old makes ah normal progress between Manchester and Lincoln.-- i London Daily Mail. , i
