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THE MANAGER SICK BETTER NOW Lexington Ky April 29 Thomas C McDowells great threeyearold The Manager is sick and there is uneasiness least he should not recover sufficiently to be able to start in the Blue Grass Stakes here next Saturday and in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs the following Saturday With The Manager eliminated these two races would IKJ robbed of great interest for the son of Voter and Bracegirdle is deemed the only colt capable of giving royalWhen II C Hallenbccks Worth a battle royal When The Managers groom went to his stall yes ¬ terday morning he found him somewhat drooping and seemingly out of sorts When Major McDowell went to the track later in the morning he sent for a veterinarian who made a careful examination and announced that while the colt has a high fev r his lungs are not affected and that there is a possibility that it will pass in a day or two as it often does The Managers temperature at dark last night was 104 One of Major McDowells trusted men sat up nightIf with the colt all night If it should come to pass that The Manager will not be able to start in the Kentucky Derby Major McDowell will have the S3mpathy of a host of Kentuckians who want to see him score a second triumph in this much coveted race raceThomas Thomas C McDowell who remained all night at the barn with his Kentucky Derby candidate was rejoiced to report today that his good colt was much better betterI I am quite happy to say that his temperature at noon was 99 one hundred being normal and that his respiration was perfect Dr Shannon attributes his high fever of last night arid yesterday to a slight attack of indigestion The man who has fed him regularly for the past year is at Louisville aiid hs groom has been feeding him here He thinks a great deal of the colt aud probably gave him move than he should have had I also inn guilty for I have been giving him a little on the side now and then I feel sure that The Manager will slart i the Kentucky Derby and if this little attack has not injured him I believe he will win the race
