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THREE LINKS RUNS A FAST RACE Oddfellow Gelding in W E Scotts Stable Reduces i Five and a Half Furlongs Record at Butte Butte Mont August 1 The Butte track record for live and a half furlongs was reduced fourfifths of a second today by AA E Scotts speedy gelding Three Links The son of Oddfellow ran the distance iu V05 and beat a good band of sprinters AVhllu lie was shouldering a light impost ho ran a surpris ¬ ingly fast race Away to a flying start he dashed into the lead and opened up a big gap on his oppo ¬ nents hut was tiring rapidly at the finish Rooney who bad the mount on Caugh Hill the favorite waited a bit too long liefore he sent him after the leader which he would have beaten in another stride strideRanorella Ranorella in winning the third race showed de ¬ cided improvement over her last race raceII II G Bedwell will be the first owner to ship from hero to Havre de Grace Md He will leave next Sunday with fifteen of his I est horses leaving eight here in charge of his trainer Walter S Heath HeathOKonite OKonite has been purchased by II Fink from tha Biirbank stable for 800 800Several Several horses belonging to Henderson Ilogan have been sold to J O Talbot tho owner of tho Denver Stable Among the lot were Guaranola Bredwoll and El Toro The terms of the sale were private privateSixteen Sixteen bookmakers were In line today The only absentee at the new drawing was Johnny Lewis LewisAA AA AA Finn Is on his way from Aaucotiver B C to Mexico City to confer with representative resi ¬ dents of the Mexican capital on the possibility of conducting a pretentious winter race meeting at that place
