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INTEREST RUNS HIGH IN BUTTE RACING RecordBreaking Crowd in Attendance Yesterday Spohn Wins Butto Handicap Uutte Mont August 17 The Hut to Handicap one mile brought together live of the best horses iliiartered at the local course Republican Guarau ola and Nimbus were withdrawn This was the main event of the day and it proved a grand contest from start to linish At one time during the run ¬ ning going down the backstrctch all the contestants were so closely hunched that they presented the ap ¬ pearance of a chariot team After leaving the half mile post Spohii which held the lead was chal ¬ lenged by Uncle Ken Lixhiel was running along the rail and the trio were all on equal terms an ighth from the finish Not far away was the game little Enlield which came with a rush to be beaten a scant head headThe The lirst handicap given In Montana in recent years for twoyearoids was put on the card today hy Judge E C Hopper It was a closely contested race with the top weights tinishing in a hunch hunchThe The racing as a whole was of superior quality ill of be races being keenly contested The crowd at tending was the largest that has ever been seen on the track at Kiltto KilttoThomas Thomas II Stevens the veteran horseman for merly of Kentucky was stricken with pneumonia yesterday and taken to a local hospital hospitalThe The judges would not permit jockey McCloskey to ride Shooting Spray feeling that he was not coin Detent Jockey Taplin was substituted substitutedBecause Because of the shortage of riders the judges to ¬ day lifted the suspensions against several who have heen on tho ground in order to permit them to ride in the Putte Handicap HandicapJ J T Ireland and G II Keeno have returned from their trip to the vicinity of Juarez JuarezJockey Jockey Parker was yesterday suspended for ten days hy starter Morrissey for using abusive Ian
