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LITTLE STRING AND LITTLE NEPHEW Latonia Ky June 10 M B Gruber expects to ship his two good racers Little Nephew and Little String to Latonia from Louisville sometime the wining week Little String la slowly recovering from his recent bad cutdown in a race at Douglas Park and is now taking slow work again Trainer Klise Brown on the suggestion of owner Gruber has had the shoe of Little Strings injured hind leg raised so as to take the weight off of the colts tendon which fortunately was not shattered when he met with the mishap Trainer Brown hopes to get the colt ready for the Canadian Derby Gruber thinks it was hard luck that the sou of McGee could not start in the Latonia Derby as he believes that he would have won that event lie bases this opinion on the place won by Tetan in the event as three times this season Little String has met Tetan aud on every occasion lias beaten him away off As it was In the Derby Royal II under the superior horsemanship of jockey C Ganz just managed to get home in front frontGruber Gruber thinks that Little Nephew can be made ready now to start here upon his arrival from Louis ¬ ville and perhaps 1 1c c lit then to meet his engage ¬ ment in the Independence Handicap on Monday July 5 From all accounts Little Nephew is now training as well as before being taken to Lexington last spring when both his owner and trainer thought liefore he went lame there that he was as good as over in his career It is probable that Iwitli Little Nephew and Old Rosebud may meet here during tho closing two wocks of tho meeting iu a sprint raeo and thus as fouryearolds renew their battles as twoyearolds a couple of seasons bark The Grnbor gelding has the distinction of Ikolng the only horse that defeated Old Rosebud as a twoyearold A meeting between this pair of great geldings at threequarters should produce one of the greatest sprint races ever run at Lutimia
