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WILHITE S WONDERFUL REJUVENATION. 1.1 Pass, Texas. January :;0. — When Wilhite left Kentucky as ■ member of the string of horses shipped here by Kay Speiice. Be appeared to be nearly about all in. -u far as showing his former high class form, w lien regarded as ettie of the best of tlte- members ol tlie stable of W. O. Yanke. He seenieel destined al ue for low-priced top and notion selling races iu the future. No one of Jodgm -in tor a minute gnesssd that leefore the winter was scarcely half over he would earn here the i-ight to be considered the "Meadow" of the present meeting. He first ran unplaced la the Juarez Handicap, with only 112 pounds up, and then captured a selling race, in which he was entered to be sold for 1916.sh00 and was bid up to . Conning Tower then beat him in a seven-ei-hths handicap, his weight in that raee lieing 110 pounds, and Kootenay also beat him at three-quarters, he conceding the Shortell gelding six pounds. He struck his real gait on DecemWr 14. when he won a seven-eighths handicap with 110 pounds up. sad be has gradually improved in his ramniag since as to be able to win a handicap at tthts distance on January 10 with 132 pounds in the saddle. I It seems now as if he is master of any weight up, say, to sevea-eightlia or a milt;, and so highly [ • [ I i I i ■ : - : . ; i t : t r I i i • i i . : does his trainer now regard him that he recently refused to set a price of any kind on the .,„, ,,f Radford, anyway until he has tried him out with good company in Ken rocky .again, where be will be shipped by Spence when the winter soeeting Is over here. The wll-kr.own raeing official. y. n. Shelley "lie of the placing judges at the Juarez course! states that be once sold Determination, the dam of Wilhite, for 833 and the owner of the mare at that time considered that be got a lair price I t her. She is probably the only marc that ever I Id under $::: in America that produced a racer which won a handicap with as much weight as 132 pounds up. as Wilhite carried to victory hei n Jsn- nary 10. Considering that he never started until he was a four-year old. Wilhites record reads well and is as follows: Vear. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Fnp. Won. 1911 2 Did BOt race. 1012 :: Did not race. I013 4 ti 12 7 :: o | 7.1C.S 191 1 5 27 8 2 6 11 5.464 1915 6 28 8 4 4 10 :;..;::i; 1816 7 3 2 1 0 0 B88 Totals 1 81 o0 It 18 30 816.488
