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OMAR KHAYYAM SHOULD BRING GOOD PRICE. Th -re is considerable speculation on the price that omar Khayyam will bring at the Johnson 81 Pillings sab-. Many of those who saw him win the Keatacky Derby declare be will take the meas nre of both Campfire ami Uourieus when they meet, which may be during the Befauout Park meeting. Some pre diet Omar Khayyam will be the choice over both, the line being taken from his race with Campfire in the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga. Everyone who saw the Kentucky Derby concede Omar Khayyam to have been decidedly the best horse in the race, though some declare that Tickets following the pace so closely was not comliiei ve to his chances of victory. Others, going back to the two-y ear-old form of the horses, concede that Campfire ami Hour less could practically lose Ticket in a race at three-quarters .-.nit that they have just at much chance to Improve as Ticket and Omar Khayyaat. It may be that Omar Khayyam will not race agate before the sale, his owner preferring to put him on the auctioneers block with his existing record rather than take chances in another raee in which hi might be eut down. Injured or defeated. That he will bring a high figure, however, is conceded as tie is not only a nal g 1 hone, but exceedingly well engaged.
