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ANSWERS TO QUERIES Communications without names and addresses will not be noticed nor answered Ko answers will be sent by mail and none by wire unless reply pre ¬ payment is made at time of wiring query R G F Danville Ky The 45 to 100 mutuel price over Thinker a place was correct Ours was a telegraphic error and has been corrected correctedGeo Geo S Ohillieothe O The parlay on Regal Lodge and Madras had no particular bearing on the cas llle P ° nt ls whether having erroneouslr notified you that Motor COM was scratched and thereby led to the belief that the wager on him was a draw the layer would have paid on Motor Cop had he won K G Lo1isville Ky Oregon Eclipse was a thoroughbred iA though his third dam was unknown He was born in Oregon in 1887 by Joe Hooker Lulu Riggs by Humboldt Hercules another ex ¬ tremely fast horse was a brother to Oregon Eclipse Both were as fast as OConnell whose nedigree was unquestioned All were sprinters though but for bad legs O Connell could have won over any route OConnell is dead and buried in the Harlem infield He was foaled in Kentucky in 1890 and was by Harry OFallon May Kennedy by Faustus FaustusJ J c B Chicago 111 There was plenty of good racing in Chicago before Washington Park be ¬ came its most important track Washington Park opened in 18S4 The American Jockey and Trotting Club gave four races daily at West Side Park afterward Garfied Park in 1880 It gave eleven stake races with from 800 to 1500 added They were Great Railroad Grand Pacific Stakes Illi ¬ nois Oaks Haverly Theater Stakes Garden City Cup Downer and Bemis Stakes Criterion Stakes Ladies Stakes Tremont Hotel Stakes Board of Trade Handicap and Palmer House Stakes The best horses in the west raced in these events
