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GOOD THING THIS HORSE DID NOT WIN LEXINGTON, Ky., August 25. .Alike Qninn, who this year has been making the circuit of Kentucky fairs as one of William Donoas pari-mutuel crew, tells this one: "At one of the towns the rank outsider finished -second and the pay for the place in the mutuels was big. I had just completed the posting of the price on the board for the publics information and was about to leave when a negro wearing a broad grin and displaying two unbroken rows of even and white teeth said to me: I rubs dat boss. You rubs which hossV I inquired. Dat boss what pay all dat big place price, he answered, ami then continued It sho am a good thing fo youall dat he didnt win. Why sol I inquired. Ef he had won dis race youall would have had to bsrry some numbers offen tie white folks automobiles to put his price on dat boad wif. "
