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TOUCH ME NOT IS REGARDED HIGHLY NEW YORK N Y June S Every trainer who has seen Touch Me Not the Greentree Stables big twoyearold which lost the Juvenile Stakes on Decoration Day through bolting shortly after the start in action during the morning hours thinks he is a youngster of the highest quality qualityBefore Before saddling Tryster for the Juvenile James Rowe said that he might beat him for that race but that Touch Me Not was a highclass twoyear old and had everything a good horse should pos ¬ sess As a matter of fact Touch Me Not might be the champion of this years twoyearolds He has the size and the speed and he is stoutly breu being by Celt while his dam Dainty Dame was by Handspring My Fair Kentucky the dam of Dainty Dame was sired by Ingoldsby and she in turn was a daughter of Basque by Hayden Ed ¬ wards a sou of Prince Charlie The next dam The Belle by Rayon dOr John E McDon ¬ ald raced with much success Basque was a sister to Uensselaer the horse on which Tod Sloan made his first creditable appearance as a rider il the East winning a tremendous wager for Mc ¬ Donald and Oeorge K Smith Pittsburgh Phil both of whom are dead these many years McDonald saw much racing abroad and was killed near Salis ¬ bury England on his way to London in a rail ¬ road accident McDonald and his English friend Charles Mills one of the most prominent betting roinmissioners abroad pulled off a great coup by shipping Uensselner to France and giving him a sixcial preparation for the Jrand Prize of Oslend which he won in splendid style styleThere There is nothing wrong with Touch Me Nots blood lines and just as soon as he settles down and races to his true form he will be hard to beat There were some trainers who thought that his running was due to the fact that his shins were sorelooking slightly bucked in fact
