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HORSES ECCENTRIC NOMENCLATURE A mare named F.cihi lias Just won a race in Ire-laud. Again people are asking what this name means. Read it backward and you get "Alice." It seems to be a new style in the Emerald Isle to give thoroughbreds names that have to be read backward. There is also Ybro, which read backward becomes Orby; Iotnas, which becomes Sautoi. and others. It Is, 1 think, a sign of the topsy-turvy condition of the world in whieli we are living Viator, in I Jockey,
