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MOURN EQUINE FAVORITE Slab to Mark Resting Place of Popular Mountain Rose II. His Racing Record. LAUREL, Md., Oct 25. Sentiment in racing cropped out Friday night when Mountain Rose II. broke down so badly that it was necessary to destroy him. B. Chapman, owner of the old Yankee gelding, bowed his head over the track rail and wept when Dr. H. J. McCarthy sent the fatal bullet into the horses brain. It was proposed to send the carcass off to a glue factory, but Chapman would not permit it He caused a grave to be dug back of the race track and a slab will mark the resting place of tho old campaigner that won many a raco for Chapman. Mountain Rose II. was a veteran and useful plater that was campaigned over the various racetracks of the country for the last eight years. His most successful year was 1923, when he won eleven out of twenty-seven starts and 1,365. Altogether he started in 15G races, of which he won thirty-nine and 8,069. Here is his complete record on the turf: Mountain Rose II., Ir. s. 1913, by Yankee The Rose, by Miser. Year. Arc. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Amt. 1015 2 Did not race. 1010 3 Did not race. 1017 4 18 2 3 3 10 ,301 1918 5 17 1 3 7 G 1,695 1019 0 24 7 4 3 10 4,567 1920 7 21 C 1 4 13 5.9C0 1021 8 20 7 5 3 5 7,503 1022 0 11 3 4 0 4 3,213 1923 10 27 11 8 2 G 11,305 KSil 11 15 2 2 3 8 2.430 Totals 8 ...... 150 39 30 25 02 ?3S,0C9
