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DISGUISE 29 YEARS OLD OLDSANTA SANTA ROSA Calif May 10 Disguise famous race horse and sire celebrated his twentyninth birthday today and played host to a number of prominent people who gath ¬ ered at John H Rosseters Wiking Rancho a noted breeding farm of this state where Disguise has done stud duty for a number of years yearsThe The assemblage was seated at a huge horseshoe shaped table on which rested a fifteeninchhigh cake decorated with twen ¬ tynine carrots carrotsDisguise Disguise was led within the slot of the table by Tod Sloan the jockey who rode the horse into third place in the Epsom Derby twentysix years ago agoThe The cake had been made from bran and the carrots looked especially inviting so with ¬ out ado Disguise nibbled the vegetables one by one and then finished the repast
