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ANSWERS TO QUERIES Tv . Querists. Chicago. Dick Welles and Grind Opera ran their match race at Harlem. August 14. 1M8. Distance, one mile. Dick Welles. 11:! pounds ; Grand Opera. 115. Dick Welles won easily all the way and. i, running the distance in 1 :37~. made a new 1 American record for a mile. R. I. P., Chicago. There is no show price B in English belting practice, but horses are e laid against for a place, which means either r first, second or third. The place price is one-fourth - of the straight price in a m fficient field. According to cabled reports of the race e Billy Barton started at 2Z to 1 in the Liverpool - Grand National Steeplechase, making g his place pri •• practically ! to 1. M. K. L .. Lo.i.: villc, Ky. There is no good d reason for any misunderstanding of the expression. - "Class" is not something belonging - to a horse, but something to which it it belongs. A long time ago it was given an D appropriate definition when a worthy of the e time said: "Eclipse is a first class race horse. i. There is none other in England. His class is s himself alone."
