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(IMAGE)
TAKING THINGS EASY.

chos were discarded, and there is not a
horse in the lot but shows to the eye of a
horseman unmistakable signs of thoroughbred
ancestors. "Poison," the horse that
Berry rode, was furnished by John D.
Hale, of Devil's Tower, S. D. In speaking
of the race yesterday as he watched his
horse Poison being slowly walked
up and down in front of the stables
a few hours after his arrival, Mr. hale
said: "There is a horse that is nearly
thoroughbred. His dam is an old race
mare that has won a great many races
through the Northwest under the name of
Trade Dollar, and his sire was a Kentucky
bred horse of excellent breeding. It takes
a horse of great courage to stand such a
ride and this can only be found in the

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SMITH TAKES A RESTFUL RIDE.

horses that have been bred for racing for
many generations."

Gillespie's gray horse has a much lighter
tail than when he started out, owing to the
propensity of people along the road for collecting
souvenirs. "I could cuss at the
men who tried to pull hairs out of his tail,"
said Gillespie, "but what can a feller do
agin a woman? It was the women who
pulled the hair out of his tail, and some of
them were mighty attentive to the man
who rode him," he remarked as he viewed
a collection of handkerchiefs of feminine
ownership which had been presented to
him on the road.

There is a talk about disqualifying Berry
for some reason not yet definitely state,
in which case the race would go to Gillespie,
with C. W. Smith second. It is
charged that Berry had some advantage
not possessed by the others in an earlier
and more complete knowledge of the route
to be taken.

The distance from Chadron to Chicago is
1,040 miles, and the riders who arrived yesterday
made an average of a little more
than seventy miles per day for thirteen
days.

A reception was tendered the cowboy
riders last night by the Wild West riders.
The ride just ended is likely to lead to another,
or possibly two other long distance
races. One contest proposed is that a
representative of each of the half dozen
nationalities represented in the Wild West
shall race from St. Louis to Chicago with
frequent changes of horses. Another is a
ride from the Rio Grande to New York between
Mexicans and cowboys.