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the quarter. Never was a greater surprise. The laugh 

 was on the other side with a vengeance, and the parting 

 words of the old man to Charles Gates as he left the 

 track: ''You got a pretty smartish kind of mare, Mr. 

 Gates, but she ain't. quite good enough to tote around in 

 a peddler's wagon," was anything but soothing to an 

 irascible temper like that of Gates. Many were the dol- 

 lars captured by the peddler and his associates, and for 

 years afterwards the Georgetown track was a sore remin- 

 der with the veteran Canadian horseman. 



