NINETEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 65 



The first heat was paced by Single G. in 2:06, with the little 

 Mack mare close up at the finish. The second heat was a fast one 

 for a half-mile track, paced in 2:03%, and put the former track 

 record of 2:051/4, made two years ago, in the shade by a liberal 

 laargin. It was an extraordinary mile and roused tremendous en- 

 thusiasm and applause from the thousands in the grandstand and 

 lileacliers. 



When the horses came out for the third heat, the judges an- 

 nounced that Mr. Allen would make an attempt to lower the 

 world 's record for a half-mile track. The announcement itself was 

 a surprise to the spectators, for nobody, not even the most opti- 

 laistic, had anticipated such an extraordinary mile as the one raced 

 ♦\venty minutes before, and they wondered vaguely if it were pos- 

 sible for the splendid bay to clip anything further from the unusual 

 record just made. 



The pair went away to a perfect start. The first quarter was 

 paced in 30 seconds. A great cheer went up as the flying pair 

 passed the half in 1 :0iy2 ; the three-quarter pole was passed in 

 1 :30i/^, and the mile completed in 2 :01. The last half was paced 

 in 591/0 seconds, the four quarters respectively being done in 30, 

 311/2, 29, 291/^, seconds. It was an exhibition of the sort that mere 

 words fall flat in attempting to describe, and one that no horse 

 lover who witnessed it will ever forget. 



It was a splendid achievement for both horse and driver. No 

 man ever drove a greater mile, nor a more perfectly-rated one, 

 than Mr. Allen drove that day, and that heat in 2 :01 over a half- 

 mile track will be chronicled by writers of harness horse history 

 with the few ultra-great achievements that have been accomplished 

 in the life of the American trotter. And since this extraordinary 

 feat was achieved in Iowa, it is altogether fitting and proper that 

 Mr. Allen, the master reinsman, is an Iowa man. 



In considering this race, we must not fail to give due credit 

 to the splendid little black mare, Lillian T. She was timed sep- 

 arately that last heat in 2:02i/>, which not only broke the track 

 record established two years ago, and the one made twenty min- 

 utes before, but it was also faster than the former world's record 

 of 2 :02%, the one Single G. was sent out to break. It did more 

 than that ; it lowered her own half-mile track record of 2 :05i/ji , and 



