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The records carried by the get of Peter Volo show 

 the company they raced in. Hollyrood Volo paced 

 in 2:001/4. Ace High made a three-year-old record 

 of 2:0314 after winning all of his engagements that 

 season. The other members of the family in the 

 2:05 list up to the close of 1927 included Walter 

 SterHng 2:031/4, Hollyrood Susan 2:031/4, Voltage 

 2:041/4, Sigrid Volo 2:04, Brooke Volo 2:04, Dr. Volo 

 2:041/2, Sunflash 2:04i4, Hollyrood Hunter 2:043^, 

 and Volo Rico 2:05. 



Another torrent of racing speed appeared in 1928. 

 Peter Volo was the sire of five of the twenty trot- 

 ters that entered the 2:05 list. They were Hollyrood 

 CoHn 2:03, Hollyrood Sheila 2:03i4, the three- 

 year-old filly Etta Volo 2:041/4 which defeated Spen- 

 cer in the Horseman Stake at Indianapolis, Cheerful 

 Volo 2:05 and Volo Peter 2:05, while his son 

 Dillon Volo got Volstead 2:04l^. 



Four of the thirty-seven three-year-olds that 

 dropped into the 2:10 list in 1928 were by Peter 

 Volo, three of them making their records in races 

 over half-mile tracks. They were Etta Volo 2:041/2, 

 Azure Volo 2:07, Plucky 2:071/4, and Georgia Volo 

 2:081/2. 



Peter Volo also had a leader in the two-year-old 

 field in Volomite. He won the two-year-old division 

 of the Kentucky Futurity in 2:06. 



In 1929 the Peter Volo wave of popularity con- 

 tinued. Eighty-five of his get won races, the star of 

 the lot being the two-year-old filly Harvester's 

 Bertha. After trotting in 2:041/4 at Grand Rapids and 



