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2031/2 ^t Lexington she cut the world's record to 

 2:02. Volomite made a three-year-old record of 

 2:03l^. He also won the Charter Oak Purse from 

 aged horses and finished second in the Hambletonian 

 Stake to Walter Dear in 2:0214. Peter Volo's other 

 winners included Cold Cash, a two-year-old pacer, 

 that won in 2:05i/i from aged horses over a half 

 mile track, Hollyrood Highboy 2:041/4, Plucky, a 

 winner in 2:06l^ over a double oval, and Capital 

 Stock 2:061/2, the winner of the two-year-old divi- 

 sion of the Fox Stake. 



Peter Volo has a balanced pedigree. His sire Peter 

 the Great proved the greatest sire of racing speed 

 in any breed. His dam Nervolo Belle also proved 

 the leading producer of extreme racing speed. No 

 other mare ever produced three such race horses as 

 Peter Volo 2:02, The Great Volo 2:0214, and Volga 

 2:041/2. She was got by Nervolo 2:04l^, a grandson 

 of Onward, out of Josephine Knight by Betterton. 

 This gave him two lines to George Wilkes. Mam- 

 brino Beauty appears at the next remove. She was 

 got by Mambrino King, a sire of one of the best 

 brands of race horses ever seen on the Grand Circuit 

 tracks out of a mare by Allie West. He was a four- 

 year-old champion by Almont out of a mare by 

 Mambrino Chief. 



Mambrino Chief also appears in Peter Volo's fifth 

 dam. She was by his son Alcalde out of a daughter 

 of Shropshire's Tom Hal, the tap root of the family 

 to which the Hals trace. 



With an inheritance on a par with his turf per- 



