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Etawah and Brook Volo paced to a pole cart in 2:08, 

 making a new world's record. 



Another world's record was also made the same 

 day when the El Canto gelding Sheriff Stout trotted 

 two miles under saddle in 4:461/4. This old time 

 style of racing dated to a time when the courses 

 were too rough for wheels. In 1863 George M. 

 Patchen trotted two miles to saddle in 4:56. In 1927 

 a member of the Road Horse Association of New 

 Jersey took a shot at it with the trotter Peter Bean 

 and reduced it to 4:53%. Now the mark stands at 

 4:461/4 made in the presence of over thirty thousand 

 enthusiastic spectators after Walter Dear, Volomite, 

 Sir Guy Mac, Miss Woerner, Hazelton, Guy Ozark, 

 Highland Scott, and Hollyrood Colin had been 

 paraded for the edification of the patrons of 

 Weequahic Park. 



CLASS IN THE TROTTER 



Class and not numbers fixes the reputation of a 

 sire of racing material. That undefinable quality 

 which prompts a horse to make another bid for vic- 

 tory when his competitors are fading shows where 

 the acid stamp of merit should be placed. It does not 

 come by chance. It shows where the racing quality 

 was bred in. 



Every one who goes to the races can recall a num- 

 ber of horses which rushed off in front but tailed 

 off as soon as one of the stout hearted trailers looked 

 them in the eye. For years the Tennessee Hals were 



