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dropped a filly by Azoff the year before and was 

 again in training. When she pulled up lame McMahon 

 said to Wright ''Send her over to Thompson's place 

 and breed her to Azoff." Mr. Wright declined the 

 oft'er and went home. Later on after thinking it 

 over he sent her up. 



In the spring of 1916 Glenora dropped a bay colt. 

 In time he was weaned, gelded and broken to harness 

 by Harry Putnam. The spring the gelding was a 

 three-year-old McMahon's foreman told him that 

 Putnam had a fast trotter. The prospect was too 

 near home to expect anything out of the ordinary 

 in the way of racing material. The gelding was 

 named Peter Manning after the man who stood by 

 Mr. Wright when he threw up a $10,000 a year job 

 to paddle his own canoe. 



The balance of Peter Manning's career is an open 

 book. After winning a race at Libertyville in 2:17V2 

 he was shipped to Milwaukee where he trotted in 

 2:10. At Lexington Peter Manning worked a mile in 

 2:061/2. Thomas W. Murphy purchased the gelding 

 for Irving Gleas'on. Mr. Wright's price was $21,000. 



As a four-year-old Peter Manning won all of his 

 engagements except at Philadelphia where Geers 

 drove him on account of Murphy being in the 

 hospital. A stumble at a soft spot in the track and 

 a broken check put him behind the flag. At Hartford 

 Peter Manning won the Charter Oak Purse, at Syra- 

 cuse the Empire State Purse and at Lexington the 

 Transylvania. 



In 1921 Peter Manning started as a record maker. 



