RACEALONG 239 



BALDY AND MIG 



Baldy and Mig occupied adjoining stalls in the 

 big barn at the entrance to Granite State Park in 

 Dover, N. H., in the spring of 1919. They were a 

 splendid pair of equine athletes, still there was 

 nothing in common between them other than that 

 they were horses and trotters. Mig was a golden 

 chestnut with white trimmings and a sprinkling of 

 white hairs on his body, while Baldy had a bay coat 

 that glistened like a piece of mahogany, and on his 

 face a broad white strip to which his name can be 

 charged. 



On the score cards, this pair appeared as Lu 

 Princeton and Mignola. The latter was an Iowa 

 product which reached Dover by way of Pittsburgh. 

 When he looked over his stall door he could at times 

 catch a ghmpse of Mabel Trask. They graduated 

 from the same school in Indianola. Since they met 

 in the hawk eye state, Mabel became the best race 

 mare of her day, while Mignola was a fun horse in 

 Pittsburgh. 



With a step as light as a debutante at her first 

 ball and a devil may care swing to his tail, Mignola 

 when he appeared on a track attracted everyone's 

 attention. At speed he was the ideal trotter, his 

 style, gait and bearing being what breeders had in 

 their mind's eye for years and which few obtained. 

 With a stroke just round enough to be flashy but 

 with no lost motion and as rapid as the roll of a 

 snare drum, the magnificent son of Allerton flashed 



