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SIRES OF WINNERS IN 1929 



The returns for 1929 placed Peter Volo at the top 

 of the list of the sires of winners during the year. 

 To this he also added a new world's champion as 

 well as a three-year-old that went out of his class 

 and won an aged event from the best horses of the 

 year. 



Of this pair Hanover's Bertha in July gave notice 

 that she was on her way to the highest honors by 

 winning at Grand Rapids in 2:04l^. In that event 

 she was forced out by Main McElwyn. A few weeks 

 later the colt equalled the mark in a race which he 

 won at Aurora. 



The next step towards the limit of speed for 

 trotters was made in the two-year-old division of 

 the Kentucky Futurity. In the first heat of that race 

 Hanover's Bertha reduced the record to 2: 03 1/2- On 

 the next trip Main McElwyn showed in front at the 

 wire in 2:0314. At the finish of each heat the Ken- 

 tucky yell whirled through the stands but the out- 

 burst was mild to what was heard the following week 

 when Main McElwyn won the first heat of the Lex- 

 ington Stake by a neck from Hanover's Bertha in 

 2:023/^. 



This looked like the limit for a two-year-old trotter 

 but Berry felt that he had a little more speed than 

 his filly had shown. The following week he brought 

 her out again and in a trip against the watch placed 

 the world's record at 2 :02, each half of the mile being 

 trotted in 1 :01. This flight together with that shown 



