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side him at the three-quarters in i :^t,. Peter 

 \'olo was given very little fast work between 

 races. 



Native Belle, 2:0734. 



The champion two-year-old filly is Xative 

 Belle 2 :o7% that took her record in the second 

 heat of the Kentucky Futurity on Oct. 6, 1909, 

 at Lexington, Ky., driven by Thomas W. Murphy. 

 She was perhaps the most wonderful two-year 

 old that had then shown. She reduced by three 

 full seconds the mark of Arion, against time, that 

 had stood for 18 years. She was born great 

 because she was not broken till April, only six 

 months previous to her great performance. She 

 had showm fast beside a pony the previous winter, 

 however. Murphy went slow^ in her training at 

 first, so as not to spoil her, yet by the last of 

 July he worked her a mile in 2 123. About Sept. 

 15 she was worked in 2:1434, last half in i :04^. 

 The next week she was w^orked in 2\i^y^. The 

 following week she started in her first futurity 

 and won in 2:13% and 2:1214, equaling, in the 

 last heat, the tw^o-year-old trotting race record of 

 her day. She stepped the final quarter of this 

 heat, against a wind, in 31% seconds. In the 

 Kentucky Futurity she won the first heat in 

 2:1234 and was then sent for a w^orld's record in 

 the second heat. She made the quarters in :33, 

 131, :3i (middle half in 1:02) and 13224. 



