THREE-YEAR-OLDS. 



2:15. At Columbus the next week ^Murphy 

 worked her in 2:14 and 2:io>4 and won the Stock 

 Farm Futurity around 2:10 three times. At Lex- 

 ington he worked her two heats around 2:15 and 

 then won the Kentucky Futurity. All together 

 she had less than 20 heats better than 2 :2o, in- 

 cluding all her work and races. In my opinion 

 colts need to be kept fresh. They should not 

 have too many miles, but plenty of speed making 

 and conditioning. They will race with this work 

 if game, and if not game no amount of staying- 

 up will get them to Futurity form." 



Champion Three-Year-Olds. 



Let us conclude our chapter with a consideration 

 of the champion three-year-olds. The present 

 champion is Peter \^olo, 2 :03>{', trained and driven 

 in his two and three-year-old forms by T. W. 

 Murphy. Previous to Peter A^olo came Colo- 

 rado E., 2:04^, trained and driven by Guss 

 Alacey. The preceding champion was General 

 Watts, 2:0634. trained and driven by ^like Bow- 

 erman. Previous to that was Fantasy, 2:08^, 

 trained and driven by Ed. F. Geers. Pre- 

 vious to that was Sunol, 2:io>^, trained and 

 driven by the late Charles Marion. Previous to 

 that was Axtell, 2:12, bred, owned, trained and 

 driven by C. W. Williams, practically an ama- 

 teur at the time. This takes us back to 1889, 

 beyond which there is little to be learned that 



