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classes. He started at Chicago, but never was prominent, 

 getting tangled in his gait before going very far, and after 

 that his owners decided he was a pacer, and this way 

 of regarding the matter gave them a champion pacer 

 and a sire that for a time led all other horses as a be- 

 getter of pacing speed that could win on the Grand Circuit. 



THE GREATEST SIRE 



PETER THE GREAT 



RECORD, 2 MINS. 7J SECS., 



Sire of eighty-six in the 2 mins. lo sees. list. 



By Pilot Medium ... Dam, Santos, Grand Sentinel. 

 By Happy Medium ... Dam by Pilot Junior 12. 



It has been recently stated that few people could 

 give a good guess as to the source of this famous sire's 

 greatness. The writer's opinion has long been that the 

 doubling up in the pedigree of Peter the Great of the 

 blood of the wonderful progenitor, Pilot Junior, will 

 account for a lot of the greatness of the wonder sire. 

 Pilot Junior mares were the dams of the first pair of 

 2 mins. 10 sees, trotters : Maud S., 2 mins. 8f sees., 

 and Jay Eye See, 2 mins. 10 sees. Miss Russell, 

 daughter of Pilot Junior, not only produced a new 

 sort of trotter in Maud S., but another of her foals. 

 Nutwood, 2 mins. 18} sees., was at one time a 



