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mingled when Uhlan lowered a record and in doing it 

 showed the world how such a thing should be done. 



It is possible in this volume, thanks to Mr. Tanner, to 

 present a great deal concerning the way he handled the 

 great gelding for his earlier record-breaking feats, and in 

 this connection it may be said that those methods were never 

 materially changed. He has also presented some most 

 interesting facts which do not concern training operations, 

 but serve to furnish a view of the character and disposition 

 of one which was, in many respects at least, the greatest of 

 all trotters and who was undoubtedly the greatest trotter of 

 his time. And be it said, he was as great as a race horse 

 as he was as a battler against that greatest of all foemen, 

 the stop watch. The tasks he was asked to do were tre- 

 mendous and he did them all nobly. 



Nearly all his days he has been a champion. He became 

 one the first year he was raced, when Robert Proctor had 

 him. He continued a champion the next year (1910) and 

 his third year out he added still further to his champion- 

 ships by becoming the fastest gelding in trotting annals. 

 And his fourth year before the public he became the world's 

 champion trotter with his mile in 1 :58 at Lexington, Ky., 

 October 8, 1912. 



He trotted in two minutes or better on seven occasions 

 on four different tracks and he trotted a mile on a half-mile 

 track in 2:02'^. He trotted a mile with running mate in 

 l:54l/v), and with Lewis Forrest he set the pole record at 

 2:03^. He forced Hamburg Belle to set the world's race 

 record at 2:011/4 and to trot the second heat in 2:01%, and 

 beat her in the return match. He did everything that was 

 asked of him and with the exception of the one race men- 

 tioned, neither horse nor watch ever defeated him. That 

 is but a skeleton of his mighty achievements and if all his 

 story is ever told it will make a volume of goodly size and 

 most wonderful reading. 



Mr. Chas. Tanner's story of the great gelding the first 

 year he was in his hands and during the course of which he 

 lowered the record for trotting geldings to 1:58% and trotted 

 to wagon in 2:01 is quite interesting and as it properly 



