SCORING FOR THE WORD 



N preparing this volume the object in view was, 

 largely, to put in lasting form something in the way 

 of a brief history not so much of the public career 

 of the trotters and pacers that have taken records of two 

 minutes or better (though that has not been slighted) as of 

 the "making" of them. 



Of these trotters and pacers there are (January, 1922) 

 an even score, of which six are trotters. The period covered 

 by this list of twenty is a quarter of a century — it was in 

 1897 that Star Pointer, driven by Dave McCleary, started 

 the two-minute list by pacing a mile in 1:591/4 at Readville, 

 Mass., over the same track on which, six years later, Lou 

 Dillon, driven by Millard Sanders, with a mile in "even 

 time" instituted the two-minute list of trotters. 



During that quarter of a century, either by developing 

 the horses or carrying them on and driving them to their 

 records, a notable array of trainers have shone in their 

 chosen calling, and written their names indelibly on th«^ 

 scroll of fame in the world of the light-harness horse. 



To these men, as well as to the breeders and owners of 

 the two-minute horses, this book is dedicated and it is meant 

 to be a tribute of respect no less than a chronicle of the deeds 

 of men and horses and a story of how these great performers 

 were trained and conditioned. 



No attempt has been made to go too deeply into details, 

 this work concerning itself more particularly with the two- 

 minute portion of the history of each horse. That the work 



