^2 THE TWO-MINUTE TROTTERS 



toe of his shoe) and with two small grooves there, one 

 deeper and broader than the other, which feature was the 

 invention of Lee Beardsley, the smith who shod him through- 

 out the season, and the same man who used to shoe Cresceus 

 2:021/4. This double groove helped to give him a foothold 

 without retarding him, and I consider it an excellent thing. 

 At the heel were two small calks, set lengthwise, about 11/4 

 inches long and smoothed down to the surface of the shoe 

 in front. Rigged this way he did not go so high forward as 

 before and no longer required elbow boots. Behind he wore 

 a 3^4 ounce swedged bar shoe, his toe was 3^ inches long 

 and the angle of the foot was 49 degrees. The only boots 

 used behind were a pacing coronet boot and a light ankle 

 boot, which weighed as near nothing as possible. 



"When I started him over the half-mile track it was, of 

 course, necessary to make some changes. I put on a 3-ounce 

 instead of a 2-ounce, toe weight; a pair of rolls on his front 

 ankles, and, behind, a pair of shin-ankle-and-speedy-cut 

 boots, with hock extensions. I also hitched him to a Faber 

 sulky that we had built for use during Mr. Billings' Europ- 

 ean tour the year before. It weighed from 33 to 35 pounds, 

 was especially stiff and strong, and I hooked him as far out 

 from it as possible, to help him in getting around the turns. 

 As was published at the time he trotted in 1:58'%[^, he was 

 then hitched to the same sulky that Lou Dillon pulled when 

 she trotted in 1:581/4, a Faber built especially for her and 

 weighing 24 pounds and 1 ounce. He also wore her harness, 

 with the sole exception of the bit. In all his early work 

 he wore no toe weights, they being put on the first time for 

 the first mile that Mr. Billings drove him, to wagon, in 

 2:023/4, July 9th." 



In 1911 Uhlan gave but five public exhibitions. The 

 first of these was at North Randall and on that occasion Mr. 

 Billings drove him a mile to wagon in two minutes, a world's 

 record, tying that of Lou Dillon, who also was driven by 

 Mr. Billings, and giving him the distinction of being the 

 only person who had driven two different trotters a two- 

 minute mile to wagon. At that time no professional had 

 driven more than one trotter a two-minute mile, and it was 



