Your's is the day! We greet you 

 'Tis ours to stand aside. 



— Marion N. Gaskill. 





PETER MANNING 



Champion Trotter of the World 

 Record 1:57% 



HEN, on October 6th, 1921, Peter Manning set the 

 world's record for trotters at ] :57%, he displaced 

 the 1:58 of Uhlan which stood for nine years and it 

 is somewhat of a coincidence that when Uhlan, in 1912, set 

 the world's record at 1:58, he displaced the 1:58^4 of Lou 

 Dillon who was the first two-minute trotter and whose record 

 had been the best for nine years and that is what caused 

 Mr. Charles Tanner, who trained and drove Uhlan, to declare 

 that the extremely fast trotters do not appear often enough 

 and that "nine years is too long to wait for a champion". 

 Whether we will have to wait nine years for a successor to 

 Peter Manning depends, as it happens, on Tommy Murphy, 

 trainer and driver of the present champion, and his other 

 two-minute trotter, Arion Guy 1 :59l/>. They will have their 

 opportunity. After racing Peter Manning successfully in 

 1920, Mr. Murphy drove him to the world's record in 1921, 

 as stated, and while he may make the attempt to further 

 lower that record with him it is to Arion Guy, the younger 

 trotter, that many horsemen look to lower the record. This 

 is no particular place for prophecy but it may be that both 

 of the Murphy horses will lower the record that stood at the 

 close of 1921. Tommy is in the habit of doing unexpected 

 things. 



Before proceeding with the story of Peter Manning it 

 is well to glance at the growth of the list of two-minute 

 trotters. Few people realize that there is something out of 

 the ordinaiy in the making of a trotter that can show the 



