Should ould acquaintance be forgot 



An never brought to min ; 



Should ould acquaintance be forgot 



An days o lang syne? 



— Robert Burns. 



STAR POINTER 



The World's First Two-Minute Performer 

 Record 1:591/4 



TAR POINTER 1:591/4, a bay horse by Brown Hal- 

 Sweepstakes by Snowheels, was the world's first two- 

 minute performer. He took his record at Readville, 

 Mass., August 28th, 1897, driven by Mr. Dave McCleary 

 and the effort was to beat the world's pacing record of 

 2:00yo, held by John R. Gentry. 



Mr. McCleary, to whose careful efforts were largely due 

 the coming of the two-minute pacer, had his troubles with 

 the fast son of Brown Hal, for it took almost constant work 

 to keep his feet and legs in shape to stand fast miles. Dave 

 writes under date of Januaiy 29, 1922, from New York, 

 where he is engaged in conducting a large garage: 



'T am only sorry that there is not something to tell of 

 a method of training Star Pointer that was religiously ad- 

 hered to or in a measure consistently followed. But as he 

 had some ailments that would not stand the ordinary train- 

 ing that naturally should be given to the type of animal 

 he was and with the amount of speed he had, what he did 

 accomplish tends to show what a wonderful horse he was to 

 continue to go the fast miles he did under those conditions. 



"He had no peculiarities that I recall, was just a good, 

 big horse. Nor had he any bad habits when he came to me 

 and he did not acquire any while I had him. 



"I consider our great success w4th Star Pointer was due 

 to the fact that we had one of the greatest caretakers that 



