With strides like the stroke of a frictionless piston 

 And breath like the breath of the steam just beneath. 



— John Troticood Moore. 



PRINCE ALERT 



Champion Racing Pacer, 1901 (2:00%) 

 Record 1:591/2 



RINCE ALERT 1:59V1> (rejected record 1:57) was 

 perhaps more renowned as a race horse than as an 

 exhibition animal. He was a public figure in the 

 United States for ten years and in that time started in 81 

 races, paced 279 heats and won 143 of them. He started 

 in ten or more exhibition miles and while he equaled or beat 

 two minutes in some of them, it was as a race-horse that he 

 shone as is evidenced by his record of 2:02 in a race in 

 1900 and one of 2:00% in 1901, this latter being then the 

 world's record for a second heat. He held other world's 

 records, including that for pacing geldings, 2:00%; that for 

 the fastest three heat race on a half-mile track and he won 

 the then fastest four and five heat races on the small oval. 



Mart Demarest trained and raced him in the hey-day 

 of his career and in answer to a request for information 

 concerning this great gelding wrote under date of January 

 29th, 1922: 



"The preparation of Prince Alert for his fast miles was 

 very limited as I raced him wherever I could in purse races. 

 I never drove him, but once, in his training better than 2:04 

 and that was a mile at Empire City tracks when I was pre- 

 paring him for his effort against the record of Dan Patch, in 

 which effort he paced in 1 :57. I consider his mile at Bel- 

 mont Park, Philadelphia, the last of October, 1903, his best. 

 He paced in 1:59^. 



"I think he was the fastest and gamest horse the country 

 ever saw up to that time. He was a very good feeder 



