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took care of this great horse for me for so many years, was 

 largely responsible for his many wonderful performances. 

 He was ever on the job, took wonderful care of Dan and is 

 entitled to great credit for his share in the champion's suc- 

 cess. 



Mr. Hersey has stated that Dan Patch paced about seventy 

 different miles at an average of two minutes while he had 

 charge of him which would make it merely superfluous to 

 enumerate them but it should be stated that aside from the 

 1:55 mile at Hamline, Harry drove the horse to a reduced 

 record of 1:551/4, his previous record having been l:561/j|^, 

 and that he set many track records that still stand and all 

 of them close to or below two minutes. That he held his 

 record-breaking form through all those seven years, or at 

 least through six of them testifies to the remarkable stamina 

 of the horse not only, but to the splendid skill of his trainer 

 as well. It will be recalled that Mr. Hersey says it was not 

 until the seventh year that there were any signs of a break 

 and it must be remembered that was the tenth year of train- 

 ing for Dan. 



The late M. E. McHenry gave Dan Patch a record of 

 1:561/4 and in the course of the year 1903 drove him eleven 

 exliibition miles in 1:561/^ to 2:013/4 on mile tracks; three 

 on half-mile tracks in better than 2:05; gave him a two- 

 mile record of 4:17, a wagon record of 1:571/4 and a half- 

 mile record to wagon of 56 seconds. 



Dan Patch died in 1916, his owner, Mr. M. W. Savage, 

 having passed away the previous day. Dan was by Joe 

 Patchen — Zelika by Wilkesberry. 



