Thou art so swift, yet easy curbed 

 So gentle, yet so free. 



- — Caroline Newton. 



MINOR HEIR 



Champion Green Pacer (1:5914) 

 Record 1:581/9 



INOR HEIR had no bad manners to correct, no faulty 

 gait to worry about and I do not claim any credit for 

 his developement — he was born, not made, says Mr. 

 Charles E. Dean, of Palatine, 111., the highly capable trainer 

 who introduced this handsome son of Heir at Law to the 

 public and drove him to membership in the list of two-minute 

 performers. 



For this volume Mr. Dean has written a most entertaining 

 story of the great Illinois-bred pacer and it is herewith pre- 

 sented : 



"Minor Heir was bred by Mr. J. B. Ewing, of Roseville, 

 111., and was foaled June 1st, 1902. Nothing was done 

 with him until the Spring he was two years old when he was 

 broken to harness by his owner. He was jogged on the road 

 the balance of that season but was given no training. At 

 that time he was mixed-gaited, would trot or pace but showed 

 no marked speed at either gait. He was a stout, hardy colt 

 and the next Spring when he was three, Mr. Ewing used him 

 with another horse on the mail route and during the Summer 

 did some light livery work with him. Mr. Ewing ran a 

 small livery and sale stable at that time. 



"That fall Minor Heir was sent to Mr. D. Patten, at Win- 

 field, la., one of the leading trainers of that section. Before 

 the season was over he had worked the colt a mile in 2:14^ 

 at the pace and in the fall returned him to his owner who, not 

 thinking very highly of him offered him for sale at a very 

 modest price but did not succeed in selling him. I met Mr. 



