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a meal and his feed is just good oats and hay, and plenty of 

 it, with bran once in a while. 



"In all his work and racing for me he has made but one 

 break and that was in 1921, at Columbus, in the second heat 

 just after we got the word and were going into the first turn. 

 Murphy was going to the front with Sanardo and in crossing 

 to the pole his wheel caught the buckle of Single G's quarter 

 boot. He only made about two jumps, lost no more than two 

 or three lengths and won the heat in 2:0iy^^ which is prob- 

 ably the world's record for a heat with a break in it. 



"I suppose there are a lot of people who think that Single 

 G is sour or cross about going back to the score after a false 

 start. But he is not. He just wants to take his time. When 

 he turns with his field he is always ready. He knows as 

 much about trailing and racing from behind as any horse 

 in the world. On the other hand, he has proved that he can 

 race out in front and take pretty good care of himself in that 

 position. When he got his record of 1 :59 at Atlanta in 1920, 

 he trailed Sanardo until past the three-quarter pole yet 

 when he got his record of 2:01 over a half-mile track he 

 raced in front all the way." 



"His owner's instructions are not to start him until he 

 is ready and give him the best of everything in the way of 

 feed and care. John Phillips, who has had him for the past 

 three years, and still has him, cannot be given too much credit 

 for the splendid form in which Single G has raced for me." 



So remarkable were the doings of Single G in Ed. Allen's 

 hands in his eleventh year, 1921, that this story would not be 

 complete without the details. He started sixteen times, eight 

 races on the Grand Circuit, all of which he won; three regular 

 events on half-mile tracks, all of which he won; two match 

 races on half-mile tracks, both of which he won ; an effort to 

 lower his record, in which he just equalled it, going in 1:59; 

 a match race with Peter Manning, which he lost; and an 

 exhibition mile at Poughkeepsie. His winnings for the year 

 amounted to more than $20,000, a sum no other horse of his 

 age ever turned in and a sum larger than most of those in the 

 younger division have ever been able to get together in a 

 single season. He paced three different miles in two minutes 



