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or better and many in 2:0014 to 2:03 and his great form 

 made his work look quite easy. This was his fourth cam- 

 paign in the hands of Mr. Allen and it is noteworthy that 

 in its course he made his first starts against time on Grand 

 Circuit tracks, pacing the one at North Randall in 1:59 and 

 that at Poughkeepsie in 2:01')4. 



Mr. W. B. Barefoot, breeder and owner of Single G says: 

 "In all his nine years of racing he has started in every 

 race in which he was entered if it went and he has never been 

 drawn from a race. The fact that he is as sound as a dollar 

 at the beginning of his twelfth year may be due to his an- 

 cestiy. His dam was twenty-two years of age when he was 

 foaled and his sire was twenty-six when he was begotten. 

 Single G's dam was destroyed after an accident, at the age 

 of thirty-one. 



"While he was willful as a colt he has always been kind 

 if well treated and is easy to get along with, but if mistreated 

 will always take care of himself and fight to the finish. 



"He is a very close observer. For example, in the fall 

 of 1916, when he was shipped home to Cambridge City, the 

 house where his trainer had lived had burned and the wreck- 

 age was entirely cleared away. It had been just across the 

 street. He stopped, looked over that way and for quite a 

 while refused to go in the barn. 



"He seems to have a perfect understanding with me and 

 knows me as far as he can see me. I say 'Hello, Dick' (that 

 is his stable name) and then he puts his head over my 

 shoulder and I give him a chew of fine cut tobacco, of which 

 he is very fond. In the racing season I carry a big bunch of 

 carrots to him ever^^ morning and he is fed a lot of them 

 and when race day comes he has an extra portion, as he 

 eats carrots all the time between heats." 



Harry Williams, a groom who sees a lot of things worth 

 while as he goes along, says of a recent visit to Cambridge 

 City: "There must have been something about Single G 

 when he was a colt that innoculated the entire population of 

 his home town for they always had confidence that he would 

 become a champion. Ever\' man, woman and child you talk 

 to in that town claims the horse as his or her own. 'Our 



