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horse' they all say. In Big Dick's restaurant the walls are 

 full of pictures of Single G. The one I admire the most was 

 taken in the pasture with his dam and is the only photograph 

 of a suckling colt that looks exactly like he looks at the age 

 of twelve. On the other hand, the indication of his great 

 future may have been in the peculiar mark, a distinct G in 

 his forehead, a mark that I suppose everybody who knows 

 horses already knows about and that from it he was given 

 his name." 



'T am told that Mr. Barefoot has made provision for the 

 care and burial of his great horse if the latter should sur- 

 vive him. And that strikes me as showing some of the 

 feeling that makes men better and more worth while. For 

 it means that Single G will never be called on to do hard 

 labor in his old days — that is if ever he grows old." 



Going back to the earlier racing career of Single G we 

 find that Howard Vickery trained him again for the 1914 

 campaign and also raced him with more than ordinary suc- 

 cess, for the four-year-old won fifteen races out of sixteen 

 starts and tied the world's record for a pacer his age on a 

 half-mile track. The late Curt Gosnell drove him in one of 

 that year's races and the late Fred Jamison had him the latter 

 part of the season, giving him a record of 2:07^ on a half- 

 mile track, which was at Saginaw, Mich. 



He was wintered by Gosnell at Cambridge City and 

 trained by him for the 1915 season, making his bow to the 

 Grand Circuit and winning many races, among them the 

 Chamber of Commerce Purse, where he took a record of 

 2:03^, then his best mark. He retired for the year, one of 

 the most talked-about pacers that had ever been raced, for 

 the public realized that he had done more than most pacers 

 had ever before accomplished and that his half-mile track 

 campaigns were the evidence of genuine merit. It was freely 

 predicted that he was destined to enter the two-minute list 

 but it is doubtful if his most ardent admirers believed he 

 would accomplish as much as he did and last for so many 

 years that were to be marked by campaigns about as strenu- 

 ous as any horse can possibly make and survive. 



He was wintered at Muncie, Ind., by Gosnell, who again 



