SINGLE G 169 



Single G has started in 107 races, has won sixty nine, 

 was second in twenty-five; third in ten; fourth in two and but 

 once outside the money. In other words he has won prac- 

 tically two-thirds of his races. 



A Detroit man, looking for a bargain, offered $7,500 

 for him in 1914 and that was a lot of money for a half-mile 

 track pacer that particular year. The offer was refused and 

 so was every offer that followed it though the price went up 

 to more than $20,000. How much would have been offered 

 by the Detroit fancier if he had been possessed of second 

 sight and known that in the campaign to be made seven years 

 later Single G would win $20,000? In fact that campaign 

 appears to be a most remarkable thing no matter how you 

 look at it. Here is a horse that had raced for eight years 

 and had never really known what it was to have an easy 

 race; had made a wonderful reputation on the half-mile 

 tracks during two years of campaigning then had cast his hat 

 into the "Big Ring", met all comers and triumphed in a 

 majority of his efforts. In his eighth campaign he had 

 reduced his record to 1 :59 in a race and few there were 

 who expected to see him equal it the following year or even 

 be up to two-minute racing. Small wonder then that a 

 prominent turf writer printed this in April, 1921: 



"Looking younger than ever and showing all of his old- 

 time whizz that wonderful old war horse, Single G 1 :59, is 

 being prepared for his ninth campaign. After the bay stal- 

 lion had gone through five or six of his lengthy campaigns 

 the dopesters began to figure that the son of Anderson Wilkes 

 was about through — at least they thought no horse could go 

 through the hard campaigns that he did and come back 

 strong. No ordinary horse could. But Single G is an extra- 

 ordinary horse and just like 'licker' he seems to improve 

 with age. * 



His racing ability, now so well known, was first shown to 

 the followers of the Grand Circuit in the 1915 race for the 

 Chamber of Commerce purse of $5,000. Of it the well- 

 known writer, Frank S. Cooke, said the day after in his story 

 in the Detroit Free Press: 



''While victory was comparatively easy this does not 



