She may be uell compared unto the Phoenix kind 



Whose like nas neve?- seen nor heard that any man can find. 



— John Heyicood. 



MISS HARRIS M. 



World's Champion Pacing Mare 

 Record 1:58^ 



[ISS HARRIS M. I:58l4, the world's champion 

 pacing mare, and the first of her sex to enter the 

 two-minute pacing list was bought at public auction 

 by Tommy Murphy when her record was two minutes and 

 the purchase was made with one object in view and that was 

 to give the mare a race record as far below the two-minute 

 mark as possible which would carry with it, for him, another 

 world's record and he thought that sort of mark would look 

 pretty well along with the others he had. He had just sold 

 Roan Hal 2:00'^ for a long price so he became a bidder 

 on the mare and secured her for $4,500. 



That was during the winter of 1917-18 and the season 

 of 1918 the mare did what Mr. Murphy expected of her 

 when he made the purchase. In addition she raced pretty 

 well for him and the race in which she made her best record 

 is still in the statistics of the harness turf as the fastest three 

 heat race in which the heats were split. It was the memor- 

 able contest at Toledo, July 23rd, which quite fittingly was 

 the first on the program for the first day of the first Grand 

 Circuit meeting ever held in the metropolis of northwestern 

 Ohio. And, while Miss Harris M. was unable to win the 

 race, she was the winner of the first heat and it still stands 

 as the fastest heat ever paced in a regular event and it is 

 further important from the fact that but one race mile faster 

 has ever been put on the records, that of 1:58 by Directum I. 

 in his match with William at Columbus in 1914. Further- 

 more the mare forced the winner of the race to beat two min- 

 utes in each of the next two heats so that the event is the 

 only one of three heats in which the two-minute mark was 

 beaten in every heat. 



