l8o THE TWO-MINUTE PACERS 



That year Miss Harris M. started in ten races of which 

 she won six and paced six heats in better than 2:03 but in 

 most of her starts there was always a heat around two min- 

 utes. The fractional time of her record mile affords an 

 interesting study in race speed. In actual contest there is 

 a difference in the rating as compared with flights against 

 time for in the race what the other drivers are doing cuts no 

 small figure. In the first heat of the Toledo race the first 

 quarter was paced in thirty seconds; the second quarter in 

 twenty-nine seconds; the third quarter in 30 seconds and the 

 final quarter in twenty-nine and a quarter seconds. Thus, it 

 will be seen, the mile was what might correctly be termed 

 evenly rated. In the second mile there was a different style 

 of racing. The first quarter was paced in 31^ seconds 

 while the second one was covered in 29*^ seconds and the 

 third at exactly the two-minute rate. From there on the clip 

 increased until the wire was reached and the official time of 

 the last quarter was 281/0 seconds. The slow first quarter 

 was just enough to account for the ll/j. seconds difference in 

 the time of the two heats. Again in the third heat the first 

 quarter, but 311/), a 2:06 gait slowed up the mile but left 

 room for a great exhibition of racing speed, for the second 

 quarter was in 291/0 seconds and the third in 29 seconds yet 

 the horses paced the last quarter in 29')4 seconds. Two dif- 

 ferent miles better than two minutes with very slow first 

 quarters shows what great pacers Miss Harris M. and Single 

 G. were that day. 



During the year 1918 Miss Harris M. met Single G six 

 times and defeated him twice — at North Randall and at 

 Lexington and it was largely because of her strenuous efforts 

 that the time in most of the races against the Indiana warrior 

 were so fast. Mention has already been made of the Toledo 

 world-record race. At Kalamazoo she forced the G horse 

 to pace the last two heats in 2:00l/> and 2:01. At North 

 Randall's second meeting she forced him to pace in 2:01 

 and 2:02. She paced a second heat over the slow track at 

 Poughkeepsie in 2:00')4. Day and track right, she was a 

 two-minute pacer every time she scored for the word that 

 eventful year and but for Single G she would have been 



