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the leader of the free-for-all division. That is no faint 

 praise for it is no disgrace to play second fiddle to any pacer 

 as good as Single G was in 1918 or has been in any of his 

 years, for the matter of that. 



Miss Harris M. passed to the ownership of Mr. Paul 

 Kuhn, of Terre Haute, Ind., at the close of the 1918 racing 

 season and was started in a few races in 1919 bv Mr. Will 

 Fleming who raced her against Single G twice and broke 

 even with him. He won at Toledo but she forced him to pace 

 the second heat in 1:59%. She turned the tables on him at 

 Columbus and paced the final heat, the third, in 2:0034. 

 Thus it will be seen that in all four of her racing years this 

 daughter of Peter the Great was a two-minute pacer. 



As she is the world's champion pacing mare it follows 

 that she holds more than one record. Those to her credit 

 are: Fastest mare 1:5814; fastest four-year-old filly, 

 2:01^; fastest five-year-old mare, 1:581,4^ fastest heat by 

 a mare, 1:5814; fastest three-heat race by a mare, 2:011/4-» 

 2:01'>47 2:04l/>. That is sufficient to give her the stamp of 

 greatness and to fix her place among the many great stars 

 of "pacerdom". It seems rather remarkable that the stal- 

 lions continue to be the greatest pacers. They hold about all 

 of the more valued records and even the geldings, many of 

 which are good race horses, fail to race on to the low 

 records. And there are but two pacing mares with records 

 of two-minutes or better, the other being the Canadian-bred 

 Louie Grattan whose record is exactly two minutes. Of the 

 fourteen pacers in the two-minute list but four are geldings 

 and the best record held by any one of them is the 1:59^4 of 

 Frank Bogash. 



In the light of those facts the achievements of Miss 

 Harris M. stand out in bold relief and stamp her a pacer far 

 above the ordinary. She was bred by Mr. A. T. Harris, 

 Versailles, Ky. and is by Peter the Great and out of Maiy 

 Allen Stout by Ondale. It might be added that she is the 

 only two-minute performer to the credit of Peter the Great, 

 something rather odd when one remembers the great army 

 of exceedingly fast trotters he has sired. 



Miss Harris M., when but a weanling, became a member 



