Be Mercury; set feathers to thy heels 

 And fly like thought. 



— Shakespeare, 



PRINCE LOREE 



Champion Double-Gaited Performer 

 2:00 Pacing; 2:03V4 Trotting 



RINCE LOREE 2:00 pacing, 2:031/4 trotting, the 

 world's double gaited champion, was rescued from 

 the discard and made a stake-winning trotter and a 

 two-minute pacer by Mike McDevitt, of Berea, a suburb of 

 Cleveland and was given his record at both gaits without 

 hobbles. He was bought for Capt. David Shaw and raced in 

 his colors. This brown gelding figured in the transaction 

 which made both him and Lee Axworthy 1:58^4 members 

 of the Pastime Stable. Prince Loree had something the mat- 

 ter with him. The doctors disagreed and so it came about 

 that the colt was put into a public vendue that Homer J. 

 Kline conducted for the Pastime Stable and others at the 

 North Randall race track in the late fall of 1915 and was 

 sold, on a cold, miserable day in the presence of about fifty 

 people, to Mr. A. C. Pennock, for $50. The bid was intended 

 to be a complimentary one as the gentleman who made it did 

 not want the colt nor expect to get him on that bid. It was, 

 however, not raised and the bidder paid for his purchase. 

 Late in January 1916 Mr. McDevitt bought Prince Loree for 

 $120 and Capt. Shaw advised turning him out for a year. 



'T did not buy him to turn out, I bought him to race" was 

 the reply of Mr. McDevitt and so the brown "pony" was 

 sent to school. The story of his education, as told by Mr. 

 McDevitt for publication in this volume is this: 



"He was always a funny horse. We had to get him 

 civilized before we could do anything with him. We passed 

 that job up to Mr. Dutton, our training stable superinten- 

 dent, who wouldn't 'take hold' of a horse if he was going to 

 run through fire. I guess they had used ropes and about 



