Here comes the lady, oh, so light of foot 

 Will ne'er near out the everlasting flint. 



— Shakespeare. 



LOUIE GRATTAN 



Champion Canadian-Bred Pacing Mare 

 Record 2:00 



OLIE GRATTAN 2:00, the fastest Canadian-bred 

 mare, enjoys a unique position among the two minute 

 performers in that she is the only one to have paced 

 two consecutive heats in a race in exactly two minutes each. 

 She is one of the only two mares that have so far enrolled 

 their names among the ultra-select. Miss Harris M. 1:58149 

 being the other. And that calls to mind the peculiar fact 

 that of the twenty two minute performers to the close of 

 he racing season of 1921 but three are of the "gentler" sex, 

 the third one is the pioneer two minute performer, Lou 

 Dillon 1 :58y25 ^^ho ^^^ reigned as queen of the trotting 

 turf since 1903, no other mare of her gait having beaten 

 2:0114- Yet, despite the fact that the stallions and geldings 

 have taken most of the honors among the holders of the best 

 records, the world's race record for trotters is held by a 

 mare, Hamburg Belle 2:0114, and the best pacing record 

 in a regular race is held by Miss Harris M. 1:5814' 



Mr. Vic. Fleming, of Dundas, Ont., Canada, who trained 

 and drove Louie Grattan, tells this brief story of her career 

 in his hands: 



"In 1918 I inquired from different parties where there 

 was a good pacer in Canada, as there has always been a 

 good one show every year and all I talked to said there was 

 nothing of any account that year. 



"I went to Mt. Clemens, Mich., to the fall meeting, fol- 

 lowing Lexington, and saw a mare called Louie Grattan start 

 there. Let me tell you, she could fly. But in spite of the fact" 

 that she acted awfully bad I thought she was the making 



