LOUIE GRATTAN 1 97 



She was checked just medium but wore no check bit, just 

 a strap under her chin. 



"Her feet were level all around and the length of front 

 toes was 3->>> inches, her hind toes 3% inches. She wore 

 five ounce sharp swedged shoes in front and four ounce half 

 swedged, half-round shoes behind. 



"Her disposition was rather funny. She was rather 

 nervous and she appeared to have no affection for any one 

 in particular and did not like to have many people around 

 her so on race days we tried to get her in a stall where there 

 would not be many around her. The day at Lexington when 

 she took her record, we took her to the paddock after the 

 first warming-up mile but had to move her right out because 

 of the crowd around her and the noise overhead. I had to 

 get permission from the judges to cool her out in a near-by 

 barn. 



"The day we went to buy her she was in a big stall and 

 was so nervous when she saw strangers that it took three 

 of us to get a halter on her. 



"But she was one of the best feeders I ever trained and 

 would eat at any time or any place on or off cars." 



Mr. Fleming says nothing of Louie Grattan's record 

 race which was at Lexington, Ky., October 8th, 1920. The 

 other starters were Sanardo, Directum J., Single G, Royal 

 Earl and Gladys B. The Canadian champion won both 

 heats in the same time — two minutes and the fractional time 

 was: 29V2, 5914, 1:29'>^, 2:00— SOV^, 1:001/., 1:30%, 

 2:00 showing her ability to step either end of a fast mile at 

 better than two -minute speed. 



She started out well for the racing season of 1921 and 

 was a factor in the free-for-all races at North Randall and 

 Kalamazoo, forcing Single G to a mile in 2:001/0 at the latter 

 place. At Toledo the first mile was paced in two minutes 

 and she was second. At the Columbus Summer meeting she 

 started against Single G, Hal M. and Sanardo and was sec- 

 ond the first heat but did not race so well the remaining two 

 heats. The next day she died quite suddenly and thus ended 

 the career of Canada's greatest pacing mare and one of the 

 onlv two of her sex in the two minute list. 



