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money there is ample evidence that he has been one of the 

 very best of racing pacers, although there have been some, 

 scattered along the years, that were faster than he has yet 

 shown. He has probably paced as many fast race miles as 

 any other pacer with the probable exception of Single G for, 

 as I have already said, he has been kept quite busy and 

 the mile I drove him in 2:02^ at Syracuse, in 1918, merely 

 for a record one at the same track in 2:01^ in 1920, and 

 one at Atlanta in 1:59'^, are his only heats against time." 

 As Mr. Murphy says, Sanardo most surely has been kept 

 quite busy and his list of race starts has grown to be quite 

 formidable. When his education at the pace appeared to 

 have reached a stage satisfactory to himself and to his 

 trainer he was entered in many stakes through the Grand 

 Circuit and, having shown, in 1918 that he had the neces- 

 sary speed and manners, by his mile at Syracuse, he was 

 quite naturally expected to render a good account for him- 

 self at the races. It is but simple truth to say that he did 

 quite well for he ended the season with a race record, in a 

 winning effort, of 2:00^, which made him the champion 

 five-year-old pacing gelding, as well as the champion free- 

 legged pacing gelding. 



While circumstances have combined to deprive Sanardo 

 of the bravos that are bestowed upon most two minute per- 

 formers, it is safe to say that in the distant future when the 

 student of the history of light-harness racing comes to the 

 career of the dapper, unsexed son of San Francisco, he will 

 more than pause to scan it, for he will discover that up to 

 his time, at least, there were few that were more reliable, not 

 many did more to make race history and none that were more 

 useful. When he got around to it the speed and courage 

 of a Single G were necessary to encompass his defeat and, 

 as will be seen as the reader goes on with this sketch, he was 

 the one that made the winner of the fastest three consecutive 

 pacing heats "go out and do it." Many who are not close 

 observers entirely overlook the second horse in a great race, 

 but there would be no great races if he were not there and 

 while no one would attempt to rob the winner of a record- 

 breaking, record-making race of an iota of the credit due 



