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of both Louie Grattaii had "a shade" as the newspaper deci- 

 sion of a boxing match has it. 



The race at Atlanta is the one heretofore mentioned as 

 a great performance for a loser. Again it was Single G 

 to start against. There may be something in the belief that 

 certain horses get cunning enough to discover those they can 

 defeat and will come to the point at which they refuse to 

 try against them. Maybe Sanardo is "horse blind" and 

 cannot distinguish between the ones he can beat and the 

 ones that are his masters. At all events he appeared to have 

 lost none of his courage, for at the end of the argument it 

 was found that he had forced the winner to set a new world's 

 record for three consecutive heats, — that is, three heats won 

 by one horse, — and the figures were 1:59, 2:00, 2:001/4. 

 Mr. Ed. Allen, who drove Single G in that race, testifies 

 in his story of Single G elsewhere in this volume, that 

 Sanardo was the pacemaker, and that makes his perform- 

 ance all the more creditable and shows that he merely suc- 

 cumbed to superior speed. 



He was not able, in 1921, to win an argument from 

 Single G, and he found another tough problem in Hal 

 Mahone, who beat him in a great race at North Randall 

 in which the time was slow, for the mile in the second and 

 third heats, but in which every final quarter was paced in 

 291/4 to 29I/0 seconds. The first heat went to Sanardo in 

 2:01%. It was late when he evened up matters with Hal 

 Mahone but he did it in good style by beating him two races 

 at Lexington. There were five miles paced in the two races, 

 Hal Mahone winning the second heat of the second race, and 

 the average time of the five was 2:02^4. 



One of the best races of the year was paced by Sanardo, 

 and won, at the New York State Fair, and in that race he 

 became a member of the colony of two-minute pacers, tak- 

 ing a record of 1:59% in the second heat. That race gave 

 him the honor of holding the world's record for a three-heat 

 race by a gelding. At Atlanta he was started to beat 1:59, 

 the track record, and while he did not succeed he did pace 

 the mile in 1:59%, and that ended his work for the year. 

 His score shows that in the three vears he has been raced 



