THE \\ ORLD'S CHAMPION TWO-MINUTE 

 HORSE TRADE 



Involving Lee Axworthy 1:581/4 and Prince Loree 2:00 



From an interview accorded especially for publication in 



this volume. 



HEN in the early summer of 1913 Walter Cox traded 

 two two-year-old colts to the Pastime Stable for 

 Sir Thomas Lipton 2:121/4 ^i^d $2,000, there was 

 consummated the only deal so far recorded in the history 

 of the trotter in which two two-minute performers, both 

 great race horses, were concerned. The colts were not then 

 two-minute horses — indeed they were just colts, and there 

 was no indication, at that time, that either of them would 

 ever be worth their keep. In fact, both came very close to 

 fading into obscurity when they were three-year-olds. But 

 it is undoubtedly true that given the opportunity true great- 

 ness always asserts itself. At all events the two colts be- 

 came great performers, for one was Lee Axworthy 1:58^, 

 world's champion trotting stallion, and the other was Prince 

 Loree 2:03^4 trotting, 2:00 pacing, a Grand Circuit stake 

 winner at both gaits and also a world's champion. 



The details of this famous horse trade as they will now 

 be presented were furnished by Mr. P. W. Harvey, of Cleve- 

 land, a member of the racing syndicate known as the Pas- 

 time Stable. 



The members of that now famous syndicate had no colt 

 training ideas in mind when they began in a small way 

 with a racing stable on the Grand Circuit. They had made 

 a beginning by purchasing among others the trotter Sir 

 Thomas Lipton, which in his races the year prior to his sale 

 to the Cleveland people had made himself look like a "bear 

 cat." He was one, but not at the races. W. J. Andrews 

 was installed as trainer. At a time when no particular 



