CHAPTER II 



SOME FAMOUS RACERS AND THE PROBLEMS 

 THEY SUGGEST 



Every red-blooded individual is frankly 

 interested in horse races, stock shows, boxing 

 bouts, billiard matches, tennis tournaments, 

 battles, and wars. The race has spent so much 

 of its history in the struggle to get on that 

 anything which pertains to physical fitness 

 and mental alertness stirs deep-seated fibers of 

 our being. A fine specimen of a horse, a 

 blooded milch cow with a record for butter-fat 

 production, a champion tennis player who has 

 successfully pitted wit and skill against keen 

 rivals, a victorious army, all make insistent 

 appeal and receive our admiration, even our 

 homage. We recognize that back of the win- 

 ning performance there is a record of racial 

 improvement and individual development which 

 required the exercise of many admirable traits. 



In seventy years the record for the trotted 

 mile has been reduced from 2 : 24^ to i : 54-, an 



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