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winter every day to develop manners and muscle, 

 if he is to be trained for the futurities. Manners 

 and individuality, I believe, will mean more every 

 year. In conclusion I am forced to admit that I 

 know nothing practical about the matter." 



The present champion two-year-old trotter is 

 Peter Volo, 2:041/^, that trotted faster than any 

 three-year-old trotter or pacer or any four-year- 

 old trotter up to his time. After Peter Volo had 

 made his yearling record, he was let down for the 

 winter and sent back to Patchen Wilkes Farm. 

 On January 9 of his two-year-old form he was 

 shipped to Thomas W. Murphy at Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Yr He was carried along slowly. At Grand 

 Rapids, the week before his start in The Horse- 

 man Futurity, Murphy worked him a mile in 

 2:12%, last half in i :05, last quarter in :3ij4> arid 

 back in 2:i3j4> last half in i :o4j4, last quarter 

 in :3i-j4. The following Tuesday saw his first 

 futurity. Adbella Watts led to the three-quarters 

 in tke phenomenal time of i :35^. Peter Volo 

 then moved up from trailing and carried her to 

 a break and won by five lengths, pulled up, in 

 2 :o9> a new world's trotting record for his age 

 and sex. In the second heat Murphy began to 

 drive from the word "go," doubtless hoping to 

 reduce the world's record of 2 :o7^, held by 

 Native Belle. He was at the three-quarters ifi 

 I -SS/^- -^t the head of the stretch, when about 

 15 lengths in the lead, he went to a break on a 



