SHOEING COLT^. SI 



Volo was given very little fast work between 

 races. 



The champion two-year-old filly is Native 

 Belle 2:07% that took her record in the second 

 heat of the JCentucky Futurity on Oct. 6, 1909, 

 at Lexington, Ky., driven by Thomas W. Murphy. 

 She was perhaps the most wonderful two-year- 

 old that had then shown. She reduced by three 

 ■full seconds the mark of Arion, against time, that 

 had stood for 18 years. She was born great 

 because she was not broken till April, only six 

 months previous to her great performance. She 

 had shown fast beside a pony the previous winter, 

 however. Murphy went slow in her training at 

 first, so as not to spoil her, yet by the last of 

 July he worked her a mile in 2 123. About Sept. 

 15 she was worked in 2:14%, last half in i :04j^. 

 The next week she was worked in 2:14^'. The 

 following, week she started in her first futurity 

 and won in 2:13% and 2:1214, equaling, in the 

 last heat, the two-year-old trotting race record of 

 her day. She stepped the final quarter of this 

 heat, against a wind, in 31% seconds. In the 

 Kentucky Futurity she won the first heat in 

 2:12% and was then sent for a world's record in 

 the second heat. She made the quarters in 133, 

 :3i, :3i (middle half in i :o2) and 132%. 



The previous two-year-old record, as has been 

 mentioned, was held by Arion. His mile was in 

 2:10%, made to high-wheels (no ball-bearings) 



