The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-15
TWO MARES DO BETTER THAN
 TWO MINUTES
Rr M. O. GOCHER.

Lou lDlliOn ana MISS Eltil L9 +'Ls e1- the only mares that have beaten two minutes the former trotting ln l oS 72 against time while the pacing queen made a record of 1:5SA in a race at Toledo last season. Alonzo Mcdonald brought Miss Harris M. out in 1911 as a two year old She was at that time a trotter and in her first ana cnly race at that gait finished second to the Kentucky Todd Colt in 2:2o% at Dallas. At that time McDonald was on his way to Los Angeles, where he spent the winter of 1914-15. Dur ing that period he converted the Pe- ter the Great lilly to pacer. She made her first start at that gait the following June at San Francisco dur ing the exposition. The race in which she appeared was won by FTeeta Dill lon. Miss Harris M. standing third in the summary while she also finished second in the deciding heat in 2:ll- 1-4.
 After the close of the June meeting at San Francisco, Miss Harris M. was shipped east with the balance of the Mcdonald stable to fill a few three year old engagements, in three of which Guy Rea defeated her with General Todd. The pair met for the first time at Gre nd Rapids, where the Todd colt won in 2s06. At Indian apolis she forced him out in 2:O414, while at Columbus he won again in 2:O4$4. In the interval Mcdonald picked up a class race with Miss Harris M at Syracuse and defeated the Bingen lilly Sad Thoughts in 2:07 1-4 at New York. Miss Harris NJ was also distauced at Montreal, it be- ing the only race in her career in which she finished behind tae money.
 As a four year old Miss Harris M served notice on the public that she had aspirations to be d champion by winning the Chamber of Commerce 5000 purse at Detroit in 2:04i 2:O12z, 2:O4h. In this event, she de- feated Sadie Densmore, The Savoy, Billy Dale. Ben Earl, Lillian T.. Roan Hal and The Problem. She also won all of her other arrangements tha. season except her first race at Cleve- land which was won by Goldie c. while Roan Hal defeated her at Syracuse and Columbus. the latter getting a mark of 2:O1a4 in his sec Ond race.
 MISS Harris NJ. dropped into the Grand Circuit free-for- all in 1917 al the Colum bus summer meeting where she finished third to Single G., Rus sell Boy between her and the winner Single G. also topped the summary in 2:OO& In the race in which she start ed at Cleveland the following week From that point, however, the Peter the Great mare had everything her own way, winning at Philadelphia i- 2:O215, Indianapolis in 2:0314. Spring field in 2;05, Columbus in 2:01 s4 with Single G., Ben -arl, Hal Boy and Russell Boy in the field. At At lanta where she made her last ap- pearance that season she not only won a race but also reduced her rec. ord to two minutes in a special witt Hal Boy.
 In 1918 when the Grand Circui opened, Miss Harris M. appeared as member of Murphy's stable, she hay ~ ing been sold in the interval to Pau Kuhn of Terre Haute. Murphy wol his first start with her at CIevelant in 2:0215 and finished third to s5ingI G. at Kalamazoo. The following weel the pair appeared at Toledo witl William and Russell Boy in wha proved to be the fastest three hea race on record and the only one il which all of the heats were hnishe' below two minutes Miss Harris M won the first heat in 1:58A, he record, and Single G. the next two il 1:591s and 1:5934. Single G. aIs won from her on her next appear ance at North Randall in 2:01 # From that point she followed T Grand Circuit east and won at Phi adeIphta and Poughkeepsie. Rain in terfered with her engagements a Boston and Hartford, while at Syra cuse she paced a mile in two minute over a heavy track. She was aIs fortunate in getting easy races at At lanta and Columbus while at Lexing ton, Single G. defeated her in on event and she trimmed him and Lii Han T. on her second appearance.
 During her four years on the tul Miss Harris M. has started in thirty seven races of which she won twenty two, was second. in nine, third four, fourth in one and unplaced enc. In her races she trotted tw and paced one hundred and or heats, of which she won ffty-si while the summaries of her engag' ments show that the race at Toled in which she made her record is il only event in which she won a hes and failed to win the race