The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-11
Single G. Harness Selection TO
Compare With Man O. War
Single is Only Harness Horse that Ever Covered Three
Mile Heats in Race In an Average lime
Better than Two Minutes

years treatment brought her out
again, but she always went a little
short on that side" as Mr.. Barefoot
describes it. About that time Ander-
son Wilkes, son of Onward, by George
Wilkes, was purchased and brought
out to eastern Indiana from Buffalo
by some Hoosier horseman.
Il had lent Little Gyp to friend of
mine. a veterinary, to drive around
with" Mr.. Barefoot says in telling the
story, and he asked me why | didn't
send Little Gyp to be bred to Ander
son Wilkes. | thought a good deal of
the little mare, and | didn't know
whether she could stand it, but he
said she could. He said it would not
hurt her at all. | sent her. Single G
is their colt
"A horseman from the old Lackey
farm came over to see the colt when
he was a weanling. He said he would
like to name the colt and / asked him
what he would call him. He picked
out the name Single G. because of the
letter G in white on his forehead |
! couldn't think of better name. and
we let that one stand. He looked like
any other colt as a yearling, but as a
two-year-old he showed promise Of
some speed. Then he had the distemp-
er, and | thought some of selling him
Keeps Single G.
"Old John Lackey told me not TO do
| 1t. He said then that | had the max
| ing of a two-minute PAGER, and that |
ought not to get rid OF him. The next
year, as a three-year-old he had the
fearsey, a kind of itching, dripping
skin disease, and I was pretty much
! discouraged. But | kept him. That
year | had him trained and raced. and
he won four races out of eight, finish
ing second the other four times He
| took a mark of 2:12A, and has gone
back to the races every year since
| then"
! Like many another true horseman,
Mr.. Barefoot is a quiet, reticent char
acter. He does not talk a great deal
even about the horse he has bred and
raced with so much success In an
swer to questions, however he said he
had never driven the horse so much
as a mile, and that he had never. bet
any large amounts of money on his
racing chances. He appears to take
more pride in the speed and splendid
disposition of Single G than in the
races and money he has won
! Always Good Tempered.
Hes always good-tempered
horse" says MIR. Barefoot He will
fight to take his own part, but he is
not Quarrelsome or mean. On the
track he never pays any attention to
the other horses. If another horse
beats him once or twice, he treats that
horse like new one the next time
he meets him. Some horses will not
try against another horse that has
beaten them, but Single G goes out
and races against ali of them. and
does his best no matter whether the
other horses have beaten him or he
, has beaten them
| expressed some surprise at this
point, and asked whether Mr. Bare
foot could name any horses that
fought or sulked on being asked to
race against animals that had defeated
them. He replied by naming one very
Well-known horse of the present day
which, he said, PAGES wonderful races
in other company, but sulks and re-
fuses to try against Single G, who has
beaten him several times.
Has Been Beaten.
81 have also heard horsemen tell
how Joe Patchen." he said, ION TAX
ing the track against Robert j., which
beat him sometimes, would try to geI
free of his driver, to attack Robert
J. with his teeth and hoofs."
Single G has been beaten by othey
, horses. He is not unbeatable, and Mr.
Barefoot makes no pretense that nc
is. ..
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