The Connecticut labor news., 1921-10-28
REIGN OF KING HORSE IS OVER
 FOR THIS YEAR ON THE EASTERN
 TRACKS AFTER BRILLIANT SEASON
NOTABLE RACING SEEN EV- ERYWHERE AND NEW ENG LAND TWICE AROUNDS HAVE SEEN SOME GREAT SPORT.

Saturdays sun went down on the last racing of the year in the Grand Circuit chain, also on New England and all Eastern tracks.
 A few trotters and pacers will be at it month longer on Southern tracks, while next month in the Southwest is the Phoenix meeting, but the campaign is pretty generally finished
 The season has been a remarkable one, as a whole the best harness horse-rac- ing has ever had. With few exceptions the sport has been of very high stand ard, with crowds that set new attend ance figures.
 Here in New England the sport on the alf-mc tracks has been the best ever, with only two of three meetings that have sagged. The final week at Wind sor, while not having the usual Fall crowds, had fine racing and just the sort to carry pleasant memories through the long off-season.
 Along the Grand Circuit the Spring closing trotting stakes furnished unus- ually interesting racing until Lexington was reached, where the futurity races and the miles by Peter Manning and Arion Guy saved the meeting from being about the poorest in the chain.
 The honors as leading money winning per former of the season went where Ed Geers predicted they would last winter, to the four-year- Jeanette Rankin. The Ohio lilly gathered i'll more that S28,00O, topping Stanford Small's Grey worthy by $3,000.
 Away back in the early 90's, Allen Lowe, then young man, acting as har- ness horse specialist for the Globe, be- ing a confirmed believer in the coming of Inc 1fp' regarded the prophecy that one day a class would have to be established to bar the horse with a record of 1 :58 or better from two-minute class.
 Time has softened the noise of the storm of protest that arose from those who scoffed at such a possibility. The range of epitets leveled at Ahe pre- sumptuous young man was wide and d1- versifed, bur none hurt worse than one who called him the Jefferson Brick of trotting journalism" Truly youth, i'll the eyes of some folks, Is grievous fault Progressive and sanguine youth IS a crime.
 It was very close to the end of the 90s before Star Pointer, piloted by Dave McCleary, entered the charmed circle, and now a little over 20 years later, the Hist of harness horses that have beaten two minutes is a long one and includes some that have beaten that mark in a race.
 The principal guiding light of the carly doubters of the development of the American harness horse was the claim that as no horse had, up to that time, covered half a mile in one minute, it was impossible for any improvement that would add another half mile to the task at a speed greater that that. The ex-trotting writer of the Globe has lived to read of two trotters beating two minutes in one day, Aron Guy, a four year-old, stepping a mile in 1.59H and Peter Manning. a fve-year-old, in 1.57M. Here are the records by quarter miles :: Arion Guy 3O 2o34 30 2oM :59H Peter Manning 30 291A 29H 2834 1:57M
 The character of each per erformance shows what an advancement i'll speed and endurance has been made since 1900 The colt champion trotter stepped the halves in exactly the same notch and perhaps will never again be beaten as regards the speed rating. There is only one-quarter second difference in the fastest and slowest quarter, and how perfectly Murphy drove his mile could hardly be duplicated by machinery.
 The mile of Peter Manning showed time began his mile at a two-minute gait had power and reserve speed en- abling him to finish the last quarter in 2834 seconds, or at the rate of a mile in 1 :55. The last half, in 5S14 seconds, IS at the rate of :5612 to the mile, and that is not beyond the ability of horse with the speed and speed sustaining quality of Peter Manning