New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-22
HARNESS RACING.
HARRY HAMLIN TALKS ABOUT THE VII
LACE FARM HORSES.
EIGHT TRoTTERs IN THE STABLE COUNTED ON
TO BEAT 2:lo THIS Wharf.-The MONK
PROSPECTIVE RECORD BREAKER-NEw
sPEEDwAYs EVERYWHERE.

When a has many fast trotters in his
stable that he is unable to keep the run even of
those he believes can beat 21O he ought to be
classed among successful breeders. To reporter
OF The Tribune at the Waldorf Astoria day last
week Harry Hamlin remarked that he had counted
among the Village Farm flyers that Ed Geers
is samping this winter eight trotters that should
go below the 2:l0 mark next season.
Which ones are they?" inquired the reporter.
WELL" said the junior Hamlin, starting in to
count them on his fingers, there's The Abbot to
begin with He trotted in 2:O6A last year and won
every free for all in the Grand Circuit without
having to go single hard during the season
When we reached Lexington in October he was
about the only horse L could pick out that had
started in at Detroit and had gone through the
campaign without getting knocked out or stale.
That is pretty hard statement to make. yet
can't recall another horse that came down the line
and good at both Detroit and Lexington. The
terrific pace they have to go nowadays kills them
off quickly.
Eyes, The Abbot is sound. That nod which you
noticed in his race here last September doesn't
come from lameness. He has a way of winding
of his front feet around and setting 1T down out
of plumb in jogging that it makes him nod just
like horse that is dead lame
Then there is The Monk" continued the Buffalo
horseman, and his countenance was all smiles as
he talked about this seven-yee r-old of Chimes.
He just fly this winter. The Monk
faster horse than The Abbot the year they both
out, and I believe he is faster to-day. We
have given him a two years let up and he seems
to be as sound as ever he If he stays right
until the end of the next campaign there is no
telling what his record may be-
Equity is another that beat 2:10 away
off when he is just right. Geers let him step
half-mie in 1:04h on the covered track not long
ago. and be did 1t like 2:O5 trotter. never saw
a trotter that possessed more speed than Equity.
He Is a black gelding by Heir-at-Law, out of
Mother Hubbard, by Almonarch, and is the same
age as The Monk and The Abbot. We expected
great things from him two years ago. He was so
good that put him in the 2l6 class at Hart
ford and started him in his first race against a
dozen old campaigners with fast records. He
marched right off and and the race In straight
heats trotting his miles in 217A, 2:14 and 212A.
Not many trOtters ever equalled that performance
the first time they scored UP for the word on
racetrack. Equity went wrong not long after this
race and laid the shelf last year.
Daredevil is another horse that we are counting
to cut down his record several seconds. His
mark is now 2:09A He got into a hard race before
he ready for It last year. and never was quite
himself during the campaign The Queen is good
for mile well below 2:1O when she is at her best
and she is one of those are counting on. This
made record of 2IOA last year, her first
season out, but the run of luck which set back
nearly every of the Village Farm horses kept
Merriment, a daughter Of Mambrino King, that
Geers will have in his string this year, showed US
in a race. She made record of 2I3A last season.
The Heiress, a four-year-Old by Her-at-Law, is
of the best young trotters bred at Village
Farm She is eligible to the 800 class now, but
expect to see her holding her own with the 21O
trOtters before get to Lexington next fail
Let's see, that is seven l have named There's
another among the lot Geers is working that
has shown speed enough TO beat 210. but which
it is / can't call to mind just 1 know
there eight of them all told"
"A ought to win lot of with eight
trotters of that Sort suggested the reporter.
Yes. but there is certainty of doing so in the
Grand Circuit nowadays said Mr.. Hamlin I'VE
have to count going a mile in 2:1 better
every time a trotter turns for the word in these
W her.
he starts in the 2:3O class the 21O class: the
speed rate is almost fast in class as in an
other. Unless a horse is thoroughly keyed up be-
fore he starts in his first he is likely to go
wrong or grow stale after one or two hard con-
tests 1t is almost impossible to keep horse in
winning form right through the unless he is
wonder, and outclasses all rivals far as to be
able to trot within himself and still his races
We aim to have two horses for each class. and so
keep them reasonably fresh by starting them
alternate weeks