The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-23

q little dickey on his legs, they say, | and maybe 1t Is true, for they are going
 carefully with him, but he Is about the
 smoothest gaited thing on the grounds, ana can simply fly away on trot. The Jester is brother to Lord Derby. the
 fastest trotter in the world for a brush, l not barring Cresceus. That makes him a pretty likely prospect, hey? And when get into good society if he never had a relative that could go Fast enough to keep warm. it lo6ks like he had chance. Mflvia is an awful fast mare. She can is as good gaited as whitcomb Rileys poetry.
 Pacers Not So Few.
 This is what GeeEs has on his shelves Tn the way of green trotters. Now, look at his pacers! Say. 1t seems sin that one man should have all these horses. To begin with. there Is Direct Hal that paced this track in 2:o6 leg last fall and then tore of another half mile in q minute. He can't break. is well bred, and eats all they give him. That's bad prospect for the races, hey? Well, the next on our list as the auctioneers say, Is Dandy Chimes. l wish l dare guess how fast that pacer can go. Geers has named him in all the stakes with Direct Hal. which means that he considers eith- CT of them capable of getting the money: He Is big, strong horse that acts and looks as if he could wear down any ordi. nary Detu OI SlOe-WnecteT9 anu tnen SO and step few exhibition heats just to please the crowd. But Geers doesn't de- pend altogether on this pair. He has third string In The Aristocrat, son of Athanio. that looks like an Arkansas bear and paces like a runaway train going down a mountain. He walked half mile in 1:06 the other morning out here, and is so fat he won't be up to real glib quarter for month yet. l guess whole lot of pacers will beat that fellow when he gets all the ballast overheard and his balloon jib set next summer! You can bet no man that wears false teeth or wig wants to drive him on race day"
 Others Think the Same Way
 My enthusiastic friend puts things in an Oriental way now and then. but he really is not more of partisan of the Geers horses than are all of the horsemen who have watched them work at Memphis These men have been accustomed 10 Iast horses. all their lives. and they are not carried away by a flashy quarter or half, but th&y know and appreciate a, well. bred, weil-made. good-gaited horse and when they see a dozen trotters having all these qualities. no record. and able to show 2:15 speed three months before the grand circuit races begin, they esti- mate 1t correctly. No man ever had the stable of horses that Geers will start out with this season. and they are the great est tribute that could possibly be offered to the genius of c. J. Hamlin as a preed- CT and Ed Geers as trainer and driver.
 There will be some outside horses in the stable, Onward Silver and Edna Cook being the best known of this contingent. The former won lot of races and money last season, at which time Geers was in- terested in him. It was planned to re- tire the stallion this season, but Geers thinks him good in the 2.0S class, and II he can be taught to go away from the wire at anything like his clip he Will cer- tainly be hard to beat, because as nn- isher there are few that class with him. Edna Cook Is what horsemen call rat ty." All sorts of devices to make her keen on a trot while the race Is In pro gress have been tried, but none Of them ever cut any figire with the hot-headed mare~when she decidedI to jump for the has heen successful Lady Geraldine and Onward Silver being conspicuous exam ples of his hypnotie power but 1T ne makes reliable trotter out or hana Cook ana at the same time holds her great burst of speed 1t will be. the cap sheaf of his work in that direction.