The morning journal-courier., 1908-05-07

two other very fast 2-year-olds, a Ally out of Mary Leonard by Wiggins, 2:l9 l-?, q trotter called Margot Leonard, the other a pacer also by orc Wilkes that stepped a quarter In S4 t-4 seconds last fall as a yearlIng Other trotters of promise in this stable are Bingen PI- lot, by Bingen; Peter Wilton. by Pe- ter tho Great; sam Bernard, by Berna- dotte; Dora Chimes, by Liberty Chimes and Morgar2la, a handsome young stall Han by Moko.
 The Great Western Circuit will this year be q formidable rival of the Grand Circuit, for representatives of that se- res of meetings have arranged for . chain of meetings that will cover l2 weeks of time and provide an aggre- gate of $S00,00O for horsemen to race their horses for, In order to retain it's usual hold on the men who campaign their horses for the big purses, the Grand Circuit win have to increase rather than lessen, the value of the purses offered and otherwise to make the chain of meetings in the east more attractive to horsemen, Tho owners and trainers of the crack trotters and pacers will go where they can win the most money, and the men back of the Ora nd Circuit meetings will have to see to 1t that no other series of meet ings will be able to outdo them in this respect If they would not see many Of the prominent stables racing on the western tracks next summer
 The harness horse world .s won derlng what Geers is going to do for sensational trotters and pacers this year, says the Cleveland Plain dealer In other winters the premier driver has been able to show in his collection of about 30 nags at the Memphis track few of each gait that have been tried high enough to demonstrate that in the matter of speed at least they were entitled to go to the big races. But this year there Is nothing of the sort in sight.
 The public Is so accustomed to sec ing Geers go down the line every sum mer with a band of sensational fast horses there will be a genuine regret in case this winter sitter does not fan out few real cracks. If he fails to have stars for the ordinary races, the chances are all in favor of his string furnishing the fastest trotters of the year In HIghball.
 Peter Nance, one of the men who began driving trotters when the breed- ing of the trotter was in its Infancy died few days ago in New York at the age of % years, He spent his entire life, after reaching manhood with the. trotters, and up to Il few weeks ago was seen almost daily driv- lne good trotter on the speedway He was one of the prominent trainers at the period when William II. Doble. father of Budd Doble: Hiram Wood- run, James D. Mann, Horace Jones, F. ]. Nodng Dan Mace and Darius Tall man were the noted men in the sulky, and in 1859 drove American Girl to record of 219, making her the worlds trottlng mare Dexter, 2:17h Ii, then holding the record. He was on famil- far terms with all the old guard of trottIng horse fanciers, including Rob ert Bonner, Commodore Vanderbilt, Frank Work, and others and outllved them all. except Mir. Work, wno still lives in New York and Is as devoted to the trotter as ever.
 A friend of the editor of this paper, who has spent some weeks in Califor- mia during the spring. sends us pri- vate letter containing some ohserva- tlons upon the much touted green horses The Pig, pacer, and RegalD trotter, which may bo of interest to horsomon who will have to meet thls pair on the grand circuit this season says Trotter and Pacer We may safely state that the writer Is entirely unpre- judlcod. and usually forms pretty close estimate concerning a horse: "Tf you want mo to tell you my honest opinion. I will say that tho two touted horses here. the Pig and the Regalo, will be false alarms. They are afral to work the Pig in company and he i5 now 8 or 2 years old. Where has he been for the past three or four years? In my judgment. he won't quito do Regalo is a little rat and acts to me l like dub I would not mako this prediction positively but on the pacer l would bo willing to bet that am right"