The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-21
CEERS WON MANY
First Money i'm Sixteen Track
Events.
The Able and Dude Archdale
Took Largest Stakes.
THE TRACK REVIEW.
McDevitt and Macy Also Drove
Winners.
Other Leaders i'm the COuntry's
Racing Game.
THE TRACK REVIEW,


breed or own the winner of classic
has been the incentive of running and
harness racing. men from time I'M
memorial. In Europe to breed or race
winner of the famous handicaps, such
as the st. Leger at Doncaster, the
Derby at EPSON Downs, the Carwich
at 10000 guineas at Newmarket or the
Grand Prix at Paris has been the am
bition of kings and gentry for years.
In this country wealthy breeders
have expended millions Of dollars for
the honor of breeding or owning a
futurity winner or a winner or one OF
she many classical events To win the
famous Merchants and Manufacturers
stake at Detroit. the Charter OAK at
Hartford or the Transylvania at Lex
ington would satisfy the majority OF
horse admirers in this country. Only
a few can claim the honor of owning a
winner of the triple dual events.
With 1904 only a single horse, Bor-
alma, won the Kentucky Futurity and
Pennsylvania, seven were double WIN
ners up to 1904 of the Merchants and
Manufacturers, Charter Oak and
Pennsylvania in a single year. Ander-
sons Nightingale won the Merchants
and Manufacturers and Charter Oak
in 1892, Relma the Merchants anu
Manufa cturers' and TransylVanla IN
1907, Harrietta the Charter Oak and
Pennsylvania in 1908, John Nelan the
Lord Vincent the same stakes in 1889,
Eleata the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' and Charter Oak in 1901.
The Pennsylvania winners from 1894
to this season were: 1904, S Veet Mare:
1905, Ethers Pride; 1906, Nutboy; 1907,
Sonomo Girl: 1908, Spanish Queen;
1909, Peniso Maid; 1910. Joan; the latter
mare also won down the line this sea-
son the Buckley, $4,000 at the Column
bus; the Bonner Memorial, 800. at
10000, at Columbus, and the Walnut
Hall cup, 3025. at Lexington.
Geers Greatest Winner.
Ed Geers and F. G. Jones. who drove
the Geers horses while the "old man"
was laid up from an accident, are the
largest stake winners of the present
season, having no less than 16 wins to
their credit.
Beginning at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Jones won the $4,000 Furniture Manu-
featuring stake with The Able, and
| the $4,000 Paper Mills stake with
Dude Archdale at Kalamazoo; Geers
won the 5000 c. and c. with The Able
and the NJ. and M.-with Dude Archdale
at Detroit: he captured the $4,000 Ed
wards stake with The Able and the
| IS, 600 Ohio stake with Dude Archdale
at Cleveland; the $1,000 Maple Leaf
at Empire City, N. Y, he won the
Eclipse stake, 81 500, with The Harvest
| er. and the Union. $500, with The
Able; again at Readville The Able
won the Norfolk, for 50. 500; at SYRIA
cuse the $4,000 Syracuse stake for PIP
class PAGERS was won by the Able; the
| Chamber of Commerce, $1,000 class, by
| Damarest: the s., 900 Hotel Hartman
stake at Columbus by the son Of
| Chimes; the Wilson, $2,25, at Lexing-
| ton by The Able, and the West, $2,02o,
| by Dude Arehdala.
| Mike McDeViff has also been fOrtI1-
nate as a stake winner. Starting at
| New York he won the Bonner Memorial
J 50, 500 stake with Joan 80, by Directun1
! Spier; duplicating with the mare at
Columbus by winning the HoSter-CC-
/ lumbus $4,000 purse; also getting the
big end of the 5000 Buckley. His best
win was the 3-year-o1d fflly Grace, by
| Peter the Great: also repeating with
her in the S8.S04 Champion Stallion
stake and getting double events with
Hall cup-a total of seven victories fer
the season.
| Macy Wins Four.
| Gus Macy won four big stakes with
| the 3-year-old trotter Colorado E., by
| The Bondsman, and the $4,000 Ira M.
Swift stake at Grand Rapids with G.
the Limit. With Colorado E. he won
at Empire City, Readville, Syracuse,
Columbus and was second TO Grace at
Lexington.
White landed four stakes with the
PAGER Ess H. Kay, by The Spy, Win
ming the Beacon, 1880, at New York;
| the Bunker Hill, $4,000, at Readville:
| the Onandaga. $1,000. at Syracuse, and
Board of Trade, $1,000 at Columbus.
Ess H. Kay paced more fast miles than
any other horse out this season on the
circuit-New York, 2:0514; 2:O414; Read
vile. 2:o51z, 2:o3s4; Syracuse, 2:06; 2:o7;
Columbus, 2:05, 2:05A.
|, George Haag, Thomas W. Murphy
and Nottingham We're triple stake win
ners of the season. Haag won the ST.
| 500 Centerville stake at Empire City,
the Charter Oak. $4,000, at Harvard.
end the Mcdowell SO OPS purse, at Lex
| ington, with General H, by Combiner.
| Murphy, at Kalamazoo, won the $4,000
Richman Hotel stake with May Day.
by Combination: the Spirit of the