Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-10
GEERS TO RACE DON NENsMoRE Chestnut Stallion, Star of Great West ern Circuit Two Years Ago. Now at Memphis.


 l The Geers stable at Memphis, which l during the past season was wofully 1 lacking in pacing talent, has received an important addition in the chestnut stallion Don Densnlore, POP 1-4 star of the great western circuit in 1911 and raced through the grand circuit with fair results the past season. At 1 the close of the past racing season it was announced that the owner of Don DenSnOre a North Dakota, horsemRn, would race this horse himself but aft CT due consideration, he evidently thought better of it and the horse has been sent to the veteran teamster at Memphis for a grand circuit campaign in the gast classes in 1913
 Rupert Parker an Iowa trainer, very successful in the west, but new to the grand circuit, raced Don Densmore during the past two seasons. The cleanup campaign which the horse had made in the west and the glowing reports which certain of the grand cir cult followers who had seen the horse perform the fall a Phoenix gave of his abilities, caused Don Densmore to be watched with more than ordinary interst when he appeared in the big ring last July. In his first four races he was defeated, Vernon Mckinney, Evelyn W and Sir R. proving too much for him, but he was second or third in each of the starts. His first victory came at the Pittsburg meet ing. writes Tom Gahagan- Vernon
 
 2 CT 1-2, spread ag1ing the field in the fastest heat of the season at that time.
 Then Densmore came to life and won the next heat in POP If, his present record. The third heat is one that , caused a lot of discussion the finish was so close between the stallion and Evelyn w. Shank, driving the latter was sure he won the heat; Parker thought the mare might hay nipped hiS mount right at the wire, but the judges, who were in the best position to decide, gave the heat and race to Don Densmore, and the whlte-faced stallion had sanned the honor of de- feating the greatest pacing mare which has ever appeared. Don Dens
 more raced through the circuit up to and including the Detroit. meeting. al- ways in the, money, but his only other victory was at the New York state fair
 meeting at Syracuse. where he won a sweepstake race for 2.04 pacefs, beat ing Branham Baughman, 2.04-1-4, and others IlameneSs caused hIs retire ment after the fall meting at Detroit
 Don Densmore is a rather hard horse to train and race. according to Parker. He is one of the loafing kind, and 1t IS practically impossible to give hlm any extremely fast miles alone, lie wants company, and it required several races to get him up to the point where he was ca pabte of showing his best form. He was slow to get away rom the wire when compared with such p3cerS EJFeIVn w. ana Y CItIOI1 III S1A4A4i4SS' for whom ie is no trick to pace the first eiehth in fl seconds, so that in his races i- was a case of a 1ong, stern
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 Don ~Densr1ore is Q herse which should do well in the hands of Pop Geers for the veteran has has own way and a successful e1e, of deading with 8 loafing horse. The Abbe. 2-04, that little black stallion with which he swept the circuit in 1910, was one of that kind. yet he started at Terre Haute early In July and finished at Lexington in October with the loss of but d singl sheat the first In the Cham Der Of Commerce stake in Detroit, in which he was nosed out by Evelyn W. The Abbe was one of those pacers who appeared to be all right in POS, yet if they went four seconds faster he would be in the lead at the finish. It re- quired heroic treatment on the part Of Pop one more than one occasion to land him first at the wire While Geers makes no unnecessary use of the whip, when he dces use it is iu no uncertain manner, and The A,obee got more than one beaiutifu1 lacing that season.
 Geers was working The Abe one morning at Charter Oak park and Long-Shot Cox WAS working Bran ham Baugfnan at the same time The Abbe had handled the Cox paeer cas- fly in eli of his races htat season, but