The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Improve Management Held This Year By 1enbe of 4 H. s.
WINTER ACTIVITY
IN TRAINING CAMPS
Geers Picks Jeanette Rankin TO
Be Star TrOtter of Grand
Circuit i'm 1921.

Circuit i'm 1921.
The. training stables at Billings Park
in Memphis, are fiiled with trotters and
pscers, al c: which are being .'re-
pared for an active campaign in 1921.
~, Geers. who celebrated his SEVENTEEN
birthday on January 25, has eighteen
head on the move. The list includes
June Red. with which he made such
splendid showing in 1918; Peter June,
, now being headed for n fifth trip down
the line of the Grand Circuit, and
Dudette.
While Geers has reached the Biblical
span OF life he Is eagerly waiting for
/ the bell to tap 1T Cleveland in July.
OF late he has declined few horses in
order TO keep his stable within reasdl-
able limits. and also give him a little
more leisure. Last year and In 1919 acci-
dents at Syracuse put him on the side
lines for brief period These in
juries, however. have not left any bad
effects and aside from a limp in the
leg. which has been broken three or
four times, Geers gets about as rapidly
as any of the youngsters.
During the past few weeks the Old
master has been looking over the field
OF trotters which. will put their names
high on the honor roll in 1921. After
sorting them out he has decided that
Alcnzo Mcdonald will uncover the prize
package when he turns for the word
with Jeanette Rankin. When she made
her three-ycar-old record of :oGA in
trip against the watch at Lexington
last October, Geers timed her the last
three-quarters in :3l% the third quar-
ter being better than a two minute gait
Very few II any three-year-oids have
ever done anything like that. and none
that were trained as hoppled PAGERS for
portion of the year In which they were
marked.
$500 Filly Found Herself.
Last winter when Kent was jogging
the San Francisco illy over the New
Hampshire roads in the vicinity of New
Market she looked and acted like
5000 horse. She was then booked az
hoppled PAGER for the half mile tracks.
No one ever thought of a change of pro-
gramme until one morning when Turney
was jogging her free legged at pace
over the half mile track at Portsmouth.
Something startled her and she flashed
Off on a trot with almost as much whiz
as a free for aller. That afternoon the
hopples were put in the bottom Of
jeanette Rankin's trunk, both Kent and
Turney, after a session In { iced room.
having decided that she wou 1 make
trotter
Two months later a mile in 2;16 over
a Maine half mile track set all the rail
birds twitterlng from Poughkeepsie TO
Caribou. Scouts kept the telephone and
telegraph lines busy, looking for some
one to come across with the usual
wa
picked as the target by several on ac-
count of having. as they supposed. sold
her. After he had answered half ~
dozen long distance calls and paid three
or four messengers for bringing him
kilograms from down town to the Pough-
keepsie track, he said IL was about time
for some of the blankety blank commits
sion hunters TO call halt, as he owned
a half interest In the fllly.
AS soon as he arrived at Readville in
August. Alonzo Mcdonald took a night
train TO a point In Maine and purchased
Jeanette Rankin. The following week
.:lO. This was gradually reduced until
she made the record referred to at Lex
ington, the four quarters of the mile
being reeled off in 34h, 3o&. 29% and
31A seconds.
Lucille Bingen's Great speed.
When selecting oiis flly, Geers did
not overlook Lucille Blngen, which Cox
drove to a record OF 2:03A at Lexing-
ton. She stands second in his rating.
Lucille Bingen is now 10 years old. She
is the dam of Lucille Harvester. that
made a three -year-old record of 2:0sA
when she won at Poughkeepse last
summer. The work which Cox gave Lu-
cile Bingen will get her ready for
formidable trip In 1921. and that she
will race and race fast In front or be-
hind Is evidenced by the showing which
she made against Peter Manning In the
Castleton cup. where she was timed
three miles below 2 :05.
Mcdonald has twenty-one head In his
stable Mt Memphis. The only marked
ones in the lot are King Watts. Dottie
Day, Baroness Cochato and Jeanette
Rankin.
Fred Egan is busy with a bunch Of
Youngsters by peter Volo. the next boom
sire. together with Voltage, Johnny
Quirk and Alicola.
Fred Edman Is setting his house in
order for another trip over the mile
tracks. For time II looked as II the
sorse hunters would weed out all OF the
good things in his stable. as Edman al
WAYS sells Wntn tic IIitc 10 iiE'Ae' AAN
travels under the Madden motto, 1t is
etter TO sell and regret than keep and
regret"
c. e. Pitman n.bbled for few days
Mt Favonian and Peter L. for W. II.
Canes Good Time Stable. When he
n armed that the pair would cost $4,000.
4. what Mr.. Cane paid for Brusiloff last
year. he fitted North He was followed
by w. T. Crozier OF Hartford. He paid
$4,000 for Peter l.. and left him with
Edman TO give the clever five-year-old
! is preparatory work until he comes
North with his other horses in May.
Peter L. has four-year-old record Of
g:06A and has been a consistent winner
since he appeared as two-year-old. In
the event of couple more of the same
kind being added TO the Crozier stable
there will be another man In the sulky at
the mile track meetings. and 81 clever
one at that. as wns shown last year
when he won with John Henry. Billy
Sunday and Ethel Chimes.
whole Family on Turf.
Edman is one OF tho trainers who be.
Iieves in having his family In the horse
business The F'uturity candidate. Favo-
nian. is owned by his wife. and Miss
Montgomery by his daughter. The for
uer won seven races in his two-year-old