The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-06
OLD CUP CELD!NG
ADDS TO HIS GLORY
Plays With Be Frank and
Covers 8 Furlongs, Hard
Held, in 1852 2-5.
DAMsEL FOR EMOTION
R. L. Gerry's Fleet FiIly Sets
q Fast Pace in Stake at
Belmont Park.
BY HENRY ". KING.

"A horseman's idea of a good horse
at all times. Such a horse is Willis
Sharpe Kilmer's Exterminator, the
aged unsexed son of MCGEE and Fair
Empress. He has done more than any
horse on the American turf las ever
done.
He has raced and won on all the
tracks in this country and Canada.
has run and won under a dozen differ
ent jockeys. has run and won under
the preparation of half a dozen diff
ferent trainers. has run and won at
all distances from six furlongs to a
mile and half and has run and won
under all kinds Of weights. He has
won more cups than all other horses
put together in the last four years and
he has accumulated more than $780,
600 in purses and stakes, TIE largest
amount ever won by a gelding in this
or any other country.
Yesterday afternoon at Belmont Park
he showed big crowd of racegoers
that he is far from being on the verge
OF the has BEEN class. Carrying 1873
pounds he won the Bayside Handicap
from George p. Fuller's Be Frank, his
only opponent, in a gallop. From the
beginning to the end of the one mile
and furlong journey he was under a
choking pull. So hard did Albert John
-son pull him that the Jockeys arms
were sore when he returned to the scales.
In the last quarter of mile the grand
old cup horse became excited when the
crowd began to cheer him and Johnson
very nearly had a runaway horse under
him. As it was, it took the jockey an
extra half mile to pull him up. The race
was only a slow work for him.
Because of Johnson's strong arms he
ran neck and neck with Be Frank for a
mile. Then he moved to the front while
still under stiff restraint and with his
head bowed all through the stretch won
galloping by two lengths.
The old gelding never looked better
He has taken on flesh and there isn't
as much as pimple> on him and his
legs are as sound as the day Mr. Kilmer
bought him to run as a substitute for
Sun Briar in the Kentucky Derby. His
time Tor the mile and a furlong was
1852 2-5
After his race all horsemen agreed
that he was grand horse. They pointed
out that some other thoroughbred might
have had more speed, but that there
never was horse on this side of the
Atlantic who was as great an all
rounder
Emotion, the chestnut daughter OF
Friar Rock. which Robert L. Gerry and
Marshall Field bought from John p.
Madden a fortnight ago, scored her
second victory in her new owners colors
in the Damsel, a race at one milo for
three-year-old FLIES. Emotion broke,
from the outside position on her toes,
quickly went to the front and set a fast
pace all the way. to win eased up by a
length and half. Her stablemate. Bees
Wax, finished second. neck in from. of
Mrs. Payne Whitney's Kings Fancy.
Emotion was credited by the official
timers with having covered the mile in
:37 3-5. Other checkers made her time
] 3S 3-5.
AS Relay covered three-quarters of a
mile in his recent race as fast as any
horse that has raced this year and
Is known to be as game as he Is fast
the critics are looking for something un-
usual In the early part of the Belmont
I. this gamecock and Snob III. step off
and show the best they have 1t would
favor the chances of Hea and Pillory IL
this should be the case. The latter has
been doing well since the Withers. and
his friends look for him 20 be closer
TO the contenders In the Belmont than
he was to the winner of the Withers.
Richard T. Wilson has engaged
Charlie Miller to ride for him. Miller
rode for c. A. Stoneham last year and
made few mistakes. He is a topnotch
Jockey and has an excellent reputation