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being Waller, a son of imported Hurrah and Queen 

 of Clubs by imported Bonnie Scotland. Notwith- 

 standing this unusual inheritance, Wilkes Brewer 

 was a pure gaited trotter with perfect racing man- 

 ners and in many respects resembled Hazel Wilkes, 

 which John A. Goldsmith raced in the early nineties. 

 In five years Wilkes Brewer started in forty-two 

 races of which she won twenty-one, was second in 

 one, third in nine, fourth in one and unplaced in 

 ten. She also reduced her record each season. Start- 

 ing off with a three-year-old record of 2:17% made 

 in a fourth heat at Sidney, Ohio, she reduced it to 

 2:171/4 when she won at Bowling Green, in her four- 

 year-old form. Her five-year-old record of 2:081/4 

 was made at Lima. As a six-year-old she won in 

 2:071/4 at Columbus, and in 1918 as a seven-year-old 

 in 2:051/4 at North Randall. 



GEERS OVER THE BORDER 



Edward Franklin Geers and his speed marvel 

 Sanardo invaded Canada in 1923 to fill an engage- 

 ment on the King's Birthday at Toronto. Rain made 

 the track at the Exhibition Park so that it could not 

 be used. It did not, however, prevent the Canadian 

 horsemen from visiting the stable to see the little 

 pacer and Chilcoot, which C. W. Burns sent over to 

 the park to keep his Walnut Hall Farm relative 

 company while he was on the north shore of Lake 

 Ontario. 



While speaking of his first trip to New York City 



