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In these races the skill of the older reinsman was 

 frequently offset by the dash and zip of the little 

 Yankee. Fearless and with a Hght hand, Brusie sent 

 his mounts away from the wire on high gear and 

 kept them going until they won or run down. At the 

 July meeting at Cleveland, Lyman made the country 

 sit up when he won the half-mile dash for two-year- 

 olds with Mr. Dudley in 1:02%. This was flying 

 and the clip was continued at Kalamazoo the follow- 

 ing week when Echo Direct won in 2:07l^, equalling 

 the four-year-old record for geldings made by Uhlan 

 in 1908. 



At Syracuse Echo Direct gave this mark another 

 rapf when he won a third heat in 2:051/4 to a sulky 

 with a wrecked wheel. A little thing like that, how- 

 ever, did not disturb Lyman Brusie. The first time I 

 saw him in aj race he was driving the pacer Rhoda 

 Ashbourne over the half-mile track at Windsor, 

 Conn. Some one bumped into him and crushed a 

 wheel. In order to keep going he climbed out on the 

 opposite shaft and almost won the heat. 



This young man has but five letters in his alphabet. 

 They are h. o. r. s. e. On account of this, he has a 

 limited vocabulary and is minus the ''gift of gab" 

 which made his father conspicuous on the New Eng- 

 land race tracks. He will never miss it, however, as 

 a driver frequently says more in a minute than he 

 can take back in a week. 



Geers at that time was in his sixty-ninth year. 

 His" first victory in the east was won over Fleetwood 

 Park, New York, in 1877. At this track in 1892 when 



