The time to succeed is when others 

 Discouraged, show traces of tire. 

 The battle is fought in the homestretch 

 And won — twixt the flag and the wire. 



— John Trot wood Moore. 



NAPOLEON DIRECT 



Grand Circuit Champion Racing Pacer 1916 

 Record 1:59% 



APOLEON DIRECT 1:59% gave the Grand Old Man 

 of the trotting world his first ride a mile in two 

 minutes or better. Mr. Geers developed and "made" 

 this great racing pacer, and the fame of his horse rests not 

 upon his dashes against time but his exceptional accomplish- 

 ments as a racing tool. In fact he was never started save in 

 actual contests — regular events on the Grand Circuit. 



He is a Tennessee product, sired by Geers' old pupil, 

 Walter Direct and out of Lady Erectress by Kendall a grand- 

 son of Director 2:17. 



Mr. Geers first introduced the big horse to Grand Circuit 

 followers in 1914 when he was five years old and the new- 

 comer made good by winning ten of his fourteen starts that 

 year and taking a record of 2\02}/U- He was retired in 

 1916 holding the world's record of 2:011/> for a fifth heat 

 and the world's five heat race record. 



His best record was taken in 1916 at Columbus, 0., and 

 of his preparation for the campaign of that year Mr. Geers 

 writes under date of January 25, 1922: 



"Napoleon Direct was handled just about as we would all 

 handle a good horse when starting in with him to get him 

 into condition for what we knew would be a very hard 

 campaign. And that we were sure was ahead of him. 



"I gave him a good many slow miles in the spring, going 

 just a little faster each succeeding week. While he was 

 asked to increase his speed as the time for racing approached, 

 still I never drove him any work miles better than 2:04 or 



