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pil compelled the pride of Indiana to pace the opening 

 mile in two minutes, beat him back the second heat in 2:01% 

 but lost the third heat in 2:00%. And that was the only 

 defeat of the year for the chestnut stallion. He met Single 

 G in eight other contests, all regular class races on the 

 Grand Circuit and was returned the winner in all of them. 

 There were other starters but Single G was always the horse 

 to be beaten and he was nearly as good, most of the time, 

 as ever in his life, though he trained on and won miles in 

 much faster time than those in which Napoleon Direct de- 

 feated him. But that may not mean as much as the casual 

 observer thinks for it is doubtedly true that while but one 

 of the Napoleon Direct-Single G miles was in time better 

 than two minutes, both horses were able to do better than that. 

 Racing and going against time are two entirely different 

 propositions. 



After Kalamazoo, Napoleon Direct won at Pittsburg in 

 2:0], 2:03V4, 2:031/4. At Columbus, the summer meeting, 

 he won in l:59-)4, (his record mile) and 2:01^. The fast 

 mile fractional time was 30%, 1:01%, 1:30%, 1:593/4, 

 making the time for the last half SSYj seconds, a fair indica- 

 tion of the tremenduous speed the horse possessed. At North 

 Randall's second meeting he won in 2:01%, 2:04%, 2:00%. 

 At Poughkeepsie his miles were paced in 2:02%, 2:00%. 

 At Hartford 2:04%, 2:05%, 2:05%, over a heavy track. 

 At Syracuse 2:00%, 2:04l/>. At Columbus, fall meeting, 

 2:06%, 2:00% in the first race and 2:013/4, 2:011/2 i" the 

 second. 



Napoleon Direct was bred by Clark E. Jones, of Colum- 

 bia, Tenn., and when retired from racing was taken back to 

 the place of his nativity. 



While Napoleon Direct is the only performer that has 

 gone in two minutes or better for Mr. Geers, he is by no 

 means the only sensational performer that great reinsman 

 has developed. In fact it is doubtful if Napoleon was at all 

 necessary to the career of the ''Silent Man from Tennessee," 

 though he was the greatest pacer "Pop" ever developed. 



Inasmuch as Mr. Geers celebrated his seventy-first birth- 

 day in January, 1922, it follows that he has been before the 



