TROTTING TRAGEDIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 14

TROTTING TRAGEDIES.

Under the above heading J. S..WaTv,y>i writes interestingly of trottefs in , Australia in tne early eighties and nineties. The Hawkesbury District in New louth Wales Vμl tie leading portion of ha State as regards tiie breeding of -otters, the imported stallions there >miciled being Childe Harold (died in 389, Huon. (died in, 1902), Vancleve died in' 1904) and Honesty (died in 1902). Years later Tuxedo came-on the scene, he remarks. Childe. Harold, Vancleve and Tuxedo were all by Harold, one of Hambletonian's greatest sons, but-as Tuxedo was foaled seventeen years later than Childe Harold, they may be said to have belonged to different generations. Childe Harold, Vandeve and Moriesty were all trotters, but Tuxedo as a beautifully gaited natural pacer. Tuxedo's dam, Molly Trussell, was a producing mare in America, J?* 811 died the United States sporting Press devoted columns to her oortuary. Among her foals was a noted »«re named Treueseau (2.28*.) Tuxedo Z" M°% TrosseU's la«t foal. There vas a tragedy m connection with Molly I,'reen in the American Press. Molly Tnuaen Tragedy. Budd Doble (a household name in .srican trotting for a lifetime) in ■•"6, drove the afterwards world's Tipion Dexter in a match for 5000 ars against George M. Patchen, ■r, and won the match. Dexter at this ■. >~.a was owned by George Trussell, a ical Yankee racecourse and card *rp, who was celebrating his victory an up-town saloon, when a woman ..i"V«rn as Molly Trussell came in and ad him to leave the place with her. .'..-•sell refused in unprintable lan- ; age, whereupon the woman drew a elver and shot the gambler dead. In :>e days anyone with a "pull" on the i torities had small chance of being aged in America for such a trifle as .noting a man in hot blood, and she i:l that pull, as Truesell not long before

ul thrashed the editor of the Chicago finies" for something written about liim in that paper. The editor, an infla■ntial man, took up Molly's case, ao4 »]fj]g got off with a few months' Imwiaonnient. She was' afterwards identi- - lied with the sporting life of San 1 '.••/'yrjsco, ni)(l Mn'lv Trass**!, the dam

DELAY AN QUEST SURPRISES. It is a long time since Delavan Quest won a race, but he scored easily at the Victoria Park (N.S.W.) meeting on Monday week last. The race which fell t« the son of Delavan Chimes was not a very important one, as the stake monev only reached £100, but he had to travel the mile and a half in 3.21 to win. This was his first success since returning to Sydney from New Zealand, and that his party were prepared is evident from the tact that he opened at any old price, but finished up second favourite.