BIG MONEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 288, 5 December 1929, Page 16

BIG MONEY.

AMERICA'S BEST WINNERS, WONDERFUL TWO-YEAR-OLD. Particulars gathered from exchanges to hand by the latest mail show that the best trotters can win big money in America. The honour of topping the list this season goes to the unbeaten three-year-old trotter Walter Dear (2.2 3-4). His earnings are £11,500, which is £5000 more than credited to any other performer. Second on the list is the sensational two-year-old trotter Main McElwyn (2.2|), who was only twice beaten in eleven starts. Hie earnings are £6511. His defeats were recorded at Kalamazoo, where, owing to breaks in the first heat, from an accidental cause, he was distanced, a result so palpably false as to have caused no lessening of the esteem in which he was held by horsemen at the time; and at Grand Rapids, where before he bowed to that phenomenal filly Hanover's Bertha (2.2), he forced her to trot the fastest two-heat race ever placed to the credit of a two-year-old, namely 2.5* and 2.4 J. Subsequently he was unbeatable, winning eight races in succession and in five of them lowering the colours of the daughter of Peter Volo (2.2) and Miss Bertha Dillon (2.2J), she several times winning a heat from him in these encounters, which have thrilled the trotting world as has nothing else that has happened in recent years.