Zincali's World's Pacing Record Of 3.10 3-5.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 86, 12 April 1941, Page 4 (Supplement)

Zincali's World's Pacing Record Of 3.10 3-5.

THE performance of in recording 3.10 3-5 for simile and a half at Ashburton on Saturday furnishes further evidence of the remarkable progress in the development of speed in the trotting sport in the Dominion.

A couple of decades luck owe v-HT the most optimistic of iigfctrfetaaß - p enthusiasts would not mtwhii thought of any pacer or trotter ping a mile in 2.0 in New Ze&faoi but he duly arrived when the tralian-bred and owned free legged paw '• Lawn Derby, then on a visit to flgr Dominion, stepped the eight fulnp s > 1.59 2-5. That was on November 1938, at Addington. That record entitles Lawn Jkrif & rank as the greatest ever in Antßlasia, but there are many good jotae who feel that, despite his breaking performance, both Miwfft'r and Van Derby were his equaL • Indianapolis was undoubtedly ft ««tf : pacer at any distance —his thwo Jfiw .4 t; Zealand Trotting Cup victories i« dßf . evidence of his class—but in * fijfepgj against time he just missed jeeiil* ? the 2.0 mark. j So also Van Derby, who in * race against Lawn Derby beat the and recorded 2.0 2-5 on the glMl to* at Epsom. That was on Fetauaiy 1939. And now Zincali, who, at til «• mencement of the present seaeoa, »•» rated as just useful, has smashed til previous figures for a mile and a len for pacers under race conditions n ® world. The previous best in a raee **• 3.12 1-5 bv Fine Art at Addington en May 27, i 939. Van Derby 45,8 ing month on the same course 3.9 2-5, but it was not a race-wan®? performance. The world s record for either p** l or trotter is held by GijyjWj a trotter, who recorded 3-J Indianapolis on September M»