HIGH-SPEED TROTTING

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 8

HIGH-SPEED TROTTING

AMERICA'S VINTAGE YEAR

Arneiica had a vintage ( crop of "speedy, two-year-qtd, trotters ljtst year, says an American exchange.i ~ ' ■>' , 4 Silver' King, a, grey won'< the' Rainy Day . Sweepstakes 'at ' Cleveland, United States of and the juvenile ifutmity at Lexington, as welj as less important races at Toronto and Salem, taking a record of 2niin 6see in the' Futurity. Prince John, a brother to Princess Pegg, forced Greyhound out in~2nun 4%seo'at Syracuse ahd ~\von .* a, heat 'from 'him in 2min_7sec in an'earlier race at tKe-same' meeting^ Belvedere won at "Cleveland and Toledo, and v was second to Silver. Kitig and then to' tawrance Hanover in the fiist two, heats'of ( the Futurity^ w,Qn,ih 2mm 6sec and 2min s%sec. ,* > >

All told, nineteen two-year-olds gained records of 2min lOsec or better duung last year, and, if the1 future is to be judged by the past, the winners of the most important racea for three-yearj-olds this'year will come from this group, which includes, besides those mentioned:—Zillah | Hanover) 2min "G%sec; Lillian Guy, 2minl 7%secj Baroness, 2min Bsee; Lucre; 2min B%sec; 'Mary Taylor> 2min &%se"c; Bookie Barnes, 2min 9sec; and Athlone Sally, Boy, 2min 99isec. )' ' -, ' , • In races for trotterp of all ages ibe, winners of 1834 developed extreme,speed }n larger numbers than ever before. 'There was no outstanding horse among^ them, though the five-year-oTd stallion Vansandt might have been but for a quartei-crack' which, tioubled him throughout the.' campaigu. At Syracuse he>wra"the fastest third, heat on record, 2m'in o%aec. -This time was equalled by the fom-year old colt Prince Hall in the second heat of a winning race against Vansandt at Lexington, and by the three-year-old colt Loid Jim in the fiist heat of the Kentucky Futunty, The four-year-olds Brown Berry, 2min lsec, Hanover Maid, 2min 2%sec, and Taffy Volo, 2min 2%sec,, and the older trotters, Angel Child, 2min l%sec, David Thornton, 2min l%sec, Peter F, 2min il%sec, All Pep, 2min l%secj and Morley Frisco, 2mm l%seci, were among the pio|minent winners at extreme speed. Una Signal was officially timed in lmin 59% sec in a race at Milwaukee, but the fractional time indicated a probable mistake.