MORE ABOUT LAWN DERBY

Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 22

MORE ABOUT LAWN DERBY

. According to information to hand from the owner and the trainer of the Australian champion pacer Lawn ■Derby, 2min 3 a-ssec. it is only a question of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club agreeing to pay the expenses of the' horse and trainer to New Zealand for Lawn Derby to be at Aldington in November. This the club is prepared to do, provided the horse does not win the amount at the club's Spring Meeting. "Owning a champion pacer in New South Wales is a worrying business," said, Mr. J,. -F. Mackenny, the owner and "breeder of Lawn Derby. "I do not know what to do with my horse. If he continues to race on Sydney tracks he will ruin his prospects in big races, which will be in New Zealand, at Adelaide, and at Perth, so it looks as if patrons of the sport in Sydney have seen the last of this great horse." - ■ Lawn Derby is only five years old, but during his brief racing career he has won everything worth while, and is now, regarded as superior to Walla 'Walla, 2min 2 2-ssec, and the greatest pacer Australia has produced. A WORLD'S RECORD. Lawn Derby has proved himself a real champion, with or without hopples, and very few horses can claim such distinction. At the last Sydney Show he established a world's record by pacing a mile on the show ground track in 2min 3 l-ssec. No other horse in the world has ever done that time on a track thai is three laps to the mile, but it must be remembered that there are no three-furlong tracks in New z,ealand or in America. The smallest trotting circuit in the United States of America and in New Zealand is i four furlongs. The record i<i America over a half-mile track is 2mi>i Isec. Dan Patch achieved that distinction in 1905. but his performance was aided by a windshield. In 1928, Single G. paced the journey in 2min Isec, and in the same year Winnipeg registered a similar performance. In New Zealand, the fastest time recorded over a halfmile track is 2min ssec, and stands to the credit of Harold Logan. ' Indianapolis has done 2min 1 2-sscc, on a six-furlong circuit.