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• FLYING HOOFS OF A CHAMPION PACER: LAWN DERBY AT TOP SPEED IN A RECORD-BREAKING MILE TRIAL This fine action picture was taken as Lawn Derby sped round the New Brighton, Christchurch, track on Saturday to set a new record time of 2m 3s for a mile on grass. Previously, on the Addington dirt track, the Australian pacer had covered a mile in Im 59 2-sa, 'fastest time on record in the Southern Hemisphere, Worlds record is the lm 55a of the American pacer Billy Direct. Greyhound, American wonder trotter, has done 1m 55 Ja. Well illuatrated here is the lateral gait or a pacer# front and tear legs extended on the same flank. By contrast, a trotter runs with a diagonal gait, front leg and opposite flank rear leg moving together.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 8

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• FLYING HOOFS OF A CHAMPION PACER: LAWN DERBY AT TOP SPEED IN A RECORD-BREAKING MILE TRIAL This fine action picture was taken as Lawn Derby sped round the New Brighton, Christchurch, track on Saturday to set a new record time of 2m 3s for a mile on grass. Previously, on the Addington dirt track, the Australian pacer had covered a mile in Im 59 2-sa, 'fastest time on record in the Southern Hemisphere, Worlds record is the lm 55a of the American pacer Billy Direct. Greyhound, American wonder trotter, has done 1m 55 Ja. Well illuatrated here is the lateral gait or a pacer# front and tear legs extended on the same flank. By contrast, a trotter runs with a diagonal gait, front leg and opposite flank rear leg moving together. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 8

• FLYING HOOFS OF A CHAMPION PACER: LAWN DERBY AT TOP SPEED IN A RECORD-BREAKING MILE TRIAL This fine action picture was taken as Lawn Derby sped round the New Brighton, Christchurch, track on Saturday to set a new record time of 2m 3s for a mile on grass. Previously, on the Addington dirt track, the Australian pacer had covered a mile in Im 59 2-sa, 'fastest time on record in the Southern Hemisphere, Worlds record is the lm 55a of the American pacer Billy Direct. Greyhound, American wonder trotter, has done 1m 55 Ja. Well illuatrated here is the lateral gait or a pacer# front and tear legs extended on the same flank. By contrast, a trotter runs with a diagonal gait, front leg and opposite flank rear leg moving together. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 8