BEST RECORDS IN AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA
• Four furlongs — Australian : Bis, 48sec. American : Geraldine, 46sec. Five furlongs— Austra lian : Walwa, Imia OJsec American : Maid Marian, 56|&ec. Six furlongs— Australian : Precaution, Iminl3&sec. American : Domino, lmin 9sec. Seven furlongs— Australian : Trieste, lmin 27sec. American : Bella 8., lmin SSisec (on a straight run). One mile— Australian : Boolka, Kingfish, Paris, Bungebah, and Delaware, lmin 40ser. American : Salvator, lmin 35Jsec (against time on a straight course). Nine furlongs — Australian : Valiant, lmin 553ec. American : Tristan, lmin 51£ see. One mile and a-quarter — Australian : Hova 2min 6sec. American : Banquet, 2min 3f sec (straight course). One mile and a-half — Australian : Survivor, 2min 35sec. American. : Lamplighter, Smm 32fsec. One mile and three-quarters— Australian : Cor- I reze. 3min Ssec ; Surge, 3min 3sec. American : j Hotspur, 3mio OJaec. Two mileß— Australian : Carbine, 3min 281 sec. American : Ten Broeck and Newton, 3min 27} sec. Two miles and a-quarter— Australian : Dread nought, 3min 59isec. American : Preakness and Springbok (dead heat), 3min 56Jsec. Three miles — Australian : Quiver and Wallace dead heat), smin 23isec. American : Drake Carter, sm in 24sec. Four miles— American : Lucretia Borgia, May 20, 1897 7minllsec.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 31
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183BEST RECORDS IN AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 31
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