BEST RECORDS IN AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA.
Four furlongs — Australian: Bis, 48sec. Ameri-
can: Gferaldme, 46sec. Five furlongs — Australian: Walwa, lrain OJsec,
American : Maid Marian, 56|sec. Six furlongs — Australian • Precaution, lmin
13Jsec. American: Domino, lnim 9sec. Seven furlongs — Australian : Trieste, lmin 27sec. American : Bella 8., lriin 23ssec
(on a straight run). One mile — Auotrahaa : Boolka, Kingfish,
Paris, Bungebah, and Delaware, lmiu
40sec. American . Salvator, lmin 35£ sec (against time on a straight, coui so). Nine furlongs — Australian: Valiant, lmin
55sec. American : Tristan, lmin Sljsec. One mile and a-quartcr — Australian : Hova, 2min 6sec. American: Banquet, 2inin 3fsec (straight course). One mile and a-half— Australian: Survivor, 2min 35sec American : Lamplighter, 2min 32£ sec. One mile and three-quarters — Australian: Correze, 3min 3sec; Surge, 3min 3sec. American : Hotspur, 3min OJsec. Two miles — Australian: Carbine, 3min 28^sec. American : Ten Broeck and Newton, 3niin 27isec. Two miles and a-quartcr — Australian* Dieadnought, 3min 59Jsec. American: Preakness and Spiingbok (dead heat), 3miu 56Jsec. Three miles — Australian: Quiver and Wallace (dead heat), smin 23£ sec. American : Drake Carter, smin 24sec. Four miles — American : Lucretia Borgia, May 20, 1897, 7mm llsec.
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Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 35
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180BEST RECORDS IN AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA. Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 35
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