BEST TROTTING RECORDS. NEW ZEALAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 35

BEST TROTTING RECORDS. NEW ZEALAND.

One mile.— Saddle, Monte Carlo, 2min 26Jsec, . New Brighton, October 13, 1898; harness, Fritz, 2min 13sec, January 2, 1899, at C.-T.C. meeting. One mile and a-half. — Saddle, Commotion, ,3min 57sec, Timaru. September 1895; harness, Brooklyn, Smin 402 sec, Tahuna Park, ■ September 1896 (against time). Two miles. — Saddle. Rita. 4min 58£ sec, Lancaster Park. November 1895 ; harness, Brooklyn, 4min 575 sec. Tahuna Park, September 1896 (against time) ; Fritz, Canterbury T.C., May 1898, 4min 50 l-ssec (harness) in a race. Two miles and a-half. — Spider, Waimatp, March 1897, 6min 32sec; harness, Berlin Abdallah, 6min 37sec, Tahuna Park, February 1595. Three miles. — Saddle, Spider, 7min 59sec, Maniototo, February 1 895; harness, Specification, 7.mm 35& se c, Canterbury T.C., May 1834. Four miles. — Harness, Specification, . lOmin 47sec, Lancaster Park, July 1894. * AUSTRALIAN. One Mile. — Harness, Fritz, 2niin 14sec, Brighton (N.S.W.), July- 25, 1898. Two miles. — Harness, Mystery, 4min 56Jsec, in match against 'Osterley. Three miles. — Harness, Osterley, 7min 3O2sec. AMERICAN (IN HARNESS). One mile. — Alix, 2min 3Jsec, * September 19, 1894. . Two miles. — Greenlander, 4min 32sec, October 1893. Three miles. — Nightingale, 6min 55$ sec, Oc- j tober 1893.

mishap at Timaru. After her second day*» race Goodman got Buddicomb to ride her home barebacked, the saddle having been lent' to ride Gladys II in. On the way out of the grounds Buddicomb found a trotting stallion fighting to get clear of -the boy who was rid-" ing him. The prancing about set the mare jigging ; Buddicomb, having no saddle, could not hold her ; and away both horse and mare went for a scamper of about two miles on the road, Pitch and .Toss eventually escaping her pursuer by leaping a fence into the freezing works enclosure. As a result of her escapade she is lightly marked with barbed wire, and lost the skin on one of her knees, and is as stiff as a crutch". Still, she got off pretty luckily. Her worst injuries are those sustained at Christchurch, by getting hung up in the starting cords. They still use at Riccarton the whale-line sort of stuff, like plough lines, and they cut badly whenever a .'horse gets his head through and starts to run down. Captive did this one. and so did Mountebank — in the Maiden Plate won by Bloomer and now Pitch and Toss has got a mark round her throat like as if she had been, half hanged and then cut down. In addition, the mare had a piece, torn out of her under lip. It is about time this dangerous contrivance was superseded by the single line or anything that would give way on an emergency. Mr Goodman tells me that he has taken over the yearling gelding by - Cuirassier out of Tasmania, bought at the, Hon. H. Mosman's sale by T. Buddicomb, and I had a look«t this youngster in the paddock. He seems to be a promising sort, and it is consolatory lo know that this leading trainer is now sure of at least one two-year-old for next season.