NEW TROTTING RECORD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 13, 31 August 1911, Page 6

NEW TROTTING RECORD.

KING COLE’S FL\H /PERFORM;, ANpE, :; ■-?/ :/

Fully ■ five hundred' enthusiastic sportsmen and sportswomen Journeyed out to the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s grounds at Cliristchul'fih histjSaturdiiy-j' to see Mr R. .O. Duuchir’s pacing stallion lying Oble make aiV-atvack, irpon the Australasian mile record. The. Aveather coudifions Averc perfect,/'aVid the track': Adit in excellent order, hut despite this there was aZ"general impression that "'the clock's would heat-the:,horsey and odds Avefb freely laid hr tin's Trainer ,N. L v , Price, .Avarmod yhp, hgf|| up i/Avifli a/ gbod. threcquaitbt|''|>ij® spin/, while the caiielriatdgraph opeihted, and almost before the jiij-h----lic Were ready for the dash; on his mission. ‘He" cast liis first quarter in 31 2-sscc., but running out of ilfia .straight in the second quarter he “avo bided” slightly, and his driver had to- steady him. The half-mile was left behind in (min I l-ssec., and as hisj'rpacer avus "saill going strong. The liotee who wan to pick him up at the half-niiio indd oh'. At the six furlong ' bos I (!:.;■ fii - sl. • oncer fet.oppcd, ■ and tire rr .(■•!■■■; pte-or <-,:d the .horse up had'l • . 1 ■ •• tpy j^’iird quartet: id'te'.vcii ; .‘-:o -te :!-jikijc.^anil : a vie tar.y) ry ; i u-ii.r- yi-orldVa'kklf’Tljc pacer,'v::c, ti.m n . ;;: /hydifff^iitf*.||hut .AvitliqutVjr’t;;-/.' i'.ft dy/rong;*tutho hor^,', jiytJr hiag/ gamelyij n i :-ih;?r •! dsccsAlhus heafitig'/lhc i.ht'ortJ of ■Jtrii'n Osbflj put vipdiy./his i;iiihi)()ri.W()od in the ■ mqnioraiile match wit.li Fritz. The three, timekeepers Avere- -unanimous in their return, and they Avere carefully checked by a I;yge mini her. of -private watches,, yrho, were, all yv/Jthlji a' tick of'the official verdict.. TlJe. victory was. warmly applauded, and Mr Dancan was congratulated, on all Iqinds on the success of, ids champion.

King.. Cole, who is :i seven-year-old horse hy Ribbomvood-Kola Nut, no\v holds both the mile and the two-mile records for, Australasia. He put the two mile record to his,credit early this month at the winter meeting of the •New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club,’when ho won the National Cup

,j,from .tjie punk in -linin Jl.s.pc. Hno aiqiicc > wt;sV lull rif merit, j apart from the time, as ho started j from thq back .mack with a field ol; |■; \cii .good Horses out in icon! ol him. j ..One by one, he. cut bis rivals down, I and he finished up by winning handj comely in tiiae which was easily a record for Australasia, lilts next best bring -Imin 33socs, recorded by Wifilwood junior, in the New Zealand Ot-ip list November. King Cole thus earned the right to the title of the champion harness horse of tiie Dominion, and lie put the seal on that fame this j morning. it is his owner’s intention j vo retire him now to the stud, where j ho should make a great name for himI .self,' ‘