Fast Trotting On The Continent

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1080, 18 September 1930, Page 13

Fast Trotting On The Continent

GERMANY AND DENMARK SAM WILLIAMS’S RECORD i n t*re>ting comparisons can be -ids in the following trotting na ws fi"° m Denmark and GerIn Germany the sport is T«iwing apace, and the latest d C B s of Sam Williams will be with interest. The best and most interesting perJmance at Ruheleben. Berlin, Inst S was the trial of the former Cerlcan trotter, Ham •Williams, 3.013. «T. Sturdy son of Peter Scott and iliuie was out to try how fast ho ".id trot the kilometre (1.000 metres) 'bout five-eighths of the full mile. Everyone had expected that the fast eotter could trot the kilometre in ~g 0 which is a 3.02$ gait for the mile.’but he showed much better. He ,ras driven by Charlie Mills, and the rerman champion Jockey Otto Schmidt assisted as prompter with a galloper. Setting a Record Away from the start the two horses Jew and the first SOU metres was trotted in 36soc. which means a 1.552 Of course the latter part of the fourney should be slower and Sam Williams trotted the last 500 metres tn 38.3 seconds, 1.14.3 for the full dis’aThis is tho fastest record ever obtained by a trotter in Europe over the rail kilometre. Peter Speedway has a record of 1-18.3 over 2,100 metres, while the 1.18.4 record of Guy Bacon was rained over 1.629 metres. The llussian hampton trotter Petuschock has a re,'ord of 1.18.6 over 1.600 metres. Karly in this yc ar the French wonder mare

t'ranle 2.09, trotted to a record of 1.19.0 jver 1,000 metres over a slow grass track. The new record by Ham Wiliams equals 1.591 for the mile. The light-harness sport in Denmark has three classic events for nativebred youngsters each year. One is for two-year-olds over 1,609 metres with a value of 12,000 kronen, and is called the Produce Stake: another the Criterion, for three-year-olds. with IS,OOO kronen, and the Derby is for four-year-olds only, for a purse of 10.000 kronen. The latter two races ire run over distances of 2.600 and 3.000 metres respectively, with all aorsea starting off the same mark. Run on June 1, the Criterion was won hy McGregor Junior, a colt by Finvarra, 2.05}. Beautiful weather favoured the Derby run at Charlottenlund track at Copenhagen, on the Danish Constitution Day, and a crowd of 16,000 witnessed the race. Leo, an outsider, finished first but had galloped under the finishing wire, and was disqualified. Klondyke was placed the winner, thus beating a field of 11. This colt was driven by Koster, who also won behind McGregor Junior in the Criterion. Klondyke is sired by Burgoo, who was bred at Walnut Hali, the American stallion being sired by Gray Axworthy, 2.081.