YEARLING TROTTERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10440, 20 April 1912, Page 5

YEARLING TROTTERS.

OBJECTIONS TO EARLY TRAINING. In an article on the training of yearlings a writer who is opposed to tho principle says:— To tho present time a total of thirty yearlings have been given trotting records of 2.30 or better. Of these thirty yearlings, seven took their records during 1911; hence their training-on capacity is something as yet to be determined.

Of the remaining twenty-three, precisely seven subsequently lowered their records. One only has ever taken a record of 2.10 or better. The two-yeax-old division of the Kentucky futurity has thus far been trotted nineteen times. It has been won just three times by colts or fillies that had previously taken yearling records of 2.30 or better. The three-year-old division of the Kentucky futurity has thus far been raced nineteen times. It has never been won by a colt or filly that had previously taken a yearling record of 2.30 or better. Only one 2.30 or better yearling has ever won a three-year-old futurity of any description. This was Miss Stokes, who won two. the past season. As is well known, she went to the post each time so badly crippled that it was next to a miracle that she performed as she did. Upon her third essay she broke down completely and has been permanently retired to the stud. _ It is the practically unanimous verdict of horsemen that had not Miss Stokes been asked to do what she did as a yearling, she would have won every futurity to which she was eligible as a two aim three-year-old, and might have established new world's records at both ages. No 2.30 yearling ever subsequently held the world's record for two-year-olds. No 2.30 yearling ever subsequently held the world's record for three-year-olds. No 2.30 yearling ever subsequently held the world's record for four-year-olds. , No 2.30 yearling ever subsequently held tie world's record for five-year-olda. , ± . No 2.30 yearling ever subsequently held the world's record for all-aged horses. No 2.30 yearling ever subsequently hold the world's record for stallions, for mares or for geldings. No .2.30 yearling ever subsequently won the M. and M., the Charter Oak, the Transylvania, the Massachusetts, or any other Grand Circuit classic.