TROTTING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume I, Issue 7, 13 September 1890, Page 3

TROTTING.

The following old trotting records may be interesting to some of our readers, showing that the pace has not so much improved during the last century, especially when you take into consideration that the roads were not so good as they are at the present date, and in those days there were no trotting tracks. The following is the record of Mr. Ogden’s mare in 1784. This mare is known m the Norfolk Trotting Stud Book as Ogden’s Mare. Four miles in • 12 min. 14 secs., ten miles in 32 min., thirty ipiles m 2 hours, forty miles carrying 14st., in 3 hours. The following is an American record for a late date Longfellow, in a wagon, four miles (California), December 31st, 1869,10 min. 341 secs.; Satellite in harness, four miles, Keokuck, lona, August 12th, 1887, 10 min. 52£ secs.; Controller, in harness, ten miles, San Francisco, November 28th, 1878, 27 min. 231 secs.; John Stewart, in waggon, ten miles, Boston, June 30th, 1868, ten miles in 28 min. 2| secs. ‘