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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 258, 4 July 1895, Page 6

The Americans have taught Englishmen to look with eyes of favour at the time test. Until the Yankees opened their recent Newmarket campaign English racing men pooh-poohed the clock, but their eyas have been opened and the advocates of clocking trials are growing in number every day. The London Sportsman writer, “ North Yorksliireman,” declares himself in favour of the system, and in referring to the decisive victory scored in the Crawfurd Plate by Mr Croker’s American bred and trained horse, Eau de Gallie, the penman alluded to says “ Here is a horse tried simply against time, heavily backed in consepuence, ..and winning. One of our trials would not improbably have been run at a false pace and the result altogether upset in the race.” Sportsmen in this part, of the world have always accepted the watch as the correct method of sizing up the chance of a racer, but excellent as the system undoubtedly is, it has, its disadvantages. A horse may run you a winb ing time a couple of days before a race and yet a e unplaced to a winner who probably scores in everal second longer than the “ ticking ” galloped to by your animal. An owner who plunges on the watch generally meets with the fate of the pitcher that went to the well so often. They both get smashed.