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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 895, 2 May 1907, Page 13

Although “ timing” plays a prominent part in American racing, and every now and then a “ world’s record” for some distance or other is claimed, the fact that the conditions are not the same as in other countries is thoroughly recognised by many sporting men in the land of the “ Stars and Stripes.” In a recent article on " Time” in the New York “■ Sports of the Times,” Will F. Pond

writes: “We have ‘ skinned’ our courses until time becomes a mere farce. The first year when Brighton Beach introduced the innovation, records fell like autumn leaves in Vallombrosa, and—of course —the horses making them were so much better than before they made them 1 Our records are all made over lightly topdressed ‘ dirt’ tracks, and so long as we claim a world’s record’ over a dirt track, with one or more turns, we are all right, but when we boldly claim ‘ world’s records,’ why we simply render ourseives a laughing stock' wherever men (who know more tha'ir'their own backyard) may congregate.”