THREE-YEAR-OLD AND AGED TROTTERS.
An American authority compares three-year-old trotters and aged
horses, in the matter of staying, as follows: —When three-year-olds can develop the extreme rate of speed for one or two miles which the trotters of that age have shown this year, it seems as though there wou’d be a few to disagree with the opinion that a two-in-three race is long enough to ask them to go. It is doubtful if,
from the aged trotters racing this year—barring two to three exceptions —it would be difficult to pick a field of eight aged trotters from among those now racing that would be able to go a greater two-heat race than at least eight of the three-year-olds went at Columbus. And is it not reasonable to believe that the three-year-olds cannot go a long race without a greater risk of injury, than is present in racing aged horses?
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1240, 22 January 1914, Page 19
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150THREE-YEAR-OLD AND AGED TROTTERS. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1240, 22 January 1914, Page 19
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