AMERICA’S CHAMPION TRAVELLING TROTTER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1245, 26 February 1914, Page 14

AMERICA’S CHAMPION TRAVELLING TROTTER.

RAILED 8336 MILES DURING 1913. The fast American pacer Hal McKinney looks to be the champion traveller of 1913, for with his driver, Al Russell, the horse made a most wonderful campaign. In all the horse covered 8336 cn the railroads raced 67 heats in 20 events and won 11 of them- This brought him about £l2OO.

The trip of Hal McKinney is of interest. It began at Edmonton and he had been shipped 1858 miles to get there, then found that there wa; no race for him. Afterwards he won at that city. Then he went to Battleford, Prince Albert, Saskatoon Regina, Moose Jaw, Winnipeg, Portage, La Prairie, back to Winnipeg, Lewiston (Me.),, Bangor, Augusta, Salem, Syracuse, Detroit, Adrian, Charlotte, Springfield, Tlinois and back to Riverside, California. Al Russell, who drove the horse, is

a well-known trainer, and for years was around Chicagoi, but of late he has been stationed at Riverside, California. He beat his pacer in distance covered, as he went 'to the Minnesota State fair, making his total something like 10,000 miles.

In addition to the Hal McKinney races, Russell started On Conn seven times, Baronteed Todd twice, Avernell eight times, Kid Downey 10 times, and Belle W. five times, which brought his gross winnings in 52 races up to £2417- ,

Russell made a mistake of covering too much ground, for when the season was over he proved a loser through the cost of shipping and 5 per cent, entry which he had to pay at moist places.