GOOD TROTTING.

Inangahua Times, Issue 19, 2 October 1878, Page 2

GOOD TROTTING.

A contempo.'ary snys our Amoricnn cousins still continuo to improro tho trotter*, nnd linvo yot anothor • fastest on rocord ' for 2i) miles, Tho match wns for 1000101. a-sido, n well-known trotter rnmod Controller having boon backo;! to bont tho Scytho bean-r, and for tbo slakes at iasuo his o<*or undertook to trot tho homo 20 milos within an hour. Tho borso hnd previously trotted 10 milos in 27min 27i<oe, and as ho was in capital form odds of 20 to M. wero laid that ho nroomplisliod tho £0 milou within tho specifiod time. After |>t?qin* round tho trnck a cotiplo of tinier, ho was dis* Phtohfld v on his j mrn^- Durina tho first portion of it hi* driver allowod him to take it Tory leisurely, ond ho was ftOmin 7 hoc aeoomplishing half tho distnnco: but tho horfio was then rou«»'d ur, and whon ho had traversed 15 miles ho had boon only 41-nin 25<oc, thus beiuu 35 see ahead of old Father Tim\ and, as tho Yankeo roporlor observes. ' poinß liko a good-naturod stoam engine, that nevor in life required a governor to cheek its onwnrd nu.voment.' Tho horso trotted tho Hueeeedinir miles in 2min 50'oc, 2mm 51sec, 2min 49>ec, and 2min 5 ! )^o, and tbo last milo in a jo^r, tho wholo distanoo havint; boon traversed in SSmin 57'*ec t Controller pullod up qnito fresh oftor this splendid feat,