A GOOD TROTTER.

Kumara Times, Issue 619, 21 September 1878, Page 2

A GOOD TROTTER.

Our American cousins still ..dofltiddd to improve the trotters, and have yet another “ faster on record” for 20 miles/ The match was ior lOOOdoh. aside, a well-known trotter named Controller having been backed to beat the Scythe-bearer, and for at issue his owner undertook to trot the horse ' 20 miles within an hour. Tne horse had previously trotted 10 mUes {id %t*J} # min. sec. and as he was in capital form odds of 20 to 14 were laid tbatT he accomplished- the 20 miles within the specitied time. After jogging round the track a couple of times he was despatched upon his journey. During the .. . first part of it his driver allowed bi»n to take it very leasurely, and he was 20 min. 7. sec." accomplishing half’the distance; but the horse was then roused up, and when he had traversed 15 miles he had been only 44 min. 25 see.’ thus *. being 36 sec. ahead of old Father Time, and, as the Yankee reporter observes* • “going like a good natured steamengine, that {never in life required a governor to check its onward movement.” The horse trotted the suceeding miles in 2min. 50sec,, 2min, Slsec. 2min. 49sec., and 2min. 50sec. and the last mile in a jog, the whole distance having been traversed In 58min. 58sep. Controller pulled up quite fresh after this splendid feat.