The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . ing. Now, apacer is much fasterthan a trotter, andalthough a very fastpacer would be an ex-pensive animal, it isalso, speed for speed,much cheaper. Thetrotting record is 2minutes 2]- seconds,which is held for themile by Crescens. Thepacing record is 1 min-ute 59I seconds by StarPointer ; Dan Patch andsome six pacers are, atthe time of writing,faster than 2 : 2. Where-as very few trottershave done a mile fasterthan 2 minutes 5seconds, it is quitecommon for a pacerto do it in that time ;indeed, a pacer thatcould not do i
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . ing. Now, apacer is much fasterthan a trotter, andalthough a very fastpacer would be an ex-pensive animal, it isalso, speed for speed,much cheaper. Thetrotting record is 2minutes 2]- seconds,which is held for themile by Crescens. Thepacing record is 1 min-ute 59I seconds by StarPointer ; Dan Patch andsome six pacers are, atthe time of writing,faster than 2 : 2. Where-as very few trottershave done a mile fasterthan 2 minutes 5seconds, it is quitecommon for a pacerto do it in that time ;indeed, a pacer thatcould not do it in 2 minutes 4 seconds would nottake a front place. It must, therefore, surely beclear that to allow pacers to compete againsttrotters, as is done in England, is so unfair on thetrotter that most of the so-called trotters thatcompete in this country are in reality owner of an expensive trotter is consequently,as may readily be imagined, discouraged fromentering his favourite when he knows that it is SURRENDEN, TWO YEARS OLD.(Photo: W. W. Ranch, Strand, ). BLACKSTONE AT RANELAGH(Photo: W. W Rooch, Strand, ) TROTTERS AND TROTTING IN ENGLAND. 149 certain to be beaten by some cheap pacing , before any advance in encouraging fasttrotters is made in England, trotters and paa 1must be divided in their races. There are numbers of Driving Clubs in Ami rii a,on the lines of Hurlingham or Ranelagh, themembers of which drive races against each otherfor the sport of the thing, a ribbon constitutingthe sole prize. Only amateurs are allowed tocompete, and racing sulkies are barred, com-petitors being limited to the use of four-wheeled speed-wagons, such as their owners would usein ordmarv driving on the Speedways. Theorganisation of such clubs in England would domore towards the encouragement of trotting thanany amount of professional racing. Englishmenwould not be long in finding out that a goodtrotter is far more pleasant driving than a hackney,which is too
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