Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-01
HORSES HAVE: REACHED
TOP SPEED, Says EXPERT
Scientist Docs Not Look for Smash.
In. OF Track Records in
Near Future.
IBy Associated Press. !

LEXINGTON KY, April aO.-Thc
limit in speed of trotting and run
Ring horses has almost been reached.
according TO Professor ". X. Andcr-
son of the Animal Iiushnndry De-
parim"nt Of the Kentucky state COL
ltEc of Agriculture. Improvement
In the future Will bc much slower
IMAM AT amy time in years passed, he
said.
Professor Anderson has been max
ing special study Of record holding
stahdhrdbrcd' trottcrs AMI thor
ouEhbrcd runners, and bases his
conclusions on 4 study of records and
histories Of Tho animals covering n
period OF more than NIFTY years
In sixty years. the record Of three
year-old trottcrs has been lowered
from 2:io To 2:02 81. n reduction Of
81 ii seconds. Professor Anderson
finds. In forty-cight years the
American record Of running horses
over Il distance Of nc-milc has been
lowered from l:i2 81 to i:3i Is, a
reduction of six and fonr-iifths
seconds. Neither breed has failed to
make improvement; during a genera
tion. according To Professor Andcr-
son. and in some cases Improvement
has been SO rapid that many new
records have been made in the life
Of II single horse.
The grndunl Improvement In the
speed ur trottinr horses. according
to Professor Anderson. is shown
clearly by the records of three year
oIds and the years they were made.
These are as follows:
lNG0--Elvira Whiiesidc. 2!3o: 1874.
Lady stout. 2:2n: lSs3. linda Rose.
2:l9 IL: 1859, Axtcll. g:l4: 1872.
Arion. $50 -: 1910. colorado L.
.,0i al: 1914, Peter Nol" ::03 l-a;
iai7. The Real Lady. 2:o3, ANA 1870.
sister Ecrtha. zoo "a.
When Peter V"lo established his
unexpected rae" record of G;na l.: in
1914 the prediction was made that
The limit OF speed for his age had
been reached. hut Miss Bertha Dillon
cuualled the record in i"iI, while
The REM Lady cut onc-half second
off IL. Three Years Inter, SISTER '"r-
tina, IL iulI sister OF Miss icrtha Dill
Ion. placed the time al zoe u FRO
fcssOr Anderson said that thcrr are
reasons 10 believe that the ambition
of breeders to place the thrce-ycnr-
old record at two minutes may ~.
rca LIED.
Peter the Great. Stouehton y.
Flctcher's grca, stallion. has played
an important part in the improve
mcnt of trotting horses. according TO
Professor Anderson. This great sire
has produced nf;v-uinc horses
down TO 2:Ol 81. He also sired Miss
Harris NJ. which holds the record as
the fastest pacing mare in the world.
with n mark of l:5s III
Some idea of the progress MADE ny
running horses. according 10 the pro
fnssor. may II" "htaineh rom rSSort
of their achievements which follow:
1879. Alarm, l:i2 "a: 1919. search
cr. l:il 81: 1877; Ten i'roeck taGainSt
tlmc), l:3a3-i 1890, Racinc. 1852 u.
and Salvador tstraisht courS")'
i:3, -: 1900. Voter and orincr rs
1901, HrIradicr. 3. 10: loo', i,Ick
v,llvr 1917 2-J; iG0S. Confer shot.
l.s7i-a. 1914. Nmala. 1895 ~; iolS.
sun I;ricr. re 10. 1918. R"amer
against timc). 1874, -; i"so Man +"
War. ! 81 -
The most remarkable thing about
ihc. running records. professor Nh.
Irrsnn said. is the fact that Nan T.
war. a 3-ycar-olb. holds the record
for an ages Of thorouGEhred horses
III a race.