Print size 17″ X 22″, Image Size 11″ X 14″

This print has been in storage since 1967 and has slight discolorations around the print border which does not distract from the beauty of the print and would be easily covered up when matted and framed.

SPEEDY SCOTT, 1960, 3, 1:56 4/5, by Speedster-Scotch Love,
By Victory Song. Owner and breeder, Castleton Farm; trainer-driver,
Ralph Bladwin.

The most sensational trotter in the history of harness racing is Speedy Scot, home-bred by Mr. and Mrs Frederick Van Lennep’s Castleton Farm, Lexington, Ky. “Horse of the year” for 1963, he set or equaled nine world records, including the fastest race time of ll, 1:56 4/5; and was only the second horse to sweep the harness “Triple Crown,” consisting of the Hambletonian, Yonkers and Kentucky Futurities, to earn the most money of any horse that season, $244,403.

He won the Hambletonian the hard way, losing the first heat to Florlis in 1:57 3/5, then the fastest time for any three-year-old trotter. But Speedy Scot’s stamina told in the second and third heats, which he took in 1:58 and 1:58 2/5. The latter equaled the fastest third-heat ever recorded by a horse of any age, and the total time of 5:54 was a new record for three heats divided.

He also had his troubles in the Yonkers Futurity, in which he broke stride soon after the start and had to race on the outside for over half the distance. But he came on in the last quarter of a mile to prevail in 2:03 3/5.

In the Kentucky Futurity he had no such difficulties, leading practically all the way in both heats, turned in 1:57 1/5 and 1:57 2/5 for a new two-heat record of 3:54 3/5. The first heat time was a new record for that, too; but it was not an all-time record. Just a few days earlier in the Phellis Memorial, he had trotted home in 1:56 4/5, the fastest race time ever and just a second slower than the time-trial record of the then four-year-old Matestar in 1962.

Besides the Triple Crown, Speedy Scot won the Dexter Cup and Horseman Futurity. He belongs to the first crop of his sire, the sensational Castleton stallion Speedster, who is the first sire to get a Horse of the Year in his initial group of foals.