There have been many outstanding achievements in the history of trotting in New Zealand. Here are a few:

Only two horses have won the New Zealand Cup three times in succession – Indianapolis in 1934–35–36 and False Step in 1958–59–60.

The greatest handicap from which a horse has won the New Zealand Cup is 60 yards – Harold Logan in 1932 and Highland Fling in 1948.

Wrackler, a double-gaited horse, won the New Zealand Cup in 1930 as a pacer and in 1932 won the Dominion Handicap, the main race for straight out trotters. Also, as a trotter, he once beat a high-class field of pacers.

M. Holmes, 11 times a leading driver, is credited with more than a thousand winners in his career as a professional horseman and has driven the winner of the New Zealand Derby 11 times in the 46 contests held so far.

Caduceus, in winning more than £100,000, joins the Australian gallopers Tulloch and Sailor's Guide as the only horses bred in Australasia to have achieved this distinction.

Lordship, a son of Johnny Globe, in the 1959–60 season became the greatest two-year-old winner of all time.

The champion stallion, U. Scott, had 26 seasons at the stud. He has had over 350 individual winners in New Zealand and the stake earnings of his progeny in this country alone total over £1,000,000.

Blue, the world-record-holder yearling, was sold by auction at the Standard Bred Yearling Sales in 1957 for a record 4,500 guineas.

C. S. Donald and the late J. Bryce have each been leading trainers on eight occasions. C. S. Donald, who has been a licensed trainer for 40 years, had trained 761 winners up till the end of the 1960–61 season.

Lordship and Lookaway, as four-year-olds, are the youngest horses to have won the New Zealand Cup.

Haughty is the only mare in the Southern Hemisphere to have broken 2 min for the mile.

Reta Peta, a trotter, is the only horse to have beaten the pacers in the New Zealand Cup two years running.

The greatest juvenile trotter ever seen in New Zealand was Certissimus, whose 1½-mile record, put up in 1941, still stands.

Cardigan Bay and War Buoy are credited with the greatest number of consecutive wins – 10.

Worthy Queen, one of the fastest trotting mares of all time, made in 1934 a mile record of 2 min 3.6 sec, against time.

Johnny Globe has won the greatest number of free-for-alls in New Zealand – 15.

Brahman, a son of the New Zealand Cup winner, Haughty, by another New Zealand Cup winner, Gold Bar, ran 2 min 2.2 sec for a mile against time at Addington in 1953. He beat the previous Australasian record of 2 min 8.8 sec made in Sydney in 1951 by Convivial. Brahman's time was 1.8 sec slower than the then world record for a two-year-old pacer.