He was fondly named “the little man from Hamburg” or “little
Jean”. He marked the whole century, already asserting himself
during the interwar years as a “magician of the trot”. He was a
horse connoisseur that never left anything to chance.
Meticulous, he was a great tactician too. He knew how to come
very fast from the rearguard of the pack, as was doing Alexander
Finn to come and win in the last metres.
Endowed with a very strong personality, Hans Frömming did not
have only friends and, at the beginning of his career his
adversaries wanted to impose him the handicap of carrying lead
in race because, as they pretended, he was winning too much
races thanks to his small stature and to his featherweight!
...but even with this absurd handicap, Frömming went on winning
at the same unashamed speed, and the horse authorities gave up
rigging him with this extra lead.
