By Chris Emery
Sun reporter
Originally published July 8, 2007
The Andersen family's turtles are cold-blooded competitors.Speedy, a red-nosed slider, won the first heat by a red nose yesterday at the 66th annual Chesapeake Turtle Derby in Patterson Park. The next race went to the Bel Air family's other slider, Claude.
"One of them always wins," Charlie Andersen said of the turtles. "It's almost embarrassing. We've got probably 10 trophies from turtle races at our house." Andersen, who attended the race with his wife, son and daughter, said the family has been competing in turtle derbies since they adopted Claude in 1998.The Patterson Park derby featured three classes: box turtles, tortoises and an open class for all other competitors. A 70-pound African spur thigh tortoise named Darwin was the racer to beat in the heavyweight class.
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