 He is better known for co-founding the Norwegian Trotting Association in 1875.He was the secretary of the board from 1875 to 1878 and 1886 to 1901, and edited "Norsk traver-kalender", "Norsk traver-stambog" and from 1881 to 1888 the magazine "Norsk Idrætsblad".He published an Ahnentafel of Norwegian horses of the Dølehest breed in 1902, by request of the Royal Norwegian Society for Development, and has been called "the classic in Norwegian hippological literature".