THE NEW ZEALAND TWO-YEAR-OLDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 3

THE NEW ZEALAND TWO-YEAR-OLDS.

In the South, opinions are divided which of the two-year-olds is entitled to be considered the champion of tho year. No doult Aucklandors would vote • Wakawatoa as being best entitled to claim tho honour, bnt on looking through tho performances of Mr Hunger-ford's brilliant youngster, ib will fee 3een that he has boen beaten ilirst by Stepniak, then by Day Dream, and twice by Vogengang. These defeats were in each case subsequently avenged, but still on those grounds of " form " Wakuwatea can gcarcelv be pub down as champion. The colt's winnings in stakes tot up to £1,270, and Day Dream comes nuxb with about £832. From what I can gather Stepniak and MrT. Sheenan's colt Vogengang (by Burlington—Psyche) will probably turn out. the two best Derby colts. Some particulars about Yo*engang, who was bred and trained by his owner, appear in the lasb issue of the " Press and Referee " to hand. Yogengang's first appearance wan in the Welcome Stakes at the C.J.C. Spring Meeting, and in that event he finished close up third to Stepniak and Wakawatca. At the same meeting he was third to Clnnranald and Saracen in the Ju.'onila Stake?, in which Launceston, Day Droam.Stepniuk, North Atlantic, Huguenot, and Wakawatea were behind him. In the Spring Nursery Handicap he ran second to Day Dream, to whom he was conceding 61b. Wakawatea, from whom he was receiving 91b, was third, and behind him were fcix others. Journeying to Dunedin, he won the Maiden Two year-old Stakes on the third day of the spring gathering. At the Midsummer Meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club he won the Middle Park Plate, beating Stepniak, Wakawatoa, Captive and Saracen ; bub he again ran at Dunedin at the Autumn Meeting, and was beaten out of a place in the City Stakes, I won by Wakawatea, Day Dream second, and Stepniak third. This was his last performance beforo he appeared at tho Canterbury Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting on Easter .Monday in the Champagne, which he "won in real good style from Day Dream, Wakawntea, Stepniak and Launceston.