AN EASY VICTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 14

AN EASY VICTORY.

THE ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS

Never has a race for the One Thousand Guineas been won with such ridiculous ease as was the case on April 29. Cresta Run, from the first furlong, was showing her rivals a clean pair of heels, reminding one of the old phrase: "Eclipse first and the rest nowhere." Nor was Balding leaving anything to chance, for he wisely kept her on the stretch till the post was passed. Although Lieut.-Col. Giles Loder's tliree-year-old is by tho chestnut Hurry On, and is out of a marc by Bridge of Earn —who has sired mostly chest nuts—the filly is a brown. Her great grandam was Adula, a sister to Pretty Tolly, who was, of course, a chestnut, so it is not easy to see where Cresta Run gets her colour. She has welldeveloped quarters that droop a little, an intelligent head, and is altogether a charming filly. She is, nevertheless, somewhat highly strung, and was on

her toes going to the post. Balding did not excite her by allowing her to canter to the start with the others, but was last out of the paddock and trotted most of the way down. Gilpin's charge dashed into the lead as the tapes went up, and it is no exaggeration to say that she "came homo alone," her time being slightly faster than that of Adam's Apple on Wednesday in the Two Thousand.