HEROIC—READY-MADE GALLOPER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1927, Page 9

HEROIC—READY-MADE GALLOPER.

Good two-year-olds were plentiful the season Heroic was out at that age, but the same cannot be said of the current season. Contemporaries of Heroic were Fujisan, Versine, Mercian King, Spearfelt, Nigger Minstrel, and Windbag. One would need to go back a long way to find so many good hotses out in one season, says the "Leader." Spearfelt and Windbag were not great two-year-olds, and when the autumn racing had concluded they were not regarded as being in the front rank of those of their own age. They won races, but they lacked tho brilliance of the others, as they matured more slowly than their more precocious rivals. Windbag won twico in his first season, his successes being gained in nursery handicaps, the second being tho Mile Nursery at Randwick on the last day of the Sydney Cu| meeting. He had only 7.4 that day. and won by a long head. There was nothing in the form suggestive of the great things he accomplished later on in life. Spearfelt also won twice as a two-year-old, his first race being the' Gibson Carmichael Stakes at Flemington and the second the Easter Stakes at Randwick, both races being oveT seven furlongs.. Even as a two-year-old he gave promise of being a stayer. Metellus was second to him in both the races he won. Both Windbag and Spearfelt were greatly inferior to Heroic as two-year-olds. Heroic was a ready-made galloper, and he dominated all the others of his own age in tho first season. The position is much the same this year, as Royal Feast hasi shown himself to bo vastly superior to the other two-year-olds. Ho is just as far ahead of his rivals as Heroic was in his year.