F. SMITH'S GOOD RECORD

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26516, 3 September 1951, Page 4

F. SMITH'S GOOD RECORD

AVONDALE GUINEAS WINNERS The Takanini trainer, F. Smith, has a fine record in the Avondale Guineas, the first of the three-year-old classics in the north. In the last 10 years seven winners have come from his stable. Smith's run of success started in 1941, when Route March beat Kronos and Hogarth, and in successive years he prepared the winners Representative. Belfron, and My Bonnie. Smith did not have a runner in 1945, but the following year Majesty won Niloch failed in 1947, but Smith won the next two contests with Tauloch and Gold Script, Last year the stable produced the second and fourth placegetters in Zenith add The Unicorn, the respective winners of the New Zealand Oaks and the New Zealand Derby at Riccarton later in the season. The Unicorn, which was favourite, had his chance spoilt bv a bad beginning. > In this week’s contest Smith has Erown Prince, Foxshar, and Rural Gold to represent his stable. Brown Prince is likely to be the stable elect. By Ruthless out of Taupiri, the dam of Tauloch and Super Snipe, Brown Prince won two races last season—the A.R.C. Welcome Stakes and Royal Stakes. In his other eight starts he filled minor places six times. Brown Prince opened his three-year-old career by beating the open sprinters in the Adrniralty Handicap at the Pakuranga Hunt meeting at Ellerslie recently. No three-year-old had been successful in thg Admiralty Handicap in the previous 15 years and the performance of Brown Prince was therefore striking. He has good prospects of extending the fine record of his stable m the classic next Saturday.