YEMAN IMPRESSES IN ROSEHILL HANDICAP

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 4

YEMAN IMPRESSES IN ROSEHILL HANDICAP

[From the Australian Corresponaent of “The Press.”]

SYDNEY, September 23.

Larry Wiggins has quickly opened his Australian campaign. Yeman won for him at Rosehill on Saturday. Yeman was the rank outsider in the field for the Rosehill Handicap, for which Metropolitan favourite Eudare and the proved horse Monte Carlo were the heavily-backed runners. The Eudare bubble burst because the gelding was not capable of holding his place once the pressure was applied. Monte Carlo refused to gallop in spite of hard riding in the middle stages, and then, when the race , was all over, took the bit and came home like a really good horse. la the circumstances it might be unwise to place too much value on Yeman’s win because form may not quite work out when next he runs against Monte Carlo. But it does prove that Yeman has acclimatised and has made progress in his training since he was brought here. Yeman will go on to Melbourne in due course, and will be prepared for the Melbourne Cup, and if he does go on in his training he is going to be one of the hard ones to beat, more particularly as there is no outstanding horse developing in the early spring racing. Wiggins Satisfied Wiggins was quite satisfied with the way Comte de Paris raced in the Rosehill Guineas, run over 10 furlongs, and regarded as a fulldress rehearsal for the A.J.C. Derby run in a fortnight. The Guineas was won by Bold Pilot from Prince Kerdieil, with tne Victorian colt Sir Blink third. Because of the slow pace the race became fairly rough when several of the runners met- interference. Sir Blink was the worst affected, and his own rider, W. Williamson, caused the trouble when, finding himself pocketed in the last furlong, he made a swift lurch to get out and interfered badly with the Queensland colt. Espalier, the attractive son-of Dalray. Williamson was suspended by the stewards for his riding, and so loses the mount on a colt which looks like being the hardest for Bold Pilot to beat in the Derby.

New Zealand-bred Sir Blink is New Zealand-bred, being by Blue Coral (imp.) from Inky. He is not a big colt, but he is a very strong little fellow, and undoubtedly he will be a stayer. Yahabeebe at last has won a race In Australia, narrowly winning the Flying Handicap at Rosehill on Saturday from My Peter and Aura. T- J. Smith now trains Yahabeebe, which is showing the signs ot her long campaign in New Zealand and again here. There was some element of luck in the success because My Peter is well above himself in condition, and Aura met a very bad check in the running, which robbed her of her chance to win. Yahabeebe is not entered for any of the big spring handicaps, but this might be all to the good because in the ordinary events she may find a level that will enable her to further pay her way here.