Warstep Stakes To Winning Words

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31655, 16 April 1968, Page 4

Warstep Stakes To Winning Words

Winning Words showed dogged finishing qualities for victory by a long neck over Cosmetic in the Warstep Stakes. Success had eluded her since her factory in the Eulogy Stakes at.Awapuni in December, but she was a firm favourite. In the Manavyatu feature race for fillies she had beaten Jazz, which had won the New Zealand Derby, and . Aquarelle, winner of the New Zealand Oaks, so her failure to improve her record more in the meantime has been surprising. Like Ben Lomond, Miss M. J. Bull’s filly was sired by Test Case, and there was much about her performance yesterday to suggest she will

develop her peak powers as a stayer. L. K. Tinsley had Winning Words in fairly close touch with the pace all the way. W. D. Skelton tried to win the race from the front end with Cosmetic, and backers of the Riccarton four-year-Old had high hopes that she would do so about a furlong out. But Winning Words’s tenacity paid off in the last few yards. My Greatest was four lengths back third but it was a sound run for she was close to the tail of the field going to the half-mile. Bourbon Lass, the second favourite, could not quicken from a trailing position and finished fourth, three lengths clear of Pango, the strongest fancy of the South Island runI ners.