Another Phar Lap?

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33052, 20 October 1972, Page 1 (Supplement)

Another Phar Lap?

Some Australians feel the young New Zealandbred speedster at left might be another Phar Lap, and thousands feel he will win the Caulfield Cup tomorrow. His name is Sobar, and in the photograph he shows his power and style in winning the Caulfield Guineas last Saturday. “He staggered even his most ardent admirers with the grandeur of his win,” Bert Lillye wrote in the Sydney “Sun-Herald.” The Australian racing correspondent of “The Press” also found much to enthuse over in Sobar’s performance. He wrote: "Sobar surely becomes a rival for any horse in the Caulfield Cup, having won at weight-for-age in open company at 2000 m and now the Caulfield Guineas (1600 m against a field that included the A.J.C. Derby winner, Gold Brick, the glamour colt Century, which had won his preceding three races, and other winners which had impressed as likely classic horses. CLASSY PEDIGREE On the score of pedigree Sobar has a lot in his favour for his attempt on the Caulfield Cup. He is by the handsome Sobig, one of the best three-year-olds of his year and the son of Summertime and the great classic-winning mare. Passive, which was got by Ruthless from another Oaks winner, Zenith, a daughter of the famous Foxbridge. Sobar’s sister is the unraced Miss Filou, a daughter of Le Filou and a three-quar-ter blood sister to Peterman, a dual Derby winner for Mr F. C. Johnstone. Miss Filou’s dam, Simba, was by Pride of Kilfare, the sire of the 1960 Centenary Melbourne Cup winner, HiJinx, from Lady Macbeth, which was by Foxbridge. Linked with this family, are Royal Glory and Froth, both classic winners in New Zealand, as well as Skint Dip, winner last spring of the Moonee Valley Gold Cup and the weight-for-age Mackinnon Stakes before running fourth in Silver Knight's Melbourne Cup.