Lone filly looks Derby chance
From ALLAN BROWN Melbourne
With Rose of Kingston in the field, a lone filly against the colts and geldings, the Victoria Derby at Flemington this afternoon could become specially memorable. Few fillies, these days, are set Flemington’s big three-year-old race, this year carrying a winning stake of $130,000, and none has been successful since Frances Tressady, close on 60 years ago, in 1923. Rose .of. Kingston will be Brent Thomson’s mount in the Derby and at pre-race odds of 5 to one she is rated a good prospect. Certainly her form reads well. Since she won the Ascot Vale Stakes, over 1200 metres at Flemington some six weeks ago, in brilliant fashion it seems, Rose of Kingston has had three starts and she finished third each time.
The latest was in the One Thousand Guineas at Caulfield on October 17. The previous two were in the Moonee Valley Stakes and VATC Caulfield Guineas. On all three occasions Rose of Kingston ran the 1600 metres out solidly, as though certain to get a longer journey. • Rose of Kingston has 2500 metres to go in the Derby. Between her and victory
stand, also, three or four colts of gobd. looking backgrounds, notably Brewery Boy and Binbinga. Brewery Boy ran away with the South Australian Derby two starts back by five lengths. Meanwhile, he came fourth in the Caulfield Cup, behind Silver Bounty, No Peer and Deck The Halls. As further evidence of his class Brewery Boy finished second in the 2000 metres Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick, pressing Best Western to half a length. Brewery Boy was brought back to racing early in the spring and he has continued steady progress these past few weeks. His success would be a further milestone in the remarkable career of Tommy Smith as the Sydney trainer’s 29th Derby win. Binbinga was turned to middle-distance racing just last' Saturday in the 2050 metres W. S. Cox Plate and he made a big impression with his third placing behind Kingston Town and Lawman. Binbinga ran up a hattrick of wins through late September. He is a bay, by American bred Round and Bold.
Brewery Boy is a brown by Lorenzaccio (England) and Rose of Kingston is a chestnut by the. Italian bred, Claude, now at stud in Australia.
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