‘Old lady’ as fast as they come
By J. J. BOYLE Blazing speed allied with splendid temperament go towards making Beaufort Lass one of the most exciting young athletes of spring racing. “She behaves like a dear old lady and that makes my task easy with one as fast as she is,” Paddy Busuttin, the Foxton trainer of Beaufort Lass, said after the Beaufort Sea filly trotted up in the Welcome Stakes at Riccarton on Saturday.
Beaufort Lass won idling by three lengths and if she had been kicked out to the end she would have improved on her 57.075, which was still a race and course record. This was Beaufort Lass’s fourth win in as many starts for Mr Allan Jones, of Napier, who bought her for $20,000 at the Trentham sales last January. Next January Beaufort
Lass will be back at Trentham in a bid to win The Dalgety, one of the major two-year-old races of the summer. Reveillia, which had chased Beaufort Lass home in the Pioneer Handicap on the first day of the meeting, again filled the role of runner-up. The Rangiora r trained Chester Row shaded the Levin filly, Pash in a tight finish for third.
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