TEA CHAT'S STAKES

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 6

TEA CHAT'S STAKES

;;;'IA KOUPiifi MEEIS; MATCH

r;V. sTea;-Ghat rirbught 'about the^ownfall of i^i .feiy:.l\6h. first fancy in .La Jfoiipee in y.iithi Welcome! S.takes." The win .was, : no ■.rjMuii,:.although, so. narrowly obt^med^ for ,-i')n'e.;liad the favourite in front of h,uh at;iv.».thie,. distance, and it. was. only: his tare- determination' that enabled' him. * to;- get tp 'J.^her.' before reachingr the: posti .■ 'Golden .;.{: Swings also made a bold .bid<; but he got .closer. iSistn : . third. ?"... ...... ; ,-■:... v ■■.. Rtfy'al Grecian Prince, Cricket H.-Jrktv Tea Chat, Monastic," La Poiipee, "^jGfeldeh-Wings, and'Tairi Weatn'dr'■ were °''JfstFung-'o.at-across the track with little' be- &■: tween'-.tbwn-'as. they came .on 'to' .'the r&>ysfnA : JiKfiy^y. vith; the-first-nam(3d obvi-;j.i-.aus]y -hi ..-fronti • Just beyond the false ' rail Lei Poupe'e .fan iip into -the .lead.,and appeared' to have; the ;Jssue. settled, "but first Tea-Chat'Slid men Golden Wings .VA-Jodgcd challenges,. Tea.'Chat, beating La :V^£o;upee* fey a halfjiead, with (3olden Ayings ii-oniy a^eck ' away.. ..Royal. Baby ", w.as a i.~jp<ior fourth,' and; next to finish .were. Fair Hula Belle;, and' Cricket Bat. •°~ -La Potipee carried nearly, a third of the .macKine;. with Golden "Wings, the ne,xt in "'-order-• af choice, -backed only '.a tliifcl as '-■■vw4ll:: .Tea':Clrat--paid a-'good ■doubTe-fig.m-e ""?dh?iaendv;.He.isii chestnut gelding by-lea 'it.', jray- i'r&m: -the *Bpzoniart:'in'are.: •Philomela, ''■•i'and.-'fcracßs back-in tail famale,-. througli '■"■' tKe :Sy"l via branch, to the-famous- brood mare Juliet, one of {he most"'noted iriem-

hers of the number 13 famil\ He was. pui chased by his ownpt tiainei (J. T Jamieson) at the hst Trentham silcs for 400gns, and, taken o\er to Austialia in the wmtei, was the favourite for the A.(J.O. Bleeders' Plate, but failed to nin into a place. Ho laced at the lecent Wellington Mf eting, but did not finish on On Saturday, howevei, he leproduced his best track trials, and must now b«e rated as one of the best two year olds seen out,,