STIEL WINNING

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1931, Page 6

STIEL WINNING

THE FAMILY

(From /''Vedette.")

SYDNEY^ .17thv December

.The Webster faniily-again; occupied a good share of the limelight at the RoseHill Meeting on Saturday. Webster, junr., rode two winners in N.E.P. and his father's Claro gelding My Talisman.

. T.. Webster earned for himself some i criticism for , improving his. barrier position .on N.JE.F.,. a move that cost him a £5 fine by the starter. Without attempting' to defend Webster, it is probab'e that he was to a degree the victim of circumstance. N.E.F. drew :No. 13, and there weie a nuaiber of green two-yeai-o'Ms in the race. These -\\eie inclined to ,play about, and the whole field changed j>tapes,a good deal at the barrier. On the=e /occasions an experienced and alert ridoi obvious, which is good business if it comes off. Webster improved ifive places at, the start, and his mount wpn. ; the lace by his brilliancy from the machine.

If'ify; Talisman, who was backed jfor .good ■money a week earlier at Warwick Farm, (.drifted to double figures at Eosehill on Saturday. A fair commission was then laiinched and he came to half the price -He showed very much improved forrr, ■!.and.; "although 'the absolute oommonei .of, the field, dominated the opposition foi .galloping ability at the finish.