MINOR ROLES ONLY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 4

MINOR ROLES ONLY

HLLsIES AP'TRENTHAM

. Three-year-old fillies.-haye■■at the best played only minor roles in:, past Wellington Cups;-.decided, at -Treiithain, but there are; a;couple :in:this: year'irrace who. may break into the list!of,;■winner^ They are ■Goli Trail ;an4;Ch^r:S^Jtwo fillies of :j;he-SfcruJE.;;stayingf-typei- '^C'XiifiIn::the;yeark,lprior t0i4606, when the Cups were. runjitHutt Parkhthree of the half-dozenrthreis-year-oldsQ\?io had been first honie-were; fillies.. The?first of them was Cynisca, whoVopenedfiei; sequence of three successivetrins with 4 three-year-old victory in .1890. :, The next/ijf them.was Gladsome in ,1904;. then came'; Nightfall in 1905—these . twojrsrinning:.i efJEorts /being achieved in the lastrSo yeafsrthe,race;was contested. at, the; Hiittv^ ii;,;^;^;;^-■-;;?:-;■ . When Gladsome ran; home' easily first she cainried B.s,rand traversed'the mileiand a half in 2min 33 3-ssec,,a trick record for the distance. However, some time afterwards she was doomed to lose the fruits of her victory. An objection was lodged against her after the race on the technical ground that her rider, F. D. Jones!,'was an unlicensed apprentice; but it wasi dismissed. The protest .was: then-carried, to the Ra-cmg Conference on;'appeal, and -it was there upheld. Her /owner wag deprived of the stake, which was awarded to the aged Cqnvoy, who, with only 7.9, had. finished two and a half lengths behind her. In spite of- losing this stake, however, Gladsome finished the season, the best .winner m the land- with a; tally of £2665. • :.....