NIGHTLY'S FIRST WIN
LIKELY NIGHT RAID COLT
Nightly, after, several very promising placed efforts, finally .opened hio winning account, in the -Woolston Handicap. In hjs usual style he began very fast., aud he was at the head of the field all the way, withstanding a challenge- from Manetho" over' the last furlong to score fairly, comfortably, by.a-good heck. "The winner, is a "three-year-old bay colt by Night1 Raid from the Lucullus mare Mies Muriel,, and he was bred, by Mr. R. Acton Adams, .now of Western Australia, 'through whose agent he. was leased by the late.Mr. S. D. "McDougall, of tho Wairarapa.' .He'is now, being raced by Mr. J. A. McDougall, who took'over the lease from> his brother's" estate and';transferred the colt a week or so ago fiom Washdyke to F. D. Jones at Riecarton. It..will be remembered that in one start at- Trentham laat month, only .-Passion Fruit beat him, and he .was third -in the Cashmere Plate on Tuesday. There,looks to be 'much-promise about him, for while at Washdyka nothing- was able to match him for- pace. ' Manetho, who was unlucky, not to be plaaed in .the final race on Tuesday, continued the improvement indicated. He was always one of tho first four or five, and he. was the only one capable of seriously menacing the winner in the run down to the post. " Silvox, beginning from a wide marble, was' some way back with half the race over, but he ran on well arid "cut' Normandy"out of third money three lengths behind Manetho. Normandy'went in improved style and he looked a certainty for a plac.e when he ranged up on the outside of the leaders at the distance, but near the finish he displayed very little fight when called on to withstand Silvox. The rest were three or four lengths back, headed by a- bunch containing Royal Amphora, Solwit, Dracula (well up most of the way), Pharaoh, Silk Arrow, and Epigram, Quebec, and Errantry, beginning quickly from the rail positions, went with Nightly to the straight but did not carry on from there and were beaten a long way from the finish. Epigram, from the outside position at the start, was never near the front.
NIGHTLY'S FIRST WIN
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 4
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