DAUGHTER OF WARSTEP

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 6

DAUGHTER OF WARSTEP

Two wins and -a third in four starts is an encouraging opening to a career, but Vanestep, who heads the weights in the Trial Handicap at Napier Park tomorrow, has foniethiug else in her favour as well, for she is a daughter of the dual New Zealand and Auckland Cup winner Warstep, who earlier at the stud left a really good one.in Footfall. Vane'step may .. indeed prove a gilt-edged proposition. Vanestep did not race as a two-year-old, and last season as is three-year-old she had only one start at, Gisborne 'at the back end of. the term. She opened this season with v third to Hunting Star and Hunting Mars nt the Poverty Bay Hunt Meeting on August 5, and in two further starts since, then : she was twice a winner at the Poverty. Bay Spring Meeting. She won the Maiden Scurry, 6 furlongs, on the first day, carrying SVdb overweight,'and she as easily won the T,rial Handicap, 6 furlongs, in which she had 9.0, on the second day. Included among her scalps was Cawbeen's, subsequently n winner at Hastings. As' Tier name indicates Vanestep is a daughter of Weathervane. At the dispersal sale,ot Mr. C. G. Dalgety'o stock in 1930 she was purchased at foot of her dam, also in foal again to Weathervane, for 150 guineas by Mr. G. D. Jobson, pf Gisborne, in -whose colours she i? now racing ;and for whom she is being trained at Gisborne by W,D. Turnbull.' ' ■'...-