BLIXTEN
NOW A SPRINTER
(From "Vedette.")
SYDNEY, May 10.
An experiment which proved successful was tried with the Night Raid—Receipt three-year-old Blisten at. Warwick' Farm and'which suggested that he has been raced out of his distance. He won a mile Tace ab a tv, o-year-old, which might have suggested that he was a staying type, whereas rather he iB a sprinter. On Saturday he was weighted at 8.9- in the open six furlongs (7.0 minimum) and was practically disregarded by the rank and file of punters, although some of the better-informed did not overlook him. It was considered that he would ibe slow to find his feet. McCarten rode him ,well, lidwever, -permitting", Jhim to '.get1 well balanced in the-first two iurlongs. ■Bhxten ±nen began to dose in>, . and sweeping to the hont a fin-long from; iiome won :urt as he liked at the finish. ' He should be a good class galloper' nest ivear up to a mile and might-even be an Epsom Handimp possibility..' Probably 1 lie gets his sm.uhie«s from his dam, who is by Paper > Money I Incidentally a son of Paper . Money, I Dole, wns one t>f-the .first beaten in this race. Ho was piominent for two iur- ] longs and. then commenced to drift.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 114, 16 May 1934, Page 6
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