JUVENILE SUPREMACY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 23

JUVENILE SUPREMACY

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GALILEE REMAINS ON TOP

REVIEW OF SEASON'S FORM

Although there are a few minor handicap still remaining for the two-year-'olds, the juvenile season was to all iuteiit and purpose concluded with the Easter carnival last weekend, and it is now possible to take a retrospective view of the achievements of the younger brigade and to discover to whom the honours of the Dominion season belong. The Easter racing found the foremost youngsters, with the exception of Galilee, failing to improve their winnings, but so firmly had they established their position during the earlier part of the term that there was no material reshuffling of the leading places. Galilee remains on top, the "star" performer of the season, and on. stake earnings the next best to her are the colts, Legatee and Gay Sheik. .This has therefore been the third season in succession that a Chief Ruler filly has taken the juvenile premiership. Princess Doreen and Mother Superior having respectively occupied that position the previous two seasons. It is a splendid record for this now defunct sire, whose progeny will have two more seasons yet to extend the sequence, though there may not be many of his last crop the season after next. The recent success of the fillies at the expense of the colts, who have customarily headed the juvenile lists in the past, has probably been due to the sale o£ the pick of the Dominion's colts to Australian buyers at the annual sales the last three or four years. It is a fairly usual rule that the winner of the Great Northern Foal Stakes, the richest two-year-old prize of the season in recent years, is the final leader of the term, and this was the case with Princess Doreen and Mother Superior, but Galilee, this year's leader, was beaten into second place in the Foal Stakes by Legatee. Had Legatee remained in the Dominion for the Easter racing he might, of course, have supplanted Galilee by winning the A.X.C. Champagne Stakes (in which Galilee could rim only third to Dv Barry and Haut Monde), but he went across to Sydney, where he collected third prize in -i—the A.J.C. Sires' Produce Stakes but Was beaten out of a place in the. A.J.C. Champagne. Stakes. : ' ' TWO-YEAR-OLD WINNERS. The following table, compiled as accurately as possible from the official records, shows the position of .two-year-olds who have been winners and have earned more than.£loo in stakes in the Dominion during the present season:— ■

Although she occupies the top rung, GaliJee may not turn,out on later racing to have been the best of this season's juveniles. She is undoubtedly brilliant, as she showed m winning the handicap event on the final day at Ellerslie this week under 9.1, but although she won the A.X.C. Welcome Stakes,.Avondale Stakes, and A.R.C. Royal Stakes, she failed in her two principal engagements, the Foal and Champagne Stakes. Her racing was confined to the north, but she clashed with most of the best at .various times and it was possible to gain a good, idea of her actual merit. She is a half-sistor to Princess Bede and she alao carries the colours of her breeder, Mr. E. H. Cucksey. MIGHT HAVE BEEN LEADER. Legatee's three wins were the Wanganui Debutant Stakes, the Great Northern Foal Stakes, and the Manr-iwatu Sires' Produce Stakes. His Great Northern Foal Stakes victory was a result of a successful gamble by the stable in starting his bracketed, mate Symcony to carry the rest of the field off their fei^t early, which she did, and thua leaving the way open fur Legatee, whose rider had l-ocn apprised of the tactics, to come up from the rear in the last furlong and to win decisively from a very tired field. . One would have liked to have seen him racing at Ellerslie last weekend, bujt. without that further line he must be accepted as one of the season's best, and this opinion must certainly have been held about him by his connections when they undertook the trip across to Sydney; with him. A son of the new sire Posterity from the brilliant Absurd mare Motley, he is one who may go on to classic honours next season. Gay Sheik, a full-brother to those brilliant filliea Gay Sheila and Gay Blonde, and racing in the same interests, has been very consistent during the terzn,ibut on his Champagne Stakes effort he may not be quite up to the best of the season's youngsters'. His most important • success was in the North Island Challenge Stakes at Trentham, and he will be given another . chance to improve his record at Avondale this weekend. . Symcony, the first of Gascony's winning stock, was owned early jn the term by tho Awapuni trainer W. Pine, who had bought her at the National Sales at the bargain price 'of 30 guineas, but after she had beaten Legatee at Foxton in September she was acquired by one of the brothers (Mr. N. Smith) who were racing Legatee in partnership, the price'being unilerstooil at the time' to be in the vicinity of 500 guineas. After her sale she was narrowly beaten by Galilee in the A.R.C, Welcome Stakes, but she then won the Musket Stakes on the second day and the C.J.C. Welcome Stakes at Riccarton. She finished her season's raping at the New Year, so that the high position she holds is a very creditable one. TWO EASTER "STARS." Dv Barry was early regarded as likely to be one of the first youngsters of the term, especially after her runaway victory at Takapuna in November, when she won by five lengths, but she subsequently was not able to be raced much. However, she came back into the limelight by downing some strong opponents in tho G.H. Champagne Stakes last Saturday, and this success has set her well up the winners' list and has caused her again to be ranked among the most promising of.the season's juveniles. Like Galilee, she is a daughtei of Chief Ruler, and she is owned in partnership by Messrs. E. H. Davis and R. T. Reid. Kinnoull, though not so large a stakewinner as Hororata, must be accepted as the champion juvenile of the South Island, for he won in four of his seven starts, including the Dunedin and C.J.O. Champngne Stakes. He was beaten out of a place in tlie Challenge Stakes at Riccarton last Tuesday, but he was unfortunate in being nearly knocked over at the start, so that that race cannot be held against him. He is certainly an excellent advertisement for the young Hunting Song sire Pink Coat, whose progeny have been seen out for the first time this season. Heritage (by Posterity) and Haut Monde (by Lord Quex) are two'colts who may not be so high up in this season's list as they will be in next season's, for there is. very distinct classic promise about them, especially Heritage, winner of the C.J.C. Challenge Stakes last Tuesday. Plato (by Iliad) and Silver Coat (by Pink CoaO ' are two other colts liable to play an important part in Dext season's racing, Hpiorata .(bj£ lea J.ray,), Severe .(by

Limond), Fulojoy (by Lackhntn), and Bun Fight (by Winning Hit) wore four consistent fillies who had a fair amount of racing, but their main winning efforts were in handicap class. Severe and Fulojoy are two verjr solid sorts who might also attain a high position among next season's three-year-olds: j The performances of the others on tho list need not ba dealt with in detail, except to observe that one of them, Velocipede, has had the greatest number of starts. His tally so far is eighteen, but he does not hold much in this respect over Hororata (17), Gay Sheik (16), Penelope (10), and some of the others. ' Before concluding this article it is necessary to make an observation on two other colts, Wotan (by Siegfried) and Tonnevre (by Vaals), because they have each won the only race in which they have yet started. Wotan's was a most impressive performance, and according to northern opinion- so was. Tonnerre's. Ilias (by Iliad) is another who did well with two wins in three starts, and although she appeared on the small side she may have been developing since her last outing back io December, which would be the reason for her not having raced during the second half of the term.

Stakes. Wins. .Starts. Places. £ Galileo 9 5 3 1425 £ e 2at<;? , 30 3 4 10U0 . 0»y Sheik , 16 4 8 913 Symcony 8 3 4 85" Hororata ....... IT 5 5 055 j>u Barry, 6.2 2 635 Severe 13 5 4 k-a', Kinnoiill ..> 7 4 _ fi ., n Heritage 7 3 3 fin Haul. Monde .... 9 4 3 w> 1'ulpJny H 5 3 «»n Fight 11 2 2 540 Velocipede IS (i 5 540 l'enclopo ]C 2 3 450 Koimtl Up '. 15 3 4 389 Silver Coat 7 :f ;j 37.-; Triune 15 1 9 340 Silver Sail 12 1 4 ' ■ 310 rieetivliHl 11 2 5 270 .Alma (; m __,: o^q P 1. 01' 1" 2 ' 2 24! ■ Lady IJulcr ..... 7 x 2 ""O VJWnB : 8 2 5 Slgyi I'n'o .1 1 1 205 J'arrjuet ., 5 2 ,1 'Oi Alchemic '. is 1 T 188 Perskn .Lady s 1 17-; rakaw.f -;.-:.;;.. - ?' 2 —"' Y:~'Iliaa 3 -2 __ s j^D Shirley Dene .... 7 1 2 113 Heloiso (J 1 140 ffolden Princess .81 5 140 " D"5? v 10 ! * 334 Blue Garter ...^15- 1 6 ]12 Fairfax ........ s 1 1 no