GOOD VICTORIAN JUVENILE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 6

GOOD VICTORIAN JUVENILE

When Mitsui won the Flemington Stakes for two-year-olds on the last day of the V.R.C. Spring Meeting last month, some people considered him lucky to defeat the second horse, Prince Quex, a colt about whom Mr. W. R. Kemball holds a very high opinion. On that day Prince Quex ran about in the centre of the course over the last furlong, and Mitsui defeated him by half a length. In the Stansmore Two-year-old at Caulfield a fortnight later, backers preferred Martinborough, another New Zealander, to this son of Eastern Monarch and Charlecote, but again he demonstrated his superiority by scoring a stylish win.

•Mitsui is now regarded as one of the likeliest colts of the early season in Victoria. His sire Eastern Monarch, a son of Lemberg, has not got many class horses yet, but a really good one was Cragford, whose death some years ago was a. tragedy, for he had proved himself to be high class, with wins in such races as the A.J.C. Metropolitan arid the Rosehill Cup. Mitsui's dam, Charlecote, was only a little thing herself, but she had extraordinary galloping powers for her size, and as a .two-year-old she won the Maribyrnong Trial Stakes, for fillies, and later the Debutante Stakes at Caulfield. in runaway fashion. She was by' Charlemagne 11, who was imported to New Zealand in 1907, but who was transferred to Australia in 1912, and her own dam was Trebia, by the Flying Fox horse Cool trim, thus a halfj sister .to Jolly Beggar, who is having I great success as a sire in Western AusItralia.' Mitsui: is owned by Mr. J. P. Arthur, who bought Charlecote for 300 guineas in 1925 and lias since been I breeding from her. ■'.'••.