PETER PAN'S DEFEAT

Evening Post, Issue 82, 6 April 1936, Page 13

PETER PAN'S DEFEAT

ROSEHILL FORM POINTERS FOR RANDWICK

(From "Vedette.".)

SYDNEY. March'3l,

II was expecled that racing at Rosehill on Saturday would ciear the air for Raridwick. It did to a very great degree, and also revealed that Peter Pan is" not the horse he was a season ago. The weight-for-age race, the Rawson Stakes, was most interesting. Lough Neagh, the aged Queenslander, won so well after Peter Pan had run to him over a furlong from home that it is evident Peter has slipped. His ungenerous trait was again in evidence, for he tried to bite Lough Neagh several times: VOITRE'S MOUNT UNLUCKY. Garrio, the third horse, ridden by K. Voitre, was the unlucky one. He was forced into awkward positions on several occasions, and in-the straight was so hopelessly shut in that he went past the post with his head on his chest. He will improve a very great deal with the race. Sylvandale was a disappointment. He moved up with Peter Pan at the turn but did not show any dash afterwards, just plodding on. into fourth place. Of the Sydney Cup horses engaged in the Rawson Stakes, Spear Prince appealed. Showing real freedom and speed, he led the field, into the straight. From that point he was not persevered with. He drops from 8.11 at w.f.a. to 7.13 in- the Cup, is a proved stayer, and will be a very fit horse. Although Lough Neagh won the Rawson Stakes so well, his ownertrainer, T. Brosnan, said immediately that it was no certainty the chestnut would start in the Doncaster Handicap; Lough Neagh might be kept for the weight-for-age races rather than the big mile. GAY BLONDE'S FIRST. Gay Blonde has been in Australia for the best part of a year, but it was not until Saturday last that she won her first race. She has been twice to Melbourne, as well as being raced in Sydney,, so has hardly been a howling social success. When she did win on Saturday she was always at a very cramped price, and she must still show a pronounced debit balance. With 9 stone on Saturday over seven furlongs, she had the run of the race in behind the leaders, bounded up in the straight, and 'stalled off a strong challenge by Barak. She is being kept safe in the Doncaster Handicap lists, but as she is hardly likely to improve an ounce it is difficult to see her defeating Regular Bachelor for one. Regular Bachelor, carried-9.13 on Saturday and was. obviously above himself. He had had an' easy time for a fortnight, or comparatively so, after his slight foot injury. On Saturday he was hardly ridden out after leading the field into the straight, yet was only two lengths behind Gay Blonde. Most of the hard-headed racegoers were very impressed with Regular Bachelor's effort. Barak's second was his first glimpse of form since the spring, and now he is within reasonable distance.of making some return for the 1600 guineas he cost his present owner. High, another fancied Doncaster candidate, showed plenty of speed for six furlongs. . He usually comes from behind, but on Saturday he jumped out in front and was with the leaders to the turn. He is another who will be a better horse on the first day of the big,meeting. EGMONT MAKING GOOD. The Autumn Handicap, one mile and a half, provided a .great- finish, Sarcherie, Jovial Son, Egmont, and Salamander being almost in line a furlong from home. The two first-named weakened, and the colt and filly, both three-year-olds, settled down to a dour struggle. Egmont; who-had previously been cramped, bored over slightly on to Salamander, who had about a head advantage nearing the post. With another effort, however, he got up to make a dead heat. The efforts of-the dead-heaters were so impressive that Salamander, ■ who has 6.12 in the Sydney Cup, went to the position of favourite, while Egmont, who has 7.2, is now on the second line. The Limond colt will be ridden a pound or so overweight by A. Knox, and as he has so definitely improved he is quite a Cup- possibility. This was the second time inside three weeks the pair have been in a close, finish, but in the City Tattersall's . Cup, Egmont, with the worst of the passages, was narrowly beaten. At Rosehill, Egmont had a clearer trip than Salamander, who is the typical lean staying type of filly: Sarcherie in third place was a trifle disappointing. She had a 51b allowance, did not leave the rails at any part, and then did not finish strongly. Master Brierly was fancied, but after being prominent for a mile and a quarter he dropped back into a rearward position. ..'■■.'■ Contact, the Sydney Cup favourite until Saturday, also slumped .because of a lifeless display, although ridden by McCarteh. Better displays were given by Amalia, the Australian Cup winner, and Broad Arrow, who came home rather well. '

That useful mare Limyris ended her career in the Parramatta Mile. A long strider, she touched the heels of Merrie Miller about five and a half furlongs from home, falling and breaking a fore arid a hind leg. She was speedily destroyed. When she feU she brought down Love, Song and Stonebrook: and also interfered seriously with Pandion. The race was won rather well by the solid three-year-old Wykeham, but Lough Neagh's companion Pandion would have won with a clear run in the straight, even after' losing lengths in the early mishap. In addition to winning with Gay Blonde at Rosehill, J. King scored again with the Chief Ruler filly Red Rosebud. Red Rosebud has developed good form and defeated a field of her own age decisively. King says that she will win the next Caulfield Cup.

Both fields in the divisions of the two-year-old event at Rosehill were too big for fair tests. Hamurah, who scored in the first, is a smart Salamagundi filly for all'that, but she was lucky to defeat Friar's Switch and Jubilee Son, both of whom were in the discard early yet finished up in second and third place.

The second division saw the outsider Hayacu beat Mr. P. H. Osborne's representatives Scout. and Illawarra into the minor places. There was considerable interference, oria to suffer being the Iliad colt We Three, who is sure to see a better, day.