FOUR OUT OF SIX

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1936, Page 15

FOUR OUT OF SIX

STABLE HAS GREAT DAY

(From "Vedette.") SYDNEY, November 27. E.andwick trainer Bailey Payten had a field day at Warwick Farm with four winners. Two of them, the two-year-old Micawber and Sal Volatile, were very short-priced favourites, but Wykeham and Irving were at longish odds. One follower of the stable invested £10 on Micawber and played up the winnings and principal on the other three, the return being in the region of £2000. It is not a unique thing for the Payten family to win four races in one day, for the late T. Payten, father of the present trainer, won the Newmarket Handicap, the Ascot Vale Stakes, Essenden Stakes, and St. Leger at the V.R.C. Autumn Meeting of 1888. Payten is in an unusually good position in regard to three-year-old fillies, for Fidelity is progressing quite well again after her accident, Siren was out-1 standing of her age and sex during the spring, and the Warwick Farm winner Sal Volatile is no duffer, although she won only a six-furlong novice handicap Micawber so far is about the best of the Sydney juveniles. He has won only two races, but they have been impressive wins. At Warwick Farm he blundered on to his nose at the start but gathered in the. leaders inside a furlong and then won as he liked. He will have to meet the Breeders Plate winner Rodborough at Warwick Farm in the Kirkham Stakes on Saturday week. Rodborough has not raced since his win in the first Sydney two-year-old race of the season. , George Price's charge Troy had every chance to beat Micawber. Troy jumped out clear but was no match for Micawber from a furlong upwards. The Chief Ruler colt was, however, a very clear second best at the finish. Raasay, who was brought to Sydney some years ago by Luke Wilson and sold on behalf of Mr. J. S. McLeod, was represented by a useful galloper at Warwick Farm in Killaloe. In a desperate finish Killaloe was beaten by Spark. New Zealand-bred three-year-olds fol-lowed-home the pair in The Palmist (Chief Ruler—Timid) and Red Clover (Iliad—Red Shank). Both are still maidens and not likely to rise to great Riposte was mildly fancied in a good field of milers at Warwick Farm, but did not show up at- all. ' The Rapier gelding apparently is still rather green and will not go up on the inside of horses. His rider last Saturday, S. Weiss is a rails rider but on this occasion had a mount quite unsuitable. . Contact, who had to forfeit his spring engagements owing to going amiss, reappeared at Victoria Park this week. He was in a six and a half-fur-long flying handicap, a distance much too short, but he was galloping all over the' place-fillers at the finish in fourth position. He is a trifle- scratchy on the training track, but was free enough m his races. ■ . ■