SUCCESS FIRST UP.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1937, Page 13

SUCCESS FIRST UP.

CHOKEBORE TWO-YEAR-OLD

Haughty Winner, having his first race and starting from No. 17 position m the field of eighteen, was a most impressive victor of the Fitzherbert Handicap. He began brilliantly, was lying second to Geira out in the tracK at the crossing to the straight, ana then easily subdued the leader and went on to score by a couple of lengths. He was at a price approaching a score, but it might not have been so large if he had not drawn so wide, as he had a private Riccarton reputation and had worked attractively on the tpack at Trentham prior to the meeting,. Haughty Winner is one of Sir Charles Clifford's horses, and in this performance he is the best two-year-old in the Chokebore team this season. A big-framed chestnut colt, he is a son ox Winning Hit and toe Bonny GlenLady Disdain mare Disdainful, a halfsister to those good Martian horses Bee and Snub and a sister to Contempt (the dam of Silver Scorn), and Previously the dam of Meprisant, good horse who might have hada better recordif he had not been required to do the hard work on the track to make Chide dainful was a gift to Sir Charles Clifford from Mr. G, Murray Aynsley, and Haughty Winner is her first Stonyas well backed as anything else, had every chance, but found more than her match in her victor though she outpaced the rest of her opposition from a position in the middle of the line at the start. She is likely to continue useful without be ic'mg ranup to her consistent form, but she too was always prominent and had really every chance. Accomplice came home from some dis tance back along the inner to be a moderate fourth. Screen Star and Sigurd went useful races, the latter dafhing through promisingly at rail, but not going on withit. Seaham is a likely improver, and so is Parinui, who was, always promment from No. 18 marble.\ Son and Heir .did not run nn* nnrl the second favourite Yale and the winner's stablemate Mulatto were never in the picture.