FOURTH IN LINE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 13

FOURTH IN LINE

SHINING HOURS'S TRIAL

With wins at her three previous starts, Shining Hours was naturally selected as the best of good things for the Trial Plate, and she duly materialised as anticipated. She was three times as well backed as anything else in the race straight out, so her dividends were small for such a large field. She was enabled to be entered for this race because the maiden event at Otaki was divided, her other two wins being subsequent to her nomination for. T,rentham. Shining Hours drew No. S marble, one of the best positions, and she lay handy all the way, being fourth on to the course proper following Titter, Yours Truly, and Sly Fox. Cly Fox came through on the inner and Shining Hours along the outer of the leaders, and the favourite went on best to score decisively by a couple of lengths. Prior to her sequence of four wins Shining Hours had had only three races. She is a three-year-old brown daughter of Arausio and the Leighton —Los Vegas mare Sunny Hours, a halfsister to Athens 11, Fluency, Quixotic, Passion Fruit, and Passion Flower, aijd she is herself a full-sister to Karl, who was a good juvenile,'and a half-sister to the useful Sergia. It is one of the best of the old Flaxmere -families. Shining Hours is being raced on lease from her breeder, Mr. F. Ormond, by Mr. C. McCullough, owner also of Flammarion, and who does his own training at Woodville.

Sly Fox, who ran a promising race among the hacks on the first day for sixth, proved best of the others. He drew No. 3 and had the run of the race on the rail, but he was: unable to match the winner at the close. His .first glimpse of real form is interest-