QUALITY TELLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 July 1939, Page 15

QUALITY TELLS

AMIGO TAKES STEWARDS'

it was the performance of a three-year-old well above the. average that enabled Amigo to lead the way home" in the Stewards' Handicap. ..With L. J. Ellis in the saddle and the advantage of the rail draw in this big field, he was sent out a one-ticket better favourite than Matoru, and he completely vindicated the view of those who held that he would rise superior to his weight.

Ellis made full use of the rail draw. Getting Amigo out smartly, he allowed Fleet Street and Rebel Mate to take over the role of pacemaking, but once on the course, proper he sent, his mount along after Fleet Street, who «was still showing no sign of coming back, and his persistence was finally rewarded when Fleet Street yielded in the last hundred yards. : i The public were not slow to show their appreciation of'a courageous performance, and ■ Amigo was warmly acclaimed on returning to the birdcage. It was Amigo's best effort this season. Though it was hoped in the summer to make a middle-distance galloper out of him, it now seems that his metier is sprinting. It was on the Trentham track that he won a double as an early two-year-old last season, and in one of. those races he equalled the Australian and New Zealand record for five furlongs.

The breeding and record of this brown Beau Pere gelding are so well known as to require no recapitulation here. During the present season /he failed in a couple of starts when taken