CLASSIC COLTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 13

CLASSIC COLTS

THEIR FORM AT ASCOT

(By Air Maif, from "The Post's" London

Representative.)

LONDON, June 19. The successes of Heliopolis, Admiral's Walk, Hypnotist, Atout Maitre, Pointis, and Fairstone at Ascot this year help to confirm the superlative merit of Blue Peter's Derby victory. All six horses had previously run well at Epsom, but finished a respectable distance behind Lord Roseberry's colt. Blue Peter did not run at Ascot, being in reserve for the Eclipse at Sandown. 1 Over a distance of a mile and a half and upwards, it might be a difficult matter to decide which of the classic colts running at Ascot gave the best individual performance. In defying top weight, 9st 51b, Heliopolis put up a remarkably game display. Lord Derby's colt led tne field a merry dance in the Prince of Wales Stakes and held off a challenge from Grand Union to win by a length and a half. The Aly Khan's Fpench-bred Pointis started favourite but finished third. However, Pointis "obliged" later by winning the Hardwicke Stakes on the final day. Atout Maitre had evidently made good use of the intervening three weess between Epsom and Ascot. The son of Vatout, in receipt of weight-for-age from older horses, romped home in the Gold Vase from the French invaders, Accord Parfait and Auriga, and Foxhound. Mr. Herbert Blagrave's colt is by the same sire as last year's Derby winner Bois Roussel He leaves no delusions regarding stamina, is a wellgrown three-year-old still in the improving stage, and on account of his Ascot victory claims attention for the St. Leges. Royal Mistress, dam of Atout Maitre, is, like Rose of England, another daughter of the great stayer Teddy, so the distance of the last classic will be all in favour of Atout Maitre.

Lord Derby's Hypnotist, winner of the King Edward VII Stakes, U miles, started- an even-money favourite last week, and for quite a while he looked like being ift trouble up the straight, where he wat- closed in on the rails. By clever manoeuvring, however, P. Beasley extricated him from his nasty position, and then he went straight ahead to score comfortably.