AUTOPAY'S GOOD START

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 13

AUTOPAY'S GOOD START

Payette, who beat her favoured stablemate and paid over half a century in the Nursery Handicap at Avondale on Monday, is the .first winner got by the Paper Money horse Autopay. Autopay had only one surviving foal out of his first crop, and Payette, from his second crop, is actually the first of his, progeny to race, so she has given him an early fine advertisement. ~,_,. < ■ Payette's success was a tribute to the- form shown in the first division of the parade held recently at the Pakuranga Hunt Meeting. In that heat Kentucky was first home from Payette and Lovaals, and these three horses monopolised the juvenile issues at Avondale last weekend. In her maternal ancestry Payette has a short known pedigree. She is ,a smallish brown filly out of the 1922 •mare Archette, who was by Archiestown (son of Sir Archibald) out of an unnamed mare by St. Amans (son of Soult). Archette had a few races without success as a six-year-old, but ,the interesting thing about her is that she is apparently a half-sister to the Great Northern Steeplechase winner Copey, who was also out of a St. Amans mare, apparently the same St. Amans mare, as both Archette and Copey were bred by Mr. A. Copestake, of Ohinewai, Waikato, and Copey was always owned by Mr. Copestake, though raced on lease by his trainer, J. Fryer. Mr. Copestake also bred Payette, but he has leased the filly for three years to Messrs. C. C. Hill and R. W. Shand, of Ohinewai and Huntly respectively.