CLASSIC OVERLOOKED

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 44, 20 August 1940, Page 11

CLASSIC OVERLOOKED

How an owner forgot to nominate a leading two-year-old for the Epsom Handicap was revealed after Flying Knight led all the way to win the Flying Handicap at Canterbury Park (Sydney) recently. Flying Knight was having his first race since he was third to John and Lucrative in the Champagne Stakes at the A.J.C. Autumn Meeting, and. he had only arrived in Sydney from the country a few days before the race. Two-year-olds are set a hard task to win in open company and although there was backing for Flying Knight his connections were racing him more for experience than anything else. On the post he was challenged by Mohican and Tuhitarata, but he struggled on gamely to win by a long head from this pair, who deadheated for second place. Flying Knight is owned by Mr. E. Hunter Bowman, who is also the owner of Skelletar Station, and on the day that entries closed for the Epsom Handicap Mr. Bowman and his foieman were busily engaged on the station. Many racing men in Sydney expressed the opinion after the Canterbury Park race that Flying Knight would have been an early selection for the Epsom Handicap, but Mr. Bowman thinks that the colt will develop into a stayer and not a sprinter. With Flying Knight he has hopes of winning the A.J.C. Derby.

Symbal, a three-year-old filly by Gascony and half-sister to Symcony and The Crooner, has been taken over by the Riccarton trainer C. C. McCarthy. She had some racing last season in the interests of H. Nurse, but had to be put aside on account of shin soreness. A two-year-old filly who has entered the sanie stable is by SolicitorGeneral from Helen Gold, and she will carry the colours of Miss M. C. Wilson, Reef ton.