OLD BILL SPEEDY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 229, 26 August 1938, Page 12

OLD BILL SPEEDY.

RACING AT WANGANUI. AWAPUNI’S STRONG HAND. (By “Spectator.”) , Half-brother to Quadroon and Florence Mills, who won her first race on the course, Old Bill will make hiß appearance in the maiden race at Wanganui. He raced only three times as a two-year-old, and has not been hurried, but he has been showing speed on the Awapuni track, and is highly regarded. However, he will be meeting stiff opposition from Coronation and Ecstatic, who are also entered for this event. Having her first start, the Laughing Prince filly Ecstatic showed brilliant speed when she led for most of the journey and then finished third to Rehearsal and Rakahanga in the Stonyhurst Juvenile Handicap on the second day of the Manawatu autumn meeting. Ecstatic is a stablomate of Titter, another promising Laughing Prince youngster, who is in the maiden race at Wanganui, so Awapuni should have a good chance of again annexing the event this year. Ecstatic is looking in great order at present. She was raced very lightly indeed as a two-year-old. A Good Performance-

Royal Bachelor, who was having his first outing since March last, attempted to win the Jellicoe Handicap at Ellerslic from end to end, and it was only in the last half furlong that he commenced to weaken. He was third, only a little over half a length away from the winner, and as his efforts last season were mainly confined to distances of less than a mile it was a very satisfactory performance. He should not bo long in again getting a stake.

Should Not Be Long. Saint Musk, who was outstayed by En Tour at the finish of the Pakuranga Hunt Cup, gave a fine exhibition of fast, olean jumping, and he should not be long in again getting on the winning list. Last seoson he won the Maramarua Steeplechase, two miles and a-haJf, at the Taumarunui meeting at Paeroa and was subsequently narrowly beaten by Sleepy in the Waikato Hunt Cup at Cambridge, and Bryce Street in the Clarkin Steeplechase at the Waikato spring meeting. Smart-Looking Filly. There was no doubt that the pick of the youngesters in the juvenile parade at the Pakuranga Hunt meeting was the Foxbridge filly out of Lady Marie, a halfsister to a prolific winning family comprising Gay Sheila, Gay Blonde, Gay Sheik, Marie’s Acre, and Philcourt, tho three eldest of whom have finished their racing days in Australia. A well-built filly, the latest member of tho family to enter upon a career on- the Turf. looks like being top class. In her action she could not fail to impress, and it is probable that she will extend the record of her dam as the producer of good winners. Furthermore, the filly should be ready for early classics. She cost. 700 guineas at the last national yearling sales.