BOODLE FOR BERESINA.

NZ Truth, Issue 88, 23 February 1907, Page 2

BOODLE FOR BERESINA.

New Zealand sports will all be pleased with the cabled announcement that Beresina had scored m the Oakleigh Plate. When the weights first appeared, the Australian writers to a man gave the Stepniak filly a great chance. With her easy impost, she was picked as one of the best for the Newmarket Handicap, but on account of, the Oakleigh Plate being a trifle shorter it%as pretty well a foregone conclusion that this would be the filly's mission. A week or two) back Beresina was let loose m a sprint event at ' Moorefield and, Starting a hot favorite, she romped home. Messrs Nettlefold arid Price were evidently satisfied that their charge was cherry ripe, and the fact that she started second favorite on Saturday lag£' Wbuld indicate that they landed soinething more than the prize money. Captain Shannon, who started favorite was conceding the filly two pounds. Judging by his running .m the Stewards' Handicap, and his form m ohe oj: two events previous to that, the soft of Captain. Webb arid Krina will be better suited m the • Newmarket Handicap, where he has the full six furlongs.-, to irun. -But against this -he has to carry 71bs additional weight. Red 01 over, who Was second to Beresina, carried -6st 91hs,.and the third horse, Splash, had tfst 71bs, or ilbs more than, the Winner. ThriS, the ligbt--weights had all the best of it;-, Bjr winning m a field of nineteen, the daughter of Stepniak and Ambush has put up a rea*lly good performance, and though she Ms previously done nothing wonderful ih public, she must have shown her owners good track work on more than one Occasion., When the filly was last seen under silk m these parts-, no one would have dubbed her a future Winner 'of the Oakleigh' Plate> but Dave Price is undoubtedly good judge of a racehorse, and the . last two seasons have shown that he and Sid Nettlefold purchase horses that can gallop jttSt a -little.