A BARGAIN HORSE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27541, 8 November 1950, Page 5

A BARGAIN HORSE

Sydney Victor's Successes By his clear-cut wins at the Invercargill Trotting Club’s meeting, Sydney Victor indicated that he is in a class above the other southern three-year-olds His decisive eight-length victory in the Wyndham Juvenile Stakes, in which the stablemates, Heather Dillon and Financial, finished second and third, was followed a week later by a meritorious win over a large field of improvers in the Mercantile Handicap. He was then taken to Oamaru to contest the F. G. Plunket Stakes against some of the best Canterbury three-year-olds, but he failed to run on after being handily placed. His next' starts were, at the recent Invercargill meeting, where he won comfortably over a mile and five furlongs and a mile and a-quarter. Sydney Victor, who was bought for 87Jgns at the Red Band Lodge dispersal sale, is by the triple New Zealand Cup winner, Indianapolis, from a Llewellyn mare, Mountain Gift, who had already produced a winner in Brooksby Hall. Mountain Gift, who traces back to a Huia mare, is a member of the same family as Gold Tinge, who reached good class about 15 years ago, and Black Surprise, a use-, ful performer for M. C. McTigue. Black Surprise is the dam of the Improver, Kublai Khan. Although the family does not appear in the Stud Book, Sydney Victor is well related, and after he works his way out of Southland classes he should race well against the better company he will meet in the north.