THE JUVENILES AT WINGATUI.

Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 54

THE JUVENILES AT WINGATUI.

The two-year-oid3 saen out at_ Wingatui last week were a disappointing response to the excellent stakes hung up for their benefit. Tho on© exception waa Alma, who won on both days. She is a fine rangy filly, possessing .ilenty of size and an attractive appearance, and on the second day, when sharpened up by her first day's rac© wan comfortably enough. In the Dunedin Stakes tha boy on, top shook her up & bit in the last few strides, and apparently there was very little in hand 1 begond her winning margin. She w>as sent up 181b for the second day, and as she apparently won with another stone in hand har form either makes her fairly good or the ethers an indifferent lot at present. Alma was bred at the Elderslie S £ UC> 'i_ and was P ]cfc&cl U P as a yearling at tho bargain price of 30 guineas. She was {.'it by Stepniak from Couronna. by Gipcy Grand from Coronal, a sister to Gold MedalJut, &o that she lacks nothing on ihe score of breeding. Of the others, the besi form was shown by Maud Gonne, a- filly by Stepniak from Irish Girl, by St. Clair frcin Lady Ciertrude, the dam of Euroclydon. She is small and backward at present— a, remark, by -the way, which applies to the balance cf the two-year-olds. Thee© included Chinook, a sister to Vladimir; Wabun, by Slepniak from Ventosav by Lord Rowlyn, from MktraJ w^n^ 6 ', * C °# Casket m Mc '»t° *J HtT" i ■ £?? m i. Mamn » *• aam of Strowan. There might hay* been a different complexion, put on -the two-year-old races if Sir Geo. Clifford could have been represented by iiroadsward, c-r some oiher member of his formidable tsam of juveniles, but the Dunedin Stakes of 250sovs was an easily garnered purse, and it is to be hoped that nelt jear owners will mak 3 » more liberal remawifi'nfl 40 contribute toward, mamng a field fcr the races.