DID WELL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1034, 26 July 1930, Page 12

DID WELL

STREPHON’S FIRST RAQ WILL IMPROVE LATER on How many English horses ws, their first attempt in * few. Therefore those people who • inclined to think that Strephon wBl*? a failure in England would be edrw! to wait a while before being too ite on that score, writes “Cardial?** a Sydney paper. ” * He failed at Lingfleld recently Wr. . cannot be said that he failed * despite the small field and the ©2? ness of the class. It was his lint rT for 15 months, and, con«idennr distance was a mile and a-half . led until two furlongs from horn* * seems to me that it was a most ising commencement of what ii hi to be a splendid English career ”*** No Exception Owing to the difference 1 B climate, it stands to reason tKy Australian horse who is used to shine and heat would take become properly acclimatised to tv; lish conditions than an English W* to Australian conditions. It has been so in the past ... Strephon Is not likely to be any eji tion to the general rule. His Pace Remains We can take heart that Street showed in no uncertain fashion fthe retains his pace. That is most k portant, as there is nothing that ries a trainer more than to see a hori. who has had a long sea voyajee vZ his action. English horse® often do ao whr they first arrive in Australia, and sometimes many months before hJ begin to stride out in their style. As we know that Strephon can wait is only a question of Darling getfehim fit for the chestnut to win go# races in England. All the talk abot him touched in the wind and t* Ing but a shadow of his former seK* probably all moonshine. There are still five months of th English fiat racing season, and Stm lion should be at his best by the tta# the Cambridgeshire and Cesarew&c’ are run in October at Xewmazfce Should he win one of those importas handicaps, Strephon will then go lm t winter quarters and be epeehb trained for the Ascot Gold Cop. Have Done Well There is a mistaken impression thg Australian horses that have bees mr. to England have been utter failnret It is entirely wrong. Admittedly man of them have not gained as much tasn as Don Bradman, but Australian-M horses have won numerous rich race in the Old Country-. Besides Strephon, three other Victoria Derby winners in Carnage, Xnhaven and FJ.A. have- raced there F.J.A. was first of all sent to l*gfc and thence to England. He was a® old horse when he arrived, and, being renamed Scarpia, did not set ft; Thames afire. Three On End Xewhaven. who after his Derby access, won the Melbourne Cup u t three-vear-old with 7.18, was a saocas in England. He won the City u>L Suburban at Epsom, and was the fa! of the three successive Australfcsbred winners. He won in 18ff, Ite Grafter in 1900, and Australian ter in 1901. Newhaven returned to Australia at the close of his racing one but was a stud failure. Carbine, of course, did not race it England, nor did The Victory, ufc* won the Melbourne Cup. He want te the stud in Ireland, but an accMnß early in his career proved fatallfcrman proved himself a great hone. a. in addition to winning the Aaoot Qdl Cup, he won several important her®caps. Noctuiform was a failure in land, and finally met hia death to * hurdle race. Cranberry, Pari*. Ite Grafter, Georgric (who ran away *4ft a Cambridgeshire), Mai lima, AmhWt Ringmaster, Mons Meg, Fabric me others all won races. If they could win race* then, ukf not Strephon. who had the advanar of being sent to England white «- a young horse, and whose Austral** performances were as good a* aafflhis predecessors who crossed the