SUCCESS OF STATELY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 4

SUCCESS OF STATELY

A FORTUNATE INVESTOR. SYDNEY, June 18. The Paladin—Limelight mare Stately has come decidedly into the boom now as a likely candidate for good-class spring handicaps. This is consequent upon three decisive victories, culminating with a meritorious win in a mile welter at Randwick on Saturday. With a 31b. apprentice allowance she carried 8.13 ami was one of the, last away. With a splendid finishing run she collared the pacemaker Nut. Cup nearing tin* post, to win by a head in 1.37$ on a dead track. Stately looks a much better advertisement now for Paladin than the costly Chi.lp. She is small like her dam Limelight, but built on rather slightly larger dimensions. She may not win a race like an Epsom Handicap, a real bustling mile, but she I will .Io well. i State!v was little fancied by the pub | lie in her last success, but her im--1 mediate connections participated in tk“ ; double-figure quote b\ the bookmakerShe returned over «.-»e half-century on the straight-out totalisator and a good price for a place. A Randwick investor put £lO on her, as he rimught for a place, but. found after the race that the totalisator clerk had cold him straight-out tickets. His unsuspected profit was £375 10s. the difference hetw>on tlh' straight out and place rrI ‘urn.