RIVAL THREE-YEAR-OLDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 245, 17 October 1939, Page 4

RIVAL THREE-YEAR-OLDS

HIGH CASTE AND READING NEU ZEALANDER ON TOP Some of the great thoroughbred rivals of the past, such as Windbag and Spcarfelt, Heroic and Nigger Minstrel and many others, are it, called by the duels staged in Australia by High Caste ana Reading, the Iwo outstanding colts of the season lon the other side of the Tasman. They have met. eight times and the honours are oeljiiitejy with F'.igT, Caste, as lh? Bulandshar colt lias wo:: lour limes to his rivals two. The connections of H.gii < .-.sic mus' i.'e w-jJ] on the right side of the ledger since they gave 7000 guineas for him la.-l February, for he has won £ll,OOO loi his new owner. Writing prior to High Caste's win m the Cauhield Guineas on Saturday, when lhe New- Zealander brilliantly defeated his Australian rival, a Melbourne clitic said:— There is such a small margin be I ween Reading and High Caste, who fought out the A.J.C. Derby finish, that the result might easily be reversed in the Victoria Derby. For that matter, any of the first four could win at Flemington. Wilson probably will improve, and Beau Vite might reasonably be expected to get a better run. In the pre-Derby talk 99 per cent, of the racegoing public thought that Beau Vite was a sure winner. J. T. Jamieson, did not want to run High Caste, so little did he think of his chance against Beau Vite. The owners of Reading expected to gain a place, nothing more. The Wilson stable was hopeful but not confident. The result upset all calculations and served to bring the Sydney-trained three-year-old back into favour, especially High Caste, who Wed, dubbed a non-stayer. It would appea. now that the High Caste stable was a bit hasty in taking the New Zea-land-bred colt out of the Melbourne Cup. The first horse beaten in the A.J.C. Derby was the £lO,OOO Gold Salute. In beating himself, he made the way easier for Reading. F. Shean likes to be in front., but. no one expected that he would try to lead all lhe way on Gohl Salute. He found the colt anxious to stretch out, sg thought the best thing to do would be to let him stride along. Gold Salute went a mile and a-quaner. He could not raise a gallop over the last furlong and finished a poor fifth, after contributing to Beau Vite’s failure. Gold Salute will not worry his three-year-old rivals at Flemington, where a horse has to be a better stayer to win a mile and a-half race than at. Randwick. Reading's position on the rails, which D. Munro made sure of, was of great assitance to him in his struggle up the straight with High Caste. If the two had been placed the other way round, as they came into the straight, the result may have been different.