FOAL STAKES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 289, 7 December 1939, Page 4

FOAL STAKES

Ellerslie Juvenile Event YOUNGSTERS' PROSPECTS FILLIES APPEAR BEST (Special to “Chronicle.”) AUCKLAND. Dec. 6. It is agreed that the two-year-olds seen out so lar this season contain no outstanding youngsters, out there has never been any doubt about the quantity. Though the Canterbury Jockey Club received poor support in this class, there have been altogether too many runners in the juvenile races in the north. The Great Northern Foal Stakes, at Ellerslie, on Boxing Day, may not solve the problem as to which is the best youngster, and it is likely that the best of tne year has not yet been produced. A feature or the Foal Stakes is that nine winners are engaged, and live others remaining in have been placed. Many non-winners are in this classic, also a few that have yet to face the starter. So lar as can be gleaned there are no budding champions among those to be produced, unless that fact has been kept very quiet. i The list of winners in the Foal Stakes I is: Doria, two wins and a second; Nightbeam, two wins; Kindergarten, I two wins; and the following witn one win apiece: Queen City, Phaleron, I Lou Rosa, Ciiias, Lovaals, and Cnerry Bay. The only notable absentee perhaps is Cetewayo, who, in his one start to date, a w inning one, impressed Trent ham critics. He has no classic engagements. Smart Iliad Filly Actually Dona has the best record of this seasons two-year-olus/ for | alter being narruwiy aeieateu in her | opening run, tne duiin Grigg Stakes, ■ she literally ran away witn j>it- I L.ean Stakes al vVingatui and tne C.J. I Welcome Stakes aid nut present mucn difficulty. Her dam, Princess Doreen, | won the Foal Stakes seven years ago, i and the form of the filly has indicated • that she may follow' in her rooutepo if she proves able to gallop the reverse way. Kindergarten has won two races, ; but tney nave been minor aliairs ana . not comparable with Duna s successes., Cherry Bay won a handicap at i ren- ■ tham and is an improver. But it is in trie xiucKland two-year - - ' olds that northerners will evince ■ interest, for their form here has been | mixed. There seems to be littie between Queen City and Phaleron, ana; there are possibilities about Nigm- j beam, Lou Rosa and Cillas. The last- ] named has had oniy one start lor one | win and he is a nice colt. Cillas defeated a poor field of maidens at: W hangar ei five weeks ago and as this is his only start to date he ougnt to i be susceptible to improvement. Tne' fact that many two-year-old races ■ have been passed over in preference * to the Foal Stakes indicates tnal his owner-trainer has no douol as to his 1 ability. Nightbeam is good, but he is tne I type that does not want to be bustled ■ in the ear ly par L of his races ana so he may be a mucn better proposition at three years. If the i? oal Btafces i field dwindles then this colt may be I able to extend tne best. Lou Rosa has had two wins, being very green in his first up and getting away badly. At his next start ne began well and beat a large liela very easily. That was in a halt-mile race at Te Rapa and he was ridden with the whip over the final furlong, so whether he will be the better fur that unusual experience ' remains to be seen, taken on its facevalue, Lou Rosa should be capable' of winning the Foal Stakes, for he won : his race by four lengths in 47 3-5, i time that was a second faster than the second day s race under similar conditions, and his winning margin confirmed the timing. Queen City ami Phaleron That brings one to Queen City and Phaleron. The latter’s defeat last Saturday week by Happicoat was unexpected!, but prior to that race and since he has experienced shin-soreness, so there may be an excuse. At Avondale earlier Phaleron, in receipt of 151 b., defeated Queen City nicely. When Happicoat won Queen City w«s third, heaus separating the trio, ana then the filly was conceding the ron Bay colt 91b. Now unuer ttje set weight conditions in tne Foal Stakes, wdth the sex allowance. Phaleron has to concede the filly 51b., so Queen City meets him a full stone better. On the form and figures the prospects are decidedly in favour of Queen City. ■ The Foal Stakes is run over six furlongs and none of the youngsters has raced over this distance so far. When she won the Welcome stakes Queen City conceded the leading division several lengths start in the early stages, and so it was, too, when she finished only a head behind Phaleron Bay last Saturday week. Queen City in all her efforts has been finishing on and she is definitely one that will go six furlongs. Summed up at this juncture, the Foal Stakes seems, to rest between the two fillies. Loria, and Queen City, Of the non-winners engaged, the most promising and likely improver would appear to be the Wanganui gelding, Ringcraft. RACING AT RANDWICK WARWICK FARM MEETING MALAGIGI SECOND Received Dec. 6, 11.5 p.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 6. The Warwick Farm December meeting opened at Randwick to-day. Bradford won the Flying Handicap from Diamond Wedding and Marengo. Binnia Her* won the Milperra Handicap from Malagigi and Breeze. Aladdin won the Farm Welter Handicap from Rodborough and Might Not. Peter Pan’s son, named Pan Pipe, won the First Division of the Maiden Nursery Handicap, for colts and geldings. Our Barney, by Brazen, won the Second Division.