Waimana-Bred Colt’s Success in Australia

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 31, 19 March 1948, Page 5

Waimana-Bred Colt’s Success in Australia

Fresh Boy, born at the Tuhoe Stud, Waimana, son of Revelation belonging 'there, is still getting himself great press notices for his Australian performances. A second in the Melbourne Cup put him on the map to stay, and since then he carried 8 stone to victory in the £1750 Carbine Stakes over 2 miles in 3min 26£sec. In the following few paragraphs, Fresh Boy figures prominently in Australian comment on races over there:— “The day’s" highlight was the four lengths win of Valcurl in the St. George Stakes, in which he led throughout, and beat the ponyish Enzed-bred Fresh Boy, who, came home strongly from a hopeless position, and whose autumn mission is the St. Leger and Australian Cup. “The little Revelation colt, who was third in the Caulfield Cup and a certainty beaten into second place in the Melbourne Cup, stands only little over 14.2, but he is one of the mightiest little horses to race here in many years. “Melbourne will have a strong representation at Rand wick and one of the star turns will probably be the New Zealand bred colt, Fresh Boy, who last week won his first race since being third in the Caulfield Cup, and second in the Melbourne Cup. Fresh Boy won the Carbine Stakes of two miles. He is only a Galloway, and stamped himself, by his weight-for-age success, as being one of the best of his inches to race in Australia in the last two decades.

A very highly esteemed Sydney Cup contender, his trainer, Peter Fergus, remarked, after the Australian Cup that nothing which ran in that race would have the bolter’s chance of beating him in the Sydney two miler.”