Chantal Tested Light Fingers

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 4

Chantal Tested Light Fingers

Chantal, winner of the George Adams Handicap at Trentham last Saturday, gave the champion, Light Fingers, one of her hardest races of her spring three-year-old racing. Chantal ran the Adelaidetrained filly to a head in the Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington on October 3, 1964. The distance of that race was a mile. On the same course four weeks later they met in the Wakeful Stakes over a mile and a quarter. This time Light Fingers won and Chantal was third. On the third day of the meeting Light Fingers won the V.R.C. Oaks and Chantal finished fourth.

Well-earned success finally

came Chantal's way last autumn when, on March 2, she won the Victoria Racing Club's Essendon Handicap (first division) over a mile. She did not have one of the class of Light Fingers to oppose her that day. Tenderfoot, the dam of Chantal, was one of a number of good producers to be sold cheaply at the Alton Lodge dispersal in 1957. Mr G. R. Grace, of Hunterville, bought her for 450gns. The dams of the good winners, Key and Roman Maid, were also sold that day. ■ Tenderfoot, the dam of Chantal, did not race. She was got by Gold Nib from the imported Beginner, the dam also of First Step and Tyro. Tyro won a Midsummer Handicap when trained at Riccarton by C. G. Humphries. The Pie King, the champion English two-year-old in 1953, belongs to this family.