HONOURS TO BEAU LE HAVRE
The defeats 'of -Iiowe and Majesty by oFler horsea . at.-weight-f 0 l'-age at Ellerslie left - the impression that the elass of three-.year-olds in the Doininiou t liis season .was liot really outstandihg. Howev'eff 'ilie p^rfornianee t) f Beau le Havre 'iiL.vtfre; Great ' Noictheru Derby stamps lapY fia.a diigh "elass colt, aud his win in tiro •-RdyaL- Stakes on ihe fitial day woultJi- appe'ar to confirm- tliis opinion. 4 ' In the Derby he outclassed the field and sliowed that he was easily the best of the staying horses of his age seen out so far this season. He was not strongly f^acied ,. and paid --a dopblefigure aivi'dend! * • Beau le Havre rs time, 2.32 for the -mile and-.-a%alf/-was'-the same -as, ^hat
of Lady Foxbridge last year, and lias only -been bettered on two occasious. Beau le Havre is - by the Beau Pere horse Beau Itepaire, and is owmed by Mr. Nash at Takanini, but is trained by J, Farrell at Stratford.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1947, Page 6
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