BRABANT STILL UNBEATEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 6

BRABANT STILL UNBEATEN

Brabant was the only horse with any form in the Bidwill Nursery Handicap, reduced by scratchings to six runners, and though the race was literally hurled away when he ran oil the course at the straight entrance there was nothing capable of taking advantage of the mistake mid he came on again to win by half a length. When he ran 'wide he was three or four lengths ahead of the field, and though Eagle's Eye and Cricket then uassed him on his inner he proved [oo classy altogether for them once he Wll second win in two starts, and though he has beaten nothing of account he undoubtedly has a more than useful turn of speed. He is a bay colt by the Valais horse Vaals from the Rossendale—Belqve mare Roselove, and he is thus strictly Austrian% his^ lines., though he was bred in the Dominion by Mr. a. «j. Roberts, of North Auckland who. sen him down to H. Telford to tram at Treiitham It will be remembered that he a so showed an inclination to run wide at Masterton, but another horse (Siegmund) then kept him on the coirs™ and as a consequence he was able to score narrowly. . Eagle's Eye, the first oflspnng of Bronze Eagle to race, was second all the way. except for the brief space she ran up to the front when the winner went off the course Cricket was a fair third a length and a half back witn Sea Wrack close up. Toorak and Meamea were pulling W^&_± The first four horses hail from lrentham stables.