SMART FILLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 14

SMART FILLY

A Sprint Possibility HONITON COMING GOOD When Gold Money won the two sprint races at the winter meeting at Ellerslie a year ago she was a three-year-old. Now there is another in the field likely to do well this week. This is Honiton, a filly that has no* been racing very long. She first came under notice at Takapuna four months ago, when she won the maiden the firsi day and scored also on the second day. It was Chromadyne that followed her home each time, and tlie latter’s subsequent form stamped him as a hack above the ordinary. At Avondale recently Honiton came .under notice again. She won the hack mile the first day, li§r effort being a most convincing one, and it was something of a coincidence that Chromadyne beat a good class field of hack sprinters an hour and a-half later. On the concluding day at Avondale the Marble Arch filly was produced in the open mile, and there is no doubt that she should have won, injudicious riding being a material factor in her downfall. Standfast. 8.10, won by a short head from Cynthia N., 8.10, with Honiton, 8.6, three-parts of a length away in third berth. That was a sterling effort and suggested that the filly would hold her own in open company. Recently Mr. Swney’s filly got into the wire at Te Aroha, but that affected her only a little, for she has becn galloping well since arriving at Ellerslie. She looks the part, and although she will be taking on a tough proposition in the open sprint tomorrow she is a possibility. At Ellerslie yesterday morning

Honiton again gave a fine exhibition of speed. She and Takutama were sent over half a mile, and the filly easily held the Cambridge gelding. The time, 54, was fairly good, the last three furlongs taking 41. The pegs were very wide out on the course proper, 60 feet from the rails, and Honiton. who had the outside running, covered even more ground, and she was literally doing it on her head at the finish

Honiton is not the only three-year-old engaged in tomorrow’s Members* Handicap. Another good one is Flying Prince, who showed his partiality for a soft track when lie won

the open sprint at the Pakuranga meeting last August. Flying Prince won the 10 furlongs handicap at Taumarunui a few days ago. and it will be remembered that in this event he and Tinokoa had a break of a dozen lengths on the field in the middle part. For this win Flying Prince was rehandicapped 21b for the Members* Handicap: i; was hardly worth while to raise him at all. In Honiton and Flying Prince, the three-year-old division has two worthy sprint representatives, and it will be Interesting to see how they fare in this good company.