England’s Best Two-Year-Olds

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 12

England’s Best Two-Year-Olds

MR. BOYD DAVIS HAS ONE READY RESPONSE COLT According to the London critic, “Rapier," the Auckland sportsman, Mr. Boyd Davis, has one of the best two-year-olds racing in the colt by Stratford from Ready Response. Last season at Home Stratford was well up on the list of winning sires, his progeny winning 41 races and £18,707 in stake, money'. Stratford is by Swynford from Lesbia, and a couple- of seasons ago his stud fee was £35. Doubtless it is higher now. Apparently' Mr. Boyd Davis had r.o great, hopes for any of his yearling?, for the only’ classic this season they were entered for was the Brockleby Stakes, the first of the classics, run last March. Not in the Classics The Ready Response colt is not ia the big three-year-old classics season, but four others of Mr. Davis's horses appear therein. They are all unnamed colts, as follow: By’ Silver from Semi-Girl; b>’ Blandford isiro of the last two Derby winners) from Brown Trout; by' Yutoi from Lily j Edgar; by Stratford from Canossa. | Commenting upon the two-year-olds j seen out at the Newmarket Craven meeting at the end of April, “Rapier” writes; “Lord Derby had two of the two-year-old winners at headquarters, and there is much to be said for hia Fiesole, which very easily won the Granby Stakes, and Pot-Pourri, which was successful in the race for the Bartlow Stakes. Liked the Breeding “I prefer the former, though few very' light bay horses, as he is, are much good as a rule. I like best of all his breeding, for he is by Swyrford from Fifine, who was a ratiitr undersized daughter of Sun.«*tar and Fifinella. Fifinella we know ls a rather peevish individual that wu nevertheless quite brilliant on the racecourse, especially' during that week at Xewmarket in 1916 when she won tl © New Derby and then the New Oaks. Of course, the best known of her own sons and daughters is Press GangFiesole is her grandson, Pot-Pourri won through, displaying rare grit, ard worrying Sir Abe Bailey’s Miss Jessica filly right out of it. The two had gore out equal favourites, and most people were left with tho impression that the Miss Jessica lilly had been rather unlucky to lose. The loser is trained by Major Beatty, and, judging solely by the reading of his face after tho race, I imagine he was not differing from the popular view. The Two Best

“Lord Derby’s stable also won the Fitzwilliam Stakes on the first day with a neat and quick-actioned black colt named Pricket, belonging to Mrs. Arthur James. The totalisator here paid only ten points more than the bookmakers

“The one 1 liked best in this field will, I believe, prove the best in the long run. I am thinking of a very nice bay colt, bred and owned by Lord Ellesmere, named Lemnarchus. He might have been Beckhainpton’s first winner of the season had be been better drawn. Gauged through Fiesole and the recent wins of Lord Rosebery’s Polesden, then, it is likely that ihe best ’youngsters of the season are Pharian, who beat those two at Liverpool, and the Stratford-Ready Response colt, who very easily beat the penalised Pharian at Kempton Park on Easter Monday.