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AUSTRALIAS STAR TWO-YEAR-OLDS. The re-nll of the Ascot Vale Stakes left no room foi argument as to the hesi two year-old of the cm rent season. That haaot belongs to vToorak. while Traquette i- temporarily discredited, it i- now understood she is not coming to Sydney to oppose Woorak in the Champagne Stake-, and even if she should return to her spring form. I am sssnrerl there i- little 10 In feared from her iu either of next years Derby s. "Gets her bead up too high When she is tired to ever make a stayer." is the way her Derby chance is summed up by one critic wbi -aw her race at Flemington recently. Woorak, on the other hand, certainly does keep his bead down, but tbe fact of being by Traquair is Counted against him by tnoi-l followers of racing. It is in bis favor that lie inherits plenty of Staying bicod on 1 he maternal side, and though only a sprinter himself. Traquairs pedigree docs not lend Itself to the idea that It ivas Impossible for him t,. sire a stayer. Ue yvas by Ayrshire Is Derby yviun from Cbemadry, which yvon the Dm- Thousand ntiin- ■ a-, and ran second in the Ink- and St. Leger. chclaiidry.s half brother, Ladas, yvas also a Derby winner. Admittedly nothing by Tmipinir has yet. shown at a distance, but though at one period tbe idea of anything by Orzil — another sire of brillianr gallopers —proving a stayer was scouted, some of his progeny subsequently did well over a distance. Am how. whether lie makes a stayer or not. Woorak m-w stands ottt from the rest of his age up to six. furlongs, and to all appearances hr could have beaten them at any distance last week. Andeslne came out next to Woorak at Flemington. bnl her sire The Welkin a son of Flying Ioxi. only -hone as a sprinter, and we have to yvait until next season to learn anything about his progeny as stayer-. Andeslne is undoubtedly honest, having j rarely rmt a bad race, and with no Woorak opposing her. she made light of her 122 in the March Nursery on Thursday and cut out the sis furlongs In 1 : 15. At ibis time of the year one can generally pick out three or four twn-yenr olds and say they will hate to lie reckoned with in the Derbys. bin so far this season there i- really nothing one can s -lect apart 1 torn Woorak. and because lie is by Traquair be will remain under suspicion as a stayer until he has absolutely demonstrated he can get a mile aha 1 half. --Pilot in Sydney Referee.
