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SISSA ITALYS CRACK FILLY OF TODAY Winner of the Italian Oaks and Grand Prize of Milan in Fine Stylo Italian turfmen are just now intensely interested in the doings if the threeyearold filly Sissa which by achieving i double in the Italian Oaks and Grand Prizu of Milan has stamped herself one of the best things of her age aud sex yet seen in the Latin peninsula peninsulaSissa Sissa a bay filly by Signorino SIgnoretta by Common was oniy a moderate twoyearold Sho ran seven times at that age winning twice being three times second and once unplaced This year she did not b gln auspiciously and was beaten five times in stifcossijn though running second four times and third once She was not therefore fan ¬ cied by the critics for the Oaks which was run at Milan May 2 the favorite being Vespisedda There were four starters and Sissa after leading all the way stood off Vespisedda and won easily well ridden by J Lemniel The value of the stake was 25000 lire prewar 5000 of which 20000 lire went to The winner and 1000 lire to her breed ¬ er She carried 0 kilos about 124 pounds poundsThe The Oaks dltalia was founded in 1910 and has since been contested annually this years l cing the eleventh r inwal Originally at a mile ami a half the distance was reduced in 1913 to a mile and a quarter bout 2100 meters metersThe The Grand Prze of Milan is an older fixture than the Oaks having been founded in 1S97 It is for both colts and fillies with penalties aud allow ¬ ances It was kiln like the Oaks at Milan aud a week later Msiy 9 There were five starters aud Signor Tesios colt Andrea del Sarto favorite for this years Italian Derby in which he ran third was heavily backed to win Sissa however luul no difficulty it beating him by two lengths rid ¬ den as before by Lemniel The winning filly carried 51 X kiloj about 120 pounds The Premio Milano isthu same value as the Oaks 25000 lire and the winners portion was the same It was also the same lisfuice 2100 meters or about a mile and a quarter Ghiberti the Derby winner was not among the starters hut it is probable that the Italian St Legcr to be run later in the season at Milan may bring him and Sissa together and thus decide the question of their respective merits now much debuted debutedSissa Sissa is the property of Signor G de Montcl and is trained by Waiter Hadfield As aforesaid she is by Signorino the son of Best Man and the famous mare Signorina by St Simon Slgnorina was one of the grandest race mares ever seen on the English turf where she was raced by the Italian sportsman Chevalier Ginistrelli Her career for to have been a is a matron was supposed long failure but late in life she covered herself with glory by producing iignorinetta winner of both the Epsom Derby tin which she started at 100 to 1 and Oaks of UWS Three years earlier however Signorinas son tignorino by Best Man had run third at Epsom in the Derby to Cicero and Jardy Retired to the stud Signorino has proved far and away the best sUc of Italian breeding history and now has to his credit not only five out of the last six winners of tlie Italian Derby but previous to Sissa was credited with six of the last eight win ¬ ners of the OiUs dltalia while the Premio Milano has fall MI to his get six times also be ¬ fore this year
