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WINS THE SYDNEY CUP Gwillian G Easily Takes Noted NotedRace Race and Equals Australian AustralianTwo Two Miles Record Leading from barrierrise to judge Gwil lian G won the Sydney Cup April 21 in the most convincing manner possible clearing right away at the finish to beat Royal Smile by five lengths with Soulton one and three quarters back third The Culgo mare not only won easily but she clipped a quarter of a second off the race record and equalled Canning Queens Australian record of 322 for the two miles milesIn In her last five starts Gwillian G has won four races three of them Cups In the Sydney Cup she carried 98 pounds She is a sixyearold daughter of Colugo and Soul toria and from a lowly beginning of racing for 50 stakes in the country has risen to being the winner of the second richest han ¬ dicap event in Australia AustraliaS S A Marden a Sydney wool buyer gave the modest sum of 325 for Gwillian G when he decided to buy one of the yearlings offered in 1925 Apparently her breeder A P Wade did not think much of the filly to let her go at that figure She was not raced as a twoyearold and started off as a threeyearold by winning a couple of very modest races From then until the end of her fourth year her racing was confined to the country and provincial sprint events her trainer little dreaming of the latent stam ¬ ina in the light framed mare In her fifth year sne was given a chance on a metropoli ¬ tan course the effort resulting in a third vt a mile novice at Randwick Soon afterward she was winning suburban middle distance events Since that time she has been con ¬ tinually improving improvingSome Some of the get of Colugo could run a middle distance but apparently Gwillian G gets her stamina from her dam Soultoria That mare vvas by Soult from Pretoria by Cuirrasier from a Kingfisher mare Soul ¬ toria was seventeen years old when Gwil ¬ lian G was foaled and it proved to be her last foal foalIn In all Gwillian G has won sixteen races and 39470 for Mr Marden The Sydney Cup was easily her greatest performance and was worth 25835 which includes the 1000 Cup trophy
