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MARSHALL FIELDS GOOD FILLY American Sportsman Owns One of the Best English Juveniles in Unnamed Daughter of Sansovino. Special Cablegram. LONDON, England. In the unnamed two-year-old filly by the Derby winner Sansovino, from Nancy Stair, the international American sportsman, Marshall Field, owns one of the best juveniles in England this season. Sporting the straw and cherry silks but twice, "the Nancy Stair filly has yet to be beaten, but in her most recent victory at Goodwood she had to share the spoils because of a dead, heat with Lord Derbys smart colt Hyperion. . The judges could not separate the pair at the finish of the six furlong Prince of Wales Stakes, which rewarded the dead-heaters with ,972 each. Hyperion and the Nancy Stair filly ran in close attendance for the entire distance. Half a furlong from the finish Hyperion gained a slight advantage, but close to the judges pagoda the Nancy Stair filly came again and got up in the last stride to divide the spoils. Bred by her owner at his Irish stock farm, near Mullinger, County Westmeath, and foaled March 27, 1930, the well-grown, extremely attractive bay daughter from Nancy Stair, by Polymelus, from Cheshire Cat, by Tarporley, is of the No. 11 family. She is a very high strung, temperamental filly. She made a successful debut toward the end of June in the five furlong Brit!- ii Dominion two-year-old plate at Sandown Park. She easily led home a band of eleven highly-regarded rivals, and is evidently a very useful filly. She is to date the best racer her dam Nancy Stair, a mare that cost Field 0,000, hasvproduced, though her half-sister, Nance, a daughter of Buchan, gave much promise as a two-year-old in 1927, when she chased home the smart Fairway in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster and subsequently won the Hopeful Stakes at Newmarket. There is a belief in English racing circles that the descendants of Cheshire Cat are ungenerous, but the shapely Nancy Stair filly gives the. lie to this theory, as she ran her race out with great resolution to divide the Prince of Wales Stakes with Hyperion over a track that was deep and holding from heavy rains. The offspring of Sansovino are, as a rule, partial to racing over yielding tracks, but it is believed that Hyperion would have been seen to better advantage on dry, firm footing. Hyperion, facile winner of the New Stakes at Ascot, is a good-looking medium-sized compact son of the Triple Crown hero, Gainsborough, from the great race mare Selene dam of Hunters Moon, Guiscard, Sickle and Pharamond, the last-named pair at the stud in Kentucky, by Chaucer, from Serenissima dam of the St. Leger-Guineas heroine, Tranquil, Bosworth, Ascot Gold Cup ! hero. Composure and Schiavoni, by the Derby-Guineas hero, Minoru, from Gondo-Tette, dam of the Derby winner Sansovino, and the Guineas heroine Ferry. Hyperion was bred by his owner, Lord Derby, who also bred and owns Sansovino, sire of the Nancy Stair filly.
