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Italy Dormello-Olgiata May Better Record By DESMOND McGOWAN Our Rome Correspondent ROME, Italy. The Razza Dormello-Olgiata continues its fantastic progress and with half the season over the great stable founded by the late Federico Tesio heads the winning owners list with just over 0,-000 won. At the same rate of progress this will top the record sum of 17,500 won in 1954 when stake money was appreciably higher. The above figures only refer to stake money won in Italy and though they may not appear high by American standards they are very high in this country where the biggest stake race of all, the Gran Premio di Milano", is allotted 2,0.00 to be split four ways. Numerically, Ugo Penco is well down the trainers list with only 19 winners but when we add that the stable has only had 34 runners,- some of whom have acted as pacemakers, the quality of the runners is evident. It must be heartbreaking for other trainers such as Federico Rcgoli of the Razza del Soldo for the simple reason that the quality of the Soldo horses ensures them prohibitive weights in handicaps and the only way for the stable to make any money is in stake and allowance races. Even with a strong coalition of Magabit, Chitet and Aleppo, Regoli realized the chances of beating Tissot in the Premio Presidente delle Republica" were very slim and he decided to miss the big .Rome race run after these notes were penned with Chitet and Aleppo and to send the two three-year-olds for the 17,000 Premio Principe Amcdeo to be run over one and one-half miles at Turin Sunday. The composition of the field is not known at the time of writing but we fancy the only serious opposition to Chitet will come from the Razza Dormello-Olgiatas unbeaten filly Angela Rucellai who scored her fifth straight during the week when she confirmed the Oaks running by beating the Razza La Novellas Oga Magoga by two lengths in the 10 -furlong Premio Legnano with her stablemate, Donata di Formello, six lengths further back in third place. Angela Rucellai showed all her well-known laziness and had to be severely shaken up by Camici to hold off the strong-finishing Oga Magoga who has well earned the title of second best filly of the year. On the same program the Dormello-Olgiata introduced another unraced three-year-old filly in Barbarella. Receiving five pounds from the rest of the runners in a field of six fillies, Barbarella showed up greenly at the start and lost a couple of lengths. Refusing to rush her, Enrico Camici rode a beautifully timed finish to ease out the Razza di .Rozzanos Zebru by a head with the Razza Ticinos fashionably bred, but jady, filly Orange another two lengths away in third place. Barbarella is a chestnut by Daumier, out of the good race mare, Balestrina, by Torbido, who has gone to the court of Ribot this year. Barbarella is the last of Daumiers stock to race in Italy and we share the Marchese Incisas view that his very brilliant race horse has been a disappointment at stud. None of his runners seem to train on after a good start and we can only hope that the change of environment will enable him to get good winners in America. First of the two-year-old races, selling events apart, took place at the Capannele during the week, when the Premio Dello Esperanza over five furlongs attracted a field of two colts and four fillies. The ner was the Razza Ticinos well-proportioned, medium-sized, chestnut colt Macon, 1 who drew away below the distance to win 1 by two lengths from the Razza Villa Verdes bay colt Sanduski, with the Aniene Stables chestnut filly Papina another length away in third place. The time, of 1:01 was nothing out of the ordinary, but we gained i the impression that Macon won with something in hand, and his breeding indicates he will be more at home over longer dis-1 fances. He is by the lightly raced, unbeaten T French stallion, Ocarina, who won four l races at three and four years and was con- sidered a very high-class performer. We saw two impressive looking, yearlings by Ocarina when we visited the Razza del Continued on Page Fifiy-Ont Report From Italy by DESMOND McGOWAN Continued from Pane Ten Soldo in February, and now, having seen Macon, we are convinced that Ocarina bids-fair to continue the wonderful male line tracing back to Hermit. Macon is the first produce of the Italian 1,000 Guineas "winner, Mezzegra, who was a. high-class and game filly.
