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Australia Wiggle Is Beaten; Coming to U.S.A. By BOB THOMSON Our Melbourne Correspondent MELBOURNE — With another winter campaign approaching memories of turf fans occasionally go back to the 1946 Doomben Newmarket Handicap and Queenslands sensational racer Bernborough. The Too-woomba champion proved himself one of the swiftest and gam-est horses over bred in the sunny northern state. A. O. Romanos grand galloper was far and away the best horse sired by Embor-ough Gainsborough . - £ It ■* of ;j in [_ s [e Sydneys best* handler of two-year-olds about is former Queensland developer Harry plant who has such classy youngsters as Fine and Dandy whose sire Star Kingdom has sired many of the greatest horses Australia has seen in the past decade, Morning Star and Count Rego. On,Anzac Day Morning Star Kingdom swooped down on his stablemate Count Rego raced by A. C. Romano and Staraway in the Somme Stakes 6f at water-logged Randwick. The failure of Wiggle to continue her winning ways at Randwick was the sensation of Easter racing throughout Austrailia. After winning the weight-forage mile C. M. Lloyd and Kewney Stakes at Flemington, K. D. Godbys queenly filly outgamed Webster in the rich Alister Clark Stakes at Moonee Valley went under to Morning Gleam Royal Empire in the Princess Handicap at Warwick Farm and could only manage third behind Victorias ace filly Chicola in the Adrian Knox Stakes dV£m at Randwick. When you read this Wiggle likely will be on his way to America. Fred Calvin will race the filly in partnership with his brother Charles a leading U. S. trainer. Duckaroo a smart three-year-old will accompany Wiggle and flaunt the Calvin silks on Americas major tracks. Imported Orgoglio is well .to the fore as a sire of winners in the Commonwealth this season. Outstanding among hs first crop is South Australias star juvenlie Goglio who i trounced the Borneo Flying Handicap field at Morphettville SA on April 25. Any- ■ thing is possible for this colt in the coming ; months of winter racing. Goglio won breez- i ing from Ringbank and Leicanie. Power ; Duke, unbeaten in eight runs before the [ Borneo which was virtually a Goodwood • Handicap line-up including the cream of . Adelaides sprinters reared i 3 the stall ; gates opened and faded out to finish sixth. [ i Queensland will be invaded by a powerful Sydney team for the winter carnival. Diamond Vista one of the countrys star [ sprinters gave a scintillating display of r speed at Warwick Farm on May 2 when f he won the Flying Handicap 6f from T Grey Ghost and New Spec. Now Diamond Vista who showed a return to his spring ; form by winning at Canterbury where he r got within a quarter second of Humming j Tops course record and put the six fur-3 longs behind in 1-11 1-2 will be set for j Queenslands rich Stradbroke Stakes and Doomben Ten Thousand. Diamond Vista 3 j besmirched his reputation when he could only run third to Amanullah and Squan-g der Lad in the Newmarket Handicap 7f .. at Newcastle on May 4. Veteran breeder E. A. Haley has received a i I many cables and letter from TJ. S. owners t and Kentucky breeders who wish to pur- s chase Australias champion Tulloch. Opin- I ions are expressed that the son of Khoras-s san Big Game will soar to new heights, s Tommy Smiths plan is to race Tulloch in Queensland next month. This sensational e galloper emerged from the shadows of re-_ tirement looking bright and robust. He will 3 reappear in the w-f-a OShea Stakes, e Among his rivals will be Book Link, Bay- II stone and Caesar. Haley told Californian _ columnist Ted Williams he would come on n his own to see Tulloch race in America and a a not come subsidized. He prefers Tulloch to in n match strides with local and international glamor racers at glorious Santa Anita which has so often been eloquently described by Williams onhis annual visit. Haley believes, Tulloch will show his best form on Santa Anitas magnificent grass course. Darby Munro, one of the younger genera-fr tion of trainers has developed a two-year-n old colt whom the railbirds believe will give the former crack Sydney booter Darby Munro his first classic winner next spring. Beechley, rated a potential Derby winner, Continued on Page Twelve Australia By BOB THOMSON Continued from Page Ten disappointed Munro on Anzac Day on a water-logged Randwick track, but outpaced Prince Crown and Sir Ibex in the Juvenile Novice at Warwick Farm. Beechely is raced by the exors of the late Viv Davis a leading veterinary surgeon. Sired by Delville Wood he is out of the Duchess Le Grand Due sister to the 1951 AJC St. Leger winner Aristocrat, Dam of The Duchess, Kir-rang produced the Adelaide SA Queens Cup winner Sir. Coral.
