By MIKE DILLON
Bruce Wallace won a couple of 2-year-old heats at the Ellerslie trials yesterday and shook his head.
The youngster he thought was far the best of those he took to the trials failed to finish in a place.
Wallace has a huge opinion of an unnamed colt by American-based sire Gilded Time from Tzar's Treasure, but fourth was the best he could do in his 500m heat.
"I think he's a Golden Slipper horse, "said a surprised Wallace.
"I thought he would win on his ear, but his stride was all over the place and perhaps he is strictly a dry tracker.
"He is lengths better than the two of mine that won."
They were a Prized-Innishannon filly, who took a half head win, and a Grosvenor-Boonoke gelding, who finished very strongly to win comfortably also over 400m.
Wallace produced a likely sort in a well put together Barathea-French Tide colt.
He was checked at the start, sprinted quickly then was beaten half a head after racing greenly.
The most impressive juvenile winner was a Woodman-Dancing Show filly from the Jillings/Yuill stable.
And she is entitled to be good.
Sir Patrick Hogan paid $A450,000 for Dancing Show, a full-blown wobbler and uninsurable at the time. Dancing Show was in foal to Thunder Gulch at the time, Sir Patrick topping the 1999 Sydney sales with the resulting filly for $A1.2 million.
The Woodman filly was the next and after foaling a Danehill filly, Dancing Show deteriorated to the point she had to be put down.
"I have retained both these fillies," said Sir Patrick.
Despite looking on the very soft conditions, the Woodman filly had too much class and won by one and a half lengths from her stablemate, the Centaine-Nasajuanita filly.
"She iss as lovely a filly as you would see anywhere," said Colin Jillings.
She has a lot of physical scope, barely a typical two-year-old type and Jillings said he is no hurry to produce her to the races.
"We are getting her educated and just taking our time."
The Jillings/Yuill stable took another 2-year-old heat impressively with Flying Babe, a filly by Golden Slipper winner Flying Spur and won all three 1000m maiden qualifying heats with Miss Pollyanna (Gold Brose-Excitable Kid filly), Zahenz (Zabeel-In The Country gelding) and Pyramus (Beau Zam-Gull Munder).
Other 2-year-old heat winners were a Spectacular Love-Stormy Prince gelding, a Blazing Keel-Panui Bud colt and a colt by Racer's Edge from Batsman's Balla.
Blue Dude and Mountain Breeze were two stylish open heat winners.
Blue Dude won a juvenile event impressively at Ellerslie last season and showed he was ready to something similar when he took a 1200m win without being extended by rider Jim Collett.
Mountain Breeze's raceday form had not always matched his ability, but he covered more ground than the other runners in his 1400m heat but won by a wide margin and still had a lot of running left in him.
Nobodywantsme beat smart galloper Volkaire over 1000m and My Willie Montague was narrowly in front of Sunburst in his 1200m heat.
Racing: Trials results not what expected
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