WHEN looking through the honour roll of the winners of the Maturity Classic it is perhaps no surprise that future top line sprinters are heavily represented. Only two past winners of the Maturity later developed into champion stayers: namely Pharaoh’s Mask and Northern Legend.
Pharaoh’s Mask was accurately described as an awkward 34.4 kilogram chaser who possessed little early pace but had a huge motor. While the fawn dog, whelped in March 1984 from the mating of Forever Eaton to Roy Trease, possessed enormous ability, that lack of early speed was always going to hamper his efforts to perform at his Read full article
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