WHILE the CL & MF Weld Park Stakes was run over seven furlongs and the Beresford Stakes was run over a mile, the fillies went comparatively, significantly faster than the colts.

It was an interesting race, as the Park Stakes usually is. At the two-furlong pole, all 10 fillies lined up in diagonal formation across the track, like swallows on their way to South Africa, or to wherever they go these days.