Wenona Girl

Wenona Girl (foaled 1957) was a leading Australian Thoroughbred horse racemare that had 27 wins over distances ranging from 4½ furlongs to 1½ miles.

Golden Chariot won the VATC One Thousand Guineas and was the dam of two other stakes-winners, Emblem and Grammar Lad both sired by Wilkes.

Wenona Girl was unplaced in the AJC Australian Derby which was won by Persian Lyric from Le Storm and Sky High.

That spring as a four-year-old mare, Wenona Girl ran second to Sky High in the Canterbury Stakes and won the Tatts Tramway Handicap.

In the autumn of 1962 Wenona Girl won the C F Orr Stakes and was then second, by a half head, to New Statesman in the Oakleigh Plate.

Returning to Sydney she ran second to Kilsherry with Fine and Dandy finishing third to her in the All Aged Stakes.

Wenona Girl finished to Bush Bell with Fine and Dandy third in the Theo Marks Quality Handicap, AJC Daily & Sunday Telegraph Stakes, and had another second to Rochdale, with New Statesmen third in the Epsom Handicap, and yet another second in the George Main Stakes.

Back in Sydney she won AJC Malayan Racing Association Cup and the All Aged Stakes from Silver Bore.

She was then sold by Bill Longworth to Lloyd Foyster, a thoroughbred breeder and the then owner of Gooree Stud, which he established in the early 1960s.