Claudette, engaged in the second race at Ballarat today (Tuesday),is being set a task if she is ever going to be compared with her name sake that raced back in the forties.

The original Claudette, a very good staying mare back in the early forties, won a Williamstown Cup at two attempts, in the 1943 Melbourne Cup she ran third, and fourth the following year.

When mixing flat racing and jumping together she was among four winners of the Grand National Hurdle, sired by David, four years in succession.