EAST DOME RETIRED

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29007, 23 September 1959, Page 5

EAST DOME RETIRED

Career At Stud Planned

“The Press" Special Service

INVERCARGILL, Sept. 22.

East Dome, one of Southland’s best pacers of recent years, is unlikely to race again. He has had only four starts in the last two seasons and his trainer, P M. Tapper, said today that as he had threatened to break down in his sound foreleg. East Dome would not. be persevered with. He will make a start as a sire and will do stud duty this season. In a restricted career East Dome won nine races and was 11 times placed for £4393 in stakes. He had only 39 starts in the five seasons he raced.

As a five-year-old East Dome made spectacular progress through the classes, winning his way back from a 4min 41sec twomile mark to 4min 26sec. He won six races that season, his last success being against a strong field of stayers in the New New Brighton Cup. One of his finest performances was when he won the Gore Cup from 72 yards back as a five-year-old. He broke up in the early running and his task looked hopeless but he won decisively, running out the two miles in 4min 25 3-ssec.

East Dome was raced by Mr G. Condon and trained throughout his career by P. M. Tapper, of Gore. A quality-looking seven-year-old stallion by Free Fight, East Dome is out of Grattan’s Child, which left the winners. Lord Balfour, Lady Balfour and Balfour Lass.