Good trial by Rose Mellay
(N.Z. Press. Assn — Copyright) i SYDNEY. | The New Zealand stayer. Rose) Mellay. turned in a great trial ] for lier Brisbane Cup campaign i when she finished just behindthe placegetters in the Twicken-' ham Flying Handicap (1100 ml at! Randwick on Saturday. It was her first race start I in Australia, but Rose Mellay Im-] pressed by passing six or seven other horses in the straight. Count Rapier upset a confident il plunge on Broadway Hit, when! he streaked through the bog] to win the Rugby Centenary] Stakes (2000 m
With the veteran skills of A. I Mulley, Count Rapier showed: himself a brilliant wet-track i] specialist. He beat the top-1 weight, Audaciter. by two'] lengths, with the favourite]! Broadway Hit half a length away third.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33520, 29 April 1974, Page 9
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