Battle Eve completes notable treble

Press, 30 December 1976, Page 12

Battle Eve completes notable treble

Special correspondent Auckland Battle Eve pushed her stakelearning total $3OOO. or there a bouts, closer to $lOO,OOO and Joined the com pan v of Gloaming and Desert Gold in the record books with her win in the King’s Plate at Ellerslie x eslerday. The prize for first increased Rattle Eve’s earnings to $95,345. ; so she is within less than $lO,OOO of the record in New Zealand. 1 field by 11 Tempo. She also became only the third ! horse to win the King's Plate, an old established xx eight for-age 1600 m three times on end. And the other two. Gloaming and j Desert Gold, have long been 1 regarded as among the best which have ever raced in New , Zealand. Barrie Eve, a six-yeai old chest- ; nut mare b\ Battle-Waggon from Summer Eve. and both of the !<»ther two claim hat-tricks in the King's Plate. but Battle Ex e

holds a special dtstmcUon a< having, through a rearrangemeri of the Auckland Cup meeting programme, "on the race twice m the last year. She won in 1975 and again on January 1 of this year. oF'r this Cup meeting the race was switched to th® second ria Desert Gold won in 1915, 19.16 and 1917. Gloaming in 1918, 1919 and 1920. Rattle Eve had not raced sim • she won the South Auckland Breeders’ Stakes at Pukekohe on December 4 She would have started in the Thames Valley Stakes, against Show Gate, and in a weight-for-age 2000 m at Avondale on December 22 except that her blood coun fetl below

par. She showed herself in this one right hack to her best by winning bx three lengths and a quaiter from Patronize in a smart I min 34.745ec. After trailing the pacemaker. Oranmore. ah* joined issue a* they began the run home. Oranmore faded djsan pointingly and Patronize, third mainlv, came on to take second place by a length.