Petite Evander has won $630,000

Press, 2 October 1979, Page 24

Petite Evander has won $630,000

PA Auckland The Auckland-owned trotter, Petite Evander, now awaiting more racing opportunities in and around New York State has won §630,000, placing her third only to Cardigan Bay and Young Quinn among New Zealand standardbred stakeearners. Just returned from a trip to Europe, where he saw Petite Evander earn §25.000 for placing second in a §lOO.OOO invitation race in Gothenbora (Sweden) the mare’s former Auckland trainer. Mr “Snow’’ Weaver, who races her with his father Frank, said she was beaten quite decisively. “However, the five-furlong track had a 10-degree camber — like a bicycle track

— and after being parked for most of the first half- ’ mile, Petite Evander led and]' then was run down by a . good horse named Hadolli Duviviere,” he said. “He|j and Petite Evander recorded]' clocked a new track record! for the mile and a-sixteenth, a fraction worse than al' 2min 01s rate.” It was Petite Evander’s lone start on the trip. Justjj before, in New York, she ; was placed fourth in the]; Roosevelt International and’ won a 535.000 feature at ; Yonkers. ■ 1 Had Petite Evander not] been selected to go to Swe-p den, her trainer, Ed Dunni-p gan. would have taken herp ■to the Big Red Mile in Lex-I s ington. Kentucky, to try to j get her the world record for i aged trotting mares, T