Whata Pacer, Rosy Score to dispute finish of Breeders’ Plate

Press, 7 May 1987, Page 45

Whata Pacer, Rosy Score to dispute finish of Breeders’ Plate

By

G. K. YULE

Whata Pacer, a most respectable fifth in the Nevele R. Stud N.Z. Oaks last Saturday, and Rosy Score, third in the same race, will be popular fancies in the N.Z. Metropolitan Breeders’ Plate, the first leg of the T.A.B. treble at Addington Raceway tomorrow evening. The race caters for three-year-old fillies and will be run over the Oaks distance of 2600 m from a mobile start. Whata Pacer, which was left in the care of the Templeton trainer, Felix Newfield, who will again drive her, was awkwardly placed on the inside and she was not keen to come out for her driver with less, than 600 m to run. Then she was pushed wide, losing ground, before coming on resolutely over the final 100 m to finish four lengths from the winner, Young Eden, at the end of a record-run race. Whata Pacer has drawn handily and should be able to maintain a prominent position all the way. Rosy Score’s placing in the Oaks was

one to enthuse over. She came doggedly from far back to gain the last dividendbearing placing in the event in a tight finish with the hot favourite, Bionic Chance.

Rosy Score has had two wins and four placings from her seven starts and she looks to be one of the more talented fillies of her age. She has drawn outside Whata Pacer and there is unlikely to be much between the two if both have not been affected adversely by strengthsapping runs in the Oaks. Nellie Doon, a member of Robin Swain’s Otama team, suggested an early win when she came home gamely for third behind Ankorman and Strollalong in a Cl race last Saturday. She is a daughter of the leading sire, Noodlum, and looks ■to have inherited plenty of ability and stamina. June’s Double, a Dunedin challenger, found the pace in the Oaks beyond her, but for all that she did not go all that badly to finish seventh. She will have to be considered in this event, as will Neet Feat, Netherton Abbe and Koau Chime.