AN IMPRESSIVE WIN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 6

AN IMPRESSIVE WIN

BALL DRESS'S HANDICAP

Ball Dress, who carries the'livery of Sir Sharks Clifford, continued the improvement she showed between the days at ' )Trentham, and her victory in the Prince 'of Wales Handicap was fnll of merit, for ' 4he opposition comprised some of the best liandicappers: at present in active commission. As a two-year-old last season she ,was unable to score in a dozen starts, , and: this season she was slow, to strike •form, but she came with a vengeance just before the holidays, and has never looked ! Back since. She left hack ranks- in the Dauro Cup, and, after a month's rest •■following her" success in that race, made a reappearance at the recent Wellington Sleeting, where she registered two attractive and improving performances without '•arning any of the money. She is a bay ■filly by Winning Hit from the Martian "mare Equipment, and is thus full-sister to Semper Paratus and Cricket Bat, and hal£aister to Centrepiece. and Full Feather. ■ '^Ball Dress and Toxeuiria were the early . leaders, but then Moutoa Treasury raced to the front, and hs!f a mile from home had'a break of sis lengths on Ball' Dress, Kahikatoa, Royal Parade, Toxeuma, and < Chopin. • Moutoa Treasury was fallingback quickly on:.her field approaching the straight, and a furlong, from' home she; gave way to Ball Dress, who withstood challenges from Royal Parade, Tbxeuma, and Kahikatoa to win by a length, with heads separating the other three" in the, order named. Next were Moutoa Treasury,. Paitonu, High JTahitin',- Shrewd, and Chopin. .-. .. ... ..,..' .Ball Dress was seventh .favourite, at a price just short of. double figures. She scored comfortably,' and once in the lead never looked.like being beaten. Tdxeuma, a warm first favourite, went much better than he did at Trentham; and is evidently returning., to form. Royal Parade. wa3 always near the front,, being well handled by the apprentice E. Burgess) his usual pilot. He was only a'few. tickets better fancied than the winner, and paid a good price for second. Kahikatoa, the second favourite, appeared likely to be in the money, a furlong from home, but lie weakened, slightly over, the closing part. High Palutin' and Rory. Mor were squeezed out at the start, and Paitonu was in trouble over the first few. furlongs.