AN END-TO-END SUCCESS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 138, 7 December 1935, Page 22

AN END-TO-END SUCCESS

Werohia set out to win the Bolton Handicap from end to end, as he had .tried and just failed to achieve on th'j finai day at ■Fgilding last Monday, and ■on this occasion . he succeeded com--*i«4*« % Going to the back stretch he had a "break of three lengths on Passion Fruit and Vanestep, and though ?U.e field closed up before reaching the turn he was still going well a length and a half in front of Slippgry, who had raced ahead of the other pair. He +heti sprinted away again, was two and a half lengths clear at the straight entrance, and won easily by a length and a half from the strongly-finishing Entail.

Werohia has been a horse of somewhat mixed performance, failing-to go on last season with the decided staying promise he revealed as a threey ar-old, but he has stepped on to a purple patch of form again at present, and should he continue to train on now he might win one of the important handicaps shortly, for he is bred along very stout lines. He is a five-year-old gelding by Greyspear, whose stock usually come to their best at his age, and his dam. the King Mark mars Huiarau, is a half-sister to Toxcuma. He is owned by his breeder, Mr. F. Orjnond r -who has^ ways hsd.M.idg'a.jopia.-

i ion of him. Earlier in the season lie had a setback after running a second at the Danr.evirke Hunt Meeting, and he did not reappear till last weekend. Entail, an unexpectedly hot favourite, just twice as well backed as the winner, who was the next choice, justified the support by his performance if not by the result. ' After holding to the fence seven horses back till reaching the straight he was unable to find an immediate opening, so Humphries moved him out, and once he was on the outside he finished very powerful--ly to pass everything except the pacemaker. His splendid final run suggested that he was.the unlucky horse, and on this showing he is a very d--flnite prospect for the Great Northern Derby, for he is a fast-improving colt. The merit of his effort is further revealed by the fact that Werohia came home his last half-mile in 49sec:'

Vanestep's staying ability enabled her to be third, and she was beaten for the second dividend too only in the final strides. In the middle stages she was unable to hold her place, but she came home soundly from just in front of Entail at the straight entrance. Slippery again found a mile and a quarter too, far, but he went a fine race till the last furlong, when he weakened into fourth. Passion Fruit and Speed, who were next, were also beaten by a true pace over the diitance. Senior made up some ground at the close, but Walton Park, except for a brief effort along the back, was innocuous. The other pair, Tahoma and Tres Sec, were outclassed..