MARES AND AUCKLAND CUP
For a long period of racing in New Zealand one rarely held out much hope for maTes in either the New Zealand or Auckland Cups, but the success of-the sex in recent years in these races now makes them look rather the. better proposition. The last four New Zealand Cuos have been won :by mares (Fast . Passage. Palantua," Steetpn, and Cuddle), and two of the last three ■Auckland Cups have gone to the sex (Fast Passage and Gold Trail). With Cuddle, Vanestep, and Gay Rose likely runners at Ellerslie on Boxing Day there is a reasonable prospect of the sequence's -being continued; r .■•' The first mare to »win the Auckland Cud was Lottie (8;0>, who,led the field home in 1894, twenty-one years after the race had been inaugurated. The following year another mare, Anita (6.9), also claimed the. attention-.of-"the judge. A period-of eighteen years then elapsed before Warstep (8.9) added the third success for the sex. After an interval of three years : Mascot. (6.13) was the fourth winner, and Karo' (7.13) took'her turn the next year. Another interval followed till the successes of Fast Passage (8.11) in 1932 and of Gold Trail (7-.11) last. year. , • ' f
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1935, Page 8
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200MARES AND AUCKLAND CUP Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1935, Page 8
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