ROTORUA A FAILURE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1935, Page 26

ROTORUA A FAILURE

Rotorua, now four years old, is unable to show any form in her racing in England. She was a runner in the Autumn Plate, at Hurst Park on November 3, but finished last, tailed off, and the English critic "Meyrick Good" wrote about her: "Another interesting competitor was Rotorua, a daughter of Night Raid, the sire of famous Phar Lap. She did not impress' me in the paddock, and was tailed off most of the way in the race." Rotorua was purchased in New Zealand .on, behalf ■of ■-the South African sportsman Sir Joseph B. Robinson. She was intended.for Cape Town, but as a result of a heavy import tax that was imposed at that time' she was not unshipped on arrival- but was sent straight on to England, where she has so-far been a failure. She is a bay daughter of the Gay Lad mare Gay Round, a half-sister to Entreaty, so she is actually a three-quarter-sister to Phar Lap. .■•".•■- ■ - -.■•:■■•

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