AFTER LONG SPELL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 13

AFTER LONG SPELL

EVEN MONEY UPSETS FORM

With so little recent form to work on, investors were asking for trouble in the Trial Plate, and it came when Even Money finished on too strongly for the well-fancied Race Call and scored by three parts of a length. This pair soon singled themselves out, with Race Call heading off Even Money within a furlong, but the post was just too far away for Race Call, who succumbed to Even Moneys challenge in the last half furlong. Even Money, who was having her first outing for two seasons, had not given much promise in public when previously raced. Now eight years old, she is a light-framed brown mare by Golden Sovereign, a Polydamon horse who was a complete failure on the race track, and her dam is the All Red —Equitation mare Equalise, who also was of no ' account as a galloper. On Saturday she was running in new colours, those of Mr. W. Strachan, of Turakina, who is training her himself on his own property. At the last Rangitikei Meeting in the spring another offspring of Golden Sovereign named Reserve Bank ran second to Martara.

Race Call had to be satisfied with still another minor place. This diminutive gelding of unascertainable breeding has a lot of pace and he is overdue for a win. On Saturday he appeared to be suffering from a slight cold.

Blue Mauritius, soon up with Orient Dawn following the leading pair, was a handy third a length back, and ha might have paid a dividend if Race Call had not blocked his way in the straight. Orient Dawn went his best race yet for fourth. The others never had much. chance, but Aurora's Love was finishing on Ifth after a slow start, and Gay. Ruby also made up considerable ground. Lacan took fright at barrier-rise, and Sailor's Delight, after falling over before the start, failed to begin. .-■■•