DORADO COMES TO HAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 13

DORADO COMES TO HAND

Dorado repeated his recent Woodville effort in the Waitohu Hack Handicap, and he returned a good dividend for a form horse. Out on the track from the start, he was never far behind the pacemakers, Marjory Daw and Terry, and after Golden Chest had run through to assume control at the distance he came with his claim and scored going away by half a length. Dorado has taken a new lease of life since entering the stables of M. Williams, to whom he was given as a gift about three months ago. During the spring' and summer he was such a scarecrow that he was known on the Levin track as "Gandhi," but lately he has put' on condition and new bloom. Now six years old, this son of Grandcourt may still have a number of races left in him, even when he transfers to open class. ' . , Golden Chest came up in a hurry to assume control in the straight, and she then lacked reserve when challenged. Patagonia finished strongly along the outer of the first pair for a close third and on this showing his turn-may not ■be far distant. Marjory Daw, the three-year-old full-sister to Princess Doreen, was well supported and failed only because she was not good enough. Alunga, .the favourite, sacrificed his prospects by going off in a canter and letting the field well away before beginning to gallop. The Sandwich Man was going well in behind the leaders till This rider lost an iron on the home turn. Terry dropped out in the {Straight.