"DREAM" DIVIDEND

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 13

"DREAM" DIVIDEND

SWEET ROSE ROMPS HOME

Form had been working out quite well despite the tricky conditions, due it w.as almost too much -to, expect this even tenor to continue unruffled the whole day long. The blow .came at : last in- the seventh eyent^ the Members' Handicap, in which Sweet -Rose bade long adieux ■• to her rivals for r a win, dividend approaching the half- • century mark. '• , ;;■...- : '.'■ -Sweet Rose was only a name to most . Trentham patrons. . On the opening day this mare had never been sighted •in the open sprint. In three recent races since her resumption after a year's spell she had made no showing.- Hence it was not at all.sur- : prising that she was sent out rank outsider of the field of thirteen. Sweet Rose also drew No. 13 marble, but as the track would be better that . far out along the back the draw was - probably more of a help than otherwise. Just after a furlong she had joined the leaders, and at the halfmile she shot away, clear. She was a long way out in front on reaching .. the straight, and she carried on unchallenged to score the easiest flat win at the meeting to date by some' six lengths.- ■'~,/ This mafe is an eight-year-old chestnut daughter of Musketoon and the Wairiki—Miss Rose mare Wee Rose, who has left several useful horses at the stud, including Eager Rose, Superior Guard, and Alunga. She was brought down to the meeting in company with Superior Guard by her breeder-owner, Mr. W. Alexander, of Te Awamutu, who does his own .traini ing. Last season she won a couple . of races on .the Ellerslie track, • the , Takapuna'Pupuke Plate on soft ground, : and .the Christmas Handicap on Box- '. ing Day on fitra ground, but until her. • recent reappearance she had been off the scene for nearly a year. She did [ not have her first racing till a single i start as a four-year-old, and her re- : cord now comprises 'five wins in 38 ' outings for £1310 in stakes. ; Gaily, the win favourite, wound up ■ a safe second. She was five or six . places back till the straight, but her ' stamina then enabled her to beat the ; rest of the field, though she bad no ■ chance with the runaway winner. Thala, who was first out and then followed Sweet Rose to the straight, hung on in the home run to gam. the 1 other dividend. This filly appears to ; have come really solid. ■ ' Merial, the second .favourite, was • unlucky in ..missing the jump-out. She ■ went up fast from the rear round the : field on the turn to be fourth dnto 1 the straight, but she was wide out ■Hand she could not improve on that <osition. Better served, she must have ,-o.en in the money. The going floundered the rest. Wag- • ner and Matoru went fair races with- » out ever being possibilities. Liane and - Pukeko were still going on at the end, e but Te Hai, Haughty Winner, and ; Big Dook all faded from handy posi- - tions. Maori Song was never in the i hunt. Paper Slipper and Big Dook i finished at a walk.