THREE-YEAR-OLDS WIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1941, Page 12

THREE-YEAR-OLDS WIN

WAIKATO DOUBLE

LOU ROSA AND DUVACH

(Special to the "Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, February 15. The thw>s-year-old Lou Rosa, who required a deal of time to redeem his early juvenile promise, followed up his recent middle-distance win in the Takapuna Cup with a comfortable and attractive victory in the Storey Memorial Handicap, the main event on the opening day of the Waikato Racing Club's Summer Meeting. As the distance of each of these events was 11 furlongs, it would seem that the Foxbridge gelding, who incidentally was also second to Kindergarten in the Great Northern Derby, is best -suited by a journey above a mile and a quarter. The Storey Memorial was a somewhat disappointing contest, as the field was quickly strung out by Gay Rosette. Nearing the home turn Lou Rosa and Flying Acre began to reduce the pacemaker's big break, and over the last furlong Lou Rosa ran readily to the front, going on to score with something iit hand from Gay Rosette, who easily stalled off everything else. The favourite, Clinch, came from well back for third, with Cornish and Flying Acre next. The President's Handicap, for the sprinters, was won by another- three-year-old Foxbridge representative in the brilliant Duvach, who outclassed her opposition. It was not long before Duvach was in the van with Palustre and Rex Maitland, and after, drawing clear in the straight she carried on unchallenged to score by three lengths from Gold Vaals, who put in a characteristic effort from the rear to, beat Corato narrowly for second. Rex Maitland was fourth, ahead of Gaymiss and Palustre. Farland, a special ist on the course, was actually first away but he was soon well back in the running and did not give any sub-

sequent menace. , ' The Trentham trainer H. A. Telford supplied the winner of the Puketaha Handicap, for the open milers, with Siglow, who was enjoying his second " success in the grade. Siglow was always going well and tie beat a useful form horse in Augment comfort- j ably, the two southerners being too' good for the home brigade. Trentham's other representative at the meeting, the imported Parchment, was heavily backed for the Trial Stakes on the.strength of a couple of good sprints prior to leaving for the north, but he ran disappointingly, Another hotly | supported visitor in Happy Ending, from the Augment stable, was decisively beaten in the . Beerescourt Hack Handicap by the three-year-old Night Raid colt Night Pilot, who was a winner at Whangarei in December at his first start on his return from Sydney, but had failed since and as a result was somewhat neglected in the betting. ■.■;-■