AUSTRALIAN TURF

Evening Star, Issue 25301, 9 October 1944, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TURF

TEA ROSE COMPLETES HAT TRICK SYDNEY, October 8! Finishing full of running, the brilliant three-year-old filly Tea Rose easily won the Craven Plate at the opening of the A.J.C. spring meeting at Rand wick yesterday. Tea Rose won by two lengths from Mayfowl, with Flight a long head away in third place. She covered the 10 furlongs in 2min 3sec —only a second and a-quarter outside the Australian record held by Beau Vite. This win completed a hat trick for Tea Rose, who had won the Canterbury Stakes and Rosehill Guineas in great style. After such a convincing win in the Craven Plate Tea Rose will probably start a strong favourite in the Derby next Saturday. The Breeders' Plate went to the Ajax colt Magnificent, who won without effort from Don Giovanni, with the New Zea-land-bred Tamaroa third. Magnificent w the first of Ajax's progeny to race in Aiis6tralia. Principal results: Breeders' Plate.—Magnificent, 8.5 (Delaney) 1, Don Giovanni, 8.5 (J. Thompson) 2, Tamaroa, 8.5 (Darke) 3. Eighteen started. Length and a-half each way. Time, I.o}. Craven Plate.—Tea ' Rose, 7.6 (Duncan) 1, Mayfowl, 8.9 (Bartle) 2, Flight, 8.9 (J. Thompson) 3. Six started. Two lengths; long head. Time, 2.3. The Shorts.—Winnipeg, 8.0 (Moore)' 1, Nobleman, 8.2 (Duncan) 2, Modulation, 8.10 (Munro) 3. Ten started. Half a head; three-quarters of a length. Time", '1.23£. Clibborn Stakes.—Removal, 8.5 (Mulley) 1, Beau Monde, 8.10 (J. Thompson) 2, Accession, 8.12 (Cook) 3. Eight started. Two lengths and a-half; four lengths. Time, 2.4£.