Sweet Spray’s Retirement Deferred
It has been learned that Sweet Spray’s retirement at the end of the season may now be deferred. Her owner, Mr R. W. H. Holden, who is leaving for England in the next few days to attempt to buy a mare to replace Sugar Kandy, the dam of Sweet Nymph and Sweet Spray, Intended this to be Sweet Spray’s last season, and she was to be mated with Faux Tirage and the following season with Dogger Bank. Mr Holden, however, is now considering racing the filly as a four-year-old, with the Melbourne Cup likely to be her main mission. She is engaged in the Awapuni Gold Cup on Saturday, and later she will go to Auckland to race in the Great Northern Oaks and the St. Leger, for which she is the early favourite. Her possible clash with Tudor Prince, Beaumaris, and Super Snipe is arousing a great deal of Interest.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27346, 23 March 1950, Page 5
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