GAY ROSE'S DOUBLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 15

GAY ROSE'S DOUBLE

A YATTERINA DESCENDANT i Whether Gay Rose can now go on to carry her present sequence of wins to three in the Cornwall Handicap at Ellerslie on Saturday week is a little doubtful, in view of the 141b rehandicap she has received, lifting her weight to a stone above the minimum and lo fifth place in the list. But whether she does or not, she has already well earned her winter oats, for her .two victories'at the Waikato Meeting were worth a tidy £600 between them, more than the whole stake attached to the Cornwall. Gay Rose has been a profitable performer for her breeder, Mr. A. E. Lennard, who trains her himself at Te Aroha. While, she was a two- and three-year-old he had her }eased to Mr. R. A. Barry, but she won only one small race in that period and the ■lease was cancelled. Since then she has been a very useful mare, with her wins including the Ohinemuri and Takapuna Cups,, and recently the Islington Handicap at the A.R.C. Autumn Meeting. Her-placed perform-, ances include seconds in the A.R.C. Summer , Cup and the Avondale Autumn Handicap. The serviceableness of this (mare is indicated by her record, which: reads: —

Now a six-year-old, Gay Rose is a black mare by defunct Gay Shield (son of Gay Crusader) from the Soult-rAlba Rose mare Auturrin Rose, who descends from the successful ' colonial taproot designated Yatterina. - •Autumn Rose, who was bred in 1909 by Mrs. J. Lennard, raced as Summer Rose -when she was five years old and she was a winner at a Te Kuiti Meeting under that name. The next season she was a failure . and so- she was relegated to the stud, where her first offspring was Master O'Rourke, who1 won several races. Later came Lucy Rose, who was an excellent performer as. a four-year-old particularly, when her victories included r the Te Rapa Handicap, 1 mile, at Waikato and the King George Handicap at the Great Northern Meeting. Autumn • Rose .had no further foal till Gay Rose came five years later; and /'after a further interval of four years she has got Regal Rose, by King Lv,- a two-year-old at present and; also to be raced by Mr. Lennard. - The line of Yatterina to which these horses belong'has been in the Lennard family for nearly* fifty years, as the late , Mr. J. Lennard secured Vieux Rose, third dam of Gay Rose, back' in the early nineties. The Yatterina taproot has been responsible for such splendid horses, among others, as Libeller (G.N. Derby, etc.), Matchlock (V.R.C. and : A.J.C. St. Leger), Finfire (Auckland Cup), Wairiki (Auckland Cup, G.N. Derby, etc.), and more recently Te Kara' (Aucklahd Cup), First Salute, Queen March (dam of Limarch, King March, Gay Marigold), etc. Gay Rose therefore has very sound breeding to back up her recent successes. «

Starts. .Wins.. Places. Stakes. At 2yrs 3 — — — At 3yrs 14 1 1 55 At 4yrs 22 3 12 775 At 5yrg 25 1.8 640 At 6yrs ....... 15 3 1 870 Totals ...... 79 .8 22 ,£2340