WINS THREE ON END

NZ Truth, Issue 1108, 24 February 1927, Page 11

WINS THREE ON END

Game Mare Ruthair Collects the Treble^ The Kilbroney mare Piuthair ni a day over three weeks sub^Sl ceeded m winning three cups. >3®l

LICKED by a,fraction of an inch in] the Racing Club Handicap at Trentham m when an Australasian record was run—she went on and made turf history. '''Cmms. «.+ u,u, an, <,v« imt* k.. -■''■* f, \ VH * ?1 Ik / , field standing at the three-furlong ~^t- *r,A „,^« +w, 0 Pn«,y>n«. r.^„ post and won the Egmont Cup. ■. . Next followed.the Taranaki Cup, and -again she came away, m the same place and won again.V a ] : Wanganui last week was thought by many to be' beyond her; but; the 1 mare was just a bit better than the majority thought. . '. . Three furlongs from home she once again was asked the big question, :ah4 the answer was .there. • She just won—she just »beat the fastfinishing Rapine—but it is her name that goes down on the list of winners of the mile and three-quarters Wanganui.Cup. "• • • From now on it is just possible „

that the handicappers will have "vi^K the. measure of Piuthair. y,;'Si| j f thfey do not gra^p her greatness?^! after last Thursday they never will! \;.'#§ The win- at" Wanganui must have heen some consolation to her owner, l>j Rod. McKenzie: -"m _, ,' .i, :._ .. . : «-£ He had the mortification of see- .-■■;££ ing hi^ mare knocked all over the ■"coIHPI e .' m th^ WeHington Cup, i---f- - . rac« s] ,e ou. ,d i Possibly ; have won but-for the interference '^ she suttered. - >?| The next; day of. the meeting, whenft she looked a good thing, Star Stranger Improved In form , and just won tfy'a.'^ whisker. ' -S-^ Last week Rapine was badly wanted -'f —more than badly—but Rod's mareM>-: up-ended; the wanted one, andthat the.'g'S defeat caused much heart-burning is ; well known. ./■ i-;wS Now it is "evens for Stevens," and if the woolbrokers were asked to give %; their opinion it would be three cheers "v for Piuthair; : "!