WAIKAHA'S SECOND ROWE CUP

NZ Truth, Issue 1152, 29 December 1927, Page 11

WAIKAHA'S SECOND ROWE CUP

Pronounced Staying Ability Pips Sister Beatrice On The Post

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.)

Waikaha's victory in the Rowe Thousand on Tuesday last marked his second successive win in that event and came about because of his solidity as a true goer over the perhaps more speedy but 'unreliable southern competitors.

IT looked solid business to go for the treble bracket, Elzear, Happy Rosa

and Young Blake

All three made mistakes at some part, and it does not pay to make mistakes when trotters of Waikaha' s calibre are engaged.

Happy Rosa did best of the southern bracket on the journey, but at the home turn it looked as if Sister Beatrice, out in front, would win the day.

However, Waikaha wore her down in the straight, while the

other solid northern representative, Betty Moko, got up the last stride to snatch second money from Sister Beatrice.

Naplane filled fourth place. It is a long way till the next Rowe Cup, but as Waikaha is still on a reasonable mark it will occasion no surprise if J. T. Paul's gelding adds further to his winning record in this particular thousand-pounder. "

He is aged, but far from being past his prime yet. i