WONDERFUL MARE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 11

WONDERFUL MARE

BLIND BUT SPEEDY A SPLENDID RECORD A mare that is blind and can cover the ground at 25 miles an hour is a good horse. This is the record of Rosetta M, who won the July Handicap at Greenford Driving Park, recently, states an English paper. She develops terrific speed toward the end of a race without the urging of whip or spur. GREAT PERFORMANCE In winning by a head at Greenford, Rosetta M. trotted one mile and 160 yards from behind the starting tapes in 2min 31sec —a very different idea of trotting from that held by the average person. Rosetta M., a big handsome chestnut standing 16 hands 1 inch, is Americanbred and was imported as a two-year-okl. No doubt her eyesight was then faulty, as shortly afterwards it commenced to fail and ultimately the mare became stone blind. REGULAR CHAMPION Yet, as she developed her strength, her confidence in racing and her speed increased, until to-day probably no light-harness horse in Europe could beat her over a distance of rather more than a mile. Rosetta M. commenced to develop her great speed five years ago, and in that period has won no less than £1,240 in stakes, apart from valuable silver trophies. The mare is sired by Peter the Great, America’s greatest sire of trotting speed, and her dam is by Bingen, another sire of great race trotters.