A NEAT COUP

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 364, 26 May 1928, Page 6

A NEAT COUP

WHEN HOROMEA WON OWNER-TRAINER IN CLOVER A neat coup was brought off at Wanganui when Horomea won the Connolly Handicap. That the chestnut mare paid a good price may be gathered from the fact that there were seven horses in die field better backed than she -was. Not too many outside backers participated in her double-figure dividend, but there is no doubt whatever that the stable and its connections were well aware of her possibilities and raked in a tidy sum. Horomea is now an aged a tare. She has ever been a great track worker, but her public form was disappointing, and proved expensive to those who took her at her track value. Some little time back her former owner tired of her, and she passed into the hands of that capable and astute trainer, KJohnson, of New Plymouth. AIMED HIGH He has been pottering at.*out with her for quite a while now, and ently got her measure correctly wne® he entered for a race like the Connolly Handicap, an event few wou»a have suspected that she would win. His judgment was right; the oIdIB2JW slipped to the front soon After start of the race and was still tn-re at the finish. Most people thought she would come back to the field and at least one was in agreement with them. 1 was the rider of Blimp, who tboug* could get her whenever he moved his mount. He was almost correct ■* his mount was doing best at the and was very close when the iin** crossed. Some thought it was * ~ * neck she won by, but the judge it was as close as a head. Horomea is by Quarantine iron Her; mia, who was a good mare inin- - and many old-timers insisted i long while that because of he. 1 . Ploromea would eventually c p me * jn Even these, however, gave her the finish. That was when Johnson stepped And with one substantial coup he | dicated his judgment. Horomea has been engaged tor ' i middle distance races at Otah. : will be a matter of considerabH w* ! terest to see how she fares | i future.