PETROLEUSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 976, 20 May 1930, Page 12

PETROLEUSE

Death of Promising Brood Mare TROTTER’S WRONG MARK Word has been received of the death of the one-time solid trotting mare Petroleuse, a daughter of Petereta from a Galindo mare. Petroleuse was. a good performer when in training, and promised to prove a successful matron. At the South Wairarapa Christmas carnival, Petroleuse attracted attention by winning a double, for J. R. Corrigan, and two months later the aged daughter of Petereta was brought to Auckland for the Otahuhu fixture. After running second to Seann Triubhais on the opening day, Petroleuse captured a stake on the second day finder peculiar circumstances. The Wrong Mark Mr. R. T. Reid, a present stipendiary steward, was at that time liandicapper for the Otahuhu Club, and he placed Petroleuse 72 yards behind in the Newmarket Handicap. When the “krect” card was issued, however. Petroleuse’s handicap was published as 60 yards, and off that mark the mare started, and won, defeating another Petereta representative in Peterson, which also recently went west. The following November the Hawera-trained trotter won an unhoppled race in fine style at Epsom, and was afterward purchased by Mr. Geo. McMillan and entered R. B. Berry’s stable. Under new colours, Petroleuse gained a fair share of place money, and finished up the season by winning at the Canterbury Park winter fixture, returning a surprisingly large dividend. The best race of her useful career was put up at Addington during the Easter function of 1928. In receipt

of 72 yards from Native Star and Elzear. the Petereta mare finished a good third to the high-grade pair, tramping 4.37. Having finished racing. Petroleuse, with such a fine strain on both sides, appealed to Mr. P. Wa.tson as a breeding proposition, and she joined the matrons’ paddock. Her early demise is a severe loss to the Southern breeder, who has a fine yearling colt from her by Travis Axworthy.