1995: four-year-old season Hever Golf Rose
1 1995: four-year-old season
1.1 spring
1.2 summer
1.3 autumn
1995: four-year-old season
spring
hever golf rose s championship season began third place in listed leicestershire stakes on second , final race beyond pure sprint distances. took first group race when sent rome premio melton , won 1 , half lengths fred bongusto. twelve days later appeared in germany, running fourth in benazet-rennen.
summer
in june, sent sweden finished fourth in taby varsprint. hever golf rose began successful period of career, winning 7 of next 8 races. after winning listed race in bremen, stayed in germany take group 3 holsten trophy beating desidera 1 , half lengths.
she returned england king george stakes @ goodwood started @ odds of 10/1. hever golf rose appeared struggling , short of space run in stages produced strong burst of speed in last quarter mile come last first , win half length astonishment of spectators. in recording career victory on firm ground set new track record of 56.25. in group 1 nunthorpe stakes @ york in august jason weaver attempted make running caught in closing stages , finished third factual.
ten days after york race in sweden, won taby open sprint championship , 3 days after appeared @ baden-baden led start take goldene peitsche 2 lengths haydock sprint cup winner lavinia fontana.
autumn
hever golf rose s next 2 races took france. @ chantilly sent off 11/10 favourite prix de seine-et-oise in raced prominently , held off late challenge of tereshkova win neck. joe naughton called amazing filly after win, while press commented on remarkable season. after 4 races in twenty-five days, hever golf rose given break of 3 weeks before run in prix de l abbaye de longchamp.
the race featured meeting four-year-old filly, french-trained cherokee rose, had won last 4 races including prix maurice de gheest , haydock sprint cup. cherokee rose sent off odds on favourite, hever golf rose starting @ 3.1/1. weaver tracked eveningperformance in stages before moving filly lead 2 furlongs out. hever golf rose went clear , although cherokee rose finished strongly, not catch english filly recorded biggest success margin of 2 , half lengths. performance described sue montgomery, writing in independent, dazzling solo tour-de-force .
on final start sent united states, sixth country had visited year, breeders cup sprint. first race on dirt, although had encountered surface in training. before race, joe naughton paid tribute filly s ability cope busy schedule saying thrives on racing , travels brilliantly. in race @ belmont showed speed reach third place in straight, faded in closing stages finish eighth of thirteen runners behind desert stormer.
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