LATE SPORTING

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 92, 18 April 1916, Page 8

LATE SPORTING

ELLERSLIE TRAINING NOTES

(»T TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND, This Day

The weather was fine but cold for training operations at Ellerslie this morning. All work of importance was registered on the course proper, outside the trestles, -which was in good order, the result of the recent rain. Loloma beat Signo over six furlongs in' lmin 20 l-ssec. Mandoline ( ran the same distance in lmin 22 l-ssec, Tact four furlongs in 52 l-ssec, Cultriform and Bowler the same distance in 52sec. Mullingar, with the assistance of HaTlestone the last six furlongs, went a mile from the new post in lmin 44 4-ssec. Honey Bee ran five furlongs from the new post in lmin 5 4-Ssec. Merry Roe was better than Self over seven furlongs in lmin 32 1-5 sec. Colonel Soult did the best gallop of the season, covering seven furlongs in lmin 29 3-ssec. He had the assistance of Autumn Rose the last five. The. latter was of no use. The Easter candidate carried only a light-weight. Kauri King and Te Papapa got to the end of the same distance in lmin 33 l-ssec. Centre and Hydrus ran five furlongs on the tan in lmin 7 l-ssec. Hexton, Mnltifual, and Lady Mabel were in that order, over five furlongs from the new post in lmin 3 3-ssec. Hyttus, with neck sweaters on, did five furlongs on the tan in lmin Bsec. Goldsize, with the assistance of Gold Lac over the last seven, covered a round in 2min 4sec. .Kitty Bellairs did four furlongs in 50 4-ssec. Glenroy, with the assistance of Crown Pearl the last six, covered seven furlongs in lmin 33 3-ssec. The former tired at the finish. Downham did seven furlongs in lmin 35 3-ssec. Vascular, Brookfiekl, and Tragedy King were in that order in a gallop over five hurdles. Royal Arms went a mile from the new post in lmin 51 2-ssec. A lot of others, including Chortle, Multiplication, Multiply, Bravest, and ' Anxious, also worked.

Motokio has been . scratched for the Autumn Steeplechase.