DEATH OF ELLANUI

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1939, Page 13

DEATH OF ELLANUI

Ellanui, who was destroyed after breaking a shoulder during the running of the Jumpers' Flat Race at Riccarton last week, was one of the more promising of the younger jumping brigade and his loss was most unfortunate. Another promising young hurdler in Wild Irishman suffered a similar fate as a result of falling on the flat at last year's Grand National Meeting.

Ellanui was a seven-year-old brown gelding by the Potoa horse Te Monanui out of Elnona, who was by Elysian from Wenona, by Spalpeen from Waimunga, by Explosion from Stepfast, by St.. Hippo from Stepfeldt, by Nordeiifeldt. It was the No. 5 family tracing back to the imported mare Steppe, a very stout foundation, though the branch through which Ellanui came had not in recent years shown to a deal of prominence. Ellanui was owned by Mr. R. Burke, of Waihau, who bred him. and he was trained, at Frankton by J. F. Tutchen. He won two hurdle events attractively at the Great Northern Meeting and the Highweight Handicap at Trentham last month, and he also finished second to Curie in the Winter Hurdles.