HORSE DISAPPEARS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20571, 3 June 1941, Page 8

HORSE DISAPPEARS

RACING SENSATION ALL IRISH MISSING (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The police arc looking for the well-known steeplechase racehorse All Insh, been mission from its paddock at Llteislie since Sunday night. . , , Mr. A. J. Smales, its owner, wild the paddock gate waa securely fastened. A widespread search all day yielded no resuK. All Irish was being trained by M. U Connor. A stable, lad saw the horse at 9 o dock on Sunday night, but when he went out at daybreak he found the gate open and the horse gone. Since AH Irish was to have run in the Penrose Hurdles at Lllerslie yesterday a frantic search "-as made of all the neighbouring roads and as nobody hadl seen the gelding it had to be scratched Dorn the * "We scoured the countryside all day." Mr. Smales said. “He scans to have vanished in thin air.” . , . After running second m the Great Noithem Hurdles to Streamline a year ago All Irish won the Great Northern Steeplechase, he was a consistently good performer throughout the season. Since the Great Northern meeting in June of last year he ■was given a spell and it was only two, months ago that he returned to training. He ran unplaced in the Waikato Hurdles race at Te Rapa in May and in the Waikato Steeple-, chase at the same meeting, his only races since last year.