HAWKES BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 311, 9 July 1896, Page 6

HAWKES BAY.

Mr Donnelly secures a capable trainer for his horses—Mr “Portland” removing’ to Palmerston North—Harry Alexander (“Fordham”) takes charge of Mr “ Portland’s” team-T Rose fancied for her Gisborne engagements—Death of a promising colt.

Alf. Ellingham has relinquished his position as trainer for Mr “ Portland.” and in future will have charge of Mi* G. P. Donnelly’s team. The two-year-old Forest Rose, the property of Mr Richardson, will also be under Ellingham’s supervision, Fred Collins still acting as mentor to the jumping horses Zaccho and Morag. Mr “ Portland ” is, I believe, going to take his residence at Palmerston Nori h. Harry Alexander who used to train and ride Roscius, will take charge of Mr “ Portland’s” horses. T Ro e’s connections are very sanguine about hex- chance for the big steeplechase at Gisborne. She did not shine very much at Hastings the other day, although I am told that in the Final Steeples, in which she ran third, she had the bad luck to get one of her plates twisted. Certainly, she will have no Morag or Donald McKinnon to meet at Gisborne, which, of course, will be a point in hei’ favour. The St. Andrew—Vision colt, the property of the Moeller syndicate, while being put through his facings at Hastings this (Tuesday) morning slipped and fell, thereby breaking his shoulder, and consequently had to be destroyed. This is hard luck for the Bird’s Eye Blue confederacy as the colt gave promise of being a fair horse.