Our Illustrations.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 347, 18 March 1897, Page 6

Our Illustrations.

We present our readers this week with a supplement devoted to scenes taken at Flemington during the late Autumn Meeting. The interest evinced in New Zealand in the Autumn Meeting is always great, and this year the strange reversal of form shown by some of the Australian cracks is calculated to cause us to look with wonder on some of the pictures, more particularly that representing the finish of the St. Leger, in which The Officer is giving a tremendous beating to the mighty Newhaven. Yet that horse on the succeeding days of the meeting made a show of all opponents Truly, when people look at the inglorious position of Australia’s 1897 idol floundering in the rear of The Officer, who could not beat Coil in the Australian Cup, or even get a place, they will shake their puzzled heads and give the connundrum up. The picture of Aurum, the victorious two-year-old who won everything he started for, is given, and he is evidently a well put together colt, a trifle low, perhaps, but with great quarters A glimpse is given of the colt winning the Sires’ Produce Stakes. The other instantaneous photographs are those of the finish of the Newmarket Handicap and the Hopeful Stakes, in which Mr W. Redfearn’s colt, Waraka, is seen finishing first. The pictures of the horses in addition to that of Aurum are those of Coil, the winner of the Essendon Stakes and Australian Cup, Carlton, winner of the Newmarket, and the New Zealander, Bloodshot, from whom big things were expected, but who performed rather disappointingly at the meeting. Our ordinary illustrations bring us nearer home, for they consist of scenes at the late Wanganui Meeting. The pretty view of the grounds near the fountain will be recognised by those who have been there, and the picture of the grandstand, when the parade of the Cup candidates is taking place, is animated. Three heroes of the meeting depicted are The Miser (by Puriri—Germaine), winner of the Autumn Handicap, the wellknown hurdler, Possall, winner of the

Second Hurdles, and the wonderfully successful Headford, by Foul Shot — Norah.