THE COBHAM STUD.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1355, 13 April 1916, Page 23

THE COBHAM STUD.

In a recent issue of the London “Sportsman” the “Special Commissioner” (Mr. W. Allison) wrote as follows: —“It may interest some of my readers to know that my 21 years’ lease of the Cobham Stud expires at the end of this year. I wonder if any one or more of them would like to join in a renewal of it? If so, let him or them write to me. It would be like flying in the face of Providence for anyone of my age to tackle again a 21 years’ lease alone, but with some of the younger element to stand by and assist 1 w-duld help with the old show as long as I could. It is a strange time to think about leases of big studs, but Cobham has vast possibilities, in view of its close neighbourhood to London. What I alone have done with it is as nothing to what might be done; but the fact that I have run it at a profit for 21 years —indeed, rather more, for I had the tail-end of an earlier lease —is proof conclusive that an effort should be made to carry on.”