PURSEFILLER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1367, 6 July 1916, Page 9

PURSEFILLER.

Purseflller's running at Napier Park and her running at the Hawke’s Bay meeting has. puzzled stay-at-home followers of form, as it appeared to do a good many who saw her race at Wanganui and at Ellerslie. She won easily at the last-named place after being started well behind her field, and when success was not really anticipated. She fell in the Great Northern Hurdles at the 'first hurdle, and that apparently frightened her, and though she went to the front in the Remuera Hurdles she was all the time running out wide, and proved too much of a handful for her rider, J. O’Connell, but on the concluding day, with a stronger rider, she was kept in to the rails and nothing had a chance with her excepting Marconi, whom some thought was unlucky to he beaten by her, though she lost as much ground as he did at the last obstacle through hanging out. At Napier Park Pursefiller started behind her field and ran behind. Her impost and the altered imposts on others at the Hawke’s Bay meeting looked all in her favour when she won all the way on Friday last. We have a high opinion of this useful mare, who is a hard puller and somewhat inclined to be fractious. She wants to run her jumping races as she did her fiat ones, with pressure right on from the start, and that is not just as her trainer would have her race. In time she may settle down to business in a sober fashion, and racing will perhaps continue to improve her. Her owner, Mr. F. Lysnar, has a very useful mare in Pursefiller, if she is unfortunately a bit erratic.