Ellerslie Items

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1473, 18 July 1918, Page 14

Ellerslie Items

Bedford, Penniless and Hopfield are circling the tracks in their best W The one-time brilliant pony Mahinga, has gone the way of all noise flesh. She was recently *°P nd Remuera. The mare won in Austialia at the Kensington meeting, besides capturing races in the Dominion. She was owned and raced by Mr. Webber. Transfer, the little hunter, was iecently sold by Mr. R. Dunn, of Papakura, y to the Timaru sportsman, Mr. Murdoch Kerr, an enthusiastic hunting 111 F Stenning has Lady Bunyan, a bigframed half sister to Ulster in work. The mare is one of the lean kind and will take a lot of building up. er A ts £,° stable companions, Aircraft and Aren Lassie, are of different conformation and colour. They are both doing well The chestnut colt in W. Mobberley s care by Earlston —Hair Net, has been named Sandy McDonald. Modderley also has a filly by Eudorus from Mane Belle Lady Huna a well developed juvenile,’ and a local-bred filly Irene Bruce of his own well forward. Mr. James Hill has a couple of Maible Arch youngsters from Mane Regina. They are a shapely pair, but are in the green state, but are well grown. J. Chaafe seems to have th e most forward rising two-year-old at Ellerslie by General Latour —Elicia. this young gentleman, Prince Charleroi,, is handling himself nicely in his sprinting essays, showing brilliancy and pace over short courses. The Maniapoto gelding Fisher is included among the afternoon division, and is rounding up into solid shape. The barrier shy Turangapito was given a good try out at the tapes last week by W. Sharpe, both with and without a rider. He is the most hardened case at headquarters in this direction. Mr. W. Kemp is handling a good sort of a rising two-year-old gelding by Marble Arch —Miss Ethel, a half brother to both Lady Bruce and Miss Bruce. The youngster is well grown and solid without showing any grassness. He is named Emerald Hill. E. Pope’s filly Gold Plane, by Meriy Moments —Radium, who was a squibby little thing a few months ago, has developed into a shapely juvenile, bhe appears fast on the tracks. The staff of men on the improvements at Alexandra Park are making L r ood progress with the loose boxes and the steps in front of the grandstand. They are calculated to accommodate between 1000 and 1500 inclusive of the grandstand proper. - The Thames Jockey Club have made a common sense move in putting back their annual date in December and in coming in at the end of the country circuit, a few days after the Paeroa meeting on March 22. The Thames Jockey Club was up against a stone wall clashing with a powerful metropolitan club like the Auckland Racing Club, the leading club of the Dominion. The writer ventures to predict a change of fortune in the next fixture of the Thames Jockey Club. A meeting early in October would have been a good move this year. Ellerslie-trained Thrace, Papatoetoetrained King of the Valley and the Avondale-trained Royal Prince were Auckland-owned winners at the Wellington meeting. King of the Valley was sold after the meeting for 150 guineas. The promising young hurdler Hibernia, a brother to the useful hurdler Tararu Jack (now racing in Sydney), fell on the roads, and A. Julian thinks has broken some ribs.