THE ELDERSLIE STUD DISPERSAL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1500, 23 January 1919, Page 12

THE ELDERSLIE STUD DISPERSAL.

The sale of the Elderslie Stud on February 7 promises to engage a lot of attention if all we hear is correct, and no wonder. There has never been a finer all round lot catalogued to be sold in one stud the property of one owner in New Zealand, and, therefore, such an opportunity has never been presented for breeders and racing men to add to their studs and racing establishments. There is always room at top and while such dispersals are to be regretted for sentimental reasons, the dissemination of valuable strains of blood to different parts of the Dominion should have beneficial results. That there will be buyers from outside the Dominion for some of the lots goes without saying, and it seems inevitable that we must lose some of our stud matrons every time there is an important sale. We hope that in the distribution, Auckland provincial breeders and owners will have something to say. We have already published a few illustrations of some of the gems of the stud, and this week are enabled to find space for more. The mares and foals represented are a very fair sample of what will come before intending buyers. How well they have been done, mares and foals alike, is quite evident from the condition the photos, show them to be in. The two exceptionally fine imported sires, Kilbroney and Sunny Lake, are also in the pictorial collection, and we hope that some studmasters in the north may be tempted to become their future owners.