SOULTORIA STOLEN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1477, 27 June 1912, Page 5

SOULTORIA STOLEN.

WFLL-KNOWN RACING MA lb, A PUKEKOHH SENSATION. . . . (By .Telegraph.—l'rcw Association.) ' Ajckland Tune iff.something of=«.'• sensation was cam--J .'at, i'ukokolio. this morning when" ii.v.a, foiitnl ti.at the We'.liiiclon l-jicinrr mare. ;Won!.tovs'it'(Hoi!!t —Pretoria) was stolen-]■■-: 1 staljlv-s, Pukwilip. '.I im. mare, and another: vuuii'istei' •lK;'»:!g,:;..r hr Mr. led at *;'i!/;U ! : i! )ya!i!t :: werc "'i' ll Jockptl up f.,j- ---■ 1 1°."^^? T.'oV'lot'k (his morning • \vlii i ill! i<'au!e..vvas visitoil the iluor \v:\s and both horn* gone, : Ino j'oVtiifjstor was aftorwavds discovovcd -in ~0110- oi tlift.mljnccnt paddocks, but ihcro.ivas no sign of Sonltori.i. Hor foot- - '•marks.-..wore, liowov-sr, traced through. seven. piSos -to a place where, to ail an-.-.])caraiH'(is', :a gig had boon vaitine, and ;it. would spous as if tho mare was led away il)6!iind : . the'i vehicle. Tho covov of ISolllf.torjai?.«rasileft in tho stabio. A search ■ pnrtjV:lins been, out tho counJ vy,- aud tho police )iave ncvr tho matter in hand.. • ■ ;* - fso.\sll oHawho■ is rising 6 yoats old, is. one 01 Mile best mares m tho Auckland :liroymco,r aii<i 'outside hcv vnluo as a be invaluahlo as a jlHwli njari;.-. This season she has ptr. :,* olni 9 i J, "I'iiiiantly, winning tlm King Edjwayd'jioniorial Handicap, of SOO s o \-?... „( jtiio-A.K.C.- sprinn moetiiiK, and thy Takfl(Puiiii Cu,), or -Jflli s-avs,, besides; running . third in the Auculaml Cup and third in •""ci /. Ha>«Hcap, and second m M. George s Handicap. The maro hqg .(•prtmn-jwculianties which would oasilv be identified by thoso who have had any. ■ tliiiii; to do with her, ond all it j? almost a certainty that those, wlio-havo Rained 11 iilnivl'ul possession of hor will endeavour to disguiso her by means of ylio ■ dye pat, siul it would bo very hard sor thein to race her in tho Dominion .without bonis detcetc-d. ■ : Iho-steahnf: of the maro' is reminiscent of bushraiiging (ioys, and it is mam- voar# since aiiytluns; of (ho sort has been attempled, at anyrate in New Zcnlaiul. Provided her captors succeed in getting her c ear oi the Auckland district, liicy will ■still have considerable diliiculty in' shippjiip lies from the Dominion, for avenui; of- this descripti-an is sure lo bo closely watched by tho police, ■ and as the more is getting on in yo a v S (hey coliid 110 ; keep her hidden for anv leiiirlii ' ot'tinse it tiicy are looking to make profit by racing her.