TRACK AND STABLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20115, 8 December 1939, Page 4

TRACK AND STABLE

JOCKEY FOR ELLERSLIE WOODVILLE HORSEMEN lly "Trenton” L. J. Ellis has.' been engaged to ride Flood Tide in the Auckland Cup and Disdain in the Railway Handicap. Ellis will also have the mount on Flood Tide at the Waipa meeting. Not Going' North Old Bill will not race at Auckland. Catalogue Returning Catalogue may take his place in the Auckland Cup. He is due back in the Dominion to-day. Wootlvillc Riders Riding engagements announced for t{je Woodville Jockey Club's summer meeting include: — W. J. Broughton.—Oragon, Beaupartir (second day), Indian Sun, Little Dorrit, Millament, Flammarion. Colonel Bogey. B. 11. Morris.—Friesland. The Ring. Kotua. P. Jarvis.--High Peer. G. R. Tattcrsall.—Siegmund, Wuimulu, King's Mark, Anita Foe, W. J. McDowell.—Primak. J. Chaplin.-—Daregain. S. Anderson, —Thrasos. Two-year-old Ineligible Among the entrants l'or the Waipa Plate at the Waipa Racing Club's meeting at Te Awamutu on December K> were the two-year-olds Lucky Lulu, Golden Hind and Ascot Bloom, but they are ineligible. The race is run over a distance of six and a-half furlongs and the Rules of Racing provide that no two-yeai’rold shall run in any race the distance of which exceeds six furlongs before the first day of March. Jockey for Sydney The Palmerston North .jockey I. Roll In ft 1 left, last week for Sydney, where lie has accepted an engagement to ride Lueullus Lad in hurdle events. Lucullus Lad was sent to Sydney at the beginning of last month, and latest reports credit him with having pleased track watchers at Randwick. Racing Tares Badly Racing m France received a knockout blow when war was declared and all meetings were abandoned for the flat racing season. Horses, many of them valuable for breeding purposes, were requisitioned by the army authorities, and many racing men .were called to the colours. Change of Stables The speedy hack Pasture, who finished third in the Melrose Handicap at the Auckland Racing Club's mid-spring meeting, has been transferred to W. J. Fergus’ stable at Ellcrslie.