RACEHORSE DISAPPEARS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 7

RACEHORSE DISAPPEARS

POLICE SEARCH FOR ALL IRISH. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June 2. Police are looking for the wellknown steeplechase racehorse All Irish who has been missing from his paddock at Ellerslie since Sunday night. Mr A. J. Smales, his owner, said the paddock gate was securely fastened. A widespread search all day yielded no result. All Irish was being trained by M. O'Connor. A stable lad saw the horse at 9 o'clock on Sunday night but when he went out at daybreak he found the gate open and the horse gone. Since All Irish was to have run in the Penrose Hurdles at Ellerslie thi:morning a frantic search was made of all neighbouring roads and. as nobody had seen the gelding, he had to be scratched from the race. “We scoured the countryside all day,” Mr Smales said. "He seems to have vanished in thin air." After running second in the Great Northern Hurdles to Streamline a year ago All Irish won the Groat Northern Steeplechase. He was a consistently good performer throughout the season. Since the Great Northern meeting in Juno of last year he was given a spell and it was only (wo months ago that he returned to training. He ran unplaced in the Waikato Hurdles at Te Rapa in May and in the Waikato Steeplechase in the same meeting, his only races since last year.