Racehorse, bay mare, by All Black - Aurarius, owned by Mr T H Lowry of Hawkes Bay. Born 1912. She was trained by F Davis of Woodville and had a brilliant racing career, retiring in 1919. In about 1925-1927 she was at stud.
Desert Gold (Race horse)
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W D & H O Wills (Firm) :A sporting holiday in New Zealand. [Set of 50 cigarette cards]....
Date: 1925 - 1928
By: W D & H O Wills Ltd
Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-Cards-Wills-Sport
Description: Incomplete set, but mostly two copies of those held. Contains: 1. The Prime Minister at play (Hon J G Coates) 2. Jean Borotra in New Zealand 3. E L Bartleet 4. Whaling in NZ 5. Quinnat salmon 6. A fine quinnat 7. [Fishing] On the Makuri 8. A crowded pool 9. The Fairy Spring 10. A record [catch] 11. A splendid pack 12. Desert Gold (horse) 13. Horse breaking 14. Rabitters 15. Mount Owen (dogs and fallen stag) 16. The "Iron Duke" in Wellington Harbour (yacht) 17. A schooner 18. Whangaroa, Okahumoko Bay 19. Canoe racing 21. A setter 22. "Free" (liberating a pheasant) 23. Pig shooting 24. Tasman Glacier 25. Opossum trappers 26. E L Bartleet (tennis player) 27. A fine stag 28. Homeward bound (with a shot carcass) 29. The All Blacks 30. The "Victory" (yacht) 31. Auckland Regatta 32. Cricket in New Zealand 33. White Island 34. Zane Gray's mako 36. Lake Wairarapa (duck shooters) 37. The jaws of death (man holds up mako shark jaws) 38. Bay of Islands 39. Netting salmon 40. Camping at Kawau Island 41. Camp at Mitre Peak 42. Lake Taupo (fisherman) 43. What fun (falling while skiing) 44. Ski-ing party, Mt Sebastopol 45. The Waihora (fishing on a river) 46. Tongariro, shi-ing party 47. The meet 48. End of the hunt 49. Shepherds 50. Opossum Quantity: 50 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographs on cigarette cards, each 58 x 70 mm.
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National Tobacco Company Ltd: The last word in cigarettes. Toasted Tailormades, Riverhe...
Date: 1939 - 1942
By: National Tobacco Company Ltd
Reference: Eph-C-TOBACCO-1940-01
Description: Blotter advertising a brand of tobacco produced in Napier shows at top left the front and back of a yellow packet of ten Riverhead Gold cigarettes (with a portrait of a smiling young woman holding the harvested tobacco leaves), and at top right the front and back of a red packet of ten "Desert Gold" cigarettes (with a portrait of the famous racehorse "Desert Gold" on the packet). In the lower left and right corners are ashtrays, each with a smoking cigarette liying in the groove on the side of the tray. There is an assertion that toasted cigarettes are healthier and safer because they contain less nicotine. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on blotter, 284 x 440 mm.