Nearula [SEP] father
Highfield stable near Malton, North Yorkshire. Elsey had been training racehorses since 1911 and had recorded his first classic winner with Musidora in 1949. Nearula was ridden in most of his races by the Australian jockey Edgar Britt.
Nearula was from the second-last crop of foals sired by Nasrullah before his export to the United States. His dam Respite won only one minor race, but became a successful broodmare, producing seven other winners including the sprinter Drum Beat, whose wins included the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot
length after a "fine race" against the Irish colt Sea Charger and the Washington, D.C. International Stakes winner Wilwyn. Shortly after his Newmarket win, Nearula was one of several horses who escaped without injury when Elsey's stable was extensively damaged by fire. At the end of the year it was announced that Nearula had been syndicated for £100,000 and would be retired to stud.
Racing career 1954:four-year-old season.
Despite his syndication, Nearula remained in training as a four-year-old