UP AND COMING FOR U.S.

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 19 September 1959, Page 7

UP AND COMING FOR U.S.

Aircraft To Leave On Monday (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, September 18. A team of five horses, including the New Zealand champion Up and Coming, will leave by plane for America on Monday, Sydney racing writers said today. Arrangements completed today included the booking of Vogel and the Sydney filly Akimbo. Others to travel on the plane are the Oakleigh Plate and Newmarket Handicap winner, Gold Stakes, and the New Zealand trotter Durban Chief. Vogel probably will represent Australia in. the International Stakes at Laurel in the United States. Up and Coming will represent New Zealand in the 10,000 dollars race. Vogel surprised by beating Sir Blink and Chicola in the Craiglee Stakes at Flemington on Saturday. The horses will leave by. Skymaster freighter from Sydney at 7 a.m. Monday. It will be the' first time horses have been flown to America across tha Pacific. The plane is scheduled to stop 12 hours at Fiji where the horses will be exercised and rested. Next stop is at Canton Island for refuelling, with the next set-down at Honolulu for 15 hours. The plane is expected to reach San Francisco at 7 a.m., Wednesday. Up and Coming and Durban Chief will be looked after during the long trip by the former New Zealand jockey W. J. Broughton. Gold Stakes will be cared for by the former jockeys Fred Foley and Billy Pratt, employees of the trainer Jack Green who prepared Gold Stakes.