MELBOURNE CAMPAIGN
6 Pacers From N.Z. (N.Z. Press Assn.—Covuright) MELBOURNE, Oct. 18. The veteran New Zealand trotting trainer, P. Skousgaard. will bring a team of six horses to Melbourne for the 1961-02 season. The season will open at the Showgrounds on Saturday night. Skousgaard. aged 68, has arrived in Sydney with the horses and will come on to Melbourne early next week. Hie horses are Sebabu. Smokey Direct, Whippy Dillon, Red Reveller, McTavish and Pearlway. Skousgaard. until his compulsory retirement from driving at 65. was one of the top drivers in the North Island. He intends to apply for a reinsman's licence here, but in view of his age lit is not known whether he will be granted one.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29648, 19 October 1961, Page 5
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