AIRLIFT TODAY
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, Oct 4. Six racehorses, some of them candidates for the Melbourne Cup, will leave Auckland by air tomorrow morning for Australia. They are Gold Chick and Thunderhead, from Takanini, Count One, from Matamata, Syfreau, from Cambridge, and Elkayel and Karinx, from Te Rapa. . Sybeau, Elkayel and Gold Chick will take part
in the Melbourne Cup and the Caulfield Cup while Count One is a candidate for the Caulfield Cup.
Mr R. M. Conte, of the firm which arranged the horses’ flight to Australia, said today that My Contact was being brought to Auckland fom Te Rapa to standby in case there were any late cancellations! horses would travel in a DC4 aircraft under charter to Qantas.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30563, 5 October 1964, Page 5
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