Australian Support Certain For Forbury

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30569, 12 October 1964, Page 7

Australian Support Certain For Forbury

Confidence that there will be worth-while Australian representation at the Inter-Dominion Championship series to be run by the Forbury Park Trotting Club next February was expressed by a spokesman for the club on Saturday night. Australian officials recognised that the Forbury club needed more assistance than did the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting club when it ran the series in 1961 and additional subsidies had been arranged, he said.,

The New South Wales Trotting Club will sponsor three horses; the Victorian Trotting Control Board, two; the Western Australian Trotting Association, two; and the South Australian Trotting League, one.

Six of the sponsored horses will be brought to New Zealand on a special aircraft. It was not certain yet whether the aircraft would land at Christchurch or Dunedin. The horses from Perth would travel to Melbourne in December, said the spokesman, and, after resting there for some weeks, they would be brought on to New Zealand by ship, probably one travelling direct to Dunedin.

Horses not sponsored by the Australian clubs would have to make their own way to New Zealand, said the spokesman. It was expected that the New South Wales representatives would be selected from Blazing Globe, Little Maori, Red Adios, Yale, and Smoke Cloud. Future Raider, Pakeha, Assiduous, Fosmar and Angelique, second in the final last season, are expected to be the most likely Victorian candidates. Minuteman, from South Australia, has resumed racing recently and if he makes satisfactory progress his connexions are keen that he travels to Dunedin. He won the final in Melbourne earlier this year. The Western Australian horses to make the trip have not yet been selected, but it is expected that they will be worth-while representatives. KAIKOURA TROTTING CLUB INC. NOMINATIONS for the above club's meeting at KAIKOURA on Monday, November 2, 1964, close at 4 p.m. TODAY at the Club's Office:— BYRNE and CO., 661 Colombo street, CHRISTCHURCH. P. J. BYRNE, Secretary. Telephone 65-029. Telegrams “Byroc,” Ch’ch. —Advt.