Rio May Go To Australia
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE. Rio, New Zealand's top sprinting three-year-old, which had a victory over Sobig, may be brought to Melbourne for the six furlongs £12.000 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on March 6, the “Age'' reported yesterday. Plans depend on transport but, according to the partowner and trainer, K. Couper, if Rio comes to Australia he will be transferred to the care of another New Zealand trainer, W. Clifton, the newspaper said. Clifton is trying to arrange transport for three horses—a couple of two-years-olds and Rio. Clifton is well known in Australia. He won an A.J.C. Epsom Handicap with Rochdale, and the Doomben Ten Thousand with Second Earl. Couper has quite a few horses In training at Hastings. He said on Wednesday he was very pleased with Rio's 8-8 in the Newmarket. "I don’t know how good Star of Heaven is, but he would have to be a flying machine to give my eolt Sib In the Newmarket,” Couper said. Couper said that if transport could not be arranged within a certain time, Rio would not make the trip.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30667, 5 February 1965, Page 4
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