BRISBANE TRIP OFF

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 6

BRISBANE TRIP OFF

Quarantine Regulations (N.Z. Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH. Plans to race Sail Away and Jen Hai in Brisbane this winter have been abandoned, mainly because of the quarantine regulations which could prejudice the chances of either horse contesting the 1965 Melbourne Cup. S. A. Brown, the trainer of both horses, said yesterday that Sail Away’s last race of the season would be at Te Rapa next month. Meanwhile he has been nominated for the Foxton Cup. A start for Sail Away in the Melbourne Cup will depend entirely on his spring form, according to his owners, Messrs W. J. and J. T. Shaw, of Palmerston North. This would also pertain to Sail Away’s stablemate, Jen Hai, which was to have accompanied him to Queensland, they said. The quarantine regulations which forced the ;.bandonment of plans for the horses to race in Brisbane were those pertaining to the presence of cattle tick fever and equine infectious aenemia in Queensland. These regulations require animals entering Queensland to spend three months in a tick-free state before returning to New Zealand.

This three-month quarantine would have made it impossible to prepare the horses for the Melbourne Cup.

New S’land Sire "The Press" Special Service INVERCARGILL. An interesting addition to the ranks of Southland thoroughbred sires next season will be the English-bred horse, Whistling Willie, which has been imported by Mr A. Chisholm, jun., of Otautau, who will stand him at the Glentruin Stud. Whistling Willie, a chestnut colt foaled in 1958, and sold as a yearling for 2700 guineas, has been selected for Southland in the main as an outcross sire. By a brilliant racehorse in Whistler (son of Panorama), his dam, Orum Star, ranks as a half-sister to a top New Zealand sire in Gold Nib and closely related to another champion sire in Foxbridge. Whistling Willie was a winner over a mile at Alexandra Park, and was five times second and three times third in strong company.