Gathering Prizes In Quarantine

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30839, 26 August 1965, Page 9

Gathering Prizes In Quarantine

(N.Z. Press Association) GISBOURNE, Aug. 25 With his enforced stay in England drawing to a close, the Gisborne-owned show jumper Saba Sam is maintaining the form which has made him probably the best of New Zealand show jumping horses and which took him with his Tokyo Olympic Games where they were top scorers in the New Zealand equestrian team. Saba Sam, and Tide, the latter owned and ridden at Tokyo by the team captain,

Bruce Hansen, were sent to England for a period of quarantine after the Games. The horses are in the care of a leading British rider. Miss Pat Pharazyn. Saba Sam and Miss Pharazyn have enjoyed considerable success at the Royal International Horse Show at the White City, the major event on the British jumping circuit. Saba Sam took first place in a table A event and fourth placing in another event.

At the Ascot Jumping Show Saba Sam was entered for the feature event the Renault Grand Prix, a competition over seven combination fences with an entry of 43 from wl.ich there were 11 clear rounds.

On the jump-off North Flight, a British reserve at Tokyo, had a clear round in 45.65ec. Saba Sam, the only other horse with a clear round, lost on the final turn

into a wall and was defeated on time.

Saba Sam is expected to leave England on September 2 and arrive in New Zealand about October 4.