Invitation Declined
(N.Z.P.A .-Seufer—Copgriohi) NEW YORK. The owners of the New Zealand-bred Cardigan Bay have declined an invitation to have the great pacer compete in a special 25,000 dollar race at Roosevelt Raceway on April 19, In which Cardigan Bay would have been assigned a yardage handicap. If they agreed to such conditions, the owners said, other racecourses would inaugurate handicaps and Cardigan Bay “would be at the mercy’’ of racing secretaries. Now 11 years old, Cardigan Bay is the only free-for-all class pacer stabled at Roosevelt Raceway and one of the few now on the United States Eastern seaboard. Owners of lower-class pacers are reluctant to race against the gelding, and Roosevelt’s handicap suggestion was intended to attract a competitive field. Cardigan Bay, the third leading money-earning harness horse of all time, has been an easy winner of his two 1967 starts.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31343, 13 April 1967, Page 5
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143Invitation Declined Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31343, 13 April 1967, Page 5
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