Pancho Boy For U.S.

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31711, 21 June 1968, Page 4

Pancho Boy For U.S.

It is planned to race Pancho Boy (above) in the United States later this year. The eight - year - old Forward gelding is booked on a flight which will leave from Auckland early next month.

Pancho Boy, which has done all his racing for Mr and Mrs F. G. Kirkpatrick, of Christchurch, has not been sold, but in America he will be raced in partnership by Mr Kirkpatrick and Mr W. A. Bradley, of Courtenay. On the trip Pancho Boy will be in the care of Mr Bradley, who will be the horse’s trainer and driver during his campaign in America.

As far as the trip is concerned, for Mr Bradley it will not mean treading fresh

ground. A few years ago he successfully campaigned the high-class trotter, Ordeal, in the United States. Although not the first—J. S. Shaw, the Riccarton ownertrainer of Vodka, has that distinction—Mr Bradley was one of the independent pioneers who introduced New Zealand standard-bred stock to American trotting.

Mr Bradley was the first man from “down under” to break the two-minute barrier with a trotter in the United States. He earned that distinction when he won with Ordeal at Vernon Downs in 1962. STARTING POINT

Mr Bradley said yesterday that Pancho Boy’s campaign in the United States would probably begin at Brandywine, near Philadelphia, or at Sportsman Park, near Chicago. “He should be just about ready to race when he

gets there but everything will depend on how quickly he settles down,” he said. Meanwhile, the Templeton trainer, F. E. Newfield, who has prepared Pancho Boy for all of his racing, has the gelding in regular work to keep him in trim.

Among the young horses Newfield is working at present is a two-year-old halfbrother, by Fallacy, to Pancho Boy. This youngster will be raced In partnership by his trainer and Mr Kirkpatrick. Seafield Countess, Dacron and Waratah are all spelling at present but they will resume in time to be prepared for racing in August. Merry Morning, which was blistered and turned out after developing a weakness in a suspensory ligament, was brought back into work early this week. Included in a shipment of

more than 30 horses which left Bluff for Australia early this week was the Americanbred sire, Dick Adios, which has stood the last four seasons in Southland at the Adios Stud, Kapuka. Dick Adios, which has been syndicated, will stand in Australia at a fee of $350.

Also in the shipment were the broodmares, Little Eden (U. Scotti-Eden Bell) and Creative Princess (Prince Charming—Creative). Both had been covered by the Roseland Stud sire, Van Hanover. They were purchased from their Winton breeder, H. W. Cox, by Mr D. Flunn, of Sydney. The consignment also included the three-year-old pacer, Greek March. This half-brother, by Caduceus, to Tactile, Deft and Adroit, will race in Australia in the interests of his Invercargill owner, Mr A. J. Dynes.