Horses Leave For Australia

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32214, 5 February 1970, Page 6

Horses Leave For Australia

i Four pacers, a trotter and jthe thoroughbred colt. Crown [Law. left Christchurch Inter [national Airport yesterday morning on their way to Aus-i jtralia. The loading of the; horses and gear on the Qantas DC4 was complete in a little more than two hours. The pacers, all members of' G. B. Noble s Yaldhurst stable. | were in the care of J B. Noble! and C. Newman, of Christ-! church. They were Garcon! Roux. Direct Return. Bonnie Frost, and the two-year-old , filly. Roydon Dream. Garcon Roux, which will be; one of the New Zealand representatives in the InterDominion Championship series' in Melbourne, will have his first j race on this campaign in Aus-; Jralia in a free-for-all at the .Melbourne Showgrounds next [Saturday night. i G. B. Noble, who left for Aus-' ilralia on Monday, has an exten-i sive campaign planned for the team. They are not expected to return to New Zealand until' late in June Also on yesterday's flight was the Te Awamutu-trained Langburn He was brought south; on a Bristol Freighter by a member nf I. w. Dickie’s staff lon Monday. ’ Dickie, who had horses i engaged at the Cambridge trials 1 on Monday, arrived in Christ-1 church later the same night. ! He was at Harewood yeSlerdav | morning to supervise the load-j ing and to accompany the horse' on the trip to Australia. i Although there is no cham-1 pionship for trotters at the I Inter-Dominion meeting there' are still rich races for trotters' during the series. Dickie said ; yesterday that Langburn would l [contest three races—two worth 84000 each and the other for a of SROOO.