Racing plans for Fiji

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32554, 13 March 1971, Page 8

Racing plans for Fiji

(N.Z. Press Association) SUVA.

Two New Zealanders have been named among the four directors of a company which has begun buying land to run horse racing in Fiji.

The company, Racing Fiji, Limited, was formed two years ago and paid $16,350 for 65 acres near Suva. The directors include Messrs P. J. Byrne and B. W. Robbins, of Auckland. At present, Fiji’s only races are locally run meetings on a disused aerodrome near Lautoka, 140 miles from Suva.

Bargain buy retired "The Press" Special Service DUNEDIN. Governor General, a bargain buy for a Dunedin publican, Mr F. Ferris, is to miss his engagement in the Squires Gin handicap, the $lB9O open handicap at Oamaru. J. R. Dowling who bought the Blueskin II gelding from a North Island owner for $6OO and trained him to win more than $7OOO for Mr Ferris, said that Governor General's racing days were over. His last win was in the Kurow Cup in January and although he had failed to show up in his Isst three races he received no relief in the weights.