Subsidised flight

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33314, 27 August 1973, Page 9

Subsidised flight

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. With prize money totalling *361,000 for three days racing, the Australian Jockey Club’s spring meeting at Randwick must already be attractive to New Zealanders.

The club has gone a step further in a bid to attract New Zealand horses. It has offered to sponsor, to the extent of about half the cost, an Auckland-to-Sydney charter flight. The A.J.C has informed an Auckland airline company. International Airlines, of its willingness to assist financially in a charter flight of horses to compete at the carnival, on September 29 and October 1 and 6. The club has left to International Airlines the handling of appropriate arrangements and negotiations with the horses’ con. nections.

It suggests that the Ideal would be a planeload of 15 horses, but would not abandon the idea if seven or eight worthwhile horses were available. While it is desired that all horses which make up the flight take part in a race at the meeting to qualify for the subsidy, the club would consider extending its offer to a stablemate of a weight-for-age or Epsom Handicap runner.