Pakistan Flight for stud
Special correspondent Invercargill Pakistan Flight, winner of the James Hazlett Gold Cup and the Southland Guineas as a three-year-old has been sold to Australian interests as a stud sire. His owner-breeder. Mr Blair Vickery, announced that he has sold the Pakistan II entire to Mr Ron Horrigan, of the Sunrest Stud, Sumbury, Victoria. Pakistan Flight was trained throughout his career by Ted Winsloe for Mr Vickery. All told, he started 56 times for 13 wins, 18 placings and $20,370 in stakes.
In the 1973-74 season he won the James Hazlett Gold Cup, the Southland Guineas in runaway style, and three other races, for $10,240 in stakes.
He was rated above Grey Way. Shifnal Chief, Blue Blood, arid Dandyman in the 1973-74 Three-Year-Old Free Handicap. One of the very few representatives of his defunct sire to race in Southland, Pakistan Flight was a smart two-year-old, winning two of his four starts
As a four-year-old, he won five races and was nine times placed for $7595. and he won and was twice placed In a limited campaign last season.
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