Horse oil to 'lap of luxury’
PA Wellington! The white horse offered last year to a Japanese shrine, by the Prime Minister (Mr; Muldoon) will leave Auckland! by sea this afternoon for 1 Japan. The Minister-of Agriculture. (Mr Maclntyre) said that in j spite of fears expressed I ; earlier this year that stabling 1 1 arrangements at the Grand I Shrine at Nikko left a lot to; be desired, the horse would i live in the lap of luxury, i “It will have a personal attendant whose job it is to, ! ensure that it has clean ; i stables: four meals a day: | : and adequate outdoor exer- ; cise in a paddock the size of; Wellington’s Athletic Park,”.; ; he said. More than three million! people a year visit the shrine. The horse, which is now! . occupying the sacred stable, went to Japan with New Zea-i j land’s Olympic equestrian 'team in 1964, and is now 26 • years old. Mr Muldoon and Mr Mac-! Jintyre, during a visit to!. ! Japan last year, promised to! (find a replacement animal. ; The new horse is a 10-year-i I old gelding from Mr Clive J Forsythe’s property at! Palmerston North. |
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