Battle Heights at Te Rapa
NZPA Tauranga' When the champion! igalloper and top; Australasian stake earner, j Battle Heights, leads the! parade of candidates for the) New Zealand Thoroughbred! [Breeders’ Stakes at Te| [ Aroha today he will be ( making his’ final raceday( apperance. The horse’s part-owner! and trainer, Mr Tim [ Douglas, of Morrinsville,! said yesterday that the horse was ' now “in [ retirement, where he; deserves to be, and after! tomorrow that will be it as I far as Battle Heights is j concerned.” According to Douglas the ten-year-old, which won i 1 more than $400,000 has; made a “miraculous; recovery” from the sesamoid! fracture he sustained in the J Mackinnon Stakes last! November. “Racegoers will see he is! suffering no discomfort [ whatsoever and walks as: good as gold.”
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Press, 25 February 1978, Page 20
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