Rum Customer for N.Z.
JI PA Auckland Rum Customer, which will ! be the greatest stake-earning : stallion, galloping or troti i ting, ever to be imported to (■New Zealand is expected to s: arrive in mid-August for stud duty at Clevedon. ’ Rum Customer has! recently been sold by his! F American owners to B. L. I and G. R. Newberry of .Clevedon. 0 Rum Customer is the, 7 fourth-highest stake earning Spacer in the world having 7 passed the SIM mark before, i|he was retired to stud at! I I seven years. Now 12. Rum Customer is a U.S. Triple Crown winner and recorded a best mile time of Imin 565. His life-' time earnings were $1,001,548. Rum Customer by Poplar Byrd from Custom Madeis in England before being flown to New Zealand. His stud fee for the coming season will be $1250 and already much interest has been shown in him by Auckland breeders and several from the South Island, j
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Press, 24 June 1978, Page 20
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