Young Shaun for Melbourne
PA Auckland One of the season's top two-year-olds, Young Shaun, will ’be flown to Sydney today en route to Melbourne, where he will be prepared for spring racing. The cargo of the DCB, chartered by Wrightson Bloodstock, is a mixed collection of racing and breeding stock, both galloping and trotting, and other livestock. Another especially prominent galloper on the flight will be Aghios Nikalaos, which will be a new stablemate for Young Shaun. Alpha Ale, which has been an inmate of the same stable, S. G. Munro’s at iMatamata, for the past sev-i eral weeks, will also make the trip. Aghios Nikalaos, a fine metric miler, and Alpha Ale, a class-one winner, have been bought by an Aucklander. Mr P. S. Wilson, whose wife races Young Shaun.
■ Munro will accompany the three horses to Melbourne and return home when he ’has settled them and his staff into their new quarters. Other racehorses on the plane will include Proud Gent. Toffee Apple, Happy Landing, First Game, Azranee, Cassoman, Taan, China Wall, Durham Town, Inason, Gee Vee, Parky and Wotta Krakka.
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