Myers’ team at Blenheim
Special correspondent i New Plymouth The Myers family from Okaiawa is taking a large team of horses, mainly jumpers, to the Marlborough
three-day fixture which opens on Saturday. The team is likely to include Phrase, Whistling Cloud, Misty Cloud, Always Welcome, and Royal Valley. The Hawera jockey, Garry Phillips has returned home after a month’s riding in Sydney highly impressed with the Australian racing system. Phillips, said that he would seriously consider any good offer to ride permanently in Australia, adding that anybody who did not would “be a fool.” • ‘ Phillips said the money that Australian riders earn could not. be compared with what was available in 'New Zealand. Despa, which finished fifth in the Sydney Cup, and Andamooka, . which Phillips went to ‘ Australia to ! ride, became dehydrated .. and according to their rider they only came right during the last week. Andamooka to race - in today’s Gosford Cup, a country handicap worth about $30,000.
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