San Simeon for U.S.
Perth
NZPA Perth The West Australian “won- : der horse." San Simeon, is to : be sold to a syndicate. of ; Canadian businessmen and ■ will almost certainly go to ' stud in North America. His owners. Ron and Lyle ; Porter, of Perth, have coni firmed that negotiations ij were in the final stages. The I contract should be returned j in a few days. Mr Lyle i Porter said.
j The champion pacer will j be sold for a base price of | $600,000 but this could’rise to ] as much as $2 million deI pending on his performance I at the World Pacing Chami pionsips at Meadowlands in i New Jersey in May. I San Simeon, the first foal ? by Captain Hook out of if former New Zealand mare, If Leyoro Lass, is immortalised i- in stone at the gate of ; Perth's Gloucester Park
track. He has won 33 races in 34 starts.
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Press, 15 February 1982, Page 30
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