Walksfar sold

Press, 5 October 1984, Page 27

Walksfar sold

PA Auckland The well-performed Stratford galloper, Walksfar, has been sold for an undisclosed six-figure sum to America and will not start in the $50,000 Perry Dines Stakes at New Plymouth today. According to the former co-owner, Gary Kovaleski, of Stratford, Walsfar is now in Palmerston North and will be flown to the United States on the first available plane.

Kovaleski and his father bred Walksfar, a four-year-old by War Hawk 11 from Emerald City. They had intended to sell the mare as a yearling, but this fell through. “We had a $lO,OOO reserve on her at a Dalgety sale in Hamilton, but she only brought $BOOO, so we took her home,” Gary Kovaleski said.

“We then took Jack Taylor (a local trainer) into partnership to race her.”

In her 21 races in this country she won five times, was placed nine times and earned $51,815. Wins included the Group 3 Manawatu Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (2000 m at Awapuni and the $7OOO Koro Winter Plate (02, weight-for-age, 1600 m) at Avondale. Walksfar had placings in the Desert Gold Stakes, the Harcourt Stakes, the Royal Stakes, the Whyte Handicap, the Taumarunui Cup, the Foxbridge Plate, the Tim Rogers Stakes and the Ormond Memorial.