Princess to ride
NZPA-PA London Buckingham Palace nobbled increasing speculation about Princess Anne’s possible pregnancy by announcing that she planned to race as an amateur jockey in the Flat season. She will lease one of the Queen’s horses. One Sunday newspaper has said that she had already toid the Queen she was pregnant. Earlier, Buckingham
Palace said it had “absolutely no comment until such time as any member of the Royal Family wishes to make an announcement” The Princess will lease Well Wisher, a four-year-old gelding now at the stables of a trainer, David Nicholson, to ride it as an amateur jockey in the Flat season, which will start in March. The Palace’s announcement, on which Princess
Anne’s spokesman refused to elaborate, could have been made only on her personal authority. Princess Anne, who represented Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, rode in four amateur Flat events at the tail-end of last year’s season. She rides out regularly for Mr Nicholson, a near neighbour of the Princess and her husband, Captain Mark Phillips, in Gloucestershire.
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