Racing sulky stolen

Press, 10 January 1987, Page 31

Racing sulky stolen

An Ohoka trainer has had his racing sulky taken from a horse float parked on his Threlkelds Road property. Mr William Rowland noticed his brown Regal trotting sulky, valued at about $lOOO, was missing when he went to work his horse on December 28. The float it was taken out of was sitting alongside a fence just inside the road gate to the farm. “We’ve only bought the property and been up there two years so it’s a very nasty sort of a blow,” he said. Mr Rowland is an amateur trainer and is only training one horse at present The theft of his racing sulky means he has

to use a heavy work cart for fast work, which he said is not very satisfactory. “I’ll have to borrow a sulky when we want to go to trials and workouts. The horse is in full work and we’re hopeful she will race in late February.” Mr Rowland thinks the person who removed the sulky must have known it was there before they entered his property. “I can’t see someone driving around the country looking for a sulky. You couldn’t just put it in the boot of your car, you would have to have a truck or ute to take it away.” The equipment is registered under Mr Rowland’s name, and before it can be used as a race cart by someone else it would have to be re-registered through the trotting conference. Mr Rowland said that if the people who took his sulky had second thoughts and brought it back “all would be forgiven.”