Trainer left behind
PA Auckland The Australian trainer, Dick Lee, stood on the Tullamarine tarmac and watched in frustration as his flight for Auckland took off.
He was supposed to have been aboard with his glamour trotter, Game Ebony, which was scheduled to run in an important Rowe Cup lead-up at Alexandra Park this evening. A mix-up over departure times left Lee stranded on Monday after a 160 km dash from his Western Districts stable to the airport.
Lee had the ’ frustration of seeing the aircraft sitting on the airport tarmac but he had arrived too late to board.
“Everything was all parcelled up on the plane and we couldn’t get on,” said Lee yesterday from his home.
“I have never been so disappointed in my life. “It was lucky there were no reporters at the airport as I would have had some pretty bad things to say — I was pretty upset. “In fact they wouldn’t have had a story because the language
I would have used is not in Webster’s Dictionary.”
Lee .will now accompany Game Ebony on a flight to Sydney tomorrow afternoon, stop overnight at Randwick, and carry on to Auckland on Friday , morning.
Lee is not thrilled about tackling the Rowe Cup 24 hours later without giving Game Ebony a lead-up race on the track.
“I’ll just bowl him around at home and he won’t be short of a run,” he said.
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