$5000 for fare
About $5OOO had been raised from seven Radio New Zealand stations after three days of the appeal to finance the return home of the Olympic horse, Graphic, the manager of Radio Ashburton, Mr Phil Kennard, said yesterday. He had a pile of cheques on his desk, one of them coming from a collection at a North Island race meeting. His station sparked the appeal after hearing Tinks Pottinger would sell the horse, a reserve for the threeday event, because she could not afford the $BOOO required to bring it home.
She and Mark Todd, the Kiwi gold medal winner, were the only two to ride clear rounds in the crosscountry. Pottinger rode Volunteer but wanted to bring her reserve horse home too. Radio Ashburton had also received letters expressing pride in what Pottinger and the bronzemedal equestrian team' had achieved for New Zealand in Seoul. Pottinger has publicly thanked the organisers of the appeal and was delighted she would be able to bring home a horse she had bred herself, Mr Kennard said.
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