Tancred imports get workout nod

Press, 27 February 1989, Page 33

Tancred imports get workout nod

NZPA-AAP Sydney The Sydney Turf Club (S.T.C.) has arranged for the European entries in the sAustl.23 million Tancred Stakes (2400 m to work on the Rosehill track during the second week of their 14-day quarantine period. But quarantine officers will go to extraordinary lengths to ensure the foreigners do not fraternise with the locals. S.T.C.’s racing manager, John Nicholson, said the overseas gallopers — Al- ■ maarad, Top Class, Lesotho and Summer Trip — would be under strict supervision from quarantine officers on their trips to Rosehill. “Last year, the European horses spent a full two weeks in quarantine and didn’t get a chance to do any serious work on the Rosehill track,”

Nicholson said. “We’ve managed to get around that this year by coming to an arrangement with quarantine officials to let us float them to Rosehill during the second week.” As the horses will still be officially under quarantine, they will gallop alone after the locals have finished their trackwork.

They will be kept strictly to themselves. “The quarantine blokes will even have someone there to pick up any of the horse’s droppings,” Nicholson said.

“They are taking it very seriously."

Apart from their trips to Rosehill, the imported gallopers will spend most of the next 14 days at a quarantine complex in Penrith.