VINTAGE'S PROGRAMME

Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 8

VINTAGE'S PROGRAMME

ITINERARY FOR AUSTRALIA

(By Telegraph.) (Special to the " Eyening Post.")

: ;,.;..; This payMr, p. W. • Westenra lias been busy this Veek- makingl inquiries .regarding transport., fat. .Vintage, to .Australia, and arrangements are now., practically" com-' , ple'ted.'' The idea originally contemplated, oft 'competing 'in' the James Hazl^tt Gold' Cup af the Donedin Jockey Club's Meetinj; "Eastbee^ dfopiled, as; it'^was foun'd; that this would- tfte«tnjtoo>late>n arrival: inv Australia. t*robably -Mrs. J.-Qamp-bell,(Will„. leave ..Wellington■: yfiih; the big SeWing on February 15. A few days will be spent in- Sydney, -after wliich^ the journey will be continued to'Melbourne, arrivJ ing .in. gppd. time for the opening of Jhe, Victoria Racing Club's Meeting: on March 2.■• -.-,.: --■ " : ,;: ..,.' .. ~. ■■

It, is infehded to -give Vintage a race lon the first' day, probably tlie WeigKMor-: age even.t,. aijd. the Australian' Cut), will occupy his attention on March 9, when the meeting^will be.concluded.. Following, that a sn,ift will be inade to Sydney, where the horse will have several weeks with,' some preliminary .-facing available' before ; he takes on,..'.the Sydney Cup;, and, other events at the-Australian Jockey Club's 'Easier. Meeting:/ •h:■ , /;'-^1'1 X-y -"'^ It is. almost certain thatI'Vintage will have.as. a.mate .on the.trip his ■two-yeaiv old half-sister-*by iNightraid. or Polazel. The filly did-a Jofj. oi exercise before she came to Tliccariori, "and though she has" not been seriously tried yet she may be ready to rs"howS some, form before the end of the rAiißtralian-trip. . ••-■■■