A SMART PACER
Gold Flight, winner of the Waiwhetu Handicap on the second day of the Wellington Trotting Club's Meeting, is a three-year-old gelding by Rey de Oro from the American mare Slapfast. This young pacer has a good record this season, for before his win at Hutt Park he had won a race, had been once second, and once third. Slapfast was imported from America by Mr. J. R. McKenzie and held the yearling record of 2min 22£ sec. When she came to New Zealand she went into D. Withers's stable, but failed to reproduce the speed she had shown in America. As a four-year-old she was sent to the stud and produced Roydon, Greatfast, and several others to Great Bingen and Silk Thread.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 15
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125A SMART PACER Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 15
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