MATCHES FOR PHAR LAP
U.S. PROMOTER BUSY Chicago, March 26. *‘l cannot think of any better possible break to American racing than the invasion of Phar Lap,” said Colonel Matt Winn, diiecting genius of the Kentucky Derby for the last 33 years, also managing director of Washington Park and Lincoln Fields (Chicago) and Churchill Down and Lattonia in Kentucky. Colonel Winn began making plans today for staging a big match race for I’har Lap and some of the best stake runners in June at Washington Park for a purse of 25,000 to 40.000 dollars, depending on the thoroughbred chosen ‘o oppose the Australian. It may be *' e winner of the American Derby or ‘lie Twenty Grand or all of them. The ’> st thoroughbreds in racing will be chosen for Phar Lap’s opponents. < S’onel Winn is a specialist in produc- ’ match races and international con-tc-ts. CAPTAIN CUTTLE KILLED. Rome. March 28. Captain Cnttle, the Derby winner, which was sold to the Miarfiore stud in 1927 for £40,000 was killed at Turin as a result of a fall. j
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 88, 29 March 1932, Page 3
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