PHAR LAP IN MEXICO.
ARRIVAL OF JOCKEY
CHAMPION IN TRAINING.
(Received Rebruary 18, (}.IS p.m.) AGUA CALIF.NTE. Feb. 17
The Australian jockey Elliott, who is to ride Phar Lap in the champion horse's engagements in Mexico, arrived at Agua Caliente to-day to begin the final preparation of the horse for the big handicap.
Phar Lap continues his daily workouts through heavy rain and on a muddy track. Mr. Francis Nelson, the presiding steward of the Agua Caliente Jockey Club, expresses tbe opinion that Phar Lap is the finest-looking horse that ever came to Mexico. The club has arranged for short-wave broadcast of the details of the race in the hope of it reaching listeners in Australia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21111, 19 February 1932, Page 9
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