AMERICAN SCHEME

Press, Volume C, Issue 29509, 10 May 1961, Page 4

AMERICAN SCHEME

Triple Crow Of Racing

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, May 8. American racing officials will visit Australia and New Zealand later this year to find hones to run in a proposed international triple crown of racing, it was announced today. The president of the United States Thoroughbred Racing Association (Mr Dale Shaffer) will leave for Europe tomorrow on the first of a series of international recruiting drives among horse owners. The series would be rotated among several areas, including Australis. The proposed series would be similar to the international pacing series now being run at Yonkers Raceway in New York and the international trotting series completed there last month The Australian horse. Apmat. and the New Zealand pacers, Arania and False I Step, are running in the Yonkers pacing international Details of the proposed flat racing series have not been completed. United Press Internationa] said. “I am particularly hopeful of forming a world thoroughbred racing association,” Mr Shaffer said today Annual Race “If this goes through, an international triple crown i should be easy to arrange for older handicap horses, with a race annually in Eurooe. the United States, Australia, of Japan,” Mr Shaffer said. “It is also possible that we may be able to work something out in Japan for a •world ehampionship’ of thoroughbred racing to be run during the 1964 Olympic Games. This could be a once-every-four-years event held st the Olympic site.” Mr Shaffer will visit London, Rome, Paris, and Dublin on his first recruitment trip. He w® visit Japan. Australia. and New Zealand in July, and South America in September.