PJ,
On doing a bit of googling I note Sir Blink was bred just above the beach i.e. Urenui. by an I.R. Cole. Now I did quite a lot of hunting in those days and one of the key people in the Hunt Club there was Ivan Cole. So I guess the main organiser of the beach races would have been him.
I thought I knew a bit about Taranaki racing but the Sir Blink connection never registered. Also in those days there were a lot of boutique studs so I presume Blue Coral would have stood at one of them.
How about you being a Taranaki man? Were you aware of the Sir Blink story?