NOTABLE “FIRSTS”
Wanganui Trainers
"The Press” Special Service WANGANUI.
The Wanganui trainers, D. R. Hackett and D. Grubb, have scored notable “firsts” this week.
Grubb, now free-lancing after a successful four and a half year term as private trainer to Mr A. H. J. Gudsell, registered the first win in his new venture with Le Plus in the Millar Mile at Awapuni on Saturday.
A front-runner, Le Plus held on gamely to beat the fast-finishing Kaupane by a nose. Raced by a Wellington businessman, Mr B. Wood, Le Plus is the only member of Grubb’s eight-horse team to race this term. Grubb’s successor with the Gudsell team, the former jockey, Hackett, produced his first representatives earlier this month, and gained a quick success when the smart Corina upset in the hack sprint at Wanganui on Tuesday. Till he received a serious injury in a fall at Stratford in January, 1963, Hackett had served as horseman to the Gudsell-Grubb combination. Apprenticed at Matamata. Hackett rode in the north as a youth, his biggest win being on the outsider Wairere Boy in the Nolan Memorial at Ellerslie.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30714, 1 April 1965, Page 4
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