TOWNBOY TWO WINS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31332, 31 March 1967, Page 13

TOWNBOY TWO WINS

Show Horses Successful (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright ) SYDNEY. A six-man New Zealand equestrian team will return next week with many awards won at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. The New Zealanders and two of the Australian horsemen between them won every major event at the show. The star of the New Zealand team was the Te Awamutu horse, Town Boy, ridden by C. Clarke. Town Boy won a Table A jump and a six-bar jump, finished second in another Table A jump and took third place in the tworound champion jump. S. Mitchell (Gisborne), on Walnut, won a Table A jump and finished fourth in another event B. Hansen, of Gisborne, on Tide, gained a second, two thirds and a fourth, while bis brother, G. Hansen, took a second and a fifth placing on Saba Sam. Mitchell obtained another fourth and a fifth on Limelight while G. Thomas, of Waihi, took a fourth placing on the Gisborne horse, Talisman.

The team of Town Boy, Walnut, Tide and Saba Sam, finished second to New South Wales in the teams' event The team’s manager, Mr H. V. Thompson, said it was a most successful show from the New Zealand point of view, although the Australian horses were improving all the time. He said the two Australian Olympic horsemen, K. Bacon and J. Fahey, both of New South Wales, were almost unbeatable.