Award for G. B. Noble
PA Auckland The Christchurch trotting I trainer. G. IL Noble, aged 77. lias ; been named racing personaiitv <»f the year at the annual dinner of ;tbe Racing Writers’ Asso<*iat ion .in Auckland. I The presentation ol the trophy I was made by the Minister of InIternal Affairs. Mr lliglivt. before ;230 guests representing a wide rross-soction of racing and tiotlling people from manv parts •>( I the country. Noble won the award after a poll bv 50 New Zealand racing | journalists. He was a candidate (for the distinction in 1965. The otixu nominees thia ■ . ■ .were the Cambridge horseman, IMr K. S Brow ne, the leading apprentice jockey. ( P. McNab, 'of Hastings, and the veteian Tnk.iiiim 11<i« i l> I •11 | The citation which arcoin. nanied the trophy said that the i presentation of the aw aid to Noble recognised his outstanding {contribution to trotting m *|ie I 1976-77 season. I lie had crowned an exceptional I season bv training Stanley Rio to win the Inter Dominion Grand Final in Brisbane and the New Zealand Cun at Addington Hie lonlv time a four vear old had ■ achieved the double.
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