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Phillips at Te Aroha

PA Auckland The top New Zealand Jockey of last season with 87 wins, Gary Phillips, stopped off brief!” at Takanini yesterday on his way home from the Far Eas , and picked up three mounts for Te Aroha tomorrow. ■ - He will be on High Finance (in the Guineas Trial), Guarantee and if d- y Phillips-was on ms- way back to Hawera after-being, away three weeks acconipanying.the New Zealand delegation to the Asian Rae ing Conference m Soutn K Whiletin South Korea he rod? irt,wtwo international jockey’s.'invitation racesfor a second placing and a mtn. That waS after a .JWj mount, considered to be his "best;; had to oe ■ scratched through developing a sore shoulder.

Afterwards in Hong. Kong Phillips was privileged to ride for the chairman of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. The horse, his only mount in Hong Kong, finished fourth, failing to see out the 1600 m but, Phillips says, evidently doing as well as anyone had expected. '4; . Another visiting rider at Te Aroha will be the Taranaki jockey, Brian Hibberd, who has the mount ,on Excellsior in the Herries Memorial. ...

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Press, 23 September 1980, Page 22

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Phillips at Te Aroha Press, 23 September 1980, Page 22

Phillips at Te Aroha Press, 23 September 1980, Page 22