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. ...
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19800923.2.115.5
Bibliographic details
Press, 23 September 1980, Page 22
Word Count
186Phillips at Te Aroha Press, 23 September 1980, Page 22
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.