Gammalite’s gear found on plane

Press, 6 November 1984, Page 46

Gammalite’s gear found on plane

Gammalite will race in his own hopples in the New Zealand Cup at Addington Raceway today. The large trunk holding all of the gear used on Gammalite was missing when he arrived in Christchurch last Friday. It took until today to discover that it was still on the aircraft in a locker. Air New Zealand made special arrangements for the trunk to be flown from Auckland to Christchurch and it arrived early yesterday afternoon much to the

relief of Gammalite’s , trainer, Leo O’Connor. "> “He races in special lightweight plastic hopples, > which are so essential since £ the kick a few weeks ago. i The front leg injury is right • on the hopple line and when); •he’s wearing his own gear it > doesn’t trouble him,’"’ said O’Connor. , Gammalite was restricted * to very light jogging exer- * cise at Tara Lodge, Hals- « well. Although he is eight, ’ he looks even better than ; when he first raced at Add- » ington in 1981. ;