Big attraction likely for Matamata meeting
Special correspondent Auckland Two of the leading gallopers in New Zealand this season, Tidal Light and Field Dancer, could give the Matamata Racing Club’s meeting, on August 7, an attraction hard to beat. The trainer of the two horses, Jim Gibbs, said yesterday that he would be asking permission from the club to gallop Tidal Light and Field Dancer between races and it is hard to believe that such a request would be refused.
Tidal Light and Field Dancer were prime contributors to the remarkably tally of 13 group
races that went the way of Gibbs’ stable this season. Included in Tidal Light’s wins were the New Zealand Derby, Air New Zealand Stakes, Avondale Guineas, Waikato Guineas, Dulcie Stakes and, in Sydney, the Canterbury Guineas. Field Dancer distinguished himself with five consecutive wins in the autumn, the last two for a great Ellerslie double in the Bayley’s Easter and TVNZ Stakes. After spelling at Matamata, Tidal Light and Field Dancer were brought back into training about six weeks ago and, according to Gibbs, they
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