Given the chance to work alongside some of New Zealand’s best trainers in Barry Purdon and Cran Dalgety is an experience most young harness racing drivers would not pass up.
So when Martelle Maguire and Tom Pay had their names called out as the winners of the Junior Driver Encouragement Awards at the Arthur J Gallagher Industry Awards Night in Sydney on Saturday they were ecstatic.
Up against four other drivers each, Maguire was crowned with the Lexus of Parramatta Metropolitan Junior Driver Encouragement Award while Pay was the Daily Form Service Country equivalent.
Other award winners were:
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Garrards Horse and Hound Champion Driver – Todd McCarthy;
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Garrards Horse and Hound Champion Junior Driver – Todd McCarthy;
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Garrards Horse and Hound Champion Trainer – Steve Turnbull;
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Garrards Horse and Hound Leading Hobbyist Driver – Wes Komorowski;
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Garrards Horse and Hound Leading Hobbyist Trainer – David Eurell;
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Garrards Horse and Hound Leading Trotting Trainer – Blake Fitzpatrick;
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Garrards Horse and Hound Leading Trotting Driver – Blake Fitzpatrick.
Amanda Rando