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Right: My legs probably had the best workout ever! Major
A very proud moment for items had to be left until Monday morning, but all the
Graham, who had a tear
in his eye, as he moved bins were emptied on Sunday and a huge team,
his Grand Champion A including Paul and Richard, Joe & Rita Borg, Leanne
Sanke to the reserved bin. & John Zammit, Kevin & Misa Wong, Michael Truong,
Mark Robinson, Heinz Zimmermann and Adam
Holden began that job immediately the Koi were
removed. It is the one downside of this site; water
has to be pumped outside the arena, the special
A SHOW LIKE ‘tan’ flooring for horses cannot be soaked with
THIS WOULD water. They were there until 7:30pm after an
incredibly long day already put in. Hats off to
NEVER HAPPEN everyone, you did an incredible job.
WITHOUT THE Even this was not quite the end, Ian was back on

HUGE TEAM OF site with quite a few other team members early on
Monday to dry out the bins, fold up the collapsible
HELPERS ones, stack the rigid type, load them onto trailers
and transport them to storage. Plus the Torii Gate
had to be dismantled for storage and all the banners
taken down. Ian did not reach home until 1:30pm
and we still had to get to Smithfield RSL with Ros
Below: and Lars Lindberg that afternoon with all the awards
An exhausted team empty to set up for the evening prize giving and dinner that
the bins after closure of evening – which, in the end went very well and I
the Show on Sunday.
hope, was enjoyed by everyone who attended.
It remains for me to express heartfelt thanks to
everyone involved in this massive and successful
event. A Show like this would never happen without
the huge team of helpers who really make it all
happen. Impossible to mention everyone, but people
like Gordon Kilborn who kept everyone supplied with
cold drinks from start of set up on Friday to Show
day on Sunday plus the absolutely indefatigable
workers like Mark Robinson, Richard Power, Richard
Davies, John Zammit, Paul Miglionico, Graham
Fameli, Heinz Zimmermann and Ian Andrews, (not
forgetting Lee Fameli, Leanne Zammit and Eddy
Visser without whom we would have no Show
results) particularly need to be remembered.

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