WHEN Jackie Gibson was presented with the Bathurst Gold Tiara trophy on Saturday night she was asked if she had a good hold on it, her reply showed just how much the win meant to her.
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“Have I got hold of it? I’ve got my hands all over it,” she said.
Gibson accepted the trophy on behalf of her father John Gibson, the man who owns and helped breed the 2014 Gold Tiara winner Makes Every Scents.
Both father and daughter had watched on moments earlier as trainer Mark Hewitt, in black silks with a white sash, produced a smart drive at the Bathurst Paceway to take out the Group 1, $100,000 feature.
It made it three wins in a row for the two-year-old filly and there is little doubt more success is to follow. However, on Saturday night it was the most recent win, not thoughts of the future, that had Jackie Gibson so thrilled.
“This filly actually belongs to my dad John and those race colours have not been registered in 40 years. We decided we’d get them re-registered so dad could race in his own colours,” she revealed.
“Tonight’s win has been a long time in coming for us, we have been big supporters of Bathurst through our stallions when we have stood them at stud and also supporting every year with paying up with our foals and so on. This is what it is all about, when it culminates in a win like this.”
Gibson also paid tribute to Hewitt, leading the crowd in a cheer of “Yay Mark”.
The Grenfell trainer, who also won the 2009 Group 1 Kevin Seymour Nursery Classic with a Gibson bred horse called Two Eye See, was a popular winner.
“Mark Hewitt has been our trainer for quite a number of years and we have had some good success with him. Anybody that knows Mark Hewitt knows that he is someone who can get a good horse going,” Gibson said.
