taxing’.“ We have more than 150 riders signed up to race this year – spread through the Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron grades – and we didn’ t allow them much time to rest over the three days,” said Clarke. None of the individuals who had won in previous seasons had entered this time around,
so there was always going to be a fresh name etched upon the winner’ s trophy. However, in the end, it was Refoy, from north of Auckland, who out-skilled and outlasted all the others, winning his first major New Zealand silverware in the process. Refoy was eventually followed home by Parker, Pascoe and Corson, in that order, with Whangarei’ s Owen Broughton( KTM 300 EXC) rounding out the top five when the engines were finally shut off on the Monday afternoon. Clarke explained that some riders had failed to correctly read their bike-mounted Global Positioning Satellite( GPS) systems and at least two riders who had been in contention for the overall win
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