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Last week will live long in the memory of northern race caller George Simon.

Multiple Group One winner Sharp ‘N’ Smart was crowned SENZ Horse of the Year at the 2022-23 New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Horse of the Year Awards in Auckland on Sunday night.

George Simon didn’t cover himself in glory in the final stages of his call on the Gr.3 Inglis Sales Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes, but he had good reason as Denby Road, the horse that he and wife Maryanne bred and race, saluted in the Gr.3

Commentator George Simon’s skills behind the microphone will be put to an unprecedented test in the opening event at Matamata on Saturday.

Three-year-old gelding Denby Road is yet another example to never judge a book by its cover.