Tomorrow Christchurch will be in party mode, and don't they deserve it.
It is New Zealand Cup Day at Addington, and if ever a region needed a knees up, it is Canterbury, where the good folk have suffered through so much this year.
So tomorrow many of them will flock to the city's raceway, and as Jendy Harper found, despite personal tragedy they are determined to put on a hat and a smile.
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