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Police target rural roads

By Myles Hume Police will be cracking down in rural areas this year to prevent further tragedies on Mid Canterbury roads.

Six people died on local roads last year, doubling the number of fatalities in 2011 which saw one of the lowest tolls in the district’s history. However, sitting well below the horror years of 1994 and 1983 where Ashburton lost 15 and 12 lives respectively.

Of those six fatalities last year, it is believed alcohol played a part in three of the crashes and at least four of the deaths were on rural roads.

It has prompted police to take action this year and they are looking to stunt the number of deaths on New Zealand roads where provisional figures show 307 people lost their lives last year, 95 of those alcohol-related.

Canterbury’s road policing manager Inspector Al Stewart said it was time for police to hone in on rural roads, where speeding and drink driving had been an all too common trend during the past two years.

“In 2013 we are going to be having a look at rural areas where too many people are drink driving or not wearing seat belts. That is an area where we believe we can make a difference,” Mr Stewart said.

He could not pin the blame on one particular area, instead Mr Stewart said the over-representation of deaths on rural roads was

usually a combination of factors.

“The variation in speed is something to do with it, with lowered traffic volumes people get more complacent and are not as aware of what’s around them.

“When going from a rural road on to a main highway where the traffic is going to be a lot faster, I think at times people misjudge gaps. Rather than having a crack you might have to sit and wait because at the end of the day it’s worth spending an extra 30 seconds.”

Drivers are six to seven times more likely to cause an accident if they had been drinking.

Rural pubs often posed a problem for many drivers who could often be left stranded with no alternative way home, Mr Stewart said.

“There is far too much drink driving in rural areas and, from our point of view, when police get involved it’s already too late.

“All too often there could have been steps taken in the community to stop people from drink driving. A lot of the time when we are investigating we talk to people who spent time with them who knew they were drunk but yet allowed them to drive.”

Mr Stewart said although the national toll was lower than recent years; Canterbury’s 2012 provisional toll (32) was still too high.

“That might still go up to 33 ... any fatality is a tragedy and we’ll be looking to get the toll well under 30, maybe in the early 20s next year,” he said.

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Twister hits Mayfield golf course Nature did to the Mayfield golf course what man could not – accomplished four seasons worth of pruning in four minutes.

Last evening a small tornado swept through the course, ripping out trees and scattering debris across fairways.

The twister struck at about 6pm and appears to have been confined to the golf course and an adjacent paddock of rape.

A golf club member who went to the course to assess the damage said that some of the trees torn out were about 30 years old.

The club house, however, escaped damage although several silver birch trees nearby were destroyed.

While the damage around the golf course was significant, the club member, who did not want to be named, said the twister appeared to have spared the

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“We won’t be pruning again for a while and we’ve got a lot of work to do if we want to play golf on Saturday,” he said.

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Brothers reunited after 55 years

By Susan Sandys At the age of 17 Graham McEvoy boarded a boat in his home country of England and waved his two brothers and parents goodbye.

The ship was bound for New Zealand, where the teenager had determined to start a new life.

“I remember looking down from the boat, mum was crying,” Mr McEvoy said.

He was to never set foot again in the United Kingdom, and never see one of his brothers again until this week.

On New Year’s Day the 72-yearold drove to Christchurch airport from his home at Winslow with his wife Heather, to meet up with older brother Ian, 75, who still lives in England.

As an extra bonus his younger brother Paul, 66, was also flying in on the same day, from his home in America.

Graham had briefly seen Paul six years earlier when a cruise ship Paul was on, docked at Lyttelton for the day.

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Retired Winslow potter Graham McEvoy (centre) has been reunited with his brothers Ian (left) and Paul this week. He has not seen Ian since he left England 55 years ago.

Graham after not seeing each “It’s a very emotional time,” other for 55 years was almost Graham said. too much for the pair, Graham’s Paul and Ian will be staying at wife said.

Graham’s home for one month, “We thought they were going to and the trio will take time out to have heart attacks,” Mrs McElvoy travel together around the South said.

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Graham said he remembered very well that day all those years ago when he was 17. As well as his mum in tears, he remembers his father walking onto the boat to check out the cabin he would be sharing with five others, who included fellow Englishmen, as well as Irishmen and Scotsmen.

His dad chose one of the older men, who happened to be a Scotsman, to look after his son.

“He said - keep an eye on the boy. Because he thought I might get on the booze I think, which I did.”

The seven week boat trip was “long and boring”, and he had a rough start to life in his new country. He was “sponsored” onto a farm at Newlands, which meant he had guaranteed employment there, but his accommodation was in a hut with no hot water.

“I wondered what I had done wrong, especially in the winter.

And I remember my first drink of New Zealand water, how it smelt of pine needles, it was unbelievable.”

He went on to other jobs, married Heather and the couple had two children and ran a success-

ful pottery business together.

Their lives were busy, so travelling back to the United Kingdom never seemed a possibility, particularly after Graham suffered a brain haemorrhage about 20 years ago, making air travel risky.

However, he did get to see his parents again, as they lived some of their retirement years in New Zealand.

The three brothers are this week enjoying reminiscing, and believe Graham has not changed much, although a bad temper had mellowed over the years.

It seems he could be forgiven for any childhood tantrums however, considering Ian had a penchant for terrifying practical jokes.

Ian would put a wind up gramophone under Graham’s bed, which he operated via a string from another room to make spooky noises. He would also hang a fake skeleton with clothes, operating flashing lights for its eyes at night.

“I used to walk up the stairs to go to bed, and then run screaming downstairs again. I was a nervous wreck,” Graham said.

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By Sue Newman Flood water swirling under the Rakaia Gorge River bridge proved to be the Ashburton’s number one tourist attraction on Wednesday.

Torrential rain in the back country had pumped the river’s volume up to 5245.75 cumecs at Fighting Hill at its peak on Wednesday evening, but that was well short of the 2011 flood when the river peaked at 5736 cumecs said gorge resident Jo Stern.

“It was huge but it wasn’t up hitting the staunchions. What made it so dramatic this time was that it came up so fast, that and the number of people who were out there looking at it.”

From their lodge on the north bank of the river, Mrs Stern said the raging Rakaia could be heard ‘booming’, but it did not reach a level where it threatened to break its banks or flood nearby roads or properties.

The fast flowing river proved irresistible viewing for large numbers of people from Methven, she said.

“It’s still flowing high, so it’s quite exciting, but at no stage were we concerned and we haven’t heard of anyone who’s been evacuated.”

Rakaia River Holiday Park owner Robin Jackson says that reports properties were under threat and people were evacuated when the river was at its peak were grossly exaggerated.

Her camp is on the banks of the river at the State Highway Bridge and she said there was never any risk from the river breaking its

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banks.

“The only issue we had were a couple of tent poles that were damaged in winds the night before.”

Averil Southward from the north Rakaia Huts Settlement agreed.

“We’re high and dry today and no one was evacuated here,” she said.

While the river was running high and there were heavy seas, the river mouth was large enough to cope with the extra flows, Mrs Southward said.

With her husband Bill, Mrs Southward has lived at the huts settlement for more than 20 years and said they had watched as the Rakaia River had changed.

Low river flows for much of the year played a big part in narrowing the river mouth, she said, and that created problems when the river flooded.

However, work by ECan last year to widen the mouth of the river had worked in keeping river water away from the huts settlement.

Over the years, flows in the Rakaia River had dropped to a point where it was now possible to walk across the lagoon alongside the huts. This had been impossible in the past, Mrs Southward said.

South Rakaia huts residents also said there had been no issues in their settlement during peak flows in the river.

A video of the river, shot at the Rakaia Gorge Bridge on Wednesday by videographer Donna Wylie and uploaded to the Guardian website, attracted more than 300 views in one hour.

• Telecom glitch If you ring your nearest and dearest and they sound as though they’re drowning – don’t panic. If they’re Telecom mobile phone customers they’re likely to be one among thousands who are struggling to carry out a meaningful conversation with friends and family, thanks to a glitch in their telecommunications provider network. Thousands of Telecom customers around the South Island have been struck by the mystery communications illness which makes callers sound like alien life forms. The problem has developed over the past week and Telecom is unsure how long it will take to find a fix. The cause is still unkown, but in the meantime it advises customers to call Telecom and log the fault to provide data for investigation.

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A man on the back of a jetski was among other boaties who were not wearing lifejackets at Lake Hood on Monday.

Lifejacket plea not sinking in

By Myles Hume The message does not seem to be sinking in for some boaties on Lake Hood in recent days who have been turning a blind eye to water safety pleas.

Despite stern warnings and persistent pleas from authorities over summer about the importance of water safety, life jackets do not seem to be at the top of the list for many boaties who are continuing to ignore signs about lake rules and regulations.

A brief survey by the Guardian at Lake Hood found at least three people out of the seven watercraft on the lake were not wearing life jackets.

Drivers of two outboard boats and a man on the back of a jetski were among the culprits who were not taking water safety advice seriously.

It has prompted a reaction from parks manager Gilbert Murdoch who wanted to warn boaties that “they

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racing through the canals which had a 5km/h limit, lined by family homes.

“What it does is it breaks the banks down and as a resident there is nothing worse, also there are children swimming in the canals and these jetskis are going 40km/h in a 5km/h area.”

The Corner family, of Christchurch visited Lake Hood on Monday with their outboard boat and jetski.

Father Mark Corner said he would never let anyone hop on board without a lifejacket.

“We haven’t seen too many around here without lifejackets today, but we do see a bit of it up in the (Marlborough) Sounds, especially people driving outboard boats,” Mr Corner said.

Last year, nine people drowned over the summer holiday period in New Zealand, with water safety NZ saying the key to having fun was to remain safe in and around the water.

The year that was in local government

By Sue Newman If you had to find just two words to describe the atmosphere in the Ashburton District this year “civic unrest’ might fit the bill.

For most of 2012 there’s been an undercurrent of discontent rumbling through the district. The natives have been restless and that restlessness had everything to do with three large projects that were being driven by the Ashburton District Council – the art gallery/ museum complex, the recreational stadium and a second bridge across the Ashburton River.

Together these projects were designed to carve more than $50 million out of the council’s coffers and it’s fair to say for many ratepayers that’s proving a bit of a tough pill to swallow.

During the year we’ve seen rallies, protests and petitions against the art gallery and museum. People gathered in their thousands to show their opposition, they made hundreds of submissions but at the end of the day, the project stayed.

It’s now taking shape and as it becomes reality opposition has gone from full blown fury to barely a whimper.

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A turning of the tide. Ratepayers had had enough of council’s decisions and showed their disdain in a public protest.

At the same time as the gallery protest was in full voice, a project that appears to have almost total community support has been simmering away, what is now known as the EA Networks Centre. It also is close to moving off the drawing board and onto its site off Riverside Drive.

Community reaction to the two

projects could not have been more different. This was something that generated enthusiasm and excitement. It was something most people wanted and said the community needed. And that community support has translated into a short sharp fundraising campaign that saw almost $5 million raised and growing.

Police search for gunman suspect Police are searching for a 25-year-old man in connection to the shooting of a young man outside his south Auckland home.

Police warn that Gareth Heron should not be approached and it is believed he has a 0.22 calibre cut-down rifle in his possession.

A 23-year-old victim remains in a critical condition, after being rushed to Middlemore Hospital about 11pm on Wednesday night.

He was standing at the road outside his East Tamaki home

are not bulletproof”, pointing out that two people had drowned at Lake Hood since its opening in 2002.

“It doesn’t matter what sort of craft you are in, you are supposed to have a lifejacket whether it be a paddle boat, jetski or a normal boat - everybody has to be safe,” Mr Murdoch said.

Although there has never been a major boating accident on Lake Hood, Mr Murdoch said there were signs posted all around the park informing people to wear lifejackets and boat in the anti-clockwise direction at the lake.

A voluntary patrol jetski inspects the lake on a random basis, handing out pamphlets and talking to people about water safety, although it was not there to police the lake which can have up to 100 water craft on it in a single day, Mr Murdoch said people should shoulder the responsibility of water safety.

Another problem the parks manager had heard about was jetskiers

when “he was confronted by an assailant who discharged a firearm at him”, Detective Inspector Jim Gallagher said.

There was concern for the man’s survival.

Mr Gallagher said police were now searching for a 1998 dark green Mazda Capella, registration GKM946, and Mr Heron who was connected to the car.

The car was believed to have visited the address around the time of the shooting.

Mr Heron was known to use multiple Auckland addresses and frequent the Howick,

Pakuranga and Flatbush suburbs.

“The public is asked not to approach the vehicle or its occupant if seen, but to report any sightings as to his whereabouts to police,” Mr Gallagher said.

Police would also like to talk to anyone who was in the Eastland Road area at the time of the shooting.

Anyone with information should call Counties Manukau Police on 09 261 1300 or Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.

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For the council, the support the stadium project is generating must be a happy reward after the bitter art gallery/museum battle.

And then there’s the second bridge across the Ashburton River. Yes it’s a long way from being built but preparations are under way in the form of the acquisition of land. That means people’s lives are being disrupted and eventually some homes will be lost as the bridge access road is built.

Opposition to this project continues and is likely to roll through most of 2013.

Also in the mix in a mega year for the council has been a review of its district plan, the bible that says what can be done and where and how land can be subdivided. In its wisdom the council decided to rewrite many of its subdivision rules by shifting zone boundaries. There were howls of outrage and rightly so.

Hundreds of property owners stood to lose thousands of dollars if the council’s new boundaries were accepted. Subdivision of their land, for many, had been a retirement nest egg and with the stroke of a pen the council could have wiped that out.

It saw sense – after 700 odd submissions of complaint were received

– but hearing those submissions, took most of the year of councillors’ time and consumed thousands of ratepayer dollars.

The year was also marked by the fall and fall of commercial buildings in central Ashburton. It is a very different landscape that will greet the start of 2013 to the one that was there at the start of 2012.

One block of Cass Street has allbut disappeared and yawning gaps are staring to appear along Burnett Street. It’s not all bad news however with one Burnett Street rebuild underway and another planned for a building that’s currently under demolition.

In between, the council has had to battle local government reviews and on-going criticism of what some ratepayers see as its free-wheeling spending.

For district councillors it’s been a hell of a year and some, particularly the first termers, must be wondering what they signed on for. It has definitely been a year where few have won any popularity polls.

In an open letter to the Guardian, mayor Angus McKay summed up his feelings about the flak that he and his councillors have taken – “not all council decisions are going to please all residents, that’s a fact...”

New Zealand has been ranked as one of the best places in the world to have a baby in 2013, according to a quality-of-life index.

Land-locked Switzerland tops the ‘lottery of life’ index and Australia is second, but New Zealand ranks favourably by coming in seventh on the league table - jumping from 18th when the survey was last carried out in 1988.

Nigeria has been shamed as being the worst place to come into the world, while Britain is ranked just 27th, behind Ireland and Kuwait. The quality-of-life index was based on 11 factors including wealth, crime, family, geography, trust in authorities, and economic stability.

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• Daeth charges A man has appeared in court charged in connection with the death of 27-year old Nathan Albert in Auckland early on New Year’s Day. Police investigating the homicide arrested a 38-year-old Panmure man, who appeared in Auckland District Court yesterday charged with Crimes Act Assault. The man was remanded in custody to reappear later this month. Mr Albert died after being stabbed in Pilkington Rd, Panmure, shortly after 4am on Tuesday.

More serious charges may be laid as the investigation progresses.

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• Sheds catch fire Three sheds behind a Bay of Islands home caught fire early yesterday morning.

Northern fire communications shift manager Jaron Phillips said emergency services were called to the Moerewa house on Plunket Street about 6am.

The sheds were in a garden behind the property, he said.

A fire investigator was at the property looking at the cause of the blaze.

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• Still missing Bay of Plenty police are yet to find a man who was assaulted in Mount Maunganui on New Year’s Eve. The victim was last seen staggering through crowds on Marine Parade about 11.30pm. He was bleeding heavily and might have lost a couple of teeth after another man stomped on his head numerous times, Detective Kevin Shields said. The alleged offender ran across the road as police approached, but was soon found and arrested.

However, the victim has not been found. We’d like the victim to contact us so the appropriate support can be offered. -APNZ

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Prescriptions now cost more

By Sue Newman A 60 per cent increase in prescription fees that came into effect yesterday, inevitably means some people will no longer be able to afford essential medication an Ashburton pharmacist says.

Prescription charges have risen from $3 to $5 per item and that will be a significant increase for people already struggling to man-

age on tight budgets Netherby pharmacist Grant Hastie said.

“Some already struggle to pay $3 an item so they’ll certainly struggle with $5. Obviously, as with anything where there’s a cost involved it becomes a deterrent.”

While the $2 increase for each item might not sound a lot, for a couple that would mean their individual prescription fees would rise from $30 each to $50, Mr Hastie said.

For pharmacists running a business, there was no option but to pass on the extra charges, he said.

“This is a prescription tax, it’s the same as all other taxes and you have to recoup it.”

The increase applies to a maximum of 20 items per family; after that no charges apply for prescriptions. Free prescriptions for children under the age of six are not affected by the price hike.

A pharmaceutical subsidy card

available after 20 prescription items have been obtained will continue to be available, ensuring people are not charged for the remainder of the year. About one third of all prescriptions are at no charge to the patient.

A flat fee of $3 has been charged for prescriptions since 2007 when the two tier rate of $3 for people with a community services card and $15 for everyone else, was scrapped.

While Health Minister Tony Ryall signalled in last year’s budget that prescription charges would rise, with savings to be reinvested in the health sector, critics of the increase say it has largely flown under the radar.

When he announced the increase, Mr Ryall said savings gained would amount to $20 million in the first year and $40 million in subsequent years. In spite of the increase, New Zealand

continued to have low prescription charges compared to most other developed countries, he said.

In Australia, for example, the standard prescription charge is up to $NZ45 and in England it’s around $NZ16. In Australia people on low incomes pay around $NZ7.45 per item. In Finland, there is an annual limit of around $NZ1107 per patient, after which there is a flat fee of around $NZ2.50 per medicine item.

Diversity the key to enjoyment NEWSMAKERS OF 2012

Being the manager of a regional public art gallery is a diverse job.

It sees Shirin Khosraviani, manager/curator of the Ashburton Art Gallery, organising exhibitions and planning with highly creative artists one minute, and in meetings hard-wiring budgets the next.

“My job is enjoyable because it’s varied,” the 27-year-old said.

“One day I can be talking with artists about their work, then the next in meetings planning budgets for the next two years.

The variety brings its own mix of complications and I’m required to think creatively all the time.”

And there are a huge number of highlights for Shirin, an art lover from way back.

She particularly enjoys the public aspect of the gallery.

“Exhibition openings and educational events that encourage the wider public to engage with art is extremely rewarding,” she said.

Exhibition highlights for her over the past year include The Asian by Heather Straka in December last year. It featured an original painting by Straka and 59 copies produced by 59 Chinese artisans working from the Dafen Oil Painting Village in the Longgang District of Shenzhen.

“It was a successful exhibition because it involved visitor participation and broke down some of the barriers around contemporary art.”

She is currently enjoying the Haunts of Dickens, a feature of which had been a high tea recently which saw members of the public come along dressed in Victorian attire, and a lecture on Victorian dress presented by Dr Jane Malthus of Dunedin.

“One of the goals of the gallery is to combine our exhibitions with education programmes. We put a lot of energy into marrying

those two things together.”

Shirin also enjoys working alongside her colleagues Lucy Sharp, the publicity officer/ technician, and her personal assistant and exhibitions assistant Ali Curwood. She said it was a small team, but a close and hardworking one. The gallery is also supported by a committee and a group of dedicated volunteers whose help is never underestimated.

Shirin’s previous work experience was in the private sector. She managed a dealer gallery in Christchurch for threeand-a-half years following four years in Dunedin studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She is originally from Iran but lived in Christchurch from the age of eight.

She has never regretted choosing a career in art.

“It’s enjoyable and challenging because there’s so much you can do within the art sector and there’s so many different avenues you can be involved in.”

One of the difficult aspects of her job since arriving 18 months ago however has been being amidst the spirited community debate about the new combined art gallery and museum.

She has had people vent their disagreement about the project to her personally, despite the fact she had nothing to do with its planning.

“I think it goes with the job that I have to be the public interface” she said.

“I’m looking forward to the council fulfilling their promise to build this district a new purpose built art gallery and museum.”

The gallery will be relocated into the new building in 2014.

Planning for the shift was already underway.

“There’s definitely an enormous amount of planning, because it’s not a matter of put-

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• Museum to open The Staveley Museum, situated opposite the Staveley Store, will open for the first time this summer on Sunday.

Museum committee chairman Warren Jowett said the museum building is believed to date back to 1876, which was the year the former Springburn School opened. The school closed in 1996, when the building was shifted to its current site. Mr Jowett said the building was already being used as a museum prior to the school closing, thanks to former principal, Tom Campbell.

Today’s Staveley Museum displays include those on the geology of the area, and its history, including its various schools and industries. The museum will open for the first Sunday of the month through summer, from 2pm to 4pm.

• Outage investigation Investigations will continue today into what caused a power outage that left two-thirds of Ashburton in complete darkness on Tuesday night. EA Networks operations manager Ken Stirling said the company had limited staff rostered on yesterday and were working through issues of higher priority in the district. Although he suspected an object fell into the power lines, Mr Stirling said it was likely that linesmen would start a thorough investigation today.

Ashburton Art Gallery curator/manager Shirin Khosraviani loves her job. But the 27-year-old has also had to cop some flak over the new art gallery/museum project. Susan Sandys reports.

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Ashburton Art Gallery curator/manager Shirin Khosraviani says the variety in her job brings its own mix of complications. ting things on the trailer and driving over. It’s a very long and complicated process to move collections, we have to get crates made for them and they have to acclimatise to their new environ-

ment.”

Ashburton Art Gallery is unique among regional galleries in that it has a relatively large collection of work in its care.

Its core collection is the David

Elliot drawings, some of which are currently touring the country and are due back in March.

It also had a significant collection of Michael Armstrong work, and individual paintings by Kiwi

artists such as Nigel Brown and Philip Clairmont.

“Protecting and preserving the collection for future generations is of paramount importance,” she said.

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OUR VIEW

Road toll a sad statistic

By Coen Lammers

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arly January is traditionally the time for adding up numbers and statistics and the most gruesome one is always the road toll.

Every death on our road is one too many but police are keen to emphasise and recognise the improvements in those dreadful numbers.

This year, the national counter finished up at 307 which confirmed the predictions by the authorities that the country would head back over the 300-mark after the record low total of 284 in 2011.

That national statistics for 2012 could have been even higher if it had not been for the record low holiday road toll of six which was a massive improvement on the 19 families whose holidays were ruined by a fatal crash in 2011.

Sadly Mid Canterbury suffered a major setback on the roads with six fatalities compared to the record low total of three casualties a year earlier.

This district is a good reflection of the national trend as people continue to die on rural roads and speed and alcohol play a major part in many of these crashes.

Despite the local setback and the national increase over the past 12 months, the overall trends remain encouraging and the 2012 total was the second lowest in 50 years.

According to police, the

Stabbing now a homicide The man stabbed outside a caravan early on New Year’s Day has died in hospital, prompting police to ramp up their investigation to a homicide.

Expatriate New Zealander Robert Murray Wilkinson, 64, was fighting for his life after being attacked while investigating a disturbance at popular holiday spot Waihi Beach about 1am on January 1.

But the Queensland resident died in Waikato Hospital’s intensive care unit yesterday.

Thirty police staff were now working on the homicide investigation as they hunt for the attacker, who fled the scene when neigh-

bours heard a disturbance.

The weapon had not yet been found, and police were asking witnesses to come forward.

Checkpoints were set up at Waihi exit-points on Wednesday for police to talk to holidaymakers as they left the area.

Police have also asked New Year’s Eve partygoers to supply their festive photographs, in the hope the pictures identify the attacker.

“It’s the people who may be in the background or off to the side [of the photos] we’re interested in.

“If you took images between 12.30am-1am on Tuesday morn-

ing around where Mr Wilkinson was attacked, please send them to Thames@police.govt.nz with the names of whoever you can identify in the picture,” Detective Inspector Chris Page said.

Inspector Dana McDonald said given the advantages of modern technology it wasn’t inconceivable that with the public behind them, police could identify through images provided from the public, the majority of people present in the area around the time of the attack.

Mr Page appealed to the attacker to give himself up.

A forensic examination of the

scene was completed Wednesday, and a scene examination was continuing.

A post-mortem examination of Mr Wilkinson’s body would be completed in Auckland today.

The Operation Brad police investigation continued yesterday, with Waikato police being joined by colleagues from neighbouring districts to allow the net to be cast wider.

When the attack occurred, officers were moving on large numbers of mostly young people from the area around the surf club, the motor camp, Beach Rd and Ocean View Rd. - APNZ

Robert Wilkinson

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overwhelming majority of people are getting the message about slowing down, staying off the booze and buckling up.

Seeing anyone driving without a seatbelt these days is almost as rare as witnessing anyone smoking in their car, and the good habit of buckling up clearly saved two lives in Mid Canterbury on Wednesday when a Mitsubishi took the full impact of a Toyota Hilux travelling close to 100km/h.

Without a seatbelt, one or both the drivers could have suffered major or even fatal injuries.

The younger generation appears to be leading the way in adopting safer attitudes as the national death toll in the 15-to-24-year-old group decreased from 82 to 65 last year.

And while fewer drivers are dying, 135 compared to 150, more passengers are paying the ultimate price for the actions of others with 80 passengers dying in 2012 compared to 61 in 2011.

This last statistic is probably the most important one and should be a reminder for all irresponsible drivers to realise that they are not just playing with their own lives, but that they are more likely to kill others.

The long-term trend may be heading downwards, but the New Zealand road toll remains far too high compared to similar countries around the world.

Over 300 families around the country can testify to that.

The hunt for a super-sized Santa missing from atop a Thai restaurant in Whangarei is still continuing.

Nearly a week after the mannequin went missing from the Sabai Thai restaurant on Bank St, Carl Sayer, whose wife Ood Sayer owns the business, is confident the Santa will be found.

“Someone will know where he is. He was supposed to come down [Monday] but it looks like he’s already gone,” Ms Sayer said.

Santa was put up on November 22 and found missing on Thursday morning by Mrs Sayer when she arrived for work.

“It’s a shame because you try and do something for the town to brighten the mood and this happens,” he said.

“It’s got to be found, unless someone dumps it over a cliff or a bank. It’s like hiding a person.”

Mr Sayer said the Santa’s suit was bought from Auckland and other garments and boots sourced from local businesses.

Despite the setback, he’s keen on putting up a similar display up the restaurant for next Christmas.

- APNZ

Girl fighting for life after quad bike rolls Ashburton parents

By Kieran Campbell A young girl is fighting for her life in hospital as police investigate whether the four intoxicated adults who were riding with her on a quad bike should be charged, after the vehicle crashed.

Six-year-old Ashlee Petrowski was flown in a critical condition to Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital on Thursday afternoon.

Her 28-year-old father Daniel Petrowski, 22-year-old stepmother Stephanie Lucas, and two other adults aged in their 20s were believed to have been drinking on Waimarama Beach in Hawkes Bay before driving the quad bike home shortly before midnight on Wednesday.

Investigating officers are still trying to establish who was driving the quad bike when it crashed

down a ditch and into the fence of a tennis court on Okaihau Rd. “It’s gut-wrenching, to be honest. It was avoidable. Everyone’s just gutted that someone would put the child at risk,” said Marianne Poszeluk, Ms Lucas’ boss at Jarks Cafe at Waimarama Beach.

“Steph’s a valued member of our staff, a really good worker and a young girl trying to make a good life for herself.

“It’s just ... a series of bad decisions leading to something that could be avoided.

“She adored that little girl.

“She’s just like a doting, doting mum.”

Ashlee arrived in Auckland for surgery to serious head injuries, and it was believed she had swelling on her brain.

Ms Poszeluk said Ms Lucas had suffered several breaks, including

a fractured cheek bone, which needed urgent surgery before she could travel to Auckland to be with Ashlee.

Yesterday afternoon all four adults remained in Hawkes Bay Hospital with serious injuries.

The crash is the latest in a series of serious quad bike incidents, including the Boxing Day death of 16-year-old Rowan Cai Parker, who crashed a quad bike on a friend’s Otago farm.

Yesterday the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) issued a warning for farmers to keep safe, saying research showed longer daylight hours increased the likelihood of quad bike accidents.

“Stress and fatigue” were the main causes for crashes by people working longer hours, MBIE health and safety manager Ona de Rooy said.

Cars trapped between slips

By Lee Scanlon A Rangiora woman, her two young children and her father were among about eight carloads of people trapped between slips in the Lower Buller Gorge on Wednesday night.

Alana Hands, 31, set out for the West Coast about 2.30pm on Wednesday and should have reached Westport about 6.30pm.

Instead, the family arrived almost five hours later.

Gale force winds slowed their utility vehicle down through the Lewis Pass “we couldn’t go faster than 80k” and from Springs Junction the rain was torrential.

“You couldn’t go faster than 50k, it was too heavy to see,” Ms Hands said.

About 6.40pm, at Fern Arch in the Lower Buller Gorge, a big slip blocked their way. “We couldn’t even see with the wipers going.”

They tried to go back, but flooding had inundated the road at Hawks Crag, Ms Hands said.

They waited until the rain eased and the flooding receded, then drove back to Berlins where other motorists told them the road to Inangahua was blocked by two more slips.

“We just parked up at Berlins there was about eight cars - and just waited and waited.”

There was limited cellphone

coverage. Nightfall came, and her one-year-old son Lucas dozed off.

Ms Hands, her father Mel, who’s in his 60s, and Jessica, aged three, couldn’t sleep. They had not eaten since lunchtime and had only two muesli bars and some cold drinks in the car.

A Columbian couple in a campervan, who had just avoided ploughing into a slip, came to their rescue with chocolate biscuits, an umbrella and a jacket, and let them use their selfcontained toilet, Ms Hands said.

“They were great.”

About 10 o’clock, lights appeared on the horizon.

Ms Hands flashed her lights as they passed and a Downer vehicle stopped. Behind it was a loader and a police car, looking for a pregnant woman who was not among the motorists at Berlins.

The motorists were told they could proceed with caution towards Westport. It was a scary drive, Ms Hands said.

“The drains were all full and flowing like streams and there were big rocks. The other concern was, you were worried a slip or rocks was going to come down on top of you.”

The drive from Berlins to Westport took about 50 minutes, she said. “We were doing 50k, we didn’t want to go any faster.”

The Hands family had been planning to go to Karamea, but

SH67 was flooded at the Pines Tavern and they spent the night with relatives in Westport. They planned to complete their trip to Karamea yesterday.

New Zealand Transport Agency spokesman Mark Pinner said several slips came down on the Lower Buller Gorge, SH6 between Inangahua and Westport, between 5pm and 6pm.

“They [motorists] obviously got stopped by one slip then turned around and couldn’t get out for the other. Around about 6 o’clock we got the message and it was around 11 o’clock we knew they got out safely.”

Mr Pinner said the worst slip was at Nine Mile, where there had been two big slips in recent months, with others at Whitecliffs and Berlins.

The Lower Buller Gorge and SH69, Inangahua to Reefton, reopened around lunchtime yesterday.

Mr Pinner said damaging storms had become almost a New Year occurrence on the West Coast.

On January 13 last year, winds gusting to 100km an hour felled trees, damaged property and cut power in Buller.

On December 28, 2010 the worst floods in a century hit Seddonville and torrential rain caused damage throughout Buller.

-APNZ

Senior Sergeant Luke Shadbolt said accidents on rural properties made it hard to police reckless use of quad bikes.

But crashes on public roads would be investigated in the same way as any other motor vehicle accident, he said.

Police will interview all of the adults who were on the overloaded quad bike with Ashlee when it crashed.

“When they were admitted to hospital we took blood samples of all four adults for analysis, and there may well be charges pending as a result,” Mr Shadbolt said.

“It was unclear who was actually driving.

“Quad bikes are an important part of the rural life in New Zealand, a vital tool on farms and used around beaches. But we know there are dangers for them.

“This one is ... right outside

the parameters of what you’d call normal or reasonable use.

“It was just stupidity.”

Federated Farmers’ spokeswoman Jeanette Maxwell said farmers were taking quad bike safety seriously, but the message was not getting through to recreational users.

“There is an unhelpful assumption all quad bike accidents are farm related ... and this recreational toll is a concern,” she said.

If an untrained person wanted to use a quad bike they had to seek training, she said.

“The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment needs to look at how it is communicating safety messages to casual quad bike users. Frankly, no one should be using a quad bike without the appropriate training and not all quad bikes are designed to carry two people.”

- APNZ

Large fire hits James Hargest College An Invercargill high school has lost two new classrooms and a vehicle, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, in a large fire yesterday.

Fire crews were called to James Hargest College on Layard Street just before 6am and had the blaze under control by 7.30am.

The school’s Deputy Principal Alan Pannett said the classrooms were part of a refurbishment in a block of rooms.

“The damage to these two classrooms is pretty much totalled from what I can see,” he told Radio New Zealand.

“It’s pretty sad stuff really.”

The damage could cost the school up to $250,000, he said.

The cause of the blaze was not yet known, but a fire safety officer was investigating.

“It could be possibly connected to one or two break-ins we may have had during the night, but it’s hard to know, it could have been anything,” Mr Pannett said.

“They were redeveloping the block so the chances of an electrical fire were pretty high I imagine.”

He said the damage would he disrupting for the school.

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We had anticipated having these two classrooms back in our possession at the start of the year - that’s not going to be the case obviously and I guess they’re going to be two terms, three terms away

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these two classrooms back in our possession at the start of the year - that’s not going to be the case obviously and I guess they’re going to be two terms, three terms away.

“So it’s a massive inconvenience.”

But Mr Pannett said it was a big school and they would be able to reshuffle classes and the timetable to accommodate.

“But thankfully, obviously there’s no people involved.”

- apnz

do their own thing when it comes to babies’ names

When it comes to new babies, Ashburton parents last year opted for variety rather than following the national trend.

Olivia and Jack topped the polls as the two most popular babies names nationally, and while they featured among babies who appeared in the Guardian’s In the Nursery page, they were beaten by Hayley (or Haylee) and Jackson for number one spot.

Other most frequently chosen names for baby girls were Madison, Ella, Eva and Isla while Mac (or Mack), Liam, Max and Hunter rounded out the top five for boys.

For last year’s crop of baby girls, life as a teenager will see them spoiled for choice when it comes to boyfriends, with boys significantly out numbering girls in the Ashburton District.

Nationally the top five girls names were Olivia, Sophie,

Emily, Charlotte and Ruby, with Jack, Oliver, William, Liam and Mason topping the list for boys.

All of those featured on Ashburton’s naming list.

Ashburton’s list last year was also noted for the raft of unusual names chosen for babies.

In 2011 Ruby was New Zealand’s most popular girls’ name, but that was bumped down to fifth place last year, as Olivia moved up from second to first spot.

For boys, in 2011 Liam was the most popular name, but that fell to fourth place last year, with Jack moving up from 10th.

From 2005 to 2009 Jack sat at the top of the list for boys, but fell off the top three list in recent years.

In the top 10 list for boys, Mason made the biggest leap, from 15th place in 2011 to fifth place last year.

For girls, the jump was not so dramatic, with Sophia pushing up from 15th in 2011 to ninth in 2012.

Top 10 girls’ names last year (2011 place in brackets):

Top 10 boys’ names last year (2011 place in brackets):

By Sue Newman

1 Olivia (2) 2 Sophie (3) 3 Emily (9) 4 Charlotte (5) 5 Ruby (1) 6 Isabella (4) 7 Ella (7) 8 Amelia (10) 9 Sophia (15) 10 Ava (12)

Name rankings are provided by the Department of Internal Affairs and a full list of the top 100 names over the past nine years can be found on www. dia.govt.nz under the births,

1 Jack (10) 2 Oliver (3) 3 William (5) 4 Liam (1) 5 Mason (15) 6 Samuel (7) 7 Jacob (11) 8 Lucas (4) 9 Ethan (16) 10 Noah (6)

deaths and marriages, most popular male and female first names.

There is also an archive that lists names in popularity order prior to 2004.

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Friday, January 4, 2013

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Holiday drowning toll ‘three deaths too many’ The dramatic rescue of two boys and a man stuck in a rip at a Bay of Plenty beach on Wednesday night serves as a reminder for all water users to be aware of the dangers of New Zealand’s coasts, police say.

This holiday period, New Zealand had the lowest number of drownings since 2006-2007, with three people drowning between 4pm Christmas Eve and 6am yesterday.

Water Safety New Zealand was hoping for a zero holiday period toll, and said it was three deaths too many.

Oscar -winning sound editor Michael Alexander Hopkins drowned on Sunday in Wairarapa’s flooded Waiohine River while rafting with his wife and another man.

A man in his 20s died while he was diving off the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, north of Auckland, on Saturday. A group of five were diving at Matakatia Bay when one of them failed to surface.

The third death occurred when 42-year-old Whakatane woman Lita Tarau went into the surf to help her son, who was in distress.

However, three lives were potentially saved on Wednesday at Ohiwa Harbour, near Ohope, when a police constable successfully led the rescue of two 11-year-old boys and a 31-year-old man.

Emergency services were called to the area about 7.50pm after the two boys got caught in a rip, and the man got into trouble while trying to rescue them.

The three were in the water for about 45 minutes by the time Constable Dean Oswald, who has a background in surf lifesaving, and two other helpers pulled them from the surf.

Mr Oswald praised another man and a 19-year-old who arrived at the beach with lifejackets and waded out behind him to help with the rescue.

They reached one of the boys and Mr Oswald reached the other. The pair then helped the boys to shore while Mr Oswald swam further out to reach the man.

“One of the boys said ‘My uncle, my uncle’ and I saw him further out, lying face-up with waves breaking over him. He was conscious but I’d say pretty close to going under,” Mr Oswald said.

“It took about 15 minutes to pull him back to shore - every time a wave came I said to him ‘close your eyes, close your mouth, we’re going under’.”

All three were flown to Whakatane Hospital. One boy was kept in overnight but is understood to be recovering.

Mr Oswald said the sea was rough, with waves more than a metre high at the time.

He said it began as an evening swim and showed how quickly things

could turn around.

“It was a fantastic result but I see this as a wake-up call - we get way too many drownings every year.”

Eastern Bay of Plenty area commander Inspector Sandra Venables praised Mr Oswald for his actions.

“These people were very lucky that officers with detailed local knowledge were in the right place at the right time. With his surf lifesaving skills, I can’t think of another officer better able to deal with such a situation than Dean.”

Two 12-year-old cousins were hailed as heroes when they saved a man from drowning after he was swept out to sea by a rip at Bowentown Beach in Bay of Plenty on Saturday.

Will White and Sergio Schuler were expected to meet the man they saved, a 32-year-old Aucklander who identified himself as Vincent, this week in Waihi.

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Kim Dotcom is challenging the warrants used to seize his fortune in new court documents, which accuse the FBI of double-crossing his Megaupload company.

The new court filing says the courts need to examine closely the evidence submitted by the FBI when it sought seizure warrants as part of its investigation into Megaupload.

It pointed to a “pattern of governmental misconduct plaguing proceedings” in New Zealand, and said the FBI secured judicial backing to go after Megaupload by misrepresenting help the file-sharing company had given during the investigation into an internet pirate.

“This is huge,” Dotcom tweeted, announcing the filing. It was proof of the “US government acting in bad faith” and the Department of Justice “misleading”.

Dotcom and three colleagues are facing extradition to the US on charges of criminal copyright violation, which they deny.

The claim of dishonesty hinges on testimony given by the FBI of Megaupload knowingly acting as a

Kim Dotcom haven for illegally copied movies.

The testimony was given a year ago in hearings which saw warrants issued for Dotcom and his business associates.

Details released from US courts in November showed the FBI relied on the existence of 36 illegallycopied movies as evidence of wilful law-breaking. The FBI told the US courts Megaupload had been told of the illegal files in 2010, and the continued existence was evidence to flagrant criminality.

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the files were kept at the request of the US government, which asked it do nothing to impact on its criminal investigation. They claimed FBI testimony to secure arrest warrants managed to “exclude critical facts” which would have shown the company’s efforts to assist.

Instead, they gave a “selective distorted account” and “deliberately misled the court”.

The filing says Megaupload was painted by the FBI as a “brazen scofflaw” and the files were the only linking thread which tied together those described by the FBI as the “Mega Conspiracy”.

It also pointed to other court cases which showed warrants being declared invalid if the applicant - in this case the FBI - was shown to be dishonest or reckless.

The help sought in 2010 related to a Homeland Security investigation into NinjaVideo, a file-sharing site which used Megaupload’s system to store files. An agent on the case contacted Megaupload’s data storage company Carpathia to ask for help securing the files. Megaupload was told not to alter or change the files - a detail not later mentioned by the FBI.

Dotcom’s lawyers pointed to an email between Carpathia and Megaupload from 2010 as capturing the reality. The email, from Carpathia executive Phil Hedlund, detailed the search warrant issued to capture the NinjaVideo material.

Mr Hedlund said the warrant was restricted to just Carpathia and Megaupload but would be otherwise kept secret. He said it was possible to do so “because we relayed to the Government Mega’s willingness to work with the Government for these types of requests”. He added: “We have no reason to believe Megaupload is the target of the investigation.”

The Weekend Herald revealed the details around the so-called doublecross in November when the first US court files were unsealed. Dotcom, waiting on the US to comply with NZ court orders for discovery, said: “I understand why the US is working so hard to appeal the discovery decision.”

He said Megaupload worked hard to comply with requests to remove unlawful material. “We have always co-operated. We have responded to takedown requests, we have been a good corporate citizen.”

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Hydro lakes relieved of excess water

By Andrew Ashton The flood threat to the Waitaki River, brought on by three days of heavy rain, has eased but holidaymakers in the Waitaki Lakes and at Lake Pukaki are still being warned of rising water levels as releasing excess water from hydro lakes starts.

Energy company Meridian began spilling water from Lake Pukaki late on Wednesday night.

Meridian spokeswoman Michelle Brooker said a gradual spill would take place for “a good few weeks”, and added that spills at Lake Ohau and Benmore may also be needed soon.

Big win A Hastings woman has won $15.41 million in the Big Wednesday draw, allowing her fiance to buy her a “long-awaited” engagement ring.

She won $15 million in the first division and $409,492 in the second division.

The couple declined to be named or give their ages and occupations.

“We are too wellknown in our own culture,” she said.

“Hastings is a very small town. We just want to enjoy our win, relax and structure everything properly.”

She said they had previously been living pay day to pay day.

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Our evening entertainment was to spend $10 at a club. Six dollars was for a jug of coke and $4 would be spent playing pool.”

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“We have received over 500mm in the headwaters of the Waitaki in the last two days, increasing levels in Lake Pukaki to 532.88mm.

“The increase in water levels, due to the weather event and low electricity demand during the holiday period, means we are monitoring our lake levels carefully and may need to eventually also spill from lakes Ohau and Benmore.”

Ms Brooker said two teams of Meridian staff travelled the banks of Lake Pukaki and the Ohau River to warn campers to move back from the shoreline.

“The Ohau River is high anyway, because of rain at the moment.

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Mr Henderson said the hydro lakes had absorbed much of the rain, but were now at a stage were they were very full “From what I can gather if they (Meridian) do have to discharge from Lake Benmore it won’t be at flood levels. It will certainly be higher than the normal flow, but not at flood levels.”

However, he said the Rangitata, which normally ran at just under 100 cumecs during the summer, peaked at 2000 cumecs at about 6pm on Wednesday.

It had fallen to 1400 cumecs yesterday, and was dropping steadily, but it would take three to four days to return to normal, he said.

“People just need to be careful because water levels are high and the river will be dirty.

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Kids these school holidays will finally get an answer to the age-old question in the Court Theatre’s new show. Writer and director Dan Bain, has filled his latest show with mime and physical comedy in a play that unfolds in the style of a silent movie.

It follows the hilarious consequences when a mischievous youngster (Laura Daniel) sets out to teach her parents (David Ladderman and Kathleen Burns) to have fun while she is at home during the school holidays.

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Australians on high alert for bushfires Victoria’s acting premier says the state is on the brink of its sternest test of the bushfire season.

Extreme fire danger ratings have been declared for the state’s southwest, Wimmera, and central regions on Friday, with the risk in the rest of the state rated as severe.

Many communities are expecting temperatures to soar above 40C until the middle of next week. The entire state is under a fire ban.

A heat health alert has been issued by the chief health officer for the central and north central districts, taking in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Marysville and other townships.

Local governments have been preparing lists of vulnerable residents in a bid to minimise the risk to the elderly and those with medical conditions.

The effort comes after hundreds died in 2009 from the prolonged heat that occurred before the deadly Black Saturday bushfires.

Acting Premier Peter Ryan called on Victorians to have a fire plan and make con-

tact with elderly neighbours, particularly if they lived alone, to ensure their needs were met.

“We are at the brink of our sternest test for the year 12/13 bushfire season,” he said.

Fire Services Commissioner Craig Lapsley said 260 neighbourhood safer places had been established after the 2009 fires.

However, only one registered community fire refuge was ready to be used - the old gold mining tunnel at Woods Point, northeast of Melbourne, that provided shelter from bushfires in 1939.

Neighbourhood Safer Places are designated community buildings that may provide some protection from radiant heat, whereas community fire refuges are purpose-built or modified buildings.

About 8000 firefighters are on stand-by for Friday, with 40 aircraft, including two aircranes, ready to be called in.

The state’s bushfire and arson police group, which monitors high-risk individuals and locations, will also be on patrol.

Dwyer in heart pain Former Australian rugby union coach Bob Dwyer is recovering in the hospital after suffering a heart attack.

Australia’s Fairfax Media said yesterday the 72-year-old Dwyer experienced chest pains at his farm south of Sydney on Wednesday and was taken to a local hospital where he suffered a cardiac arrest. He was later rushed to a western Sydney hospital where he underwent surgery.

“Talk about being at the right place at the right time, if it had have happened at home I would be dead,” Dwyer said.

“I was on a monitor and had the doctor with me and (then) I had the arrest. They gave me the electrical charge straight away and I came straight back. So I had the procedure and this morning I felt pretty much brand new. I’m doing well. I feel fine,” he added.

Dwyer coached Australia to the Rugby World Cup title in 1991 when the Wallabies beat England in the Twickenham final.

He later coached in England and Super rugby’s New South Wales Waratahs and was inducted into the International Rugby Board hall of fame in 2011.

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Weather conditions in other parts of Australia will also test firefighters.

A large bushfire was out of control in Tasmania last night and impacting the township of Richmond, fire authorities say.

“Fire under these conditions will be uncontrollable, unpredictable and fast moving,” says an alert sent from the Tasmania Fire Service.

Ten fire trucks were sent to the blaze, which is expected to put the township of more than 800 people at extreme risk.

The fire danger rating in the region is extreme.

A total fire ban has been declared for the entire state as firefighters prepare for the worst bushfire danger in the area in more than five years.

Tasmania Fire Service Chief Officer Mike Brown said the conditions across the state were the worst he had seen since the 2006/2007 fire season, when bushfires burned near Hobart’s eastern shore.

“We have additional strike team crews, heavy machinery and aircraft ready.” - AAP

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Girl, 11, among crash victims identified Authorities said an 11-year-old girl from South Korea was among the nine people killed in a bus crash on Interstate 84 in Eastern Oregon.

Youmin Kim was visiting relatives in British Columbia before the nine-day tour of the western United States, Oregon State Police officials said.

Police also released the names of three other victims of the Sunday crash, including a woman from Washington state and a Korean couple who had been staying with relatives in Washington.

The bus plunged through a guardrail down an embankment while returning to Vancouver, British Columbia, on the final leg of the vacation tour.

The trip was organised by a British Columbia travel agency that has yet to comment. It was

Oregon’s deadliest roadway crash since 1971.

Police have not named four of the passengers who were killed.

The identification process has been slowed by factors such as the availability of legal identification, fingerprint and medical records.

Another 38 people were injured, including driver Haeng Kyu Hwang, 54, of Vancouver, British Columbia.

At least 10 remained hospitalised Wednesday afternoon at facilities stretching from Boise, Idaho, to Portland. State troopers have been going to hospitals with photographs of unclaimed property, including purses and luggage, in an effort to return items found at the scene.

The cause of the crash has yet to be released, and police have said it could take a month or more to determine whether the driver was at fault.

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The woman, known only as Ms C, and her husband had been trying to conceive for the past two years and began in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment before he committed suicide.

His body was taken to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on Friday. Ms C asked for his sperm to be removed and stored for future IVF procedures.

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He said future applications should be acted upon more efficiently so relatives would not have to attend a court hearing.

The only restriction was if a person died in suspicious circumstances, in which case it would need to be referred to the state coroner for approval, Justice Edelman said.

“Due to the urgency of this application, the respondent to this application, the Minister for Health, did not have the opportunity to appear or make submissions,” he said.

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Madonna fan gets probation for resisting A former firefighter with a crush on Madonna has been sentenced to three years’ probation for resisting arrest outside the singer’s New York City apartment building.

Robert Linhart was convicted in November after being twice arrested in September 2010.

Police say the then-59-year-old Linhart was nabbed after he parked his SUV outside the Material Girl’s former Manhattan apartment and spray-painted love notes on poster boards. He returned a few days later and was arrested again.

His attorney had argued that it was no crime to adore Madonna, the singer of pop hits including “Like a Virgin” who performed at last year’s Super Bowl halftime game.

The judge yesterday also ordered Linhart to attend anger management sessions.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was released from a New York hospital yesterday, three days after doctors discovered a blood clot in her head.

Clinton’s medical team advised she was making good progress on all fronts and said they are confident she will fully recover, said Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines. Doctors had been treating Clinton with blood thinners to dissolve a clot in a vein that runs through the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear.

“She’s eager to get back to the office,” Reines said, adding that the secretary and her family are grateful for the excellent care she received in hospital.

Clinton had been in the hospital since doctors discovered the clot on an MRI test during a follow-up exam stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier in December. While at home battling a stomach virus, Clinton had fainted, fallen and struck her head.

“Grateful my Mom discharged from the hospital and is heading home,” the secretary’s daughter, Chelsea, wrote on Twitter. “Even more grateful her medical team (is) confident she’ll make a full recovery.”

The State Department said Clinton had been speaking by telephone with staff in Washington and reviewing paperwork while in the hospital.

“She’s been quite active on the phone with all of us,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

Clinton’s physicians had said Monday that there was no neurological damage but that they planned to keep her in the hospital while they established the proper dose for the blood thinners.

They said Clinton, 65, had been in good spirits and was engaging with doctors, family and aides.

Sidelined by her illness for most of December, Clinton was absent on December 21 when President Barack

Obama nominated Democratic Senator John Kerry to succeed her when she steps down at the start of Obama’s second term, as had long been planned.

The illness also forced to cancel scheduled testimony before Congress about a scathing report into the attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, although she could still testify in the future.

Clinton had expected to return to work this week and had already started to resume regular phone contact with her foreign counterparts.

The illness has also raised questions about Clinton’s political future and how her health might influence her decision about whether to run for president in 2016, as prominent Democrats have been urging her to consider.

Clinton suffered from a blood clot in 1998, midway through her husband’s second term as president, although that clot was located in her knee.

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A teen pilot killed along with two friends in an Alabama plane crash had his own key to the aircraft and had flown it many times, his mother said yesterday, denying authorities' assertion that the plane had been taken without permission.

Sherrie Smith said her 17-year-old son Jordan Smith was the one flying the plane that went down in the Alabama woods Tuesday night. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Piper PA 30 crashed less than a mile from the Walker County Airport in Jasper, which is northwest of Birmingham.

Smith says the owner of the plane had let her son fly it many other times and had given him his own key. Her son was a high school junior who fell in love with flying at an early age and was one test short of earning his private pilot's license.

"He had used the plane many times before," she said.

Her son had left the house around 6pm to meet some friends at another airport in the area, and she said she last spoke to him by cellphone about four hours later. One of her son's friends called later about reports of a plane crash, and she tried to reach Jordan again but couldn't.

Sheriff's Chief Deputy James Painter said earlier Wednesday that authorities believed the three teenagers took off in the plane without permission.

"We don't know for sure but we think it was some teenagers who stole the plane and were sort of joyriding it," Painter told The Associated Press.

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A Walker County sheriff's deputy lifts crime scene tape for investigators as National Transportation Safety Board officials continue investigate the fatal plane crash. the other two people killed in the crash were Brandon Tyler Ary, 19, and Jordan Seth Montgomery, 17.

Sherrie Smith said the plane was parked behind a security gate, but that her son had been given a security code to access it.

She also said her son had enough promise as a pilot that he'd already earned a scholarship to Wallace State Community College to study aviation.

"He started going to the airport when he was 14, and friends would take him up," she said.

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state trooper and member of the Alabama National Guard who is currently serving in Afghanistan.

"We were working on getting him his own plane when he was a senior," she said of her son.

The plane went down in a wooded, swampy area just over the fence from Margaret Swann's hay farm. She said training flights from the airport circle over her farm routinely and she guessed that Jordan Smith was flying the same pattern before the plane went down.

"It's just three kids making a wrong decision," she said.

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Twin sisters in Ohio have given birth to two baby boys two hours apart on New Year’s Eve, a newspaper reports.

Identical twins Aimee and Ashlee Nelson, 19, used to dress alike as young girls and both got pregnant about the same time, the Akron Beacon Herald reported.

Aimee’s son - Donavyn Scott Bratten was born at 12.11pm on Monday. Ashlee’s son - Aiden Lee Alan Dilts - arrived at 2.03pm. And to make things even easier for visiting relatives, they were both delivered in the same hospital.

The sisters weren’t planning same-day births and were due about a week apart, their mother told the paper. While they stopped dressing alike once they got older, they often ended up doing the same things without planning it, Marcella Farson said.

A US man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple after answering an online ad is fighting efforts by Kansas state authorities to suddenly force him to pay child support for the now 3-year-old girl, arguing that he and the women signed an agreement waiving all of his parental rights.

The case hinges on the fact that no doctors were used for the artificial insemination. The state argues that because William Marotta didn’t work through a clinic or doctor, as required by state law, he can be held responsible for about $6000 that the child’s biological mother received through public assistance — as well as future child support.

Angela de Rocha, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Children

and Families, said that when a single mother seeks benefits for a child, it’s routine for the department to try to determine the child’s paternity and require the father to make support payments to lessen the potential cost to taxpayers.

Marotta, a 46-year-old Topeka resident, answered an online ad in 2009 from a local couple, Angela Bauer and Jennifer Schreiner, who said they were seeking a sperm donor. After exchanging emails and meeting, the three signed an agreement relieving Marotta of any financial or paternal responsibility.

But instead of working with a doctor, Marotta agreed to drop off a container with his sperm and the women successfully handled the insemination.

Few extra pounds may be healthy, experts suggest Turns out a few extra pounds may not be such a bad thing, according to a new analysis of nearly three million adults that showed people who are overweight or slightly obese may live longer.

But experts were quick to caution that the possible benefits dropped off when the “few” extra pounds turned into many.

The researchers used data from nearly 100 studies from around the world, with health information from more than 2.8 million adults.

Among the sampled population, there were around 270,000 deaths within the study period.

Even after controlling for other factors, such as age, sex, smoking, those whose weight and height put them in the “overweight” category were six per cent less at risk of dying than those in the “normal” category.

And those who were “slightly obese”, with heights and weights that gave them BMIs of 30 to 35, were five per cent less at risk of dying in a given period.

But for those who were more significantly obese, with BMIs of 35 and higher, the mortality rate soared by 29

per cent compared to “normal” weight subjects, according to the authors of the meta-analysis, published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

BMI, which stands for body-mass index, is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in metres, squared.

The authors suggested several possible reasons to explain why some extra weight may be good, but too much is bad, including that those with a few extra pounds may be more likely to receive “optimal medical treatment.”

They said it was also possible that increased body fat provided metabolic benefits that protect the heart, or that having extra reserves of fat could be helpful for those whose sicknesses make it hard to eat.

Lead researcher Katherine Flegel, of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, published a controversial study in 2005 that indicated there was a link between excess weight and living longer.

This time, her analysis was based on a much larger number sample pool, across different countries in North America,

Europe, Asia and South America.

These studies and others show that small amounts of excess fat “may provide needed energy reserves” during illness, or help in other ways that need to be investigated, wrote biomedical researchers Steven Heymsfield and William Cefalu in an editorial also published on Tuesday in the JAMA. “Not all patients classified as being overweight or having grade one obesity, particularly those with chronic diseases, can be assumed to require weight loss treatment,” they emphasised.

CDC director Thomas Friedan said in a statement that “we still have to learn about obesity, including how best to measure it”.

However, he insisted that “it’s clear that being obese is not healthy, it increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and many other health problems”.

“Small, sustainable increases in physical activity and improvements in nutrition can lead to significant health improvements.”

According to CDC statistics, a third of US adults are considered obese. - AFP

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FREE ‘For Sale’ advertisement in the TO LET warm sunny, 2 Ashburton Guardian when bedroom brick home, North you buy two in the End. Single garage, no dogs. Guardian. Phone 307-7900.

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1.30pm. MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. 14km road race. Register from 1pm. Fords Road, near the sale yards.

BEAUTIFUL Bouquets and Plants at Smithfield Flowers, 211 Smithfield Road. Bouquets $6 to $15.

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Marquerite Daisies, Veriegated Weigela and Daphne. CASH ONLY. BEAUTIFUL Bouquets and Plants for Sale. Bouquets ranging from $6 to $15.

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MISSING CHOCO Chocolate Burmese from James St, Allenton.

Missing since January 1st.

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Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272-101-621 A/H 03-3227626.

MISSING since Saturday Ashburton Hospital, Domain area , black male cat. If found, phone 308-8682. Any information appreciated or 021-259-4761 or 027-8158926.

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NEW potatoes, Osprey, PUBLIC NOTICES Purple Passion, at the Farmers Market this Saturday. Come and see Farmer Brown.

ADAMS SAWMILLING open Thursday, Friday 8amNEW potatoes, Osprey, 5pm, Saturday 8am-12noon, Purple Passion, at the for all your DIY/home Farmers Market this handyman jobs over the Saturday. Come and see Christmas/New Year break Farmer Brown.

HoHoHo Merry Christmas & have a safe and Happy New Year - Malcolm McDowell RASPBERRIES Road Ph 308-3595.

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Christchurch greyhound fields and form Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 4 Jan 2013 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15

1 12.08pm (NZT) SUPER PETS DASH C1, 295m

1 81564 Billy Muggins 17.61........................... B Dann 2 72767 Ohoka Ashley 17.64..................... L Waretini 3 73355 Starburst Blanch 17.69.................... M Grant 4 74786 Cawbourne Travis nwtd..............J McInerney 5 514 Life’s A Laugh 17.43..................R Blackburn 6 33766 New Order 17.42 S &.......................Bonnett 7 16 Coalpit Mick nwtd..........................A Williams 8 11433 Make Your Point 17.65 W &............... Nissen 9 32268 Upsala Jewel 17.96 S &..................B Evans 10 24445 James Arthur 17.46...........................J Dunn 2 12.27pm I PAVE CONCRETE SPRINT C0, 295m 1 27583 Inner Beauty nwtd............................. B Dann 2 63488 Mulberry Macro nwtd.................... K Cassidy 3 Get Off It nwtd...................................J Dunn 4 78 Another Warning nwtd...................... B Dann 5 75 Go Bridie nwtd............................... G Cleeve 6 56 Know Favours nwtd........................ G Cleeve 7 33333 All For One nwtd........................J McInerney 8 33622 Goldstar Bella nwtd S &...................B Evans 9 867 Liquorice Whip nwtd..................J McInerney 10 75577 Quiet Snort nwtd S &........................Bonnett 3 12.45pm CAROL’S TAB STAKES C2, 520m 1 61745 Mr. Dozer 30.46 W &.......................... Nissen 2 72767 Cawbourne Heidi nwtd M &...............Jopson 3 32417 Homebush Chopper 31.06.........J McInerney 4 52125 Rambunctious 30.90..................A Bradshaw 5 11144 Party Rock 31.30 S &......................B Evans 6 33272 Sretror 30.69 J &.............................D Fahey 7 82156 Know Chaos 30.70........................ G Cleeve 8 75556 Thrilling Sound 30.68 S &................B Evans 9 16463 Judge To Excel 30.66 W &................. Nissen 10 53657 Sonic Duffer 30.70......................... G Cleeve 4 1.02pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL DASH C0, 295m 1 73 Camray nwtd..................................... M Flipp 2 57573 Yes He Will nwtd............................... B Dann 3 73764 Okuku Muppet nwtd C &..................... Fagan 4 Go Alice nwtd................................. G Cleeve

5 Tepirita Ruby nwtd............................B Shaw 6 22666 Zip Zap Zappa nwtd...................R Blackburn 7 482 Starla nwtd.................................J McInerney 8 2x272 Saddleback Patch nwtd................A Williams 9 57 Springstown nwtd S &.....................B Evans 10 47883 Waimak Dave nwtd....................J McInerney 5 1.20pm NZRS NOVICE STAKES HEAT NZRSq, 520m 1 87553 Know Revenge (c1) 30.39............. G Cleeve 2 F6346 Sahara Storm (c1) 30.61.................. M Flipp 3 17647 Bizarro (c1) nwtd S &.......................B Evans 4 66885 Miss Fit (c1) 30.85....................... M Roberts 5 5 Opawa Andrea (c0) nwtd L &............. Wales 6 57487 Kin Nikki (c1) 30.96...................... L Waretini 7 54768 Noisy Leo (c1) nwtd...................J McInerney 8 1 Chill Out Ralph (c1) 31.14 L &............ Wales 9 Opawa Cassidy (c0) nwtd L &............ Wales 10 44866 Opawa Mohawk (c0) nwtd L &............ Wales 6 1.37pm SHIRLEY VET CENTRE SPRINT C0, 295m 1 5344x Pancho Pistoles nwtd M &................... Smith 2 36 Lynny Southcombe nwtd............J McInerney 3 27 Dixie Queen nwtd............................. B Dann 4 Go Housie nwtd............................. G Cleeve 5 Teevee Gidget nwtd.......................... M Flipp 6 53567 Tepirita Tuiteka nwtd M &...................Jopson 7 752 Stolen Money nwtd........................ G Cleeve 8 86654 Top Player nwtd P &...........................Doody 9 8x Winsome Extra nwtd..................J McInerney 10 785 Be Prepared nwtd............................. B Dann 7 1.55pm NZRS NOVICE STAKES HEAT NZRSq, 520m 1 34F72 Opawa Bart (c1) 30.78 L &................. Wales 2 26666 Ohoka Taylor (c1) 31.28................A Waretini 3 68217 Opulent (c1) nwtd A &........................Seque 4 34275 Time For What (c1) nwtd............. M Roberts 5 8x887 Know Future (c1) 30.74................. G Cleeve 6 68412 Line Honours (c1) 31.24................ G Cleeve 7 34462 Thrilling Jonah (c1) nwtd................. M Grant 8 52263 Kylie’s Belle (c0) nwtd L &.................. Wales 9 Opawa Cassidy (c0) nwtd L &............ Wales 10 5 Opawa Carlos (c0) nwtd L &............... Wales 8 2.12pm GARRARD’S HORSE HOUND SPRINT C2, 295m 1 32564 My Little Oah nwtd.....................J McInerney 2 21155 Another Jewel 17.32..................J McInerney

3 64352 Ohoka Blue 17.54......................... L Waretini 4 25111 Georgie Wong 17.26..........................J Rush 5 77172 New York Affair 18.08 J &.......................May 6 23123 Thunda Thighs 17.50.................J McInerney 7 45147 All Against Me 17.47..........................P Scott 8 62217 Cawbourne Catch 17.17................... M Flipp 9 34736 Ashvegas Value nwtd S &.................Bonnett 10 84728 Bigtime Yahoo 17.59 P &....................Doody 9 2.30pm NZRS NOVICE STAKES HEAT NZRSq, 520m 1 15854 Secret Arnie (c1) 31.33 L &................ Wales 2 26312 Know Honour (c1) 30.81................ G Cleeve 3 36567 Sea Spray Doris (c1) 30.91.........B Freeman 4 11424 Jinja Power (c1) 30.75 J &...............D Fahey 5 74856 Canvas Rider (c1) 31.57 S &...........B Evans 6 65424 Choose To Love (c0) nwtd M &..........Jopson 7 4173 Ohoka Frenchi (c1) 31.22............. L Waretini 8 177T7 Opawa Chance (c1) nwtd..........J McInerney 9 35 Opawa Casper (c0) nwtd L &............. Wales 10 655 Uno Nosey (c0) nwtd L &.................... Wales 10 2.45pm JET PETS DASH C2, 295m 1 33584 Homebush Coco 17.84..............J McInerney 2 24173 Avec Lamour 17.69....................A Bradshaw 3 23645 Foggy Storm 17.48 J &...........................May 4 11828 Salute To Radar 17.53..................A Williams 5 21232 Don’t Call Me 17.54...................J McInerney 6 33423 Fulla Torque nwtd C &..................D Roberts 7 33171 Another Colt 17.35.....................J McInerney 8 54512 Wandy Paul 17.57............................ M Grant 9 34736 Ashvegas Value nwtd S &.................Bonnett 10 31677 Cawbourne Spear 17.75............J McInerney 11 3.07pm NZRS NOVICE STAKES HEAT NZRSq, 520m 1 32131 Bone Nerd (c1) nwtd.................... M Roberts 2 26343 Opawa Patch (c1) 31.09............J McInerney 3 14732 Uno Flash (c1) 31.57 L &................... Wales 4 25485 Okuku Surprise (c1) 30.96.............. R Casey 5 25877 Mainland Star (c1) 30.16.................. B Dann 6 25 Opawa Webby (c0) nwtd L &.............. Wales 7 64111 Wayleggo (c1) 30.61...................... I Fensom 8 27325 Know Lies (c1) 31.05..................... G Cleeve 9 Opawa Cassidy (c0) nwtd L &............ Wales 10 67 Candy Belle (c0) nwtd L &.................. Wales 12 3.27pm NZRS NOVICE STAKES HEAT NZRSq, 520m

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1 14552 Know Taste (c1) 31.79................... G Cleeve 2 23381 Matulino (c1) nwtd A &.......................Seque 3 61525 Indi’s Grace (c1) nwtd...................... M Grant 4 64866 Wyndham (c1) 31.18 M &..................Jopson 5 25185 Opawa Leighton (c1) nwtd L &........... Wales 6 51734 Opawa No Ear (c1) 30.59 J &.........D Fahey 7 5F6 Fergie’s Belle (c0) nwtd L &................ Wales 8 77466 Pied Warrior (c1) 31.15................ J McMillan 9 35 Opawa Casper (c0) nwtd L &............. Wales 10 75763 Mulberry Hunter (c0) nwtd............K Cassidy 13 3.42pm ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER SPRINT C1, 295m 1 61 Know Charity 17.70....................... G Cleeve 2 7x677 Lady In Shades 17.76 M &.................. Smith 3 44485 Aykroyd 17.90............................R Blackburn 4 32462 Syrip’s Girl 17.78.......................R Blackburn 5 15144 Will Excite 17.73........................... L Waretini 6 12222 Wellywood 17.82 W &........................ Nissen 7 45417 Mulberry Brook 18.03................... K Cassidy 8 28583 Rite Round Range nwtd............A Bradshaw 9 32268 Upsala Jewel 17.96 S &..................B Evans 10 56544 Wandy Jewel 17.44......................D Kingston 14 4.02pm KOLORFUL KANVAS DASH C1, 295m 1 46165 Wandy Millah 17.63.....................D Kingston 2 54557 Ohoka Hart 17.96......................... L Waretini 3 28427 Mighty Monica 17.76.........................S Whall 4 18864 Mulberry Cato 17.68.....................K Cassidy 5 67623 Wandy Gaylene nwtd..................... G Cleeve 6 64327 Blonde Tori 17.48.......................A Bradshaw 7 22338 Marmalade Skies 17.52.....................J Dunn 8 325x8 Business Class 17.71................R Blackburn 9 32268 Upsala Jewel 17.96 S &..................B Evans 10 628x3 Jet Even 17.77..............................A Williams 15 4.17pm SPEIGHT’S SPRINT C1, 295m 1 68318 Wandy On In nwtd.......................D Kingston 2 x8464 Nitro Express nwtd........................ L Waretini 3 43645 Parkermon 17.63.......................R Blackburn 4 27755 Homebush Greta nwtd...............J McInerney 5 16 Know Jealousy 17.29..................... G Cleeve 6 12384 Gotta Go Ace nwtd....................R Blackburn 7 11781 Ziggy War Paint 17.64 M &.................. Smith 8 52658 Randy Outside nwtd.................... M Roberts 9 32268 Upsala Jewel 17.96 S &..................B Evans

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Wanganui greyhound fields, form Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 04 Jan 2013 NZ Meeting number : 10 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 5.25pm (NZT) ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C1 C1, 305m 1 22112 Time’s Up 18.04 B G &................... S Denby 2 37867 Seong Duk nwtd U &.................. McCracken 3 34327 Aversion nwtd H &...............................Taylor 4 64488 Mrs. Bouquet 18.22........................J Harland 5 26222 Smidged nwtd...................................G Quirk 6 13325 Pick The Tip nwtd............................ D Voyce 7 72588 Ms. Tournamental 0.00...................J Harland 8 85568 Lotus nwtd U &........................... McCracken 9 26152 Stevie’s Magic 18.28...........................W Kite 10 82752 Sedgebrook Skite 18.19......................F Kite 2 5.49pm HARRISON HIRE MASTER C1 C1, 520m 1 55667 Homebush Lacey 30.46.............J McInerney 2 45723 Pegson Fire nwtd H &..........................Taylor 3 31 Pandemonium Paws 31.29 K &.........Phillips 4 85773 Nitro Mabel nwtd H &...........................Taylor 5 158 My Lil Lucifer 31.45 K &.....................Phillips 6 45548 Kazillion 30.60...................................D Edlin 7 24548 Bullabakanka 30.54 U &............. McCracken 8 7x613 Time Fraud nwtd F &......................Turnwald 9 72878 Girly Dreamz 30.77...............................I Cox 10 65788 Opawa Charlie nwtd........................S Maher 3 6.06pm GUTHRIE BOWRON C2 C2, 305m 1 32111 Call Me Ralph (c3) 17.70...............J Harland 2 33112 Fire Boy Baxter 17.83................J McInerney 3 44345 Cool Explorer 17.70 U &............. McCracken 4 77277 Scott Me Going 17.83 U &.......... McCracken 5 14335 Kinetic Neo 17.79 K &.......................Phillips 6 6x543 Mega Rush 17.80............................M Olden

7 57874 Opawa Black nwtd B &................. G Atwood 8 13574 Homebush Alex 17.90................J McInerney 9 71673 Calm Rita 18.17.......................... B Johnston 10 68176 Another Street 17.67..................J McInerney 4 6.36pm J P PRINT, PETONE C2 C2, 305m 1 11164 Red Moova Hoova 17.83 B G &..... S Denby 2 53187 Cawbourne Tina 17.86......................... L Bell 3 16262 Sydenham Bubbles 18.03..............J Harland 4 27642 Scott No Money 18.05 U &......... McCracken 5 31376 Another Snazza 18.02...............J McInerney 6 51121 Gem’s Conquest (c3) 17.86..............G Quirk 7 6T255 Surf Quake nwtd U &.................. McCracken 8 15867 Belfast Suzy (c1) nwtd H &..................Taylor 9 53483 My Girl Marina 17.78.................J McInerney 10 68176 Another Street 17.67..................J McInerney 5 6.59pm CROMBIE LOCKWOOD (NZ) LTD C2 C2, 520m 1 81645 Flying Rebel 30.93 U &............... McCracken 2 56273 Raveon 30.75.................................M Gowan 3 37554 Smash Bang Win 30.28 K &..............Phillips 4 42566 Go Boof 30.46 B &........................ G Atwood 5 16364 Hair She Is 30.50................................. L Bell 6 21563 Shodsie 30.32 U &...................... McCracken 7 85552 Ramessee 30.52............................M Gowan 8 54378 Jag You Are nwtd........................ B Johnston 9 x4886 Sha Char nwtd................................. D Voyce 6 7.23pm PALAMOUNTAINS NUTRITION C2/3 C2/3, 305m 1 57356 Bimboo 17.69 2 64147 All The Rage 17.75 U &.............. McCracken 3 78532 Still Helina nwtd H &............................Taylor 4 68735 Sydenham Sam 17.73...................J Harland 5 16556 Belfast Glenda 17.85........................ G Ross 6 64345 Botany Zena 17.68....................J McInerney 7 86458 Ever So Hopeful 17.75 B G &......... S Denby

8 11261 Run Stacey Run (c4) 17.65 F &.....Turnwald 9 x8788 Krussian nwtd....................................D Edlin 10 885x6 Jolokia (c2) 17.89........................R J Murray 7 7.55pm GARY ROSS DECORATOR C2/3 C2/3, 305m 1 88488 Jackie Shiraz 17.73..........................S Maher 2 54552 Wazza Freebie nwtd H &.....................Taylor 3 42571 Another Legin (c4) 17.60...........J McInerney 4 82213 Sedgebrook Lee 17.58........................F Kite 5 63443 Yaldhurst Edward 17.81.............J McInerney 6 5F766 Sheeza Meesha 17.90 B G &......... S Denby 7 F4636 Cawbourne Steffi 17.56 W &...............Brider 8 25243 Stat Me Up 17.60..............................G Quirk 9 x8788 Krussian nwtd....................................D Edlin 10 56567 Thrilling Lyric (c2) 17.74................... J Tapiki 8 8.23pm WANGANUI SECURITY C4 C4, 305m 1 22736 Planking 17.59 U &..................... McCracken 2 34332 Taleedy Trooper 17.53................... D Donlon 3 57174 Furious Response 18.05...................... L Bell 4 16875 Another Blend (c3) 17.63...........J McInerney 5 84847 Motherlee 17.39.....................K Sutch-Jones 6 67232 Freddie Baxter 17.37.................J McInerney 7 74745 Howlin Wind 17.84...........................M Olden 8 53747 Cawbourne Flick 17.70..............J McInerney 9 3877F Riba Lorda (c3) 17.73....................J Harland 10 76847 Waterbug 17.68...................................L Udy 9 8.50pm MICKEY’S SUPER LIQUOR C4 C4, 305m 1 42322 Glenaddis 17.62 B G &................... S Denby 2 83633 Okuku Wee Man nwtd U &......... McCracken 3 66214 Another Raewyn 17.57..............J McInerney 4 26542 Direct Response 17.62....................M Olden 5 75216 Slangevar 17.61.................................D Little 6 8113F Hot Shot Lawyer nwtd H &..................Taylor 7 65836 Sassafras 17.60 U &................... McCracken

8 12654 Lindop 17.77..............................J McInerney 9 3877F Riba Lorda (c3) 17.73....................J Harland 10 83883 Homebush Britney 17.55...........J McInerney 10 9.20pm KEENAN CONCRETE C3/4 C3/4, 520m 1 14351 Chainsaw Pete (c5) 30.32................B Marsh 2 31678 Opawa Gift 30.58.............................S Maher 3 74861 Thanks Charlie (c4) 30.30.........J McInerney 4 52277 Thrilling Ava 30.51...........................B Marsh 5 35335 Barry’s Way (c4) 29.99......................R Waite 6 74836 Tails Off 30.04 J &............................ J Tapiki 7 12134 Should Be Carlos 30.28.............J McInerney 8 77653 Missing Melody (c4) 30.07................G Quirk 11 9.42pm BROAD ROOFING C5 C5, 305m 1 41856 Opawa Sacha 17.56........................S Maher 2 6732F Enflame nwtd.............................J McInerney 3 12821 Run Lacey Run 17.41 F &..............Turnwald 4 15672 See To Believe 17.63.................J McInerney 5 61216 Cool Charmer 17.38..................J McInerney 6 26634 Homebush Lignite 17.77............J McInerney 7 82377 Leadfoot Lenny 17.67..........................L Udy 8 56345 Darlek Khan 17.57.........................J Harland 9 51767 Kinetic Rio 17.79 K &.........................Phillips 10 62578 Flag Waver 17.39..............................L Ahern 12 10.05pm THE ROCK 95.2FM C5 C5, 305m 1 43615 Enazuma 17.72 B G &.................... S Denby 2 45423 Moody Man 17.47..............................D Edlin 3 14843 Another Hit 17.63.......................J McInerney 4 38117 Homebush Boris 17.74..............J McInerney 5 37156 Thrilling Cairo nwtd............................D Little 6 15111 Complicit 17.21 F &........................Turnwald 7 45325 Chasing Shadows 17.64 K &.............Phillips 8 53671 Cawbourne Tank 17.60..............J McInerney 9 13674 Blue Jean Alice 17.44............K Sutch-Jones

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DOWN 1. Be like (8) 2. Fracas (6) 3. Successful move (4 4. Guard (8) 5. Chessman (6) 6. Untie (4) 11. Alight (8) 13. Rapturous (8) 15. Relent (6) 17. Indict (6) 19. Partly open (4) 21. High (4)

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(PGR, T) David fights for Kylie’s rights, Marc turns to Audrey, and Tracy sacrifices Frank to focus on Steve.

8.30 Dallas. (PGR, T) Just as John Ross sets out to claim his birthright and make his father proud, J.R. decides to move back to Southfork.

10.25 Kath And Kim. (G, R, T) 11.00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man.

6.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 6.30 Spin City. (G, R, T) 7.00 2 Broke Girls. (PGR, R, T) Max and Caroline take a vacation from their lives when they are asked to dog-sit at a couple’s posh apartment.

7.30 FILM: The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers.

World. 1.30 India’s Water Crisis. 2.00 BBC News. 2.30 Ideas Exchange.

3.00 BBC News. 3.30 World Business. 3.45 Sport Today. 4.00 BBC News. 4.30 My Country India.

5.00 BBC News. 5.30 Talking Books.

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11.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (G, R, T) 12.00 Terra Nova. (PGR, R, T) 1.00 Royal Pains. (PGR) 2.00 White Collar. (PGR) 3.00 The Real Housewives Of New York City. (PGR) 4.00 Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. (G) 5.00 Entertainment Tonight.

2.00 Make It Or Break It.

4.30 Pair Of Kings. (G, T) 5.00 Horace. (G, R) 5.01 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 My Wife And Kids. (G,

12.00 Spicks And Specks. (PGR, R, T) 12.35 Te Karere. (R, T) 1.00 BBC

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8.30 Infomercials. (G) 10.30 The Dr Oz Show. (PGR,

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3.55 Te Karere. (T) 4.25 Ellen. (G) 5.25 Millionaire Hot Seat.

(G, T) Six contestants go head-to-head to win cash.

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7.30 Chelsea New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker.

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5.30 Last Man Standing. (G, R, T) A teenage prankster gets hurt on the Baxter’s property.

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6.00 3 News.

7.00 Road Cops. (PGR, R, T) 7.30 The Block Australia.

(PGR, T) It’s the day of room reveal 6 - roof terrace.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (AO) This week’s New Years special sees Graham joined by Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman, Billy Crystal, John Bishop, Paul Hollywood, Mary Berry, and Pink.

9.50 WANNA-BEn. (AO, R) Ben speaks to Bret Michaels and Taboo from Black Eyed Peas in order to learn the secrets of being a rock star.

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Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan. The Fellowship, now scattered across Middle Earth, try to complete their tasks under threat of total war.

10.55 The Bachelor. (PGR, T) 12.55 Ghost Whisperer. (PGR, R, T) 1.55 Infomercials. 2.55 The Voice Australia. (G, R, T) 4.30 18 To Life. (G, R) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (G, R) 5.35 Just The Job. (G, R, T)

10.20 The Big Game. (PGR) 11.20 Lie To Me. (AO, T) Cal goes head-to-head with the leader of a self-help empire.

12.10 NCIS. (AO, R, T) 1.00 Infomercials. (G)

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7.30 Tennis. (G) ASB Classic.

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8.30 Home Shopping. (G) 12.00 Antiques Roadshow. (G,

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2.30 Wife Swap USA. (PGR, R) The Hess family from Pennsylvania with 29 pets, 4 rowdy kids and almost no rules swap with the Adams, an uberstrict Kentucky family.

3.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G, R) 4.30 Tennis. (G) ASB Classic.

Day Four. Highlights.

5.30 Prime News.

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11.00 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G) 12.35 Home Shopping. (G) 1.35 Best Of The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) 2.05 Home Shopping. (G)

FOUR 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 The Angry Beavers. (G, R) 7.30 Hey Arnold! (G, R) 7.55 The Wild Thornberrys.

(G, R) 8.20 Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Advent. (G, R) 8.45 Bananas In Pyjamas. (G, R) 9.00 Thomas & Friends.

(G, R) 9.10 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.20 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.25 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.30 The Wiggles Show. (G, R) 9.40 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. (G, R) 9.50 Action Central. (G, R) 10.00 Infomercials.

(G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Dora The Explorer. (G, R) 3.25 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 3.35 Raa Raa The Noisy Lion. (G) 3.45 What’s Up Warthogs. (G, R) 4.10 Drake And Josh. (G, R) 4.35 Kenan & Kel. (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina The Teenage Witch. (G) 5.35 Clueless. (G, R) 6.00 That ‘70s Show. (G, R) 6.30 Futurama. (G, R) 7.00 The Simpsons. (PGR, R) 7.30 Family Guy. (PGR, R)

TV2, 7.30pm (2002) Peter Jackson underlined his status as one of cinema’s true visionaries with his second episode of J.R.R. Tolkien’s vast trilogy. Squeezing the complexity of the novel into three hours, Jackson still finds time to devote around 40 minutes to one of the most spectacular battle sequences ever captured. But the true triumph lies closer to Mordor, where Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) are joined by the slimy, schizophrenic Gollum (below). Aided by the voice of Andy Serkis, Gollum is cinema’s first truly believable 3D character.

6.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) 6.30 Millionaire: Hot Seat.

7.00 Best Of QI. (PGR, R) 7.30 Three Men Go To New England. (New, PGR) 8.30 Richard Hammond’s Journey To Centre Of Planet Earth. (Final, G) Hidden beneath all that water are some of the biggest natural formations on earth, mountain ranges, the tallest volcanoes and the deepest canyons.

9.30 True Stories: Changing Faces. (G) 10.30 Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. (AO, R)

8.00 Raising Hope. (PGR) Virginia, Burt, Jimmy, Sabrina, Maw Maw, and Hope camp out on the front lawn after their house becomes tented for termites.

8.30 FILM: Jaws. (1975, AO, R) Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb. A police chief, a game fisherman and a marine biologist hunt down a killer shark which is terrorising beachgoers in a small seaside community.

10.50 Covert Affairs. (AO) Annie’s college professor, who was secretly a CIA operative, is killed.

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6.30 Cricket. Australia v Sri Lanka. 3rd Test Day One. Highlights.

7.00 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 1st Test Day Two. Highlights.

8.00 Ironman. 70.3 Australasian Championships.

9.00 Premier League World.

9.30 Premier League Review.

10.30 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 1st Test Day Two. Highlights.

11.30 Cricket. Australia v Sri Lanka. 3rd Test Day One. Highlights.

12.00 Cricket. Australia v Sri Lanka. 3rd Test Day Two Morning Session. Live.

2.35 The Cricket Show.

3.05 Cricket. Australia v Sri Lanka. 3rd Test Day Two Afternoon Session. Live.

8.00 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 1st Test Day Two. Highlights.

9.00 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 1st Test Day Three Morning Session. Live.

11.35 The Cricket Show.

12.05 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 1st Test Day Three Afternoon Session.

From Newlands, Cape Town. Live.

5.00 Cricket. Australia v Sri Lanka. 3rd Test Day Two. Highlights.

5.30 ICC Cricket 360.

6.00 Tennis. ASB Classic Womens International. Day Four. Match Of The Day. From ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland.

7.30 Tennis. ASB Classic Womens International. Day Four. Match Of The Night. From ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland.

9.00 Dumbest Stuff On Wheels.

9.30 Dumbest Stuff On Wheels.

10.00 Cricket. KFC T20 Big Bash League.

Brisbane Heat v Melbourne Stars.

From the GABBA, Brisbane. Replay.

1.30 Premier League Review.

2.30 Motorsport. World 50 Lap Midget Car Championship. Replay.

5.30 Dumbest Stuff On Wheels.

6.00 Dumbest Stuff On Wheels.

6.30 ICC Cricket 360.

7.00 Cricket. HRV Cup. Auckland Aces v Otago Volts. From Eden Park, Auckland. Live.

10.30 Cricket. KFC T20 Big Bash League.

Perth Scorchers v Sydney Thunder.

From the WACA, Perth. Live.

2.30 The Cricket Show.

3.00 Fight Night On SKY. 5.00 UFC Wired.

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7.10 Spy Kids 4. (2011, PG) Jessica Alba, Joel McHale.

8.40 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1. (2010, M) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint.

11.05 Sky Special: The Hobbit World Premiere With Dominic Bowden.

7.30 The Wedding Singer. (1998, M) Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore.

9.10 Home Alone. (1990, PG) Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci.

10.55 Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.

(1992, PG) Macaulay Caulkin.

12.55 The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor. (2008, M) Brendan Fraser, Jet Li. 2.50 Talladega Nights. (2006, M) Will Ferrell, John C. 4.40 Big Trouble In Little China. (1986, M) Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall.

6.20 Maverick. (1994, PG) Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster. They’re charming, they’re conniving, and in their hands a deck of cards is more dangerous than a gun.

8.30 Crimson Tide. (1995, M) Denzel Washington, James Gandolfini. In the face of a nuclear showdown, danger runs deep, as one man embarks on a macho power play aboard a Navy nuclear submarine.

10.30 Dawn Of The Dead. (2004, 16) Sarah Polley.

12.10 Making Of Changeling.

(2012, PG).

11.35 The Descendants. (2011, M) George Clooney, Shailene Woodley.

1.35 The Smurfs. (2011, G) Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris.

3.20 True Justice: Brotherhood. (2011, M) Steven Seagal.

4.50 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2. (2011, M) Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson.

7.00 Puss In Boots. (2011, PG) Voices of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek.

8.30 Super 8. (2011, M) Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler.

10.25 The Hangover Part II. (2011, 16) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms.

12.10 The Garden. (2006, 16) Lance Henriksen, Brian Wimmer.

1.40 Haunting Sarah. (2005, M) Kim Raver.

3.10 Making Of Johnny English Reborn.

(2011, PG).

3.25 True Justice: Brotherhood. (2011, M) Steven Seagal.

4.55 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2. (2011, M)

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(PG) In this documentary special we ask. what ten weapons have truly altered the course of history?

I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (PG) Matt Briggs spends ten days stranded in the mountains of New Zealand’s South Island following a crippling fall on a solo trek.

Nightmare Next Door. (M) When Barbara Iske is found murdered in the driveway of a local home, the village is shocked.

Disappeared. (M) Stalked: Someone’s Watching. (M) I Was Murdered. (M) Call 911. (PG) Destroyed In Seconds. (PG) Swamp Loggers. (PG) Connect. (PG)

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12.40 Big Trouble In Little China. (1986, M) Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall.

2.20 Maverick. (1994, PG) Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster.

4.25 Crimson Tide. (1995, M) Denzel Washington, James Gandolfini.

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3.30 Adventures from the Book 4.00 Jacob’s Ladder 4.30 The Uprising 5.00 MXTV 5.30 Nzone Focus 6.00 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 6.30 Destined to Reign 7.00 The 700 Club 7.30 The One to One Show 8.00 Building a Difference 8.30 Movie: Me, You and Us Forever 10.30 Serve the City 11.00 The Journey 11.30 The Verdict of Science 12.00 Building a Difference 12.30 Missions Dilemma 1.00 Movie: Me, You and Us Forever 3.00 Serve the City 3.30 The Verdict of Science 4.00 From Heartache to Hope 4.30 Nzone Focus 5.00 Joni and Friends 5.30 Missions Dilemma

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HOWZAT!! 2012 was a big year of sport in Mid Canterbury and this week we rewind to see what the Guardian photographers captured throughout the year.

Left: Mid Canterbury under 13 girls’ coach Sam Ward helps Sophie Bell with her drop step ahead of the South Island premierships in Nelson.

Right: Former Olympic archer Ann Shurrock opening up her memory box.

Inset: Shurrock in her heyday as an archer.

Below left: The spoils of a tough decision. Canterbury hockey representative Sarah O’Grady holds the National under 18 champions trophy.

Below right: Collegiate’s Charlotte Wilson poised to shoot with United’s Hannah Blair offering a leaping block.

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Above: The roaring game. Windwhistle curler Campbell Currie sends a stone down the ice during the match with Dunedin in Staveley.

Above left: Southern’s William Wallace looks to break through the Celtic defence in the Watters Cup semifinal. Instead it was Celtic doing the breaking. Celtic ended their own five-year final drought by breaking Southern’s lengthy finals run.

Above right: Ashburton College’s Tessa Puleaga on the charge with the rugby ball against Geraldine.

Left bottom: Aiming up ... United’s young guns Caitlin Adlam (left) and Courtney Webster.

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Bottom right: Crabbing defence - Wakanui Blue’s Sam Moore outstretched to make a steal against Timaru Boys.

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Confidence high in primary camp

By Jonathan Leask Momentum is the key for the Mid Canterbury Primary team at the 50th South Island Primary cricket tournament in Christchurch next week.

The prestigious junior tournament celebrates its 50th tournament and Mid Canterbury have an opportunity to shine in strong company.

“You need to build momentum so starting well is a big factor,” Mid Canterbury primary coach Richard Pithey said.

“It all depends on how you start whether you have the confidence and momentum to have a good week.”

The current side got off to a great start as a unit.

Following last year’s primary tournament the new team was assembled and had two good wins to end the season, including a rare win over Christchurch Metro, to be full of confidence heading into their winter training.

They began this season with comfortable wins over South Canterbury and Marlborough, but Pithey said they had struggled in their matches against Canterbury Country and Christchurch Metro Red last month

but had a sound victory over North Otago. “It was just a case of not getting enough runs.”

The games are based on time rather than limited overs, with the team batting first allowed a maximum of three hours and 10 minutes, so scoring runs is the focus.

“I think we have all the bases covered in the side.

“We have a good pace attack and spin options, but we need our batsmen to make regular contributions.

“If we can put up reasonable totals I think we have the attack to bowl teams out.”

With the rotational draw in place each year at the tournament Mid Canterbury has struck a reasonable run this year, however Pithey was wary of going in with expectations.

“You can never really know from year to year what teams will be like.

“Last year we had one of the toughest draws and by comparison we do have a more favourable draw.”

Mid Canterbury have Buller on day one, then Otago Country followed by Invercargill Metro.

Buller are usually beatable but Otago Country and Invercargill Metro are both unknown quantities.

• Warriors deny bid Warriors’ chief executive Wayne Scurrah denies the club is in the mix to sign Todd Carney, and says any meeting between the player and Warriors’ coach Matt Elliott was purely coincidental.

Reports in the Australian media yesterday claimed the Warriors had made a bid for the Cronulla five-eighth, but Scurrah said the club had made no contact with Carney’s representatives. The 26-year-old was in the country last month to support partner Lauryn Eagle and Cronulla captain Paul Gallen at the Fight for Life boxing event, and the Daily Telegraph reported Elliott met with Carney while he was there.

Scurrah said that meeting may have taken place but he insisted it was merely a case of the two - APNZ men catching up.

Canterbury Country will come as their biggest challenge on day four, before ending the week against North Otago, who were wooden spooners last year.

“We do seem to have a good opportunity, so if we can start well we should be able to figure in the top five.”

At last year’s tournament held in Invercargill Mid Canterbury finished seventh equal following one win, two draws and a loss, and a no result against Nelson.

The trophy was a three way tie between Christchurch Metro Red, Canterbury Country and Dunedin Metro, with Canterbury Country and Dunedin Metro having shared the trophy the previous year in Ashburton.

Mid Canterbury has won the Sir Jack Newman trophy twice in the previous 49 tournaments having won most recently in Rangiora in 2009.

Mid Canterbury first won the trophy at the third tournament, held in Christchurch, with the association then known as Ashburton County.

• Ellice, Nielsen victors New Plymouth’s Clark Ellice ran down a valiant Mark Bowstead to win the Contact Trophy race while Waikato’s Mikayla Nielsen took out the women’s event under cloudy skies at Whangamata yesterday in in the second event of the seven race Contact Triathlon Series. Early weather conditions were looking rather ominous over the popular holiday town, with dark skies and intermittent showers making for a slippery first lap on the bike leg, although the sun did make an appearance and quickly dried the 40km bike course. - APNZ

Mid Canterbury Primary team: Oscar Redfern (c), Ben Niles, Chris Gorman, Tom Ravenscroft, Gareth Hunt, Liam O’Connor, Cameron Jopson, Hamish Cartwright, Jared Hopwood, Simon Pannett, Lewis McDonald, William Tod. Coach Richard Pithey and manager Greg Jopson.

• Rojas to stay for now

Cantabs claim cellar-dweller clash Canterbury have emerged triumphant from the battle of the bottomplaced sides in the HRV Cup, successfully defending 185 against Central Districts in Nelson yesterday.

With both sides languishing at the foot of the ladder after managing only one victory in their first five games, a win was almost essential for the

cellar-dwellers to remain in the playoff picture.

And it was the visitors who secured the successful result, but only just.

After Canterbury captain Tom Latham won the toss and opted to bat, the Wizards’ top order failed, reducing Canterbury to 73-5 in the 11th over, but that was the last wicket they lost.

SCOREBOARD Results Basketball NBA results

Collated NBA results and standings yesterday (home team in CAPS): WASHINGTON WIZ 94 Dallas Mavericks 103 NEW ORLEANS HORNETS 86 Atl. Hawks 95 DENVER NUGGETS 92 L.A. Clippers 78 NY KNICKS 100 Portland Trail Blazers 105 DETROIT PISTONS 103 Sacramento Kings 97 L.A. LAKERS 99 Philadelphia 76ers 103

Bowls Hyundai National Open championships Women’s Pairs Quarter finals: Mandy Boyd (s), Angela Boyd (Composite) bt Gail Fache (s), Betty Eustace (Vogeltown) 15-13, Leigh Griffin (s), Kirsten Griffin (Victoria) bt Ann Muir (s), Sue Wightman (Kensington) 16-14, Mary Campbell (s), Anna Davis (Tauranga South) bt Anne Bateman (s), Feona Sayles (Composite) 21-7, Sandra Keith (s), Serena Matthews (Composite) bt Mere Fryere (s), Ra Walker (Northern) 18-10.

Semi finals: Mandy Boyd (s), Angela Boyd (Composite) bt Leigh Griffin (s), Kirsten Griffin (Victoria) 15-9, Sandra Keith (s), Serena Matthews (Composite) bt Mary Campbell (s), Robyn Davis (Tauranga South) 16-15.

Men’s Singles - Quarter finals: Rowan Brassey (Cabramatta) bt Peter Belliss (Aramoho) 21-9, Danny Delany (Onehunga) bt Alan Dickson (Castlecliff) 21-16, Shaun Scott (North East Valley) bt Petar Sain (Carlton Cornwall) 21-19, Shannon McIlroy (Stoke) bt Scott Evans (Onehunga) 21-19.

Semi Finals: Danny Delany (Onehunga) bt Rowan Brassey (Cabramatta) 21-13, Shaun Scott (North East Valley) bt Shannon McIlroy (Stoke) 21-9.

Football English Premier League English Premier League results and standings Newcastle United 1 (Cisse 2) Everton 2 (Baines 43, Anichebe 60) Chelsea 0 QPR 1 (Wright-Phillips 78) Liverpool 3 (Sterling, Suarez 2) Sunderland 0 Standings P W D L F A Pts Manchester United 21 17 1 3 54 28 52 Manchester City 21 13 6 2 41 19 45

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Andrew Ellis and Brendon Diamanti instead blunted the bowling attack and set about building a match-winning partnership of 112 for the sixth wicket.

Both men managed their maiden half centuries in Twenty20 cricket, with Ellis ending unbeaten on 55 from 34 balls and Diamanti smacking five sixes in a 33-ball 69.

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Golf Mayfield Golf Club Results from December 29: Winners: On countback Murray Keir and Bill Scott 139, Gordon Duthie and John Sim 139, Wayne Vessey and Richard Spicer 141.

Nearest pins: Aon Insurance No 2, Peter McLauchlan. Bayley’s Real Estate No 11, Tony Neilson. Marilyn Cross Property Brokers No 5, Wayne Vessey. National Bank No 14, John Sim. ATS 2nd No 2 and No 18, Allan Dixon.

Twos: Wayne Vessey and Tim Hoban.

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Ashburton Vegas Player of the Day: Wayne Vessey 83-19-64.

Ashburton Golf Club On Saturday the third round of the Summer Stableford and qualifying for the Hydraulink Shootout was held and once again some high scores will keep the handicappers busy.

Best scores were; Bev Chinn 47, Shane Beavan 45, Gordon Clinton 44, Jim Hobbs and Brent Clarke 43; Denis O’Sullivan, Bruce Leighton and Clarrie Galway 42; Adrian Hopwood, Dave Hewitt and Allister Baird 41; Noel Sutton and Paul Greer 40 by countback.

After 3 rounds of qualifying for the Hydraulink Shootout the leading score of 87pts is that of Bev Chinn. The cutoff at this point is 74, so all those on 74 or 75 need a good round in the final two days to secure a spot in the elite 19 Nearest The Pins: Robbies Bar & Bistro: John Dudley, MSA: Dave Hewitt, Rothburys Insurance: Adrian Hopwood, Netherby Meats: John Dudley, Blue Pub (Longest Putt): Lindsay Stoddart, Robilliards (Nearest pin #18): Alex Piper.

Twos: Graeme Bellamy, Dave Hewitt, Brian Wilson, Adrian Hopwood (on #11) and John Dudley.

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GEMINI (May 22nd Jun 21st) You might experience a sense of limitation today. Your desire to be a free spirit or to do as you wish can clash with the demands of others, work or other life responsibilities. If you do the things others want you to do, you may feel resentful and irritable. Be alert to anyone who looks to slyly put more responsibilities on your shoulders. Refuse to play their game.

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On December 30 the club had their last practice at The Butts before heading to the NRANZ championships at Trentham from 6th to 14th January.

A few spots of rain at the start cleared, and with a fishtail breeze from the rear, it made shooting interesting.

Scores twice at 500 yards and aggregate were John Fleming 50.5, 48.5, 98.10, John Snowden 49.4, 49.4, 98.8, Brian Hawksby 49.2, 49.5, 98.7, John Miller 50.6, 47.4, 97.10, Sandy Collett 47.2, 48.5, 95.7, Murray Cook 49.3, 46.2, 95.5, Andrew Orr, (.303) 44.0, 45.1, 89.1, Coby Snowden 46.3, and Harvey Westland (F class) 59, 60, 119.

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ASB Classic Results from the US$235,000 ASB Classic tennis tournament at Stanley St, Auckland, yesterday: Singles quarter-finals: [8] Mona Barthel (GER) bt Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6-2 6-1, [3] Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) bt Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) 6-3 6-4.

Draws Bowls

19:30:00 Saturday, 5 January 2013 Hunter Stadium

The following skips have teams entered in the Tinwald Tavern and Motel complex sponsored Cotula Cup Fours, on Sunday 6th January.

J Rasmusson, S Taylor, L Rekke, J Ryk, G Taylor, D Gutberlet, Hinds, W Blackwell, A Hill, G Eder, A McKenzie, B Holdom, N Skerten, C Leach, J Drayton, R Gutberlet.

9.30am Start, Whites, bring lunch.

0.9

LLLWLL

Newcastle

L 1-2 v Heart

14 5

8

1

0-2

36% $3.60 Draw

Adelaide

W 3-0 v Sydney

14 9

4

1 06/10/12 64% $3.60

-0.2

▌ Jets ▌ Reds

Draw Price: $3.10 20:45:00 Saturday, 5 January 2013 nib Stadium

Sydney are effectively bottom all numbers after getting dumped 0-3 in Adelaide on NYE. They’re conceding around three per game on the road, their huge record in Perth the only thing going for them here. The latter did well to keep it to one visiting CCM, the positive being keeper Vudovic.

You’d expect more from Smeltz here after he missed from close and has looked just off lately, and they’ve scored just four from their last eight excluding the 3-0 hosting the Jets. They need a result here but this is their bogey side; winless against them the last three years and three losses straight in Perth.

2.3 1

1-2

36% $1.60 W by 2

-0.4

▌ Glory ▌ Sydney

Draw Price: $3.30 21:45:00 Saturday, 5 January 2013 AAMI Park

Visiting Brisbane, the Phoenix did it hard in more ways than one but hung in finishing with nine on and going down by just one. They’d gone to HT 1-1 via a brilliant strike from Brockie but while they didn’t get the best of the rulings and hung tough, the host looked more dangerous more often. At four losses from seven on the road, you wouldn’t hold your breath here. Victory went down to WSW in Parramatta but won this fixture early season and are eight wins to two over Phoenix including all three meetings last season, while the latter have never won in Melbourne against either team.

2.2 0.6

WLDWWL

M Victory

L 1-2 v Wanderers

14 7

5

2

3-2

50% $2.30 W by 1

WLLDWL

Wellington

L 1-2 v Roar

14 4

6

4 05/11/12 29% $5.00

18:00:00 Sunday, 6 January 2013 AAMI Park

-1

▌ Victory ▌ Phoenix

At times with it at their feet hosting Phoenix, the Roar looked a level up via the dash and interplay of Nicholls, Broich, O’Halloran, Henrique, and Berisha, but at other times they appeared too loose in front and inclined to loaf about. Six goals from their last seven marks the ongoing issue.

Heart got a desperately needed win hosting the Jets after three straight losses and similar tenacity might be enough to frustrate the still unglued Roar. They lost their first three meetings with Brisbane, but went unbeaten against them last season, and gave them a 4-1 tickle up here earlier this season.

2.8 1.8

DWLLLW

M Heart

W 2-1 v Jets

14 4

7

3

WLDLWW

Brisbane

W 2-1 v Phoenix

14 5

7

2

4-1

29% $2.30 W by 1

09/11/12 36% $5.00

0.8

▌ Heart ▌ Roar

Draw Price: $3.20 20:00:00 Sunday, 6 January 2013 Parramatta Stadium

2.3

Golf

1.4

Ashburton Golf Club On Saturday 5 January the fourth of the Summer Stablefords and qualifying rounds for the Hydraulink Shootout will be held.

Starting Time: Morning 8.00am Afternoon Report at 11.30 for a 12 noon start Saturday Starters: Morning Stewart Dunlop Afternoon Match Committee. Results Match Committee.

CANCER (Jun 22nd - Jul 23rd) If you feel your talents are worthy of greater recognition, you may push yourself to the fore today. Even if this is something you are usually loath to do, any perceived injustice can give you the drive and motivation to take on your detractors or opponents. Yet, when it comes to anyone who can influence your financial future, tread carefully.

Newcastle coach van Egmond tailed the refs down the tunnel at the break last week after a marginal penalty; ‘if he’d got the ball first (the keeper) and gets collided into, there’s a reason why he's dropped it’. Still, Birighitti made a real hash of it and its just one goal, the real issue being the 18 they’ve conceded their last eight. Adelaide’s 3-0 over Sydney is only about the average for any host of the Skyblues right now. They’re number two, got this in round one (2-0), but that they were winless the previous four with Newcastle, two losses in the Hunter that period, is the query here.

2.1

Draw Price: $3.20

Tinwald Outdoor Bowling Club

SEllInG

TAURUS (Apr 21st May 21st) How have things been panning out in your relationship situation the last six months?

If you have noticed a sense of dissatisfaction in a long-running tie or one involvement has ended, this could be the presence of Saturn in your 7th Solar House. Today, it clashes with Mars and you may find yourself involved in a standoff or a battle of wills.

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William Tod shows how its done as the Mid Canterbury boys warm up for the South Island tournament.

Melbourne Victory star striker Marco Rojas is committed to the A-League club for rest of the season, but beyond that his future is uncertain. The pint-sized 21-year-old is off contract in April and there are concerns he could head overseas after a stunning A-League season. While overseas clubs could come knocking during this month’s transfer window, Rojas - the competition’s third most prolific goal-scorer - wants to remain a part of the Victory’s charge to the title.

- AAP

LWWWDW

West Sydney W 2-1 v Victory

14 7

5

2

0-0

WWWDLW

Mariners

14 9

2

3

6/10/12 64% $5.00

W 1-0 v Glory

50% $2.30 W by 1

Draw Price: $3.20

▌ Wanderers ▌ CCM

Source: The All Sports and Prices Index (ASAP Index). Key: ‘Value Odds’ are the odds needed to gain value by the ‘ASAP Ratings.’ After each game teams record a rating based on points differential and other factors. The graph tracks the rating. The gap indicates the likely future margin before home advantage and other factors.

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LEO (Jul 24th - Aug 23rd) Controversy may be something you prefer not to court, but today a mischievous side of you may see you decide to speak out.

However, with Mars and Saturn in a tense angle to one another, being blunt may not necessarily be good for you, running counter to your own interests.

On the other hand, the reverse can be true and you may do all you can to avoid friction.

0.5

Hosting Perth and short of key players, CCM were rarely threatened by Perth but wont find this scrambling defence easy to overcome. Its impossible not to be impressed with the thinking at WSW, the win over Victory assisted by coach Popovic’s decision to spare some of his key men the Perth trip at their previous. Again, the way they’re going about it is drawing a following which out celebrates another rookie franchise; the ’98 version of Melbourne Storm who drew 20,000 to Olympic Park after going four straight. They’ve knocked over Glory, Roar, the Reds, and now Victory, so why not ?

VIRGO (Aug 24th Sep 23rd) Life stresses, or disharmony bubbling away within yourself, can be a factor today.

Even if your situation is presently quite mellow, you might feel less laid back than of late. If you have an excess of nervous energy you may want to direct it towards doing something active or constructive.

This is a day to minimise obligations and narrow your focus.

LIBRA (Sep 24th Oct 23rd) Now then Libra, are you good with money?

Or should I say, are you good with denying yourself the treats that your ruler Venus suggests you indulge yourself with? If not, today could be a crunch point, when you find that you are caught between the need to be sensible and economize, and another need to cut loose and spend as you wish. Umm, tough!

SCORPIO (Oct 24th - Nov 22nd) Saturn has been in your sign for three months. Have you noticed any changes?

If not, you might do so now as it goes into a tense right angle with your co-ruler Mars.

This combination could see you feel thwarted and frustrated all at the same time. Family affairs can be trying, or someone can try your patience. You may not want to anger but may do so.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23rd - Dec 21st) You often project a light and breezy, confident vibe to the world at large, but a complex planetary angle today could see an old issue discussed, and not necessarily because you are keen to do so. If you feel someone is playing mind games or hinting about something negative without coming out and saying it directly, you could react furiously.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22nd - Jan 20th) You might find yourself sticking up for an underdog today.

If you feel powerfully about an unfairness you may see it as your duty to speak out. Yet it is also possible you will feel compromised by circumstances.

For example, a job on offer may not excite you or be very well paid, or you might be offered a role that goes against your principles somehow.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21st - Feb 19th) You can be outspoken but another side of you can be a lover of tradition, history and customs. Yet today that side of you which wants to demonstrate what a one-off individual you can be may not mesh incredibly well with the point of view of someone in authority, a boss or a government institution. Be conscious of who holds the power here.

PISCES (Feb 20th Mar 20th) You might find yourself feeling fearful, or at least be experiencing some powerful emotions that are hard to understand or manage. If you feel especially raw it wouldn’t be a surprise. Because of this, wherever possible, try to manage your situation so that you keep distance between you and anyone that, even ordinarily, you find hard to be around.

fields&fORM 5 — ‘er indoors SCRATCHED 6 7447x beyond comparison (10) 56.5 Steven Woodsford (Rangiora) k williams 7 22 Kayleen (4) 55 Jason Bridgman (Rangiora) d walsh 8 80x52 rustace (5) 55 K & L Rae (Ruakaka) P taylor 9 she’s payback (7) 55 Centaine Spittles (Woodend Beach) B Pitman (a2) 10 8 miss rhythmic (11) 54 Tom Perry (Kopane) t Moseley emergeNcies 11 mr chou (9) 57 Kennedy/Furlong (Riccarton) 12 0x raggio speranza h (2) 56.5 Joy Dense (Omoto) 13 0x9x silver spur (14) 55 K & L Rae (Ruakaka) R Bishop 14 089x Deny Deny (6) 58.5 Jackie Burrows (Riccarton) 15 67845 individual (8) 58.5 Centaine Spittles (Woodend Beach) 16 7000 skupina (3) 56.5 Peter McKenzie (Ohau)

8

GReyMOuth cuP

4.36

$17,500, opn hcp, 2000m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

41500 22086 11041 — 15332 136x2 83184

9

Noble Warrior tdm (2) 59 G & T Shaw (Waiuku) Flash hapi m (4) 55 K & L Rae (Ruakaka) Voodoo d (1) 54 Mike McCann (Riccarton) alpine heights Dickens dm (5) 54 Peter Rudkin (Riccarton) Negotiate m (3) 54 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) conserves la Foi m (6) 54 Michael Pitman (Riccarton)

A frye (a3) P taylor c Johnson SCRATCHED k williams d walsh B Pitman (a2)

GReyMOuth Businesses sPRint

5.16

6

8

50780 28273 47531 x0543 x2131 9910x 29051 4518x

Venetian raider dm (3) 59 Michael Pitman (Riccarton) the Debt collector m (5) 58.5 Iain Marks (Ashburton) moirai (1) 57 Brian Court (Broadfield) anita pea (2) 55.5 Peter Rudkin (Riccarton) mikabella (7) 55.5 J & K Parsons (Balcairn) apatchee tute (8) 55 K & L Rae (Ruakaka) Davone code (4) 54.5 Steven Woodsford (Rangiora) princess leia m (6) 54 K & L Rae (Ruakaka)

B Pitman (a2) s wynne (a3) A frye (a3) d walsh P taylor k williams R Bishop

sunday

nOttinGhaM castle hOtel Pace 12.20 $5000, 3yo+ f&m non winners mobile, 2100m.

BRian cOPPins MeMORial tROt 4 3 443 42687 80236 5560x 44970 65852 048x9 7086 40658 45662 00709

3

12.50

haMiltOn cOssie cluB Pace 830x9 42891 48255 68398 097x0 x4733 39582 36365 00561 51114 34250 37835

4

JuBilee PaRk Pace 24768 x9921 36527 09x33 82218 85x18 x2611 8x098 83845

5

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

65735 x876x 001x0 43771 37963 21061 25911 09022 48369 x3411 46x85 12806

10

te aROha JOckey cluB Pace 58031 41766 26621 00x78 708x7 00816

macs creation fr (1) Hayley Morgan (Muriwai) riviera reigns fr (2) Peter Ferguson (Cambridge) Joseph perrier fr (3) Sally Fenning (Thames) perfect terror fr (4) Robbie Hughes (Pukekura County) aveross blaze fr (5) Trevor Phillips (Morrinsville) chequeme rosie fr (6) John Godfrey (Roto-O-Rangi)

Morrinsville Selections Race 1: VeNgeaNce, Mile HigH Anvil, MAcHs PARty Race 2: WyWurri, BRookBy PRince, lucky eARl Race 3: OVerlap, viewfield APAcHe, Millwood Roxy Race 4: christiaN acrOpOlis, lAdy of tHe dAnce, distRAction Race 5: chequeme rOsie, MAcs cReAtion, ollie one Race 6: lOs amaNte, loRcAn knigHt, fiBRe oPtic Race 7: tOmmiray, MeyeR lAnsky, MitcHell Race 8: sharDON’s pearl, BRooke BRAd cARolinA, Busy Being fABulous Race 9: KippeNberger, sHARdon’s oPeRAtoR, Millview sARAH Race 10: hOt aND saucy, ABe Attell, tAfAdHAli

4.43

Kilarney guy fr (1) Peter Scaife (Foxton) Doreens Dream fr (2) Brendan Schumacher (Morrinsville) Fiji time fr (3) Doug Gale (Helensville) russian alsu fr (4) Matthew Collins (Bombay) tyler maguire fr (5) David Marshall (Cambridge) callie O’malley 10 (1) Derek Balle (Pukekohe) Kippenberger 10 (2) John Dickie (Cambridge Raceway) millview sarah 10 (3) Adrienne Matthews (Pukekohe) millview rachal 20 (1) Ray Darby (Patumahoe) shardon’s Operator 20 (2) Geoff Small (Patumahoe) mighty creation 20 (3) Nicky Chilcott (Cambridge Raceway) Jessies cullen 30 (1) Peter Ferguson (Cambridge)

24/7 enViROnMental seRV. Pace 16185 56747 88x68 57361 53609 804x2 80850 02844

1.50

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

sunday

andeRsOn OutfitteRs hcP tROt

1.00

2.20

tOP line fencinG Pace $4000, 3yo+ non winners mobile, 1800m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

9 967 x8809 60855 0x0x9 0 43446 x0085 8 07 0x582 9 8 5 x5700

central seven fr (1) Tony Barron (Makarewa) gold Wings fr (2) Michael Heenan (Methven) matai prince fr (3) Alex Milne (Edendale) Don’t Wanadie fr (4) Tom Kilkelly (Tisbury) mother Natures son fr (5) Tom Kilkelly (Tisbury) anger management fr (6) Tony Barron (Makarewa) highview robyn fr (7) Hamish Hunter (Ryal Bush) spirit Of chronos fr (8) Ross Wilson (Oamaru Raceway) Whynotedna fr (9) G & C Lee (Wyndham) midnight poacher fr (10) Murray Swain (Roslyn Bush) chapel lane fr (11) Kirk Larsen (Branxholme) Den helder fr (12) Peter Hunter (Ryal Bush) Whynottagrey fr (13) Tony Holland (Gore) Franco ryker fr (14) Steven McRae (Halswell) you choose fr (15) Jack Lynch (Nightcaps)

Note: Drivers were not available at time of printing.

6

MuRRay BROwn staBles Pace

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

24567 79450 67 2739 42354 00346 7 4 495x8 50 47306 072 627 60 683x9

8

4.21

35082 27632 80851 13916 953x7 7d2x7 09823 30467 02421 11324 96280 30807 62000

9

4.58

Fair Dinkum bromac fr (1) John Hay (Ashburton) Freyberg fr (2) Brendon McLellan (Wyndham) Franco Nautica fr (3) John Hay (Ashburton) little miss sunshine fr (4) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) shezaball fr (5) Wayne Adams (Invercargill) meads quaff fr (6) Dean Taylor (Ladbrooks) lake View fr (u1) Murray G Brown (Invercargill) christian ruler 10 (1) Hamish Hunter (Ryal Bush) New revenue 10 (2) Steven McRae (Halswell) smiling star 10 (3) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) ultimate player 10 (4) Murray Swain (Roslyn Bush) motu speedy star 20 (1) Eion Latimer (Oamaru) lord Forbes 20 (2) Gavin Forbes (Invercargill)

cROMwell new wORld Pace 15 38217 09133 62301 45231 19343 00132 85032 77222 21 1 53214 x4436 66x64

5.34

rock Of tara fr (1) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) indian arrow fr (2) John Patterson (Waimate) rosie lindenny fr (3) Tony Stratford (Invercargill) ardlussa eliza fr (4) Judy Dillon (Ardlussa) New york town fr (5) Alister Black (Invercargill) elusive Flight fr (6) Murray Swain (Roslyn Bush) benihana fr (7) Clark Barron (Rakauhauka) Oursjean fr (8) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) miss lisa fr (9) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) sara holley fr (10) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) lucca Franco fr (11) Steven McRae (Halswell) in the Kitty fr (12) Hamish Hunter (Ryal Bush) composite fr (13) Murray Swain (Roslyn Bush) Devil’s advocate fr (14) Baynes/Swain (Knapdale)

cROMwell/dist. Businesses cuP

1.30

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

85032 37408 92x54 6x070 80527 21310 18467 25114 x8770 69524 68884 13642 50710 16943 07064

11

6.12

$4000, 1 win mobile, 1800m.

2.00

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

964x8 24217 03214 24826 x7880 x5204 07158 37653 0x81x 71408 1668 02521 06909

bevan gray fr (1) Neil Munro (West Melton) Donostia fr (2) Anderson/Hoffman (Westwood Beach) harmony rule fr (3) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) the ultimate Kina fr (4) Nathan Williamson (Ryal Bush) Waihemo caesar fr (5) John Gamble (Smaills Beach) all For D b fr (6) Cox/McGrannachan (Winton) De bon Vouloir fr (7) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) billy the bus fr (8) Murray Swain (Roslyn Bush) pop art fr (9) Ross Wilson (Oamaru Raceway) parisology fr (10) Andrew Armour (Invercargill) real tiz fr (11) Alister Black (Invercargill) Knapdale lady fr (u1) Baynes/Swain (Knapdale) Zest philly fr (u2) Anderson/Hoffman (Westwood Beach)

Wyndham Selections Race 1: OcciDeNtal, fARMeR dons, deAno RoByn Race 2: galaxy huNter, cool son, MAkARewA lil Race 3: highVieW rObyN, cHAPel lAne, don’t wAnAdie Race 4: Just a marVel, flusHing MeAdows, cAnttHinkofAnAMe Race 5: WhitNey, AnotHeRsuPeRstAR, MonnAy Race 6: NOt sure, sHiloH fRAnco, cHRisty BReAnnA Race 7: mOONlight gambler, BAckAndBeyond, gAlActic gAlleon Race 8: smiliNg star, fReyBeRg, little Miss sunsHine Race 9: rOsie liNDeNNy, new yoRk town, in tHe kitty Race 10: cOmply Or Die, RoyAl iMPRession, tulAcH ARd Race 11: harmONy rule, knAPdAle lAdy, donostiA

1.28

$7000, mdn, 1200m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

339x2 7550x 079x 25782 — 449x 4448x 66 00 —

Court A Sneek (8) 58.5 Fraser Auret (Marton) No Enemy (9) 58.5 Carla Hearn (Awapuni) Pescatore (2) 58.5 Peter McKenzie (Ohau) Rule Breaker (10) 57 Janelle Millar (New Plymouth) King Nero (1) 57 Robert Patterson (New Plymouth) Norman Last To Dance h (4) 56.5 Howie Mathews (Otaki) Sarah Jane (5) 56.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Willing Spirit (7) 56.5 Ramsay/Ritchie (Maungatautari) Show Willing (6) 56.5 A & M Davies (Levin) Tart Of Gold (11) 56.5 Geoff Haigh (Levin) Lil Mer

J Parkes H Tinsley B Lammas S Doyle R Hannam SCRATCHED K Myers R Myers J Riddell J Shackleton (a3) L Allpress SCRATCHED

SpeighT’S

2.03

$7000, mdn 3yo, 1200m 1 6x564 Little Drummer Boy (8) 57.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) 2 — Karmazyn 3 — Wolverhampton 4 — King Nero 5 Norman (3) 57.5 Allan Sharrock (New Plymouth) 6 97x Bannister (13) 57.5 Kevin Gray (Palm.North) 7 Kool Return (5) 57.5 Mark Oulaghan (Awapuni) 8 0 Larry (12) 57.5 Alan Rennie (Mangaweka) 9 4 Jazz Rock (10) 55.5 Haworth/Dixon (Foxton) 10 Faith In Rae (2) 55.5 Fraser Auret (Marton) 11 04977 Bella’s Delight (9) 55.5 Jack Scott (Foxton) 12 8 Danashca (14) 55.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) 13 Lil Mer (11) 55.5 Stacey Dougan (Opaki) 14 — My Castle 15 9 Platinum Provence (1) 55.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) 16 Stunning Princess (15) 55.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) EMERGENCY — Dancing Sapphire 17

3

J Riddell SCRATCHED SCRATCHED SCRATCHED V Johnston H Tinsley D Turner (a4) R Myers J Parkes B Lammas R Hannam D Walker SCRATCHED K Myers SCRATCHED

haunui farm Wfa ClaSSiC 23 feb

2.38

$8000, rating 85 benchmark, 1400m

Oursjean fr (1) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) taieri Wings fr (2) Chris Gerken (Fleming) tahlia Jaccka fr (3) Murray G Brown (Invercargill) rome fr (4) Lionel Sinnamon (Poolburn) hugo seelster fr (5) G & C Lee (Wyndham) royal impression fr (6) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) ronnoco fr (7) Baynes/Swain (Knapdale) comply Or Die fr (8) Ken Barron (West Melton) pennyana fr (9) Jack Lynch (Nightcaps) cullen’s Finest fr (10) Andrew Armour (Invercargill) Delightful song fr (11) Neil Edge (Weedons) tulach ard fr (12) Brett Gray (Ryal Bush) crown royal fr (13) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) Night emberz fr (14) G & C Lee (Wyndham) Jaspers blue Jean fr (15) Eion Latimer (Oamaru)

int'l GaRden Rescue Pace

94.3fm The Sound of KapiTi

2

$8000, 3yo+ 1 win mobile, 1800m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Approved Plates on: No Enemy (R1); Key To Dance (R4) Bar Plates off: No Enemy (R1) Concussion Plates (Front) on: No Enemy (R1) Standard Bit on: No Enemy (R1); I’ve Got This (R4); Luvawin (R8) Standard Bit off: Pescatore (R1) Lugging Bit off: No Enemy (R1); I’ve Got This (R4); Luvawin (R8) Lugging Bit on: Key To Dance, Forasong (R4) Tongue Control Bit on: Pescatore (R1) Blinkers off: No Enemy, Last To Dance (R1); Ripping (R6) Blinkers on: Pescatore, Willing Spirit (R1); Revelstoke, I’ve Got This, Key To Dance (R4); Musuko King (R7) Side Winkers off: Revelstoke (R4) Side Winkers on: Navy Beach (R5) Cheek Burrs on: Forasong (R4) Nose Band off: Last To Dance (R1); George Almighty (R3); Ripping (R6) Tongue Tie off: Pescatore (R1) Tongue Tie on: Jazz Rock (R2); Irish Dream (R7)

1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

4x131 0x120 3223x 2352x 2123x 23204 x7723 —

4

I Do t (8) 60.5 Allan Sharrock (New Plymouth) McLaren d (4) 59.5 Heather Weller (Foxton) Payback (3) 59 Nick Duin (Pukekohe) George Almighty dh (2) 58.5 Howie Mathews (Otaki) Taikomochi dmb (1) 55 Haworth/Dixon (Foxton) Za Pak t (6) 54.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Surreal Storm d (5) 54 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Supervisor

Cavallo agiSTmenT

D Turner (a4) A Morgan (a3) R Hutchings (a) D Walker R Myers K Myers B Lammas SCRATCHED

3.13

$7000, mdn, 2100m

6.37

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

5

000x — 0x880 0 54272 53664 0x707 39322 0034 7x946 00x 60857 0x886

Fracas (2) 58.5 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) Kia Kaha Pre Ignition (1) 58.5 J & N Wood (Levin) Revelstoke h (5) 58.5 Johno Benner (Otaki) Taipa Tiger (7) 57 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) I’ve Got This (9) 57 Janelle Millar (New Plymouth) Bang (12) 57 Grant Searle (Awapuni) Lady Lincoln (13) 56.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Sunlover h (4) 56.5 Rachael Frost (Otaki) Higgs Boson (3) 56.5 Grant Searle (Awapuni) Key To Dance (11) 56.5 Ramsay/Ritchie (Maungatautari) Right Royal Rose h (10) 56.5 Rachael Frost (Otaki) Forasong (6) 56.5 Tony Bambry (Awapuni)

The dominion poST handiCap

D Walker SCRATCHED K Smith J Parkes R Hannam S Doyle L Allpress K Myers B Lammas H Tinsley J Riddell V Johnston R Myers

3.48

$7000, rating 65 benchmark*, 2100m 1 86576 Storm Home (8) 59 Robert Patterson (New Plymouth) 2 x0240 Enzedda tdh (2) 57.5 Karen Zimmerman (Otaki) 3 39x73 No Spurs Needed d (1) 56 Haworth/Dixon (Foxton)

Otaki-Maori Selections Race 1: COURT A SNEEK, No ENEMy, KiNg NERo Race 2: NORMAN, JAzz RocK, FAiTH iN RAE Race 3: I DO, McLAREN, gEoRgE ALMigHTy Race 4: LADY LINCOLN, i’VE goT THiS, TAiPA TigER Race 5: NO SPURS NEEDED, AiNT No LoLLygAggA, VRoNSKii Race 6: SHEZGORGEOUS, PLATiNuM KiNgDoM, DEViLLAiNE Race 7: PRESTIGIOSA, BAR KEEPER, cELEBRATioN Race 8: COLD HEARTED, FLAT WHiTE, JAcK zANcE

50x00 19x00 x1906 x9560 0x030 x4488 0x600

'2%9(/5.$3

Vronskii (3) 56 Jeff Lynds (Awapuni) M Tanaka The Prince Of Pop td (4) 55 A & M Davies (Levin) R Hutchings (a) Aint No Lollygagga t (5) 54.5 Allan Sharrock (New Plymouth) V Johnston Navy Beach (7) 54 Ramsay/Ritchie (Maungatautari) R Myers Birchino m (10) 54 Gary Vile (Awapuni) K Smith Drift (9) 54 Aimee Thomas (Awapuni) L Allpress Kitch tm (6) 54 Howard Johnson (Foxton) S Doyle

el Cheapo CarS handiCap

4.23

$8000, rating 75 benchmark, 1200m

gear changes 3.44

4 5 6 7 8 9 10

6

Overcast/Dead (5)/True.

matai bryan fr (1) Alex Milne (Edendale) cossack fr (2) Neil Edge (Weedons) galactic galleon fr (3) Neil Munro (West Melton) backandbeyond fr (4) Clark Barron (Rakauhauka) moonlight gambler fr (5) Ken Barron (West Melton) rakabolt fr (6) Peter Hunter (Ryal Bush) arma legend fr (7) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach)

cROMwell cuP

friday

Weather/Track/rail

shiloh Franco fr (1) Ken McRae (Waimumu) What me fr (2) Earl Swain (Makarewa) truly the One fr (3) Mattias Hjalmarsson (West Melton) christy breanna fr (4) Tony Barron (Makarewa) Not sure fr (5) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) libby Jaccka fr (6) Brett Gray (Ryal Bush) beaudiene clemintyne fr (7) Murray G Brown (Invercargill) ella Fitzgerald fr (8) Neil Edge (Weedons) queen’s advocate fr (9) Malcolm Shinn (West Melton) lurah fr (10) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) under cover art fr (11) Hamish Hunter (Ryal Bush) sunset Franco fr (12) Steven McRae (Halswell) mcardle meg fr (13) Peter Hunter (Ryal Bush) better be merry fr (14) Tom Kilkelly (Tisbury) city courage fr (15) Ginger Woodhouse (Omakau Raceway)

PansPacificfliGht@Macca Pace

otaki-maori races TAB doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8.

Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8.

Quaddie 5-6-7-8.

$8000, 3yo+ f&m non winners mobile, 1800m.

7%%+%.$

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otaki JeTbeT 4

alley Way fr (1) Neville Skinner (Winton) Winfield Dougall fr (2) Doug Gordon (Roxburgh East) so King fr (3) Brian Norman (Tahakopa) King Kenny fr (u1) Anderson/Hoffman (Westwood Beach) the Doctor fr (u2) Neil Edge (Weedons) bet’s best fr (u3) Nathan Williamson (Ryal Bush) monnay 10 (1) Gutsell/Irvine (Wyndham) moon countess 10 (2) G & C Lee (Wyndham) John henry galleon 10 (3) Chris Gerken (Fleming) Whitney 10 (4) Billy Heads (Gore) beyond me 10 (5) Phil Williamson (Oamaru) Jenny’s rubee 10 (u1) Tim White (Winton) anothersuperstar 20 (1) Alan Shaw (Tapanui) Jess Jaccka 20 (u1) Jonny Cox (Westwood Beach) superstarourwishes 30 (1) Alan Shaw (Tapanui) the real mcguire 30 (2) John Hay (Ashburton) mum beat lyall 30 (u1) Martin Denton (Mosgiel) the Fiery ginga 40 (1) Alan Clark (Mosgiel)

$8000, 2 to 3 wins +claimer mobile pace, 1800m.

879x0 maple twist fr (1) Mick Prendergast (Hyde) Far too Flash fr (2) Neil Munro (West Melton) 7 Zachary smith fr (3) Neil Edge (Weedons) 4 cool son fr (4) Baynes/Swain (Knapdale) 50 Veecewah fr (5) Alex Milne (Edendale) 27 Free Dreams fr (u1) Trevor Wilson (Winton) 088 experiment fr (u2) Tony Barron (Makarewa) 63458 makarewa lil 20 (1) Clark Barron (Rakauhauka) 00000 sophistication 20 (2) Murray Tapper (Levels) 570x0 sudon speed 20 (3) Gary Davis (Ryal Bush) 1x222 galaxy hunter 20 (u1) Nathan Williamson (Ryal Bush)

3

61050 4x187 0xd81 399x0 88895 14210 3x473 06371 59528 93612 020x1 18004 92215 12318 61765 31544 08194 13356

10

$6000, up to 1 win special, 2600m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

3.07

$8000, 1 or more wins special, 2600m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

50227 augustus time fr (1) Michael Heenan (Methven) 7x692 manchester tom fr (2) Mick Prendergast (Hyde) lunar tide fr (3) Michael Heenan (Methven) x4205 Occidental fr (4) Ian Wilson (Winton) Julia Jones fr (5) Mervyn Todd (Charlton) 00865 austin bromac fr (6) Warren Bartlett (Oamaru) 364 Deano robyn fr (7) Hamish Hunter (Ryal Bush) 0526 the Witch Doctor fr (8) Tony Barron (Makarewa) 34675 Farmer Dons fr (9) Alex Milne (Edendale) 9 elusive edgar fr (10) Malcolm Hunter (Glenham) P homeforabubbly fr (11) Billy Heads (Gore) 76588 Kardinya fr (12) Tony Holland (Gore) 70 Julius maximus fr (13) Nigel Soper (Myross Bush) 3 arising easton fr (14) Brian Norman (Tahakopa) x3004 seaview gold fr (15) Murray Swain (Roslyn Bush) 3260x palace prospect fr (16) Daniel Wilson (Invercargill) 67 truly the One fr (17) Mattias Hjalmarsson (West Melton)

2

aRt the caRRieR hcP tROt

13

3" "$*/ "$*/ $*/( (6*%& 6*%

42/44).'

$14,999, 3 to 7 wins special hcp pace, 2600m.

abe attell fr (1) Wayne Ross (Morrinsville) Woodlea hero fr (2) Arna Donnelly (Cambridge) my peruvian fr (3) Grant Ellison (Te Kuiti) benji maguire fr (4) Nicky Chilcott (Cambridge Raceway) tafadhali fr (5) Michelle Wallis & Bernie Hackett (Waiuku) hot and saucy fr (6) Mike Berger (Cambridge) Keystone glen fr (7) Tim Hall (Morrinsville) regal encounter fr (8) A & L Neal (Cambridge)

sBs Bank RuRal cROMwell Pace

last man Out fr (1) Clark Barron (Rakauhauka) givenchy Franco fr (2) Steven McRae (Halswell) Just a marvel fr (3) Ian Munro (Otematata) cantthinkofaname fr (4) Murray Swain (Roslyn Bush) truly the One fr (5) Mattias Hjalmarsson (West Melton) Overezy fr (6) Hamish Hunter (Ryal Bush) supreme genes fr (7) David Heffernan (Oamaru) giuliani fr (8) Baynes/Swain (Knapdale) Flushing meadows fr (9) G & C Lee (Wyndham) Double Oh seven fr (10) Lionel Sinnamon (Poolburn) acting up fr (11) Mervyn Todd (Charlton) levels legacy fr (12) Murray Tapper (Levels) mighthaveafight fr (13) Robbie Crawford (Waimate) palace prospect fr (14) Daniel Wilson (Invercargill) Jolly Jean fr (u1) Cox/McGrannachan (Winton)

$8000, 3yo mobile, 1800m.

$8000, 3yo+ non winners, 2600m.

1.20

35437 02832 67 40450 06x 82 x3840 9 87270 260 x7x90 3260x 6

1 5x00 2 05 3 3 4 1 5 2x1 6 26x1 7 02761

5.20

' ARDIAN 'U 'UARDIAN DI N

2.30

$8000, 3yo+ non winners mobile, 1800m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

7

wyndham harness

1

lady Of the Dance fr (1) Telfer/Garlick (Papakura) eagle eye bromac fr (2) Peter Scaife (Foxton) Dashing Dane fr (3) David Kaa (Cambridge) christian acropolis fr (4) Peter Scaife (Foxton) stars star fr (5) J & D Butcher (Cambridge) Distraction fr (6) Arna Donnelly (Cambridge) Waingaro emperor fr (7) R & P Fensom (Tuakau) guilty Verdict fr (8) A & L Neal (Cambridge) bells On Fire fr (9) Sean McCaffrey (Cambridge)

$5500, 4yo+ 1 to 2 wins mobile, 2100m.

1 2 3 4 5 6

cuedee algranco fr (1) Arna Donnelly (Cambridge) brooke brad carolina fr (2) Peter Scaife (Foxton) busy being Fabulous fr (3) Mike Berger (Cambridge) clancy’s icon fr (4) Richard Yoakley (Waiuku) b b ‘s magic fr (5) Geoff Small (Patumahoe) coppagoodone fr (6) Geoff Small (Patumahoe) shardon’s pearl fr (7) Geoff Small (Patumahoe) caballe fr (8) Doug Gale (Helensville) Only Whisper fr (9) Steve Phillips (Pukekohe)

TAB doubles 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11.

Trebles 1-2-3, 5-6-7, 9-10-11.

Quaddie 8-9-10-11.

houhora Dream fr (1) Grant Ellison (Te Kuiti) thomas hamilton fr (2) Peter Scaife (Foxton) lucky John fr (3) Mike Berger (Cambridge) J J’s Flash fr (4) Jay Abernethy (Papakura) county Down fr (5) Fred Mitchell (Stratford) millwood roxy fr (6) Les White (Cambridge Raceway) Overlap fr (7) Michelle Wallis & Bernie Hackett (Waiuku) painted black fr (8) Jay Abernethy (Papakura) Viewfield apache fr (9) David Kaa (Cambridge) bettor arden fr (10) Geoff Small (Patumahoe) howzat fr (11) Peter Scaife (Foxton) Naenae tabman fr (12) Arna Donnelly (Cambridge)

PGG yeaRlinG sales Pace 16 30x09 07997 16042 16x64 48x17 086x6 30474 35860

4.06

MORRinsVille cuP

$4000, 4yo+ 1 to 2 wins mobile jun.d, 2100m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

sodeska fr (1) Sean McCaffrey (Cambridge) landora’s Jewel fr (u1) Nicky Chilcott (Cambridge Raceway) benromach fr (u2) Geoff Martin (Cambridge) itsnowornever fr (u3) Susan Branch (Cambridge Raceway) tommiray 10 (1) Roger Villiger (Morrinsville) mitchell 10 (2) Stephen Doody (Palmerston North) Jimmys girl 10 (3) Bryce Espin (Bruntwood) irvin 10 (4) Ian Moody (Pukekohe) bill mac 10 (5) Jay Abernethy (Papakura) charles De cazanove 10 (6) Sally Fenning (Thames) bunnys gem 10 (u1) John Robinson (Ohaupo) Foxtrot Jack 20 (u1) Jacky Simons (Pukekohe) castletons boy 30 (1) Wayne Thomas (Epsom) tiz a secret 30 (2) Peter Scaife (Foxton) trot Fast eddie 30 (u1) Michelle Wallis & Bernie Hackett (Waiuku) meyer lansky 40 (1) Jill Coppins (Morrinsville)

cromwell JetBet 8

awayonvacation fr (1) Sean McCaffrey (Cambridge) cascadia fr (2) John Dickie (Cambridge Raceway) brookby prince fr (3) Tony Grayling (Pukekohe) burt munro fr (4) Susan Branch (Cambridge Raceway) lucky earl fr (5) Tim Vince (Epsom) amici amour fr (6) Peter Scaife (Foxton) ella’s speed fr (7) Jill Coppins (Morrinsville) equulei fr (8) Adrienne Matthews (Pukekohe) Wywurri fr (9) Peter Scaife (Foxton) ivanov fr (10) Luk Chin (Tamahere) iditarod fr (u1) Ross Paynter (Karapiro) Jessica fr (u2) Stephen Argue (Pukekohe) First Outing fr (u3) Doug Gale (Helensville) boronova fr (u4) Luk Chin (Tamahere)

$5500, 3yo+ 1 to 3 wins mobile, 2100m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

$5000, non winners, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

3.29

$5500, 4yo+ 1 to 2 wins mobile, 2100m.

1 25863 Vengeance fr (1) Stephen Argue (Pukekohe) 2 347x granups fr (2) Tony Grayling (Pukekohe) 3 82 mile high anvil fr (3) Doug Gale (Helensville) 4 Dolly Dagger fr (4) Paulette Screen (Pukekohe) 5 8x5 hanover courage fr (5) Ken Webber (Papamoa) 6 ideal party fr (6) Ron Stechmann (Te Awamutu) 7 lady maria fr (7) Allen Pyers (Morrinsville) 8 0 Ohau Flash fr (8) Tony Grayling (Pukekohe) 9 046 living by chance fr (9) David Marshall (Cambridge) 10 237x3 advanceforyou fr (10) Mike Berger (Cambridge) 11 968x5 machs party fr (11) Nicky Chilcott (Cambridge Raceway)

2

dunstan sweet Mix hcP tROt 1 87015 05085 21090 45624 x5758 76575 17940 220P2 77169 58840 100x0 66735 48587 21049 95175

GOlden Gate lOdGe Pace

5

$7000, 2 to 6 wins discr. hcp pace, 2850m.

TAB doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10.

Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10.

Quaddie 7-8-9-10.

1

7

9

Morrinsville harness te aroha Racecourse JetBet 5

58 6 7799P 6x 65 6

royal arthur fr (1) Sean McCaffrey (Cambridge) Old man geez fr (2) Bryce Espin (Bruntwood) lorcan Knight fr (3) Doug Gale (Helensville) pureora thunder fr (4) Doug Gale (Helensville) los amante fr (5) Barry Purdon (Clevedon) tour De clouds fr (6) Ron Richardson (Te Awamutu) Wynberg terror fr (7) R & P Fensom (Tuakau) No apachemee fr (8) Ray Bradley (Ohaupo) alcaesar fr (9) Ray Darby (Patumahoe) aereus maximus fr (10) Tim Hall (Morrinsville) Johann fr (11) Roger Villiger (Morrinsville) masterful fr (12) Rogerson/Blanchard (Hamilton) Fake ruler fr (13) Stephen Argue (Pukekohe) Fibre Optic fr (14) John Peary (Morrinsville) barista fr (15) Telfer/Garlick (Papakura)

$5500, 3yo+ f&m 1 to 3 wins mobile, 2100m.

$10,000, rating 75 benchmark, 1100m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

2.52

$5500, 1 or more wins discretionary, 2850m.

10

5.56

6 99 57x72 5 455x7 57693

7

1 51609 captain bro m (5) 59 Shaun Clotworthy (Byerley Pk Karaka) 2 8x054 gold terror (3) 57.5 Centaine Spittles (Woodend Beach) k williams 3 1026x black berry punch m (8) 57.5 Pam Robson (Riccarton) s wynne (a3) 4 67x31 postillion (2) 57 K & L Rae (Ruakaka) P taylor 5 52560 tsingana m (10) 56.5 Steven Woodsford (Rangiora) A frye (a3) 6 06530 i’m maveric (11) 55.5 Michael Pitman (Riccarton) c Johnson 7 7x090 Kitty russell (12) 54.5 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) R Black (a3) 8 x8769 pretty to Watch (9) 54.5 Shaun Clotworthy (Byerley Pk Karaka) 9 75629 bee Jean (4) 54 Aaron Taylor (Riccarton) t Moseley 10 0x888 tossed again (1) 54 Jason Bridgman (Rangiora) d walsh emergeNcies 11 47000 Desert saboteur tdm (7) 55.5 Frank Stammers (Tauherenikau) l Mcgregor 12 660x3 cruiseonby (6) 54 Lisa Latta (Riccarton)

VeRnOn and Vazey

a (andy) sMith Pace $5000, 3yo+ c,g&e non winners mobile, 2100m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

$8000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1100m

4

7 50x57 Ollie One fr (7) Mike Berger (Cambridge) 8 47P75 curlys cousin fr (u1) Steve Phillips (Pukekohe)

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Friday, January 4, 2013

J Riddell J Parkes H Tinsley

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

57592 x1226 59x13 01x4x 1x415 4x114 06110 x1651 4306x 480x7

7

Reuben Thorn tdm (2) 59 Grant Searle (Awapuni) That’sourexcuse td (8) 58.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Samsi d (3) 57 Zane Robinson (Awapuni) Shezgorgeous dm (9) 57 Patrick Campbell (Hastings) Platinum Kingdom d (5) 57 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Devillaine db (6) 56.5 Ramsay/Ritchie (Maungatautari) Elusive Red dm (7) 56 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Rockweiler td (4) 55.5 Tina Wood (Hastings) Ripping (1) 54.5 John Kiernan (Te Horo Beach) Take Off d (10) 54 Shane Brown (Woodville)

H Tinsley M Dee (a4) R Hannam M Dravitzki (a3) K Myers J Riddell J Parkes R Hutchings (a) R Myers V Johnston

millS reef Winery handiCap

4.58

$8000, rating 75 benchmark, 1600m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

97215 32790 68828 3419x 18030 53F17 58x50 317x6 29065 21x70 0x758

8

Bar Keeper dm (9) 59 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Supervisor dmb (8) 58.5 Haworth/Dixon (Foxton) Celebration tdh (6) 57.5 Karen Zimmerman (Otaki) Hands Up th (11) 57.5 Karen Zimmerman (Otaki) Good One Glady dm (10) 56.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Jilted t (5) 56.5 Mike Breslin (Awapuni) Margarets Own dm (4) 56.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Prestigiosa d (7) 56 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) Musuko King h (1) 56 Howie Mathews (Otaki) Irish Dream (2) 54 Haworth/Dixon (Foxton) Joyous (3) 54 Janelle Millar (New Plymouth)

R Hannam M Dee (a4) K Myers J Riddell L Allpress H Tinsley V Johnston R Myers D Walker J Parkes S Doyle

horoWhenua ShelTer TrimmerS

miTre 10 mega Cambridge paCe

S Doyle L Allpress B Lammas K Myers K Smith W Satherley M Tanaka J Parkes SCRATCHED R Hannam J Riddell V Johnston J Shackleton (a3) R Hutchings (a) SCRATCHED SCRATCHED SCRATCHED D Bradley SCRATCHED

1 007 Rocknroll Lass fr (1) Telfer/Garlick (Papakura) 2 322x3 Cullies Delight fr (2) Robert Mitchell (Tauwhare) 3 Maddys Star fr (3) Tony Grayling (Pukekohe) 4 7 Souvenir Glory fr (4) Kym Kearns (Cambridge Raceway) 5 76x4 Mary Anastasia fr (5) Nicky Chilcott (Cambridge Raceway) 6 45 Sweet Jane fr (6) Steven Reid (Pukekohe) 7 43734 Sofia Loren fr (7) Robert Mitchell (Tauwhare) 8 5x Miss Sophie fr (8) Green/Hughes (Ardmore) 9 8x5 Hanover Courage fr (9) Ken Webber (Papamoa) 10 24P9 Lislass fr (10) Jeremy Young (Ardmore) 11 3 Monets Daughter fr (11) A & L Neal (Cambridge) 12 661x6 Maheer Melody fr (12) Barry Purdon (Clevedon) 13 62 Heart Of Jessie fr (13) Maurice McKendry (Pukekohe)

5

friday

TAB doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10.

Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10.

Pick6 5-10 $50,000.

Quaddie 7-8-9-10.

pgg Sale of The STarS paCe

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

10x53 94454 — 14245 22176 267x3 11318 11972 8x661 33433 651P0 45214 35417 61534 2179x —

6

48682 44925 1154x 48255 43771 761x2 13311 24442 7x178 37963

2

6.13

6.43

$10,000, 3yo+ c&g non winners mobile, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

03 4394 100x8 69925 1x832 24x42 602x6 5932x x2433

3

Nimble Jack fr (1) Ray Green (Huapai) Wish fr (2) Nicky Chilcott (Cambridge Raceway) Sky Falcon fr (3) Barry Purdon (Clevedon) Tommy Smith fr (4) Jim Cole (Pukekohe) Free Will fr (5) Tony Shaw (Morrinsville) Liukin fr (6) J & D Butcher (Cambridge) Rule Like A King fr (7) Barry Purdon (Clevedon) Hudy Haxwell fr (8) Derek Balle (Pukekohe) Cillas Boy fr (9) Green/Hughes (Ardmore) Emelpee fr (10) A & L Neal (Cambridge)

dunSTan SWeeT mix TroT

R Downey (J) N chilcott S Phelan J cole B Mangos D Butcher z Butcher (J) T Macfarlane T Herlihy A Neal

7.15

$25,000, 4 or more wins ffa mobile, 1700m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

28242 11334 41376 65336 12554 31705 18033

Escapee fr (1) Mark Purdon (Pukekohe) DiMaggio fr (2) Stephen Doody (Palmerston North) Charlemagne fr (3) Colin Butler (Cambridge Raceway) Dealornodeal fr (4) Rogerson/Blanchard (Hamilton) Dr Hook fr (5) Paul Nairn (Leeston) Raydon fr (6) D & C McGowan (Pukekohe) Sovereignty fr (7) Sean McCaffrey (Cambridge)

Cambridge Selections Race 1: THE REID RUNNER, SoNic cLASSic, cHANgE gEAR Race 2: FREE WILL, HuDy HAxWELL, ciLLAS Boy Race 3: ESCAPEE, SoVEREigNTy, DiMAggio Race 4: SWEET JANE, MAHEER MELoDy, HEART oF JESSiE Race 5: IRISH WHISPER, RARE oPPoRTuNiTy, REALMEiN Race 6: LIVING THE DREAM, WiNDiNHERHAiR, HENLEy FRANco Race 7: OHOKA PUNTER, THREE PiNTS, coNDRiEu Race 8: SMOLDA, goLD AcE, PEMBRooK BENNy Race 9: STATESMAN, MuRPHy MAguiRE, gLENLocHAR Race 10: LYSENKO, WiNgSoNHAi, THE RoyAL cHARgER

P Nairn g Martin SCRATCHED D Butcher S Doody P Butcher S Phelan M McKendry N chilcott A Donnelly J Abernethy P Ferguson M Purdon B Mangos T Herlihy SCRATCHED

8.38

$12,000, 4yo+ mares up to 3 wins mobile, 1700m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

71x36 34133 23357 43715 85213 28518 54162 3112x

7

Bettor Romance fr (1) Barry Purdon (Clevedon) Secret Desire fr (2) Telfer/Garlick (Papakura) No Liability fr (3) Peter Ferguson (Cambridge) Sovereign Faith fr (4) Macfarlane/Sharpe (Patumahoe) Henley Franco fr (5) Steven Reid (Pukekohe) Living The Dream fr (6) Mark Purdon (Pukekohe) Maravu Haley fr (7) Brendan Crowley (Hawera) Windinherhair fr (8) Steve Phillips (Pukekohe)

z Butcher (J) S Phelan P Ferguson T Macfarlane T Herlihy M Purdon D Butcher N chilcott

ClaSSiC yearling Sale paCe

9.05

$10,000, 3yo+ 1 win mobile, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

x5242 52571 33517 44403 124x4 — 1283x 39162 33674 12x11 —

Shards Of Cullen fr (1) Derek Balle (Pukekohe) Three Pints fr (2) Mark Purdon (Pukekohe) Condrieu fr (3) Mark Purdon (Pukekohe) Baccarat fr (4) Ival Brownlee (Pokeno) Who Dares Wins fr (5) A & L Neal (Cambridge) Jetfire Steffi Rice fr (6) Kevin Shaw (Cambridge Raceway) Alfie Maguire fr (7) Barry Purdon (Clevedon) Randalstown fr (8) Tim Hall (Morrinsville) Ohoka Punter fr (9) Tony Herlihy (Papakura) Styx It To Em

S Phelan N Rasmussen M Purdon J i Dickie (J) A Neal SCRATCHED D Butcher z Butcher (J) T Hall T Herlihy SCRATCHED

SKy CiTy WaiKaTo flying mile

9.30

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

53324 61x11 26201 34913 09653 69019 x6880 17127

Delight Brigade fr (1) A & L Neal (Cambridge) Smolda fr (2) Mark Purdon (Pukekohe) Pembrook Benny fr (3) Barry Purdon (Clevedon) On The Razzle fr (4) Rogerson/Blanchard (Hamilton) Jarcullembra fr (5) Geoff Small (Patumahoe) Gold Ace fr (6) Steven Reid (Pukekohe) Auckland Reactor fr (7) Mark Purdon (Rolleston) Sir Lincoln fr (8) Ray Green (Huapai)

P Ferguson M Purdon z Butcher (J) B Mangos D Butcher T Herlihy N Rasmussen M McKendry

fairvieW moTorS hCp paCe

9.55

$12,000, 3 to 7 wins discretionary, 2700m.

Maheer Magic fr (1) Peter Miller (Waiuku) M McKendry Captivating fr (2) Bryce Wilson (Cambridge) J Stormont Lively Nights fr (3) John Dickie (Cambridge Raceway) J i Dickie (J) Lucky John fr (4) Mike Berger (Cambridge) P Butcher Russian Alsu fr (5) Matthew Collins (Bombay) z Butcher (J) Sonic Classic fr (6) Macfarlane/Sharpe (Patumahoe) T Macfarlane The Reid Runner fr (7) Steven Reid (Pukekohe) P Ferguson Change Gear fr (8) Rogerson/Blanchard (Hamilton) D Butcher Leroy Brogden fr (9) Nicky Chilcott (Cambridge Raceway) N chilcott Tyler Maguire fr (10) David Marshall (Cambridge) K Marshall (J,cl))

ChriSTian Cullen paCe

Brookside Filly fr (1) Paul Nairn (Leeston) Avalon Sunset fr (2) Geoff Martin (Cambridge) Mitchell Rare Opportunity fr (3) Rogerson/Blanchard (Hamilton) Jaccka Creek fr (u1) Stephen Doody (Palmerston North) Pretty To Watch fr (u2) Bryan Macey (Matangi) Realmein 10 (1) Matthew Pemberton (Patumahoe) Kissme Earl 10 (2) Ival Brownlee (Pokeno) Phoebe Revival 10 (3) Nicky Chilcott (Cambridge Raceway) Loki Brogden 10 (u1) Nicky Chilcott (Cambridge Raceway) Sweetcheeks 10 (u2) Stephen Doody (Palmerston North) Johnny Springfield 20 (1) Robbie Hughes (Pukekura County) Luby Ann 20 (u1) Mark Purdon (Pukekohe) Damit Invasion 20 (u2) Stephen Doody (Palmerston North) Irish Whisper 30 (1) Tony Herlihy (Papakura) DiMaggio

nevele r STud mareS paCe

9

$10,000, 3yo+ up to 3 wins mobile, 2700m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

8.13

$10,000, 2 to 5 wins +claimer discretionary, 2700m.

$60,000, ffa mobile pace group 2, 1609m.

Cambridge harness

1

S Phelan g Robb T grayling B Holmes N chilcott T Herlihy P Ferguson T Macfarlane c Webber J i Dickie (J) A Neal z Butcher (J) M McKendry

dunSTan maxim loW-gi hCp TroT

8

Cambridge JeTbeT 5

7.47

$10,000, 3yo+ f&m non winners mobile, 2200m.

5.35

$7000, mdn, 1400m 1 5x992 Just The Tip (5) 58.5 Janelle Millar (New Plymouth) 2 643 Cold Hearted b (12) 58.5 A & M Davies (Levin) 3 0x4 Jack Zance h (19) 58.5 Howie Mathews (Otaki) 4 40x Messines (17) 58.5 Lisa Latta (Riccarton) 5 0x547 Zum Zing h (15) 58.5 Rachael Frost (Otaki) 6 708x5 Foxtonian (6) 58.5 Herston Robinson (Foxton) 7 Premeaux (10) 58.5 Jeff Lynds (Awapuni) 8 96 Macnamara h (20) 57 Howie Mathews (Otaki) 9 — Intermission 10 Kool Return (1) 57 Mark Oulaghan (Awapuni) 11 04 Flat White (8) 56.5 Gary Vile (Awapuni) 12 848x0 Queen Of The Blues (9) 56.5 Craig Jackson (Otaki) 13 08x0 Chimes (2) 56.5 Alan Rennie (Mangaweka) 14 Cynosure (18) 56.5 Geoff Haigh (Levin) 15 0x Luvawin (14) 56.5 Murray Mercer (Awapuni) 16 — St’ruth EMERGENCIES 17 — Show Willing 18 00 My Magician (11) 57 Gary Vile (Awapuni) 19 — Boots 20 670x6 Turkish Gold (3) 58.5 Grant Searle (Awapuni) 21 — Prohibition

4

M Purdon B Mangos P Butcher D Butcher T Herlihy T Macfarlane M McKendry

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

31563 64334 x1753 83332 27505 33151 21487 11234

10

Copy My Past fr (1) Colin Butler (Cambridge Raceway) Underwood Road fr (2) Hollis/Robertson (Pukekohe) Murphy Maguire 20 (1) Geoff Small (Patumahoe) Statesman 20 (2) Tony Herlihy (Papakura) Clive Bromac 30 (1) Geoff Small (Patumahoe) Carlos 30 (2) Peter Ferguson (Cambridge) Rangatiki Rosie 30 (3) Stephen Doody (Palmerston North) Glenlochar 40 (1) Rogerson/Blanchard (Hamilton)

P Butcher L Hollis D Butcher T Herlihy S Lawson (J) P Ferguson B Mangos z Butcher (J)

Zone bar @ SKy CiTy hCp TroT

10.25

$6000, 3yo+ up to 1 win special, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

9x7 23588 0 7047x 9 349x1 319x7 129x4 — 88532 21090

Peggy Lindenny fr (1) Peter Ferguson (Cambridge) P Ferguson Door Slammer fr (2) John Robinson (Ohaupo) J Robinson Jagermeister fr (u1) Arna Donnelly (Cambridge) T Macfarlane Jasinsky fr (u2) Luk Chin (Tamahere) L chin Ari Gold fr (u3) Paul Nairn (Leeston) P Nairn Wingsonhai 30 (1) Arna Donnelly (Cambridge) A Donnelly The Royal Charger 30 (2) Sean McCaffrey (Cambridge) M McKendry Lake Hood Lass 30 (3) Rex Peni (Morrinsville) D Butcher Mollyz Luck SCRATCHED Lysenko 30 (5) Adrian Wohlers (Cambridge) P Butcher Itsnowornever 30 (u1) Susan Branch (Cambridge Raceway) N chilcott

nelson harness richmond park JeTbeT 7

friday

TAB doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12.

Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12.

Quaddie 9-10-11-12.

1

ToWn & CounTry veT TroT

1.11

$7000, 3yo+ non winners, 2400m.

1 89003 Pricilla P fr (1) Gavin Smith (Leithfield Beach) g Smith 2 Rebma fr (2) Ken Ford (West Melton) A Tomlinson 3 000 Pat’s First Sun fr (3) Wayne Higgs (Redwood) W Higgs 4 5x70x D’Arcy de Gerolstein fr (4) Murray Edmonds (Motukarara) M Edmonds 5 060x Lucie de Gerolstein fr (5) Murray Edmonds (Motukarara) J Anderson (J) 6 Astrapi fr (6) Tim Butt (West Melton) M Jones 7 03436 Price Of Fame fr (7) Tim Trathen (Templeton) T Trathen 8 Spell fr (8) P & L Jones (West Melton) R May 9 0 Sueno fr (9) Steve Roulston (Aylesbury) T chmiel 10 Ton Tine fr (u1) Robert Anderson (Rolleston) R Anderson 11 Vacanza fr (u2) Bruce Hutton (Greendale) B Hutton 12 00 Thanksforplaying fr (u3) Gavin Mills (West Melton) c McDowell 13 0 Kidder fr (u4) Bruce Hutton (Greendale) J curtin 14 5 Flying Buck fr (u5) Ray Jenkins (West Melton) R Jenkins

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fields&fORM

2

sPeedy signs/nelsOn Mail Pace

1.45

$7000, 3yo+ f&m non winners mobile, 2400m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

x9565 90852 x0824 — 6p00x 06 65053 69 09x 72467

3

rainbow Classic fr (1) Graeme Lamb (Rangiora) aqua luvvy fr (2) Murray Edmonds (Motukarara) Chloe Finn fr (3) Margo Nyhan (Burnham) Flickering ember Fine Courage fr (4) Graeme Hall (Richmond) julia Bardon fr (5) Ben Waldron (Ashburton) Supreme estella fr (6) Marty Larter (West Melton) rosetta Stone fr (7) Murray Pash (Richmond) de real diva fr (8) Brian Hill (Brightwater) Silver Sauvignon fr (9) Graham Neill (Spring Creek) Sitzman fr (10) Malcolm Shinn (West Melton) City Chic fr (11) Wes Davies (West Melton)

k cameron m edmonds p davis SCRATCHED j dunn R may j anderson (j) m pash m jones j curtin t chmiel B orange

anchOR engineeRing/aiMex Pace 2.20 $7000, 3yo+ non winners, 2400m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

x9450 809x8 — x0864 73 0 93 94x00 2 0x74 8x87

4

reklaw Supreme fr (1) Wayne Higgs (Redwood) j B’s river fr (2) Ivan Court (Ladbrooks) Spunky monkey little mo fr (3) Ken Ford (West Melton) diplomat fr (4) Jim Curtin (Templeton) getinbehind fr (5) Ray Jenkins (West Melton) Buller Babe fr (6) Trevor Craddock (Patterson Park) Crackapaca fr (7) Margo Nyhan (Burnham) Better Klik fr (8) Geoff Dunn (West Melton) Way up high fr (9) Anne-Marie Best (Fairhall) the empire’s Sister fr (10) Robbie Rowland (Yaldhurst) aces Fella fr (11) Murray Edmonds (Motukarara) the vicar fr (12) David Pearce (West Melton) Be me fr (u1) Ben Waldron (Ashburton)

w higgs g smith SCRATCHED a tomlinson j curtin R jenkins m pash p davis j dunn t chmiel B orange m edmonds m jones R may

saxtOn lOdge/accessMan Pace

3.00

$7000, 3yo+ non winners mobile, 2400m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

75534 pilot officer fr (1) Graham Neill (Spring Creek) royal City fr (2) Len Mosely (Aylesbury) 6x980 Scotty is Flyin fr (3) David Pearce (West Melton) 0 Knight action fr (4) Graeme Lamb (Rangiora) 56524 majors Blue jean fr (5) Ray Jenkins (West Melton) 049 huckleberry Finn fr (6) Pat & Mike O’Brien (Waterlea) 695x9 hotdiggitydog fr (7) Chris McDowell (Weedons) 59343 Chargedownking fr (8) Fiona Baigent (Templeton) 06570 Wards Creek fr (9) Bob Rochford (Kaikoura) 39 tough enough fr (10) Murray Pash (Richmond) natural Courage fr (11) Murray Edmonds (Motukarara) 00905 gino d’acampo fr (12) Kevin James (Kaiapoi)

5

RichMOnd Pak n saVe Pace

t chmiel R may m jones k cameron R jenkins B orange c mcdowell R curtin j curtin m pash m edmonds B nyhan

3.34

$7000, 3yo+ non winners, 2400m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

5x475 00x00 0700x 089x0 64x 903 05 8x29 73 9 40052 0 —

6

Colonel Custard fr (1) Bill Morgan (Richmond) m pash ah van fr (2) Fiona Baigent (Templeton) R curtin Black is Black fr (3) Barry Ward (West Melton) B thomas (j) harvest Boy fr (4) P & L Jones (West Melton) a tomlinson isla Bromac fr (5) Geoff Dunn (West Melton) j dunn glenferrie ann fr (6) Karen O’Dea (Westport) p davis taittinger rose fr (7) Ian Thomas (Richmond) j thomas (j) mapua mabel fr (8) Tom Fox & Brian Johnson (Richmond Park) R may daily delight fr (9) Don Morrison (Blenheim) d morrison panic Slowly fr (10) Ivan Court (Ladbrooks) B orange Suzali Queen fr (11) Bruce Hutton (Greendale) j curtin midnight mayhem fr (12) John Howe (West Melton) t chmiel Flickering ember SCRATCHED

f & n gallas MeM. hcP tROt

4.10

$8000, 3yo+ 1 to 5 wins discretionary, 2400m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

309x3 7x624 x2212 00x90 77081 00704 27335 79700 21pp 00512 112x1 7340x 80792 15497

ignite fr (1) Murray Edmonds (Motukarara) Sarah palin fr (2) Margo Nyhan (Burnham) andrew ryan fr (3) Laurence Hanrahan (Ashburton) idle eyre fr (4) Tim Butt (West Melton) earls Buller girl fr (5) Trevor Craddock (Patterson Park) Clifden Clowers fr (6) Sandra Mounce (Rolleston) miss middleton fr (7) Graham Neill (Spring Creek) daytona Beach fr (8) Ray Jenkins (West Melton) the peace monkey fr (u1) Ian Thomas (Richmond) minnie jane fr (u2) Paul Howlett (Weedons) Sheemon 10 (1) Kevin Townley (Russley) dragons den 10 (2) Robert Anderson (Rolleston) pammys Boy 10 (3) Murray Edmonds (Motukarara) rarangi jewel 40 (1) Graham Neill (Spring Creek)

7

bMtt Pace

j anderson (j) p davis R may m jones g smith B orange j curtin R jenkins j thomas (j) j dunn k townley R anderson m edmonds t chmiel

4.40

$8000, 3yo+ 1 win mobile, 2400m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

32332 58300 35538 080x8 52p06 941 x610x — 35212 44415 65176 53447 07371 16708

8

delightful Blue fr (1) G & N Hope (Woodend Beach) Crown prince fr (2) Pat & Mike O’Brien (Waterlea) Flyin louie fr (3) Graeme Hall (Richmond) j C Skipper fr (4) Peter Robertson (Templeton) Fiery lustre fr (5) Ivan Court (Ladbrooks) halston Bromac fr (6) Pat & Mike O’Brien (Waterlea) Shikari fr (7) Gavin Smith (Leithfield Beach) Better than money Kaiteri Bay fr (9) Robert Dunn (Woodend Beach) Betty golightly fr (10) Andrew Garters (Broadfield) lockey fr (11) Chris McDowell (Weedons) all delight fr (12) Bruce Hutton (Greendale) Waikari Cash fr (13) Kevin James (Kaiapoi) ovaride fr (u1) D & C Butt (Woodend Beach)

hOani Jack cuP Pace

R may p davis m pash j anderson (j) m jones B orange g smith SCRATCHED j dunn t chmiel c mcdowell j curtin B nyhan k cameron

5.15

$7000, 3yo+ c&g non winners mobile, 2400m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

79243 56x 00x58 4x235 4 07x40 68665 86 26546 8x835 05

9

Shantahlia’s Star fr (1) Graeme Lamb (Rangiora) thunderbird tara fr (2) Bob Rochford (Kaikoura) deadly dylan fr (3) Ben Waldron (Ashburton) itsa Seelster fr (4) Gavin Smith (Leithfield Beach) a j lee fr (5) Ivan Court (Ladbrooks) peter pan fr (6) Ian Thomas (Richmond) Smooth Seas fr (7) Graeme Hall (Richmond) Beacon hill fr (8) Murray Pash (Richmond) ultimate Sheldon fr (9) Ray Jenkins (West Melton) Cityaglow fr (10) Phillip Johnson (Richmond) tubby jim fr (11) Rob Paterson (Rangiora) lumos fr (12) Robert Dunn (Woodend Beach)

canty sPeed seRies

k cameron t chmiel R may g smith B orange j thomas (j) p davis m pash R jenkins j curtin m jones j dunn

5.55

$9000, 4yo+ mares up to 5 wins mobile pace, 1609m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

10

— 52312 06583 1x950 84818 39111 77663 52170

gritty girl Star of isis fr (2) Jim Curtin (Templeton) ginger Spice fr (3) Cran Dalgety (West Melton) jass fr (4) Robert Stuart (Richmond) anita patron fr (5) G & N Hope (Woodend Beach) ashley Cullen fr (6) D & C Butt (Woodend Beach) Bella arden fr (7) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) nancy miles fr (8) G & N Hope (Woodend Beach)

SCRATCHED j curtin B orange m pash m jones j dunn p davis R may

gOlden edge nelsOn cuP PRelude 6.28 $10,000, 3 to 5 wins discretionary hcp pace, 2400m.

1 — jass 2 7x151 Kid galahad fr (1) Laurence Hanrahan (Ashburton)

SCRATCHED j curtin

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

88000 84712 6x541 x5956 93700 13120 13141 —

11

Bluegum motel Shines fr (2) Sandra Mounce (Rolleston) lively Shard fr (3) Gavin Smith (Leithfield Beach) paradise City fr (4) Barry Ward (West Melton) Wonderful tonight fr (5) Barry Ward (West Melton) Sonnetsson 10 (1) Margo Nyhan (Burnham) hurricane Bromac 10 (2) Robert Dunn (Woodend Beach) jason rulz 10 (3) G & N Hope (Woodend Beach) nancy miles

B orange g smith B thomas (j) t chmiel p davis j dunn R may SCRATCHED

MORe fM Pace

7.06

$8000, 3yo+ 1 win, 2400m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1x621 66515 x1040 08x78 x3427 05056 x0564 52010 45318 14x 010x x7218 37530

12

Fiery del fr (1) Laurence Hanrahan (Ashburton) R may Shantahlia Knight fr (2) Graeme Lamb (Rangiora) k cameron iwannabebig fr (3) Tom Fox & Brian Johnson (Richmond Park) j curtin gritty girl fr (4) Murray Pash (Richmond) m pash Spotafalcon fr (5) Wayne Higgs (Redwood) w higgs Westburn Warrior fr (6) Ivan Court (Ladbrooks) m jones Westburn Creed fr (7) Ivan Court (Ladbrooks) B orange i’m Bettor fr (8) Ray Jenkins (West Melton) R jenkins massimo fr (9) Robert Dunn (Woodend Beach) j dunn lochranza Franco fr (10) Ben Waldron (Ashburton) B thomas (j) thorn in my Side fr (11) D & C Butt (Woodend Beach) t chmiel Fat prophet fr (12) John Howe (West Melton) t williamson (j) mozart lace fr (13) Rodney Dickson (Westport) p davis

taylORs cOntRacting Pace

7.38

$8500, 2 wins mobile, 2400m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

85107 09420 75590 80609 7x133 p1233 49076 d5306 66086 09740 3173x x4262

Fear Flying fr (1) Peter Robertson (Templeton) town icon fr (2) Chris McDowell (Weedons) mcpadden fr (3) Rick Burnett (Leeston) marilyn golightly fr (4) Andrew Garters (Broadfield) vera’s twilight fr (5) Laurence Hanrahan (Ashburton) Sierra Franco fr (6) Pat & Mike O’Brien (Waterlea) Fortunately fr (7) Ken Ford (West Melton) Better than money fr (8) Robert Dunn (Woodend Beach) darryl hanover fr (9) Bob Rochford (Kaikoura) Simple Saver fr (10) P & L Jones (West Melton) tijuana Bromac fr (11) Anne-Marie Best (Fairhall) Suerte fr (12) Mark Jones (Burnham)

g smith c mcdowell j anderson (j) B orange R may j curtin a tomlinson j dunn m edmonds p davis t chmiel m jones

Roxburgh harness Roxburgh Raceway Jetbet 8

fRiday

sgt dan’s stOckfOOd ltd tROt 2 — 5 879x0 80266 75809 34476 000x 3 4 0 09040 518x9

2

makarewa jake fr (1) Tony Barron (Makarewa) Far too Flash millions to Spare fr (3) Jamie Gameson (Burnham) maple twist fr (4) Mick Prendergast (Hyde) infusion fr (5) Owen Lawrence (Invercargill) Conrock fr (6) Margaret McAuley (Otautau) Forest galleon fr (7) Christopher Couzens (Mataura) mississippi dream fr (8) Doug Gordon (Roxburgh East) tinted light fr (9) Jimmy Bond (Mataura) Cool Son fr (10) Baynes/Swain (Knapdale) john the Fib fr (u1) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) Winfield monarch fr (u2) Jimmy Bond (Mataura) its oscar fr (u3) Darryn Simpson (Mosgiel)

2.24

d dunn SCRATCHED t williams m prendergast a armour m mcauley a milne j w cox n williamson R swain m williamson (j) j Bond s walkinshaw

ReMaRkable ORchaRd Pace

2.52

$4000, 3yo+ non winners mobile, 2200m.

1 x5854 juanita Soleece fr (1) Andrew Armour (Invercargill) a armour 2 Five angels fr (2) Craig Laurenson (Edendale) c Ferguson (j) 3 00 master president fr (3) Alan Paisley (Longbush) c Barron 4 5 hearts desire fr (4) Matt Brinsdon (Gore) m williamson (j) 5 6x028 Frank the duck fr (5) Cran Dalgety (West Melton) d dunn 6 its Bella fr (6) Tony Barron (Makarewa) n williamson 7 683x9 City Courage fr (7) Ginger Woodhouse (Omakau Raceway) k Barclay 8 008x delightful tactics fr (8) Trevor Proctor (Winton) d larkins

3

Macca lOdge/RedPaths Pace

3.20

$8000, 3yo+ f&m non winners mobile, 2200m.

1 — Kensal green SCRATCHED 2 35x23 Kate Stephanie fr (2) Tony Barron (Makarewa) d dunn 3 7 Shard n awe fr (3) Anderson/Hoffman (Westwood Beach) j w cox 4 8x703 Shards of myross fr (4) Tony Stratford (Invercargill) m williamson (j) SCRATCHED 5 — delightful tactics 6 Wattie’s Sweetheart fr (6) Nathan Williamson (Ryal Bush) n williamson 7 582 Curragh’s princess fr (7) Brendon McLellan (Wyndham) B mclellan 8 98 three Black fr (8) Alan Paisley (Longbush) c Barron 9 50 lurah fr (9) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) R holmes 10 givenchy Franco fr (10) Steven McRae (Halswell) c d thornley 11 80807 lady Suffragette fr (11) Tom Kilkelly (Tisbury) a armour SCRATCHED 12 — live to Star

4

MaRsh hOney/aOn ins. Pace

3.56

$8500, 3yo up to 1 win mobile, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

05 6 26x9 71187 30161 02761 23476 36843

5

Cossack fr (1) Neil Edge (Weedons) just rusty fr (2) Des Baynes (Winton) Shak’n Cullen fr (3) G & C Lee (Wyndham) extreme times fr (4) Alan Paisley (Longbush) expressionist fr (5) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) arma legend fr (6) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) Classiemahon fr (7) Tony Stratford (Invercargill) Supreme mach fr (8) Ken Barron (West Melton)

k Barclay t williams g lee c Barron m williamson (j) R holmes d dunn k Barron

Van deR VOORt faMily hcP tROt

4.31

$9000, 1 to 3 wins discretionary, 2700m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10636 59528 4x187 73351 87x00 93612 443x4 92215 01807

6

rapid Sequence fr (1) Clark Barron (Rakauhauka) john henry galleon fr (2) Chris Gerken (Fleming) Winfield dougall fr (3) Doug Gordon (Roxburgh East) Sun Shine Whiz fr (4) Mervyn Todd (Charlton) holdon toyaspurs fr (5) Neil Edge (Weedons) Whitney 10 (1) Billy Heads (Gore) miss pegasus 10 (2) Phil Williamson (Oamaru) anothersuperstar 20 (1) Alan Shaw (Tapanui) Sunrise delight 20 (2) G & J Knight (Roxburgh)

euRaka 7 Pace

c Barron m williamson (j) j w cox R swain k Barron d dunn B williamson (j) k Barclay n williamson

5.06

$10,000, 4yo+ mares 2 to 6 wins mobile, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6

x3215 97610 1x008 411x7 04339 551x1

repeat after me fr (1) Des Baynes (Winton) telescope fr (2) Darryn Simpson (Mosgiel) Citylight fr (3) Stephen Baucke (Winton) donthavtime fr (4) Wayne Adams (Invercargill) Flyover fr (5) John McDermott (Prebbleton) pembrook’s delight fr (6) G & J Knight (Roxburgh)

Nelson Selections

Roxburgh Selections

Race 1: Kidder, Vacanza, astRapi Race 2: Sitzman, chloe Finn, aqua luVVy Race 3: diplomat, the empiRe’s sisteR, Reklaw supReme Race 4: natural Courage, majoRs Blue jean, chaRgedownking Race 5: Suzali Queen, isla BRomac, haRVest Boy Race 6: Sheemon, dRagons den, andRew Ryan Race 7: Kaiteri Bay, all delight, oVaRide Race 8: itSa SeelSter, lumos, shantahlia’s staR Race 9: ginger SpiCe, staR oF isis, nancy miles Race 10: hurriCane BromaC, jason Rulz, kid galahad Race 11: Fiery del, thoRn in my side, iwannaBeBig Race 12: Suerte, VeRa’s twilight, BetteR than money

Race 1: itS oSCar, makaRewa jake, cool son Race 2: FranK the duCK, juanita soleece, heaRts desiRe Race 3: Kate Stephanie, giVenchy FRanco, wattie’s sweetheaRt Race 4: expreSSioniSt, supReme mach, just Rusty Race 5: Whitney, miss pegasus, anotheRsupeRstaR Race 6: Flyover, pemBRook’s delight, Repeat aFteR me Race 7: ChriSty Breanna, el diaBlo, kaylea BolteR Race 8: ourSjean, Beaudiene BRilliance, Rock oF taRa Race 9: poaCher, canaRdly loVeR, jimmy johnstone Race 10: true South, deVil’s adVocate, chieF kapai Race 11: jaSperS Blue jean, hugo seelsteR, cullen’s Finest Race 12: Brilliant CruiSer, declan, laughing man

$8000, 3yo+ non winners mobile, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

67946 el diablo fr (1) Ross Wilson (Whiterig) tact Charlotte fr (2) Trevor Proctor (Winton) 78584 Kaylea Bolter fr (3) Bill Keeler (Roxburgh) 42358 righthere rightnow fr (4) Tony Stratford (Invercargill) 4 ella Fitzgerald fr (5) Neil Edge (Weedons) 64 adriatic Coast fr (6) Baynes/Swain (Knapdale) 2739 Christy Breanna fr (7) Tony Barron (Makarewa) 8x525 Kensal green fr (8) Austin Stack (Makarewa)

8

t williams d larkins a armour d dunn k Barron R swain n williamson c Barron

gRand taVeRn Pace

6.20

$7000, 1 to 2 wins mobile, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

37408 48xp0 85032 1234x 15 37653 64902 444x9 03214

9

taieri Wings fr (1) Chris Gerken (Fleming) n williamson graceandtemika fr (2) Bruce Negus (Waikouaiti) j w cox oursjean fr (3) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) R holmes Beaudiene Brilliance fr (4) Murray G Brown (Invercargill) d dunn rock of tara fr (5) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) m williamson (j) Billy the Bus fr (6) Murray Swain (Roslyn Bush) R swain the tisbury terror fr (7) Tom Kilkelly (Tisbury) k Barclay Franco Caliph fr (8) Murray G Brown (Invercargill) a armour harmony rule fr (9) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) t williams

cuRRie MOtORs ROxbuRgh cuP

6.52

$14,999, 3 to 7 wins discretionary hcp pace, 2700m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

91434 13916 7d2x7 48748 62000 x6275 80851 02421 21811 39113 2x917 91p78

Canardly lover fr (1) Hamish Hunter (Ryal Bush) s walkinshaw little miss Sunshine fr (2) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) R holmes meads Quaff fr (3) Dean Taylor (Ladbrooks) a armour princess delight fr (4) Alan Paisley (Longbush) c Barron g Forbes lord Forbes fr (5) Gavin Forbes (Invercargill) poacher fr (6) Des Baynes (Winton) t williams Franco nautica fr (7) John Hay (Ashburton) R swain new revenue fr (8) Steven McRae (Halswell) c d thornley jimmy johnstone 10 (1) John Hay (Ashburton) j hay phantom grin 10 (2) Matt Brinsdon (Gore) d dunn Better to Be Bad 10 (u1) Steven Ashton (Portobello) m williamson (j) vic n art 20 (u1) Eion Latimer (Oamaru) j w cox

10

WateRlOO hOtel Pace

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

86461 46x63 x7880 66x64 90627 x4436 6697x 13077 64975

11

$7000, 3yo+ non winners, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

hayes & sOns / R&J cROOks Pace 5.42

7.30

$8500, 4yo+ 1 win mobile, 2200m.

TAB doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12.

Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12.

Quaddie 9-10-11-12.

1

7

B mclellan s walkinshaw B williamson (j) t williams a edmonds m williamson (j)

jack Bates fr (1) Tom Kilkelly (Tisbury) true South fr (2) Ken Barron (West Melton) Waihemo Caesar fr (3) John Gamble (Smaills Beach) devil’s advocate fr (4) Baynes/Swain (Knapdale) zara p fr (5) Andrew Armour (Invercargill) Composite fr (6) Murray Swain (Roslyn Bush) Courageous Boy fr (7) Christopher Couzens (Mataura) Chief Kapai fr (8) Alan Paisley (Longbush) lady Brownhouse fr (9) Daryl Trainor (Forbury Park)

cOMbined sPOnsORs Pace

n williamson k Barron R mcilwrick (j) R swain d dunn m williamson (j) a milne c Barron j trainor (j)

8.01

$9000, 2 to 3 wins +claimer mobile, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

80527 69524 x3805 — — 07064 68884 11468 95962 07888 16943

hugo Seelster fr (1) G & C Lee (Wyndham) Cullen’s Finest fr (2) Andrew Armour (Invercargill) Barberino fr (3) Bruce Negus (Waikouaiti) petes reward alta Capone jaspers Blue jean fr (6) Eion Latimer (Oamaru) delightful Song fr (7) Neil Edge (Weedons) jerry Fitz fr (21) Ross Wilson (Whiterig) press on fr (22) Greg Hunter (Wyndham) arancia fr (23) Owen Lawrence (Invercargill) night emberz fr (24) G & C Lee (Wyndham)

12

g lee a armour n williamson SCRATCHED SCRATCHED d dunn k Barclay c Ferguson (j) c Barron c graham c lee

tRans WORld Pace

8.30

$7000, 1 to 2 wins, 2200m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

x9146 60159 37408 5x146 8x546 01583 23080 069x8 78070 96004 108 18467

Brilliant Cruiser fr (1) Wayne Adams (Invercargill) declan fr (2) Robbie Holmes (Leithfield Beach) taieri Wings fr (3) Chris Gerken (Fleming) petes reward fr (4) Dean Taylor (Ladbrooks) Sharpenuff fr (5) Murray G Brown (Invercargill) gingerwyn fr (6) Bruce Negus (Waikouaiti) mackenzie jacob fr (7) Phil Williamson (Oamaru) laughing man fr (8) G & J Knight (Roxburgh) rebateable fr (9) Jamie Gameson (Burnham) aye one fr (10) Jimmy Bond (Mataura) v C dell fr (11) Tony Barron (Makarewa) ronnoco fr (12) Baynes/Swain (Knapdale)

t williams R holmes c gerken c Barron a armour j w cox m williamson (j) n williamson B munro (j) j Bond d dunn R swain

fields&fORM

thames Gear changes

approved Plates on: Speedy Rocket (R4) concussion Plates off: Speedy Rocket (R4) concussion Plates (front) on: Endorsement (R7) standard bit on: Sophia (R9) lugging bit on: Speedy Rocket (R4) lugging bit off: Gilmour’s Girl (R4); Sophia (R9) norton bit off: Speedy Rocket (R4) tongue control bit on: Gilmour’s Girl (R4) blinkers on: Big Bang Baby (R1); Maidantus (R2); Star Of Tralee (R4); Maidantus (R9) blinkers off: Gilmour’s Girl (R4); Cissy Bowen (R7); Mums Apparition (R9) side Winkers off: Tolarno (R1) side Winkers on: Endorsement (R7); Thebestofyou (R8) bandages on: Viking Ace (R6); Viking Ace (R7) nasal strip off: Big Bang Baby (R1) nasal strip on: Mollycoddled (R3) nose band on: Intercity Girl (R1) nose band off: Gilmour’s Girl (R4) shadow roll off: Maidantus (R2); Maidantus (R9) tongue tie off: Tolarno (R1); Maidantus (R2); Gilmour’s Girl (R4); Maidantus (R9) emerGencies 15 0009 mollycoddled (7) 56.5 Yves Seguin (Cambridge) 16 — callmelou 17 — lasting touch 18 05768 Volcanic activity (11) 58.5 Sharleen Cullen (Te Aroha) 19 0980 kens legacy (9) 56.5 Stephen Curtis (Te Awamutu)

4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

5

satuRday

Fine/Good (3)/True.

thaMes Valley insuRance

nORMans tRanspORt MORRinsville 3.06 20705 63314 0x869 7x916 x7618 43091 0x820 x0585 41038 58358 9x466 00957

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

x7561 22128 — 52x34 x2374 2x668 7x040 20705 36947 39942 x0657

12.40

mahe (5) 58.5 Shelley Hale (Cambridge) King panamera b (10) 58.5 Bruce Wallace (Takanini) in tune (3) 58.5 Stephen McKee (Ardmore) tolarno (1) 58.5 Ben Foote (Byerley Pk Karaka) team pete (8) 58.5 Caroline Pomare (Ardmore Lodge) Snip in time leana me (4) 56.5 George Merkulov (Muriwai Beach) Big Bang Baby (9) 56.5 Scott Wenn (Te Aroha) hot in pink (7) 55 Steven Pinfold (Byerley Pk Karaka) any moolah (2) 55 Fred Cornege (Cambridge) 6x7 intercity girl (11) 55 Peter Lock (Te Rapa) peak hour (6) 55 Danny Walker (Ardmore Lodge)

5x773 47x39 774x6 0x x689x — x8840 x7858 3

Pak n saVe thaMes sPRint

R norvall c lammas s spratt l innes d johnson SCRATCHED m tanaka m wenn V colgan a calder R hutchings (a)

1.15

red Dragon t (3) 59 Peter Lock (Te Rapa) ocean bound (9) 57.5 Ralph Manning (Cambridge) Dancing chief Viking ace (8) 56 Karyn McQuade (Matamata) Designacat (2) 55.5 Richard Collett (Pukekohe) secret Whisper (10) 55.5 Jason Bridgman (Matamata) ted’ll Do (7) 55.5 Shelley Hale (Cambridge) bruce almighty dm (4) 55 Stuart Manning (Tauranga) roamin d (6) 55 Robert Priscott (Te Awamutu) billie Jean king (1) 54 Lisa Anderson (Te Aroha) ellie’o (5) 54 John Sargent (Matamata)

R hutchings (a) l Innes SCRATCHED P turner (a1) a Calder C lammas R norvall M tanaka M Coleman s spratt d Johnson

4.26

00682 00x84 15965 10102 0x000 x7800 2x030 024x2 30056 0x010 44400 52x34 44x32

single minded (3) 60 Graham Richardson (Matamata) s shirahama (a2) Don Domingo (5) 56 Graham Richardson (Matamata) M tanaka old Drumble m (10) 55 Ralph Manning (Cambridge) l Innes Parnell Prince (1) 55 Louise McGregor (Te Aroha) d Johnson cissy bowen (6) 54 Ben Foote (Byerley Pk Karaka) s Collett cat Woman d (12) 54 John Sargent (Matamata) R hutchings (a) natsinga m (4) 54 Lance Noble (Matamata) C lammas oakberry d (9) 54 Ken Davies (Matamata) M Wenn seaflyte dm (2) 54 V & W Hillis (Matamata) a Calder captain marvel td (13) 54 Ralph Manning (Cambridge) s spratt Dancing chief (8) 54 Gregory Graham (Byerley Pk Karaka) R norvall Viking ace (11) 54 Karyn McQuade (Matamata) P turner (a1) endorsement (7) 54 Bruce Wallace (Takanini)

twentyMans funeRal seRviCes

5.06

$8000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1200m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

— 4x62x — 30139 683x1 44413 4x470 x1677 x3620 35634 1078x 3268x 909x5 66670

9

fieldofdreams SCRATCHED newyork bakerboy b (5) 59 P & J McKay (Matamata) M Coleman fastfoot SCRATCHED billy bingo d (10) 58.5 McRae/Clarken (Pukekohe) C lammas Pipeline t (8) 57 Stephen McKee (Ardmore) l Innes thebestofyou d (6) 57 P & D Williams (Byerley Pk Karaka) v Colgan ebony Dream t (7) 57 Scott Wenn (Te Aroha) M Mcnab (a1) snippechee d (9) 56.5 Michael Farmer (Te Aroha) l satherley Pouri chimes (1) 56 McVean/Browne (Cambridge) d Johnson Gold rock (11) 56 John Morell (Te Rapa) M Wenn scud d (12) 56 Shaune Ritchie (Cambridge) M Cheung (a4) msongari (3) 55 P & D Williams (Byerley Pk Karaka) s spratt my mojito t (4) 54.5 Martin Cleland (Cambridge) b hutton (a4) courier d (2) 54.5 Louise Saunders (Pukekohe) J Castano (a4)

thOMsOn antique JewelleRy

5.46

$10,000, rating 75 benchmark, 1000m

tintern b (2) 62.5 G & D Rogerson (Hamilton) vincent mangano dm (5) 59.5 P & J McKay (Matamata) gaston dm (6) 59 G & D Rogerson (Hamilton) Cool Storm d (1) 56.5 Stephen McKee (Ardmore) Cachucha d (3) 54.5 Ralph Manning (Cambridge) maidantus d (7) 54 Scott Wenn (Te Aroha) peridot d (4) 54 P & D Williams (Byerley Pk Karaka)

R hutchings (a) k chiong (a4) V colgan s spratt a calder m wenn d johnson

RichaRd fisheR tRansPORt

1.50

$7000, mdn, 1700m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

3.46

thaMes GOld Cup

$15,000, rating 85 benchmark, 1200m

3

bruce almighty dm (6) 59 Stuart Manning (Tauranga) i chianti tb (12) 59 Ralph Manning (Cambridge) v Colgan carniva boy td (9) 57.5 Bruce Wallace (Takanini) s spratt life’s in a spin (8) 57.5 Glenn Old (Matamata) M Coleman Upstream lad td (2) 57 Moroney/Ormsby (Matamata) seagold d (10) 56 V & W Hillis (Matamata) a Calder skai Glow (3) 55.5 Scott Wenn (Te Aroha) M Wenn all in bluff (11) 55 Stephen McKee (Ardmore) l Innes tralee (5) 54.5 G & D Rogerson (Hamilton) R hutchings (a) belinda’s Girl (7) 54 Terrence Semmens (Takanini) C lammas rosenellis d (1) 54 Conroy/Blair (Te Aroha) P turner (a1) Wake the Guru (4) 54 Steven Pinfold (Byerley Pk Karaka) d Johnson

GOldRidGe MaRine faRMs

8

$7000, mdn, 1000m

x724x 93256 69x79 x6830 61339 300x0 x7086

i chianti tdb (5) 59 Ralph Manning (Cambridge) eastward (6) 58 Chris Wood (Cambridge) M Coleman cops ‘n’ coyote (3) 56.5 R & D Lang (Cambridge) s spratt auspicious (10) 56 John Sargent (Matamata) d Johnson speedy rocket m (1) 55.5 McVean/Browne (Cambridge) R norvall star of tralee (9) 55.5 Stephen McKee (Ardmore) l Innes indy ruler (7) 55.5 Richard Collett (Pukekohe) a Calder lion rock Hill (2) 55.5 Bruce Wallace (Takanini) v Colgan mr chez (11) 55 G & D Rogerson (Hamilton) R hutchings (a) skai Glen (8) 54.5 Scott Wenn (Te Aroha) M Wenn Gilmour’s Girl SCRATCHED Go Paddy m (4) 54 John Steffert (Te Aroha) C lammas

$25,000, opn hcp, 2000m

Weather/track/Rail

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

2.26

$10,000, rating 75 benchmark, 2000m

TAB doubles 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9.

Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9.

Pick6 4-9 $100,000.

Quaddie 6-7-8-9.

2

63314 x4061 8x052 x8935 81750 549x0 3x577 55754 49960 70605 — 48x98

6

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

GRahaMstOwn BaR & dineR

$8000, rating 65 benchmark*, 2000m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

7

1

J Whiteside (a3)

$8000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1700m

thames races thames Jetbet 2

M Mcnab (a1) SCRATCHED SCRATCHED

64825 didgeridoo (6) 58.5 Lesley Munro (Pukekohe) d johnson 0270x Space oddity (1) 58.5 Sharleen Cullen (Te Aroha) R norvall run em anyway (2) 58.5 Caroline Pomare (Ardmore Lodge) l Robertson (a3) — Ceecee SCRATCHED 0590 mcmammal (10) 57 Steven Pinfold (Byerley Pk Karaka) s shirahama (a2) 53569 i’m a taart (16) 56.5 Brian Hedley (Te Aroha) V colgan 05775 hanamichi (15) 56.5 G & D Rogerson (Hamilton) R hutchings (a) lilique (13) 56.5 Louise Saunders (Pukekohe) 00 thxalot (12) 56.5 A J Morley (Waiuku) s collett 24492 jimato (3) 55 John Sargent (Matamata) l innes 07x53 aluka (8) 55 Ernie Griffiths (Te Aroha) s spratt x0584 anyx (5) 55 Graham Richardson (Matamata) a calder 74 rompers (4) 55 Robert Priscott (Te Awamutu) m coleman 0 Keep reiming (14) 55 Andrew Scott (Matamata) c lammas

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

2134x — — 7x020 5241x x7805 42031 11 — 5140x — 779x0 63x09

cracker (3) 58 Peter Lock (Te Rapa) a Calder travino SCRATCHED maidantus SCRATCHED Jungle Joy (5) 56 Antony Fuller (Tauranga) M Wenn la Pinnicle m (7) 55 Peter Lock (Te Rapa) J Whiteside (a3) fieldofdreams d (6) 55 Stephen McKee (Ardmore) cassie may (1) 54.5 David Greene (Te Rapa) s spratt flower bomb td (2) 54.5 P & D Williams (Byerley Pk Karaka) d Johnson madam kirk SCRATCHED sophia (9) 54.5 Laurie Greer (Byerley Pk Karaka) C lammas Pipeline SCRATCHED Phlorum (8) 54 William Muir (Papakura) J Castano (a4) mums apparition d (4) 54 Chris Smith (Te Aroha) l satherley

Thames Selections Race 1: Hot in Pink, KIng PanaMeRa, Mahe Race 2: Vincent manGano, PeRIdot, gaston Race 3: Jimato, dIdgeRIdoo, RoMPeRs Race 4: aUsPicioUs, I ChIantI, CoPs ‘n’ Coyote Race 5: i cHianti, belInda’s gIRl, seagold Race 6: reD DraGon, desIgnaCat, vIKIng aCe Race 7: Don DominGo, PaRnell PRInCe, sIngle MInded Race 8: neWyork bakerboy, PouRI ChIMes, PIPelIne Race 9: cassie may, floWeR boMb, CRaCKeR

woodville-pahiatua races woodville JetBet 3

satuRday

TAB doubles 2-3, 4-5, 6-7.

Trebles 1-2-3, 5-6-7.

Quaddie 4-5-6-7.

weather/track/Rail Overcast/Dead (5)/True.

Gear changes standard bit off: Pescatore (R1); Gemma Lass (R7) standard bit on: Tyne Cot (R7) lugging bit on: Gemma Lass (R7) lugging bit off: Tyne Cot (R7) norton bit off: Footloose (R7) tongue control bit on: Pescatore (R1); Footloose (R7) blinkers on: Forever Dreaming, Pescatore (R1); Perfect Symbol (R5); Classcoroc (R6); Gemma Lass (R7) blinkers off: Funguyhu, Omana (R5) side Winkers on: Wyban Angel (R4); Funguyhu, Handsome Ken, Nova Scotia (R5) cheek burrs off: Jaggard (R3) nose band off: Footloose (R7) nose band on: Tyne Cot (R7) shadow roll on: San Pedro (R4) shadow roll off: Handsome Ken (R5) tongue tie off: Pescatore (R1); Stopover (R7) tongue tie on: Handsome Ken, Sandrascal (R5)

1

MCi & assOCiates spRint

1.03

$7000, mdn, 1400m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

20262 029x8 486x9 076x0 079x 790 670x6 5 — 798x 38x90 384 000 00

2

Pinocchio boy h (7) 58.5 Marty Johnson (Woodville) M dravitzki (a3) my Guy (13) 58.5 Pamela Stenning (Hastings) d Walker authentic rascal (15) 58.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) forever Dreaming (5) 58.5 Garry Burton (Foxton) J Parkes Golden Duo (8) 58.5 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) R hannam Pescatore (14) 58.5 Peter McKenzie (Ohau) Prohibition (6) 58.5 Grant Searle (Awapuni) l allpress turkish Gold (11) 58.5 Grant Searle (Awapuni) d bradley o’ceirins secret (4) 57 Sandie Cookson (Foxton) K Myers SCRATCHED intermission kool return (3) 57 Mark Oulaghan (Awapuni) b lammas tartan red (12) 56.5 Mark Oulaghan (Awapuni) h tinsley third rate romance (2) 56.5 Richard Otto (Te Awamutu) M sweeney Gwynethanne (10) 55 Karen Zimmerman (Otaki) R Myers boots (1) 55 Kevin Gray (Palm.North) Dancing sapphire (9) 55 D M O’Leary (Marton)

CROwley fORGe handiCap

1.38

$8000, 2yo juvenile, 1100m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

65 charlestown (3) 58 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) franzac (7) 58 John Bary (Hastings) Pass it on (6) 58 Roger Allen (Opaki) 5 irish strings (5) 56 Kevin Gray (Palm.North) sanjara (2) 56 Roger Allen (Opaki) celtic Woman (8) 56 John Wheeler (New Plymouth) Hearsay (1) 56 Howie Mathews (Otaki) redline (10) 56 Stephen Gillies (Awapuni) 7 serene star (4) 55 Antony Kaye (Awapuni) 66x the alcippe (9) 55 Stephen Crutchley (Wanganui)

3

R hannam J Riddell h tinsley M dravitzki (a3) R Myers K Myers b lammas v Johnston t Russell l allpress

pRenteRs COnCRete handiCap

2.13

$15,000, opn, 1200m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1x108 27381 100x7 1x141 78830 x118x 1x133 x7298 x2751

4

Princess katie td (8) 59 Kevin Gray (Palm.North) M dravitzki (a3) islington bay d (2) 58.5 Mary Sheely (Rotorua) t harris Jaggard (1) 57.5 Walsh/Gregory (Foxton) h tinsley open ‘n’ shut td (5) 57.5 Chris Wood (Cambridge) K Myers trapiche td (3) 56.5 Richard Otto (Te Awamutu) M sweeney the knight dm (6) 56 John Bary (Hastings) J Riddell special Draw dm (4) 54.5 D & C Bothwell (Stratford) R Myers Queen of the castle tdm (7) 54 Stephen Crutchley (Wanganui) l allpress shesalljazz td (9) 54 Patrick Campbell (Hastings) d bradley

tui BReweRy stayeRs

2.46

$10,000, rating 75 benchmark, 2200m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

97300 51040 x9125 74148 65054 22151 48251 — 0x790

5

san Pedro (1) 59.5 Paul Nelson (Hastings) ngario d (7) 59 Sylvia Kay (Levin) tiberius t (4) 58 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) all in clover m (2) 57 Kevin Gray (Palm.North) the terminator d (5) 57 Roger James (Cambridge) illuminating d (8) 55.5 Paul & Kris Shailer (Awapuni) city chic (6) 55 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Desi Girl Wyban angel t (3) 54 Stephen Gillies (Awapuni)

linCOln lOdGe MetRiC Mile

M dravitzki (a3) M dee (a4) R hannam l allpress d bradley K Myers R Myers SCRATCHED b lammas

3.26

65434 40549 608x5 06756 x887x 0 54272 44 00 3x522 698x4 355x7 57 x658x 070x0 7x6

6

no change (5) 58.5 Paul Nelson (Hastings) mibachelorboy (15) 58.5 Gary Vile (Awapuni) coljoy (13) 58.5 Howie Mathews (Otaki) sartoby (6) 58.5 Vivienne Kaye (Awapuni) funguyhu (14) 58.5 Howard Johnson (Foxton) Handsome ken h (11) 58.5 Shane Brown (Woodville) taipa tiger (1) 57 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) border (4) 57 Robert Patterson (New Plymouth) my magician (9) 57 Gary Vile (Awapuni) shining Pearl b (2) 56.5 Grant Searle (Awapuni) my Pentire (16) 56.5 Gale Julian (Wanganui) Perfect symbol (7) 56.5 Roydon Bergerson (Awapuni) nova scotia h (8) 56.5 Shane Brown (Woodville) thora bob (12) 56.5 Howard Johnson (Foxton) sandrascal (10) 56.5 Daniel Coddington (Waipukurau) omana (3) 55 John Bary (Hastings)

wOOdville-pahiatua Cup

R Myers l allpress d Walker b lammas M sweeney s doyle v Johnston R hannam h tinsley J Parkes d bradley J Riddell a Morgan (a3) K smith K Myers

4.06

$15,000, opn hcp, 1600m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

57217 0x717 84815 31261 05624 71273 x7319 00205

zennista dm (5) 59 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) fairway Wish d (8) 55.5 Karen Zimmerman (Otaki) l’amour dm (4) 54 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) enuffisenuff d (1) 54 John Bary (Hastings) Golden miss dm (6) 54 Mark Oulaghan (Awapuni) Glaizem (2) 54 Robert Patterson (New Plymouth) classcoroc d (3) 54 Graeme Hughes (Te Rapa) seducer (7) 54 Tony Bambry (Awapuni)

Woodville-Pahiatua Selections Race 1: o’ceirins secret, PInoCChIo boy, gWynethanne Race 2: cHarlestoWn, IRIsh stRIngs, CeltIC WoMan Race 3: oPen ‘n’ sHUt, sPeCIal dRaW, shesallJazz Race 4: tHe terminator, CIty ChIC, IlluMInatIng Race 5: sHininG Pearl, no Change, MIbaCheloRboy Race 6: enUffisenUff, l’aMouR, zennIsta Race 7: tyne cot, bRadPIt, antoWnov

J Riddell l allpress K Myers R Myers b lammas R hannam M sweeney J Parkes

GOlden Bay CeMent spRint

4.46

$8000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1400m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

91757 13x03 21x 142 217 1x964 80x62 16 x8840 0x298 99310 4800x 7x507 10x78 07579

Daufino tdmh (8) 59 Shane Brown (Woodville) antownov dm (14) 58 Howie Mathews (Otaki) tyne cot h (10) 58 Neil Connors (Woodville) bradpit (2) 57.5 Robert Patterson (New Plymouth) Veininsky th (3) 57.5 Janna Pettit (Woodville) falzano (12) 57 Allan Sharrock (New Plymouth) stopover (6) 57 Lisa Latta (Awapuni) Gemma lass (1) 56 Trevor Chambers (Foxton) the aftershock d (11) 56 Lisa Latta (Riccarton) Polly flinders (13) 55.5 Stephen Gillies (Awapuni) Joe cool td (9) 55.5 Kevin Gray (Palm.North) footloose (15) 55 Laura Knight (Palmerston North) marie’s boy d (4) 54.5 Paul Pascoe (Hawera) money bags m (5) 54 John Wheeler (New Plymouth) the mailman dm (7) 54 Gary Vile (Awapuni)

M dravitzki (a3) d turner (a4) h tinsley s doyle J Riddell M dee (a4) R hannam J shackleton (a3) R Myers v Johnston l allpress K Myers J Parkes b lammas d bradley

Greymouth races Omoto JetBet 6

satuRday

TAB doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10.

Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10.

Quaddie 7-8-9-10.

weather/track/Rail Showery/Slow (9)/True.

1

COupland’s BakeRy

12.16

$7500, mdn, 1500m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

rate myself (2) 58.5 Sandy Cunningham (Prebbleton) boss Jones (1) 58.5 Ken Harrison (Wanganui) Pompei cat (5) 58.5 Pam Robson (Riccarton) Prince ransom b (11) 57 Michael Pitman (Riccarton) red leader (7) 57 Shaun Clotworthy (Byerley Pk Karaka) sonny ben (10) 57 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) istatadlate (4) 56.5 T & L Prendergast (West Melton) i candy (3) 56.5 Iain Marks (Ashburton) kick back (6) 56.5 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) 7000 skupina (9) 56.5 Peter McKenzie (Ohau) 35743 lady Privateer (8) 55 K & L Rae (Ruakaka)

24762 8l40x 80870 34223 46468 7x 07394 05078

2

GReyMOuth staR

t Moseley R bishop C Johnson

s Wynne (a3) d Walsh K Williams P taylor

12.51

$7500, mdn, 1500m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

2x936 85657 67845 5x 070 08x02 85250 08x0 64800

3

Google me b (3) 58.5 Kennedy/Furlong (Riccarton) back burner (5) 58.5 Pam Robson (Riccarton) individual (2) 58.5 Centaine Spittles (Woodend Beach) flynn (4) 58.5 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) steel battle (1) 58.5 Shane Laming (Prebbleton) st D’ore (7) 57 Shaun Clotworthy (Byerley Pk Karaka) lady lunchalot (10) 56.5 Danny Crozier (Riccarton) Peit rox (8) 56.5 Kelly Burne (Hastings) Hula Grace (6) 56.5 Don Fuge (Tauherenikau) old Gold (9) 56.5 Michael Pitman (Riccarton) zurich (11) 55 Kevin Myers (Wanganui)

kells hOtel

C barnes (a3) R bishop K Williams d Walsh t Moseley b Pitman (a2) R black (a3) C Johnson a frye (a3)

1.26

$12,000, rating 85 benchmark, 1500m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

82245 12218 11000 32005 30356 162x7 43022 31096

4

Vintner m (1) 60 Michael Pitman (Riccarton) C Johnson micken m (7) 58.5 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) d Walsh kalgoorlie bomber tm (2) 58 Frank Stammers (Tauherenikau) l Mcgregor Josephine m (3) 57 Peter McKenzie (Ohau) K Williams redfern (4) 56 Michael Pitman (Riccarton) b Pitman (a2) our mona lisa m (5) 54 Michael Pitman (Riccarton) P shaikh (a4) sylvie’s Dream (8) 54 Kennedy/Furlong (Riccarton) C barnes (a3) Werio m (6) 54 Sean Cameron (Waiuku) R bishop

ReCReatiOn hOtel

2.01

$8000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1500m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

1030x 73790 6137x 43085 439x0 0x10x 4P5x4 465x0 56303 008x5 40x80

5

Windswept mb (5) 59 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) d Walsh barbara Jennie (3) 58.5 Centaine Spittles (Woodend Beach) K Williams edenbrae (1) 57.5 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) miss marbella (7) 57 G & T Shaw (Waiuku) a frye (a3) fly my Pretty (11) 56.5 Sarah Haisma (Rangiora) l Mcgregor Hailes abbey m (9) 56.5 Virginia Mackle (Ashworth Beach) C Johnson classic kanga tdm (10) 56.5 K & L Rae (Ruakaka) P taylor red magic (2) 56 Danny Crozier (Riccarton) t Moseley Waiting (4) 55.5 Lisa Latta (Riccarton) tallyho tui (8) 55 Sarah Haisma (Rangiora) s Wynne (a3) seasoned Gem (6) 54 Gray Eatwell (Hokitika) R black (a3)

JaCk CuRRaGh MeMORial

2.36

$10,000, rating 75 benchmark, 1500m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

6

$7000, mdn, 1600m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

7

3R44x 66x74 1228x x98x7 7194x 31096 0x000 10039 —

malachite dm (3) 59 Peter McKenzie (Ohau) d Walsh treat (2) 58.5 Michael Pitman (Riccarton) b Pitman (a2) electronic motion m (5) 58.5 Aaron Taylor (Riccarton) K Williams blue Grass (6) 57 Peter Rudkin (Riccarton) P taylor asworthy m (1) 56.5 Shaun Clotworthy (Byerley Pk Karaka) Werio m (4) 56 Sean Cameron (Waiuku) R bishop livana t (8) 55.5 J & K Parsons (Balcairn) slick nickel m (7) 54 Centaine Spittles (Woodend Beach) C spittles SCRATCHED sylvie’s Dream

BnZ Maiden

3.16

$7500, 2yo&up, 1100m 1 3260x you’re in luck (16) 58.5 Steven Woodsford (Rangiora) t Moseley 2 yipson (8) 57 Kevin Myers (Wanganui) d Walsh 3 x8235 Quality street (4) 56.5 Kelly Burne (Hastings) b Pitman (a2) 4 48755 Jazz after Dark (14) 56.5 Sharon Robertson (Riccarton) P taylor 5 4x Hedge your bet (1) 56.5 T & L Prendergast (West Melton) 6 47646 Princess ana (15) 56.5 Shaun Clotworthy (Byerley Pk Karaka) 7 Hollywood Halo (6) 56.5 Danny Frye (Balcairn) a frye (a3) 8 5054 Perfection (12) 55 Michael Pitman (Riccarton) P shaikh (a4) 9 448x8 singapore Girl (5) 55 Iain Marks (Ashburton) s Wynne (a3) 10 6 rubysmyne (13) 55 G & T Shaw (Waiuku) C Johnson emerGencies 11 mr chou (10) 57 Kennedy/Furlong (Riccarton) 12 0x raggio speranza h (9) 56.5 Joy Dense (Omoto) 13 0x9x silver spur (2) 55 K & L Rae (Ruakaka) R bishop 14 089x Deny Deny (3) 58.5 Jackie Burrows (Riccarton) 15 67845 individual (11) 58.5 Centaine Spittles (Woodend Beach) 16 7000 skupina (7) 56.5 Peter McKenzie (Ohau)

7

paRklane deCORatORs

3.56

$7500, mdn 2yo&up, 1100m 1 60804 short black (16) 58.5 Pam Robson (Riccarton) 2 58x Homeland (1) 58.5 Shaun Clotworthy (Byerley Pk Karaka) 3 anutha Hula (12) 57 Don Fuge (Tauherenikau) 4 spurs are on (15) 57 Bruce Smith (Amberley)

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• Delaney to play Scott

Ashburton shooters lining up for the nationals (from left) John Miller, Coby Snowden, Brian Hawksby, Peter Newman and John Fleming.

Absent John Snowden and Darian Miller.

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Mid Canterbury’s magnificent seven

By Jonathan Leask The sharpest shots in town are going up against the best in country.

Mid Canterbury’s magnificent seven of John and Coby Snowden, John and Darian Miller, John Fleming, Peter Newman and Brian Hawksby are making the annual trip to Trentham for the National Championships, which will be get-

ting under way on January 8.

The Ballinger Belt is the New Zealand’s national fullbore shooting championship title, and the oldest sporting contest dating back to 1861.

It is also a trophy that has managed to elude John Snowden, a gold medallist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

John is on track for the 2016 Glasgow games, sitting on top of

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the ladder after three rounds of qualifying with another round the week after the nationals.

He is in good form, but having come so close before he knows that it takes four good days to win the belt.

Last year Snowden was on target for a maiden belt win heading into the final day before gale force winds over the longer distances made things a little tricky and one poor round proved costly.

However, John didn’t walk away empty-handed as a strong final round saw him take the Hadden Donald Final 900 Rifle Challenge Cup for the best final round.

This year he will again aim to finally win the elusive belt.

The other six shooters may not be eyeing up the belt but out to better last year’s efforts.

There isn’t just the Ballinger Belt up for grabs, with an international

shoot against Australia on Monday where John Snowden will be the New Zealand wind-coach.

John and Darian Miller, Peter Newman and Coby Snowden will line up for the South Island in the North versus South match the same day.

The entire week will be great practice for Darian and Coby who will be travelling to South Africa in April with the New Zealand women’s team to compete in the tri-nations event.

“This tri-nation event only occurs every three years and we are thrilled to be selected,” Coby said. “We have both put in a lot of work with the national coaches so we’re in good form.”

They have all been squeezing in as much time on the range as possible, and get another hit-out prior to the nationals with the shooters competing in the Wellington Championships on the Sunday before the nationals start Monday.

Danny Delany capped a spectacular run by defeating seventime champion Rowan Brassey in the semi-finals of the men’s singles at the national bowls championships in New Plymouth yesterday. The Onehunga bowler will now meet 2011 champion Shaun Scott (North East Valley) in the final this morning at the Paritutu Bowling Club, and Scott will need something special to disrupt Delany’s form. The women’s singles final will follow the men’s and will feature local bowler Val McEldowney (New Plymouth) and former New Zealand representative Reen Stratford (Birkenhead).

The men’s and women’s pairs finals will be played in the afternoon, with Black Jacks Ali Forsyth and Matthew Gallop (Composite) facing Rob Ashton and Barclay Lee (Composite) in the men’s before Mandy and Angela Boyd (Composite) play Sandra Keith and Serena Matthews (Dunsandel) for the women’s title.

- APNZ

• Wickmayer on form Yanina Wickmayer’s love affair with Auckland is showing no signs of dimming, with the 23-year-old Belgian within a match of a third ASB Classic final in four years. To get there she’ll have to get past German surprise package Mona Barthel, who has progressed through to the semi-finals with equal ease.

The Belgian holds a 2-1 advantage in meetings between the pair, however the scars from their last meeting - a crushing 6-1 6-2 victory to Barthel in the final at Hobart last season - are still fresh. “She can hit winners from all over the court. There aren’t many secrets there. She’s kicking arses out there.” Both players have overpowered their opponents so far in this tournament.

Top seed Agnieszka Radwanska also breezed through, defeating Russian Elena Vesnina 6-3 6-3 in a match interrupted by a 90-minute rain delay. - APNZ

• Black Caps battling As the Guardian went to print the Black Caps had captured five South African wickets, in the first session of day two of the first test, and the South Africans had amassed 321 runs, a lead of 276 runs, leaving them in a powerful position to dictate how the rest of the match would play out.

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Keith facing tough final

By Myles Hume Ashburton bowler Sandra Keith and women’s pairs partner Serena Matthews fought their way back from an eight point deficit to break their way into the final at the national bowls championships in New Plymouth yesterday.

In a close encounter, the duo, in their Dunsandel colours, ousted Tauranga South’s Mary Campbell and Robyn Davis 16-15 in the semi-final after cruising past Mere Fryer and Ra Walker, from Northern, in the quarterfinal earlier in the day.

They will face Mandy and Angela Boyd in the final later today.

Keith admitted she and her partner, who joined forces only a year ago, were on the cusp of defeat, however a string of fortune put the pair back in the running for the final, where they will now hope to walk out the gates of the Left: Mandy Boyd in action yesterday.

She will be up against Ashburton’s Sandra Keith in today’s pairs final.

Alex set to take on the big guns

The Black Caps were bundled out for 45 in their first innings in Cape Town on Wednesday night.

Where does that rank in cricket history?

- The Black Caps’ score of 45 is New Zealand’s third worst in test cricket and the 12th worst in test history.

- It is New Zealand’s lowest total since the 1946 side were bowled out for just 42 against Australia at the Basin Reserve.

- It is the worst team total in all of test cricket in the last 39 years since India scored 42 in 1974.

- It is New Zealand’s lowest ever against South Africa.

- The Black Caps batted for just 19.2 overs and 100 minutes - their shortest innings of all time.

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total is 26 against England in 1955, however that side batted for 27 overs.

- According to Cricinfo it was the shortest innings by a side after winning the toss and deciding to bat in 116 years.

Australia were bowled out in 22.3 five-ball overs against England in 1896.

- It was the 23rd time in test cricket that New Zealand has failed to pass 100, and the fifth time since 2002. Chris Martin has played in four of those five innings - scoring a total of zero runs.

Ashburton Forecast TOMORROW: Fine and warm. Northeasterlies.

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Who said it?

“When we started, it was based on lies. It’s changing now.

There are no secrets in the business. You’ve got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It’s becoming very confusing.”

Today’s sports trivia question

Who played in the first Netball World Championships in 1963, was player of the tournament in 1967, and was captain in 1971?

Give us your caption ...

- Brendon McCullum played in three of those matches.

- Kane Williamson was the only batsman to reach double figures, and he topscored for New Zealand with 13.

It’s only the 30th time in test cricket where 10 of the 11 batsmen failed to reach double-figures.

- Williamson was also the only batsman to spend more than 30 minutes out in the middle.

- The Black Caps scored just five boundaries.

- In reply, three of the South African batsmen easily passed New Zealand’s total on day one of the test Alviro Petersen (103 not out), Hashim Amla (66), Jacques Kallis (60).

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Riding alongside some of the biggest names in New Zealand Cycling will be the perfect platform to catapult himself and other local riders towards a nationals berth, says Tinwald cyclist Alex Hooper.

Along with seven other riders from the Tinwald club, the 17-year-old will embark on Christchurch’s Denton Park Oval this weekend where the young cyclist will come up against some of the country’s hottest talent at the Canterbury Track Cycling Carnival.

Star cyclists Michael Vink and Olympian riders Shane Archbold and Marc Ryan are among the big names Hooper hopes to come up against, looking to crack into the men’s A grade races.

“I don’t know if I will make the grade, it will be interesting because all the top guys will be getting ready for the elite (road) nationals and they’ll be in great form.

“I’m a month out from my peak,” Hooper said.

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Paritutu Bowling Club with trophy in hand.

It would cap off a remarkable season for Keith, who won the World Champion of Champions singles title in Cyprus last year, but bailed out in an underwhelming performance in her bid to retain her national title last week.

However, she was not celebrating just yet.

“It would be absolutely fantastic (to win today) but I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, our whole plan has been to take it game by game and that’s what we’ll be doing,” she said.

“It’ll be a great game tomorrow (today), the Boyd girls are going pretty good . . . but I think we will go well as a pair and I know we are capable of beating them,” she said.

“She’s (Serena) there when I’m usually and vice-versa so we work pretty well together.

“Our draws have been going really well and 90 per cent of our shots are drawn so if we keep doing what we are doing we should be in the running,” she said.

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Sitting on the back wheel and being dragged along by the high speed of the professional riders is something the young rider is relishing.

“I reckon it’s going to be awesome coming up against these guys, I’ve raced against Shane Archbold before but there are more big names this year so it’s going to be completely different.”

Hooper will be looking to join fellow riders Daniel Rafferty and Frances Smith, among others, at the Hornby meet, all hoping to make their way to Invercargill at the end of the month where the Track National championships will be held on January 31.

Tinwald Cycling Club president and Alex’s father Rob Hooper said it was an ideal opportunity for the local riders to build some form and experience.

“It will be a big thrill for them, it’s just a big opportunity to watch these guys ride and also getting out there and seeing these guys compete alongside them,” Rob Hooper said.

The races will be from 6pm on Friday and Saturday nights.

Right: Alex Hooper, ready to battle some big names of New Zealand cycling this weekend.

By Myles Hume

From the sideline

A few showers. Winds mainly southerly.

A ridge recedes to the North Island tomorrow, while a trough moves from the southwest onto TUESDAY southern New Zealand. The trough spreads over the rest of the country on Sunday, and moves Few showers clearing and southerlies dying off to the east on Monday. out.

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MONDAY A few showers, mostly about the foothills.

Winds becoming light at low levels, and tending lighter southerly about the tops.

TUESDAY Becoming fine. Northwesterlies developing.

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