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Right – Large bags of flour (right) were in short supply on shelves at Ashburton New World yesterday.

House prices slow to rise

Below right – Limiting hand sanitiser has not stopped it selling out at Countdown Ashburton South.

Below left – Gaps on the toilet paper shelves at Countdown Ashburton South yesterday reflect a worldwide trend.

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Mid Cantabrians catch panic-buying bug

By Susan Sandys

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Coronavirus is nowhere near pandemic levels in New Zealand, but many people have caught the panic-buying bug.

Yesterday large bags of flour were in short supply at Ashburton New World, and there appears to be no hand sanitiser on shelves at either Countdown or New World.

And of course, there are gaps on the toilet paper shelves.

Countdown New Zealand general manager merchandise Steve Mills said there was plenty of food and toilet paper available across the country and there was no need for customers to stockpile.

“We work with some great local suppliers who are manufac-

turing toilet paper right here in New Zealand, and our suppliers are confident there is plenty to go around. We have a lot of stock coming through the network and going into stores each day.”

Countdown was working with its suppliers to manage the increased demand for hand sanitiser, which was in high demand globally, and limit it to two per

customer.

Foodstuffs head of corporate affairs Antoinette Laird said shopper behaviour had largely returned to normal following last weekend’s flurry of activity.

“We continue to encourage customers to shop normally, our teams have everything in hand and if people purchase as usual there are no issues,” she said.

Compared to may parts of New Zealand, the Ashburton District has been something of a sleepy hollow over the past year in terms of growth in house prices.

Sales values have shifted just 2.8 per cent since February 2019 compared to many areas south of Ashburton where price growth has been well over 10 per cent.

The slowest spot in the south, however, has been the country’s price star, Queenstown Lakes, where prices have shifted less than 1 per cent.

In February, the average value of a house sold in the Ashburton District was $366,408.

Along with Queenstown and Ashburton, Selwyn was the other low price growth spot in the South Island.

Peninsular and coastal Dunedin at 21.4 per cent and Invercargill, 19.3 per cent, saw the strongest price lift over the past year in the South Island.

In line with stronger growth in areas with traditionally lower average sales prices, the greatest lift in North Island prices came in Whanganui, 29.1 per cent and Rangitikei, 31.9 per cent.

Eleven areas of New Zealand now have an average house price that tops $1 million, with Auckland city east the most expensive place to buy at $1.568 million.

The only million dollar price patches outside the greater Auckland area are Wellington west at $1.011 million and Queenstown Lakes at $1.212 million.

The average selling price for a house in New Zealand in February was $722,475, up 5.3 per cent on February 2019.

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Led astray with bird flu leaflets

By Susan Sandys

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Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon was surprised to be given a bird flu leaflet from 2014 when he arrived off a plane from Singapore.

He said health officials have been handing out the advisory leaflets to alighting international passengers at airports this week.

“What’s clear from the leaflets is that they’re not related to COVID-19 at all,” Falloon said.

As well as him receiving one as he landed at Christchurch Airport on Saturday, a contact of his had received one upon landing in Auckland on Thursday night.

From the date on the leaflets of August 2014, they were printed when there was an outbreak of bird flu in China, and listed symptoms match up with bird flu rather than coronavirus, he noted.

For example they advise passengers to seek medical advice if they have bruising or bleeding, or a skin rash.

“The danger is that people coming in with coronavirus will read the leaflet with the incorrect symptoms and think they don’t have it,” he said.

Falloon granted that much of the response to coronavirus from health officials had been “good”.

“The 14-day isolation programmes they’ve been running have helped keep the number of infections and incursions low compared to other countries,” he said.

“But recycling leaflets which describe different symptoms and an entirely different disease is downright dangerous. It needlessly increases the risk of spreading coronavirus all for the sake of the cost of some new leaflets.”

And while the leaflet has the Healthline phone number, it omits Healthline’s dedicated coronavirus number, established last month, of 0800 358 5453.

Health Minister David Clark was questioned by National’s Health spokesperson Michael Woodhouse in Parliament about the issue this week, but rejected the claim.

Yesterday morning Clark’s office referred the Guardian to the Ministry of Health for comment, but the ministry was not able to get back by deadline late yesterday afternoon.

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Rubbish removal makeover for Ashton Beach

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Ashton Beach had a rubbish removal makeover yesterday, thanks to 40 Ashburton Borough School pupils.

Ashburton Borough School teacher John Hooper said the school made it their mission to rid the beach of rubbish as part their learning around Kaitiakitanga, which means guardianship and protection of the environment.

“The first week in March is Sea Week, so that’s a nice fit for this project. Along with this we also run a poetry competition with a sea environmental theme too,” Hooper said.

“We have been coming here for around 15 years now and I think we have only missed doing it once or twice in all that time. The

students are learning to look after their environment and the community also wins through having a litter-free area to enjoy.”

High on the list of rubbish collected was all kinds of plastic, with beer bottles and broken glass coming in a close second.

Hooper said the plastic items had blown down to the beach from the nearby Ashburton Riverbed.

Plastic wrap, general packaging and fizzy drink containers were the main culprits.

The general consensus among the students and their seven parent helpers was there seemed to be a lot more old car parts, including a burned-out car, and waste metal, than in previous years.

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Being environmentally conscious at Ashburton Borough doesn’t stop when they leave the beach for the recycling station, it’s a year-round thing.

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green-gold enviroschool and has a greenie club that meets every Thursday lunchtime. Not limited to the senior school, the greenie club is open to all, from new entrants up to Year 8.

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a leader of the greenie club, said the club also awards a shield to the person who has been part of doing things during the week.

“It could be collecting rubbish in a local riverbed or cleaning up the yard at home,” she said.

Three other greenie shields are given out at the school via the greenie club.

The power shields, a senior and junior award, go to the class that saved the most power, with the leaf shield going to the class that has done the best job sorting their rubbish and recycling bins.

Hooper is passionate about the environment and said he is proud of the student-led programmes at the school and how they set their attendees up for a lifetime of caring about the natural world around them.

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PALS Support Group for Mid Canterbury facilitator Bronnie McKenna (left) and PILLARS founder Verna McFelin at the support group launch on Wednesday evening.

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Support for families of prisoners

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A local support group for families of prisoners has been established by a woman who found no support when her son was arrested and immediately placed in prison.

The PALS Support Group for Mid Canterbury was officially launched on Wednesday evening at a gathering of local community group leaders.

The group has been started for family, friends and other “frontline” people that have a connection with someone in prison to get support and guidance in a non-judgemental and friendly environment.

Facilitator Bronnie McKenna shared her story about her son being in the corrections system and how in the days following his arrest, she was unable to find help from anywhere, including a helpline that turned her down saying they do not assist families of prisoners. She eventually turned to social media to find answers for the questions she had.

What she found, however, was a negative area that blamed the system and lacked respect.

“The number one focus for us is to respect the victims and their families and the corrections system,” she said.

“It is not just a way to slag off the system.”

At the launch, PILLARS founder Verna McFelin, who set the groundwork for groups like this, spoke about what the organisation she founded more than 30 years ago does around supporting families and children impacted by having at least one parent in the corrections system.

“We know on any one day there are around 23,000 children nationwide that have at least one parent in prison,” she said.

McFelin said those children are 10 times more likely to end up in prison than other children, often experience mental health issues and do not speak about the experience of having a parent in prison for fear of being bullied and ostracised.

She said the impact of having a parent in the corrections system can start right from the point of the arrest and for that reason PILLARS is currently working with police in North Canterbury around protocols for what to do

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when children are present when they are arresting someone.

“I spoke with my 40-year-old daughter the other day, she was eight or 10 at the time of my husband’s arrest and she hid under the bed and I had to drag her from under there,” she said.

“When talking to her about it she couldn’t remember it at all, she had wiped it from her mind and it is traumatic.”

PILLARS also runs a mentoring programme with children of prisoners, with volunteer mentors pairing up with the children for a minimum of one year to help try and break the cycle of children of prisoners being more likely to end up in prison themselves.

“We have had 2000 children through the mentoring programme and, so far, only four have ever come to the attention of the police,” she said.

“The mentors have to sign on for a minimum of a year, but they average around three-and-a-half years because they love those kids.”

PILLARS also runs a number of services in corrections facilities across the country for helping parents on the inside learn best

how to connect with their children on visits.

There is also a helpline available that provides support and advice, and a website for children to use that walks them through a prison and answers any questions they may have about it.

The organisation also conducted a large-scale survey in the early 2010s and from that has developed a number of resources, including a best practice manual and a number of toolkits for professionals on how to deal with families and children with a family member in prison.

“We have a school toolkit that can equip teachers for how to deal with children that have a parent in prison,” she said. “We also have one for lawyers.

“There is also a checklist for doctors and health professionals as we have often found that needs of the children are not being met when they are in situations like this and we advocate them getting full health check-ups.”

The first PALS support group session will be held at the BASE Youth Centre on Burnett Street on March 16.

McKenna said they chose that

location as it was a nice casual setting for people to enjoy a cuppa and a chat and they could bring their children with them if they were not able to arrange childcare.

McKenna, who is a restorative justice facilitator, hoped the word spread about the group as much as possible as it was difficult to identify families that were impacted. They were often quiet about it due to the shame associated with having a loved one in prison, while services like corrections were unable to give exact numbers of families impacted.

“We believe there are tens of families impacted and we are working on the idea that there are between 30 and 50 families in the district,” she said.

The group has been launched thanks to a grant of $8000 from Advance Ashburton and their executive officer Sandy Wood said they were amazed at the need for the group in Ashburton and were more than happy to support it.

Anyone looking to find out more information about the group and what they do can contact McKenna at sefop@outlook. com.

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The world through a TV camera lens

By Heather Mackenzie

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B

ig city, lots happening, that’s how former Mount Hutt College student Daniel Pannett views life in London.

Based in the English capital, Pannett has spent the past 12 months carting his camera gear around Europe, working alongside Newshub’s Europe correspondent Lloyd Burr, filming globally significant news stories or those with a New Zealand twist for TV3.

Pannett’s journey to London began way back in 2009, set in motion by spending two years studying TV production at what was referred to then as the Christchurch Aoraki Polytech.

While on the course, Pannett was lucky enough to be offered work experience with TV3. That mean going out with film crews, carrying tripods and generally doing what he was told. He is grateful for this chance as it provided him with a foot in the door at the TV station that would lead on to bigger things down the track.

2012 rolled around and Pannett got a job working for the Christchurch-based business Broadcast Media. This job was yet another major milestone moment in his career. Pannett attributes much of his present success to what he learned working for company owners Joe and Angela Morgan.

Broadcast Media is a production company, covering news and current affairs, as well as making corporate videos and TV shows. A big part of the job was covering breaking news like fires, snowstorms and car accidents — a steep learning curve for the young camera operator.

Pannett knows the value of learning from being in the field and the experience to be gained through coming into contact with unique situations and dealing with all sorts of different people.

“I learnt so much from Joe and I think it is so important when you are starting out to have someone like that who can just coach you through all the little things that are impossible to

Newshub cameraman Daniel Pannett (left) and reporter Lloyd Burr on the hallowed turf of Lords Cricket ground prior to covering the 2019 Cricket World Cup final for TV3. learn in the classroom.”

In 2015 Pannett left Broadcast Media and Christchurch to take up a fulltime cameraman position with TV3’s Newshub based out of Wellington. No longer just carrying tripods and staying out of the way, Pannett proved himself to be an accomplished camera operator and in 2019 TV3 offered him the “Europe camera gig” as he calls it.

Things can get pretty hectic for team Pannett and Burr because they cover all of the United Kingdom and Europe for Newshub. It is up to them to make sure they cover all relevant stories. Pannett says the key to not missing anything is planning well in advance.

“We cover lots of sport, politics, the royal family etc, but we also do a lot of planning. Looking ahead a few months at a time, making sure we are not missing anything that is coming up.”

Planning is not only vital for

covering the events themselves, but to guarantee Pannett and Burr access when they get there, as it’s up to them to apply for media accreditation and book flights, accommodation and transport.

Hopping around Europe filming famous people and world-changing events sounds all very exciting and, to a certain extent, Pannett admits is it, however, the flipside of the job is long days, dealing with different time zones and broken sleep.

“Because of the time zones, our live crosses back to NZ for Newshub live at 6pm are at 5am UK time, which can be tough especially in a London winter.”

“Our days would usually involve shooting a story during the day, then edit, send the story off, get some sleep and then up at 3.30am to head to our live cross position wherever it may be, depending on the story. It could be outside Downing Street or

Westminster or outside Buckingham palace or wherever we may be around the UK or Europe.”

Due to the amount of time he and Burr have to spend in each other’s company, Pannett knows it is vital to get along.

He said they spend a lot of time together working and travelling, all on very little sleep, and if you couldn’t communicate properly it just wouldn’t work.

Thankfully that is not the case for the Newshub team, as they knew each other before Pannett landed in London.

“We were great mates before I moved here as we worked in Wellington together. We haven’t had a fight over here yet.”

Of course it’s not all 3am starts and eating 2-minute noodles on the run. Pannett has certainly experienced many once-in-alifetime moments during the past 12 months.

Being live and up close at monumental events like Meghan

and Harry’s wedding, the 75th D-Day anniversary and the fire at Notre Dame in Paris is all mind-boggling stuff, but Pannett reckons his career highlight to date is still remains flying to America to cover the 2016 election of President Trump.

“Patrick Gower and I spent a few weeks in Cleveland and Philadelphia for the Republican and Democratic conventions.”

Gower and Pannett then went back a few months later for the November election. While there the pair took off on road trips around Florida and Pennsylvania, attending a few Trump and Clinton rallies.

“It was pretty incredible to be in America during that time.”

Pannett still has another 12 months to go on his European contract. What happens after that he’s not too sure.

“I will see what happens, but will keep doing what I am doing at this stage.”

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Dave Brown in his home-built motorhome.

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Not quite a Lotto win, but it’ll do

By Heather Mackenzie

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Dave Brown, from Waikouaiti, was among the hundreds of campervan owners attending the Ashburton Motorhome Show last weekend.

Knowing the large Ashburton event was the place to sell his selfbuilt campervan, Brown threw a few vital bits and pieces in the van and headed north for the three day show.

After finding his spot at the Ashburton A&P Showgrounds on Friday, he knew the next thing on

his to-do-list was to purchase a Lotto ticket. The thought of winning $50 million was just too hard to ignore.

Setting off on his e-bike Brown arrived at 6.05pm to find the shop had closed at 6pm. Long story short it took another two trips to fins a Lotto outlet before he finally held a potentially winning ticket in his hand.

“After all those trips into the town to get the Lotto ticket I didn’t win anyway, I should have stayed in the van and saved myself the trouble.”

Brown’s dream of a $50 million lifestyle for him and his wife Reywa may not have worked out, but there was good news, when a couple from Ashburton agreed to buy his van.

“I had a feeling they wanted to buy it when they first looked at it on Saturday, so it wasn’t a big surprise when they came back in Sunday and said ‘yes’.”

Selling something you built and designed yourself and travelled over 10,000km a year in is bound to cause a mixture of emotions, however Brown said he and Rey-

wa had agreed a caravan was a better option heading into the future and, yes, Brown has built it himself.

Brown, a keen fisherman, said that he can quite happily spend 13 hours a day on a riverbank, but his wife Reywa doesn’t share his enthusiasm, so she needs an independent vehicle to head off and explore the surroundings.

“I will be sad to see it go, but we have decided that a caravan and attached car will suit our needs better now.”

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are getting a well set-out campervan. Over the eighteen months it took Brown to complete the build he thought of everything, from the large, water-sealed shower to the nearly 2m high roof and a large gas-operated fridge, nothing was overlooked.

For Brown one of the most important things in the van is a comfortable, good sized bed.

“In the last van we had the bed was a three-quarter one and it was too small for us and once the dog decided he need to be on the bed too, nobody got any sleep.”

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Former Greens Party leader dies unexpectedly

By RNZ Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has died after suffering a “massive stroke” in hospital after a fall on her Coromandel farm on Thursday morning.

As tributes flow from across the political landscape, Fitzsimons’ husband, Harry Parke, said her death was totally unexpected.

“Yesterday [Thursday} morning she was out on the farm doing stuff, she had a bit of a fall and finally ended up in Thames Hospital where she had a massive stroke and died at 9.45pm last night – very peacefully I might add.

“The day before, she was using a chainsaw – that’s the sort of person she is. She worked a lot harder than I ever did. I was totally in awe of her.

“Fortunately we both had very much the same convictions about what needed changing in the planet and we had a very close relationship.”

Fitzsimons became the co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in 1995, and when the party joined the Alliance led

by Jim Anderton’s New Labour Party, she took on the deputy leadership role.

After the first MMP election in 1996, she entered Parliament as a list MP for the Alliance but it wasn’t long before strains appeared in the grouping.

She felt herself left out of its decision-making and the Green Party itself was increasingly unhappy with the Alliance’s direction.

The agreement to send New Zealand troops to Afghanistan in the United States-led so-called war on terror was a step too far for the Greens and they left the Alliance.

Fitzsimons won the Coromandel seat for the Greens in 1999, the country’s first elected Green MP and was disappointed when she lost it in the following election, although the party remained in Parliament due to its party vote.

Former Green Party leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.

She and her co-leader Rod Donald were strong influences in the change in public perception of the party as a group of sandal-wearing tree-huggers.

Parke said Fitzsimons was “instrumental” in getting the Green Party up and running in the 1990s.

More recently, her focus had been on climate change.

“She fought really hard to get people to accept you can’t keep growing the economy and stop climate change. It just seems people don’t want to hear that.”

Fitzsimons was known for never raising her voice in the House and never responding to barbs thrown around in Parliament.

“She strongly believed that never got you anywhere, that all it did was take the focus off the subject you were talking about and your energy needed to be totally on what you were trying to achieve. I think she held that up admirably,” Parke said.

“She never let her emotions get in the way of what needed to be said and what needed to be done.

“She totally lived her convictions and there was no way that anyone could say she didn’t live up to what she was saying.”

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In 2018, she addressed the Green Party’s two-day annual meeting, and later told reporters what the Green Party had achieved after 10 months in Government was impressive but the caucus should be careful not to get the “speed wobbles”.

“James’ [Shaw’s] account of what has been achieved by three and a half ministers in Government is pretty impressive and I’m delighted by the portfolios we got and the work the ministers are doing,” she said.

“There’s always the risk at this stage of getting the speed wobbles. There’s always a tension between keeping the Government going smoothly and getting a lot of achievements from ministerial work and staying true to our original kaupapa.”

But Fitzsimons said the Greens’ support for the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill was a low point.

“It’s wrong, it denies MPs’ basic freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of thought. It’s contrary to the Bill of Rights and i’s contrary to our policy.”

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Fitzsimons was a “steward of

the New Zealand environmental political movement”.

“During her 14 years in Parliament she was an early voice for action on issues now considered mainstream like climate change, the deteriorating state of our water and clean energy.”

Ardern noted that Fitzsimons once polled as the most trustworthy party leader in New Zealand – “a fitting endorsement of her kind, caring and passionate brand of politics”.

“New Zealand has lost someone completely and utterly driven by values, who embodied the notion of leaving this place better than they found it. Jeanette did that.”

In a statement, the Green Party said it was mourning Fitzsimons with the “heaviest of hearts”.

Its co-leader Marama Davidson said Fitzsimons was “a taonga of the green movement”.

“To me, she feels like a bastion of what we believe in, and a signpost for what we want for this world.”

Davidson said Fitzsimons left behind a remarkable legacy.

Fitzsimons was the first female co-leader of the Green Party.

Green Party co-leader James Shaw said Fitzsimons was the person who embodied the different style of politics that the Greens had always stood for.

“She was never about personality politics; she was driven by what was the right thing to do.”

Fellow former Green Party MP Mojo Mathers tweeted this morning: “My heart is breaking, and the tears are falling. Jeanette, thank you so much for everything you have done, for standing so staunch and strong for the planet.

We will miss you so much.”

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters said on Twitter he was “very sad” to hear of Fitzsimons’ death.

“She was someone who had her principles and stuck to them.”

Fitzsimons was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2010.

Dunedin doctor sentenced to 19 years in jail NZME The doctor who murdered Dunedin teen Amber-Rose Rush has been sentenced to 19 years in jail without parole.

Venod Skantha was sentenced at the High Court in Dunedin yesterday afternoon for Rush’s murder.

On November 27 last year, a High Court jury found 32-year-old Skantha guilty of murdering Rush.

He was also found guilty of four charges of threatening to kill – related to the Crown’s star witness against him.

Rush’s father Amber-Rose Shane spoke outside court after the sentencing.

“It’s pretty hard to say but the

family would like to say thank you to the judge, the prosecution, and to everybody,” he said.

“The life sentence is not what we would have asked for – we would have asked for more, but it is what it is.

“From all of us we’d like to thank the country ... myself and my children will just go on and be strong together.”

Crown lawyer Robin Bates pushed for a minimum of 19 to 21 years imprisonment at yesterday’s sentencing.

He told the court the murder was committed in an attempt to avoid detection or prosecution.

“Murder was essentially a means of silencing Amber – to stop her making reports to police

and his employers.”

But defence lawyer Jonathan Eaton says Skantha maintains his innocence.

“He extends his sincerest condolences to the Rush family – as he did at the time of her death.”

Eaton says Skantha will be appealing his sentence on the basis there’s been a miscarriage of justice.

Justice Gerald Nation says the murder was particularly callous – and he would take this into account in the sentence.

“All murders are callous to a degree … [but you] burned your clothes and toasted marshmallows over the flames, then feigned sorrow to her mother.

“But that’s not what made it cal-

lous to a high level. What made it callous to a high level is the efficient and clinical way Amber-Rose was killed – together with how you left her in her bed in a pool of blood for her mother to find in the morning.

“This was not something she could live with. She ended up taking her own life.”

The judge sentenced Skantha to 19 years behind bars without parole.

Amber-Rose’s older brother, Jayden Rush, was the only family member to read out a victim impact statement in court yesterday.

It was written by his mother – Lisa-Ann Mills – who died in a suspected suicide four months after Amber-Rose’s death.

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Couple find lost dog beheaded NZME A young South Auckland couple have been left reeling after finding their missing dog decapitated.

It was a heart-wrenching end to two weeks of desperate searching for the pet named Simba.

Jeffrey Rapana, 19, had just pulled into the driveway of his Pukekohe home, when he saw his partner standing outside visibly upset.

“She said ‘I think I found Simba’,” Rapana told media.

“I just started bawling my eyes out because I knew something had happened to him.

“She mumbled to me, ‘I think he has no head’.”

Hera Ratahi, 19, found the body of their beloved pet dog – in a scruffy condition and beheaded – discarded in a creek on Kayes Rd on March 4.

They had looked after the pitbull since he was a puppy.

“I don’t know how someone could do that,” Rapana said.

The couple had feared the dog was stolen, a suspicion that has only grown since they found Simba’s body.

Simba went missing on February 19, shortly after he had been let outside to relieve himself.

Ratahi heard Simba make a “weird bark” and shortly after went outside to look for him but he had vanished.

The dog had been like a best friend to Rapana.

“We were looking for him every single day for two weeks,” he said.

The couple are urging people to come forward with any information about the dog’s disappearance or death.

“We want to know who did it,” Ratahi said.

“Whoever did it doesn’t deserve to be walking around today. They should be put away.”

The couple also wanted to warn others to keep a close eye on their pets.

“This can’t happen again,” she said.

They intend on getting Simba cremated.

“My partner wants him home.”

The SPCA Auckland confirmed details of the case and said an inspector was to meet the couple yesterday.

The inspector was also set to meet the council workers who found the body.

SPCA Auckland chief executive Andrea Midgen said “thankfully” cases like this one are fairly rare.

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How long till coronavirus arrives here?

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ntil now coronavirus has been something that was happening somewhere else and while there had been four cases reported in New Zealand, they could be tracked to a point of origin.

No longer.

The latest person to test positive attended a huge public concert. The potential for widespread infection has clearly been huge.

All you need is to have been within a metre of the infected man for more than 15 minutes and you’re likely to have bought yourself a case of the rapidlyspreading disease.

What makes this case particularly scary is that there is no way to know who was near the

confirmed Covid-19 carrier, at the concert or in the community. And that means there will be hundreds of concert-goers who are wondering if they are now infected and could be spreading the disease.

They’ll be taking a long, hard look at their lives and wondering if they should go into lock-up for the next 14 days.

Suddenly, coronavirus is real, and clearly it’s coming to a town

near you. Or, is it already there?

While it’s something you’d be darned unlucky to die from, who wants to take the chance?

And who wants to take the chance of infecting someone who may have a compromised immune system, someone for whom Covid-19 might be a death sentence?

But what to do?

Clearly there’s already panic abroad. Stores are running out of face masks, that we’re being told won’t make much difference when it comes to catching the thing, and they’re also running out of that handbag and back pocket essential – hand sanitiser.

Panic buying has hit the country and people, fearing the need

to either self isolate in case they are infected, or self isolate so they don’t become infected, are stocking up big time on food staples and non-perishables.

You can’t dismiss people’s fears as just silly hysteria. No-one wants to get sick and no-one wants to make others sick.

Person-to-person infection aside, the impact of coronavirus is clearly being felt in a multitude of less personal ways.

Tourism has gone into slowdown, businesses are feeling the pinch as people elect not to travel, or choose to stay home rather than go into public places where they’re among crowds of strangers.

For businesses, there’s also a

question that must be hanging over many heads – will there come a time when they should close their doors and tell staff to stay home – just to be safe.

Other than going into self isolation, there may not be a lot we can do to keep ourselves safe. Yes we can ensure we wash our hands well with sanitiser, but we can’t do a darned thing about the stuff that may be floating in the air we breathe.

With just four confirmed cases, we’re light years away from an outbreak, such as a mid winter flu brings, but the risk is most definitely there. And, for Joe Public, that is increasingly becoming a worry, one for which there’s no easy answer.

USS Eisenhower.

In 2001, Ariel Sharon was sworn in as Israel’s prime minister, serving until he suffered a stroke in 2006.

In 2005, President George W Bush nominated John Bolton to be US ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment that ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment.

Ten years ago: Iraq held an election in which neither the Sunni-backed coalition nor the Shiite political bloc won a majority, spawning an eight-month deadlock and stalling formation of a new government.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama joined tens of thousands of people in Selma, Alabama,

to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march of 1965, saying that America’s racial history “still casts its long shadow upon us”. Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram Islamic extremists pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group as they battled a multinational force that had dislodged them from a number of towns in the north.

One year ago: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced in Virginia to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians; a federal judge in Washington a week later added three and a-half years to that sentence.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 80. Rock musician Chris White is 77. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 74. Rock musician Matthew Fisher is 74. Rhythm-and-blues singermusician Ernie Isley is 68. Rock musician Kenny Aronoff is 67.

Actor Bryan Cranston is 64.

Actress Donna Murphy is 61.

Actor Nick Searcy is 61. Golfer Tom Lehman is 61. International Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 60. Actress Mary Beth Evans is 59. Singer-actress Taylor Dayne is 58. Actor Bill Brochtrup is 57.

Author E.L. James is 57. Author Bret Easton Ellis is 56. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 56.

Comedian Wanda Sykes is 56.

Actor Jonathan Del Arco is 54.

Rock musician Randy Guss is 53.

Actress Rachel Weisz (wys) is 50. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 49.

Actor Jay Duplass is 47. Classical singer Sebastien Izambard is 47. Rock singer Hugo Ferreira is 46. Actress Jenna Fischer is 46. Actor Tobias Menzies is 46.

Actress Sarayu Blue is 45. Actress Audrey Marie Anderson is 45.

Actor TJ Thyne is 45. Bluegrass singer-musician Frank Solivan is 43. Actress Laura Prepon is 40.

Actress Bel Powley is 28. Actress Giselle Eisenberg is 13.

Thought for today: “In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.” – J. William Fulbright, US senator (1905-1995).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, March 7, the 67th day of 2020. There are 299 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as Bloody Sunday.

On this date: In 1793, during the French Revolutionary Wars, France declared war on Spain.

In 1842, Maketū Wharetōtara, the 17-year-old son of the Ngāpuhi chief Ruhe of Waimate, was the first person to be officially executed in New Zealand.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a US patent for his telephone.

In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the US-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.

In 1912, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen arrived in Hobart, Australia, where he dispatched telegrams announcing his success in leading the first expedition to the South Pole the previous December.

In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London.

In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

In 1941, New Zealand troops arrived in Greece.

In 1945, during World War Two, US forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.

In 1988, Cyclone Bola, one of the most damaging storms to hit New Zealand, struck Hawke’s Bay and the Gisborne–East Cape area.

In 1994, the US Navy issued its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on a combat ship – in this case, the

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Today’s question is . . . why?

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hy?

Such a simple word but such a powerful one.

Questioning why is to invite understanding but can provoke animosity.

Why close an i-SITE? Why buy a facemask if you never wore one during flu season?

At the moment I’m struggling with what should be an easy decision.

See, it’s no secret I love my motorbike. I’m more in love with it than Simon Bridges is with his blue suits. I’d rather ride in the rain than have a day off work (hang on, I might re-think that one).

Anyway, I love to ride and so it should be a no-brainer having the opportunity to go on two different motorcycle rides coming up, especially as they are both on one weekend.

My struggle is why one of them is happening and that is making me think about being part of it.

Both rides are organised by local riders, with North Island connections.

The first is from a group called Tribal Nations Motorcycle Club, or TNMC for short, its mother chapter is in Ngaruawahia. This group is coming to Ashburton via Christchurch on Saturday, March 14.

They aim to arrive in the West Street carpark between 1pm1.30pm.

It’s organised by the Te Turu region of riders based in Christchurch.

They have organised King Cass to perform, entry is free and there will be Harley rides along with TNMC and RATS (Riders Against Teenage Suicide) merchandise and food available.

They will also run raffles as a fundraiser.

They will be charging their own riders and anyone who rides with them $15, and then will turn

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around and give all proceeds to Safer Ashburton.

Think about that – in their own time they are going to ride from ‘Up Norf’ as we call it, and then pay some of their own money to a local group here that supports locals – not them.

They have done this before when they rode down to Reefton and gave all the proceeds of their ride to the Reefton RSA. In December their Kai and Koha ride in Twizel raised over $7000 for Heartland Services.

Then there is the second ride.

It’s called the Ride of Remembrance 2020 on Sunday, March 15, beginning in Rangiora at 10am and riding into Christchurch as a way to honour the 51 lives lost in the Mosque tragedies.

But I have to ask why?

This ride is hosted by Man Up Canterbury and supported by Tu Tangata Riders.

Don’t know them?

How about their Auckland connection – Brian Tamaki and Destiny Church. He is the patriarch of the Man Up campaign.

In the last few days he directly spoke about the covid-19 virus being a sign that we must turn back to the One True God. That’s the God according to him.

So why ride in remembrance of a hate event against Islam?

Would this self-appointed, silver tongued street preacher embrace Muslims if they do not recognise his God? In a Facebook post following the March attacks, Tamaki said, “we cannot accept the proliferation of Islam in our country.”

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Tolerant Christian eh?

There will be riders coming from the North Island and local riders are being asked to meet up with them the day before and escort them into Rangiora.

It costs the same as the TNMC ride, to ride with them, but the $15 is not for a local group helping victims and communities, it covers the lunch.

There is a stipulation that the ride is open to “Iron Horse Riders” – big, loud, v-twin American bikes. It’s all about the look and the noise.

Why? Why ride down here and make a show of riding into a city still healing from the brutality of the attacks, when your own leader is anti-Islam?

Who is this ride for?

I’m going to bet that of the two rides, the Remembrance Ride will get national media coverage.

Man Up have specifically selected an event that will be in the media spotlight, so that they are.

I have no idea of the route they will take but I’ll wager a year’s worth of Ministry of Education biscuits they will ride the motorway, across both lanes, loud and in your face.

There will be no national

coverage of the humility of the TNMC ride to Ashburton.

This group have come together to raise awareness of abuse, mental well-being and suicide.

Some of them will ride from as far as Auckland, Nelson and Invercargill. They seek no glory, do not stipulate what bike you must ride. In fact, how much coverage have you seen of this event?

They will be wearing patches, but do not let first impressions fool you, this is no hardened gang. One of their patches is F.A.I.T.H – Family, Acceptance, Integrity, Trust, Honesty.

Sounds just like the type of faith Brian Tamaki needs.

If these guys are prepared to do this for us and Safer Ashburton, then the very least we can do is be there for them.

Our challenge is to help them raise more than the Twizel ride.

See you at the West Street carpark, Saturday, March 14, 1.30pm onwards and don’t ask why.

Peter Livingstone is the principal of Tinwald School. The views expressed in this column are his and do not represent the views of his school, the Ashburton Guardian or the Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association.

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e live in interesting times, fortunately at a distance from some of the events overseas.

We saw a little bit of it in New Zealand last weekend with lines outside supermarkets.

The fear behind that appears to be the prospect of being isolated in your house for two weeks.

Sharemarkets have gone through wild swings because the effects of the virus cannot be quantified.

Even President Trump cannot

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talk the market back up.

Our Kiwisaver accounts are worth a bit less that a few weeks ago.

Malls overseas have few people in them. Some stores have run out of products because the factory in China that made the product has been closed.

How can that little virus produce such results?

Questions arise about the virus.

Can a vaccine be developed?

Will the virus mutate as the 1918 flu virus did?

Can it be stopped or should we not even try as some suggest?

It has been a quick jump from peace and security to fear and panic.

There is crazy talk about the future of the world.

But one source is not easily

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Is the corona virus a part of that? Who knows.

The psychology of the last few weeks has been so interesting.

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The world’s first avocado milk – made in the Hawke’s Bay – has been flying off supermarket shelves in the United States and is on track to surpass $1 million in sales by August.

The drink, developed by Auckland chef and TV personality and the owner of Asian cooking school Sachie’s Kitchen, Sachie Nomura, came about following a failed attempt in the kitchen.

Nomura has spent the last four years developing “hundreds” of iterations of the recipe, and invested about $500,000 into research and development.

Her Avocadomilk product is now in 100 stores in the US, through Californian supermarket chains Gelson’s Markets and Lassen’s, and has piqued the interest of Target, which is reinventing itself and pushing into the grocery space.

Sales of the drink priced at $US7.99 for 800ml are expected to surpass $1 million within in the next six months. It went on sale in the US in November.

Nomura says the drink has 40 per cent of a regular-sized avocado in one 800ml bottle, and was a “world first”, which had made it easy to get supermarkets in America to get on board and stock the product.

“What we learnt – why there isn’t avocado milk in the market – is that, from hard experience, it is one of

the most unstable fruits in the world; it would go brown, oil separation occurs, let alone how to de-husk, de-pip an avocado, and generate a beverage with a shelf life and make it taste [good],” Nomura said, adding that’s what took the four years of research and development.

Unlike most Kiwi export companies, the US was Avocadomilk’s first launch market.

America, as an export market, is often put in the “too hard basket”

by New Zealand companies – usually left to later down the track to explore.

“Our market research told us that California was the place that was the trendsetter when it comes to alternative plant-based products, and that’s where all the major food trends occur – we figured that was the place to go,” Nomura told media,

“We put our feelers out to some of the retailers there and have had amazing responses.”

It is made in Hawke’s Bay from avocados imported from Mexico. So far the company has produced more than 100,000 litres of the milk, the equivalent of about 160,000 bottles.

The company has no immediate plans to bring the milk to New Zealand. However, it does plan to launch a dairy version of the avocado milk in Aotearoa in the future. It also plans to roll-out a food service product for cafes and restaurants.

“The product is 100 per cent plant-based right now, but we certainly think with New Zealand having a really strong dairy heritage there’s an opportunity to make a dairy version of avocado milk – ice cream avocado milk, yoghurt avocado milk.”

Nomura said she had already developed the recipe for a dairy version and was looking for a partner with the expertise to help her bring it to the market in New Zealand.

“Our big focus right now is the west coast of America, then we’ll start moving up into Portland and Colorado. We’ve already had demand from the east coast, from New York, so we’ll service that as well as central markets in Texas.

Once we have that nutted out we’ll start to look at other markets.”

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Ceasefire deal for Syria AP The presidents of Russia and Turkey said they reached agreement on a cease-fire which was to begin at midnight Thursday in north-western Syria, where escalating fighting had threatened to put forces from the two countries into direct conflict.

The deal struck by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would set up a security corridor along a key eastwest highway in Idlib province.

Putin voiced hope the agreement will serve as a “good basis for ending the fighting in the Idlib de-escalation zone, put an end to suffering of civilian population and contain a growing humanitarian crisis.”

The agreement appears to achieve Russia’s key goal of allowing the Syrian government to secure control over strategic highways essential for consolidating its grip on the country after a devastating nine-year war.

But in a nod to Turkey’s interests, the deal also puts the brakes on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s push to reclaim control over all of Idlib province, the last opposition-controlled region that borders Turkey.

Erdogan said he and Putin agreed to help refugees return to their homes. More than 900,000 people have been displaced by the fighting since Assad’s forces began an offensive in December backed by Russian airstrikes.

Both leaders had underlined the need for an agreement at the start of the Kremlin talks, which lasted more than six hours. One goal had been to prevent damaging their bilateral relations and blossoming trade.

Syrian White Helmet civil defence workers carry a victim next to houses hit by Russian airstrikes in Idlib province, Syria.

PHOTO AP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres noted the ceasefire agreement and hoped it will lead “to an immediate and lasting cessation of hostilities that ensures the protection of civilians in north-west Syria, who have already endured enormous suffering,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

Guterres also called for a return to the UN-facilitated political process, aimed at ending the nine-year conflict, Dujarric said.

Until the latest crisis, Putin and Erdogan had managed to co-ordinate their interests in Syria even though Moscow backed Assad while Ankara supported the government’s foes. Both Russia and Turkey wanted to avoid a showdown but the sharply conflicting interests in Idlib province made it difficult to negotiate a mutually acceptable compromise.

The Syrian offensive in Idlib has resulted in Turkey sending in thousands of troops to repel the Syrian army. Clashes on the ground and in the air have

left dozens dead on both sides.

Russia, which has helped Assad reclaim most of the country’s territory, has signalled it won’t sit by while Turkey routs his troops.

The fighting also has pushed nearly 1 million Syrian civilians toward Turkey, which already hosts more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees. Erdogan responded by opening Turkey’s gateway to Europe in an apparent bid to persuade the West to offer more support to Ankara.

He has frequently threatened to open Turkey’s borders to Europe, maintaining that the European Union has not upheld its end of a more than 6 billion-euro deal designed to stem the flow of migrants after more than 1 million people entered the EU in 2015.

“The world’s eyes are on us,” Erdogan had said. “The steps we will take, the right decisions we will take here today will help ease (concerns in) the region and our countries.”

After Turkey had downed several Syrian jets, Moscow

warned Ankara on Sunday that its aircraft would be unsafe if they enter Syrian airspace.

The fighting in Idlib is the most severe test of Russia-Turkey ties since Turkey’s downed a Russian warplane near the Syrian border in November 2015. Russia responded then with sweeping economic sanctions, cutting the flow of its tourists to Turkey and banning most Turkish exports — a punishment that eventually forced Turkey to back off.

The talks in Moscow marked the 10th meeting in just over a year between Putin and Erdogan, who call each other “dear friend” and have polished a fine art of bargaining.

In October, they agreed to deploy their forces across Syria’s north-eastern border to fill the void left by President Donald Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of US forces. Before that, they had negotiated deals that saw opposition fighters from various areas in Syria move into Idlib, and in 2018 carved out a de-escalation zone in Idlib.

They blamed one another for the collapse of the Idlib deal, with Moscow holding Ankara responsible for letting al-Qaida-linked militants launch attacks from the area and Turkey accusing Moscow of failing to rein in Assad.

The Russian and Turkish foreign ministers said Thursday’s agreement involves a ceasefire to be enforced starting at midnight along existing battle lines. In the deal with Erdogan, Putin appeared to accept the presence of Turkey-backed militants in areas alongside the border and put brakes for now on Assad’s attempts to claim full control over Idlib. That compromise will allow Turkey to secure its stake in Syria and prevent refugees from fleeing across the border.

New York police under review after arrest NZME Video showing New York City police officers arresting a young black man sparked outrage and elicited questions about the amount of force used to make the arrest in a city where mistrust of police remains high more than five years after Eric Garner’s death from an officer’s chokehold.

Fitzroy Gayle, 20, pleads for help in the video, recorded by a woman who then tweeted it, as several officers wrestle him into submission Wednesday evening on a Brooklyn sidewalk.

When Gayle asked a lone plainclothes officer why he was being stopped, the officer did not appear to answer before uniformed backup rushed in.

“This was painful to watch,” Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted.

“We still need to get all the facts about this case and a full

investigation is underway, but I don’t like what I saw. It doesn’t reflect what we’re building in New York City.”

The city’s largest police union responded on Twitter, calling de Blasio’s remarks “anti-police rhetoric” and accusing him of “inflaming the situation” with a rush to judgment.

The man in the video had fled officers who approached him and another man as they were smoking marijuana in a park around 7pm, Shea said.

The officers were responding to an automated alert to gunshots, Shea said.

Both men were later apprehended, but there is no indication they were linked to the gunfire, he said.

Gayle was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and marijuana possession. The second man, whom police have not identified, was issued a summons.

The episode is under internal review.

Shea said there were “some disturbing points” to the video.

One of the officers could be seen standing on the man’s ankle, he said, offering a possible explanation for why Gayle screamed during the scrum.

Photos of Gayle taken after the arrest showed abrasions to his knee but no apparent injuries to his face or upper body, the commissioner said.

“The end is what concerns me,” Shea said.

A better outcome would have seen officers approaching the men followed by “discussion and no running” from police, he said. “No physical resistance at all. No arrest needed.”

Gayle’s lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, said the video demonstrates “that the era of stop and frisk is not over in New York City. The police officers involved in this brutal assault must be brought to justice.”

Rev Kevin McCall, a civil rights activist in Brooklyn, said Gayle’s family was calling for District Attorney Eric Gonzalez to open his own investigation into the officers’ conduct.

McCall also said Shea should suspend the officers.

The arrest came on the heels of renewed spotlight on stop, question and frisk, a policing strategy once championed by former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who expressed regret for its overuse as he launched his now-suspended campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Data released last month showed such encounters increased by 22 per cent last year.

Black people and non-white Hispanic people were 88 per cent of those stopped and 90 per cent of those frisked, and 88 per cent of those against whom force was used, according to an analysis by the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Allen’s memoir ‘upsetting’ Woody Allen’s estranged daughter Dylan Farrow has called the publication of her father’s memoir “deeply upsetting” and an “utter betrayal” against her brother Ronan. The filmmaker’s new book, titled Apropos of Nothing, is being published

by Hachette, the same company that released Ronan’s book detailing his investigations into cases of abuse, Catch and Kill. In a statement posted to her Twitter account, Dylan – who has previously accused Allen of molesting her when she was a child – said she had not been contacted by any fact checkers to verify her father’s memoir. Allen has always denied allegations of abuse.

Lumley ambushed Joanna Lumley has told how she was ambushed by armed bandits while making a TV documentary. The actor had been filming in troubled Haiti when she and her camera crew were stopped in their car. Joanna, 73, said: “Suddenly there was a blockage across the road. They’d put branches down.

“Our bodyguards got out and said, ‘Come on guys, clear it away’. And they said, ‘No, we want your money or your life.’

Sometimes they dig trenches, pour oil in and set fire to it, then they come with guns and take your wallets.” But Joanna’s ordeal did not leave her feeling desperate to leave the Caribbean country.

Katy Perry pregnant Katy Perry has revealed she’s pregnant in a very show business way. The 35-yearold pop star showed off her growing baby bump at the end of the video for her latest song Never Worn White. On Instagram, Perry said her pregnancy is “probably the longest secret” she has “ever had to keep”. The news was confirmed by Perry’s label, Capitol Music Group. The baby will be Perry’s first, and the second for her fiance, Orlando Bloom, who has a 9-year-old son, Flynn, with exwife Miranda Kerr. Perry joked that she was relieved to share the news. “So glad I don’t have to suck it in anymore,” she wrote on Twitter.

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EXCITING TIMES

By Adam Burns

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Not willing to skate on last season’s form, the boys from the Southern Rugby Club are set to hit the restart button for the upcoming club season.

The Mid Canterbury club are on the road next week where they play the first of two pre-season games.

After finishing the regular season atop Section A of the Com-

bined Country Competition, Southern were joint winners of the Luisetti Seeds Cup Final last year following the 31-all draw with Glenmark Cheviot in the final.

The club travels to South Canterbury over the coming weeks – their first pre-season game is against Pleasant Point on Friday before taking on Harlequins RFC in a fortnight.

With a new coaching setup and

some new faces, the upcoming pre-season fixtures may offer more of a gauge for the club compared to their successful 2019 campaign.

Co-coach Jon Dampney said there were three new coaches and a new manager who have been brought into the fold.

“We’ve had a bit of a change from last year to this year, but it is an exciting one.”

A decision on head coach was

still to be confirmed, Dampney said.

The squad has begun to assemble for pre-season training although a significant portion of players have harvesting commitments.

“It kind of knocks around a bit,” he said.

Following on from a stellar season in the combined country rugby competition last year, there should be a healthy dose

of anticipation from the playing group.

Dampney said a major focus was “starting again”.

“Last year was a good year, but that year has finished.

“We’ve got new faces and new coaches so she’s pretty exciting times.

“We’re really just looking forward to getting everyone to training and seeing what we can do.”

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Brown claims longstanding school record

By Adam Burns

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It may have been by the most minuscule of margins at the Mount Hutt College (MHC) athletics finals, but a record broken is a record broken.

MHC pupil Charlie Brown scampered his way to a win in the under-16.5 100m sprint, breaking a combined record which has stood for more than fifteen years as he was crowned athletics champion in his age category.

Brown’s time of 11.59sec eclipsed the previous record of 11.60secs in the category, which was registered in 2000 and again in 2005.

The finals were scheduled for Wednesday, however were pushed back a day due to the weather.

Other winners throughout the day includ-

ed Samuel Ree and Monique Johnson, who won the senior boys’ and girls’ champion titles respectively.

Alongside Brown, Meghan Foster won the under-16.5 title for the girls.

Elsewhere on the day, Maddison Foster won the under-15 girls’, Johan Struwig took out the under-15 boys’, Lucy Reeve the under-14 girls’ and Thomas McKenzie the under-14 boys’.

The youngest champions of the day were Gishbert Pangilinan and Mikayla Marshall who won the under-12.5 boys’ and girls’ categories respectively.

MHC sports co-ordinator Latoya Keepa said it was a great day for all. ‘”We got lucky with the weather after it was postponed.

“The kids had fun and we were happy with how the day went.”

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■■IRONMAN

IRONMAN LEGEND Cameron Brown remains one of the favourites to take out this year’s Ironman New Zealand title today, 23 years after competing in his first event.

Brown, 47, will line up once again hoping to add to the 12 titles he’s already won.

He competed in his first triathlon in 1987 and tried his hand at the shorter distance in a hope to get to an Olympics.

It never eventuated so instead he went for the 3.86km swim, the 180km bike and the 42.2km run.

Brown never looked back.

He competed in his first Ironman in Auckland in 1997, falling in love with it straight away.

“Ever since I left school it’s been my full-time job which is pretty cool.”

However, age is catching up with Brown, injury forced him out of last year’s race and he’s had his issues over the summer.

“The body is breaking down, I broke down plenty of times last year with a few calf injuries, so just trying to manage them and look after them.

“As I get older and you think you’re still in your twenties but keeping those injuries at bay is very very important now.

“I’ve just come off a seven week disruption with a calf injury but things are going well now.

“It’s when I stop training I tend to tighten up and get injured, so the idea is to keep the body moving and keep it flexible and so it’s hard when you love it so much and you keep pushing yourself,” he said.

Brown had a golden run in the Taupo event; he owned it for a while, winning 10 times in 11 years.

In total he’s won 12 times, his first victory was in 2001, his last in 2016.

He’s been European Ironman Champion, while he’s finished second twice and third twice at the World Championships in Hawaii.

Brown has no plans on giving up and says he’ll be doing another northern hemisphere season this year and still has a couple of events on his bucket list including Ironman Canada which he in-

Cameron Brown exits the water. tends to do for the first time later this year.

So why does he remain at the top of his game?

He feels the Ironman allows older athletes to be competitive.

“Definitely, I think as a sport we mature in our thirties, I’m probably the odd one out, I’m still going well in my late forties.”

“I think it’s just a passion for the sport, trying to push the body still and every year you keep raising the bar as other athletes are pushing the boundaries so you keep pushing it also.”

After the disappointment of failing to finish last year, Brown is motivated to do well this weekend, and that means winning.

“Definitely, probably a bit more luck on my side as I’m up against

thirty-year-olds, so if they fall apart then hopefully I can come through.

“Being nearly 48 makes it more and more difficult every year but I’m always up for a challenge.”

Brown excells on the run and has often relied on the last leg to chase down his opponents, and he feels that will be one of his strengths again this weekend.

“I’ve been a little hindered.

“I’ve only had five or six weeks build-up to this race because of the calf injury which took a lot longer to get over than I anticipated.

“But the run has really come up the last few weeks and I’m really excited about that and hopefully I’ve done enough to make it as strong as I can.”

He’ll have plenty of competition once again with New Zealanders Mike Phillips, Methven’s Braden Currie and Joe Skipper of Britain leading another stellar field, while American Jocelyn McCauley and Meredith Kessler do battle with New Zealander Teresa Adam in the women’s race.

However, outside the pros there are another 1300 doing for pleasure, if you can call it that.

Many of them are doing it for the first time, attempting to tick off a bucket list item.

Brown loves being a part of a much bigger event.

“It’s great.

“It’s one of those sports where professionals and amateurs compete on the same course at the same time.

“We’re out there for eight hours but some people are out there for 17 hours and you see them on the course and a lot of them inspire you to keep pushing as well.”

“It’s not just the three o’clock finishers, there’s still massive crowds at one o’clock in the morning watching those people finish as well.

Almost 1400 people will be taking part in Ironman this weekend with the youngest being 20 and the oldest 80.

There are also just over a thousand people taking part in the 70.3 half Ironman event.

But keep an eye out for Cameron Brown somewhere around Taupo on Saturday, he’s likely to be that fella somewhere near the front.

■■UFC

‘If he dies, he dies. It’s not really my problem’

By Christopher Reive Yoel Romero has never been stopped in his 13-fight UFC career.

Israel Adesanya wants to change that.

The Kiwi UFC middleweight champion will face Romero in a five-round headline bout at UFC 248 in Las Vegas tomorrow (NZ time), in his first official title defence since dethroning Robert Whittaker last October.

Romero has proven to be a tough out throughout his career.

The 42-year-old Cuban has lost just three times inside the UFC octagon, with all three losses by decision.

A perennial title contender, Romero has become known for his erratic and violent style of fighting and is thought by fans and pundits to be an opponent fighters in the division only face if they have to.

“He’s the guy no one wants to

fight,” Adesanya said. “Why? I’ve seen him get rocked, I’ve seen him get stopped, I’ve seen him get bloodied, I’ve seen him cry; I’ll make him cry. He’s human like anyone else.

“I want 5-0. I want a wash out … I want a clean sweep. But, if he dies he dies. It’s not really my problem.”

Adesanya requested a fight against Romero when challenger Paulo Costa was ruled out of action with injury late last year.

There were layers to requesting Romero as an opponent, one of which being the fact Romero is an Olympic silver medal-winning wrestler and could pose a test unlike any other Adesanya has faced.

In his last four fights, Romero has attempted to take his opponents to the canvas 64 times, succeeding on 16 of those. In his two title fights against Whittaker, Romero attempted a total of 56 takedowns through 10 rounds.

He won’t be the first to try get

Adesanya to the ground should he take that approach, but could find it to be a tricky task.

Adesanya has successfully evaded 84 of 98 takedown attempts during his seven bouts in the UFC. Even when he is taken to the ground, keeping him there is another task as he has shown an impressive sprawling ability.

“If he comes heavy with the wrestling he’d better pack a lunch because he’s going to be in for a long day,” Adesanya said.

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Vital clash for Blues and Canes When the season’s Super Rugby draw was announced, this clash was one that was expected to pique the interest of Kiwi rugby fans.

But while former Hurricanes star Beauden Barrett won’t be running out for the Blues this weekend, there is still plenty of intrigue surrounding it.

For the Blues, the clash against the Hurricanes shapes up as a pivotal and telling fixture of how the team is poised going forward.

The cellar dwellers of the New Zealand conference over the past few seasons, some stellar performances away from home showed signed that their fortunes were starting to change.

However, they are yet to win on New Zealand soil this year, with losses to the Chiefs and Crusaders.

The Hurricanes shape up as a good measuring stick for the Blues, with the sides expected

to scuffle for the No.3-seeded Kiwi team this year, behind the Chiefs and Crusaders.

The Blues come into the match off the back of a long trip home from South Africa, made even longer by flight delays.

However, they will be able to turn to the likes of Akira Ioane and Gerard Cowley-Tuioti who did not make the trip to South Africa to provide some energy on the park.

The Hurricanes return to Wellington after dismantling the Sunwolves in Napier, in a match that saw them run in 10 tries – five of which were either scored or assisted by midfielder Vince Aso. The Hurricanes have won three of their four matches this season, with the sole loss coming in the opening round of the campaign.

The Blues hold a 3-2 record through five rounds – yet to have a bye – with all their victories coming outside of New Zealand.

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■■OPINION

Memories of Jonah will simply last forever

By Phil Gifford

I

’ve only been booed off stage at a rugby club once.

It was in the late 1990s in the South Island.

After making a speech I was taking questions from the audience.

Who, asked a rugged-looking farmer, was the greatest All Black I’d ever seen?

I said I had to divide the answer to this into best forward and best back.

The best forward was Colin Meads (keep in mind this was at a time when Richie McCaw was still at school). There was a round of enthusiastic applause.

The best back was Jonah Lomu.

The silence that followed was broken by a voice from the back calling, “Bull****!”

Booing then broke out.

I thanked them all for their time and scurried off stage.

This week as a cricket spectator at Hagley Oval I was asked the same “greatest All Black” question by a friendly cricket fan, who was a Iittle puzzled, but more polite than the rugby club audience, when I stuck with Lomu as the greatest back.

I agree with our only unbeaten All Black coach, Sir Fred Allen, who a decade ago, when we had a “best ever All Black” conversation, firmly backed Dan Carter for his all-round skills.

As Fred pointed out, Carter was the complete footballer.

But I’d still argue that Lomu had even more influence on global rugby than Carter.

For years after the 1995 World Cup, Jonah was a name you’d hear from a rental car clerk in Las Vegas (“How’s your man Jonah’s health,” I was asked in 2000) to a taxi driver in London (“How big is that bloody Lomu?” asked a cabbie during the 1999 World Cup).

In Europe and even in America he transcended the game in the way Muhammad Ali would tran-

scend boxing. And, in the brief, golden periods when Lomu was in full health on the rugby field, he was, like Ali, the greatest.

It’ll soon be 25 years since Lomu ran onto Ellis Park for the first game of the ‘95 Cup, with the All Blacks playing Ireland.

By the time the tournament was over the then 20-year-old would be a household name in England, a target for American football clubs, and the first All Black to have a story written about him in Time magazine.

Lomu was the man all South Africans wanted to meet.

President Nelson Mandela was introduced to the players before the final.

Before rugby officials could say the name, when he got to Lomu his famous smile beamed, his hand shot out, and he said, “Hi Jonah, nice to meet you.”

Most importantly for the sport, in New York, billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch saw him on television and told Sam Chisholm, his man negotiating a $555 million rugby television deal with South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, “We’ve got to have that guy.”

Would there have been professional rugby without Lomu?

Almost certainly.

But did he speed up the process, give the game a previously unheard of worldwide boost, and up the financial ante?

Hell, yes.

No player has ever dominated a World Cup the way Lomu did in 1995.

In that first game against Ireland he scored two tries, then ran 70 metres, swatting aside four tacklers, and, when the fifth managed to halt him on the line, popped the ball up to flanker Josh Kronfeld for a try that would later be judged by an IRB panel the best of the tournament.

The All Blacks won 43-19.

Four days later Wales were dispatched, 34-9. Lomu didn’t

score a try, but he set up one for Kronfeld again, this time bashing through five tacklers in the process.

He was rested for the 145-17 rout of Japan, but, on June 11 at Ellis Park, it was quarter-final time, against Scotland.

By then Lomumania had gripped South Africa, and the rugby world.

Scotland’s captain Gavin Hastings was asked for his views on the new star.

A charming man with a droll sense of humour, he deadpanned: “He’s a big bastard isn’t he?”

Against Scotland, Lomu did something different again.

On the flinty ground at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria he twice ran such a fast outside line it left the poor Scottish right wing, Craig Joiner, looking as if his sprigs have been screwed into the sunscorched turf.

Lomu scored, and the All Blacks won 48-30.

On a sunny Cape Town Sunday during the All Blacks’ 45-29 win over England in a semi-final comes the moment that cemented Lomu as a national figure in Britain.

Straight after the kickoff is knocked on by England captain Will Carling, the All Blacks attack from the scrum.

Fullback Glen Osborne’s pass to Lomu falls behind him, but he just has time to pick it up and head for the line.

In his 2004 book, “Jonah”, Lomu describes what happens.

“Look out, here’s Tony Underwood coming in for the hit.

Misses. Spins. Goal-line ahead.

Not far now. Around the outside of (Will) Carling. Damn. He’s clipped me. Stumbling. Keep your balance Jonah. Get your balance.

Look up. Mike Catt. Two strides.

No option. Shoulder in my vision.

Get your knee up Jonah. Bang.

Into him. Over him. Through him.

Sorry Mike.”

Catt was left, as one English

writer said, “like roadkill in a white jersey”.

On TVNZ commentator Keith Quinn lost it. He’d prepared for a Lomu try, and even had a phrase he’d borrowed from an NBA basketball writer, “all muscle and pump”, written down and ready to use.

In the excitement the paper was knocked off his desk, and all he could gasp out was, “Oh. Oh. Oh. Lomu”.

The final, at Ellis Park, wasn’t a Hollywood ending for Lomu.

Let’s not revisit too much the gastric illness that struck down nine out of the 15 starting All Blacks in the days before that warm Saturday afternoon, but between some listless-looking All Blacks, and an inspired South African side, Lomu, for the only time at the World Cup, couldn’t shred defensive lines.

South Africa won in extra time, 15-12.

So, seven tries in five World Cup games, but no gold medal, why do I still think so highly of Lomu?

Let me offer some thoughts.

One. For a wing he was a giant, and would still be considered so if he was playing now, at 1.96m (6ft 5in) and 120kg.

But he was also stunningly fast.

As a schoolboy at Wesley College he was timed over the 100 metres at 10.89s.

“I’ve seen players that big before,” said his ‘95 All Black manager, Colin Meads, “but they were all forwards. I’ve never seen anyone Jonah’s size who had his speed.”

Two. He had what coaches call soft hands, able to hold even an awkward pass, and terrific balance.

Even much later in his career, when he was secretly battling kidney disease, he could score tries no other wing could hope to.

In 2000 in Sydney, when the All Blacks won, 39-35, in what opposing Wallaby captain John

Eales told me was the greatest test he ever played in, Lomu would tip toe down the sideline to score the try to seal the match.

“Who else but Jonah,” said All Black captain Todd Blackadder years later, “would have scored that try?”

Indeed.

Three.

He was no flat-track bully. At the 1999 World Cup, when France beat the All Blacks 43-21 at Twickenham in the semi-final, Lomu was the best All Black on the field.

He scored his second try of that game just after halftime, by smashing aside one of the biggest, toughest French forwards, the rugged Moroccan Abdel Benazzi.

Four.

He was, in his own words, a Southsider, a kid from Mangere, who’d buy a car with a sound system so loud I once heard the bass booming long before I saw him driving down the street to the All Blacks’ hotel.

For some stiff-necked old-schoolers it was all a bit too much, and he was sometimes judged more harshly as a player than someone from rugby’s traditional heartlands would have been.

Five.

He was a good man.

The last time I saw him was in 2014, a year before he died, at a monster truck show at Waikaraka Park. He loved large, noisy machines, and was acting as a PR man for one of the drivers.

The damage illness had wrought on the rampaging player of his youth was clear.

He moved slowly and carefully.

My final memory was of him gently shaking hands with my then 3-year-old grandson Cooper, telling him to enjoy the day.

It’s beyond sad that Jonah himself would have so few left in his life.

But for some of us the memories will last forever.

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■■NETBALL

Umpiring a family affair As we head into the winter code season, the role of officials and administrators are just as integral as the performers on the turf and court. This week sports reporter Adam Burns caught up with father daughter combo and netball umpires Ashlein and Heath Lyttle

By Adam Burns

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It can be a formidable task officiating competitive sport.

No just the physical demands, but the mental ones also.

But for Mid Canterbury netball umpires Heath and Ashlein Lyttle, at least they can swap notes.

The pair are again set to don the whistle ahead of a busy Mid Canterbury netball season.

The fact they are a father-and-daughter combination in premier grade netball is not the only factor which make the Lyttles unique.

Ashlein is undaunted as a teenager adjudicating players much older than herself, while father Heath is one of a handful of men involved in a sport dominated by the opposite gender.

Initially this was an element Heath had to learn to acclimatise to after being roped in by coach and umpire Wendy Hopwood about four years ago.

“One of the biggest challenges was being a male in a female-dominated sport which was hard to adjust to at the start.

“It takes time to adjust to that sort of stuff.

“There’s only three of us men who are umpires.

“It’s just normal now.”

But it was already on the radar and Heath thought it would be a good way to keep fit in the winter.

Heath also officiates local softball during the summer.

Although both codes are pointedly different, there are general elements that he has transferred over to the courtside from the diamond.

“The mental side, how you take things in.

“Having to learn the rules becomes second nature and keeping up with all the rule changes.”

Although the softballing rulebook was

Mid Canterbury netball umpires Ashlein and Heath Lyttle are geared up for a busy season. constantly being overhauled compared to netball, he said.

Ashlein has been umpiring for nearly two years and said it was a natural move given she was on the side of the court most weeks with both parents involved.

“We were here most of the time, so thought I may as well get in and do something while I’m here,” she said.

Although she is officiating in a mixture of grades, Ashlein – like her father – made her own mental adjustments when officiating the big guns at premier level.

“Getting up to premier – they’re a lot older.

“It can be intimidating but you just got to block it all out.”

With both her father and some of the more experienced local officials, there was plenty of support on hand for the Ashburton College pupil.

Despite its challenges though, there re-

mains a significant allure in being involved in bigger games and advancing the craft.

“I guess for any sport, when you’re officiating, your one goal is to be at the top at the end and trying to get near that is always an aim,” Heath said.

“Getting those really close, challenging games and thriving off the tightness of the game.”

Ashlein, who is also a Mid Canterbury age group rep as a player, admits her biggest long term priority remains with ball in hand.

However she is encouraged that she has another string to the bow to fall back on.

“There is definitely a second option that I can go to,” she said.

Her father said she has youth on her side and that she had the potential to go far given she has started at an early age.

“The earlier that you do it the better,” he said.

Rhinos smash Sonny Bill’s side Sonny Bill Williams’ season with the winless Toronto Wolfpack hit a new low after they slumped to a record 66-12 defeat against the Leeds Rhinos yesterday.

Former Warriors NRL back Konrad Hurrell scored the last of Leeds Rhinos’ 11 tries at Headingley and sent them top of the Super League table for the first time since 2015.

Williams joined Toronto on a well-publicised multi-mil-

lion-dollar contract after the All Blacks’ Rugby World Cup campaign, with the Canadian club harbouring hopes the former NRL star could inspire them to Super League success.

But it has been the opposite, with the Wolfpack sitting in last place without a win after six games.

The 54-point thrashing was the worst result of Toronto’s Super League season – and the

heaviest defeat in the fledgling club’s history.

In six games, the Wolfpack have scored 70 points, but conceded 214.

They’re back in action next weekend against Hull Kingston Rovers.

The bottom Super League team is relegated at the end of the season and replaced by the winners of the second-tier Championship.

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“It’s a long road and it takes a number of years to get to the top.”

He urged anyone who was considering getting involved to not hesitate.

Last year Heath completed his New Zealand theory exam and was hoping to be nominated to complete a practical test, which is assessed by Netball New Zealand panel examiners in 2020.

The duo even officiated the same fixture last season, although Heath said it was “just like any other game”.

“It’s just second nature to me, if you’ve got a job to do, you just go out there and do it.

“It’s kind of special as well, you don’t often get to do something like that.”

If anyone is interested in becoming an umpire, please contact Mid Canterbury Netball centre manager Erin Tasker at info@ mcnetball.co.nz Sonny Bill Williams

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Saturday, March 7, 2020

■■AUCKLAND CUP

Is this the Cup year for Latta?

Lisa Latta is hoping this is her year in the Gr.1 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m).

The Palmerston North trainer has finished runner-up in New Zealand’s feature staying race and she is hoping in-form galloper Platinum Invador is the horse that can finally secure her the silverware.

“King Kamada was beaten into

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While confident in the gelding’s staying abilities, Latta is still wary of a number of her opposition on Saturday.

“The two Australian horses (Azuro and Sound) look hard to beat and there were a couple of other good runs in the Avondale Cup,” she said.

“My horse is fit and well, so that’s all I can ask for.”

Today at Ascot Park Raceway

6 80x31 Cranbourne (6) fr.......................... S McNally 7 0x401 Cheddar Made Beta (7) fr.........B Williamson 4 1.45pm ILT NORTHERN TAV MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r48-r55., mobile, 2200m 1 06891 Von Richthofen (1) fr.....................T Williams 2 63553 Franco Huntington (2) fr.......... J Morrison (J) 3 74042 Kagee VC (3) fr.........................B Williamson 4 04322 Triroyale Brigade (4) fr................... B Barclay 5 56223 Melton Mafia (5) fr................................G Lee 6 215x Louis Litt (6) fr...................................S Ottley 7 02711 Black Ops (7) fr..................................A Beck 8 11820 Major Watson (8) fr.................. N Williamson 9 58137 Holy Havoc (21) fr.................... M Williamson 10 x3222 Luella (22) fr................................. B Hope (J) 11 47230 Swift Robyn (23) fr......................C Ferguson 12 12324 See Ya Write (24) fr........................B Orange 5 2.22pm NS VETS TOTAL VET CARE MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ f&m r40-r59., mobile, 2200m 1 53608 Tact Eze (1) fr.......................... J Morrison (J) 2 26122 Tulsa Jaccka (2) fr.................... N Williamson 3 55166 Kickupyaheels (3) fr.........................R Swain 4 17580 Vintage Rose (4) fr................S Tomlinson (J) 5 70314 Lilac Becky (5) fr........................E Barron (J) 6 22231 Hells Shadow (6) fr...........................R Close 7 80861 Lulu Le Mans (7) fr............................S Ottley 8 00752 Major Sass fr................................. Scratched 9 313x3 Renegade Rose (21) fr............ M Williamson 10 P661x Miss V C (22) fr.............................. B Barclay 11 17 Mossdale Lottee (23) fr................ B Hope (J) 12 231 Immer Besser (24) fr..................... G O’Reilly 13 21415 Melody’s Mischief (25) fr................B Orange 14 26206 Flame Lady fr................................ Scratched

6 2.57 CADUCEUS CLUB NUGGET FINAL MOBILE PACE $15,000, 3yo+., mobile, 2200m 1 85303 Sly Tricks (1) fr............................... A Armour 2 4252 Longueval (2) fr........................ N Williamson 3 95261 I’m Watching You (3) fr............. M Williamson 4 61635 The Night Watchman (4) fr..........R McIlwrick 5 1 Tinder Surprise (5) fr......................B Orange 6 71627 Major Menace (6) fr.......................T Williams 7 60521 The Interceptor (7) fr........................J W Cox 8 77318 Targaryen (8) fr...............................K Larsen 9 167 Robyns Shadow (21) fr...............C Ferguson 10 26410 Freddiesam (22) fr.......................... K Barclay 11 6041 Fireball (23) fr................................. B Barclay 12 22401 Baileys Diamond (24) fr.............E Barron (J) 7 3.32 EN SOLITAIRE SOUTHLAND TROTTING OAKS MBL TROT $20,000, 3yo fillies., mobile, 2200m 1 34353 Brandy And Dry (1) fr..................... B Barclay 2 10121 Chloe Rose (2) fr............................B Orange 3 01 Awapuni (3) fr............................... B Hope (J) 4 52143 Vacation Hill (4) fr..............................S Ottley 5 80315 Black Jacket (5) fr.............................R Close 6 9x221 My Moment’s Now (6) fr........... M Williamson 7 x1672 Tailored Elegance (7) fr.................T Williams 8 17148 Madam Sass fr.............................. Scratched 8 4.07pm CADUCEUS CLUB OF STHLAND/ALABAR CLASSIC MBL PACE $30,000, 2yo fillies., mbl, 2200m 1 11 Town Echo (1) fr.........................M Anderson 2 4 Tac Mac (2) fr........................... N Williamson 3 Nina Simone (3) fr.........................T Williams 4 83 Shanika (4) fr.......................................B Butt 5 55 Ariella (5) fr.......................................R Close 6 22 Sweet Lizzie (6) fr..........................B Orange

7 Who’s My Mother (7) fr...............E Barron (J) 8 4 Lifes A Beach (8) fr...............S Tomlinson (J) 9 4.43 YALDHURST HOTEL NORTHERN SOUTHLAND CUP HCP PACE $40,000, r70+ discrhcp, stand, 2700m 1 11602 Enchantee (1) fr............................ G O’Reilly 2 40956 Robyns Playboy (2) fr..................C Ferguson 3 02313 Dadndave (3) fr.............................. B Barclay 4 25063 Kruizr (4) fr.................................E Barron (J) 5 72013 Lawrence (5) fr......................... M Williamson 6 24272 Nandolo (1) 10M..............................J W Cox 7 0x183 Vintage Cheddar (2) 10M..........B Williamson 8 42162 Franco Santino (3) 10M........... N Williamson 9 60098 Henry Hubert (4) 10M...................T Williams 10 84920 Classie Brigade (1) 25M................B Orange 10 5.19pm PRYDE’S EASIFEED SOUTHERN LIGHTS HCAP TROT $30,000, r70+ discrhcp, stand, 2700m 1 63332 Full Noise (1) fr................................J W Cox 2 24115 Cuchulainn (2) fr............................ B Barclay 3 12117 One Apollo (3) fr............................ G O’Reilly 4 3x773 Picketts Ridge (4) fr.....................R McIlwrick 5 260x1 War Admiral (1) 10M......................B Orange 6 31240 The Dominator (2) 10M............ C D Thornley 7 35678 Destiny Jones (3) 10M......................S Ottley 8 46418 Monty Python (1) 20M.............. M Williamson 9 55948 Monkey’s Way (2) 20M......................R Close 10 12112 Heavyweight Hero (3) 20M..................B Butt 11 0x7x2 Dark Horse (U1) 20M............... N Williamson 12 10123 Pres The Belle (1) 30M.................T Williams 11 5.51pm LUMSDEN FOUR SQUARE MOBILE PACE $12,000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2200m 1 2444 Forsure (1) fr...................................K Larsen 2 0x80x Gabby’s Magic (2) fr....................... B Barclay

3 36x Jawbreaker(AUS) (3) fr..................B Orange 4 55 Dhaulagiri (4) fr................................J W Cox 5 960 Saint Tropez (5) fr...............................A Beck 6 22 Croesus (6) fr........................... N Williamson 7 06596 Art Profile (7) fr....................... J Morrison (J) 8 82737 Von Art (8) fr................................C Ferguson 9 Hepburn (21) fr.....................................G Lee 10 7 Onedin Hurricane (22) fr............E Barron (J) 11 022 Picture Me (23) fr..........................T Williams 12 05752 A Rocknroll Maid (24) fr........... M Williamson 13 707 Call Me Keith (25) fr........................ P Hunter 14 79443 Delight N Gold (26) fr....................... E Swain 15 5202P Scotlynn Beach Boy (27) fr...............R Close Emergency: Gabby’s Magic Pacifiers on: Rydgemont Milly (R2) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS

(G1) $200,000, WFA, 2000m 1 35711 Tiptronic td (4) 59...........................J Waddell 2 31312 True Enough td (2) 59.................M Cameron 3 0x185 On The Rocks td (9) 59.....................J Winks 4 11112 Prise De Fer t (8) 59....................... J Parkes 5 x1243 Rock On Wood (6) 59........................R Elliot 6 62114 Gino Severini t (5) 59.........................L Innes 7 60110 Justamaiz (7) 59.........................M Coleman 8 72141 Avantage tm (1) 57.........................O Bosson 9 x2141 Supera d (10) 57.......................... D Johnson 10 22837 Rondinella (3) 57.............................V Colgan 9 5.35pm BARFOOT & THOMPSON AUCKLAND CUP (G1) $500,000, OPN-SW&P, 3200m 1 53137 Azuro dm (16) 56...........................J Waddell 2 36101 Gorbachev dm (4) 56.......................J Riddell 3 32102 Platinum Invador t (6) 56....................L Innes 4 x0811 Big Mike t (1) 55.5...........................V Colgan 5 95526 Felaar t (10) 55.5........................M Cameron 6 00553 Sound d (5) 55..................................J Winks 7 22552 Roger That m (17) 55.......................S Collett 8 60632 The Good Fight b (2) 55......S Weatherley (a) 9 62155 Paisley Park tm (8) 55..................... J Parkes 10 51584 Bully Boy tm (14) 55..................... D Johnson 11 42221 Joe’s Legacy m (15) 55...............M Coleman 12 58570 Excalibur t (9) 55.............................. S Spratt 13 80884 King Of The Dance (11) 55..........C Lammas 14 76350 Dragon Storm (13) 55................. L Satherley 15 15600 Dee And Gee d (12) 54......................L Hemi 16 43317 Soleseifei d (7) 54........................T Thornton 17 64163 Etah James (3) 53.5........................ S McKay 10 6.14pm GRAVITY 1600 $50,000, MAAT, 1600m 1 52241 Drake Bay (9) 58..............................J Riddell

2 46136 Here Comes Faffy (13) 58.M Hashizume (a3) 3 2126 James Barrie d (1) 57.5......S Weatherley (a) 4 40513 Aqueduct b (3) 57.5...........................R Elliot 5 7814 Royal Charm (15) 57.5...................O Bosson 6 2339 Candid Camera (7) 57................M Cameron 7 02328 The Garrison (10) 57.........................J Winks 8 8326 Coruba Jak (2) 57........................... A Calder 9 4x40x Grand Award b (5) 57.........................L Innes 10 33322 Americo b (14) 56.5........................ S McKay 11 32551 Endean Lass d (8) 56...................C Lammas 12 915 Bad ‘n’ Bouj (11) 55.5...................... R Kozaki 13 50335 Southern Vogue (4) 55..................... S Spratt 14 x5330 Rendition (12) 54.5...................... D Johnson 15 42763 Starring Role (6) 54.5.......................S Collett Blinkers on: Livin’ On A Prayer (R1), Vedo Rosso (R2), Cha Siu Bao (R4), Sword Of Fire (R5), Rainbow Dash (R7), Americo (R10) Blinkers off: Prince Of Passion, Mumms Jewel (R7), Prise De Fer (R8), Excalibur (R9), Candid Camera, Southern Vogue (R10) Winkers on: Prince Of Passion (R7), Southern Vogue (R10) Winkers off: Cha Siu Bao (R4), Americo (R10) SELECTIONS

5 40085 Deuce Coupe m (11) 57.5......S Macnab (a2) 6 32441 Vroom d (3) 57...............................H Andrew 7 277x4 Master Lincoln (13) 57................. R Hannam 8 21834 Rukita (10) 56.5 9 86639 Floral Belt (12) 56.5............. C O’Beirne (a2) 10 79722 La Landonne m (5) 56.5.................L Allpress 11 251x5 Relda (2) 56.5.............................. C Johnson 12 60x07 Wallaceville (1) 56..........................D Bradley 13 86536 Em Kay Pops tm (8) 55.. K Chowdhoory (a2)

Race 1: Kilowatt Kid, Burlington, Mossdale Art, Miss Mucho Race 2: One Over Da Son, Sekkie Monkey, Clyde, Dipendra Race 3: Tyron’s Bit Of Lemon, Stingray Tara, Cranbourne Race 4: See Ya Write, Major Watson, Triroyale Brigade Race 5: Lulu Le Mans, Hells Shadow, Kickupyaheels Race 6: Longueval, Tinder Surprise, Baileys Diamond, Targaryen Race 7: Chloe Rose, Vacation Hill, My Moment’s Now Race 8: Town Echo, Nina Simone, Sweet Lizzie, Shanika Race 9: Vintage Cheddar, Henry Hubert, Classie Brigade, Nandolo Race 10: Heavyweight Hero, War Admiral, Dark Horse Race 11: Jawbreaker(AUS), Picture Me, Croesus, Forsure

Auckland gallops Today at Ellerslie Raceway

Auckland RC Venue: Ellerslie Meeting Date: 07 Mar 2020 NZ Meeting number: 2. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.45pm (NZT) ROYAL DESCENT STAKES $50,000, F&M SW+P, 1600m 1 12054 Media Sensation td (4) 58...........M Coleman 2 77005 Livin’ On A Prayer t (7) 58..................L Innes 3 59779 Lady Shabeel tdm (6) 58.....S Weatherley (a) 4 32412 Savy Yong Blonk t (2) 57................O Bosson 5 21477 Yatima d (1) 57............................. D Johnson 6 00x75 Elate (3) 56........................................R Elliot 7 71028 Annie’s Song (5) 55.5...................C Lammas 2 1.20pm ELLERSLIE JEWELLERS & ENGRAVERS 2100 $50,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 70442 The Buzz (3) 60......................J Fawcett (a1) 2 97233 Looks Like (2) 59............................V Colgan 3 76741 Master Herb (7) 58.5...............C Burdan (a3) 4 44321 Piping Hot (1) 58.5.......................C Lammas 5 x3335 Mighty Aslan (8) 58.......................... S Spratt 6 x0175 Vedo Rosso (6) 58...........M Hashizume (a3) 7 20632 Petrabella (9) 56.5..............................L Innes 8 82285 Avoca Willow (4) 55.5...................... A Calder 9 x8623 Lady Azamour m (10) 55.5.......... D Johnson 10 07556 Ohthoserussians d (5) 55.5............. J Parkes 11 x5726 Tunzagutz (11) 55........................T Thornton 3 1.55pm PGG WRIGHTSON/VETMED 1400 $50,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1400m 1 55127 New York Jazz m (5) 60.5.......J Fawcett (a1) 2 x6815 Breezon td (10) 59.5........................ C Grylls 3 30962 Monaco tdm (6) 58.5....................T Thornton 4 5x161 Packing Rockstar td (2) 58.............J Waddell 5 21943 Show Down d (1) 58...............C Burdan (a3)

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and Sound at $5.50 and $6 respectively.

“It was a great run in the Avondale Cup, Leith (Innes, jockey) was really happy with him, he just got held up slightly, but he finished it off well,” Latta said.

“I have been really happy with him since then. He has worked up well and he travelled up early this (Friday) morning.”

Auckland Cup (2400m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s day and placing in three stakes races, including the Gr.2 Avondale Cup (2400m) last start.

The son of Redwood stormed home late to nab second place in the Avondale Cup and has subsequently been installed as a $3.60 favourite for the Auckland Cup ahead of Australian raiders Azuro

Northern Southland harness

Northern Southland Trotting Club Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 07 Mar 2020 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 12.00pm GRINALDI LODGE MOBILE PACE $12,000, 3yo+ r60-r69., mobile, 2200m 1 11603 Mossdale Art (1) fr....................... B Hope (J) 2 13451 Miss Mucho (2) fr..................S Tomlinson (J) 3 54513 Amore Lancome (3) fr.................... K Barclay 4 95131 Tartan Robyn (4) fr................... M Williamson 5 19207 Whata Razzle Dazzle (5) fr............B Orange 6 73364 Kilowatt Kid (6) fr.......................B Williamson 7 11621 Burlington (7) fr............................. S McNally 2 12.35pm NEVILLE CLEAVER FISHING HANDICAP TROT $10,000, r50-r69 spechcp, stand, 2700m 1 35957 Rydgemont Milly (1) fr........................A Beck 2 05654 Crusher Collins (U1) fr.................. S McNally 3 14660 Lisa Marie P (1) 15M.................P Williamson 4 18960 Only One Way (2) 15M............. M Williamson 5 24410 Clyde (3) 15M.......................... C D Thornley 6 305D0 Whatwillbeewillbee (U1) 15M...........J W Cox 7 72581 Dipendra (1) 25M..........................R Stevens 8 31144 One Over Da Son (2) 25M.............B Orange 9 03721 Sekkie Monkey (U1) 25M......... N Williamson 10 57330 Humble Ladd (U2) 25M.............B Williamson 3 1.10pm AON INSURANCE BROKERS GORE MOBILE PACE $11,000, 3yo+ r57-r59., mobile, 2200m 1 52x51 Tyron’s Bit Of Lemon (1) fr............T Williams 2 41164 Stingray Tara (2) fr.................... M Williamson 3 72331 Deus Ex (3) fr........................... N Williamson 4 74821 Triple VC (4) fr.......................S Tomlinson (J) 5 214x1 Arden’s Reality (5) fr......................B Orange

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second in 2015,” she said.

“Then Five To Midnight got beaten two years ago by a pencil line and then last year it was a wet track and he ran second again, it was a good run.

“It is certainly a race you would love to win, that’s for sure.”

Platinum Invador has been in fine form already this preparation, winning the Gr.3 City Of

6 11x13 Pinched b (9) 57.5...............S Weatherley (a) 7 14320 Pullyoursocksup td (4) 57................ S Spratt 8 93224 Manchu (3) 56.5.................................L Innes 9 2120x Badea (8) 56....................M Hashizume (a3) 10 66415 Boogie Easy 55.5.......................... Scratched 11 x631x Kinshasa t (7) 55.5......................M Coleman 4 2.30 FASTTRACK INSURANCE 1600 $50,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1600m 1 18255 Ohceedee d (5) 60......................M Cameron 2 x4347 Cha Siu Bao (13) 59.5................. D Johnson 3 24233 Creative Genius td (14) 59.5..............R Elliot 4 00x75 Elate (11) 58 5 81053 Civilised td (3) 58...........................J Waddell 6 5x522 Le Sablier (6) 57.5..............S Weatherley (a) 7 93116 Justa Boy Bullseye (9) 57.5..E Nicholas (a4) 8 14541 Quick Preview t (7) 57.5................... C Grylls 9 71028 Annie’s Song (12) 55.5 10 66415 Boogie Easy (2) 55.5.......................S Collett 11 6x931 Flomiline d (8) 55.5.....................M Coleman 12 02436 Sunburst d (10) 55.5...............J Fawcett (a1) 13 80442 Guillocharm d (4) 54...............C Burdan (a3) 14 72593 William Tell (1) 54............................ A Calder 5 3.05pm WHITE CLIFFS TIMBER 1200 $50,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 19457 Darci Palmer d (11) 60..................... C Grylls 2 52232 Master Park (2) 60....................... D Johnson 3 0x6x4 O’He Can td (5) 60......................M Cameron 4 19x22 Sword Of Fire db (8) 60.................J Waddell 5 x124x Destination tdm (6) 59....................O Bosson 6 x2750 Satriani (10) 58.5........................M Coleman 7 x17x0 Finale 58....................................... Scratched 8 x1823 Three Sixty td (7) 57.5.......................R Elliot

9 421x A Proper Lady d (4) 57.......................L Innes 10 54258 Lookseasy d (1) 57..........M Hashizume (a3) 11 3x638 The Dom td (12) 57.............S Weatherley (a) 12 8x213 Midnight Magic b (9) 56.5................S Collett 13 34666 Deels Done 56.5........................... Scratched 14 x4246 Romanov Girl (3) 54..............E Nicholas (a4) 6 3.40pm SISTEMA STAKES (G1) $200,000, 2YO SW, 1200m 1 14112 Cool Aza Beel tdmb (1) 56.5..........O Bosson 2 63 Snapper (5) 56.5..........................C Lammas 3 1112 Play That Song tdmb (4) 54.5..........S Collett 4 311 Vernazza td (2) 54.5...........................L Innes 5 5232 Kelly Renee (3) 54.5........................ C Grylls 6 54301 Tivaan Warrior d (8) 54.5................ A Calder 7 24518 Laced With Gold (6) 54.5................. S Spratt 8 4x43 Only Words (7) 54.5....................M Cameron 7 4.15pm LASER PLUMBING TE PUKE 1200 $50,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1200m 1 6380x Age Of Fire t (9) 61.................C Burdan (a3) 2 1x214 Born Dragon tdb (2) 60.5.......... D Danis (a2) 3 23697 Speedy Meady dm (7) 60.....................C Dell 4 7785x Prince Of Passion tdm (11) 59.5Hashizume (a3) 5 x6518 She’s Not Bad d (13) 57.5..............O Bosson 6 56318 Bevan Street td (4) 57.5.................J Waddell 7 7x457 Hammer King d (8) 56..................C Lammas 8 23012 Riding The Wave db (3) 55..........M Coleman 9 12355 Showoroses td (5) 54.5................ D Johnson 10 56110 Mumms Jewel td (1) 54................T Thornton 11 1x7x6 Rainbow Dash t (12) 54...................S Collett 12 93224 Manchu d (6) 54.................................L Innes 13 93213 Virtuoso Lad td (10) 54.......S Weatherley (a) 8 4.55pm BONECRUSHER NEW ZEALAND STAKES

Race 1: Media Sensation, Savy Yong Blonk, Livin’ On A Prayer, Elate Race 2: Lady Azamour, Petrabella, Piping Hot, Looks Like Race 3: Packing Rockstar, Kinshasa, Pinched, Monaco Race 4: Le Sablier, Civilised, Flomiline, Guillocharm, Ohceedee Race 5: Master Park, Sword Of Fire, Three Sixty, A Proper Lady Race 6: Vernazza, Play That Song, Laced With Gold, Kelly Renee Race 7: Riding The Wave, Virtuoso Lad, Rainbow Dash Race 8: Rock On Wood, Supera, Avantage, Tiptronic Race 9: Platinum Invador, Azuro, Etah James, Joe’s Legacy Race 10: James Barrie, Aqueduct, Americo, Here Comes Faffy

Wellington gallops Today at Trentham Raceway

Wellington RC Venue: Trentham Meeting Date: 07 Mar 2020 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.25pm 29TH LEXUS MELBOURNE CUP TOUR WITH DES 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 2524 Vineyard McPhee (1) 58.5...............R Myers 2 6032x Password (2) 58.5.................... K Asano (a1) 3 45364 Castle Black (6) 58.5.................... C Johnson 4 692 Otis (7) 58......................................H Andrew 5 23 Bellesgirl (5) 56..............................L Allpress 6 7x774 Voralto (4) 56.........................S Macnab (a2) 7 44676 Sanibel (3) 56...................................D Turner 2 1.00 LUNCH CLUB MEMBER SUPPORT WELLINGTON RACING CLUB $22,500, R65 Benchmark*, 1000m 1 6138x Castani (8) 59.5.....................M Hudson (a3) 2 0x819 Almarie t (7) 58............................ C Johnson 3 6350x Play The Field m (9) 58....................R Myers 4 31034 Streak Of Power (2) 58 5 16553 Bucky (3) 58...................................L Allpress 6 x540x Galway Bro (5) 58..................S Macnab (a2)

7 2315 Showbourne d (4) 57.....................H Andrew 8 4341 Mozart’s Mistress td (6) 56.5.... K Asano (a1) 9 x321x Trendy Belt (1) 56.5................. T Taiaroa (a3) 3 1.35 NZ OAKS DAY NEXT SATURDAY 1000 $10,000, MDN 2YO, 1000m 1 2x7 Edge Of Wonder (7) 57.5............. C Johnson 2 525 Gentleman Jack (8) 57.5................H Andrew 3 7 Garbanzo (1) 57.5..........................L Allpress 4 Darci’s Flight (2) 55.5............... K Asano (a1) 5 Everdeen (5) 55.5........................ R Hannam 6 La Veille de Bell (4) 55.5........S Macnab (a2) 7 Pazienza (3) 55.5.............................R Myers 8 Snifter (6) 55.5...............................D Bradley 4 2.10pm HARRISONS CARPET 1200 $25,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1200m 1 10116 Go James d (6) 60.................. T Taiaroa (a3) 2 x4561 Excelleration (9) 59.5............... K Asano (a1) 3 2214x Nellie Bly d (3) 59.5........ K Chowdhoory (a2) 4 24226 Stumpy d (4) 59.5..........................L Allpress 5 13273 Motivation (8) 59............................H Andrew

6 4112x Colorado Star (7) 58........................R Myers 7 11x Top Brass d (5) 58............................D Turner 8 10212 Magic Incanto (2) 56.5....................... T Allan 9 40x31 Chosen Peak dm (1) 55.5 5 2.49pm DIGITAL NOMAD HANDICAP $35,000, OPN HCP, 2200m 1 08294 Sampson tdm (8) 60............... T Taiaroa (a3) 2 18276 Sergeant Blast tdm (2) 57.5...........L Allpress 3 32068 Dr Watson tm (7) 57..................... R Hannam 4 30606 Hay Tiger m (4) 55.5.................... C Johnson 5 07x99 Irish Flame tm (3) 54................ K Asano (a1) 6 32415 Awesome Al tb (5) 54.......................R Myers 7 x1721 Blue On Black (1) 54............ C O’Beirne (a2) 8 06967 Kamanda Lincoln (6) 54.................D Bradley 6 3.24 SARAH SEARANCKE CATERING 2400 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2400m 1 x7671 I Am A Craftsman (5) 59................L Allpress 2 2584x Brassy Boy m (3) 58.5......................D Turner 3 77456 La Soeur (7) 58............................ C Johnson 4 10742 All In Stitches b (8) 58....................H Andrew

5 x5150 Dangerman (2) 58.......... A Goindasamy (a2) 6 24166 Pondering (1) 58....................S Macnab (a2) 7 07185 Torque Time (4) 58................... K Asano (a1) 8 35643 Hypatia (9) 55..................................R Myers 9 7x486 Iffraajinator (6) 55......................... R Hannam 7 3.59 ANUKA SMOKER HANDICAP $35,000, OPN HCP, 1600m 1 x00x0 Wait A Sec tdm (2) 61.5...................D Turner 2 71926 Cutting Up Rough d (6) 56A Goindasamy (a2) 3 02557 Hunta Pence tdm (7) 56....... C O’Beirne (a2) 4 0x251 More Wonder d (1) 55.5............... C Johnson 5 x5843 Shadow Fox t (3) 54.5.................. R Hannam 6 09430 Toms tm (4) 54.................................R Myers 7 531x1 Sherrif (5) 54..................................L Allpress 8 4.35 HEAD TO FLAMINGO JOES AFTER THE LAST 1600 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 14453 Maduro t (7) 59....................... T Taiaroa (a3) 2 x2884 Ozil (6) 59........................................R Myers 3 67324 Spondulix dm (9) 59................. K Asano (a1) 4 24936 Monkey Shoulder (4) 58...................D Turner

Blinkers on: Vineyard McPhee, Voralto (R1), Monkey Shoulder (R8) Blinkers off: Garbanzo (R3), Hay Tiger (R5), Brassy Boy (R6)

SELECTIONS

Race 1: Bellesgirl, Vineyard McPhee, Otis, Password Race 2: Mozart’s Mistress, Almarie, Bucky, Streak Of Power Race 3: Darci’s Flight, Everdeen, Garbanzo, Edge Of Wonder Race 4: Motivation, Go James, Stumpy, Excelleration Race 5: Awesome Al, Sergeant Blast, Sampson, Hay Tiger Race 6: All In Stitches, La Soeur, Dangerman, Torque Time Race 7: Cutting Up Rough, Sherrif, Hunta Pence, Shadow Fox Race 8: Spondulix, Monkey Shoulder, La Landonne, Maduro

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Saturday, March 7, 2020

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■■RANDWICK

Pike launches Sydney assault Multiple Group One-winning sprinter The Bostonian is set to return to action at Randwick today, kicking off a Sydney autumn carnival campaign for Cambridge trainer Tony Pike.

The winner of the Gr.1 Doomben 10,000 (1200m) and Gr.1 Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) in Queensland last winter, the Jimmy Choux gelding will line up in today’s Gr.1 Canterbury Stakes at Randwick.

The Bostonian had four starts in Melbourne in the spring, headed by a third-placing in the Gr.2 Schillaci Stakes (1100m) behind subsequent The Everest (1200m) placegetter Trekking.

He also finished within two and a half lengths of the winners Nature Strip in the Gr.1 Moir Stakes (1000m) and Loving Gaby in the Gr.1 Manikato Stakes (1200m).

A stylish winner of a trial at Tauranga early last month, The Bostonian takes a strong first-up record into today’s race.

He has won five of his six starts in that state.

The Bostonian has drawn gate

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one in a seven-horse field and will be ridden by Nash Rawiller.

“With such a small field, it’s certainly going to be a very tactical race and it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out,” Pike said.

“They’ve had quite a significant amount of rain in Sydney this week, which you would say is going to help his chances.

“I’ve been really happy with his build-up. He trialled well in early February, and then he had a gallop at Ellerslie last week that I thought was very good.

“He’s going into the race in very good order and has a great record fresh. We expect him to run a very good race. If he comes through it well, the George Ryder Stakes is the logical next step.”

The Bostonian has been joined on his trip across the Tasman by two-year-old stablemate Not An Option.

The son of Not a Single Doubt was an impressive winner of his first two starts including the Gr.2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m), then placed in the Gr.2 Eclipse Stakes

(1200m) before a tough run from a wide gate when unplaced in the Karaka Million 2YO (1200m).

“He travelled over with The Bostonian and is set to trial at Randwick on the 14th,” Pike said.

“The most likely plan with him is to have two trials, then run fresh up in the Kindergarten Stakes (Gr.3, 1100m) at Randwick on April 4.

“We gave him a break after the Karaka Million (1200m), and that did him the world of good. He’s looking great and coming up very well.”

Sherwood Forest, who handed Pike his second Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie last Saturday, is also in line for a trip to Sydney.

“He’s come through the Derby well,” Pike said.

“We’re just giving him a quiet week or 10 days, and then as long as we continue to be happy with him, he’ll fly over to Sydney to run in the Rosehill Guineas (Gr.1, 2000m) on March 21. After that, the main aim will obviously be the Australian The Bostonian winning the Kingsford Smith Cup. Derby (Gr.1, 2400m).”

Gore gallops Tomorrow at Gore Raceway

Wyndham RC Venue: Gore Meeting Date 8 Mar NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.32pm PARKSIDE PANELS/TITIROA TRANSPORT MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 2000m 1 62043 My Cashier (13) 58.5....................K Williams 2 54873 Power Punch (7) 58.5................B Hong (a3) 3 65764 Picture This (4) 58.5.........................J Laking 4 45576 Mr Fahrenheit (8) 58.5..................T Moseley 5 37950 Senor Moss (14) 58.5.....................B Murray 6 2x900 Benlachie h (2) 58.5......................K Mudhoo 7 8707 Heinback Erebus (5) 58.5... C Campbell (a1) 8 98966 Renounce (9) 58.5..........................S Wynne 9 0 Southern Gent (10) 58.5................ C Barnes 10 52632 Raise Ya Cards (12) 56.5..................J Lowry 11 x00x2 Deebeewiththestars (11) 56.5.. K Asano (a1) 12 0x600 Doona’s Sister (3) 56.5......... R Mudhoo (a2) 13 78505 Sandy Cool (6) 56........................K Kwo (a3) 14 0979 Perceive (1) 56............................. C Johnson 2 1.07pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE MAIDEN $10,000, MDN F&M, 1200m 1 56x62 Llovizna (3) 57.5.....................T Comignaghi 2 87x Icanttellya (9) 57.5........................T Moseley 3 0x233 Fairway Flight (8) 57...................... C Barnes 4 7x327 Just A Girl b (2) 57....................... C Johnson 5 97x3 Elle Makfi (1) 57............. K Chowdhoory (a2) 6 4050 Verdigris (6) 57..................................J Lowry 7 07 Eavesdrop (10) 57............... C Campbell (a1) 8 0 Make Believe (11) 57......................B Murray 9 570x6 Miradello (5) 57...............................S Wynne 10 Ringadingding (7) 57................ K Asano (a1) 11 0 Ruby Royale h (4) 57............ R Mudhoo (a2) 3 1.42 AB LIME/RODGERS GARAGE MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN, 1200m

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Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Stadium Meeting Date: 08 Mar 2020 NZ Meeting number: 9 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 1.33pm (NZT) SPEEDMAPS @FORMPRO RATINGS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 82568 Ford Man 18.90 R &.............................L Udy 2 46115 Go Kiki nwtd.................................... G Farrell 3 38F68 Rion King nwtd R &..............................L Udy 4 84724 Magic Eight Ball 18.96 R &..........N O’Regan 5 65673 Thrilling Arnold 18.70.......................S Codlin 6 4F358 Tribal Conquest 18.80 R &...................L Udy 7 45232 Asserting Power 18.77.................... S O’Neill 8 25566 Platinum Tears 18.87.......................R Roper 9 55578 Shambi’s Girl 18.96.....................K T Herbert 10 66578 Smash Burton 19.12 R &.....................L Udy 2 1.51pm JO’S WHOLESALE & SPORTS BAR TAIPA TAVERN SPRINT C0, 318m 1 8x587 Mrs. Opal nwtd R &......................N O’Regan 2 Attila’s Arrow nwtd..............................H Scott 3 48764 Riccitelli nwtd....................................M Black 4 7888 Rowdy Ratbag nwtd..........................M Black 5 253 Botany Sandy nwtd..........................P Green 6 Hillbilly Brewed nwtd..........................H Scott 7 74526 Forego nwtd................................ G Pomeroy 8 26834 Get Me Home nwtd U &.....................Cottam 9 66785 Indi Shae nwtd................................ S O’Neill 10 77 Fernando Charm nwtd..................... T Green

1 0x453 Beeslaststing (5) 58.5......................J Laking 2 55854 Up My Sleeve (7) 58.5..................T Moseley 3 Our Keldon (6) 58.5........................ C Barnes 4 Swampman (1) 58.5............ C Campbell (a1) 5 53 Exchange (10) 58..............................J Lowry 6 3050x Leighton Warrior (4) 58...................S Wynne 7 Poppa (8) 58........................R Beeharry (a3) 8 767x2 The Fabulous Pearl (2) 56.5....T Comignaghi 9 x2448 The Selection b (3) 56.5..................B Murray 10 586 Sugar For My Honey (11) 56.5 Bohorun (a3) 11 Ringadingding (9) 56 4 2.17 MLT/CALDWELL CONTRACTING FIRESIDE CUP $15,000, OPN HCP, 1200m 1 96820 Pippi Rea d (6) 60...................T Comignaghi 2 44618 Lochan Ora dm (2) 59.5...............K Kwo (a3) 3 1367x Dynamic tdm (1) 58........ K Chowdhoory (a2) 4 x4850 Passito td (4) 54........................... C Johnson 5 73019 Black Label dm (5) 54...................K Williams 6 87846 Tickets On Her d (3) 54......... R Mudhoo (a2) 5 2.52pm AUTO WINDSCREEN REPLACEMENTS/ VETCO EDENDALE MDN $10,000, MDN, 1335m 1 52422 Hombre b (9) 58.5........................ C Johnson 2 34357 Blair Flight (1) 58.5...........................J Laking 3 9x375 Marmaduke (5) 58.5........................K Selvan 4 6200x Mount Hercules (8) 58.5.......... K Asano (a1) 5 0x4x Shaker (2) 58.5................... C Campbell (a1) 6 486 I’m A Tiger (3) 58.5............... R Mudhoo (a2) 7 5 Guns Ablazing (13) 58.5................ C Barnes 8 0x Ideal Warrior (6) 58.5......................S Wynne 9 7x3 The Ace (7) 58..................................J Lowry 10 x730x Speights 58................................... Scratched 11 00 My Sova (11) 58......................T Comignaghi 12 x7220 Lugano’s Ace (14) 56.5.. K Chowdhoory (a2) 13 34449 Rox (16) 56.5................................T Moseley

14 208x4 No Quantum (10) 56.5..................K Mudhoo 15 8780x Poilu 58.5...................................... Scratched 16 56080 Trip In Time (4) 56.5.....................K Kwo (a3) 17 00x09 Miss Atomic Bomb (12) 56.5 18 007 Retaliate (15) 58.............................B Murray 19 586 Sugar For My Honey 56.5............. Scratched Emergencies: Poilu, Trip In Time, Miss Atomic Bomb, Retaliate, Sugar For My Honey 6 3.27 ADVANCE AGRICULTURE/HERBERTS TRANSPORT $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1335m 1 64665 Nowhere Man m (3) 60.. K Chowdhoory (a2) 2 1150x Ringbolt m (6) 59..........................K Mudhoo 3 52962 Friar Tuck td (2) 58.5............R Beeharry (a3) 4 31332 Hazelnut tdmb (10) 58.................K Kwo (a3) 5 65818 Aulyn Star t (7) 57.5........................S Wynne 6 8x101 Gelibolu (8) 57.5...........................T Moseley 7 21250 Cabernet (1) 56............................ C Johnson 8 21218 Expedition (9) 56................... R Mudhoo (a2) 9 67543 Times Time tm (4) 55.5............ K Asano (a1) 10 700x8 The Likely Lad t (5) 54............T Comignaghi 7 4.02pm MACAULAY MOTORS/LES FRISBY CONTRACTING $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1335m 1 94103 Are You Cereal (11) 59..................K Williams 2 9345x Fulltothebrim m (5) 59......................J Laking 3 20468 Full Fury (2) 58........................ K Asano (a1) 4 2179x Sounds Promising tdm (3) 58C Campbell (a1) 5 42412 Love To Dream (9) 57.5...........T Comignaghi 6 9x700 Vice Marshall m (8) 57.5........ S Toolooa (a3) 7 83266 Promising m (15) 57......................T Moseley 8 77x50 Ruby Marie (13) 57.......................K Mudhoo 9 70x98 Malawi (4) 57.........................A Mudhoo (a4) 10 91609 Garment tdm (10) 56.5......... R Mudhoo (a2) 11 26368 Drumstorm m (14) 56.5.................. C Barnes 12 36758 Marquita Miss tm (7) 56............... C Johnson

13 0386x Molly Polly m (12) 55.5.........R Beeharry (a3) 14 10040 Fire Katyusha (6) 55....................K Kwo (a3) 15 5x039 Car Pie (1) 54.5 Emergency: Car Pie 8 4.37pm AON INSURANCE/PGG WRIGHTSON WYNDHAM CUP $25,000, OPN HCP, 2000m 1 58412 Wild Jack tdm (2) 60.............A Bohorun (a3) 2 210x2 Nomen Ludi tdmh (5) 59...............T Moseley 3 21309 Kilowatt td (7) 58.5................... K Asano (a1) 4 27216 Sitarist d (11) 57......................T Comignaghi 5 88787 Shakti tdm (10) 56.5......................K Mudhoo 6 83404 Finbarr tm (8) 56..........................K Kwo (a3) 7 29352 Riviera Rock td (4) 56.....................S Wynne 8 61x08 The Gordonian dm (3) 56.K Chowdhoory (a2) 9 03540 The Bumper tm (14) 55.5............... C Barnes 10 51209 Mr Intelligence dm (1) 54.5.......... C Johnson 11 46943 Picture Me Rollin m (12) 54.. R Mudhoo (a2) 12 27283 What’s Up Alf m (9) 54........ C Campbell (a1) 13 x0196 Teddytwinkletoes d (13) 54.............B Murray 14 38301 Beam Me Up Scotty m (6) 54........K Williams 9 5.07 HILLSIDE METALS PINEBUSH CUP $10,000, Rating 65&JMPS Benchmark*, 2000m 1 41220 Olaf t (10) 60....................... C Campbell (a1) 2 22406 Vee Twelve (9) 59..........................K Mudhoo 3 30734 Rainman (7) 57............................ C Johnson 4 43096 Our Boy Baz (2) 56.5............... K Asano (a1) 5 0x000 The Flagon m (4) 56...............T Comignaghi 6 100x0 Danzi Creek (13) 55.5..........R Beeharry (a3) 7 54557 Leuluai (5) 55.5..................... R Mudhoo (a2) 8 53736 Fine Bouquet m (6) 55.................K Kwo (a3) 9 1445x Additup m (1) 55.................... S Toolooa (a3) 10 2734x Drumgold (11) 55........................... C Barnes 11 x8736 Larippa (3) 54.5.............................T Moseley 12 50870 Stellacanto m (12) 54......................S Wynne

13 0x008 Ruakiwi Blaze td (8) 54...................B Murray

10 5.40pm ROBERT DENNIS STABLES $10,000, Rat-

ing 65&JMPS Benchmark*, 2000m 1 84869 He Ain’t Heavy tdm (5) 59.5.. A Bohorun (a3) 2 41408 Trickle Treat (8) 57.5............... S Toolooa (a3) 3 32490 Verses (3) 57.5..............................K Williams 4 0x706 Friday Knight td (11) 57........R Beeharry (a3) 5 05055 Perfecto (9) 57..................................J Lowry 6 600x9 Odysseus m (2) 56........................T Moseley 7 P606x Zed Leppelin d (1) 56............... K Asano (a1) 8 65759 Superstition m (10) 55.....................S Wynne 9 0531x Tai Ho mh (12) 55........................K Kwo (a3) 10 89784 Chookie’s Girl m (4) 54....... C Campbell (a1) 11 0x000 Never Quitz (6) 54........................ C Johnson 12 x4587 Cocee (7) 54...................................B Murray 13 x8008 Stirling Lady (13) 54................T Comignaghi Blinkers on: Verdigris (R2), Sugar For My Honey (R3), I’m A Tiger (R5), Full Fury (R7) Blinkers off: Passito (R4), Blair Flight, Mount Hercules (R5), Vee Twelve (R9), Verses, Cocee (R10) Winkers on: Picture This, Sandy Cool (R1), Fairway Flight (R2), Verses (R10) Winkers off: Verdigris (R2), Sugar For My Honey (R3), Hombre (R5), Drumgold (R9) SELECTIONS

Race 1: Power Punch, Picture This, Raise Ya Cards, Renounce Race 2: Llovizna, Elle Makfi, Just A Girl, Verdigris Race 3: The Selection, Exchange, Our Keldon, Leighton Warrior Race 4: Pippi Rea, Black Label, Lochan Ora, Dynamic, Passito Race 5: Hombre, Blair Flight, The Ace, Rox, Lugano’s Ace Race 6: Hazelnut, Nowhere Man, Friar Tuck, Aulyn Star Race 7: Malawi, Are You Cereal, Drumstorm, Marquita Miss Race 8: Picture Me Rollin, Riviera Rock, Kilowatt, Sitarist Race 9: Fine Bouquet, Larippa, Rainman, Vee Twelve, Olaf Race 10: Chookie’s Girl, Verses, Trickle Treat, He Ain’t Heavy

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium 3 2.08pm MT WELLINGTON TAB STAKES C1/2, 527m

1 x8667 Opawa Queen nwtd W &..................T Steele 2 51255 Talkabout Sophie 30.95....................M Black 3 65522 Go Angel 30.70............................... G Farrell 4 1F245 Jinja Jay 30.85 W &.........................T Steele 5 43212 Opawa Nemo 30.96 W &.................T Steele 6 73524 Enjoy The Perks nwtd......... A J Christiansen 7 85267 Pam Arising 30.74........................... S O’Neill 8 37576 Kai Nan 30.79................................. G Farrell 9 63577 Opawa Lola nwtd............................ G Farrell 10 74687 Our Nala nwtd W &..........................T Steele 4 2.26pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL SPRINT C1, 318m 1 84384 Miss Dupre nwtd.............................S E Hunt 2 64253 Ma Chere nwtd................................ S O’Neill 3 22216 Smash Out 18.94 R &..........................L Udy 4 88877 Unconscionable 18.61 R &..................L Udy 5 45747 Always Dreaming 18.58.................. G Farrell 6 13252 Portland Ecklund nwtd.......................B Craik 7 88575 Platinum Spirit nwtd.......................... S Clark 8 57627 Sweet Clover 18.81.....................K T Herbert 9 66578 Smash Burton 19.12 R &.....................L Udy 10 55578 Shambi’s Girl 18.96.....................K T Herbert 5 2.43pm QUALIFIED PET SERVICES SPRINT C4, 318m 1 12441 Kuridrani 18.49..................................M Black 2 15642 Thank You Next 18.63........................B Craik 3 8x331 Tres Vite 18.56.................................T Patton 4 71554 Our Hemi nwtd U &............................Cottam

5 21635 Express Emporium 18.72 W &.........T Steele 6 63776 Idol Nifty 18.23...................................B Craik 7 38457 Cameo Syd nwtd................................B Craik 8 67643 Call Me Leo 18.69............................ T Green 6 3.01 SPORTSBOWL FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT C1, 318m 1 58236 Bailey And Cream 18.96 R &...............L Udy 2 43124 Kapai Stewie 18.78 W &..................T Steele 3 53457 Pacemaker nwtd............................. S O’Neill 4 26616 My Snuggles 18.93......................... G Farrell 5 73472 Agbeze 18.98....................................M Black 6 5313 Portland Art 18.78..............................B Craik 7 53786 Digger Ace nwtd U &..........................Cottam 8 7F884 Tilly’s Silly 18.95 R &............................L Udy 9 55578 Shambi’s Girl 18.96.....................K T Herbert 10 66578 Smash Burton 19.12 R &.....................L Udy 7 3.18pm $15,000 GUARANTEED PICK6 STAKES C1, 527m 1 61635 Boyka nwtd..................................... G Farrell 2 33477 Crackling Gal 30.49 U &....................Cottam 3 53217 Our Hotrod nwtd U &..........................Cottam 4 32743 Opawa Big 30.91............................ G Farrell 5 73543 Tamantha nwtd...................................B Bond 6 85444 Zipping Monty nwtd.........................C Henley 7 14762 Fear The Fur 31.02......................... S O’Neill 8 67714 Bugsy Brown nwtd W &....................T Steele 9 76475 Our Scarlett nwtd............................ G Farrell 10 44575 Just Maddie nwtd..............................M Black

8 3.36pm MPS FENCING SPRINT C3/4, 318m 1 37747 Spring Mechanic nwtd R &...................L Udy 2 57x88 Quara’s Yoshi 18.45.......................P Cleaver 3 12615 Night Ace 18.53.......................... G Pomeroy 4 17722 Stay Rich 18.55 M &......................... J Smith 5 35668 Suspicious Minds 18.44.....................B Craik 6 35483 Go All Lin 18.56.............................. S O’Neill 7 111x1 Morton Keeping 18.74....................... S Clark 8 24666 Zipping Buddy nwtd...........................B Craik 9 88247 Bigtime Thor nwtd R &.................N O’Regan 10 78648 Thrilling Katie 18.40....................K R Toomer 9 3.53pm SILENCI STAKES C3, 527m 1 5443F Opawa Delight 30.59.........................B Craik 2 25644 Dig Dig Dig 30.60............................ S O’Neill 3 47814 Jinja Bailey 30.36 U &........................Cottam 4 22116 Jinja Babe 31.03..............................P Green 5 21656 Frosty Blaze 30.57........................... T Green 6 62663 Jinja Murphy 30.50 W &...................T Steele 7 43846 Kiwi Gal 30.40 U &.............................Cottam 8 21844 Looking Snatched 30.82....................B Craik 9 71645 Eddie Hemi nwtd W &......................T Steele 10 4.11 CAROL’S TAB TAIPA TAV SPRINT C2, 318m 1 67776 Choo Choo 18.65............................ G Farrell 2 25725 Pliskova 18.78................................... S Clark 3 41366 Rainy River 18.81............................S E Hunt 4 13665 Blocker 18.52 R &........................N O’Regan 5 53143 Noise Maker 18.70...........................P Green 6 6F321 Just Nia 18.80...................................M Black

7 11656 Madam Bucks 18.60................... G Pomeroy 8 18736 Botany Thommo 18.60.....................P Green 9 14457 Bigtime Jacob 18.70..........................B Craik 10 26658 It’s Pawsible 18.61...........................P Green 11 4.28pm BUDDY BOOM SPRINT C5, 318m 1 34436 Electric Dancer 18.48 W &...............T Steele 2 42734 Ashen 18.42.......................................B Bond 3 32327 Captain Kev 18.65 W &....................T Steele 4 47415 Jinja Mongo 18.34 W &....................T Steele 5 15418 Carbon Tiger 18.41 W &..................T Steele 6 15814 Prerogative 18.73 U &........................Cottam 7 65141 Kiwi Boy 18.18 U &............................Cottam 8 53315 Podium Phobia 18.53.........................B Craik 9 31158 Manila Bala 18.24 R &.................N O’Regan 12 4.46pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C2, 318m 1 72555 Audrette 18.45...................................B Bond 2 7536x Cawbourne Cool 18.68...............K T Herbert 3 52231 Botany Esmay 18.69........................P Green 4 61344 Firefly Laffey nwtd............................S Codlin 5 66666 Zugzwang 18.54............................. S O’Neill 6 53274 Grey Way 18.64.......................... G Pomeroy 7 54432 Gain Capital 18.53.............................B Craik 8 54258 Bigtime Gal 18.92 R &.................N O’Regan 9 14458 Nexus 18.60.................................... G Farrell 10 26658 It’s Pawsible 18.61...........................P Green LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Saturday, March 7, 2020

■■COVID 19

Sports world under caution

By Tim Dahlberg So far, at least, spring training ballparks are drawing good crowds and NBA and NHL arenas are mostly full.

There’s little sign of coronavirus panic among US sports fans, even if the team store doesn’t carry masks with their favorite player’s name and number on them.

That may change.

And soon.

Two colleges this week cancelled trips to the Seattle area for basketball games after an outbreak of the new coronavirus in Washington state, the first major US sports disruptions because of the virus.

Chicago State officials said in a statement that the decision not to make the trip to an area under a state of emergency was done with the “health and well-being of the campus community in mind.’’

It might be undue caution, but the schools decided the risk of contracting the virus was greater than reward of possibly winning a game.

That mean’s there will be no senior day this year at Seattle University, where players were supposed to be honored before Saturday’s game against Missouri-Kansas City.

These are dangerous and unpredictable times.

“There’s a virus spreading that can kill, and it seems no large gathering is completely safe.

In Denmark on Thursday, a former professional soccer player who represented the country at the 2010 World Cup tested positive for the virus.

Thirteen people who attended a soccer game in Amsterdam along with Thomas Kahlenberg were put in home quarantine, while three players from the Lyngby club who had been in contact with Kahlenberg were also quarantined.

And in Las Vegas, where five conference basketball tournaments will be played over the next week, officials yesterday announced the first presumptive case of the virus.

Nobody knows just how much the coronavirus will spread.

Nobody knows how much it will disrupt American sports or American society.

Recent events in affected areas around the world, though, suggest it won’t be good.

An ominous pattern is developing that threatens sports – at least temporarily – as we know them now.

In Italy, all sports events will take place without fans for at least

A man makes use of a hand-sanitising station at CenturyLink Field prior to an MLS soccer match between the Seattle Sounders and the Chicago Fire.

PHOTO AP the next month as officials scramble to contain the virus from spreading.

Sports competitions and pre-Olympic events have been cancelled in Japan, even as organizers vow the Summer Olympics will go on as planned in July.

In England, pre-game handshakes between Premier League players have been banned, and there are suggestions some future matches may end up being played without fans.

Even players in the Italy-South Korea Davis Cup qualifier this weekend will have to adjust.

They will handle their own towels, so the ball kids don’t have to touch their sweat.

Suddenly, the hypothetical doesn’t seem so hypothetical anymore.

Sports draw crowds, and crowds are the enemy of efforts to contain the virus.

Could we see empty stadiums as the major league season begins?

It seems implausible at first blush, but the Seattle Mariners open at home in three weeks and right now all bets are off.

How about March Madness, where thousands gather in arenas across the country?

Does anyone trust the NCAA with coming up with a plan to protect both athletes and fans as so little is still known about where the virus has spread?

Let’s go a little further down the road on a crowded spring sports schedule. Can you imagine a Kentucky Derby run with no spectators?

A Masters played with just players on the course?

Again, no one really knows.

Already, though, those with underlying medical conditions are being advised to stay away from crowds, and people 65 and older are at tremendous risk, too, And, really, how much fun will it be to be at a basketball game while listening with increasing

dread to sniffles from fans in the row behind?

An unexpected sneeze could empty a row, or even a section.

Players themselves are also at risk.

Already NBA players are avoiding high-fives and autograph seekers, acting on league guidance, and MLB is telling players not to accept balls and pens from fans when signing autographs.

And how about the possibility of players catching the virus from team-mates?

In Florida yesterday, Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish was scratched from a scheduled start because of illness and he tweeted that he was worried about being in the clubhouse because he had a cough.

Meanwhile, in Switzerland IOC President Thomas Bach insisted the Olympics will begin as scheduled in Tokyo in July.

The words postponement and cancellation weren’t even brought

up in two days of IOC meetings, Bach said.

Bach, of course, is protecting both the golden goose and the Olympic brand.

But the bottom line is he can’t forecast how this will all end up any more than baseball commissioner Rob Manfred can.

A number of Olympic qualifiers have already been postponed and are in limbo.

And while next week’s lighting of the Olympic torch in Greece is still on, it’s hard to imagine a torch relay following as planned across Japan beginning March 26 if the virus is still spreading there.

Right now, the biggest inconvenience for US sports fans is having to carry hand sanitiser and wait in longer lines at the washroom sinks.

But events are proving to be as fast moving as the virus.

That could change and change quick.

Nobody really knows.

Barker concerned about effects of virus on America’s Cup American Magic skipper Dean Barker has labelled the upcoming America’s Cup World Series event in Cagliari a “risky proposition”, following the realities of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy.

Barker is hopeful a decision will be made on the future of the event

in the next three weeks as syndicates continue their preparations.

The first stop on the World Series is scheduled to be held next month in Cagliari, on the island of Sardinia off the coast of Italy, which will be a historic event as the four syndicates get out on the water to race

their AC75s for the first time. However, the event is in jeopardy due to the virus outbreak, which has seen sporting events across Italy altered or cancelled.

Barker said they could only work with the information they had at the moment, which was

that at this stage the event would go ahead as planned.

“I think you’d say with everything you read about in Italy, it sounds like it’s certainly a risky proposition right now, but I’m sure the guys running the event there are talking with the Italian

government and what have you to try and understand what’s required,” Barker said. “You hear about football matches with no one in the stadiums and all the travel bans around Northern Italy.

So, definitely, you do wonder how likely it is that it will happen.”

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REAL ESTATE

- Harcourts Ashburton Office won an Excellence Award for the 'Harcourts Client Experience Office Award' 2nd Place in the South Island Region for Oct-Dec 2019 - Harcourts Ashburton Office placed 4th for Harcourts ‘Top Office Revenue’ for Oct-Dec 2019 out of all offices in our size category (3 tiers) - Jill Leonard was awarded a Harcourts ‘Bronze Achievement Award' for achieving bronze sales status for Oct-Dec 2019 - Jill Leonard was presented with her ‘10 year long service trophy’ - Jill Leonard was awarded a Harcourts ‘Diamond pin’ for achieving over $50 million in sales - Della Glassey won an Excellence Award ‘Harcourts Client Experience Individual Award’ 2nd Place in the South Island Region for Oct-Dec 2019 - Sue Prendergast was awarded a Harcourts ‘Bronze Achievement Award' for achieving bronze sales status for Oct-Dec 2019 - Tammy McDougall was awarded a Harcourts ‘Platinum Achievement Award’ for achieving platinum sales status for Oct-Dec 2019 - Tammy McDougall was awarded a Harcourts ‘Sapphire pin’ for achieving over $20 million in sales in her first 18 months in real estate - Tammy McDougall won a Harcourts ‘Top Twenty Sales Award’ for placing 7th Place in the South Island Region for sales for Oct-Dec 2019 and placed 37th out of all Harcourts sales people in New Zealand for ‘NZ Top 100 Total Earnings’ Dec 2019

Daily Dairy SATURDAY

9am ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh produce, hot drinks and more. North end West Street carpark.

9am - 12pm CRAFT MARKET. Woodwork, jewellery, Rawleighs products, clothing and much more.

West Street car park.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open every Thursday and Saturday with almost 1000 different toys to choose from for hire. 106 Victoria Street, The Triangle,

SUNDAY

8am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park St. 8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Rev Henry Mbambo. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST CHURCH. Morning worship with Rev Heather Kennedy, Paterson’s Chapel, corner East and Cox Street.

10am HAKATERE PRESBY TERIAN PARISH.

MONDAY

6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Rd. 9.30am - 4pm ST JOHN OPPORTUNITY SHOP. Open daily from 9.30am 4pm and Saturday 9.30am - 1pm. 129 Tancred Street.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN.

Mar 7, 8 & 9, 2020

Ashburton.

9.30am - 1pm ST JOHN OPPORTUNITY SHOP. Open daily and on Saturday 9.30am - 1pm. 129 Tancred St. 10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main St. 10am - 12pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome. Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

10am - 12pm VINTAGE CAR CLUB MUSEUM AND PARTS SHED. Open to the public.

Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet, new members welcome, Allenton Sports Club Cavendish Street.

10.30am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton

airport, Seafield Road.

10.30am - 3.30pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. You are welcome to bring your embroidery and join us for stitching and friendship. Seniors Centre.

1.15pm (draw) WAIREKA GOLF CROQUET. Golf croquet doubles, new players welcome. Waireka, Philip Street.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association Croquet, new members welcome.

Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

Morning worship and communion led by Rev Johanna Warren, all welcome. 127 Thomson St. 10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBY TERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship and service led by Rev Eric Mattock, all welcome.

Sinclair Centre, Park St. 10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and Hall of Memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service, all welcome. 67 Cass St. 10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Holy Communion, Thomson Street.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park St. 10am - 1pm MANIA O ROTO SCOUT MUDSLIDE. You are all invited to join the Mania o roto Scout groups for the annual mudslide. Gold coin entry, ideally old clothes and closed in shoes. Mania o roto Scout Park, 2 Chalmers Ave. 10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson St (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.15pm (draw) WAIREKA GOLF CROQUET. Golf Croquet Doubles, new players welcome. Waireka, Philip Street.

7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson St (Tinwald School hall).

Join us for a fun day filled with activities for the over 60 years. For information phone Age Concern 308 6817. Seniors Centre.

10.30am COMMUNITY WALKING GROUP. Hockey Pavilion, Walnut Ave. 12pm BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. Weekly lunch, available at Baptist Church, Cass St. 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and

Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome. Heritage Centre, West Street.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Assn Croquet, New members welcome, Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

4.30pm - 7pm GIRLS BRIGADE. Any enquiries please phone Rachel on 0211 1226 063.

Ashburton Baptist Church, Cass Street.

6pm

PUBLIC NOTICES

MAYFIELD A&P SHOW Mayfield A&P Showgrounds

Saturday, March 14 from 8am All the fun of an A&P show ... Sheep, Horses, Ponies, Produce Shed, Biggest ever Pet Tent, Shearing, Scavenger Hunt and live entertainment all day Plus exciting activities for all to enjoy As always, there’s our World Famous Racing Pigs!

COME SEE THE TRACTOR PULL!

Come and have a great day in the country at our community show.

LET OR LEASE

FOR RENT

• Three bedrooms • Separate lounge • Storage room or office • Secure section • 9x6m garage • Log fire • Off-street parking • $400 per week Vince Carr M 027 434 6634 pggwre.co.nz/ASH31040

ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Rd. 6.30pm - 9pm THE MID CANTERBURY LINEDANCERS. 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Easy Intermediate following onto Intermediate level from 7.30pm to 9pm.

Instructor Annette Fyfe 0274 813131. Tinwald Hall, Grahams Street.

7pm - 9.30pm R AND R LINE DANCING ASHBURTON. Beginners/Intermediate weekly line dance class.

Enquiries Rayma 0274 867 504. Balmoral Hall, 240 Cameron Street.

Adults $15, Children FREE

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Limited, licensed under the REAA 2008.

Looking for a person to join your business?

Call the Guardian for all your classified requirements.

307 7900

L A U ANNERAL GEN Ashburton Rock 'n' Roll Club Annual General Meeting to be held Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 5pm MSA.

Lagmhor Community Society Incorporated AGM Tuesday, March 24, 2020 5.45pm at Lagmhor School site.

All welcome.

To advertise in AGM phone Classifieds

03 307 7900

Got something to sell?

Having a garage sale?

Call the Guardian today for your advertising requirements.

307 7900

Classifieds 22 Ashburton Guardian

SITUATIONS VACANT

TINWALD

We are looking for a person to help on our dry land farm with tractor and sheep work as well as general farm maintenance.

Part-time Positions We are on the hunt for confident and energetic staff for a new restaurant opening in Tinwald, Ashburton.

Positions available are: • Front of house • Duty managers • Kitchen hand • Sous chef (with 3-4 years’ experience)

Experience is essential.

Farm is near Hinds so own transport needed.

A bit about the role: You’ll be a multi-channel specialist and will deliver proactive and reactive customer engagement across all contact centre channels – making sure our customers have the best experience possible.

Is this you?

You’re a real people person - always keen to help and chat to people. Ideally, you’ll have some contact centre experience and are looking to move into the financial services industry.

You’ll have an engaging, positive and clear phone manner and can strong build relationships with our customers.

You’re looking to commit for the long haul somewhere you’re valued, respected and have the opportunity to take the time with our customers – adding a real human touch!

Apply now via the Heartland Careers website www.heartland.co.nz/about-us/careers

www.heartland.co.nz/about-us/careers

You will also support the conference and event side of the business with service, set up and pack down.

Call or text a message to 027 6891145.

TEACHER AIDE

If this sounds like you please forward a cover letter and CV to: office@tinwaldtavern.co.nz by the 16th March, 2020.

TRADES, SERVICES

307 7900

We are looking for a Sales Consultant - Retail Investments to join our Ashburton team.

These positions are part-time and include nights and weekends. Experience is an advantage but not essential.

May suit a semiretired person.

Guardian Classifieds

Want to join the Heartland team?

The ideal candidates will have: • A warm and relaxed manner with fantastic communication skills.

• An ambition to learn.

• A passion for outstanding food and beverage, and all things hospitality.

The person we require needs to be honest, capable and able to work independently.

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Heartland Bank

Function Centre Ltd

The work will be five days a week but hours can be flexible.

MEADOW hay, very good quality, conventional bales, shed stored. Pick up from near airport. $6.50 each.

Cash only. Phone 308 6745.

SITUATIONS VACANT

SITUATIONS VACANT

FARM WORKER

COMPUTER PROBLEMS??

For professional computer servicing and laser engraving, see Kelvin at KJB Systems, 4 Ascot Place. Phone 308 8989. Locally owned and serving Ashburton for 30 years. Same day service if possible.

Supergold discount card welcomed.

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Saturday, March 7, 2020

MOTORING

GRAZING

WHEEL alignments at HORSE grazing great prices. Maximise the available, Tinwald area. life of your tyres with an Phone 027 785 1069. alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308 6737 FOR SALE GREEN old man pine $170, 3.6m³. Phone Shane James HIRE Firewood 027 611 334.

GENERAL hire. Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, PEA STRAW - conventional trailers, and more. All your bales $6 delivered. Pea Straw DIY / party hire, call and see - medium square bales $45 Ashburton U-Hire. 588 East delivered. Pea Vine Hay Street. Open Monday-Friday Round bales $90 delivered.

7am - 6pm; Saturday 7.30am Enquiries, please phone - 5pm; Sunday 8.30am - Andrew 020 402 33792.

12.30pm - Phone: 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT LISA, Asian lady, size 8, 34D busty, 26 years old.

Good massage, excellent service.

In/out calls.

Phone 021 046 4314.

SONYA – Attractive, busty and appointments.

Genuine callers. Phone 021 027 59055. No texting.

DESIGN TEAM

Hampstead School seeks a teacher aide to work approximately 15 hours/week across a range of students, including those with special needs (ORS).

Position commencing March 16, term 1.

Please forward your CV and a covering letter to: The Principal Hampstead School 55 Wellington Street, Ashburton or via peter.m@hampsteadschool.co.nz Applications close March 11

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Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Consultations will be by appointment only. To make a booking please phone 0800 700 155.

Weekend Services

Medical ServiceS

IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

For all other medical assistance outside of normal hours, please phone your General Practice team, 24/7, to speak with a health professional who will give you free health advice on what to do or where to go if you need urgent care If you don’t have a regular General Practice, call any GP team 24/7 for free telephone health advice.

DUTY DOCTORS Sealy Street Medical Centre, Sealy Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday.

Consultation will be by appointment only.

Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday.

Consultation will be by appointment only.

Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID.

Methven & Rakaia Area

For weekend and emergency services please phone Methven Medical Centre on 302 8105 or Rakaia Medical Centre on 303 5002 for details on how to access the after-hours service each weekend.

Healthline is a free health advice service. It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The toll-free number to call is 0800 611 116. Healthline is staffed by registered nurses who are trained to assess health problems and offer advice over the phone. The service is free and confidential.

Pharmacies

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency Lifeline

Ashburton Rest Homes

Art Gallery

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm, Wednesday: 10am – 7pm

Emergency Dentist

Ashburton Museum

Dog, Stock & Noise Control

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm

If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am - 5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Helpline ServiceS Alcoholics Anonymous

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or visit www.aa.org.nz for more information.

Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955.

Ask for the Crisis Team.

Safe Care - 24hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis

Support. Phone 03 364 8791

Victims Support Group

24hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846).

Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm, outside of these hours leave a message.

Alcohol Drug Help Line

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Toll-free: 0800 353 353.

Bus Departures

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 5pm - 7pm both evenings.

coMMunity ServiceS

Ashburton Public Library

aniMal ServiceS Ashburton District Council 03 307 7700 - 24hr service.

Animal Welfare Centre

All enquiries - phone 308 4432 or 027 3329286.

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday: 10am - 1pm.

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter

EA Networks Centre - Pools

Veterinarians

Contact - President 021 1356 969.

20 River Terrace - phone 03 308 4020. WEEKEND HOURS: ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, Sat and Sun 7am - 7pm. Public holidays 10am - 5pm.

149 Cameron Street, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein.

Full emergency service all weekend.

Mail Closing Times ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Cnr East Street and Seafield Road, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

Information Centre Vet Ent and Vet Life operate a joint after-hours SMALL Methven - Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10am until 3pm. Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

Trades & Services

To place a Trades & Services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

YOUR LOCAL TV RECEPTION SPECIALIST • • • • • • •

Your local authorised Freeview installer Commercial TV systems Extra phone points TV wall mounting Future proof pre-wire of new homes Authorised Sky installer Home theatre installation

ASHBURTON TV & AUDIO LTD Ph 308-7332 or 027-277-1062 CALL GROUTPRO FOR AN HONEST DISCUSSION ABOUT YOUR GROUT AND TILE AFTERCARE

To deal with Dirty Tiles and Grout CALL GROUTPRO WE HELP YOU KEEP ON TOP OF YOUR SHOWER AND TILE MAINTENANCE

• Tile shower makeovers • Professional tile and grout cleaning • Re-colouring existing grout

HEAT PUMPS KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE ALL YEAR ROUND

HEAT PUMPS

• Sealing and repairing/replacing tiles/grout • Replacing mouldy and tired silicon

electriCOOL Ltd

WE TRANSFORM TILES/GROUT IN BATHROOMS, KITCHENS, SHOWERS, BALCONIES, CONSERVATORIES AND ANY TILED AREA

Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems phone 0274 362 362 or 308 4573.

Contact GroutPro Brett Muir for a quote and an upfront honest discussion.

www.groutpro.co.nz

027 746 7632

Keeping your property protected with a security camera system from Masterguard Protect your biggest asset with a home security camera package from Masterguard Call me today for a free, no obligation quote

Hartley Curd phone 0800 788 393 or 021 328 301 57 Dobson Street, Ashburton.

OCAL

100% L

Book your high windows in today “we clean to a standard, not a price”

Mobile Mower servicing • Rotary Mowers • Ride-on Mowers • Water Blasters • Small Motor Repairs

• All staff are police vetted •Able to travel out of town

03 307 2656 | www.ashburtoncleaning.co.nz

TALBOT SECURITY GROUP

• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

Stan Keeley, Owner

• regular full house cleans • one off spring cleans • farm houses • builders cleans • floor buffing

Key Cutting Solutions • • • • •

Key Reprogramming House Keys Transponder Car Keys Car Remotes Car Keys

E - operations@talbotsecurity.co.nz P - 03 307 2409 anytime 24/7

Ph 307 0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36

Lifestyle

CONNECTIONS

Open all hours We service and repair all makes and models of sewing machines and overlockers Phone 308 3927 Cell 027 434 4809 205 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton

Open 7 Days | P 03 307 6277 | Main South Road, Tinwald | www.anniesquilts.co.nz

Television 24 Ashburton Guardian

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Saturday, March 7, 2020

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PRIME

6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Fishing And Adventure 3 0 7:30 Infomercials 8am Faith In Action 3 8:30 Infomercials 9am Whanau Living 3 9:30 Tagata Pasifika 10am Pacific Island Food Revolution 0 11:05 John And Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen 12:05 A Place To Call Home PGR 3 0 1:15 Your Home Made Perfect 3 0 2:30 F The Hotel Inspector Returns 3 0 3:30 Sarah Beeny’s Renovate Don’t Relocate 4:25 Motoka Andy Ellis, Hayden Paddon, and Kris Green travel the length of New Zealand in search of the quintessential kiwi motor car. 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 0 8pm L Lotto The Lotto draw.

8:05 Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway Continued. 0 8:15 Best Home Cook The cooks must make their ultimate meringues. 0 9:30 Aretha! A Grammy Tribute To The Queen Of Soul 0

6am Takaro Tribe 3 0 6:10 Thomas And Friends 0 6:25 Tinpo 0 6:30 Blaze And The Monster Machines 3 0 6:50 The Insectibles 3 0 7:05 Thunderbirds Are Go! 0 7:25 The Amazing World Of Gumball 0 7:50 Beyblade Burst Rise 0 8:15 Ninjago 0 8:40 Justice League 0 9am Regular Show PGR 0 9:15 Walk The Prank 0 9:35 The Simpsons 3 0 10am Fresh 10:30 Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 11:25 Black-Ish 3 0 11:55 F Doctor Who PGR 3 0 1:25 Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud 3 0 2:25 The Bachelorette NZ 3 0 6pm Friends 3 0 7pm M Mr Popper’s Penguins PGR 2010 Family Comedy. A driven businessman is clueless when it comes to the important things in life, until he inherits six penguins. 0 8:45 M Water For Elephants PGR 2011 Drama. 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Infomercials 9:30 NewsHub Nation 0 10:30 The Taste USA 3 11:30 Married At First Sight US – The First Year PGR 3 12:25 Face Off PGR 3 1:20 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show PGR 0 2:30 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 3pm The Goldbergs PGR 0 3:25 Survivor – David v Goliath 0 4:20 Guadalquivir A lone fox sets out on a journey from the snow-covered peaks of Cazorla to the seashore, where the Guadalquivir flows into the Atlantic Ocean. 0 5:30 HelloWorld An Australian travel-and-lifestyle series exploring destinations around the world.

6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm America’s Got Talent – The Champions 0 8:55 M Angels And Demons AO 2009 Crime. A Harvard symbologist finds ancient forces will stop at nothing to advance their goals as he unravels a plot to blow up the Vatican.

Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer. 0

11:10 Mrs Wilson AO 3 Alison’s search for answers sends her on a difficult journey where she soon arrives at the door of a reluctant collaborator in her late husband’s lies. 0 12:25 Doctor Doctor AO 3 0 1:30 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 3:35 Infomercials

11:15 M Conspiracy Theory AO 1997 Thriller. A man who sees conspiracies everywhere stumbles across a real one. 0 1:45 M Mortdecai AO 2014 Crime Comedy. 0 3:35 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 4am Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 Religious Infomercials

11:30 M Nanny Surveillance AO 2018 Thriller. After a break-in, a couple decide to install a deluxe home-security system. They give their new nanny all the pass codes and she torments them by controlling the system from her laptop. 0 1:20 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

Mr Popper’s Penguins 7pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 10am Judge Jerry 3 10:30 The Kelly Clarkson Show 3 11:30 The Kelly Clarkson Show 3 12:30 Hoarders 3 1:30 Hoarders 3 2:30 Love It Or List It 3 3:30 Love It Or List It 3 4:30 Undercover Boss 3 0 5:30 Undercover Boss 3 6:30 Undercover Boss 3 7:30 Botched PGR 3 8:30 Vanderpump Rules AO With the Kentucky wedding days away, Jax must decide whether to forgive Tom Sandoval; Ariana must find the enthusiasm to attend her own birthday party; after James sends Raquel hurtful text messages, Raquel gives him an ultimatum.

9:30 The Real Housewives Of New Jersey AO 10:30 A Lie To Die For AO 3 11:30 Love It Or List It 3

Sunday

12:20 Infomercials 3 5am How Do I Look? 3

The Sixties

7:30pm on Prime

SKY 5 6am Trucking Hell M 6:50 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 9:35 Trucking Hell M 10:35 Supernatural MVS 11:25 Curfew MVC 12:15 Supergirl MVS 1:05 Ax Men ML 2pm SmackDown Live MVC 4:05 Main Event MV 4:50 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7:30 Trucking Hell M A lorry has straddled the M1’s central barrier, and Steve must winch it off; Jim risks life and limb to rescue a tractor.

8:30 Lazy Boy Garage PG 9pm Ax Men ML 10pm Classic Pawn Stars PG 10:30 Trucking Hell M 11:20 The Simpsons PG 11:45 The Simpsons PG Sunday 12:15 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG 2:10 Lazy Boy Garage PG 2:35 Supergirl MVS 3:20 Main Event MV 4:05 Classic Pawn Stars PG 4:30 Ax Men ML 5:15 Chicago PD 16V

MAORI

6am Ben 10 – Alien Force 3 0 6:25 Hank Zipzer, The World’s Greatest Underachiever 3 0 6:50 Endangered Species 3 0 7:15 Henry Danger 7:40 Legion Of Super Heroes 3 0 8:05 The Fairly OddParents 3 0 8:30 Batman – The Animated Series 0 9am Samurai Jack PGR 0 10am SmackDown PGR 3 11am Raw PGR 3 Noon Ice Road Truckers PGR 3 0 1pm Antiques Road Trip 3 2pm American Restoration 3 0 2:30 Rugby League – Super League (RPL) 4:30 Hot Bench 3 5pm Addicted To Fishing 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Homes By The Med Charlie explores some island homes, including a harbour-front house with a glass floor. 0 7pm WhichCar 0 7:30 The Sixties PGR 3 1968 was one of the most dramatic years in American history, including the assassination of Martin Luther King jr and Robert Kennedy, the election of Richard Nixon, and more. 0 8:30 Hellfire Heroes PGR 0 9:30 Super Rugby (DLY) Crusaders v Reds.

11:30 UFC 248 Countdown – Adesanya v Romero Go behind the scenes with champs Israel Adesanya and Zhang Weili as they prepare for their respective challengers, Yoel Romero and Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

12:30 Clash Of The Collectables 1am Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

7:12 The Miracle Season PG 2018 Drama. Helen Hunt, Erin Moriarty. 8:52 Widows 16VLS 2018 Drama. Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez.

11am Support The Girls MLSC 2018 Comedy. Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson.

12:30 Breakthrough PG 2019 Drama. Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace. 2:25 The Miracle Season PG 2018 Drama. Helen Hunt, Erin Moriarty. 4:05 Secret Summer PG 2015 Drama.

Lindsey Shaw, Derek Theler.

5:30 Then Came You MLSC 2019 Drama. Asa Butterfield, Maisie Williams. 7:05 Another Kind Of Wedding MLSC 2018 Comedy. Kathleen Turner, Kevin Zegers. 8:30 Finding Steve McQueen MLS 2018 Drama. When thieves attempt to rob President Nixon’s secret fund, the plan quickly goes awry, prompting the biggest manhunt in FBI history.

Travis Fimmel, Rachael Taylor.

10:05 Yesterday MLSC 2019 Comedy. Himesh Patel, Lily James.

Sunday Midnight The Old Man And The Gun ML 2018 Drama. Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek. 1:35 Slut In A Good Way 16LSC 2018 Drama. Marguerite Bouchard, Romane Denis. 3:05 Secret Summer PG 2015 Drama.

Lindsey Shaw, Derek Theler.

4:30 Finding Steve McQueen MLS 2018 Drama.

6:10 Beauty Shop MS 2005 Comedy. Queen Latifah.

7:55 Parental Guidance PG 2012 Comedy. Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei.

9:40 Legend 18VL 2015 Biography Crime. Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton.

11:50 Barbershop – The Next Cut MLS 2016 Comedy.

Ice Cube, Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson.

1:45 Scary Movie 5 MVLS 2013 Comedy Horror. Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Snoop Dogg.

3:15 Transformers – Dark Of The Moon MVL 2011 Action.

Shia LaBeouf. 5:45 The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button MLS 2008 Drama.

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett.

8:30 X-Men MV 2000 Action. At a private academy for mutants, the resident superhero team must oppose mutant terrorists. Adapted from the Marvel Comics series.

Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin.

10:20 The Wolf Of Wall Street 18LS 2013 Drama.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill.

Sunday 1:13 Scary Movie 5 MVLS 2013 Comedy Horror. 2:37 A Night At The Movies – The Horrors Of Stephen King M 2012 Documentary. 3:36 The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button MLS 2008 Drama.

CHOICE

6:30 Waiata Mai 6:40 My Mokai 7:10 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 7:20 He Rourou 3 7:30 Potae Pai 3 7:40 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 7:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Huritua 8:30 Pukana 3 2 10am Swagger 10:30 Whanau Bake Off 3 11am School Of Training 3 11:30 HakaNation Noon Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 1pm Haati Grassroots Rugby 3 2pm Poitukohu Kura Tuarua 3 3pm Total Combat PGR 3 4pm Tangaroa With Pio 4:30 Paki Vault 3 5pm The Hui 5:30 Nga Tamariki O Te Kohu 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am My Second Restaurant In India 6:30 City Beneath The Waves – Pavlopetri 7:30 Baby Animals And Friends 8:30 Mysteries At The Museum 9:30 Monty Don’s American Gardens 10:30 Culinary Genius 11:30 American Pickers 3 12:30 Building The Dream 1:30 Escape To The Chateau – DIY 2:30 City Beneath The Waves – Pavlopetri 3:30 Hugh’s Wild West 4:30 Healthy Food Guide 5pm Paul Hollywood – A Bakers Life 5:30 Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled 6:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club

7pm M Moshi Monsters – The Movie PGR 2013 Animated Adventure. Based on the virtual world of Moshi Monsters. The monsters band together to stop the evil Dr Strangelove and his sidekick from pulverising the Great Moshling Egg. 8:40 M The Godfather AO 1972 Crime.

7:30 Restoration Home 8:30 Antiques Roadshow 9:30 M Michael Clayton AO 2007 Drama. An attorney known as The Fixer in his law firm comes across the biggest case of his career, which could produce bad results for those involved. George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson.

11:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

Midnight Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am French Top 14 Highlights 6:40 Super Rugby – Crusaders v Reds (RPL) 8:40 L Gallagher Premiership – Worcester v Northampton From Sixways Stadium.

11am Super Rugby – Crusaders v Reds (RPL) 1pm Super Rugby – Waratahs v Chiefs (RPL) 3pm Thursday Night Kick Off 3:30 Gallagher Premiership – Worcester v Northampton (RPL) 5:30 Super Rugby – Crusaders v Reds (HLS) From Orangetheory Stadium, Christchurch.

6pm Super Rugby – Waratahs v Chiefs (HLS) From WIN Stadium, Wollongong.

6:30 L Super Rugby – Hurricanes v Blues From Sky Stadium, Wellington.

9:10 L Super Rugby – Rebels v Lions From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

11:30 Super Rugby – Crusaders v Reds (HLS)

Sunday

Midnight Super Rugby – Hurricanes v Blues (RPL) 2am L Super Rugby – Sharks v Jaguares From Jonsson Kings Park in Durban. 4:10 L Super Rugby – Bulls v Highlanders From Loftus Versfield, Durban.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

Midnight Hugh’s Wild West 1am Carver Kings 1:30 Cash Cowboys 2:30 M Michael Clayton PGR 2007 Drama. George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson.

5am Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club

SKY SPORT 2 7:30 Blackcaps v India (HLS) Second Test Wrap.

From Hagley Oval, Christchurch.

9:30 Blackcaps v Pakistan 2010 (RPL) First T20.

1pm Blackcaps v England 2008 (HLS) Fourth ODI. 2pm Women’s T20 World Cup (RPL) White Ferns v Sri Lanka.

5pm Pakistan Super League – Karachi v Multan (HLS) 5:30 Chats – The Ewen Chatfield Story Ewen Chatfield, aka The Naenae Express, played his last game of cricket for his beloved Wellington club Naenae Old Boys at the age of 68.

6pm Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) England v South Africa.

6:30 Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) Semi-final Two – Australia v South Africa.

7pm South Africa v Australia (HLS) First ODI. 8pm South Africa v Australia (HLS) Second ODI. From Muangaung Oval, Bloemfontein.

9pm L South Africa v Australia Third ODI. From Senwes Park, Potchefstroom.

5:30 Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) Semi-final Two – Australia v South Africa.

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PRIME

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Life TV 3 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R With Eru And K’Lee 9:30 The Hui 0 10am NewsHub Nation 0 11:05 Ainsley’s Market Menu Noon Ocean Bounty 3 0 1pm Motorsport – The Grid 1:30 Motorsport – World Speedway Championship Round 10, Torun Poland.

3pm Motorsport – ABB FIA Formula E Championship 4pm Motorsport – V8 Supercars Super2 Series Adelaide.

4:55 Wild Weather With Richard Hammond 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6am Extreme Road Rescue 3 0 6:50 Tiny House Nation 3 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 3 8:30 Off The Grid With Pio 0 9am Q+A With Jack Tame 0 10am F Islands Of The Gulf 3 0 10:30 Haka Global 0 10:55 Attitude 3 0 11:25 Fair Go 3 0 11:55 Sunday 3 0 12:55 Location, Location, Location 3 0 1:50 Building Giants 0 2:50 Chasing Monsters PGR 3 3:50 F Serengeti 3 0 4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:20 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 New Looney Tunes 3 0 6:55 Masha And The Bear 3 0 7:05 Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz 0 7:25 Elena Of Avalor 0 7:45 Tales Of Nai Nai 0 8am What Now? 10am Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon M Father Of The Bride 1991 Comedy. Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams. 0 2:05 Home And Away 3 0 4:05 The Bachelor After a supportive conversation with his mother, Peter is inspired to pay the women a surprise visit for a serious chat. How will they respond? 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 The Simpsons 0

7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Sunday 0 8:30 Gold Digger AO Patrick and Della accuse Benjamin of infidelity. 0 9:40 Autopsy – George Michael AO 0 10:35 Ramy AO

7pm Married At First Sight 7pm The Bachelorette NZ 0 Australia PGR 0 8:30 M Ocean’s 8 AO 2018 8:30 M A Quiet Place AO 2018 Action. Former convict Thriller. A family of four must Debbie Ocean recruits a team conduct their lives in silence of specialists to carry out the after creatures that hunt by ultimate jewellery theft at the sound threaten their survival.

Met Gala. 0 John Krasinski, Emily Blunt. 0 10:45 M Alien PGR 1979 Sci-fi 10:20 Talking Married AO 0 Thriller. 0 10:30 Blue Bloods AO 0

11:45 When We Rise AO 3 Harvey Milk runs for the Board of Supervisors against Anita Bryant’s ‘Moral Majority’, and John Briggs’s statewide initiative to ban gay people and allies from working with children. 0 12:40 Hillary PGR 3 0 1:40 Coronation Street AO 3 0 3:35 Infomercials

1:05 The Walking Dead AO 3 0 1:55 Krypton AO 3 0 2:40 The Exorcist AO 3 0 3:25 Infomercials 4am Religious Infomercials 4:30 Regular Show 3 0 4:40 Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

Gold Digger

8:30pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 6am How Do I Look? 3 6:45 How Do I Look? 3 7:35 How Do I Look? 3 8:20 How Do I Look? 3 9:10 Love It Or List It 3 10am Love It Or List It 3 10:50 Botched PGR 3 11:40 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 12:30 Hoarders 3 1:25 Hoarders 3 2:20 Hoarders 3 3:15 Judge Jerry 3 3:40 Judge Jerry 3 4:05 Judge Jerry 3 4:30 Judge Jerry 3 5pm Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 6pm Love It Or List It – Vancouver 7pm M 13 Going On 30 PGR 3 2014 Comedy Drama. Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer. 0 9:05 M New Year’s Eve PGR 3 2011 Romantic Comedy. 0 11:25 Very Cavallari AO 12:15 Infomercials 3

Ocean’s 8

8:30pm on TVNZ 2

SKY 5 6am Lazy Boy Garage PG 6:25 Supergirl MVS 7:10 NCIS – New Orleans MV 7:55 Main Event MV 8:45 The Amazing Race PG 9:35 Supergirl MVS 10:25 Classic Pawn Stars PG 10:55 NCIS – New Orleans MV 11:45 Ax Men ML 12:40 Mountain Men PG 1:30 Lazy Boy Garage PG 2pm The Amazing Race PG 3pm Raw MVC 5:45 SmackDown MVC 7:30 NCIS – New Orleans MV When Elvis Bertrand’s daughter is linked to an NCIS murder case, he asks Pride to prove her innocence.

8:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 10:30 Chicago PD 16V 11:25 The Amazing Race PG

Monday

12:15 SmackDown MVC 1:55 Chicago PD 16V 2:45 NCIS – New Orleans MV 3:35 The Amazing Race PG 4:25 Criminal Minds 16VS 5:10 Criminal Minds 16VS

11:25 Hawaii Five-0 AO 3 McGarrett receives a tip that someone is plotting a terror attack on Oahu; Chin and Abby face a difficult decision. 0 12:20 Infomercials

11:35 Football – A-League Central Coast Mariners v Wellington Phoenix.

From the Central Coast Stadium.

1:35 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:05 Yesterday MLSC 2019 Comedy. Himesh Patel, Lily James. 8am Then Came You MLSC 2019 Drama.

Asa Butterfield, Maisie Williams.

9:35 Another Kind Of Wedding MLSC 2018 Comedy.

Kathleen Turner, Kevin Zegers.

11am The Old Man And The Gun ML 2018 Drama.

Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek.

12:35 Finding Steve McQueen MLS 2018 Drama.

Travis Fimmel, Rachael Taylor.

2:10 Yesterday MLSC 2019 Comedy. Himesh Patel, Lily James. 4:05 The Miseducation Of Cameron Post MVLSC 2018 Drama.

5:35 Sweetheart Con MVLC 2017 Thriller. 7pm Holmes And Watson 16VLSC 2018 Comedy. Will Ferrell, John C Reilly. 8:30 Godzilla II – King Of The Monsters MVL 2019 Action. Humanity faces a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, Rodan, and the three-headed King Ghidorah. Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown.

10:45 Superfly 16VLSC 2018 Action. Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell.

Monday 12:40 Domino 18VLC 2019 Thriller. 2:07 The Miseducation Of Cameron Post MVLSC 2018 Drama.

3:37 Sweetheart Con MVLC 2017 Thriller. 5:02 Holmes And Watson 16VLSC 2018 Comedy.

6:16 Transformers – Dark Of The Moon MVL 2011 Action.

Shia LaBeouf. 8:45 X-Men MV 2000 Action. Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin.

10:30 The Wolf Of Wall Street 18LS 2013 Drama.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill.

1:25 Man Of Steel MV 2013 Action. Henry Cavill, Amy Adams.

3:45 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 16VLSC 2016 Biography Drama.

Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman.

5:35 The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers MV 2002 Fantasy. Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen.

8:30 Ocean’s Twelve ML 2004 Action. With the casino owner looking for revenge, the gang must pull off the biggest robbery ever, while dodging a tenacious Interpol agent.

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts.

10:35 Charlie’s Angels MV 2000 Action. Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu.

Monday

MAORI

6am Religious Programme 7am Nella The Princess Knight 3 0 7:30 Religious Programme 10am Cricket – Pakistan Super League (HLS) 10:30 Golf – NZ Open Event (HLS) 11am Rugby League – Super League (HLS) Noon Paul And Nick’s Big Food Trip – New Zealand 3 0 1pm Massive Engineering Mistakes PGR 3 2pm L UFC 248 Prelims 4pm Hot Bench 3 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great Escapers A couple from Derbyshire go to the Spanish Costas to open a unique food business; will a biking obsessed Briton ever get his B&B off the starting grid?

7pm Storage Wars PGR 0 7:30 North America With Simon Reeve PGR 0 8:30 Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road PGR 0 9:30 F Uncharted With Sam Neill PGR 3 0 10:30 SmackDown PGR

12:10 Lords Of Dogtown MS 2005 Action.

Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, Rebecca De Mornay.

1:55 Man Of Steel MV 2013 Action. Henry Cavill, Amy Adams. 4:15 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 16VLSC 2016 Biography Drama.

Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman.

CHOICE

6:30 Waiata Mai 6:40 Tamariki Haka 6:50 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 7am Darwin + Newts 3 7:10 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 7:20 He Rourou 3 7:30 Potae Pai 3 7:40 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 7:50 ‘Polyfest Kapa Haka’ 3 8:20 Haati Paati 3 8:30 Waka Ama Sprints 3 9am Globe 3 9:30 Swagger 10am Easy Eats 3 11am R&R With Eru And K’Lee 3 11:30 Te Ao With Moana 3 Noon Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 12:30 Taha Tauiwi 3 1pm Touch Rugby – Junior National Championships 3 2pm M Moshi Monsters – The Movie PGR 2013 Animated Adventure. 3:30 Marae Kai Masters 3 4:30 Tagata Pasifika 5pm Ipukarea 3 5:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6pm Waka Huia 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am My Second Restaurant In India 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Leading The Way 7:30 Healthy Food Guide 8am Paul Hollywood – A Bakers Life 8:30 Animal Park 9:30 Brother v Brother 10:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 11:30 Stars In Their Cars Noon Home Of The Year 12:30 Hugh’s Wild West 1:30 Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled 2:30 Antiques Roadshow 3:30 Inside The Vets 4:30 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam 5pm Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam 5:30 My Dream Home 6:30 Road To Riches

7pm Aotearoa 3 7:30 Rise PGR 3 8:30 M American Animals AO 2018 Drama. True story of four young men who attempt one of the most audacious art thefts in American history.

Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan.

10:30 Kairakau

7:30 Tut’s Treasures – Hidden Secrets 8:30 M Broken City AO 2013 Crime. A former police officer seeks revenge after being double-crossed and framed by the city’s mayor. Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

10:30 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam

11pm Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:30 Closedown

11pm Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam 11:30 Road To Riches 12:30 My Dream Home 1:30 Carver Kings 2am Cash Cowboys 3am M Broken City AO 2013 Crime. Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine ZetaJones. 5am Stars In Their Cars 5:30 Home Of The Year

SKY SPORT 1 6:35 Women’s Six Nations – England v Wales (RPL) 8:35 L Women’s Six Nations – Scotland v France From Scotstoun Stadium.

10:45 Super Rugby – Bulls v Highlanders (RPL) 12:40 Super Rugby – Rebels v Lions (HLS) 1:10 Super Rugby – Sharks v Jaguares (HLS) 1:40 Super Rugby – Bulls v Highlanders (HLS) 2:10 Six Nations – Ireland v Italy (HLS) 2:40 Six Nations – England v Wales (HLS) 3:10 Super Rugby – Crusaders v Reds (HLS) 3:40 Super Rugby – Waratahs v Chiefs (HLS) 4:10 Six Nations – England v Wales (RPL) 7pm Women’s Six Nations – England v Wales (HLS) 7:30 Women’s Six Nations – Scotland v France (HLS) 8pm Rugby Nation 9pm World Sevens (HLS) Vancouver – Day One. 10:30 Super Rugby – Rebels v Lions (HLS) 11pm Super Rugby – Sharks v Jaguares 11:30 Super Rugby – Sunwolves v Brumbies (RPL) Monday 1:50 Super Rugby – Bulls v Highlanders (RPL) 4am Super Rugby – Sunwolves v Brumbies (HLS) 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:35 L Sevens – World Series Vancouver – Day Two. From BC Place Stadium, Vancouver.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

SKY SPORT 2

DISCOVERY

6:35 How It’s Made PG 7:05 How Do They Do It? PG 7:30 UFOs – The Lost Evidence PG Deep-Sea Encounters.

8:20 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG 9:10 BattleBots PG 10am Undercover Billionaire PG No Pain No Gain. 10:50 Homestead Rescue PG Quake on the Forty. 11:40 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG Kilcher Kraftsmanship.

12:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 1:20 Gold Rush PG 2:10 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 3pm Aussie Gold Hunters PG 3:50 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 4:45 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 5:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 6:35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7:30 Blowing Up History PG 8:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:25 Undercover Billionaire PG No Pain No Gain.

10:15 Unexplained And Unexplored PG Mystery of the American Maya.

Monday 11:05 Expedition Unknown Midnight South Africa v PG Corsica’s Nazi Treasure.

Australia (HLS) Second ODI. 11:55 How It’s Made PG From Manguang Oval, Bloemfontein.

Monday 12:20 How Do 1am South Africa v Australia They Do It? PG 12:45 Man (HLS) Third ODI. v Bear PG 1:35 World’s From Senwes Park, Deadliest Weather Caught Potchefstroom.

On Camera PG 2:25 Naked 2am L Pakistan Super And Afraid M 3:15 Naked League Lahore Qalanders v And Afraid M 4:55 Naked Karachi Kings.

And Afraid PG 5:45 Naked From Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. And Afraid M 6am Blackcaps v England 2013 (HLS) Third Test – Day Five.

6:30 Pakistan Super League (HLS) Karachi v Multan.

7am Blackcaps v England 2018 (RPL) Fourth ODI – Last Two Hours.

9am L South Africa v Australia Third ODI. From Senwes Park, Potchefstroom.

4:30 Pakistan Super League (HLS) Islamabad v Peshawar.

5pm Pakistan Super League (HLS) Lahore v Quetta.

5:30 South Africa v Australia (HLS) Third ODI. From Senwes Park, Potchefstroom.

6:30 Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) Semi-final Two – Australia v South Africa.

7:30 L Women’s T20 World Cup Final – Australia v India.

From the MCG in Melbourne.

11:30 Pakistan Super League (HLS) Lahore v Quetta.

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BOWERS, Bev – Passed away on March 4, 2020 at Blenheim. Loved wife of the late Eric Bowers and loved sister-in-law of Barbara and Betsy.

McDOWELL, Isabella Dorothea Jean (Jean) – Peacefully on March 2, 2020 at Christchurch Hospital aged 86 years. Dearly loved sister and sister-in-law to Heather and Bryan Coulter. Much loved daughter of the late Isabell and Andrew McDowell. Messages may be addressed to the McDowell family, c/- 19 London Street, Christchurch 8013. At Jean's request a private graveside service has been held.

DEATHS

DEATHS

STUART, Fiona Jane (neeTonks) – At Ashburton Hospital on March 5, 2020, in the arms of her loving husband, friend and soul mate Doug. After an extremely brave 4½ year battle with cancer. Aged 55 years. Dearly loved step Mum and step grandmother of Andrew, Becky and Ben (Rangiora), Phillip, Nasrina, William and Isla (Zanzibar), and Michael, Amy, Lizzie and Jimmy (Christchurch). Much loved daughter of Keith and the late Joan Tonks and younger sister and sister-inlaw of Robert and Sharyn, Alistair and Madeleine, and sister-in-law of Murray Stuart, Alistair and Linda Stuart, Elizabeth and John Parsons, the late Mary, and Murray Campbell and Cynthia and Eric Reay. Messages to the Stuart family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Special thanks to Dr Penny Holdaway and the District Nurses for their love and care of Fiona.

A celebration of Fiona’s life will be held at the Hotel Ashburton, Racecourse Road on WEDNESDAY, March 11, commencing at 2pm.

Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

WILLIAMSON, Lee Aaron – On March 4, 2020 at Timaru.

Passed away peacefully with family and friends with him.

Aged 48 years. Much loved and devoted partner of Melanie. Very special Dad of Ashley, and Jacob. Dearly loved son of Lesley and Dave.

Taken too soon Messages to the Williamson family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. In lieu of flowers donations to the South Canterbury Hospice would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A celebration of Lee’s life will be held at our Chapel, cnr East and Cox streets, Ashburton on TUESDAY, March 10, commencing at 11am.

Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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Wind km/h less than 30 fine

30 to 59 fog

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sleet thunder

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NZ Today

Canterbury High Country TODAY

FZL: Above 3000m

Mainly fine, apart from morning cloud about the coast. Northeasterlies.

Fine with high cloud.

Wind at 1000m: NW 40 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: NW 40 km/h.

TOMORROW

TOMORROW

FZL: Above 3000m

Cloud increasing. Rain developing about the divide south of Mt Cook in the morning with possible heavy falls, spreading north in the afternoon. A few spots of rain in the east in the afternoon.

Wind at 1000m: N 45 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: N 50 km/h.

Fine spells. A few spots of rain in the

MONDAY

Cloudy. Rain developing from morning.

Southwesterlies.

Cloudy with scattered showers about the divide. Fine spells in the east.

Northwesterlies, strong in exposed places.

WEDNESDAY

TUESDAY

Rain about the divide, then widespread rain and low cloud from later in the morning as northwesterlies change south to southeasterly.

Morning rain, gradually clearing later in the day as southwesterlies ease.

World Weather

Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Delhi Dubai Dublin Edinburgh

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Frankfurt Geneva Hobart Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Moscow Nadi

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fine cloudy fine rain cloudy showers cloudy thunder rain showers drizzle showers cloudy rain fine

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Rise 7:19 am Set 8:08 pm Good

fine

Hamilton

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Napier

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Good fishing Set 3:25 am Rise 6:57 pm

Rise 7:20 am Set 8:06 pm Good

Good fishing Set 4:39 am Rise 7:37 pm

Rise 7:21 am Set 8:04 pm Bad

Bad fishing Set 5:58 am Rise 8:11 pm

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Christchurch

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Timaru

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Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

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Waitaki Kurow at 3:02 pm, yesterday

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A ridge of high pressure extends over the North Island from high pressure southeast of the Chatham Islands.

A complex low pressure system over the Tasman Sea approaches Fiordland today. A front moves slowly across the South Island on tomorrow and Monday, and the North Island later Monday through Tuesday.

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BISHOP, Allan James – In memory of Allan, loved afternoon. Northeast breezes. husband, passed away March MONDAY 7, 1993.

No matter how life changes Mainly fine. Cloud developing in the evening No matter what we do as northerlies change southwest.

A special place within our heart is always there for you. TUESDAY Love Pam.

BROWN, Noel – In loving memory of a much loved and sadly missed husband of Jennifer and a loved father, father-in-law and granddad who passed away on March 8, 2018.

Down the road of memories We slowly walk today, Our love and thoughts are with you, As life goes on it's way.

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Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Not everyone knows what you know, is able to do what you can do or wants what you want. To think about it from another person’s point of view will be invaluable today.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’re happy to imagine some places you’ve not been with all the zest of one who has no intention of ever going.

Other places you imagine carefully, knowing that when the time comes, you’ll go all-in.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Terribly embarrassing experiences usually come to the big risk takers. If you still think a past action was humiliating, count yourself among the most spectacularly brave ones, and move along.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Those who live within a very small scope of existence are sure to be extremely and harshly judgmental. The worldlier a person is, the fewer rules they are likely to impose on others.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Whatever you’re thinking that people will notice, most won’t. So be choosy about the sorts of pressures you put on yourself. Be careful not to base them on what you think others are thinking.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’ve dreamt of the future, painting a mental picture of your wishes. Use the skill in reverse now, dreaming of things that never were, re-writing history to your liking.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Do you feel that smile at your back? You have no idea who is admiring you as you pass. Though one thing is certain; there’s a special levity to your energy now, a brightness that will be noticed.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You’ll have an increased awareness of the roles people play in your life and get an inkling about how to make the most of your relationships.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): In a sense, what you’re really after is a kind of glamour – a cinematic scene – and you’re not wrong to think it’s attainable. Seeing yourself in a different light helps you figure out who to be in a situation.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Though big and fantastic displays of talent do have a way of being served up with a side of backlash, be brave.

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” – Your signmate, Ben Franklin AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): The hero’s journey is a journey through humility and desperation and the long, dark night of the soul to a personal victory needed for the soul’s growth.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): It’s pretty easy for a person who is faced with a certain type of scenario to behave compassionately, but to proactively seek such a scenario is to take the heart to a whole different level.

ACROSS 1. A mud-filled hollow near Windsor (6) 4. Got over an adaptation by two gentlemen from here (6) 9. Give one new upholstery and one will get better (7) 10. Sort of caper one can’t cut (5) 11. Wickedness is broadcast as it happens, but in reverse (4) 12. A case for sewers in domestic science tuition (4) 13. A person, indefinite, but of unit number (3) 15. First schoolmaster to make searching questions is nimble (4) 16. It is a stretch of water, just that and nothing more (4) 19. Furrow starts running under track (3) 21. Form of acne schoolboys used to suffer from (4) 22. A periodical one followed for the gift-bearers (4) 24. Makes me lie about a resin that’s fragrant (5) 25. That lady is in the church to nurture one (7) 26. The kind an editor categorised (6) 27. Empty spaces are not live rounds (6) DOWN 1. Four make up a crossroads in town (6,7) 2. His cord is fashioned into ladies’ slippers (7) 3. Yielded in a vague, non-u way (4) 5. Studied how pit was in for being axed somehow (8) 6. Go one better than the Joneses with a party al fresco (5) 7. Old property’s right to have rush-candles? (7,6) 8. Otherwise react to the box (5) 14. Rehearsal for a professional’s business (8) 17. No one to save up for the dodging of it (7) 18. Tins put up by kitchen’s first light meal (5) 20. It is not our turn to give it her (5) 23. It is fit to be an oil supplier (4)

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