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The Filipino Dairy Workers in New Zealand Inc won the supreme award at the Trustpower Community Awards in Ashburton last night. From left: Peter Calderwood, Trustpower general manager strategy and growth, Uduja Pasion, Earl Magtibay, Ashburton Mayor Donna Favel and Lenie Ramos.

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Advocacy group, Filipino Dairy Workers in New Zealand Inc. (FDWNZ) was named the Supreme Winner at last night’s 2017 Trustpower Ashburton District Community Awards.

Other top achievers recognised at the Hotel Ashburton function, was the Ashburton Museum volunteer team, St John Ashburton operations volunteer team, Fa’a Pasifika Play Group Ashburton, Coronation Target Shooting Club and Friends of the School – Our Lady of the Snows School.

Trustpower awarded prize money to community groups across five categories, along with the Supreme Winner and the Youth Community Spirit Award, which went to Ashburton College’s Tay-

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la Wright. The Supreme Award winners received a framed certificate, a trophy, $1500 prize money and will go on to represent the district at the 2017 Trustpower National Community Awards, which take place in Queenstown next April.

Trustpower community relations representative Abbie Siely said Filipino Dairy Workers in New Zealand Inc. has spent almost a decade working to make New Zealand a ‘home away from home’ for the district’s Filipino community.

“The origins of this group go back more than 10 years, when a handful of Filipino farmers in Rakaia would gather on their days off to share experiences and support each other through the challenges of dairy farming,” she said.

These days, the group is formally reg-

istered and provides training, advice and support to more than 300 members and their families.

FDWNZ arranges courses in food safety, workflow systems, first aid and driving, through funding from lottery grants. They conduct free seminars on employment rights, immigration, and progress in the dairy industry to keep their members up-to-date.

Siely said the group also successfully petitioned to have mobile consular services in Ashburton, saving workers time and money travelling to renew their passports. Because of their actions, this service is now offered nationwide.

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Managing health care by patient portal

By Sue NewmaN

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Sealy Street Medical Practice is leading the way in the Ashburton District in taking up the latest healthcare innovation, patient portals.

The practice is part of a national network that currently sees 340,000 Kiwis using patient portals to book appointments with their doctor, obtain repeat prescriptions and to access their laboratory results and clinical notes.

Practice manager Kay Kennedy said that since the facility was made available in October more than 700 patients had signed on and satisfaction was high, she said.

“We’ve had a lot of people saying they love it and the number of appointments made through it are increasing.”

If patients had an email address and either a cellphone or a computer signing up was simple. It could be done online through the Connectmed website or at reception by completing a form, Kennedy said.

The practice’s preferred option was the in-office sign up because it offered a higher level of security, she said.

“Security is key as there are a lot of privacy issues involved.”

Sealy Street was taking a staged approach to implementing the portal’s options, she said.

“At the moment you can only book appointments online but shortly you’ll be able to order repeat prescriptions. It’s a process and we need to make sure we have everything in place ourselves first.

You have to make sure your ap-

pointment books are set up well.”

Accessing test results and clinical notes would be available to Sealy Street patients in the future but it was a case of making sure each access option was performing well before moving on to the next stage, Kennedy said.

Practice nurse appointments cannot yet be made through the portal.

“Where we’re at is a really good start. An uptake of 700 is great, we’re impressed,” Kennedy said.

Before patients could access their own records, the practice had to ensure it was able to make this information available in a way that was easily understood by a lay person, she said.

“The last thing we want is for someone to read their information and become ‘worried’ because they don’t understand their notes.”

Nationally about 50 per cent of medical practices are using patient portals and the Ministry of Health has set targets for user numbers, encouraging people to be more proactive about managing their own health care.

When they are fully implemented, portals can allow patients to: request repeat prescriptions, book appointments, see their lab results, see their GP’s clinical notes, see their current diagnosis, see a list of their medical conditions, see a list of the medications they are on, see their immunisation and vaccination history, receive reminders and recalls from the practice team and send and receive secure messages to and from their GP or a practice nurse.

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■ COLLEGIATE RUGBY CLUB

Offers of help, support flood in Members of the Collegiate Rugby Club were given a reason to smile last week despite vandals hitting the club.

DJ Gleeson, a local fencing contractor, offered his services to repair the fence that had been

torn out last Tuesday evening.

Treasurer Belinda McArthur said the club had also been donated the use of a heavy roller to help repair the damage to the pitch that had been done by a vehicle, which had returned a sec-

ond time the following morning but was spotted and left.

“We have received so many nice messages of support and offers of help, not just from people within the club but also those from outside,” she said.

Filipino group supreme winner From P1 “The organisation has become a respected source of knowledge for migrant worker issues and is participating in a PhD project through Lincoln University on the integration of migrant dairy workers in New Zealand,” she said.

“FDWNZ has shown loads of initiative with their model for the empowerment and inclusion of migrants.

“It’s a concept that could be successfully applied throughout New Zealand, and we’re so excited that they will be sharing their story at the Trustpower National Community Awards next year.”

Look out for tomorrow’s Guardian for photos and a full wrap of the event.

OTHER WINNERS Other winners at last night’s awards: Heritage & Environment Winner: Ashburton Museum Volunteer Team Runner-up: Hakatere Heritage Committee Health & Wellbeing Winner: St John Ashburton Operations Volunteer Team Runner-up: Victim Support Mid Canterbury Commendation: IHC Volunteer Programme Arts & Culture Winner: Fa’a Pasifika Play Group Ashburton Runner-up: Multicultural Bite

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Team Zion Freefly jump above Ashburton at Kiwi Boogie in 2015.

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Skydivers ready to boogie under Mid Canty skies Eighty skydivers from New Zealand and around the world have arrived in Mid Canterbury for Skydiving Kiwis’ annual sports skydiving festival.

Starting today and running every day this week, the events are known as “boogies” and is expected to be New Zealand’s biggest sports skydiving event.

The festivals are hosted internationally by skydiving centres for sports skydivers wishing to improve their skills and push the

limits of their sport in a safe environment.

In its fourth year, and having run twice in Ashburton already, Kiwi Boogie has become the country’s premier sports skydiving event, attracting some of Australasia’s best free-flyers, swoopers, belly- flyers and wingsuiters as well as up-and-coming skydivers.

This year, Pacific Aerospace; New Zealand’s own aircraft manufacturing company has spon-

sored Kiwi Boogie; sending down their newest 17-seater PAC750XSTOL for more lift power.

Skydiving Kiwis CEO Lee Barraclough said this new partnership demonstrates that key stakeholders in adventure aviation are becoming more aware of the power that sports skydivers have to influence the industry around the world.

Skydiving Kiwis chief pilot Pearce Bennett said the temporary new addition to the fleet

would allow more than 150 loads of skydivers to be completed - if the weather played game this week.

Barraclough has handpicked a selection of coaches, including Finnish skydiver and wing-suiter Pilvi Juvonen and current Finnish national champion.

With 1300 wing-suit jumps Juvonen took out last year’s first place in the Finish national wingsuiting championships and also organised the women’s Finnish

wing-suiting record which ended up becoming the new Finnish wing-suiting record.

Also present, and coaching advanced free-flying, is Richie Convery, from Australia’s number one free-fly team, Team Full Tilt.

With 1800 jumps, Convery who co-founded the team with his brother, has been competing and coaching at sports skydiving events across Australia for the past three years.

Fine weather stifles shooters

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Duck shooters had variable hunting success in Mid Canterbury on opening weekend, but were all winners on the compliance front with none caught flouting the rules.

Central South Island Fish and Game officer Rhys Adams said rangers throughout the game region checked hunters at a total of 28 ponds, and found non-compliance at only one of those, where four hunters were hunting without licenses near Oamaru.

The hunters had their guns seized and will be dealt with through the prosecutions process.

Adams said the level of noncompliance throughout the region was low.

It is in contrast to North Canterbury, where media have reported rangers finding eight hunters shooting with banned lead shot, and three hunting without a license.

In Mid Canterbury, rangers focused on the Mayfield and Mt Somers area mid to late morning on Saturday. They only saw three

hunting groups – the first a group of two which had three birds, the next was five hunters who had 30 birds, and the next one just one hunter who had 10. “It’s a bit of a mixed bag, and that’s what we expect,” Adams said.

Rangers also visited 10 unhunted ponds in the area, and an additional three maimais where the hunters had already packed up and left for the day.

This was typical for a sunny morning, as it was not ideal duck shooting conditions.

Adams said having more hunt-

ers around the area would have compounded the shooting success, as unhunted ponds provided sanctuary for ducks.

Adams said while in the past the Mid Canterbury area had been a focus for rangers, this year they had instead turned their attentions further south. It was thus impossible to say whether or not Mid Canterbury shooters had improved in their compliance rates this year.

While opening weekend was the greatest focus for rangers, they would be out sporadically check-

ing compliance throughout the season, which runs until July 30.

Among Mid Canterbury shooters was Keith Hood, who was hunting with grandson Harry Hood and six others in the Mt Hutt area.

He said the group bagged 50 to 60 birds, made up mainly of mallard and grey ducks as well as paradise ducks, and a small proportion of Canada Geese.

The fine weather “wasn’t very helpful”, but the haul for opening day was “about average”, he said.

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Wheels Week action aplenty

In brief Art society exhibition Entries for the 53rd Ashburton Society of Arts’ exhibition are now open. Running from July 4 to 28, the annual showcase attracts entries from about 150 artists, exhibiting up to 450 works. Exhibition secretary Jen Dearborn said this year’s guest artists include last year’s local winners, Rhonye McIlroy and Racheal Dewhurst, as well as Canterbury artist, Michael Eaton.

Opening night will be on July 3 and tickets will be available from the Ashburton Art Gallery from the first week of June. Entries close June 3 and entry forms are available on the ASA website and at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

As part of Ashburton Wheels Week, Tinwald School held a model show to raise funds for purchasing resources. Guardian photographer Robyn Hood was there with her camera.

Exhibition spaces closed

Above – Hadley Rolton, 3, and Lester Hobbs check out the show.

The Ashburton Art Gallery closed down its exhibition spaces yesterday as it prepares to install a major new exhibition. New Zealand sculptor, photographer and film artist Steve Carr will exhibit Variations for Troubled Hands, opening on May 20. It will be first time one artist has had the entire gallery at their disposal. The reception area and the shop will remain open, and the gallery will continue its regular programmes.

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Saturday’s Ironman 4x4 Mid Canterbury Mud Plug saw plenty of thrills and action during the annual Alford Forest event. Guardian photographer Robyn Hood was there.

Hague guest at AGM Forest and Bird New Zealand chief executive officer Kevin Hague will speak at the Ashburton branch annual general meeting tomorrow night. Hague will talk about the organisation’s election year priorities, dispelling myths around environmental protection, and asking the public to help make conservation something politicians can no longer afford to ignore.

The meeting will be held 7.30pm at the Sinclair Centre.

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Mixed reaction to 13 Reasons Why N

etflix series 13 Reasons Why in which the protagonist Hannah Baker takes her own life has caused controversy internationally since its release.

Methven Young Farmer Sam Robinson believes the show raises awareness around the topic of suicide.

The former Mount Hutt College head boy struggled with depression for years after leaving school.

He is now studying at Lincoln and has become an unofficial spokesperson on the topic of mental health, and addressed a Beating the Blues workshop in Methven last week.

Robinson has watched all the 13 Reasons Why episodes and believed the programme could show people how they could pick up signs that a young person in their life was having trouble coping.

“It shows where people could intervene and maybe make them more aware of signs of people struggling,” Robinson said.

He agreed there could be a risk of a negative effect on vulnerable youth, but at the same time the programme showed to such youth that it was possible to reach out, and just how much family and friends did in fact care.

Additionally the programme highlighted issues around a prevalent bullying culture, and helped to make it more socially acceptable to talk about mental health.

The right thing to do when someone suffering depression expressed how they were feeling was not to brush over the topic, but to empathise and try and get them to explain more about why they were feeling that way and to help them get the resources they needed.

Mount Hutt College guidance counsellor Paul Wilkins said he had not seen the programme, but from the advice he had had it went too far and seemed to be too explicit.

He was concerned about its topicality taking vulnerable teenagers into the domain of dwell-

Mid Canterbury mental health representatives are weighing into the debate on whether 13 Reasons Why is helpful or harmful. Susan Sandys reports.

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ing on high risk behaviour.

The New Zealand Association of Counsellors had sent out information through the school guidance network on the show.

“It goes beyond what I think is helpful,” Wilkins said.

Youth could be drawn to high risk behaviour such as biking at speed down a hill; the show depicted a different type of high risk behaviour and those who were vulnerable could be just the ones attracted to such a show.

“And thinking that way is concerning, because biking downhill is risky physically, but this is risky both physically and mentally,” he said.

Youth needing help would be better seeking it in other ways such as through the wide variety of mental health services, their school guidance counsellors, deans, form teachers, parents, or

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Wilkins also had concerns about the accessibility of the show, and that the RP18 classification would not have stopped children from watching it.

The classification given by the New Zealand Classification Office, about four weeks after the show’s release, means someone under the age of 18 viewing it must do so with the supervision of a parent or guardian.

New Zealand Mental Health Foundation head Shaun Robinson said some find the show disturbing, others believe it is starting valuable conversations about issues including not only suicide, but also bullying and sexual violence.

He has written an article on the foundation’s website entitled 13 Conversations To Have About

13 Reasons Why. In it he suggests a number of topics which may help open up discussion, and these include asking “How did the show make you feel?”, “Is

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Duck shooters happy with opening Duck shooters across the country were up at the crack of dawn on Saturday, to welcome in the opening day of the duck shooting season.

Photographer Robyn Hood took these pictures at a maimai, situated on a pond at Mt Hutt Station.

They all reported a very successful morning and late afternoon.

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■ FRANCE

Macron hits world stage

BY NICOLA LAMB As he strode through the Louvre to the sounds of Ode to Joy yesterday, Emmanuel Macron made a stylish entry on the world stage.

The music is the European Union’s anthem: Fitting for the EU’s defender in the French presidential election but a surprising choice for a young man about to lead a major historic power in its own right.

The imagery of Macron royally walking alone through a landmark linked to the kings of the past, in darkness and minimal lighting, was a deft cinematic touch.

The celebration of the La Marseillaise came later as he addressed his supporters in Paris.

But the sober statement of support for the EU was appropriate for an election result that offered hope to the EU and the idea of a shared future for Europe.

The message was clear: This was a win for the globalists over the nationalist forces.

“Tonight, Europe and the world are watching us. They want us to defend the spirit of light under threat everywhere,” Macron said.

“The world wants us to defend freedom, justice and the environment.”

Had his opponent in the final round, Marine Le Pen, been successful, a Frexit and major instability was on the cards.

Germany and France have driven the European project.

That will now continue to be the case.

At 39, the new Presidentelect appears determined not to be taken lightly.

He has risen fast and far by playing his own notes, being his own brand.

He is both the youngest leader and the first president from outside the two traditional main parties since 1958.

Paris the new Madonna?

The 19-year-old daughter of Michael Jackson has reportedly been approached by producers, who are keen to cast someone Madonna approves of after the star lashed out at the project on social media. A source told the Sunday Mirror: “Madonna is not supporting the film yet but the makers are hoping to cast someone who she will love.” The news about Paris comes after Madonna hit out at the filming, saying no-one else has the right to tell her life story. Alongside an old picture of herself, Madonna wrote on Instagram: “Nobody knows what I know and what I have seen. Only I can tell my story. Anyone else who tries is a charlatan and a fool.”

Incoming French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron sing the national anthem after he delivered a speech in front of the Pyramid at the Louvre Museum yesterday.

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It is hard not to make a mental connection to the freshfaced victorious Tony Blair 20 years ago.

The former British Prime Minister clearly did, saying in a statement that Macron’s win “shows that the centre ground is alive and kicking and the place where elections can still be fought and won by progressive politics”.

The centre is a difficult area to straddle and Macron faces an almost immediate test with legislative elections in June.

Signs are mixed.

Macron won by 66 per cent to 34 per cent. The turnout was considered low for a French election at 75 per cent, 5.5 per cent down on 2012 and the lowest since 1969.

More than four million votes were blank or void. IPSOS

found that the most important factor – at 43 per cent – motivating support for Macron was opposition to Le Pen. Yet in a Harris Interactive poll on voting intentions for June, Macron’s En Marche! movement was the most popular with 26 per cent compared to the conservative Republicans and Le Pen’s Front National on 22 per cent each.

That’s still a sizeable bloc on the right.

Yesterday, he told his supporters not to boo those who voted for Le Pen. Can Macron draw more to the centre and appeal to nationalists without parroting more conservative positions?

He appears to have absorbed lessons of the US election and the styles of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

These days being authentic to your own approach rather than seeming put together by committee is essential to the ambitious rising leader.

Macron lacked the traditional resume and years of experience in the political spotlight for such an important job.

He lacked the traditional party base and organisation.

He was up against people who had both.

The potential opposition was intimidating.

Other early contenders included former president Nicolas Sarkozy, and former prime ministers Francois Fillon, Alain Juppe and Manuel Valls.

But the election campaign’s background was Brexit and Trump, and the shift against traditional politics across Europe.

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‘I’ll pay for your tuition’ Nicki Minaj is in a generous mood. The US rapper has agreed to pay off her fans’ college tuition fees – if they can prove they got straight As. “Show me straight A’s that I can verify w/ur school and I’ll pay it. Who wants to join THAT contest?!?! Dead serious. Shld I set it up?” she wrote on Twitter. The 34-year-old responded to dozens of requests from fans seeking hundreds or thousands of dollars to pay off their student loans or cover courses. Students tweeted photos of their report cards and explained their financial circumstances.

■ UNITED STATES

Poke in the nose saves girl from alligator A 10-year-old girl freed herself from the jaws of an alligator by poking the beast in the nose and prying its mouth open.

The shocking attack took place at a popular swimming hole near Orlando in Florida over the weekend.

Authorities said the child was playing in shallow water at Lake Moss Park when onlookers suddenly heard her screaming for help.

When the 2.8 metre alligator latched itself on her leg, she thrust her finger into its nostril and startled the animal enough that it loosened its bite.

She then tore its mouth open

“If there’s a body of water, there’s likely to be a gator in it”.

and escaped. The child reportedly knew how to save herself thanks to a visit to an alligator wildlife park.

“To get an animal with the

strongest bite on the planet to let go of you is a miracle,” Donald Aldarelli, a representative from Gatorland said yesterday.

“I’m just happy that she heard it here.”

She wasn’t seriously injured and received 10 stitches.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission trapped and euthanised the animal.

Last year, a toddler was attacked and killed by an alligator at Disney World’s Grand Floridian resort, while a woman lost an arm after being mauled in 2015.

“It’s one of the things us Floridians just know,” FWC spokesman Chad Weber said. “If there’s a body of water, there’s likely to be a gator in it.” - AP

Sheeran hints at NZ tour Ed Sheeran has taken to Facebook to tease a possible New Zealand tour. The Shape of You singer posted a picture of his new album cover with the symbols of a kiwi and a kangaroo with the caption “news soon x.” Sheeran’s fans quickly suggested the chart-topping pop star was hinting at a down under tour. “Ahhhh the man himself has spoken !!!!!!!! I can’t wait !!!!!” says one fan. “Something in the South Island of NZ would be great...not holding my breath.” And “whoop whoop, Love that Ed can’t tour without NZ on the itinerary and I that suits me just fine!!” The 26-year-old was here last year for a ‘gap year’ when he took a break from music.

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Winner a lifeline for Filipinos Megan Gnad

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ongratulations to all those who came away victorious at last night’s 2017 Trustpower Ashburton District Community Awards.

In a special function held at Hotel Ashburton, the Filipino Dairy Workers in New Zealand Inc. (FDWNZ) was crowned the year’s Supreme Winner.

Recognising the advocacy group on the national stage is a huge achievement for a group that began 10 years ago with a few Filipino dairy workers in Rakaia, who would get together to share experiences and support each other on their days off.

This has since grown to a support network that reaches more than 300 members and their families, providing courses, training, advice and support.

For many of their members, who are new to the country, the language, the culture and way of life; it’s a lifeline.

Also, claiming top awards last night included; the Ashburton Museum volunteer team made up of the volunteer frontline customer service team and the volunteer collections team; the St John Ashburton operations volunteer team whose volunteer ambulance crews attended 111 callouts in the Ashburton district in the past 12 months; the Fa’a Pasifika Play Group Ashburton that offers free entry and morning tea to ease financial pressure on families; the Coronation Target Shooting Club – recognised as one of the best in New Zealand; and the Friends of the School – Our Lady of the Snows School, a group that plays a pivotal role in the success of the school through fundraising and support.

Young achiever, Tayla Wright, was also the proud recipient of this year’s Youth Community Spirit award for her many voluntary and leadership roles.

All this is not to mention the many hard-working groups and individuals who received runners-up and commendation awards.

I’m sure it was difficult for the judging panel to select just one winner in each category, but scanning through the finalists and place-getters, provides us with a fascinating snapshot of our changing community.

Representing multi-culturalism, the rural heartland, sporting achievements, educational success, passionate volunteer services and our dynamic youth, they’re all working with community spirit in mind.

Now we can look forward to Filipino Diary Workers in New Zealand Inc representing us in the national competitions next year.

Bring it on!

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esterday, the Guardian published a story looking into national concerns about New Zealand’s drinking culture, and in particular, how much alcohol women are consuming.

A local alcohol and drug service is worried about the safety of young women when drinking, who are often putting themselves in unsafe situations.

This, they say, includes a rise in females who may be turned away from premises due to intoxication, and making decisions, such as walking home alone.

Are you noticing this is an issue in Mid Canterbury?

What is leading to a change in our drinking culture?

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n the eve of the duck shooting season, Federated Farmers sent a gentle reminder to hunters and anglers that it’s best if we work together on waterway quality issues, and cheap pot-shots at the agricultural sector from some within Fish and Game are counterproductive.

We issued an open letter to say that when next hunters and anglers seek to cross farmers’ land to pursue their sport, they shouldn’t be surprised if the welcome in some quarters is a tad frosty.

Attacks on dairy farmers, as if that sector alone is responsible – or unresponsive – about problems with rivers and lakes, are resented.

In the Horizons region, Wellington Fish and Game took the regional council to court on a legal technicality in the way it was administering One Plan. This legal action ignored the wishes of the wider community and flew in the face of the fact that improvements in water quality are being achieved. The result will simply add cost for dubious environmental benefit.

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Council is seeking an extremely broad definition for a wetland that will severely restrict farmers’ ability to farm wet paddocks.

Fortunately, in Mid Canterbury the Fish and Game representatives work very well with the farming community on environmental initiatives – just one example is the managed aquifer recharge project at Hinds, which includes farmers and a Fish and Game representative on its oversight committee.

Our open letter issued on Thursday pointed out that throughout the year farmers provide access to waterways across their properties to enable anglers the opportunity of catching trout.

Farmers, often in partnership with their local Fish and Game folk, have spent significant time and money creating and restoring wetland habitats. Strong friendships have been estab-

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lished between hunters/anglers and landowners.

In recognition of this partnership, resident landowners and their families do not need a Fish and Game licence to shoot or fish on their own properties.

But we also said that in some regions the Fish and Game licence revenue has been used to make the life of landowners that much more difficult.

“As a result, some Fish and Game licence holders may not face the same friendly welcome by their farmer friends this year.”

To be candid, some of our farmer members – particularly in the Manawatu – wanted to go further. There was talk of signs on farmers’ fences indicating a ‘No Go’ to fishers and hunters.

A calmer approach prevailed, recognising that in so many parts of New Zealand, farmers and hunters/fishers work together on environmental improvements.

Nevertheless, an undercurrent of annoyance, even anger, exists among the Federated Farmers membership.

Many farmers are over the constant claims that New Zealand has terrible water quality and farmers are largely at fault when in fact 80 per cent of New

Zealand’s waterways are stable or improving and all communities – across rural and urban – are part of the problem and therefore need to be part of the solution.

We’ve said time and again, we should focus our efforts on the 20 per cent of waterways where we are failing.

As our open letter noted, a significant number of individual Fish and Game licence holders support our farmers, but they need to speak louder.

Our request: “We urge all Fish and Game licence holders to support the men and women who support you in providing access to great fishing and hunting experiences and encourage their organisation to work with, not against, the farming community.

“Don’t let the opportunities be lost by undermining farmers’ generosity.”

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■ AUCKLAND HOUSING

In brief

Instant $95,000 profit An Auckland couple’s Mt Eden rental property was flipped through different branches of the same realty firm – effectively selling twice in one day – with an investor pocketing nearly $100,000 on the couple’s house.

Barfoot & Thompson has apologised to the couple and taken “the action they see as necessary” against the agent concerned, who it says failed to follow the company’s internal policies.

Mike Diggins and his wife have now complained to the Real Estate Agents Authority (REAA).

They say a law change is needed to crack down on speculators cashing in on people’s homes and hiking prices.

“No one’s done anything illegal,” Diggins said. “Morals or ethics are another matter.

“The law needs to be changed.

“It’s just paper money making paper money.”

Diggins, an Auckland IT specialist, off-loaded the couple’s five bedroom Disraeli Street investment property on November 30 for $1.255 million. It was sold

Mike Diggins’ Mt Eden home was flipped by an investor days after its sale for an instant $95,000 profit. at auction through Barfoot’s Grey Lynn branch to investor Peter Lee. But weeks later Diggins received a call from the firm’s Panmure branch manager Chris Swann informing him the property had been on-sold just eight days after the auction through another Barfoot agent, Panmurebased Jane Wang.

The firm launched an internal

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investigation, which found the property had been flipped by Lee through Wang to Chung-Wei Chen for $1.35 million – an instant mark-up of $95,000.

Settlement was to occur on the same date as the original sale – January 25.

In a letter to Diggins dated February 22 after Barfoot investigated the transactions, Swann said though there was no legal

impediment to on-selling a property, “the agency is very aware of the damage that can be done to its reputation if such a process is not handled in a clear and transparent manner”.

“Such transparency is required to avoid the very situation we now find ourselves in.”

The investigation found appropriate procedures were followed during the initial sale to Lee. However, Wang had not followed internal policies when a contract to on-sell to Chen was signed before the initial sale had settled.

“In this case Ms Wang, quite simply, did not meet the requirements of informing her branch manager at the time of the second sale.

“That in turn meant that you, as the original vendor, were not informed at the time that you should have been.

“The directors of the company have met with Ms Wang and taken the action they see as necessary in order to address the matter.”

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‘No certainty’ over a deal with TPG Australasian news publisher Fairfax Media yesterday confirmed to investors that a “nonbinding indicative proposal” from US-based private equity firm TPG to buy its three most powerful Australian newspaper titles and the company’s real estate website, Domain, but questioned whether the deal could be done.

“The Fairfax board notes there is no certainty that the indicative proposal is capable of being implemented, given the complexity involved in splitting the businesses,” a company statement to the Australian Securities Exchange says.

“The proposed split may not optimise shareholder value.”

Pitched at 95 Australian cents per share, the bid values the assets sought at around $A2.5 billion ($NZ2.68b).

The proposal would leave Fairfax’s New Zealand news assets, which include the Stuff website and numerous newspaper titles including The Dominion Post, Christchurch’s The Press, the Waikato Times, and Taranaki Daily News, and a range of Australian radio stations in what The Australian newspaper today described as “a sorry grab-bag of rump assets”.

“Fairfax will be reduced to a regional publishing unit, a 54 per cent stake in Macquarie radio network, a half share of the new streaming service Stan, plus a rump New Zealand business that it has tried to offload by merging with its rival,” wrote

E-cars good for business Meridian Energy doesn’t believe helping power up New Zealand’s growing electric fleet is a big generation growth opportunity but is still good for its own business and the country. The country’s biggest renewable generator is moving towards making half of its own car fleet electric and its general manager of retail, Neal Barclay, says the rate of EV uptake by other New Zealanders was soaring. The Government has set a target of 64,000 plug-in vehicles by 2021 and though there were just 3300 vehicles now, the rate they were being bought was accelerating rapidly. - NZME

Westpac mega-profit Westpac New Zealand has delivered a flat half year result while it’s Australian owner saw a $A4.017 billion ($NZ4.31b) cash profit. Westpac New Zealand made cash earnings of $462 million in the six months to March 31, up 2 per cent from $445m in the same prior period. Its net operating income fell 1 per cent to $1078m driven by increasing pricing competition for deposits, impact from reduction in amortisation period for deferred acquisition costs and lower mortgage break fees.

- NZME

Targeting Netflix Facebook is the latest to take aim at Netflix and signal its intention to enter the video streaming wars.

The social media giant has plans to produce top tier scripted TV shows and hopes to have its first slate of programmes ready to go by as early as mid June. Included in Facebook’s new push into content creation is the signing of A-list celebrities and a dating show that takes place in virtual reality before the contestants meet in real life. Facebook has continually said video is a big focus and the company has reportedly green lit the production of about two-dozen shows.

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Award for cricket app

The Sydney Morning Herald is one of the assets TPG seeks to acquire.

media columnist Mark Day. The New Zealand Commerce Commission last week declined the proposed merger between Fairfax NZ and NZME, the NZXlisted publisher of the New Zealand Herald and a string of regional newspapers and associated websites, saying the tie-up would create too dominant a single news producing group that would risk a loss of ‘plurality’ of opinions and coverage necessary to a healthy democracy.

The New Zealand publishers have yet to indicate whether they will seek a judicial review of the decision, which they have previously argued has ranged beyond the scope of the Commerce Act. The TPG indicative offer coincides with announcements by the Australian federal government of the intention to loosen media ownership laws that currently prevent any news outlet from owning all three of print, television and radio assets.

- NZME

New Zealand cricket app CricHQ has won the Best-Integrated Digital Media category at the UKbased Sports Technology Awards.

The international award was open to entries from any organisation working within sports and has previously gone to the likes of the NBA, Wimbledon, and AIG with the Virtual Reality Haka 360 app. CricHQ is a cricket-focused website and app which provides users with live information on games as well as statistics and metrics which can be used by players and coaches.

- NZME

No surplus yet for Blis Blis Technologies missed guidance for a maiden annual profit, having already downgraded the earnings outlook in February, as sales growth slowed to 16 per cent. The Dunedin-based company reported a net loss of $24,000 in the 12 months ended March 31, narrowing from a loss of $816,000 a year earlier. Blis had already warned the market in February that pretax profit wasn’t going to meet the $700,000 forecast due to significant reductions in purchases by three major customers, but was still expecting to generate a net surplus.

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Immigrants shine in dairy awards The value of new immigrants to the dairy industry was on show at the Dairy Industry Awards in Auckland over the weekend.

Federated Farmers Dairy Chairman Andrew Hoggard says while immigration builds as an election issue, it was particularly significant that runner-up to the most prestigious award were 33-yearold Filipino immigrants Carlos and Bernice Delos Santos.

The couple have worked their way up through the dairy industry and are a shining example of the significant contribution and leadership our immigrants can provide.

They also won the Ecolab Farm Dairy Hygiene merit award.

“It is debatable whether the Santos’ would have been allowed to stay in this country under the new rules being proposed,” Hoggard said.

“I imagine a lot of the Filipino staff on New Zealand farms will take pride in this achievement with them.

“In these times of anti-immigrant sentiment, Carlos and Bernice exemplify how a country can be so much richer for having people of their calibre in it.”

Over 500 farmers, their families and those supporting the dairy industry gathered in Auckland to celebrate the remarkable success of the industry and those who had been judged the best in their field.

One of the significant judging criteria was environmental stew-

Carlos and Bernice Delos Santos ardship.

“It was clear that just like thousands of farmers around the country, these farmers are determined and proud to leave for our children farms which are more profitable and more environmentally sustainable than when we found them.”

Federated Farmers congratulates not only the award winners, but all those who entered regional competitions, nationwide, Hoggard said.

“It takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there to be judged, especially when financial and climatic conditions may not be ideal.”

The Federated Farmers Leadership Award was won by Jon and Vicki Nicholls.

Mid Canterbury’s Christopher and Siobhan O’Malley were named the Share Farmers of the Year, Hayley Hoogendyk became this year’s Dairy Manager of the Year and Clay Paton was announced the Dairy Trainee of the Year.

■ GRAPE HARVEST

Tough season for CharRees, but pinot The team at CharRees Vineyard had a good day for the pinot noir grape harvest on Saturday, however, the weather worked against the Hill family throughout the season.

“It’s been a trying year,” Charlie Hill said.

“When it was dry earlier on we ran out of water and had to put another well down, then we got all that rain later on.

“There was also some disease, we then had to wait for the grapes to ripen.”

On a good year up to 30 picke are required to harvest the pin noir crop; this weekend it took ju eight to 10 people four hours to d the job.

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tles,” Hill said.

“We picked some pinot noir, which is a bonus, because last year we didn’t get any.”

He is more hopeful about the riesling crop which should be harvested in about a fortnight.

Demand for an on-farm recycling service is growing so fast in Canterbury that the regional collector now has a truck dedicated to the task fulltime.

Taitapu-based McCarthy Contracting collects farm waste plastic for Plasback in a region that extends from Oamaru in the south to the Conway River in the north and throughout the West Coast.

“Much of our recent expansion has been in Mid Canterbury.

We have picked up a number of clients there in recent months,” Robert McCarthy, who operates McCarthy Contracting with his brother Grant, said.

New regional council regulations require Canterbury farmers to implement environmental plans which require waste recycling.

“Farmers need solutions and this is it. We make it easy for them to recycle their waste silage wrap, baling twine, feed bags and fertiliser bags,” McCarthy said.

“Habits are changing. In the past farmers just burned or buried their waste. Now kids are taught about the importance of recycling in school, and we are all more aware of the need to protect the environment.

“As awareness has grown recycling has become mainstream.

Our clients are livestock farmers from across the spectrum – wool, meat and dairy.”

Plasback is a national organisation with a network of independent collectors but when you call the company’s 0800 freephone number you are automatically connected to your local collector.

When they joined the scheme, McCarthy Contracting used to send a truck out once a month to collect plastic from farms. Now it goes out twice a week.

“That’s why we bought a truck specifically for the task. It has a

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PHOTO SUPPLIED Hiab crane, which makes it quick and easy for our driver to pick up the bin liners that farmers use to store their waste plastic,” Robert said.

McCarthy Contracting also processes the waste plastic it collects, using one of Plasback’s six purpose-built balers to compact waste for shipment to reprocessing plants in New Zealand and overseas.

Plasback also collects Ecolab and AgPro’s 200-litre plastic chemical drums through its onfarm recycling scheme.

Plasback national manager Chris Hartshorne says the bigger the collection scheme gets, the faster and more efficient it becomes because collection contractors can schedule more frequent pick up runs.

Last year Plasback collected

1822 tonnes of silage wrap and other plastic, and it is on track to exceed that amount this year.

Recently Plasback entered a partnership with Aucklandbased recycler Astron Plastics to turn waste silage wrap into Tuffboard, a plywood replacement product that has a variety of uses on farms. Tuffboard is available through Plasback or rural retail suppliers.

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1 year ago 70.02 78.98 85.83 94.30 490

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52 week high low 90.68 101.44 110.22 121.25 590

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Source: Midlands Grain 340 340 300 280 320 270 260 325 250

3,792 2,553 2,990 3,756

6,073 3,293 4,374 5,181

2015/16 final $3.90 2015/16 final $0.40

Source: PF Olsen 118.30 112.62 7,501 3,624 4,765 5,562

3,690 2,424 2,909 3,654

2016/17 f'cast $6.00 2016/17 f'cast $0.40c NZX FCG $5.94$5.90

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u DAIRY (NZ$/tonne) Butter Skimmilk powder Wholemilk powder Cheese - cheddar

u EXCHANGE RATE (NZ$1.00=) US dollar 0.6867 Euro 0.6257

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114.70

Fonterra milk price Fonterra dividend Fonterra share price

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74.76

International market prices … u LOGS indicator prices, $/tonne Forest index Apr -17 118.30 118.08 114.48 7,443 2,837 4,265 5,158

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727 344 336 344

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It will be a big day out for participants in the Mayfield A&P Association’s winterfeed competition with judging kicking off at 7.15am on Thursday.

Twenty-two crops will be evaluated and members of the public are welcome to tag along.

The wetter-than-usual autumn conditions are expected to have produced some stand-out crops this season.

The Ravensdown Fertiliser Mayfield A&P Association 2017 Winter Feed Competition programme is as follows:

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0.7472 0.6834

Comprehensive data is available from the supplier www.interest.co.nz/rural

0.6684 0.5927

7.15 7.40 8.15 8.50 9.30 10.10 10.25 10.50

Depart Panthers Rock – Mayfield Tavern car park C Allen, swedes A McKenzie, grass N France, kale, swedes J Wright, rape, turnips, fodderbeet D McCullough, kale Morning tea M Greenslade, kale M Wakelin, fodderbeet R Blake, rape

11.10 11.35 12.05 12.30 1.20 1.45 2.05 2.30 2.50 3.20 3.50 4.10 4.40 5.00 5.15 6pm

A Spencer, oats, grass I & J Ludeman, kale, swedes, oats Milkwell Holdings, fodderbeet, kale Lunch Panthers Rock Mayfield R Taylor, kale D Love, kale P Ross, Kale, fodderbeet T Corbett, fodderbeet M Carr, kale M Stolp, kale, fodderbeet M Williams, kale P Harper, kale, fodderbeet B Daly, fodderbeet, kale Broadfields, kale M & A Fleming, kale Prizegiving at the Panthers Rock Bar and Cafe.

Please note these times are approximate only.

The Mayfield A&P Association welcomes contestants, sponsors and members of the public to follow the competition, prizegiving and presentation at Panthers Rock Bar and Cafe, Mayfield.

MARKET REPORT Dairy May starts with cooler temperatures and a small amount of rain but feed and animal conditions are reported as above average leading into the winter.

This should allow the milking period to be extended for another couple of weeks of bonus production.

Some managers are using fodderbeet early, to speed up transition in wintering and boost quality in the diet for that extra milk.

Many are reporting cow empty rates 4 per cent higher than the norm and the cost of replacing these with in-calf animals will eat into the improving profit levels.

Forecasters are predicting a drier than average month and Niwa reports a transition is likely over the next three months to el nino conditions arriving in the spring.

Last week’s auction saw prices lift by 3.6 per cent as all products sold, except skim milk powder, had gains. The size of the lift was ahead of expectations and ASB analysts warned there could be a small readjustment in future events.

Fonterra report they are expanding their mozzarella plant at Clandeboye as demand rises for this added value product but, over the ditch, Murray Goulburn is in all sorts of trouble shedding 360 employees and closing three plants.

The NZ Super Fund now owns 21 dairy farms as part of its diverse portfolio and this reflects its confidence that the sector has a strong future, earning satisfactory returns.

To date, processed lambs have been averaging just over $91/head and 18.4 kg CWT but levels will need to average closer to the present $100 levels for farmers to receive sustainable long term returns.

Wool More of the same in the wool market, as a small offering at the Christchurch auction still only sold 73 per cent of the sale with prices static for crossbred fleece but a small lift for finer lamb’s wool.

Analysts report this downturn is due to the impact of changing Chinese fashion trends for coarser fibres and suggest the sector may have to look at selecting breeding animals with finer microns if they want to see any better value for crossbred wool.

Beef Peak season arrives for cow processing and exporters are pleased that manufacturing prices have held steady or lifted slightly in spite of this extra supply.

Prime beef lifted slightly this week as supply and demand remained nearly in balance and at levels 25c/kg CWT ahead of early May last year.

Demand for store animals continues unabated, as the last of the high country calves were sold last week and attracted price levels that were in many incidences $1/kg lwt better than a year ago.

Rural real estate interest has picked up and agents report a 14.4 per cent increase in sales over the last three-month period.

Lamb

Deer

Schedules continue to rise and now some processors are paying $6/kg CWT, that is nearly 17 per cent higher than it was in early February.

Latest historical slaughter rates show lamb processing is 6 per cent behind last year on a reduced crop but Beef and Lamb NZ report falling sheep numbers could be at an end with farmers retaining a similar number of hoggets this year, as last.

Worrying reports out of the UK, as one big retailer has banned sales of NZ lamb to support British production post Brexit.

Stable venison schedules this week, during the low processing period where only a few cull hinds and tail end 18 month animals were harvested.

Velvet producers are working through their new velvet handling requirements that look to improve hygiene outcomes of this edible product.

Some will need to increase the investment in yards and freezers to meet these new rules but stable and profitable returns over the last few years should make this cost worthwhile.

Heritage Tuesday, May 9, 2017

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Millions of stories to be told

BY KATHLEEN STRINGER

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shburton Museum’s photographic collection numbers in the millions. From a single image to large collections of negative frames – all document a unique moment in the story of our district.

Some have been taken for a specific purpose, often by a professional photographer, such as of weddings, jubilees or parades.

Others are ‘snaps’ – quickly taken and often a bit wonky, crooked and blurred, but they capture an

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important, if fleeting, moment.

Sometimes these amateur images are really valuable, as they detail events the professionals weren’t around to see, or think important.

They also give us, in 2017, an idea of what people in the past thought was important, or worthy to take a photo of.

Young people may find it hard to believe, but in the not-toodistant past photos took time.

First you had to use up your roll of 12, 24, or, for the really keen, 36-image film, then take it to be

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processed. This could take a week or more.

Movie films once had to be sent to Australia to be processed and could take months.

By that time you may have forgotten why you took that shot, or indeed what that blurry shape was.

Taking a photo was therefore a financial commitment, as what you took was going to cost time and money to develop; as my mother reminded me when my childhood photos were returned and found to be full of my dog, or

worse, the neighbour’s cat!

The images on this page were what someone once thought “important”.

Frustratingly, they were posted to us from out of town with no information about who they were of. A huge thumbs up to New Zealand Post who got the packet to us, even though it was only addressed to ‘Ashburton museum, Ashburton’!

A few photos of the snow were dated, but although really interesting and useful, they are lacking much of the detail that could

make these images extremely important.

Regardless of the lack of information, they are still fun to look at.

If you can add to my sketchy descriptions, please let me know.

This collection should also remind people that we are interested in all sorts of images not just the well-framed and significant, and how important it is to label your photos so that someone in the future can enjoy the investment that once went into making them.

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1 – Snow images are always fun. This one dated July 13, 1945, is of someone by a 14-foot snowman!

2 – Taken at the same time as the snowman, this shows Fred, with snow up to the top of his gumboots. Note that Fred may be cold, but he’s wearing sunglasses!

3 – While not a great image to look at, this shows the platform of the Ashburton Railway Station. Note the boxes for dogs in the foreground.

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4 – Cameron Street.

5 – The glassworks.

6 – Construction next to the Federal Coffee Palace: is this for the Young People’s Hall for the Salvationists?

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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

www.guardianonline.co.nz Dani Pedrosa won a spicy Spanish MotoGP from pole position as Australia’s Jack Miller got physically involved with Spanish rider Alvaro Bautista.

After crashing out Miller shoved Bautista in the back and kicked his bike after picking himself up out of the gravel.

As a result the 22-year-old Miller was fined 1000 euros and left to make an apology of sorts after the incident.

RESULTS ■ Basketball NBA playoffs Collated results from the National Basketball Association second-round playoffs yesterday (all series best-of-seven): Eastern Conference at Toronto Cleveland Cavaliers 109 Toronto Raptors 102 (Cleveland Cavaliers wins series 4-0) At Washington Washington Wizards 121 Boston Celtics 102 (Washington Wizards 2 Boston Celtics 2) Western Conference at Houston Houston Rockets 125 San Antonio Spurs 104 (Houston Rockets 2 San Antonio Spurs 2)

■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers May 6, 27 riders 1st Les Brown 35m 58s. 2nd Bruce McClelland 25m 19s. 3rd Gerard Morrison 25m 19s.

4th Don Sutton 25m 20s. 5th Don Morrison 25m 21s. 6th Pam Harcourt 27m 06s.

7th. Brian Ellis 28m 36s. 8th Andy Skinner 28m 37s. 9th Lucy Kirwan 28m 37s. 10th Liz Wylie 28m 38s. 11th Roger Wilson 25m 23s. 12th Ross Proctor 28m 38s. 13th. Brent Kircher 27m 09s. 14th Alex Hooper 21m 59s. F/T. 15th Rob Hooper 23m 32s. 16th Ross Templeton 23m 32s. 17th Paul Macfie 23m 32s. 18th Michael Templeton 22m 19s.

2f/t. 19th Kristine Marriott 23m 43s. 20th Doug Coley 23m 43s. 21st Marty Cuttle 23m 50s. 22nd. Debbie Skinner 29m 18s. 23rd Peter Wood 27m 50s. 24th Nigel Douglas 22m 46s. 3f/t. 25th Janet Hooper 28m 26s.

26th Brad Hudson 23m 16s. 4f/t. 27th Brian Fauth 29m 37s.

■ Football English Premier League English Premier League results and standings Arsenal 2 (Xhaka 54, Welbeck 57) Manchester United 0, Liverpool 0 Southampton 0, Swansea 1 (Llorente 29) Everton 0, Bournemouth 2 (Junior Stanislas 62, Shawcross 81 og) Stoke City 2 (Mousset 33 og, Diouf 73), Hull City 0 Sunderland 2 (B Jones 69, Defoe 90+2), Leicester City 3 (Ndidi 38, Mahrez 58, Albrighton 90+3) Watford 0, Burnley 2 (Vokes 56, 86) West Bromwich Albion2 (Rondon 66, Dawson 78), Manchester City 5 (Silva 2, Kompany 49, De Bruyne 59, Sterling 82, Otamendi 90+2) Crystal Palace 0.

Standings P W D L F A Pts Chelsea 34 26 3 5 72 29 81 Tottenham Hotspur 35 23 8 4 71 23 77 Liverpool 36 20 10 6 71 42 70 Manchester City 35 20 9 6 70 37 69 Manchester United 35 17 14 4 51 27 65 Arsenal 34 19 6 9 66 42 63 Everton 36 16 10 10 60 41 58 West Brom Albion 35 12 9 14 41 45 45 Leicester City 35 12 7 16 45 54 43 Southampton 34 11 9 14 39 44 42 Bournemouth 36 11 9 16 52 65 42 West Ham 36 11 9 16 45 59 42 Stoke City 36 10 11 15 39 52 41 Burnley 36 11 7 18 37 51 40 Watford 35 11 7 17 37 58 40 Crystal Palace 36 11 5 20 46 61 38 Swansea 36 10 5 21 41 69 35 Hull City 36 9 7 20 36 69 34 Middlesbrough 35 5 13 17 26 45 28 ——————Sunderland 35 6 6 23 28 60 24 Leading goalscorers 24: Romelu Lukaku (Everton) 21: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 19: Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal), Diego Costa (Chelsea) 18: Sergio Aguero (Manchester City) 17: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) 15: Eden Hazard (Chelsea), Jermain Defoe (Sunderland), Joshua King (Bournemouth) 14: Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) 13: Fernando Llorente (Swansea), Sadio Mane (Liverpool)

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club May 6 Watson Cup Winners: Shane Beavan & Gordon Crawford, Terry Molloy & Bruce Ferriman, Royce Jamieson & Tufuga Sa, Geoff & Josh Ackerley. In the Newton Trophy matches the winners were: Charlie Alexander & Noel

Sutton, Paul Greer & Brian Wilson, Chris Lovelock & Stewart Dunlop, Jordan Bird & Tom Blacklow.

Stableford Competition Winner: Grant Smith with 43 pts (7712=65). Other winning scores were: Bryan Donaldson 40; David Fisher and Trevor Watson 38; Paul Greer, Mark Douglas, Dave Gill and Ron Carlson 37; Greig Sparrow and Paul MacFie 36 by lot from Brian Wilson.

Nearest Pins: Braided Rivers: Charlie Alexander; Rothbury Insurance: Hamish Niles, Netherby Meats: Shane Beavan, South Island Seeds: Sharon Bradford, Charming Thai (longest putt) Nicki Gill.

Twos: Muri Ngutu, Paul MacFie, Charlie Alexander, John Dudley, Gordon Crawford and Richard Leith.

Birdy Jackpot: # 6, Nett Eagles: # 6 Nine Hole Section Best stableford score was 24pts by Ryan Stoddart.

Other winning scores were: Peter Huggins 19, Neville Trueman 18, Sam Prince 17 and Peter Wright 16 by lot from 5 others.

Mayfield Golf Club May 3 Mid-week Stableford Competition Gordon Duthie 40 stableford points, Ian Beach 38, Steve Cross 37. Nearest the Pin: Ian Beach. Twos Gordon Duthie, & Ian Beach.

May 4 9 Hole division: Handicap and Putting: 1st J Ludemann 60:18:42, 2nd J Cook 64:22:42 c/b.

Putting: 1st T Gallagher 17, 2nd J Ludemann 18. Nearest the Pins: Greg Sim Building and Excavating 2nd Shot No. 2 – T Gallagher, Mayfield Transport Ltd No. 5 – T Gallagher

Methven Golf Club May 3 Ladies Division Putting Teams Winners: Sandra Ilton, Lyn Schott, Jane Helmore, Dorothy Gray 85 Best Net. Jane Helmore 93-25-68, Ellen Kemp 95-2372, Lyn Schott 95-22-73 Paradiso Best Net: Jane Helmore 68 Nearest the Pin # 6 Silver Supervalue: Jenny Senior, #17 Bronze A Foursquare: Jan Lane, # 4 Bronze B Methven Travel: Marg Kelk, #13 Open Methven Pharmacy: Marg Kelk, #14 Aqua 2nd Shot Aqua Japanese Restaurant: Jane Helmore, #17 Saturday Ladies Methven Pharmacy: Ellen Kemp Twos and Net Eagles: Ellen Kemp x2, Tania Wilson, Wendy Wareing, Jane Helmore, Jenny Senior May 6 Men’s Division 2nd Round Club Champs Qualifing, 3rd Round Callaghan Trophy Senior: Piers Rolton 79-8-71. Intermediate: Peter Harper 84-17-67. Junior A: Eric Meaclem 84-17-71. Junior B: Peter Kemp 96-25-71.

Other Good Scores: 68 Frank Sandys. 69 Phil Johnson. 70 Bernard Walsh. 71 Michael Kemp. 72 Paul Middleton. 73 Mike Gray, Jim Lattimore, Bill Mason. 74 Keith Middleton, Pete Wood, Ian Lucas.

Two’s: Michael Kemp, Jim Lattimore, Piers Rolton, Tim Robinson.

Dubliner Best Nett: Peter Harper. Methven Foursquare Second Best Nett: Frank Sandys 68. Methven Travel Best Gross: Michael Kemp 77.

Closest to the Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Piers Rolton. Hunters Wine No 6: Michael Kemp. Ski Time No 13: Jim Lat-

timore. Green Parrot No 17: Tim Robinson.

Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: Kevin McCloy.

Next Week: May 13; Bush Cup-Combined Stroke Partners drawn.

Rakaia Golf Club May 3 Ladies Division LGU Bryant Cup - Longest Drive Bronwyn Oakley 113 – 37 – 76, Teresa Booker 97 – 19 – 78, Marion Wederell 101 – 23 – 78, Jean Evans 103 – 25 – 78 9 Hole Stroke and Putting – Sue Bunt 3rd Round Marg Lloyd 56 – 16 – 40, 16 Putts Railway Tavern 2nd Shot No 3 Mandy Hurst, Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd Shot No 6 Mandy Hurst, Val Bell - Nearest the Pin No 8 Freda Bierema, Chertsey Spraying 2nd Shot No 15 Michelle Kingsbury, S. Quinn 2nd Shot No 17 Marion Wederell Two’s: Freda Bierema Longest Drives Silver: Sandra Quinn, Bronze: A Jean Evans, Bronze: B Bronwyn Oakley 9 Hole Marg Lloyd Jenette Watts Trophy - Bronwyn Oakley May 6 Men’s Division Medal and Ringers Senior: Paul Whittaker Nett 67, Intermediate: Ross Moore 65, Junior A: Stuart Sutherland 71, Junior B: Neil Allen Overall Winners Ross Moore Nett 65, Paul Whittaker 67, John McBeth 68, James Kirkwood 71 Nearest The Pins No 8 & 17: Ross Moore, No 6: Simon Restieaux, No 15: Simon Restieaux 2nd Shot: Jeff Hurst, 3rd Shot: Jeff Blackburn Twos: Mark Hutchins

Tinwald Golf Club May 6 Stroke Leading scores: 0-12; Ryan Ford 71. 13-18; Brock Peddie 69, Ryan Fahey 71, Keith Bonnington 72 b/l. 19 plus; Neil Connelly 69, Darren Green 74 b/l. Women; Joyce VanderHeide 73, Sally Lane 74. Nearest the pin; Tinwald Liquorland: #2; Jason Mactier.

Gluyas Ford # 6; Mata Kamate. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill# 12; Joyce VanderHeide.

Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Ryan Ford. G& R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Ryan Fahey. Two’s; Dave Rush, Lucas McGee, Ryan Fahey, Jo Peacock, Ryan Ford, Brock Peddie, Tony Inwood, Terry Reynolds, Jason Mactier. Net eagle; # 15 not struck.

A highlight of the day was a hole-in-one to Joyce VanderHeide (her 5th) on number 12.

Finalists in the Findlay Cup are Steve Anderson and Lucas McGee, Ray and Brent Kirdy. In the Len Bell Memorial Trophy finalists are Rod Harris and Clarrie Whiting, Mata Kamate and Terry Reynolds.

In the Findlay Plate Pete and Adam Marshall take on Wayne Mellish and Kieron Gray.

■ Ice hockey NHL playoffs Collated results from the NHL second round (all series best-of-seven): Western Conference at Edmonton Edmonton Oilers 7 Anaheim Ducks 1 (Edmonton Oilers/Anaheim Ducks Series tied at 3-3) At Nashville Nashville Predators 3 St. Louis Blues 1 (Nashville Predators wins series 4-2)

■ Motor racing World Championship MotoGP Results from the MotoGP World Championship MotoGP yesterday: 1. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 45:26:82 2. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) +6.136 3. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Ducati) 14.767 4. Johann Zarco (Yamaha) 17.601 5. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) 22.913 6. Maverick Vinales (Yamaha) 24.556 7. Danilo Petrucci (ITA/Ducati) 24.959 8. Jonas Folger (GER/Yamaha) 27.721 9. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/Aprilia) 31.233 10. Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) 38.682 Overall Standings 1. Valentino Rossi (ITA) 62 2. Maverick Vinales (ESP) 60 3. Marc Marquez (ESP) 58 4. Dani Pedrosa (ESP) 52 5. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA) 41 6. Johann Zarco (FRA) 35 7. Cal Crutchlow (GBR) 29 8. Jonas Folger (GER) 29 9. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP) 28 10. Danilo Petrucci (ITA) 26

Supercars V8s Collated results and standings from the Perth, the fourth round of the series, at Barbagallo Raceway Wanneroo (circuit 2.4233km): Race 2 (83 laps - 201km) 1. Scott McLaughlin (Ford) 1hr22m17.642sec 2. Chaz Mostert (Ford) 1:22:22.253 3. Jamie Whincup (Holden) 1:22:23.523 4. Mark Winterbottom (Ford) 1:22:30.797 5. Will Davison (Holden) 1:22:32.342 6. Shane Van Gisbergen (Holden) 1:22:32.715 7. Fabian Coulthard (Ford) 1:22:34.0603 8. Craig Lowndes (Holden) 1:22:48.8549 9. Garth Tander (Holden) 1:22:54.4524 10. Nick Percat (Holden) 1:22:58.3529 11. James Moffat (Holden) 1:23:00.8728 12. Cameron Waters (Ford) 1:23:01.6061 13. Jason Bright (Ford) 1:23:01.7594 14. Scott Pye (Holden) 1:23:10.7262 15. Rick Kelly (Nissan) 1:23:12.2236 16. David Reynolds (Holden) 1:23:13.7799 17. Tim Slade (Holden) 1:23:15.5058 18. Todd Kelly (Nissan) 1:23:16.0722 19. Michael Caruso (Nissan) +1 Lap 20. Lee Holdsworth (Holden) +1 Lap 21. Dale Wood (Holden) +1 Lap 22. James Courtney (Holden) +1 Lap 23. Tim Blanchard (Holden) +1 Lap 24. Simona De Silvestro (Nissan) +1 Lap 25. Alex Rullo (Holden) +2 Laps 26. Matthew Brabham (Holden) +3 Laps Saturday, Race 1 (50 laps - 121km) 1. Scott McLaughlin (Ford) 48:58.8956 2. Fabian Coulthard (Ford) 49:00.1951 3. Jamie Whincup (Holden) 49:06.3782 4. Shane Van Gisbergen (Holden) 49:11.6775 5. Mark Winterbottom (Ford) 49:12.2020

■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby May 5 Combined Competition – Colts Darfield 23 v Rakaia-Methven 5 May 6 Senior Division 1 Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition Section One: Glenmark/Cheviot 46 Waihora 3, Hornby 20 Prebbleton 39 Burn/Duns/Irw 35 Ohoka 14, Darryl Phillips Motor Company Celtic 32 Saracens 35, Devon Tavern Hampstead 22 Darfield 49 Section Two PWL Methven 13 Rakaia 29 West Melton 29 Stuart Tarbotton Contrac-

tor Southern 40, Kaiapoi 20 Lincoln 34, Rolleston 5 Oxford 50. Southbridge Bye Senior B – Michael Duff Memorial Trophy Kellys Café & Bar Celtic 20 Mt Somers 18, Collegiate 6 Allenton 13, R & R Spreading Methven 33 Rakaia 10 Combined Competition – Colts Euroagri Celtic 24 Lincoln 19, Springston 35 Prebbleton 20, Waihora Bye Combined Competition - Under 18 Rolleston 45 NZLB Southern/Hampstead 22, Waihora 15 Lincoln/Prebbleton 5 Hanham Concrete Celtic 40 v Darfield 0 Methven 5 v Ashley/Oxford 50 Hurunui 38 v Aoraki 12 Timaru Boys High 29 v Pegasus Bay 66 Combined Competition – Under 16 Northern Raiders 17 v Prebbleton 38 Harnett Contracting Celtic/Shearmac Methven 30 v Ashley/Saracens 26 Rolleston 62 v Waimak & Stags 24 West Melt/BDI/Leeston 22 Waihora/Springston 28 RD Petroleum Tinwald- Default v Mid Canterbury Mechanical Hampstead – Win Combined Competition – Under 14.5 Rolleston 34 v Waihora 46 West Melton 21 v Lemacon Hampstead 46 Fowler Homes Celtic/Purata Farms Rakaia 64 v Methven 24 Lincoln 39 v Southbridge 19 Prebbleton Bye MCRU/ACL – Under 13 Competition Allenton/Tinwald 5 v Lifestyle Motorhomes Hampstead 47 Lysaght Glass Celtic 27 v Hyde Bros Spraying Southern 50 Methven 0 v Ashton Garage Doors Collegiate 70 MCRU/ACL – Under 11.5 Competition Allenton/Tinwald 38 v Hampstead 15 AshburtonOnline Celtic 42 v Moore Mechanical Southern 0 Methven 45 v Ross Leadley Building Collegiate 15

■ Pigeon racing Ashburton Pigeon Club Race 2 races from Balclutha This week 8 fanciers sent 168 birds Balclutha Flock and 200 Mile Cup 1st S Davidson 1404.402 MPM, 2nd M Davidson 1399.993, 3rd L Wilson 1399.660, 4th L Davidson 1399.460, 5th L Quinn 1393.548, 6th T Drummond 1391.897, 7th K&G Kirwan 1383.490, 8th N Martin 1380.027 Third Leg Tripple Crown 1st M Davidson 1398.395 MPM, 2nd L Quinn 1387.758, 3rd N Martin 1372.270, 4th S Davidson 1361.168, 5th T Drummond 1357.552

■ Squash Celtic Squash Club Results from last week’s round of the Celtic Squash Club’s winter league competition: John McDonnell beat Ben Kruger 3-0, Ryan Jackson lost to Jimmy Hunn 2-3, Phil Andrew beat Reece Wallington 3-0, Amy Muckle beat Charlotte Smith 3-0.

Mick Hooper lost to Pete Topham 2-3, Nathan Forbes beat Rory Boleyn 3-0, Chris Thompson beat Megan Ness 3-0, Graham McCormick beat Michelle Read 3-0.

Ian Dolden lost to Ron Carlson 0-3, Kirsty Clay beat Carl Haugh 3-2, Martina Padrutt lost to Rebecca McCloy 0-3.

Adam Clement beat Pat Summerfield 3-1, Craig Campbell lost to Eelke Dijkstra 1-3, Rebecca Abernethy lost to Cameron Grant 2-3, Ryan Jackson beat Robbie Kok 3-0.

Steve Devereux lost to Nigel Tew 0-3, Rob Giles beat Blair Horrell 3-1, Luke Anderson beat Jan Lee 3-0.

Chris O’Reilly beat James McCloy 3-1, Jimmy Hunn beat Mark O’Grady 3-1, Andy Morrison lost to Brendan Clark 2-3, Kate O’Reilly lost to Chrissie Stratford 0-3.

Billy Nolan beat Mick Hooper 3-2, Glen Ralston beat Gary Casey 3-0, Riley Wilson beat Jordan Hooper 3-1, Hamish Trott lost to Mike Keen 0-3.

■ Shooting Ashburton District Rifle Club May 7, At 500 yards TR class, John Fleming 49.5, 48.3, 97.8, Charlie Ledbrook 46.1, 48.4, 94.5.

F class, Darren Swaney 59.5, 59.4, 118.9, Mark Alexander 59.2, 59.4, 118.6, Brian Greystone 58.4, 59.5, 117.9, Murray Cook 57.2, 55.3, 112.5, George Cuthbert 55.3, 56.3, 111.6.

Ashburton Rifle Club Paul Fletcher 88.0, 89.1, Greg Menzies 99.9, 99.8, Grant Glassey 90.2, Geof Wright 83.2, James Storey 91.3, 92.4, Bruce Dellow 91.2.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

In brief

■ BASKETBALL

Rockets roar back to 2-2 James Harden scored 28 points and Eric Gordon 22 as the Houston Rockets rebounded from consecutive losses to beat the San Antonio Spurs 125-104 yesterday and tie their NBA Western Conference semi-final at 2-2.

The Rockets never trailed and used hot 3-point shooting to pull away in the third quarter.

Game 5 is tomorrow in San Antonio.

Jonathon Simmons had 17 points for the Spurs, and Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge added 16 apiece.

Houston made 22 3-pointers in a blowout win in Game 1, but had struggled from long-range in its two losses.

The Rockets’ 3-point shooting, a hallmark of their success in the regular season, got back on track yesterday when they made 19 of 43, led by six from Gordon.

Meanwhile LeBron James scored 35 points and Kyrie Irving 27 as the Cleveland Cavaliers completed a four-game sweep of Toronto, beating the Raptors 109-102 yesterday to give James his seventh consecutive trip to the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.

Kyle Korver scored 18 points to help the Cavaliers become the first team to win eight straight playoff games the year following a title, and the first to win eight straight

DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club May 13 Semi-finals of the Watson Cup and Newton Trophy. For those not playing in the Match play a par round will be held.

Number 1 Tee (Watson Cup) 12.00 G & J Ackerley v R Jamieson & T Sa 12.06 T Molloy & B Ferriman v S Beavan & G Crawford Number 10 Tee (Newton Trophy) 12.00 T Blacklow & J Bird v C Lovelock & S Dunlop 12.06 P Greer & B Wilson v C Alexander & N Sutton.

Starting times: Morning 8am, Afternoon report to the Pro shop at 11.30 for a 12noon start. Nine hole golfers report at 12.30 for a 1pm start.

■ Hockey Mid Canterbury Hockey May 12 Played at NBS Ashburton Hockey Turf Kiwi Sticks (4th Grade) Duty Club: Allenton 3.45pm Turf one: Methven Black v Hampstead (G Clark, J Cameron) Turf two: Allenton Thunder v Tinwald Smith & Sons (K Dalgets, L Adam) 4.30pm Turf one: Collegians White v Tinwald Engineering Sol (G Muir, J Cameron) Turf Two: Wakanui Blue v Wakanui Black (R McCloy, L Adam) 5.15pm Turf one: Allenton Storm v Tinwald the Tool Shed (H Soal, TBC) Turf two: Rakaia v Tinwald/Mayfield (A Bowler, A Quigley) 6.00pm Turf two: Methven White v Wakanui White (Hampstead SW, S Reith) Bye: Collegians Green 1st Grade Women 6.50 pm Methven White v Methven Black (Collegiate, Hampstead) 8.00 pm Hampstead v Collegiate (Methven White, Methven Black) Bye: Coll/Hampstead May 13 Mini Sticks (5th Grade) - Duty Club: Allenton (Coaches to Umpire) 9.30am Turf one: Allenton Hawks v Tinwald/Mayfield; Turf two:

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in consecutive postseasons.

Channing Frye had 10 points, and Cleveland finished 16 for 41 from 3-point range.

The Cavaliers will face the winner of the Boston-Washington series.

James added nine rebounds and six assists.

Irving had nine assists.

Serge Ibaka scored 23 points, and DeMar DeRozan had 22 for Toronto.

Bradley Beal scored 29 points and the Washington Wizards used a 26-0 third-quarter run to beat the Boston Celtics to tie the series at two games apiece.

John Wall added 27 points and 12 assists for Washington.

Wall had seven points, three assists and two steals during the third-quarter spree that featured eight Celtics turnovers.

Otto Porter scored four of his 18 points in the dominant six-minute span that also included five points from Markieff Morris.

Trailing 53-48 before the run, Washington led 74-53 on Porter’s layup with 5 minutes left in the third.

The Wizards led by as many as 26 and outscored the Celtics (237191) in the two games in D.C. Isaiah Thomas had 19 points for Boston, but scored 17 in the first San Antonio Spurs centre Pau Gasol shoots during their game 15 minutes.

- AP against the Rockets yesterday.

PHOTO AP Collegians White v Methven; Turf three: Rakaia v Tinwald Aotea Electric; Turf four: Tinwald Bonnington Paint v Wakanui Black; 10.10am Turf Three: Tinwald Skip 2 It v Wakanui Blue; Turf four: Allenton Eagles v Collegians Green; Bye: Tinwald/Mayfield Transport Fun Sticks (6th Grade) – Duty Club: Allenton 11.00am: Collegians v Wakanui Black; Wakanui Blue v Tinwald/Mayfield; Allenton Aces v Hampstead; Allenton Magic v Methven; Rakaia Blue v Tinwald Black; Rakaia Black v Tinwald Orange; Tinwald Longbeach v Combined Team.

At Ashburton (Senior Women) 2.40pm: Hampstead v Geraldine (C O’Neill, TBC); At Timaru (Senior Women) 1.00pm: Hampstead/Collegians v TGHS 1st XI; (Senior Men) 2.40pm Northern Hearts v Wakanui May 14 1st Grade Men 5.00pm Lowcliffe Tinwald v Wakanui (Allenton 1GM, Tinwald 1GM) 6.15pm Allenton v Tinwald (Wakanui 1GM, Lowcliffe Tinwald 1GM) Bye: Hamps/Coll May 15 2nd grade Boys (Note change of times) 4.30pm Methven v Wakanui (Erin Connolly-Whyte, R Law); 5.45pm Allenton/Hampstead v Invitational Team May 16 KWICK Sticks (3rd Grade Mixed) 4.15pm Collegians v Tinwald Black (K Flannery, J Gray) 5.15pm Wakanui 7s v Rakaia (J Gray, A Quigley) 6.15pm Tinwald/Mayfield v Wakanui 8’s (S Reith, TBC) 7.15pm Allenton v Methven (S Reith, TBC)

■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby May 13 Club Day Rakaia Senior Division 1 Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition Section One Ohoka v Waihora, 2.45pm, Mandeville 1, J Le Gros, A Stead.

Darfield v Darryl Phillips Motor Company Celtic, 2.45pm, Darfield 1, S Laird Glenmark v Burn/Runs/Irw, 2.45pm, Chev 1, S Marshall, R Eder, A Reeve.

Devon Tavern Hampstead v Prebbleton,

Hampstead 1, 2.45pm, C O’Malley, C Kelland, M Southby Saracens v Hornby, 2.45pm, Southbrook 1, K Hancox, D Taylor, L Marshall Section Two Lincoln v PWL Methven, 2.45pm, Lincoln 1, J Lamers Rakaia v Kaiapoi, Rakaia 1, 2.45pm: K Opele, J O’Connor, P Hunt Southbridge v Stuart Tarbotton Contractor Southern, 2.45pm, Southbridge 1, S O’Reilly West Melton v Oxford, 2.45pm, West Melton 1, J Currie Rolleston Bye Senior B – Michael Duff Memorial Trophy Allenton v Kellys Café & Bar Celtic, Allenton 1, 2.30pm: K Faalogo, H Grant, J Kilworth KFC Hampstead v R & R Spreading Methven, Hampstead 1, 1.00pm: D McKibbon Mt Somers v Collegiate, Mt Somers, 2.30pm: P Hill Rakaia v Wholesale Seeds Southern, Rakaia1, 1.00pm: P Hunt UC Championship Rangiora HS vs Ashburton College, 1 2.00pm, Rangiora HS, D Taylor.

Combined Competition – Colts Prebbleton v EuoAgri Celtic, 2.30pm, Prebbleton Oval, TBA Darfield v Lincoln Black, 1.30pm, Darfield 2, TBA Rakaia-Methven v Waihora, Rakaia 2, 1.00pm, J O’Connor Springston Bye Combined Competition - Under 18 Darfield v Rolleston, 1 2.00pm, Darfield 2, TBA Lincoln/Prebbleton v Timaru Boys High, 1.00pm, Prebbleton Oval, TBA Southern/Hampstead v Hanham Concrete Celtic, Hampstead 2, 1.00pm: C Kelland Ashley/Oxford v Darfield, 2.45pm Lob 5, R Cotter Pegasus Bay v Methven, 2.00pm, Wood 1.

TBA Aoraki v Waihora. TBA Combined Competition – Under 16 Ashley/Saracens v RD Petroleum Tinwald, 2.00pm, Lob 4, TBA Waimak & Stags v Waihora/Springston, 1.00pm, Mand 1, A Stead.

West Melt/BDI/Leeston v Harnett Contracting Celtic/Shearmac Methven, 1.00pm,

Leeston 1, TBA Mid Canterbury Mechanical Hampstead v Northern Raiders, Hampstead 2, 2.30pm: G Jopson Prebbleton v Rolleston, 1.00pm, Prebbleton 1, TBA Combined Competition – Under 14.5 Methven v Rolleston, Methven 1, 1.30pm: G Barr Southbridge v Prebbleton, 11.30am, Southbridge 1, TBA Fowler Homes Celtic/Purata Farms Rakaia v Waihora, Rakaia 3, 1.30pm: S Bennett Lincoln v Lemacon Hampstead, 1 2.30pm, Lincoln 2, TBA West Melton Bye MCRU/ACL – Under 13 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton/Tinwald v Lysaght Glass Celtic, Allenton 1, 1.15pm: H Grant Ashton Garage Doors Collegiate v Hyde Bros Spraying Southern, Rakaia 3, 1 2.15pm: B Frame Lifestyle Motorhomes Hampstead v Methven, Hampstead 1, 11.45am: J Henderson MCRU/ACL – Under 11.5 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton/Tinwald v AshburtonOnline Celtic, Allenton 4, 1.00pm: J Kilworth Ross Leadley Building Collegiate v Moore Mechanical Southern, Collegiate 1, 1.00pm: Club referee Hampstead v Methven, Hampstead 2, 11.45am: M Southby MCRU/ACL – Under 10 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Stocker Dairies Hampstead, Allenton 2, 1.30pm Blacklows G Celtic v Howden Ag Southern, Celtic 4, 1 2.30pm Blacklows W Celtic v Methven Black, Celtic 2, 1.30 Purata Farms Rakaia v H n B Services Collegiate, Rakaia 4, 1.45pm Bye Methven White MCRU/ACL – Under 9 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Netherby 4square Hampstead, Allenton 2, 1 2.30pm.

Summerfield Builders W Celtic v Progressive Livestock Southern, Celtic 3, 1 2.30pm.

Naylor Love Collegiate v Summerfield Builders G Celtic, Collegiate 2, 1.00pm.

Purata Farms Rakaia v Tinwald, Rakaia 4 1

Trophies on the line Ashburton College senior basketball teams kick off their Thompson Trophy and Whelan Trophy campaigns with home games tonight. The boys play Christ’s College while the girls take on Ellesmere College. The girls are on first at the Oxford Street stadium at 5.15pm. Both competitions involve school sides from Christchurch and its surrounds.

Adams a Tall Black?

Tall Blacks coach Paul Henare will be asking Steven Adams to make himself available for the Asia Cup in August. New Zealand’s been invited to play in the tournament for the first time ahead of the Tall Blacks’ inclusion in Asian qualifying for the 2019 world cup.

Henare says he plans to sit down with Adams when he’s back in New Zealand to outline their programme through to the 2020 Olympics. “I’ll be reaching out to everyone involved in the Tall Blacks programme and requesting everyone is made available,” Henare said.

- NZME

World Cup draw New Zealand’s been drawn alongside China, South Korea and Hong Kong in the Asia qualifying group for the 2019 basketball World Cup. According to the schedule on FIBA’s website, New Zealand will host South Korea in late November, followed by a trip to Hong Kong. In 2018 they’ll travel to China in February and face South Korea on the road also.

- NZME 2.45pm.

Bye Methven MCRU/ACL – Under 8 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Methven White v Cates Grain & Seed Collegiate, Methven 4, 1.15pm.

Purata Farms Rakaia v Allenton/Tinwald, Rakaia 4, 11.45am Agspread Southern v Methven Black, Hinds 4, 1.30pm.

Canterbury Feed Assessment Southern v Netherby 4square Hampstead, Hinds 4, 1 2.30pm.

Bye McCrea Painters & Decorators Celtic MCRU/ACL – Under 7 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Methven White, Allenton 3, 1.15pm.

The Finishing Company Celtic v Summerfield Builders G Celtic, Celtic 3. 1.30pm.

Methven Red v Spark Hampstead, Methven 5, 1.30pm.

Greg Donaldson Contracting Mt Somers v Camross Electrical Collegiate, Mt Somers, 1.30pm.

Purata Farms Rakaia v Summerfield Builders W Celtic, Rakaia 2, 1 2.00pm.

ADM Southern v Methven Black, Hinds 2, 1.30pm.

Four Seasons Treecare Southern v Tinwald, Hinds 2, 1.30pm.

MCRU/ACL – Under 6 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Methven White, Allenton 3, 1 2.30pm.

Summerfield Builders Celtic v Cranfield Glass Collegiate, Celtic 3, 1.30pm.

Methven Red v Netherby 4Square Hampstead, Methven 5, 1 2.45pm.

Greg Donaldson Contracting Mt Somers v Redpath Ltd Collegiate, Mt Somers 1 2.45pm.

Purata Farms Rakaia v Anderson Joinery W Celtic, Rakaia 2, 1 2.00pm.

Coleman Ag Southern v Anderson Joinery G Celtic, Hinds 1, 1.30pm.

Hayden Mackenzie Contracting v Methven Black, Hinds 1, 1.30pm.

Riverlea Ag Southern v Tinwald, Hinds 2, 1 2.45pm.

May 17 Aoraki Schoolgirls Competition – Round 1 Mt Hutt/Ashburton v Waitaki Girls, AES, Timaru 4.00pm.

Racing 18

Ashburton Guardian

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

www.guardianonline.co.nz

In brief

■ WEANLING SALE

Splashing out at Karaka Andrew Williams has made an instant sale ring impact on his return to New Zealand.

He has recently established his own bloodstock company in Sydney and he enjoyed a successful maiden buying foray to Karaka during the opening session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Weanling Sale yesterday.

Williams went to $170,000 to secure Curraghmore’s smart Savabeel colt (Lot 30), the first foal of the multiple stakes-winning Tavistock mare Avisto.

“He’s a really athletic individual and I’m very happy to have got him on my first trip to Karaka under my own banner,” he said.

“I’ve bought him for a new client of mine and he’ll be heading straight over to Australia.

“Savabeels are doing extremely well, they are extremely popular in the marketplace.”

Originally from Waikato, Williams graduated in 2007 from the University of Otago with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Accounting & Marketing and he subsequently earned a place on

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Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Forbury Park Raceway Meeting Date: 09 May 2017 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 12.01pm OTAGO GRC MAIDEN SPRINT C0, 310m 1 47834 Uncle Jock nwtd ....................... P Hammond 2 65378 Just James nwtd ........................H Anderton 3 43778 African Violet nwtd .................J T McInerney 4 36483 Lokie nwtd ................................. M Robinson 5 75436 Sozin’s Angel nwtd .................J T McInerney 6 4x1 Mr. Bear nwtd ................................R Adcock 7 56447 Homebush Pansy nwtd ..........J T McInerney 8 56476 Eskimo Chill nwtd...............................J Allen 9 88657 Magnetrix nwtd C &............................ Fagan 10 66774 Call Me Soon nwtd ..........................J Goode 2 12.21pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C0, 545m 1 36774 Aurora nwtd C & ................................. Fagan 2 2 Forbury Flyer nwtd .................J T McInerney 3 6 Pat Patterson nwtd L &....................... Wales 4 64553 Kim’s My Name nwtd ......................J Goode 5 38343 Homebush Ivana nwtd ...........J T McInerney 6 7467 Awesome Annie nwtd.................. B I Conner 7 4 Pat Allie nwtd L & ............................... Wales 8 88 Just Ernie nwtd ..........................H Anderton 9 6 Junk Mail nwtd L & ............................. Wales 10 88657 Magnetrix nwtd C &............................ Fagan 3 12.41pm SPEEDPRINT SHOP SPRINT C1, 310m 1 64832 Opawa Lean Meat 18.58 L & ............. Wales

A decision as to whether Group One winner Sofia Rosa races on or is retired to stud will be made later this year. “She’s spelling now and will come back for the spring and we’ll assess her then,” Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh said. “She’ll either be mated with Tivaci or she could race on and be served the following spring.”

- NZME

Taking it easy Black type performer Flamingo is enjoying a break with her breederowners Waikato Stud. The Pins threeyear-old was turned out after her run for third behind Sweet Leader in the Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes at Te Rapa. “She went to the paddock after that,” said Emma Haworth, who trains the filly with her father David. “It’s very exciting to have a horse like her.”

- NZME

Little Giant stands tall

The Savabeel colt that Andrew Williams forked out $170,00 for. the 2007 Darley Flying Start programme.

He gained work experience at the Keeneland Sales in the United States and with renowned trainer Michael Jarvis, followed by a stint with Roger Varian in Newmarket and David Hayes in Australia.

This was followed by four years with Darley America in Kentucky,

a stint with the international agency Blandford Bloodstock and a spell with Arrowfield Stud in Australia.

The progeny of Savabeel were in demand yesterday with the Dannevirke-based horseman David Hayes going to $120,000 for a colt (Lot 22) from the Cambria Park draft.

He is out of the winning Redoute’s Choice mare Ametsis.

“He’s obviously got staying blood in his pedigree, he could possibly be a Derby horse,” he said.

Purchased by Hayes on behalf of an English client, the youngster will be returning to Karaka next year for the yearling sales.

- NZME

Little Giant has maintained his unbeaten record with the former Awapuni galloper winning on debut in Hong Kong. The Swiss Ace gelding raced as Blackcrown in New Zealand and he beat the subsequent Group One winner Humidor on debut last season for Lisa Latta before he was successful at Trentham in his only other appearance.

- NZME

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway

Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington 4 83765 Ben Jamming 17.56 M & ...................Jopson 2 38467 Tilt 17.39 ...................................... L Waretini Raceway Meeting Date: 09 May 2017 NZ Meeting num- 5 46367 Max Brainstrain 17.39 M & .................. Smith 3 58x83 Zorba The Greek 17.26 ................... M Grant ber: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 6 12321 Flower Bomb 17.31 ............................C Weir 4 68x25 Jinja Willy 17.50 ..............................J Tanner 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 7 75243 Royal Action 17.29 S & ...................B Evans 5 57868 What’s Wong 17.84 M &....................Jopson 10, 11 and 12 6 44624 Zabambi 17.62 .................................A Joyce 8 67275 Opawa Opal 17.20 L & ....................... Wales 1 12.09pm THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C1, 295m 9 13686 Goldstar Scout 17.50 S & ...............B Evans 7 35358 Chippy Jordy 17.37 M & ....................Jopson 8 11211 Caballo Blanco 17.24 ........................J Dunn 1 62321 Coco Bango nwtd...................J T McInerney 10 48882 Dora Dufran 17.36 ..........................J Tanner 9 55548 Tricky Action 17.48 S & ...................B Evans 2 45x17 Ghisella 17.69 S & ..........................B Evans 4 1.09pm DOGZONE DASH C1, 295m 10 64851 Homebush Cherico 17.69 ......J T McInerney 1 44688 Homebush Steal 17.65 ..........J T McInerney 3 84537 Terra Alert 17.31 C & ......................... Fagan 2 26344 Crotty 17.60 .............................. A Bradshaw 7 2.07pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN C1, 295m 4 51858 Unfettered 17.57 M & ........................Jopson 1 73787 Fear Marina 17.51..................J T McInerney 3 64437 Blazin Action 17.86 S & ..................B Evans 5 43673 Ohoka Hunter 17.80..................... L Waretini 2 431x2 Opawa Robynann nwtd L & ............... Wales 4 54554 Tip The Babe 17.46 C &..................... Fagan 6 F2627 Jinja Loch 17.30 ................. N C W Wanhalla 3 85432 Another Fan 17.38 M & .....................Jopson 5 42865 Lexie Rae 17.53 M &.........................Jopson 7 42566 My Hoki 17.58 M &............................Jopson 4 62888 Unconscionable 17.66 M & ...............Jopson 6 12555 Ohoka Clare 17.55 ....................... L Waretini 8 84766 Kablitz 17.62 ................................ K Cassidy 5 56177 Roo Baloo 17.79 S & ......................B Evans 7 47684 Alex Rumble 17.43 .................J T McInerney 9 37765 Homebush Ragna 17.71 ........J T McInerney 6 12278 Umbreon Bale nwtd .....................C Roberts 8 8545x Know Cheers 17.47 .......................G Cleeve 10 48882 Dora Dufran 17.36 ..........................J Tanner 7 33123 Ohoka Alex 17.44......................... L Waretini 9 13686 Goldstar Scout 17.50 S & ...............B Evans 2 12.29pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS DASH C1, 295m 8 56887 Minor Brainwave 17.97 M & ................ Smith 10 48466 Zulu Jasper 17.63 ...........................J Tanner 1 61357 Pyro Polly 17.51 ................................J Dunn Emergencies: 2 22276 Smash Rumour 17.19 ..................... M Grant 5 1.29pm LITTLE BROWN JUG STAKES C1, 520m 9 37765 Homebush Ragna 17.71 ........J T McInerney 1 62134 Magma nwtd C & ............................... Fagan 3 41747 Big Catch 17.38 M & .........................Jopson 2 34734 Nippa Eel nwtd .......................J T McInerney 10 48466 Zulu Jasper 17.63 ...........................J Tanner 4 37476 Wunzee 17.21 ........................J T McInerney 3 55543 Mystic Action 30.35 S & ..................B Evans 8 2.27pm ANGLERS ARMS TAVERN DASH C1, 295m 5 56272 Jinno Gino 17.65 ......................... J McMillan 1 78688 Crazy Sunday nwtd ................J T McInerney 4 22265 Ghost nwtd ...................................C Roberts 6 36786 Duke Baxter 17.38 .................J T McInerney 2 21888 Harden Faster 17.34 M & ..................Jopson 5 Tx122 Penalty Bale 30.41 ............C Roberts 7 17376 Epic Force nwtd M & .........................Jopson 3 76434 Smokey Action nwtd S & .................B Evans 6 25368 Lagoon Twist 30.33 .........................J Tanner 8 82366 Cosmoholic 17.53 ........................A Waretini 4 34335 Ad’s Spice 18.06 .............................J Tanner 7 33276 Kay Bomb nwtd ..............................G Cleeve 9 55548 Tricky Action 17.48 S & ...................B Evans 5 17218 Game Controller 17.26...................G Cleeve 8 44542 Cawbourne Leaha 30.33..............C Roberts 10 48466 Zulu Jasper 17.63 ...........................J Tanner 6 23136 Sweet As Brad 17.54 ................R Blackburn 9 6366x Hell’s A Coming 31.06.............. A Botherway 3 12.49pm FLAIR SPRINT C1, 295m 7 34334 Smash Attack 17.36 ........................ M Grant 1 4188 Homebush Fued 17.49 ..........J T McInerney 10 46765 Opawa Mine 31.62 L &....................... Wales 2 43257 Know Bias nwtd .............................G Cleeve 6 1.48pm CLARKSON SIGN STUDIO DASH C1, 295m 8 5T877 Unfounded 17.43 M & .......................Jopson 9 37765 Homebush Ragna 17.71 ........J T McInerney 1 8676x Homebush Noodlum nwtd ......J T McInerney 3 33288 Abacus Magic nwtd ...................... L Waretini

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Future undecided

77887 Dragon Queen 17.85 M & .................Jopson 54676 Coleridge Jim 17.60 M &..................... Smith 13686 Goldstar Scout 17.50 S & ...............B Evans 1 83335 Sea Spray Elsa nwtd ...................B Freeman 77855 Ohoka Braxton 17.82 ................... L Waretini 2 83646 Cairo 31.21 ..................................... M Grant 3 3T36x Dyna Hadvar nwtd........................C Roberts 12 3.47pm PROTEXIN SPRINT C1, 295m 1 66721 Homebush Riley 17.42 ...........J T McInerney 4 22164 Rum Gin Mixer 31.21 .......................A Joyce 2 25588 Another Charm 17.46 M & ................Jopson 5 14232 Opawa Sophie 30.52 J & ................D Fahey 3 84683 Ana Dior 17.63 .............................C Roberts 6 37327 Goldstar Jagger 31.16 S &..............B Evans 4 74577 Jinja Billy 17.47 ............................ L Waretini 7 36355 Dead Wong 30.98 M & ......................Jopson 5 68286 Lagoon Allira nwtd M & ....................... Smith 8 85416 Cawbourne Senor 30.70 ..............C Roberts 6 73257 Goldstar Bomber 17.33 S & ............B Evans Emergencies: 7 37864 Falconhurst 17.73 ............................A Joyce 9 6366x Hell’s A Coming 31.06.............. A Botherway 8 26174 Cannonball Bolt 17.61 C &................. Fagan 10 86878 Thoracic 30.49 .......................J T McInerney 10 3.11pm FAST ARCHER AT STUD STKS C1, 520m Emergencies: 9 55548 Tricky Action 17.48 S & ...................B Evans 1 78476 Cawbourne Steele 30.86 .............C Roberts 2 23321 Shady Snapper 30.67 ..................C Roberts 10 48882 Dora Dufran 17.36 ..........................J Tanner 3 x3151 Opawa Denise 30.49 J & ................D Fahey SELECTIONS 4 4435x Velvet Girl 30.68 ............................... B Dann Race 1: Coco Bango, My Hoki, Ghisella, Terra Alert, Jinja Loch 5 55436 Stormy Sunday nwtd ..............J T McInerney Race 2: Pyro Polly, Smash Rumour, Big Catch, Jinno Gino 6 12568 Qadir Bale nwtd ...........................C Roberts Race 3: Flower Bomb, Royal Action, Abacus Magic, Opawa Opal 7 84335 Charlie Runkel nwtd ..........................J Dunn Race 4: Crotty, Ohoka Clare, Tip The Babe, Blazin Action 8 43153 Hilton Forabeer nwtd ................. A Bradshaw Race 5: Penalty Bale, Mystic Action, Kay Bomb, Ghost 9 6366x Hell’s A Coming 31.06.............. A Botherway Race 6: Caballo Blanco, Tilt, Zabambi, Homebush Noodlum 10 45846 Rushcuter Action 30.51 S & ............B Evans Race 7: Umbreon Bale, Ohoka Alex, Another Fan, Fear Marina 11 3.26pm ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C1, 295m Race 8: Game Controller, Smash Attack, Sweet As Brad 1 45444 Slick Action 17.56 S &.....................B Evans Race 9: Opawa Sophie, Goldstar Jagger, Cawbourne Senor 2 x6F37 Elora 17.49................................R Blackburn Race 10: Opawa Denise, Cawbourne Steele, Charlie Runkel 3 327F5 Terra Jago 17.41 C & ......................... Fagan Race 11: Peaky Boy, Elora, Slick Action, Terra Jago, Flat Pack 4 14243 Peaky Boy 17.48 .............................J Tanner Race 12: Homebush Riley, Cannonball Bolt, Another Charm, 5 86356 Flat Pack 17.73 ......................J T McInerney LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd 6 46884 Homebush Patriot nwtd ..........J T McInerney - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track 10 74757 Hotdog Shannon nwtd .................C Roberts

9 2.46 A2B ASPHALT CANTERBURY STKS C1, 520m

7 8 9 10

Otago dogs

Today at Forbury Park Raceway 2 12448 Opawa Short nwtd L & ....................... Wales 2 47476 Avalanch City 32.63 ...............J T McInerney 9 2.36 GLAMOUR HOOVES RACING STABLES SPRINT 3 36657 Apollo King 18.73 ...............................J Allen 3 73868 Luciastar nwtd ........................J T McInerney C5, 310m 4 21482 Princely Gold nwtd .................J T McInerney 4 72Fx8 Opawa Faith 32.92 .......................K M Grant 1 4828x Homebush Zippy 18.58 ..........J T McInerney 5 21742 Jinja Rules 18.83 ...................J T McInerney 5 51315 David’s Legacy nwtd ................. M Robinson 2 37678 Homebush Flame 18.72 .........J T McInerney 6 55323 Nippa-A-Spot nwtd .................J T McInerney 6 22337 Opawa Val 32.70 L &.......................... Wales 3 28866 Homebush Kelso 18.31 ..........J T McInerney 7 78277 Knocka Few Back 18.84.................C Healey 7 855F6 Heritage Watch 32.93 ....................J Guthrie 4 42133 Storming Norm 18.20.................. B I Conner 8 12866 Homebush Clint 18.95 ...........J T McInerney 8 52274 Kelly’s My Name nwtd .....................J Goode 5 11111 Wheelchair Norm 18.17 .........J T McInerney 9 16678 Amelia Rob nwtd ....................... M Robinson 9 16678 Amelia Rob nwtd ....................... M Robinson 6 48114 Epic Woppa 18.47 .........................R Adcock 4 1.01 BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING SPRINT C1/2, 310m 7 1.57 OTAGO SILK STOCKINGS SPRINT C1, 310m 7 72662 Puma Pants 18.36..................J T McInerney 8 77548 Homebush Scribe 18.66 ........J T McInerney 1 81747 Rib Curler nwtd ..................................J Allen 1 35588 Idol Eve 18.95 L & .............................. Wales 9 77786 Homebush Howard nwtd ........J T McInerney 2 67F65 Mississippi Girl nwtd ..............J T McInerney 2 46866 No Bro 18.50 ............................... B I Conner 3 33848 Terra Mondo 18.54 C & ...................... Fagan 3 7x516 Forza nwtd ................................ M Robinson 10 2.56 BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS SPRINT 4 x3558 Southern Affair 19.24 ..................R Hamilton 4 46x77 Obeyance nwtd ..................................J Allen C2/3, 545m 5 54564 Opawa Crusade 18.69 L &................. Wales 5 2211 Epic Fantasy nwtd .........................R Adcock 1 22522 Botany Alan nwtd ...................J T McInerney 6 17878 Paddy The Baker 18.72..........J T McInerney 6 678x7 Subterfuge 18.67 ...............................J Allen 2 53136 Waimac nwtd..........................J T McInerney 7 15637 Sparkling Terra nwtd C & ................... Fagan 7 18647 Homebush Tulip nwtd .............J T McInerney 3 32114 Cosmic Odette nwtd...............J T McInerney 8 71276 Deman Blue Blood 18.72 .......J T McInerney 8 26567 Deborah Bay 18.94 ........................J Guthrie 4 62364 Shift The Blame 33.03............J T McInerney 9 16678 Amelia Rob nwtd ....................... M Robinson 9 16678 Amelia Rob nwtd ....................... M Robinson 5 45443 Pipe Dream 33.20 ..................J T McInerney 5 1.21pm ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER STAKES C1, 545m 10 15788 Idol Georgie nwtd .............................. J Rush 6 85147 Pukeko Bolt 32.44 ..........................B Healey 1 64321 Spring Sam 32.80 ..................J T McInerney 8 2.16pm WILLIAMS SIGNS AND GRAPHIX SPRINT 7 63375 Trendy Blake 33.32 ................J T McInerney 8 82621 Opawa Timo 32.82 J & ....................D Fahey 2 36327 Opawa Judy nwtd L & ........................ Wales C1/2, 310m 9 11278 Opawa Richie 32.79 L & .................... Wales 3 35734 Fancy Nomikai nwtd ...............D J MacMillan 1 44354 Idol Star 18.93 L & ............................. Wales 10 18876 Opawa Minstrel 32.78 L & .................. Wales 4 74757 No Tinkerbell 32.96 ........................J Guthrie 2 42125 Sozin’s Noir 18.46 ..................J T McInerney 5 46765 Opawa Mine nwtd L & ........................ Wales 3 67582 Flaming Sambuca 18.57 ........J T McInerney 11 3.18pm OTAGO DAILY TIMES SPRINT C3/4, 310m 6 56668 Pianissimo 32.49......................... B I Conner 1 26856 Homebush Banker 18.84 .......J T McInerney 4 55547 Giancana nwtd .............................S Hindson 7 56556 Opawa Bucks Eye 34.25 ............H Anderton 2 75818 Botany Cold 18.75 .................J T McInerney 5 61865 Ngakawau nwtd......................J T McInerney 8 x1778 Light Thaw nwtd .................................J Allen 3 86756 Homebush Sloan 18.54 .........J T McInerney 6 66583 Terra Bindi 18.97 C & ......................... Fagan 9 16678 Amelia Rob nwtd ....................... M Robinson 4 67687 Homebush Rufus 18.42 .........J T McInerney 7 52818 Lucky Sunday nwtd ................J T McInerney 6 1.41pm KEYOSK SERVICE BAR STAKES C1, 545m 8 85655 Token Ace 18.71 ............................... J Rush 5 21452 Opawa Blinky 18.81 L & ..................... Wales 6 71811 NippaOfSambucca 18.84 .......J T McInerney 1 37765 Rhinegolde 33.56 ...............................J Allen 9 16678 Amelia Rob nwtd ....................... M Robinson

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34456 Storming Mack nwtd ................... B I Conner 11211 Speedy Blueblood 18.43 ........J T McInerney 51784 Verbena 18.81 ...............................R Adcock 35656 Homebush Errol 18.41 ...........J T McInerney 12 3.36 RACING AGAIN TUESDAY 16 MAY C3, 310m 1 35265 His Nibs 18.64....................................J Allen 2 86378 Homebush Justine nwtd .........J T McInerney 3 51226 Epic Knoxy 18.66 ..........................R Adcock 4 51687 Joey Baxter 18.74 ..................J T McInerney 5 8F634 Pep’s Terra nwtd C & .......................... Fagan 6 18362 Sozin’s Blue 18.69 .................J T McInerney 7 81617 My Bro Michael nwtd................. M Robinson 8 53224 Seeking Baxter 18.62.............J T McInerney 9 51784 Verbena 18.81 ...............................R Adcock 10 35656 Homebush Errol 18.41 ...........J T McInerney SELECTIONS

Race 1: Mr. Bear, Sozin’s Angel, Just James, African Violet Race 2: Pat Patterson, Forbury Flyer, Pat Allie, Homebush Ivana Race 3: Opawa Lean Meat, Nippa-A-Spot, Homebush Clint Race 4: Rib Curler, Mississippi Girl, Deman Blue Blood, Terra Mondo Race 5: Spring Sam, Fancy Nomikai, Opawa Judy, No Tinkerbell Race 6: David’s Legacy, Opawa Val, Avalanch City, Luciastar Race 7: Epic Fantasy, Obeyance, No Bro, Deborah Bay Race 8: Sozin’s Noir, Flaming Sambuca, Idol Star, Terra Bindi Race 9: Wheelchair Norm, Epic Woppa, Homebush Zippy Race 10: Opawa Timo, Pukeko Bolt, Waimac, Botany Alan Race 11: Speedy Blueblood, Homebush Banker, Homebush Sloan Race 12: Seeking Baxter, His Nibs, My Bro Michael, Verbena 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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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

In brief

■ RUGBY

NZ sides making history

BY NIALL ANDERSON New Zealand’s Super Rugby sides are winning overseas at a rate never seen before.

Away victories for the Highlanders, Blues and Crusaders at the weekend have boosted the success rate of New Zealand sides on foreign soil in 2017 to a staggering 93.3 per cent – a massive increase on the historical rates in Super Rugby.

As the competition cuts back on teams – partly due to the overwhelming dominance of the New Zealand conference – the numbers show a distinct change in how New Zealand teams have doubled down on their reign atop the Super Rugby hierarchy.

Winning overseas used to be rare for New Zealand sides, yet over the past few seasons, victories on away trips have been drastically more common.

Before 2015, Kiwi sides had an overall winning record overseas in just seven out of 19 seasons – a lacklustre figure that expectedly extends all the rugby nations (Winning in a different country, is, or was, an obviously difficult task).

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In the history of Super Rugby, only one team holds a winning record when playing games overseas.

That side is the Crusaders, who have won 54.7 per cent of their trips on foreign soil.

The Hurricanes (47.7 per cent) are the only other side to have won more

than 42 per cent of their overseas trips.

As a result of those formerly tough trips, the historical record of New Zealand sides playing overseas is a mixed bag.

Since the dawn of Super Rugby, New Zealand sides have won 43.3 per cent of their games in Australia, and 45.6 per cent of their contests in South Africa.

Add in a 100 per cent record in Argentina and Japan, and Kiwi teams hold an overseas winning percentage of 44.9 per cent.

Although that figure compares favourably to the overseas record of Australian teams (30.1 per cent) and South African sides (25.9 per cent), it was much lower in previous years, when a trip to South Africa or Australia was a much trickier proposition.

For instance, in 1996, the opening year of Super Rugby, NZ sides won just 11.1 per cent of overseas encounters.

Crusader In 2001, Kiwi Israel teams won 17.6 Dagg

per cent of their matches, in 2010 just 29.2 per cent, and even as recently as 2014 NZ teams struggled overseas; victorious in 30.4 per cent of encounters.

That 18-year sample has suddenly shifted however.

Since 2015, New Zealand teams have continued their usual home domination, but have enjoyed increasing success on their travels.

In the past three seasons, the Kiwi teams have won 70.8 per cent of their overseas games, with every team holding a winning record on their overseas adventures.

The Chiefs (10-4), Hurricanes (9-2), Crusaders (10-3) and Highlanders (10-4) have all recorded a winning rate which far exceeds their historical norms, while the Blues (5-5-1) have improved of late.

In that same time frame, Australian teams have won 18.6 per cent of their games held overseas, and South African sides 37.5 per cent.

With New Zealand teams continually difficult to beat in New Zealand, and now increasingly tough to topple overseas, their overseas rivals will be hoping the new Super Rugby format can restore some parity to proceedings.

- NZME

■ EQUESTRIAN

Nicholson finally conquers Badminton After 36 years of trying, New Zealand eventing great Andrew Nicholson has clinched the Badminton Horse Trials.

Nicholson, riding his established mount Nereo, headed off Olympic champion Michael Jung in a dramatic showjumping phase to win the world’s premier four-star event.

A seven-time Olympian and multiple winner of other four-star events, including five Burghley Horse Trials titles, Nicholson had always fallen short at Badminton in 36 previous visits.

Fifth after the dressage phase, he had improved to third heading into yesterday’s showjumping.

Nereo jumped clear and picked up just 1.0 time penalty points, putting the pressure on Jung and fellow-German leader Ingrid Klimke.

World No.1 Jung knocked over one rail to fall while Klimke had a disaster, felling four rails.

It handed the title to the stunned 55-year-old Kiwi who has spent most of his career based in the United Kingdom.

“It is an unbelievable feeling.

“To have waited so long, to be so near a few times, it has been pretty hard but you just have to get over it and move on,” Nicholson said.

He was quick to shower praise on Spanish-bred chestnut horse Nereo, who he has ridden for 13 years and whose only previous weakness had been in the showjumping.

“He (Nereo) showed he can do it at 17 years old.

“The amount of events he’s started, for a big strong horse, year after year is unbelievable.”

It was a day to remember for the Kiwi contingent, who claimed four of the top six positions.

Tim Price, riding Xavier Faer, was third while four-time Badminton winner Sir Mark Todd was fourth on NZB Campino and sixth on Leonidas II. Nicholson was 12th on Qwanza, who also won the prize as best mare.

- NZME

Lions reject unhappy Mike Brown has hit out at Warren Gatland’s decision to leave him out of the British and Irish Lions squad for the tour to New Zealand. Brown was omitted from the 41-man party to face the All Blacks despite helping England win the Six Nations, with Gatland preferring Stuart Hogg, Jared Payne, Leigh Halfpenny, Liam Williams and Anthony Watson as fullback options. He said: “I didn’t take it well. I was gutted. It’s really disappointing for guys like myself, James Haskell and Dylan Hartley because we probably won’t get another opportunity.”

- NZME

Foran’s plans changing?

Kieran Foran staying at the Warriors could produce an NRL title for the Auckland club, according to prominent rugby league commentator Mathew Johns. Foran’s future beyond this season has been subject to fierce conjecture, but Johns’ words give backing to a NZ Herald exclusive last week which suggested the tide was turning in Foran’s future plans. “Word is starting to come through that Kieran Foran is actually considering staying in New Zealand and not joining the Bulldogs,” Johns said.

- NZME

AFL goes to China AFL chief executive Gill McLachlan is confident the historic clash between Gold Coast and Port Adelaide in Shanghai will go ahead successfully, despite concerns about poor air quality. Suns coach Rodney Eade has flagged the prospect of not selecting players who suffer from respiratory problems due to the threat of smog and forecast hot conditions in China. “There are a lot of things you can’t control about our game, there are always operational challenges wherever we play the game,” McLachlan said yesterday. “But there’s nothing that I’m aware of that puts the game at risk.”

- AAP

Carter rescues Racing The regular season is over in Europe, but there are plenty of high profile Kiwis still in contention for silverware over the next few weeks. Dan Carter was to the fore as Racing-Metro squeezed into sixth position in the French Top 14, meaning they will face a trip to Montpellier in a fortnight to keep their hopes of defending their crown alive. He kicked three goals and made the clutch play, as he has done so often in his career, with a late try as his club edged Bordeaux-Begles 22-20. Also in the Racing-Metro starting line-up were Chris Masoe, Casey Laulala and Joe Rokocoko.

- NZME

Divorce for Duco

Andrew Nicholson on Nereo attacks a jump during the showjumping phase on day five of the 2017 Badminton Horse Trials yesterday.

PHOTO AP

Joseph Parker’s management team could be set for an overhaul, with rumours rife promoters Duco Events are in the midst of change which could see co-directors David Higgins and Dean Lonergan part ways.

Lonergan, now based in Brisbane as he builds a blockbuster bout between Jeff Horn, a Duco fighter, and Manny Pacquiao at Suncorp on July 2, was notably absent when Parker out-pointed Romanian Razvan Cojanu in the first defence of his WBO heavyweight title.

The Herald understands there has been friction between Higgins and Lonergan for some time. - NZME

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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. Changing coins in writing, it’s correct to take it wrong way (11) 8. Getting in the way of pin, dig me out (8) 9. Set fire to some flowing water (4) 10. Tries out some of the latest software (5) 13. Some old bird would swindle one twice (4) 16. Sort of forward thing for an actor to take in hand (4) 17. Suffer nettlerash when holding a different plant (4) 18. Club of atomic number 26 (4) 20. Sheriff’s men needing Hitler force to hold as owner (5) 24. Sadly it’s a drop in rent by the look of it (4) 25. Truce: lie about it being in the bag (8) 26. Make concessions to have the rendezvous at mid-way point (4,4-3) DOWN 2. Naughty youngsters involved in grim psychological warfare (4) 3. Scrounge dairy topping when in prison (5) 4. Musical piece that would cause fisherman some frustration (5) 5. It is fanatical of Academician to tender for it (5) 6. As I’d turned up, Pop isn’t wrong but fails to satisfy (11) 7. Came across a gaming disc when in need of change (11) 11. Helplessly fall through in a period that’s bad for trade (5) 12. Note ties that cast doubts on one’s reputation (5) 14. Anyone can enter ring with writer (4) 15. Explorer played on ponyback (4) 19. Look after a character in Romeo and Juliet (5) 21. A rope thrown at work such as 19 mentions (5) 22. A corpse? Strong drink needed! (5) 23. With back up, Mother will be a cat in the wild (4)

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WordBuilder

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DOWN 1. Cheerily (7) 2. Freedom (7) 3. Inexperienced (5) 4. Obstruction (7) 5. Aroma (5) 6. Go in (5) 9. Name (9) 14. Wariness (7) 15. Coaxed (7) 16. Persevere (7) 19. Terminate (5) 20. Haggard (5) 21. Blissful period (5)

Previous solution: oops, ops, opt, opts, poo, poos, post, pot, pots, soot, sop, sot, spot, stoop, stop, too, top, topo, topos, tops.

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): When you’re rested and cared for, your enthusiasm is naturally strong. If you’re feeling less than enthusiastic, don’t mistake this for intuition or a judgment about circumstance. It could just mean you need rest.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’re in danger of making things complicated. Take a step back. Breathe deep. Yes, there are many moving parts here, but most happen as a chain reaction to your moving only one or two of them.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Don’t assume that as long as your time is available you should keep filling it up. Every commitment affects every other commitment. Leave a wide stretch of open space in that schedule, you’ll be glad you did.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Lately you couldn’t care less about what people think of you – which is precisely why you are so well-liked. If you dare to extend an invitation, you’ll be most pleased with the response you receive.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You know what you want to accomplish, and momentum will be on your side all day long. Also, there are many who want to (and have the means to) help you with your quest.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’ve been worried that you’re not quite qualified to take on a certain job, but the thing is that no one is until the job is theirs. This type of work can only be learned by doing.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): If you find that your ability has been underestimated, there’s a fantastic opportunity in this. You are now in the perfect position to impress and impact with a performance they weren’t expecting.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Every flight plan includes a destination point and an estimated time of arrival. Similarly, your current plan will require a few time and space specifics before you’ll be allowed to take off.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Your social flair is going strong today, and a wide range of people will be drawn to you, though most notably your fellow fire signs, Aries and Leo. CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): People who don’t want to do boring work will try and rope you into doing it. How frustrating! Actually, you might find it’s not half as boring as you thought. In fact, there’s something juicy in this for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Let no man speak on behalf of your satisfaction and comfort level.

The only person who knows if you’re really comfortable is you. In fact, you cannot be comfortable until you decide that you are!

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): At best, it will be useless to talk about anything outside your realm of experience and knowledge. At worst, such talk will be harmful. Gossip is dangerous to both the gossiper and the subject of gossip.

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COOK – Ben and Katie are delighted to announce the arrival ofrd MacKenzie Mae on the 3 May at 4.47am, weighing 6lbs 15oz at Christchurch Women’s Hospital. We would like to thank our Midwife Michelle Dolan-Scott and the team at Ashburton Maternity.

WATSON, Gloria Suzanne – On May 7, 2017 at Ashburton Hospital surrounded by her loving family. Aged 70 years.

Dearly loved mother of the late Rachel, Suzanne, and the late Geoffrey. Sister and sister in law of Margaret (deceased) and Jim Stewart, Shirley and Stan Hydes and Claire and Raymond Sutherland. Very much loved aunty and great aunty to all her nieces and nephews.

Messages to Watson family c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Donations to St John would be appreciated and may be left at the service.

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Sport Graceful in defeat Plenty in navy blue saw injustice in Sunday’s A-League grand final result but Melbourne Victory captain Carl Valeri isn’t one of them. Against premiers and eventual champions Sydney FC, Victory burst out of the blocks and were the dominant side in a bruising first 45 minutes. Besart Berisha’s goal put Victory in front but like two of their previous meetings, the Sky Blues reeled in Kevin Muscat’s side to end up on top. Valeri suggested he had no complaints with the result given his side didn’t take their opportunities to claim an upset win.

Kim takes sixth title

The Ashburton Golf Club quartet of Vicki Moore, Wendy Parr, Hilary Ward and Pauline Bell claimed victory in the Kerr Cup late last week.

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A 79-year-old drought was broken by the Ashburton Golf Club late last week when four of their women claimed the Kerr Cup at the Levels Golf Course in South Canterbury.

Vicki Moore, Wendy Parr, Hilary Ward and Pauline Bell made up the foursome that travelled south in search of the elusive prize and produced the best allround results on the day to take out the title, although there was some confusion initially.

At the initial prize-giving the Ashburton women weren’t even

ranked in the top three, an outcome that had them more than confused.

“I was doing a bit of calculating in my head and I could see across the table that Wendy was as well,” Vicki Moore said.

“By my count we should have been right up there in the running, so we were a wee bit confused.”

It wasn’t until everyone was leaving following the prize-giving that the Ashburton quartet noticed that one of their scores had been entered wrong.

Parr’s gross score had been recorded as opposed to her nett

score for the day – a 12 point difference which elevated the women into first position.

“We thought it might have been enough to have us in the prizes, but to find out it was enough to get us the win was a really nice surprise,” Moore added.

First prize was presented again after the mistake was picked up although most people had gone for the day.

The Kerr Cup is competed for each year by clubs from within the Aorangi district and is always held at the Levels course.

The winning side is the team who produce the best four nett

aggregate scores over the day.

Moore said they travelled south with no expectations.

“It’s a game of golf at the end of the day, you never know.

“You just go out there and hope to play a good round and what will be will be.”

First competed for in 1938 the Kerr Cup was won by the Ashburton club the following year after it was first presented to the Timaru Women’s Golf Club and Moore said there was a real sense of pride among the four players that they had managed to break the duck and bring the trophy back to their club.

Drugs scandal costs pair World Cup spots Kiwis forwards Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proctor have been axed from the Kiwis for the Rugby League World Cup after being caught up in rugby league’s latest drugs scandal.

The pair were allegedly caught on CCTV purchasing and snort-

ing cocaine in Canberra in the early hours following the Kiwis 30-12 loss to Australia.

Bromwich had already relinquished the Kiwis captaincy and copped a two match suspension from his club, while Proctor stood down as co-captain of the Titans.

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Now, the pair’s punishments have continued, with New Zealand Rugby League announcing that neither would be selected for the World Cup. “I’ve made the decision, with the backing of the NZRL, that Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proc-

tor will not be considered for the upcoming World Cup campaign,” said Kiwis coach David Kidwell. “We have values to uphold, and I can’t express enough that they have broken my trust, and their team-mates’ trust,” said Kidwell.

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Sei Young Kim beat Ariya Jutanugarn one-up yesterday to win the Lorena Ochoa Match Play in Mexico and bag her sixth LPGA Tour title. Jutanugarn won the par-5 17th with a birdie to force another hole, but Kim finished off the match with a halve for a par on the par-4 18th. In the morning semi-finals at Club de Golf Mexico, Kim beat Mi Jung Hur 5 and 4, and the third-ranked Jutanugarn defeated Michelle Wie 4 and 3. The 24-yearold South Korean is projected to jump from 12th to eighth in the world rankings.

Maradona now a coach Diego Maradona has been appointed coach of Al-Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. The former Argentina star, now 56, has been out of management since being sacked by Dubai’s Al-Wasl in 2012 but has now found a new role in the UAE second division.

Maradona wrote on his official Facebook page: “I want to tell you that I’m the new coach of Al-Fujairah SC, in the second division of the United Arab Emirates.” Attaching a picture of himself posing with an AlFujairah shirt with his name and his famous number 10 on the back, he added: “Here are my new colours!”

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