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Andrew Falloon has continued his push to make State Highway 1 between Ashburton and Christchurch four lanes.

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Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon has launched a petition aimed at saving plans to extend State Highway 1 between Christchurch and Ashburton to four lanes.

“Transport Minister Phil Twyford has said that a number of important regional highway projects across the country are under review, including the four-lane State Highway 1 link between Christchurch and Ashburton – this is not good enough,” Falloon said.

“Recently in Parliament I asked the Transport Minister to commit to building the road. He refused to do so. I think that’s wrong, and

I think most Cantabrians think so too.

“The existing road is becoming a handbrake on Canterbury’s growth and Labour has cast doubt over the continuation of the planned project to extend the highway.

“The demand on the roading infrastructure will only increase with the continued success of Timaru’s PrimePort and the growth of the inland port at Rolleston.

“In the last 15 years international tourist numbers have more than doubled, the number of passenger vehicles on the road has swelled, and with a strong local economy more and more trucks

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“We need to be investing in the critical infrastructure that supports growth in our regional economies, not putting all our eggs in one basket with Auckland.

“Not only is it becoming more congested, it’s more dangerous.

During the campaign and my time as an MP I have spoken to people who are no longer willing to drive through to Christchurch, nervous about the number of trucks or drivers new to our roads.

“A four-lane highway between Christchurch and Ashburton will reduce travel times and make the road safer for everyone. I will continue to push the Government to

include the project in their plan and I encourage the public to show their support by signing the petition.”

The petition is one of a series launched by National this week aimed at saving regional highway projects at risk because of the Government’s obsession with Auckland trams, National Party Transport Spokesperson Judith Collins said.

“Roads from Northland right through to Ashburton are being ‘reviewed’ while the Government attempts to divert billions of dollars to pet light-rail projects,” she said.

However, the claims by Falloon

and Collins have been rejected by the Government.

A spokesperson for Twyford said the “highway projects” referred to in National’s petition do not exist as they were merely election campaign promises made by National and never costed or funded.

“To suggest the Government isn’t going ahead with projects that don’t exist is misleading. And to suggest non-existing funding be diverted into rail is nonsensical.

“The Transport Agency has advised that funding for road upgrades cannot be redirected into rail, so National’s concerns are unfounded.”

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Ashburton Fire Station revamp nearing completion

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The renovated Ashburton Fire Station is edging close to completion.

After four months of renovations, rural firefighters are set to shift into the upgraded, resized Burnett Street building this weekend.

Renovations began last September, after rural and urban forces merged into Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ), and the new station includes upgraded bathrooms, segregated clean and dirty areas and upgraded earthquake safety as well as revamped offices and meeting spaces and ample room for the 15 rural firefighters.

“Now we’re about 95 per cent of the way to being completely up and running,” said chief fire officer Alan Burgess.

“The main building work is pretty much finished. We’ve just got a bit of tidying up, some electrical work and we will be moving comms … and just a bit of signage,” he said.

Originally, the plan was to extend the existing fire station and have the building work completed before the FENZ merger. However, a change in plans saw a full station revamp planned instead, to encompass compliance related work and minimise future disruptions to the service.

Firefighters continued to operate out of the station as building work took place, with a temporary muster room set up.

“We don’t really have an official move in date because we never really moved out,” said Burgess.

In-house opening celebrations are scheduled for March 3, while Burgess hopes a public open day might take place further down the track.

“It would be nice to let the public see the Fifteen rural firefighters will be shifting into an upgraded Ashburton Fire Station with their urban counterparts this weekend.

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Council ready for weather extremes

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The past year of weather extremes and the prospect of climate change turning weather predictions into an inexact science means local authorities need to ensure they are well prepared for unexpected disasters, Ashburton District Council chief executive Andrew Dalziel said.

There is an increasing focus from central government and from Local Government New Zealand on pushing councils to get their houses in order in terms of infra-

structure insurance and in having sufficient reserves to cope with weather driven issues, he said.

The district’s urban infrastructure was largely in good shape and the council had healthy financial reserves.

Of the $25 million it has invested about $2.5 million was tagged for disaster relief and this could be accessed as and when needed if a natural disaster occurred, Dalziel said.

“We use this money to pay insurance on our underground assets so it doesn’t grow that much,

but we have comprehensively insured our assets.”

Each year the council pays about $800,000 in insurance premiums on those assets.

“If our underground infrastructure is damaged the 60/40 rule comes into play, the government pays 60 per cent of the cost but they’ll only pay up as long as a council has money in the bank for their share – which we do.”

The council also has a staff member with half of that person’s time dedicated to emergency management.

“Councils can certainly do more, but it’s about getting the balance right, it’s about making sure we have enough money available.”

He believes the Ashburton council is in a good position in terms of disaster preparedness.

“We’re a big district and it’s unlikely all of the district would be affected at the same time. We believe we have enough there in our reserves to deal with whatever is needed.”

Workshops on the council’s long term plan start next week and all cards would be on the table during

those as every area of spending and investment would be looked at and this was likely to include looking at the council’s investment in disaster relief and insurance of its major assets, Dalziel said.

Last year’s the district experienced weather extremes that included record high temperatures in February and record rainfall in July.

The July rainfall created significant issues with the district’s roading network involving significant expenditure in remedial work.

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M. bovis advice from deputy mayor I was deeply upset to hear that a farm in our district had tested positive for the cattle disease, Mycoplasma bovis.

It is a very worrying time for the farming community and I offer my sympathy to those with animals who have this devastating disease.

If you know people who are directly affected by the discovery of M. bovis, please give them your support to help them through this difficult time. The Rural Support Trust and industry groups such as Federated Farmers and Dairy NZ are also helping farmers who are dealing with the disease.

I know all dairy farmers in our district will be concerned but they should be reassured by the fact that the spread of M.bovis usually requires prolonged contact with an infected animal. The Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) is still working on tracing contacts of infected cattle, so if you don’t hear from them, “no news is good news”.

The milk companies are also distributing test kits for sick animals and they will be handing these out at a public meeting in

Methven and another in Ashburton on January 11.

Good hygiene practices are crucial on farms at all times but if there are areas where you can make improvements, now is the time to do it. It is also important to keep your NAIT and general farm records up-to-date.

If vets and AI technicians are visiting your property, make sure they thoroughly clean their equipment before they arrive and again before they leave. You might want to consider making a footbath and scrubbing brush available for the boots of all visitors as they enter and leave your farm. Likewise, if you are visiting a neighbour, clean your boots and any gear you are taking with you.

To find out more about M.bovis and issues such as farm hygiene visit the MPI website www.mpi. govt.nz Farmers with any concerns or questions can ring MPI on 0800 00 83 33.

The mayor (who is currently overseas) and I will be in regular contact with MPI to stay informed about this issue and will be doing all we can to support affected farmers and their families.

Right – Ashburton deputy mayor Neil Brown released the above statement yesterday in regard to the positive test for Mycoplasma bovis in Ashburton. Brown is also a local dairy farmer.

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Fire season restrictions still in force

By Katie todd

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It may be damp and drizzling, but that’s no reason to ignore the restricted fire season, say local fire officials.

It is still an offence to light a fire anywhere in the open air in Mid or South Canterbury, without first obtaining a permit from Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ).

FENZ Mid South Canterbury principal rural fire officer Don Geddes said teams were monitoring the situation on a daily basis and would consider lifting the ban if there is significant rainfall or prolonged damp conditions.

However, in the meantime, he urged people to apply for permits,

which can be done for free through the Timaru District Council.

“People might see that it’s a low fire risk and think that it’s okay to light a fire without a permit, but it’s not their call,” said Geddes.

“They do need a permit … and it’s definitely not an onerous process.”

In order to obtain a permit, applicants need to ring Timaru District Council and provide basic information about the fire they wish to light. The application is then passed onto FENZ for review and assessment, and granted or declined. The process is free of charge this year.

Geddes said FENZ may be able to process applications for small fires entirely online.

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“This season we have had a few people burning without permission,” he said. “They do need to get that permit.”

The restricted season came into force on December 9 following the driest November on record for the district.

Within a restricted season, any unpermitted bonfires, braziers, hangis, controlled burns or other outdoor fires are a no-no.

FENZ are able to impose penalties if individuals choose to ignore the restriction and are caught burning without a permit.

More information on the restricted fire season and permit application process can be found at checkitsalright.nz.

Lotto lists lucky districts

By Katie todd

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Ashburton Lotto players were luckier than their Selwyn District or Christchurch City counterparts when it came to winning big last year.

After handing out more than $546 million in prizes to Kiwis in 2017, Lotto have ranked Ashburton District as the fourteenth luckiest place to purchase a ticket out of 77 districts overall.

Based on Lotto, Powerball and Strike winnings dished out in 2017, the South Wairarapa District took out number one “luckiest” spot.

On average, Wairarapa locals took home $2119.96 in winnings per capita. On average, Ashburto-

nians won $116 per capita in last year’s Lotto draws.

In April last year, Methven Supervalue sold a $2 million ticket to a local couple.

In February last year, another Ashburton lotto player became $500,000 better off after purchasing a MyLotto ticket online.

2016 was a luckier year for Ashburton, after one couple bought a ticket from Countdown Ashburton and claimed a $22.2 Powerball First Division prize. Thanks to their win, Ashburton was named the third luckiest location in 2016.

Last year, the least lucky place to purchase a ticket was in Orakei Ward, where locals took home just $42.03 per capita.

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Church sells to artist

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A quaint piece of countryside history has sold to a Canterbury artist.

Proceeds from the sale of the 106-year-old Winchmore Church, and an upcoming auction of chattels, will stay in the Winchmore community.

Property Brokers agent Greg Jopson said the church attracted a lot of interest from throughout New Zealand and Australia.

Jopson said many had been inspired by the potential of the church as a renovation project.

“There was a big attendance at the open homes, and about 70 enquiries in total,” Jopson said.

The name of the artist who purchased the building was con-

fidential at this stage, as was the intended use of the building.

The church was owned by the Winchmore community, and proceeds will go to Advance Ashburton for release to the community for worthy projects and causes upon application.

An auction of chattels will be held on-site on January 27, and include wooden church pews, a lecturn, old hymn books and a harmonium.

Former parishioner Maureen Maginness thanked fellow longtime parishioner Brian Reesby for all the hard work he had undertaken to prepare the church for sale.

“I’m really pleased it’s sold, and it’s going to have a new owner and a new life,” Maginness said.

Winchmore Church has sold to a Canterbury artist.

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Theft strands visitor to area

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Trust lines up positive annual meeting The Ashburton Trust will be opening its books to the public next week when it holds its annual meeting.

And this year, for the first time in many years, it will be presenting a set of accounts that show it has money in the bank.

Over the past several years the trust has posted a trading loss

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flight to land in New Zealand after the New Year, touching down An Australian visitor to Ashbur- at 12.10am on January 1.

After recovering from the flight, ton is stranded in New Zealand after thieves took his passport, he said he and his brother had birth certificate, iPad, shoes, ID visited the pools for a few hours on the afternoon of January 1. and over $1000 in cash.

When he returned, his bag had Less than a day after Tyson Goodlet touched down in New been stolen.

Goodlet said he has been workZealand on January 1, a carry case of his belongings was sto- ing to find an embassy, high comlen from his brother’s Ashburton mission or consulate to help him get another birth certificate and house.

Goodlet had journeyed across passport, but is pleading for any the ditch with the intention of information and offering a cash visiting his brother and working reward for his belongings to be for a short period of time, and returned.

He purchased a New Zealand said he thought he was moving to sim card at the airport and urges a nice place.

“I’m stuck here now and I don’t anyone who has seen anything Tuesday, January 9, 2018 2 Ashburton Guardian have a good view of Ashburton of his property to call him on 021 025 63927. because of it,” he said.

The bag is a black sports bag “At the moment I’m just a person who doesn’t exist in New Zea- with a Jordan logo.

Goodlet has also notified poland without government ID.” Goodlet had been on the first lice about the theft.

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If you’re on your way past the Ashburton Trust Event Centre this week, keep an ear out for the hard-working vocal chords of 149 Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School (MCSSS) students.

The group launched into a week of practice yesterday before they bring a musical theatre production to the stage on Friday and Saturday.

It’s the biggest production yet for the MCSSS, which has been operating each January for 18 years and is musically helmed

by Ashburton singing tutor Jo Castelow.

“We now have people from all over, from as far as Timaru and Christchurch, and each time brings a new mix of voices,” said Castelow.

Some singers have been involved in the week-long course for more than 10 years, she said,

junior group are newcomers.

The group range in age from 9 to 21 years and includes members of NAZDA and first-year university students.

This year’s production is themed Time Travellers and will cover musical theatre and tunes from across the ages – from My Fair Lady and Bing Crosby to recent hits like Hamilton and Moana, along with everything in between, Castelow said. “Among the juniors everyone knows the songs from Moana, but they find that they love singing the older ones just as much,” she said.

And not only does the theme provide something for everyone in the audience, she said, but gives the young singers the opportunity to learn about various musicals. The group received their music a month ago, and auditioned for solo positions on unSunday. They are currently un dergoing two days of musical

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A number of older buildings around the Ashburton District will shortly be sporting signs that spell out how they rank against new building standards.

As part of the on-going drive to ensure all buildings will be earthquake safe, the Ashburton District Council will be sending signs to owners of buildings built prior to 1976 and will be asking them to display those signs prominently on the outside of their property.

The public notification is part of the council’s drive to ensure every older building has been inspected by engineers and that where required, strengthen-

ing work is either carried out or planned in the future.

It’s been a long process getting to this point, council building services manager Michael Wong said, but the placard templates had now arrived and these would be sent to property owners over the next month.

The placards would serve a two fold purpose – making the public aware of a building’s compliance level and encouraging owners to carry out necessary strengthening work.

Wong anticipates there will be about 150 sent out in February to owners of non-compliant buildings.

“These are the building’s we’ve

Speight’s Alehouse, The Somerset Grocer, the Tinwald Tavern and Motels complex and the Hotel Ashburton out to private operators.

The only business it has retained is the Devon Tavern.

The trust’s annual meeting will be held at the Devon Tavern at 5.30pm on January 18.

Almost two Kiwis a day sent home Kiwi criminals living in Australia ling visas of foreign-born crimiare getting their marching orders nals on character grounds, which from officials as figures reveal al- include if they have a substantial most two New Zealanders a day criminal record or they are suspected of being a member of a are getting sent home.

An investigation discovered 664 group involved in criminal conKiwis had their visas cancelled in duct.

The most high profile case inthe last financial year after a law volved Shane Martin, father of change in December 2014.

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Martin was deported back gangs, it was reported.

Australian Immigration Minis- to New Zealand in March ter Peter Dutton has been cancel- under “character grounds” in

the Migration Act. The Martin family are still fighting the Australian Government’s decision to deport him.

Dustin, 26, took out the prestigious Brownlow Medal last year with a record 36 votes during Richmond’s grand final run.

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Johnston was holidaying in Indonesia on an alleged gang holiday in November when he was refused entry back into Australia.

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Ski town turns into trail town

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Getting pitch perfect for their production later this week are Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School students (from left): Lucy Clough, EJ Stockman, Emily-Jane Farr and Annah Casey-Solly.

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practice, before director Alice Sollis steps in to help with the actions from Wednesday onwards.

Three 80-minute performances of Time Travellers will take place on Friday night, Saturday after-

Building standards placards set to roll out

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at each annual meeting but this years its books show has made a profit of $423,000 The change in fortunes has everything to do with the trust’s new business model where it is now a landlord rather than the operator of hospitality businesses.

Over the past year it leased

already assessed. Then we’ll do another desk top review and pick up the ones we may have missed and we’ll work with them,” he said.

Buildings that have not been assessed will be given the lowest rating until an assessment is done, Wong said.

There had been a proposal to change the rules so the cut-off date for engineering assessment would have moved forward to cover all buildings built before 2004 and that would have seen hundreds of buildings around the district bearing stickers, he said.

The consultation process ensured there was no date change

and that dramatically reduced the number of buildings coming into the net locally.

If a building is required to have THE a placard displayed it will contain information on the percentage it complies with building standards and the year with which it will need to be strengthened to come up to code, Wong said.

Older buildings that have been assessed and found to be up to strength or that have already been strengthened will not need to display placards.

Details on the placard-bearing buildings will be held on a public register with the Ministry of Building and this is accessible to anyone.

noon and Saturday night at the Event Centre, with tickets now available from Ticket Direct.

Honesty boxes targeted From P1 Near Methven, Lucy Raisbeck’s free range egg stall was also burgled on Sunday night.

While taking out the bins yesterday morning, she said she noticed that the security camera had been taken and the padlock had been cut off from her honesty box.

All money had been cleared from the box before the theft, but Raisbeck said she was still gutted to discover the break-in, which she presumes is the work of people “who don’t care about other people”.

However, with new security methods for Raisbeck and an ultra-secure honesty box for Billie, both stalls are continuing to operate.

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Te Araroa walkers are on the rise, benefiting the summer tourism industry in Methven.

Many who do the 3000-kilometre trail, which runs the length of New Zealand, end up in the ski town, as it is a natural resting point near the uncrossable Rakaia River.

Methven i-SITE consultant Lyndsay Agnew said December to February was peak season for trail walkers, and she was assisting about half a dozen per week.

“Most of them are doing the whole trail or the whole South Island, depending on how much time they have got,” she said.

“They are really interesting people, you have to be a certain breed to want to go and walk 3000 kilometres.”

They mostly came from Europe and North America, and walked north to south, hitch-hiking into Methven from above Lake Coleridge. They generally stayed in the campground or backpacker lodges in Methven.

“It’s nice to have them here and they spread the word when they go back,” she said.

Walkers rejoin the trail on Blackford Road in the Rakaia Gorge, and Methven Travel provides transport on the “empty” section of its school bus run, and operates an on-demand shuttle service in school holidays.

The Te Araroa section through Mid Canterbury goes from here to the Hakatere Heron Road, taking a public access easement over Glenariffe Station, then crossing the 60,000-hectare Hakatere Conservation Park.

Among those undertaking Te Araroa is American Clayton Beckett. His trail name is Chef, he has a travel blog at chefspecial5.com and is from Connecticut.

The 26-year-old is walking the South Island section, south to north, and was in Methven at the weekend. He said he ended up staying two nights instead of one at Snow Denn Lodge because he needed the rest, and the fact it of-

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After a couple of days rest in Methven, the Te Araroa trail beckons once again for American hiker Clayton Beckett.

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fered a Hikers’ Special made it all the more attractive.

“My feet were pretty banged up, so I decided to hang out for just one more day,” Beckett said.

He flew into Auckland in midDecember, and had his cellphone stolen in his first two days. He flew to Queenstown and shuttled to the southern end of Te Araroa at Bluff, and walked 555 kilometres north to Twizel over the next fortnight, staying in high country huts and his tent. With last week’s storm system forecast he decided to skip the next section and he

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hitchhiked to Methven, and left at the weekend aiming to hitch to north of Lake Coleridge to resume the trail.

Beckett said the trail to date had had many river crossings, and some mountainous terrain, as well as farm tracks and dirt roads.

Besides the road walks, which he did not like as they lacked the wilderness appeal of true trail walking, and a lack of markers in some areas, he was enjoying the scenery and meeting lots of people.

Of the few fellow hikers he had met, most were walking north to

south. “A lot of Kiwis don’t even know about the trail,” Beckett said.

He was not worried about being without a cellphone.

“If you don’t have service it’s not going to help you and you are not going to get that in the mountains,” he said.

He was confident enough from previous trail walking in Chile and America not to worry about an emergency locator beacon.

In the 12 months to July last year, 550 people walked the full length from Cape Reinga to Bluff,

compared to 350 in 201 and 210 the year before.

Te Araroa Trust chairma vid McGregor said the trail, takes five months to com and officially opened in 201 attracting people from all w life.

“From students and youn ple taking a gap year to r and workers taking an ext holiday.

“It’s a great way to conne New Zealand and to really know the landscapes, peop climate,” McGregor said.

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In brief Methven fire The alarm at Methven Fire Station was ringing out early yesterday morning, after a power pole caught alight on Mt Hutt Station Road. Firefighters responded to the callout at 5.40am and spent half an hour working at the scene.

Chief Fire Officer Brent Anderson said once the power board had turned off the power, firefighters were able to extinguish the fire without too much hassle.

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East St tune up for pipe band

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Saturday shoppers will be treated to street-side entertainment when the Ashburton Pipe Band steps out on Ashburton’s East Street chessboard.

For around 30 minutes the band will play a musical medley in a performance that pipe major Peter Doak says is their way of thanking the public for their support and understanding during a spat over noise levels during rehearsals

at their Creek Road rooms.

A neighbour of the band rooms called in the Ashburton District Council’s noise control officers, complaining that the noise generated by the band practising outdoors on a hot evening was above an acceptable level.

The contractor investigated and the band was forced to either stop practice or take their music indoors.

Two complaints were made on two separate occasions.

There was a huge outpouring of public support and that was really heartening for the band, Doak said.

“To say thanks, we thought we’d get together and play a few tunes.

It’s been a big thing for us to get this support, it’s been really great, amazing.”

Looking ahead, Doak said the band had been offered a key so it could access the Ashburton College grounds opposite the band hall for outdoor rehearsals and to

practice marching.

“We’re trying to do everything within the law. We’re a marching band and we need to get out every now and again and practice a bit of drill. We’ll be in the centre of the college, surrounded by buildings so hopefully that’ll help,” Doak said.

He anticipates there will be a full muster of band members on Saturday.

“They all appreciate the support we’ve had.”

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Praise for free fruit, vege initiative at Methven

By Katie todd

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Praise is flowing for a free fruit and vege initiative at Methven Medical Centre.

A stall has been set up for visitors and locals to share their excess garden produce. Visitors stopping by the Main Street building are invited to donate

any extra food they have, or take a bag and fill it with enough to feed their family that day.

The stall was set up by GP Sophie Febery, who read about a similar project at another medical centre in the North Island.

“As GPs we’re always telling people to eat fresh veges, but they can’t always afford to buy them,”

and herbs and eggs and more.”

The local Red Cross donated a trolley for the stall, and it has been in operation since December.

Febery said there’s no obligation to swap if you’re taking or donating produce.

“I guess it’s a pay it forward kind of thing.”

PM to attend Waitangi For the first time in three years, a Prime Minister will be attending the main Waitangi Day celebrations in the Bay of Islands.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has accepted an invitation to be welcomed on to Te Whare Runanga at the Upper Treaty Grounds the day before Waitangi Day and said she is looking forward to attending for the first time as the leader of the country.

A Prime Minister has not attended celebrations at Waitangi since 2015.

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Thames road re-opens Traffic cordons on State Highway 25 north of Thames were set to be removed from 6pm last night. The New Zealand Transport Agency announced light traffic will be able to use the road without the need for convoys. Heavy vehicles over five tonnes have been prohibited from SH25 between Te Puru and Manaia to minimise the risk of further damage to the road.

Waikato Karen Boyt said it was a great result of the hard work put in to repair the roads. “This a great result to be able to remove the cordons and convoys as it further reduces the delay for anyone who needs to use this stretch of SH25.”

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With plenty of her own veggies and produce to contribute, and eggs from her chickens, Febery said it was a matter of why not?

“So far it’s been very good,” she said.

“We’ve had heaps of people coming in with lettuce and plums and silver beet and black currants

Searchers looking for a woman presumed drowned in Hawke’s Bay have found a body. Police said divers looking for a woman missing at Haumoana Beach since Tuesday found the body at 6.35am yesterday, shortly after resuming their search. A woman disappeared late Tuesday and was believed to have drowned at Haumoana Beach in Hawke’s Bay trying to save a child.

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Left – Emily, 20 years old, and Topaz making a splash into 2018. Otago provided excellent weather for a swim with my sister and her beautiful horse while I was visiting. Photo taken by Emily Chamberlain

Right – Harry keeping the birds off his crop! Harry Page, 6 years old. Photo taken by Madeline Page, 10 years old.

This year’s Guardian Summer Photo Competition has turned up some great photos. We will be regularly running some of these great offerings of people enjoying our place.

Left – Hudson, 3 years old.

Follow me Poppy! At Barrhill.

Photo taken by Tracey Wylie.

Right – Amelia Barwell, 1 year old. Party time. Photo taken at Elgin by Caitlyn Barwell, 14 years old.

Left – Callum Begg and Ryan Gallagher get some air time on Lake Ruataniwha.

Photo taken by Nic Bartlett

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■ KOREA

Olympics for North Korea The rival Koreas moved toward easing their bitter animosity Tuesday during rare talks, with North Korea agreeing to take part in next month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea.

The countries also agreed to hold more discussions on reducing tension along their border and to reopen a military hotline.

The first meeting of its kind between the nations in about two years was arranged after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made an abrupt push for improved ties with South Korea following a year of escalating tensions with the outside world over his expanding nuclear and missile programmes.

Critics say Kim may be trying to divide Seoul and Washington in a bid to weaken international pressure and sanctions on the North.

In comments that appeared to back up those critical views, chief North Korean delegate Ri Son Gwon said his country’s nuclear weapons are aimed at the United States, not South Korea. He made the comments while complaining about what he called inaccurate South Korean media reports that he said Tuesday’s talks dealt with North Korea’s nuclear disarmament.

South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, (left), shakes hands with the head of the North Korean delegation Ri Son Gwon.

PHOTO AP Despite Ri’s comments, the agreements were still seen to be a positive move.

Ri read what he called a joint statement after the talks, under which the two Koreas agreed to “actively cooperate” in the Olympics to “enhance the prestige of the Korean people.”

He said North Korea will send a delegation of officials, athletes, cheerleaders and journalists to the February games in South Korea.

South Korea will provide necessary services to the North Korean delegation, Ri said.

US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert wel-

comed the inter-Korean meeting which she said was “aimed at ensuring a safe, secure and successful” Olympics.

The US said it was consulting with South Korean officials to ensure that North Korea’s participation in the games does not violate UN sanctions imposed over its nuclear weapons.

North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics won’t affect US participation in the games, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

North Korea is not a winter sports power, and two of its fig-

ure skaters, Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik, earlier became the only North Korean athletes to qualify for the games before the North missed a confirmation deadline. The International Olympic Committee said Monday it has “kept the door open” for North Korea to take part in the games.

In another key accord Tuesday, North Korea also agreed to hold military talks aimed at reducing animosity along the border and to restore a military hotline communication channel with South Korea, according to Cho. Earlier on Tuesday, South Korean officials said they also suggested resuming temporary reunions of families separated by war, but the joint statement didn’t mention this.

The countries have a long history of failing to follow through with rapprochement accords.

Panmunjom, is the only place on the border where North and South Korean soldiers are just metres away from each other.

An agreement on the North’s Olympic participation had been widely expected before the talks, but the Koreas appeared to remain sharply at odds over how to improve their overall ties.

– AP

El Salvadorans face deportation from US vadorans who have stayed in the US with temporary protected status would have to leave by September 9, 2019, unless Congress came up with a solution allowing them to stay.

The temporary protected status programme has been offered to citizens from a number of countries fleeing natural disasters or other instability.

The affected Salvadorans received the status after earth-

quakes in 2001 killed more than 1000 people.

The Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, said the Trump administration has now acted to end temporary protection for a combined 327,000 people from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan, all countries that have suffered major natural disasters or civil wars in recent decades.

Members of Congress from

both parties condemned the decision.

Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, said it was “unconscionable” for Trump to expel people who “have been here for years, working legally and sending remittances to their families”.

On Twitter, she called him “insensitive to the plight of so many who have contributed so much to our great nation”.

– AP

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■ UNITED STATES

Cyclone ravages Madagascar – 29 dead

Five dead after mudslides

Twenty-nine people have been killed by a cyclone that hit the African island nation of Madagascar.

Twenty-two more are missing and over 80,000 people have been affected by Cyclone Ava, which saw heavy rains cause flooding and landslides in some areas, according to the island’s disaster management authority.

“The red flood warning is maintained in (the capital) Antananarivo but there is a clear withdrawal of water. The level

Eric Clapton is losing his hearing, he has revealed. While speaking to Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2, the legendary musician said he plans to continue working, but acknowledged that it’s getting more challenging. Eric said not only is he struggling to play his guitar, but he also suffers from tinnitus, a ringing coming from inside the ear. “I am still going to work. I am going to do a show at Hyde Park in July,” he said in the interview, “The only thing I am concerned with now is I am going deaf, I’ve got tinnitus, my hands just about work. I mean, I am hoping people will come along and see me.”

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■ UNITED STATES

Nearly 200,000 El Salvadorans living in the US face deportation following the Donald Trump administration’s decision to lift their temporary protected status next year.

The US announcement brought fears that a major source of income for this poor Central American nation will be cut off and that families could be separated.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Sal-

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of rivers in the capital has also declined,” Charles Rambolarison, executive secretary of the authority said.

Cyclone Ava made landfall last weekend, but Rambolarison warned that “residents must remain vigilant”.

Seventeen of those killed died earlier this week in a landslide in Ivory, south of the capital.

Five major roads have been cut off by flooding and schools have been closed since last weekend.

– DPA

At least five people have been killed and homes were swept from their foundations as heavy rain sparked mudslides on hills stripped of vegetation by southern California’s recent wildfires.

Rescue crews have used helicopters to lift people to safety because of blocked roads with firefighters slogging through waist-high muck to get to people trapped in homes and vehicles.

Five bodies were found in and around Santa Barbara County Fire Department captain Dave Zaniboni said.

Crews have worked to clear debris from roads across the

Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Mandatory evacuations were ordered for about 700 homes in sections of Los Angeles County that burned last month in the biggest wildfire on record in California.

The mudslides were set off by a storm that walloped much of the state with damaging winds and thunderstorms.

Downtown San Francisco had a record eight cm of rain on Monday Santa Barbara County, hit hardest by the rainfall, ordered 7000 residents to leave their homes because of the threat of more mudslides and issued warnings to 23,000 more. – AP

Queen, Tina Turner, Neil Diamond and Emmylou Harris are among the artists who will receive the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. The organisation behind the Grammys will also hand out its Special Merit Awards to Louis Jordan, the Meters and Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine. This year’s honorees will be celebrated at a ceremony set to take place this summer. “This year’s Special Merit Awards recipients are a prestigious group of diverse and influential creators who have crafted or contributed to some of the most distinctive recordings in music history,” the Recording Academy President said.

Greta Thyssen dies Greta Thyssen, the full-figured Danish beauty who doubled for Marilyn Monroe, dated Cary Grant and starred opposite the Three Stooges, has died. She was 90. Thyssen died at the weekend at her Manhattan apartment after a bout of pneumonia, her daughter, Genevieve Guenther said. Thyssen also starred in several B movies, including the horror pic Terror Is a Man, a loose adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau where, she played the wife of a scientist (Francis Lederer) “tormented by unsatisfied desire, desperate to escape a loneliness and her fear,” according to the film’s trailer.

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Is May our best sportsman ever?

Matt Markham

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W

e often talk about the sporting exploits of those from within our district’s boundaries.

As a small region we do punch well above our weight on the national and international stage with so many of our sporting folk absolute stars in their chosen fields.

There’s been plenty of arguments over time of who deserves to sit at the top of the tree when it comes to sporting success and who would we list in a line-up of our greatest sports stars.

I’d predict that not many of you would include Ricky May in your list of all-time greats though, even though he probably should be one of the first to be regarded.

There’s the old argument of whether or not horse racing is a sport.

If jockeys, drivers and horses have been considered successful enough to be considered for Halberg Awards in the past, then that’s sport enough for me and therefore there’s no substance to the argument.

So, argument aside, May deserves to be recognised as one of our best. For more than three decades, he’s been one of the best in the land of the long white cloud.

And in terms of longevity at the top of sport, few can compare to him, if any can at all.

Over the past 30-odd years, he’s only finished outside of the top five drivers in terms of wins in the country on three occasions.

He’s the most successful driver in the history of harness racing’s greatest race, the New Zealand Trotting Cup, with an impressive seven wins and he has sat behind some of the best horses to step out on to a track ever.

His most recent achievement is just as incredible as all the rest.

To reach $30 million in stake earnings is quite remarkable, considering only two other drivers have reached that mark, and it is a testament to May’s ability at the elite level of harness racing.

And the best part of all?

There’s still more to come as he’s continuing to drive winners week on week and is associated with some very exciting and talented horses who will win plenty more races in the future.

YOUR VIEWS ON FACEBOOK There was plenty of comment on our Facebook page following the news of a confirmed case of mycoplasma bovis in the Ashburton District on Tuesday. Below are your comments: Mark Don’t throw stones in glasshouses unless all your nait records are 100% and you understand what MPI are dealing with it is much harder to detect than most people relies cows can have it and will only test positive it they are shedding it this I still believe we can beat this but farmers its going to have to work together. Keeping nait records up to date, Increasing bio Security on farm, Double fencing all boundaries of your farms , Talking to farmers that are going to

be affected if your going to be moving stock on the roads give them a chance to move there stock out of the way, We have TB Bvd and jhonnies. We can and we must control this but it will take us as farmers to do it.

Cam Why do they not say who has it so we can all avoid them.

Isaac They kept bad records with NAIT so tracing the cows has been highly difficult.

Maureen Have heard that farmer concerned has more than one farm. Hope it doesnt spread.

Karen Time to stop walking cows along the road! Only takes a nose to nose touch to spread Sarah Hope the MPI responds better this time after stuffing round earlier Debz Poor cows

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Grief amidst the fun of the New Year

By Rachel StewaRt

Firstly, I want to thank Sue Newman for her recent wonderful coverage of the trials and tribulations of the Ashburton Horticultural Society which is currently planning to host the 2018 Garden

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Email us! editor@theguardian. co.nz Facebook us! and let it sink in, how does it make you feel? I can tell you how it affects me.

Waves of grief wash in and out like the tide. It comes and goes, but it’s as regular as clockwork.

In between times, I can set up a barbie on the beach, laugh and joke over beers and sausages with my buddies, swim when it gets too hot and generally enjoy life.

Then the next wave crashes over my feet and the grief resumes.

And maybe this is the normal cycle of a human life. Joy and light outshone by the ever-present laser beam knowledge that one day you – and everyone and everything you love – will die.

But there’s a difference between planning to leave life behind knowing that’s the natural order of things and checking out, while mightily aware that your kids and grandkids are not far behind you.

For me, as a childless heathen person, my grief is mostly triggered by the demise of the wild and every living thing in it. The birds, the bears, the bees, the bass. That it’s now expected we’ll

take every last one of them down because of us, is sometimes too much to stand.

My grief for humanity is not so sharp. It’s there, but is blunted by decades of politicians talking and not acting, capitalism and its cronies choosing profit over the perpetuation of people, and the wilful denial of society to accept that the house of patriarchy – which we all dwell in – has failed to produce anything tangible other than planetary pain.

So, in 2018, what can we do to ease that pain?

Welcoming the future in has never been harder. The things we’ve always relied on are now distinctly unreliable. The climate for one.

We knew this change was coming but, it’s here now. All the old ways of doing things must either be stripped away and rethought, over and over and again, or it will be done for us. We’ll have no choice.

Because despite all the technological advancements, the rise of young and diverse voices prepared to speak up for true sustainability, the amazing scientific progress, and the bil-

lions of words written about the environment and how to help it, here we are. We are not so much standing at a crossroad; more a precipice.

Your stage of grief may be entirely non-existent. You may be busy with whatever your deal is – consumption, capitalism, cows, cars, Christ. None of which changes what’s coming. (Pro tip: It’s not the Second Coming).

Or you’re busy bargaining, or being angry, or even denying there’s a problem at all. You may even be stuck in depression.

My stage of grief is acceptance. That doesn’t mean all hope is lost, or that I will give up trying to change things. You never know. Miracles can happen.

Expect my next column to turn to less apocalyptic matters.

I’ll speak of things that, in and of themselves, likely don’t matter.

For that’s what being alive is. The shallow and the deep.

In other words, I’m back. All guns blazing, and defiant ‘til the end. Until it all fades to black.

Happy New Year!

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Competition. Sue is a treasure!

An update! The report stated that we won the open section many years ago.

We won the new gardens section. If it had been the open section, we would have had to compete with the premiers the next

year. Which reminds me that if the AHS is able to continue next year, the premier winners will stand down for a year.

One other change – because of our teetering membership and financial situations, only certificates and trophies will be pre-

sented at the February monthly meeting, Monday 26th. There will be no prize monies. Our secretary, Noella Talbot (308-3262) will be taking entries until January 31.

Yours in all things gardening, Trevor Gamblin President, AHS

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fter a five-week break from my column, and feeling somewhat renewed and refreshed, the usual New Year writing fare is to make breezy statements about fresh starts and new beginnings. But this is me you’re talking to, so that’s not happening. Get real.

Of course, it’s instinctive to enjoy believing that last year can be wrapped up in a box, complete with a bow on top and tidily tucked away in a compartment labelled “yesterday”. The term “going forward” has never been more psychically apt than at the dawn of another 365 days.

My nose tells me that 2018 already smells like the Anthropocene – the sixth mass extinction – and my eyes tell me that we are losing species at an alarming rate. The collective human impacts on our blue ball are now influencing Earth’s atmosphere, geology, hydrology, biosphere and other earth system processes. In other words, we’ve got trouble.

Indeed, 99 per cent of currently threatened species are on the brink due to human activities. Since the rate of change in our biosphere is rapidly increasing, and because every species’ extinction potentially leads to the extinction of others bound to that species in a complex ecological web, numbers of extinctions are expected to snowball in the approaching decades as ecosystems begin to unravel.

Knowing it’s happening and feeling empowered to do anything about it are two different things. While, arguably, many scientists now believe humanity may only have another 100 years – my view is that’s ridiculously optimistic – the fact remains that we’re taking out every living species on Earth at an alarming rate, including ourselves.

If you stay with that thought,

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Above – Bidders showed plenty of interest at the Rothesay stag sale yesterday afternoon.

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Prices at stag sale ‘pretty fair money’

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Around 50 people braved yesterday’s wet weather to attend Rothesay Deer’s annual stag sale.

Top price of the day was $15,000, which was achieved for two separate lots at the sale, held on the property just out of Methven.

Auctioneer Neville Clark was pleased with the interest shown by bidders and the prices paid.

“It was a pretty good clearance.

I thought the prices were good without being over the top,” he said.

“It was pretty fair money all the way through.”

Clark said the deer industry was in a good place right now, which was reflected by interest shown at a number of recent stag sales in the North Island.

“Velvet’s going good, venison is excellent and the trophy market is pretty good as well.

“It’s a credit to the breeders and the gains they’ve made in the last 15 years or so.”

Rothesay owner Donald Greig was happy with the money that changed hands and believed buyers would be happy with their purchases.

He said many of those at the sale were regulars who had bought off him before, so they had a good

idea of what they would be getting. It was the fourth stag sale in the central and lower South Island this week, following other events Rupert Red Deer and Deer Genetics New Zealand, both Geraldine, and Foveran Deer Park at Kurow.

Today is the turn of Southland’s Netherdale Red Deer Stud, while other upcoming sales include Black Forest Park at Outram (Saturday), Connemara Wapiti at Manapouri (Sunday) and Wilkins Farming in Southland on Monday.

A full report on this week’s sales will appear in Tuesday’s issue of Guardian Farming

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M. bovis find ‘frustrating’ DairyNZ has reacted with dismay at MPI’s announcement that an Ashburton property has tested positive to Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis), saying it was not the start to the year farmers were hoping for.

Chief executive Tim Mackle said the industry good organisation continued to support MPI with its investigations and was working closely on long-term solutions for control and eradication.

He said the DairyNZ team would directly support dairy farmers affected, as well as developing tools to limit the spread of the disease.

“We are still hopeful that M. bovis can be controlled and ultimately eradicated from New Zealand. But to do so, everyone who works with cattle in New Zealand has a part to play in helping with this response,” Mackle said.

“What the dairy and beef sectors need to do right now is adopt a precautionary approach to managing this incursion. As new cases appear, it leads to uncertainty. This is frustrating and worrying, but more importantly is something that should be managed

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Workshops to help develop environment plan

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Beef + Lamb New Zealand is running a free workshop in Ashburton later this month aimed at helping farmers in the district who have yet to complete a farm environment plan.

B+LNZ northern South Island extension manager, Sarah O’Connell, said many Canterbury farmers had been contacted recently by Environment Canterbury reminding them of their requirements for obtaining a consent to farm if it is a requirement in their zone.

“Part of the consent application process is to have a completed Farm Environment Plan from an approved provider. Beef + Lamb New Zealand has a plan that is suitable for the consent process and we have a couple of workshops coming up that are free for you to attend as a levy payer.”

One of those is in Ashburton, on January 31 from 10.30am to 3pm at the Ashburton A&P Showgrounds committee room.

There is also one the following day at the same times, at the Darfield Community Centre.

O’Connell said places at each workshop are limited so it’s important those who want to go get in early and register their interest.

She said the workshops will help farmers understand their farm’s unique resources – and build a plan to remain productive while mitigating environmental and water quality issues.

“Using B+LNZ’s Farm Environment Planning toolkit, you’ll assess the impact your farm has on your environment and implement strategies to mitigate any risk.

You will build your own plan to remain productive, while addressing environmental and water quality issues.”

The workshops will be run by trained fa-

Sarah O’Connell cilitators who are environmental specialists or consultants.

One of the keys to the workshops was having farmers do the plan themselves, rather than paying someone else to do it, O’Connell said.

Not only would this save farmers money, it would also get them to buy into the process more through actually doing the work themselves, she said.

Those attending need to bring along two copies of their farm map/aerial photo that can be written and drawn on.

Go to www.beeflambnz.com to register.

by limiting animal contacts.”

Mackle said it was important that all farmers quickly establish biosecurity practices that reduce the risk of M. bovis getting onto farms.

“For farmers, there are some simple steps to reduce the risk of cattle contracting M. bovis on their farm. Understanding animal movements is vital and NAIT must always be kept up to date.

“We need farmers to be careful about stock movements and understand the risks of exposure to other cattle.

M. bovis is spread by animals coming into contact, so stopping such contacts is a good way to protect cattle – even if it’s just the neighbour’s stock. Boundary fencing should be secure, and double fencing two metres apart will prevent nose to nose contact.”

Late last year, DairyNZ developed a biosecurity warrant of fitness that farmers could work through with their veterinarian.

At the time of its development it said completing the WOF, which can be downloaded from www.dairynz.co.nz, will go a long way to making sure a farm is protected.

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■ PUSHPAY HOLDINGS

Earlier US listing date for Pushpay Pushpay Holdings exceeded its target of $US100 million in annualised committed monthly revenue and will move forward its US listing date as it continues to target bigger churches.

ACMR, the company’s preferred metric which measures total billings through merchants that Pushpay collects fees from, was $US106.4 million in the three months ended December 31, 2017, from $US57.9 million in the December 2016 quarter.

Average revenue per customer rose to $US1233 per month in the quarter, from $US785 per month a year earlier.

The company, which announced it had hit the $US100 million ACMR target on the first trading day of the year, said its medium-term goal is $US10 billion in annualised monthly payment transaction volume, or 10 per cent of annual giving.

It wants to engage over 50 per cent of the medium and large church segments, which it says would mean $US1 billion in annual GAAP revenue.

Pushpay’s app has gained traction in the US faith sector, where

its services are used by 2 per cent of the estimated 340,000 churches, including 12 of the 20 biggest churches in the US and 50 of the top 100 churches, according to its market update yesterday.

Some 57 per cent of its ACMR came from large customers in the latest quarter, from 51 per cent a year earlier.

The company expects ACMR to

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dip in the current quarter due to seasonal effects, before steadily growing over the rest of the calendar year.

On an investor call yesterday, Chris Heaslip, chief executive and co-founder, said the $US10 billion transaction volume and $US1 billion GAAP revenue targets were aspirational, “but we would like to think we can continue the pace

numbers will continue to stay down for a bit and over the coming few quarters here we expect that to grow.”

Pushpay also said it will pursue a US listing by the end of this calendar year, slightly earlier than the previous guidance of listing within 15 months which would have meant listing by February 16, 2019. It says it is committed to remaining listed on the NZX and ASX. Chief business development officer James Maiocco said Pushpay had been in talks with Apple since the middle of last year, when Apple changed guidelines for its App Store to prohibit apps being generated from a template.

In December, Apple clarified and lifted that prohibition following US Congressional pressure to mitigate the impact on small businesses and publishers, and Pushpay has now begun using its consolidated app, he said.

The shares, which joined the NZX50 index when Xero left late last year, rose 0.5 per cent to $4.37, and have risen 133 per cent in the past 12 months.

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–68.32

–0.81%

q S&P/NZX 20 index

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–0.87%

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Consumers warned over website The Commerce Commission is warning shoppers to be wary of Denmark-based e-commerce retailer LuxStyle which uses a “deliver now, pay later” scheme.

The consumer watchdog has received 50 complaints about LuxStyle since May 2016, with many claiming they were unaware goods were sent out prior to tendering a purchase.

LuxStyle, operated by Lux International Sales ApS, runs local website luxstyle.co.nz and reaches many customers through social media advertisements.

The site’s operating model sees goods sent to consumers prior to payment – a worry for the Com-

merce Commission, which says consumers are being misled into circumstances where they do not intend to make a purchase.

Commerce Commission general manager of competition Antonia Horrocks said consumers were familiar with the concept of adding items to an online shopping cart – but that didn’t mean a person had committed to making the purchase.

LuxStyle portals did not work that way, Horrocks said, “Prices for goods are not prominently displayed on the sites and by clicking an ‘order now’ button consumers find that LuxStyle sends them the goods and an in-

voice. If they don’t pay, LuxStyle adds fees and threatens debt collection.”

When contacted by the commission, LuxStyle denied that it breaches consumer laws.

Those who do not want to receive goods should not press the “order now” button, Horrocks said.

A cancel order option is available through a link in the order confirmation email.

Luxstyle has been subject to warnings from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Danish Consumer Ombudsman (DCO).

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At close of trading on Jan 10, 2018

p Dow Jones Indust.

25,385.8 +102.9 +0.41% At close of trading on Jan 9, 2018

p FTSE 100 index

7,731.0

+34.51

+0.45%

At close of trading on Jan 9, 2018

q Nikkei 225 index

23,796.0

–54.0

–0.23%

At close of trading on Jan 10, 2018

METAL PRICES

Source: interest.co.nz

q Gold

1,311.0

London – $US/ounce

–8.95

–0.68%

q Silver London – $US/ounce

17.05

–0.12

–0.67%

+7.5

+0.11%

p Copper London – $US/tonne

7,092.0

NZ DOLLAR

Source: BNZ As at 4pm January 10, 2018

Country

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■ DECHRA PHARMACEUTICALS

RxVet bought by UK company London-listed veterinary drugs maker Dechra Pharmaceuticals has bought local distributor RxVet for an undisclosed sum, continuing its expansion in Australasia over the past couple of years.

Northwich, UK-based Dechra completed its acquisition of Kapiti-based RxVet in December, and is keeping founders Peter Blaikie and Nick Gorman on to “help to increase market share and build Dechra’s presence in the region,” it said in a statement to the London stock exchange.

The pharmaceuticals firm didn’t say how much it paid, but said the Kiwi firm generated sales of $1.4 million in the March 2017 financial year, of which about half came from its own products.

RxVet has distributed Dechra products since it was set up in 2010 and offers a range of products for vets to treat dogs, cats and horses.

The company touts its strong links to the local industry on its website, with Blaikie named president of the New Zealand Veterinary Association last year, and Gorman a 15-year veteran in animal pharmaceuticals having previously held a senior role at Intervet Schering Plow.

The acquisition is small for Dechra, which generated a profit of 28.6 million British pounds on revenue of 359.3 million pounds in the 2017 financial year, and follows an expansion into Australasia with a 2016 purchase of

Apex Laboratories for $A55 million.

That deal gave Dechra direct access to Australia’s pet market which had previously been serviced through partners, and allowed it to build a “base from which to support and build Dechra’s expansion in the Australasian and Asian regions”, it said in its 2017 annual report.

The RxVet bolt-on acquisition was noted in a trading update to the London stock exchange, which said Dechra increased revenue on a constant currency basis 11 per cent in the final six months of 2017.

The shares rose 2 per cent to 20.46 pounds overnight.

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In brief Footy, not farewell Johnathan Thurston says the circus sure to surround his final NRL season won’t distract him and his North Queensland teammates from the task at hand. The 36-yearold will retire this year as one of rugby league’s greats, with his formidable Cowboys squad strong contenders for the premiership.

The playmaker has shed the media commitments that consumed him during a long injury lay-off last season and says it is all about the football as he chases a second title at the Townsville-based club.

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Big test for Black Sticks

Methven captain Davey Maw would have thought his side were in for good season after winning the T20 competition. However, things have gone drastically downhill for the side who will be hoping for a much improved 2018.

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■ CRICKET

Hoping for a turnaround

By Jaime Pitt-macKay

the final off the back of an impressive knock from openers Davey Maw and Matt Winter.

However things have gone downhill for the side from under the mountain, and will need a big turnaround in the Muirhead Rosebowl if they want to pick up a second piece of silverware.

Lauriston currently sit in the driver’s seat of the Pritchard Shield, which naturally leaves them leading the race for the Studholme Shield, which is awarded to the side that collects the most points in both the

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At what is the mid-way point in the local senior cricket competition, you would feel comfortable betting things will likely not end up the same as they look now.

It was a tumultuous first half to the season, with the T20 competition dishing up some surprising results, which was then contrasted by a reverse in form in the Pritchard Shield.

Methven were crowned T20 champions, defeating Tech in

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Pritchard Shield and Muirhead Rosebowl.

At this point last year it was all Allenton, with them holding on to every piece of silverware that had been up for grabs at this point.

They have been less dangerous this season, struggling for wins in the T20 competition, and taking their time to warm up in the shield.

The loss of influential bowling brothers Jeremy and Scott Punselie has been a big gain for Tech at Allenton’s expense, with

some fiery games cropping up between the two sides since the shift, including Tech’s win in the last round of the year.

In the new year the batsmen will be hoping to stamp their authority on the competition, with the first half being dominated by the bowlers.

Only Scott Morgan has notched a century, while several five wicket bags were picked up during the Pritchard Shield, including Alex Hooper and Richard Print both collecting six wickets in the same match.

Kiwi Mitch Evans and his Panasonic Jaguar Racing team are hoping some tweaks to their car will see improved race pace at this weekend’s e-Prix in Marrakesh, Morocco. The 24-year-old bagged his and the team’s maiden podium in the season-opening round in Hong Kong in December on the back of superb one-lap speed. But his team has spent the past few weeks trying to increase their midrace strength. Formula E’s rules put a freeze on the design of the power train so that everyone uses the same machinery all season but Evans thinks that doesn’t mean they’re stuck with what they can do to improve. “What is open is the software involved, which is a really big part of this championship.

There are a lot of things we can try that will hopefully help our race pace.”

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Black Sticks coach Darren Smith is expecting a stern test for his team in the upcoming Four Nations men’s hockey series against Belgium, India and Japan. Smith has named a squad of 23 for the series, which runs from January 17-28 in Tauranga and Hamilton.

Midfielders Shea McAleese and Arun Panchia provide the bulk of experience, having played a combined 476 internationals, while there are also 11 athletes who have played fewer than 50 tests. Split across two separate five-day series, the Four Nations begins at Blake Park in Tauranga on January 17-21 before the teams head to Gallagher Hockey Centre in Hamilton from January 24-28.

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We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and are ready for bowls in 2018. The contractors are back at the Allenton green preparing the surface so the artificial carpet can be laid.

We are progressing well with club championships and another winner has been found. In a hard fought game of Ladies triples the winners were only decided on the last end and the team of S. Keith, R. Davies & A. Sargisson prevailed over R. Bennett, F. McKnight & A. Reid 19-18.

Because of the delay in laying the carpet their have been some changes in our programme.

The Anama Tray is now on February 10th and the Ron White Cup - In-House triples is this Saturday January 13 and more entries would be appreciated please ring S. Holdom.

Our Friday triples has been changed with MSA and is now January 26 and it is hoped to commence McIntosh Evening Pairs on Tuesday January 23.

Congratulations to the following Allenton players who have been selected to play Representative bowls for Mid Canterbury on January 14.

Ladies - Senior – N. Woods, S. Holdom, A. Reid &

R. Davies. Development – S. Doig, J. Mitchell, L. Osborne, R. Johnston & V. Whinham.

Men – Senior – M. Smallridge, M. Quinn, G. Clarke, B. White, R. Holdom, B. Molloy, G. Bishop, & R. Kane. Junior – D. Thorne.

Well done to the Sandra Keith skipped team who were runners-up in the National Open 4s Championship played at the Taieri Bowling Club earlier in the week.

Ashburton Golf Club We have a massive weekend bearing down on us at the Brandon.

Saturday we have club opening day with mixed pairs playing for the AC Browne Cup and men’s pairs fighting it out for the Smith salver.

Get yourself down there and join in our wonderful mixed days, which are always great fun.

After results on Saturday around 5pm, Hamish Niles will call for “best of order” and we will start the auction for all the show ponies who are running in the Property Brokers shootout on Sunday.

There is a form guide on our website and some hard copies have been littered around the club-

house. Have a read, get your syndicates together and try and work out where the big money is going to go.

We do have facilities to take phone bids, (well we have got a phone!) We will have security services on site for the big transactions, and we will clear the putting green to receive any helicopters ferrying in the high rollers.

Rumour has it that reserve bidding has already pushed Bruce Day’s price up to a whopping $5 and a half bale of pea straw! Some folk must have more money than sense.

Then on Sunday morning pre-race jostling and gamesmanship starts at 9:30am, under orders for final rules run through at 9:50 and the green light goes on at 10am. When the cream will rise and others will turn into sour milk shakes.

We would dearly love to see a big crowd, even if you can’t make the full day.

The start is always a great spectacle, and you can come back around 4pm to cheer the winners down the home stretch, where one demi god will pick up a club sub, thanks to our great friends at Property Brokers.

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■ BOWLS

Just happy to be at the nationals

By Jaime Pitt-macKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

Despite losing the fours final at the national championships, Ashburton bowler Sandra Keith was just happy to be there.

“I felt my form going in to the final was pretty good and it was the strongest four I have been in in a while even though we hadn’t played together before,” she said.

Skip of the side, Keith partnered up with Amy McIlroy, Selina Goddard and Serena Matthews. They lost the match 16-15 after the match was forced into an extra leg.

“It was a great final, any game that goes to an extra leg is going to be close,” she said.

“I personally feel I didn’t play my best but that is bowls, but we gave it a good effort.”

Keith’s four were dominant on their way to the final, winning all but one of their games in the qualifying section by 10, and

dominating their games in the post-section play as well.

They defeated Kay Hammond, Raelene Peters, Julie Adams and Nicky Reed 24-12 in their semifinal.

It was a 23-14 win in the quarter-final that got them there, which was also preceded by a 16-10 victory in the first round of post-section play.

The former Blackjack is no stranger to the finals at the nationals, having won the singles competition in 2012, and the doubles in 2013.

She will not be waiting too long to get back into competitive action on the greens either, taking on the Burnside pairs tournament this weekend with Serena Matthews.

“We are in a section with a pair from Australia who have competed at the Commonwealth Games so it will be great to have a go at them,” she said.

Sandra Keith skipped her four to runners-up in the final at the national championships on Monday.

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■ BASKETBALL

Adams’ performance strong, but Thunder silenced The Oklahoma City Thunder have fallen to their second straight loss, going down 117106 to the Portland Trailblaizers in Oklahoma City yesterday.

Kiwi big man Steven Adams added to his All-Star bid with a strong performance, however the Thunder got next to no contribution from their bench and paid the price.

Russell Westbrook (22 points, nine rebounds, 12 assists), Paul George (22), Carmelo Anthony (19) and Adams (16) were getting the job done offensively for the Thunder.

However with the reserves contributing just 27 points – 13 of which came from back-

up point guard Raymond Felton – the hosts couldn’t keep up with the free-scoring Portland side.

It was expected to be a close game between the fifth and sixth seeded teams in the Western Conference, and the first quarter delivered just that as the Thunder (fifth seed) held a slim two point lead after the first 12 minutes.

Despite being without star guard Damian Lillard for the match, the Trailblazers came right back at OKC with plenty of production from guard CJ McCollum and centre Jusuf Nurkic to hold a four point lead at half time.

It might have been close

coming out of the break, but a 21-8 run put the Trailblazers up 81-68 toward the end of the third quarter, with McCollum leading the way. He had 15 points in the quarter and three assists.

It proved to be a gamewinning performance as the Thunder couldn’t do enough to come back in the final 12 minutes.

The Thunder are now exactly halfway through their season and hold a 22-19 record, and they won’t have to wait long to try to improve on that, heading to Minneapolis to face to Minnesota Timberwolves today.

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SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS RESULTS ■ Golf Ashburton Veterans Golf Association Fifty members took part in an Ambrose teams event at the Rakaia Golf Club.

Winners with a total score of 69.6 were Rod Carson, John Harris and Pete Kiddey.

2nd with 72.3 were Barry Bluett, Arnold Rushton, Graeme Moore and Ed-

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3rd with 73.2 were Pat Molloy, Tony Inwood and Mike Gray.

DRAWS ■ Bowls Sub Centre Over 60s Draw Monday, January 15 at Ashburton (note change of venue) starting at 12 30pm mufti.

M Anderson, M Lloyd, W Watts; G Taylor, J Harris, J Thomas; M Skilling, T

Molloy, D Taylor; B Mayson, M Foggo, N Stuthridge; M Middleton, B Watson, R Prendergast; E Maw, B Robinson, L Currie; N Atkinson, A Holmes, L Hamilton; B White, D Lysart, A Leitch; L Luke, W Breach, G Crack; D Hickman, D Duff, H Gray; D Muir, B Johnston, D Kerslake; T Inwood, F Frewen, P Currie; C Cleghorn, T Johnson, K McLaren; M Smallridge, O Collins, D Waller; P McElwain, B Brassell, D Prendergast; B Hopwood, I Moore, P Smith; I Kaye, B Molloy, O Gray; H Goodall, M Richardson, N Bilby; R Gutberlet, B Brown, D Thomas; G Baker, G Sparks, M Wallace; F McCormick, R Keeling, U Crack; M Reid, P Quinn, D Callaghan; I

Syme, S Scott, M Wilson; M Grice, G Brooker, M Knox; N Woods, M Watson, A Henderson; C Tubb, C Brake, A Gibson.

Enquiries to Wendy Blackwell 3028834.

Methven Bowling Club The following skips have teams entered in the Edna Low Ladies Fours on Wednesday, January 17 starting at 9am.

W Suttie, G Baker, M Foster, R Bennett, G Hawkins, H Boag, W Watson, N McKenzie, N Woods, A Wright, M Middleton, W Blackwell, S Pagey, M Sullivan. Enquiries to W Blackwell 3028834.

“Difficult and unrewarding” are the words Paul Radisich uses to describe his relationship with Bathurst.

Two second-place finishes in the Bathurst 1000 and two horrific crashes were the highlights and lowlights of Radisich’s racing career around Mt Panorama.

Despite the hits and the near misses, Radisich is looking forward to reliving some of his memories at this weekend’s 4 Guys Autobarn Legends of Bathurst festival at Hampton Downs.

“It’s great fun to see the old cars out there running around the track,” says Radisich. “I had a 25year career in motorsport and an event like this brings back great memories. Close but no cigar is my story around Bathurst. I led the Great Race on many occasions but unfortunately, I never got to win it.”

Radisich finished runner-up in the Bathurst 1000 in 1990 and 2000 but he reckons 1999 was the one that got away.

“1999 should have been my year,” he says. “We led the race all day and with 15 laps to go we got a puncture and didn’t finish. In 2000 I finished runner-up again. We had the quickest car but things kept going wrong for us.”

Radisich broke his ankle and sternum in a major crash during the 2006 Bathurst 1000 but it was a crash during practice for the Great Race in 2008 that ended his professional racing career.

“It took a couple of years to get over that one,” says Radisich.

“I pretty much broke everything from my feet up to the vertebrae in my back. It took me a long time to recover and I have to manage some of those issues for the rest of my life.”

Radisich will race a replica of Dick Johnson’s famous Tru Blu Ford Falcon XE in the Legends of Bathurst Invitational. The car is owned by New Plymouth accountant Philip Macey who is looking forward to sharing driving duties with Radisich at Hampton Downs.

“Hopefully Paul can give me some advice on how to set the car up properly,” says Macey.

Since he retired from professional racing, Radisich has been the Managing Director of Aegis Oil, the family business. Apart from occasional events like the Legends of Bathurst, Leadfoot and the Goodwood Festival in the UK he does very little racing.

That may change this year with Radisich considering running a GT3 car in the New Zealand Endurance Series. This weekend at Hampton Downs, however, is all about sharing memories with some good mates.

“Catching up with guys like John Bowe and swapping stories is a big part of what a weekend like this is all about.”

Radisich and Bowe will join other Legends of Bathurst at Hampton Downs this weekend including Jim Richards, Allan Moffat, Steve Richards, Fred Gibson and John Goss.

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In brief Duckworth through James Duckworth has emerged victorious in an all-Australian battle with Omar Jasika on the first day of qualifying at Melbourne Park.

Duckworth, who is bidding to play in his seventh-straight Australian Open main draw, won 6-2 6-4 in a surprisingly quick defeat of his compatriot; surprising, because Duckworth hadn’t won a match in a year. The 25-year-old suffered his worst season on tour in 2017, crashing off the circuit after last year’s Australian Open with a series of injuries – all requiring surgery. “I’m just happy to get through. It’s my second match in a year,” he said.

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Cricket’s Olympic push Cricket’s most powerful group of ex-players have urged Indian authorities to get behind the sport’s push for the Olympics or let the game suffer. The introduction of Twenty20 cricket to the Olympics formed a key part of MCC World Cricket committee meetings held in Sydney on Tuesday and Thursday, with past players keen to push for the sport’s involvement. Administrators have all but given up hope of gaining entry into the 2024 Games scheduled for Paris and have now turned their attention to Los Angeles in 2028.

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The New Zealand cricket team are on the cusp of a record winning streak.

■ CRICKET

Record looms for Black Caps Cricket fans might be getting short-changed by the weather this summer, but not by the New Zealand team’s performances.

The eight-wicket victory over Pakistan in the second one-day international at Nelson was their ninth consecutive victory in all formats since the West Indies waltzed through customs.

Ten matches is the longest winning sequence in their history. That has been achieved twice.

New Zealand are on the cusp of equalling it in Dunedin on Saturday.

It’s implicit any streak that includes test matches holds more weight, but victorious habits are hard to ignore among a New Zealand team whose collective history is strewn with struggles.

The first streak of 10 spanned from the final ODI defeat of Pakistan in January 2015 until the World Cup semi-final victory over South Africa; the second was across all formats from the

2016 Boxing Day ODI win over Bangladesh until they secured the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy against Australia last February.

The hosts chased an initial 247 to win from 50 overs yesterday, a figure reduced to 151 from 25 overs after rain disrupted play.

New Zealand reached the target with seven balls to spare. It is the third time conditions have intervened in four matches this year.

However, the Black Caps have reassured with their consistency across 15 matches in all formats since a disappointing Champions Trophy last winter.

The Indian tour during the New Zealand spring saw both ODI and Twenty20 series taken to deciders before suffering defeat.

Back home, they defeated the West Indies in every completed fixture and continued their rhythm with a Duckworth-Lewis assisted win over Pakistan in the opening ODI at the Basin Re-

serve. Pakistan’s victorious ninematch ODI streak was broken in Wellington on Saturday, but they are offering more resistance than the West Indies.

The way the visitors’ lower order flourished with the bat and harassed with the ball at Saxton Oval suggested they are close to unleashing their Champions Trophy-winning pedigree as one of the best balanced sides in the game.

In curator parlance, New Zealand put the heavy roller on autopilot to flatten the West Indies with thorough planning and superior skills.

Pakistan bring a more mercurial element to their game. If the New Zealand team has any cracks, they will exploit them.

Two examples occurred in the second ODI. First, leg spinner Todd Astle, with figures of two for 29 from six overs, returned to bowl the 43rd over to eighth-wicket pair Hasan

Ali and Shadab Khan.

The 19-year-old Shadab was in his fourth ODI innings and Hasan had not scored more than 13 in 10 previous outings in the format.

Astle went for 21 with Hasan (15 runs), Shadab (five runs) and wides (one run) reigniting the visitors’ innings.

Second, Mohammad Amir bowled with fury at Kane Williamson. Williamson, the manof-the-match from Wellington, was dismissed for 19 off 28 balls

by Faheem Ashraf.

Amir had built the necessary pressure by restricting Williamson to 16 dot balls from 20 bowled at him, including a close but unsuccessful lbw review in the third over. The New Zealand captain scored 11 runs off the Pakistani left-armer; five of those came from overthrows.

Competitive international cricket appears to have landed in New Zealand at last. - NZME

England delay naming of test squad for 24 hours England have delayed their planned squad announcement for the Test cricket series against New Zealand after Joe Root was too ill to take part in selection, but James Vince and Mark Stoneman both appear to have earned a reprieve.

Root was hospitalised by a virus on the final morning of the Ashes series, briefly returning to the ground to bat before retiring at lunch following recurring symptoms, and he was still feeling the effects on Tuesday.

That meant he was unable

to discuss squad matters with head coach Trevor Bayliss and the other selectors, forcing a 24-hour delay to the announcement, which will now take place at 11am today.

With Root bed-bound in Sydney, Bayliss was still able to offer

his own take on the side which will take on the Black Caps in a two-match series next month and there was a heavy nod that Vince and Stoneman would hold their positions in the top three.

- NZME

Former Australian netball captain Laura Geitz has been invited to join the Diamonds squad for a training camp in Canberra starting on today. It marks her return to training with the national team after giving birth to her first child Barney last February and is her first involvement with the Australian squad since May 2016.

It also keeps alive her hopes of representing Australia at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in April.

- AAP

Men’s top seed out The upsets continue at the Sydney International with men’s top seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas bundled out in the second round. After enjoying a first-round bye, Ramos-Vinolas crashed to a 6-3 7-5 loss to Italian veteran Paolo Lorenzi. The Spanish world No. 22 needed treatment for a leg problem early in the second set but continued playing, without success as Lorenzi moved into the quarter-finals. He will play either rising American Jared Donaldson or Russian qualifier Daniil Medvedev for a semi-final berth.

- AAP

Djokovic at Open Novak Djokovic has passed his long-awaited return to the court with flying colours declaring he “feels great” ahead of next week’s Australian Open. The six-time champion, who hadn’t played since Wimbledon in July due to an elbow injury, overpowered world No.5 Dominic Thiem 6-1 6-4 in an exhibition match at Kooyong yesterday. Wearing a full arm sleeve, Djokovic showed no signs of the injury and was able to serve at full pace. “It was a fantastic test for me to see where I am, to see what we have done as a team and whether it works on the court and it works pretty well,” Djokovic said.

- AAP

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■ TENNIS

Defending champion crashes out

Lima Sopoaga is reportedly set to leave New Zealand.

■ RUGBY

Sopoaga off to join Wasps Lima Sopoaga will walk away from the chance to compete at his first World Cup after signing a lucrative deal with English club Wasps.

Sopoaga is contracted for one final season with the Highlanders but the 16 test All Blacks first five-eighth is believed to have inked a two-and-a-half year agreement understood to be worth around £500,000 to £600,000 ($1.13 million) per sea-

son. Sopoaga has been signed as a marquee player which places his salary outside the cap.

He will not be available for the World Cup, robbing the All Blacks of their most established and experienced deputy to Beauden Barrett.

The 26-year-old out of Wellington College recently welcomed daughter Milla, and has clearly put the importance of securing his long-term financial

future above representing the All Blacks.

He follows the likes of former All Blacks Charles Piutau and Steve Luatua to leave at the peak of his career.

No doubt the All Blacks will be frustrated with Sopoaga’s move, having invested significant time into his development over the past three years, a period which includes two starts at No. 10.

But, of course, every player has

the right to decide their respective futures.

Sopoaga finished 2017 as the second ranked playmaker in New Zealand.

While there are no guarantees with Damian McKenzie shifting to No. 10 with the Chiefs this year and Richie Mo’unga continuing his rise at the Crusaders, Sopoaga was near certain to attend the 2019 World Cup. - NZME

Four players suspended for doping offences A former All Blacks sevens player and a Black Fern are amongh four players have been banned by the New Zealand Rugby following anti-doping hearings.

Zoey Berry, Rhys Pedersen, Glen Robertson and Ben Qauqau-Dodds have all been handed bans, NZ Rugby announced yesterday.

Robertson played for Waikato and was a member of the New Zealand under-20 squad in 2010 and 2011 as well as a member of the All Blacks Sevens side in 2011-12.

Robertson no longer is a registered rugby player but made four appearances for Waikato

including a Ranfurly Shield defence against Thames Valley in 2016.

Berry played one test for the Black Ferns in 2012 in a tour of England.

Qauqau-Dodds and Pedersen played club rugby in Dunedin and Palmerston North respectively.

Berry, Pedersen, and Robertson have been banned from playing rugby for the possession and, in some cases, use or attempted use of Clenbuterol and Qauqau-Dodds has been banned for the possession and use or attempted use of Metandienone.

Clenbuterol and Metandienone are both prohibited substances under the NZ Sports Anti-Doping Rules.

All athletes pleaded guilty to at least one of the offences alleged.

The New Zealand Rugby Judicial Committee has ordered the suspension of Berry for four years commencing on 31 July 2017, Pedersen for 21 months from 1 January 2017, Robertson for four years from 3 February 2017 and Qauqau-Dodds for two years commencing on 31 July 2017.

All four athletes were playing club rugby at the time of the

offending. In Berry’s case she purchased Clenbuterol online before returning to club rugby in 2015 after taking a break from the game a year earlier.

Her evidence was that at the time she was not playing rugby and did not intend to play the sport again.

They are the first rugby cases heard following the revelation in the Weekend Herald that more than 100 athletes registered with national sporting organisations had been caught illegally purchasing steroids from the website clenbuterol. co.nz.

- NZME

Defending champion Jack Sock has been dumped out of the ASB Classic in straight sets, but denied that he was disinterested.

The American world No 8 proved a major disappointment, succumbing meekly 6-3 6-3 in 62 minutes to unheralded German Peter Gojowczyk.

Sock struggled from the outset, losing the first set in 29 minutes, and after being broken in the seventh game of the second completely lost his temperament. His head sunk and he attempted unnecessary shots between his legs.

He gave the distinct look of wanting to be anywhere but Auckland centre court.

“I was trying the whole match,” said Sock after the match.

The victory over Sock was just the second over a top 10 player for Gojowczyk. He will now meet Dutch veteran Robin Haase, who took care of Lukas Lacko 7-6 (4) 6-3, in the quarter-finals.

Four time champion Ferrer eases past 2017 finalist Sousa David Ferrer will make yet another quarter-final appearance at the ASB Classic, after an impressive 6-2 6-2 win over Joao Sousa on Wednesday.

The four time champion was dominant throughout, with his usual mix of precise shot making and never say die retrievals.

The Portuguese world No.59 was broken twice in the first set, with Ferrer particularly ruthless on his second serve, winning seven of eight points.

Ferrer converted on his first set point, forcing yet another error from Sousa to take the set in 29 minutes.

The second set was more of a procession. Ferrer didn’t give up a single break point opportunity but managed to convert two chances on Sousa serve.

The ASB Classic has lost two of its top three seeds, with American Sam Querrey falling 6-4 6-7 (10) 7-6 (5) to Czech Jiri Vesely.

The match, which was suprisingly shifted to an outside court, was an epic, stretching almost two hours and 20 minutes.

Querrey fought back well to take the second set tiebreak but Vesely wasn’t to be denied, converting his third match point to wrap up the match.

Spanish fifth seed Roberto Bautista Agut survived a sluggish start to oust American Steve Johnson in the opening match yesterday.

Bautista Agut, who downed Kiwi Michael Venus in straight sets in his opening match and had beaten Johnson in their four previous clashes, looked in strife after dropping the first set in 35 minutes but recovered swiftly to progress to the last eight with a 2-6 6-2 6-1 victory.

Bautista Agut will meet the winner of third seeded American Sam Querrey and Jiri Vesely in the quarter-finals.

- NZME

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Nek Time injured again; retired Brilliant Canterbury mare Nek Time has suffered a serious injury for the second time and her connections have made the tough call to retire her.

“Unfortunately, she broke down in work yesterday morning,” said co-trainer Glenys Chmiel, who prepared the daughter of Gotta Go Cullect in partnership with her husband Terry.

“It’s a hind suspensory again, but this time it is higher up and I don’t think it’s worth trying again with her.”

Nek Time had an excellent three-year-old season, winning the Southland, Gold Coast and Queensland Oaks, as well as setting a New Zealand record for 2400 metres at Winton.

But she missed her entire four-year-old season after injuring her hind leg in a suspensory ligament and when she resumed at Ashburton on Christmas Eve, it had been 23 months since her last start.

“Her suspensory was pretty mangled the first time around, but it did repair,” said Chmiel.

“This time it’s in a different area and it’s quite bad so it’s just not worth it to try and bring her back again.”

The Chmiels undertook a long, slow build-up to get Nek Time back to the track, with most of 2017 spent gradually

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 11 January 2018 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12; 13 and 14 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 8, 9 and 10; 12, 13 and 14 1 12.01pm (NZT) WELCOME TO CAMBRIDGE RACEWAY SPRINT C2, 375m 1 24225 Scott Tied Up 21.49 U & ...................Cottam 2 61566 Cawbourne Brandy 21.52 J & .............D Bell 3 74146 Alyeska 21.40 ...................................B Craik 4 78217 Ali Ali Ali 21.42 ............................... G Farrell 5 78452 Cawbourne Looks nwtd J & ................D Bell 6 38168 Rolling 21.56 .................................... S Clark 7 37212 El Hefe nwtd G &.................... S Fredrickson 8 54317 Jinja Mia 21.37 W & ........................T Steele 9 41388 Opawa Velocette nwtd W & .............T Steele 10 65767 Bodyguard 21.29...............................B Craik 2 12.18pm COUPLANDS DOG BISCUITS STAKES C0, 457m 1 244 Fancy Fox nwtd ..........................D Schofield 2 6 Thrilling Arnold nwtd ....................... K Walsh 3 Alf Tupper nwtd ............................ H Mullane 4 86825 Cawbourne Chops nwtd J & ...............D Bell 5 42247 Finkle Foot Hero nwtd D R & ............ D Hunt 6 34835 Don Morocco nwtd P & ................. J Cleaver 7 34323 Cameo Syd nwtd...............................B Craik 8 3536 Fancy Chap nwtd .......................D Schofield 9 48746 Phuket Paul nwtd ............................S Codlin 3 12.36pm NZ RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEAT 1 NZRSq, 457m 1 74213 Bigtime Bakagain 25.77 ............... H Mullane 2 82483 Opawa Norris 25.90 ........................R Wales 3 83776 Bigtime Liam nwtd..............................L Cole 4 1233x Magic Latte nwtd G &............. S Fredrickson 5 77112 Bigtime Blast nwtd .............................L Cole 6 18767 Bobanuska 25.39 ............................ L Martin 7 45324 Bigtime Donny nwtd ...........................L Cole 8 555F1 Hezaman nwtd U & ...........................Cottam 9 21186 Opawa Rooster nwtd J & ................D Fahey 10 56647 Bigtime Brucie nwtd ...........................L Cole

CD return on cards Seraphim’s future programme has yet to be locked in, although a return trip to the central districts is a strong possibility. “It’s not set in stone yet, but she might go to the Taranaki Cup next,” said Julia Ritchie, who trains with her partner Steven Ramsay. The Sir Peter Vela-raced Seraphim made an impressive entry into open company at Awapuni last time out when she won the Listed Marton Cup (2100m) at Awapuni.

“It was quite a tough run the other day, but she’s come through it very well and we’re happy with her,” Ritchie said.

Ignore Anevay’s latest

Nek Time has broken again and is to be retired. building her up to race fitness with strength in her leg.

“It’s pretty gutting.

“We knew in the back of our minds she was a day-to-day proposition, but it probably hurts more this time around after all the time and effort we put in to her to get her back.”

Chmiel says it’s too late to put Nek Time in foal, too.

“It’s probably not worthwhile putting her in foal this year, so we will let her recover and then

get her to the stud nice and early next season.”

Bigger picture, it’s a tough pill to swallow for the Chmiels, who really only have promising three-year-old Nota Bene Denario to hang their hat on at the moment.

“She’s left a pretty big whole in the stable, that’s for sure.

“It was hard to get back out there and work the rest of them yesterday morning.

“There’s not a lot there to get

excited about, but hopefully one of them will stick their hand up soon.”

While it hurts right now, Chmiel knows in the long run she will look back fondly on their time training Nek Time.

“She won three Oaks and that’s pretty hard going.

“She did us proud and took us to places we’d never been before – she really deserves a nice retirement.”

- NZ Harness News

New blood secured by iconic NZ stud farm Cambridge Stud’s new owners have already made a significant move into the stallion market.

Brendan and Jo Lindsay, who take over the iconic nursery in April, have purchased a 50 per cent interest in the Group One winner Embellish.

The Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards-trained Savabeel colt’s stallion profile was given a

In brief

major boost in November when he triumphed in the New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton.

Te Akau principal David Ellis confirmed Embellish will be raced by current owners the Te Akau 2016 Breeding Syndicate with the Lindsays before his retirement to Cambridge Stud.

“He is a magnificent colt and

was an absolute stand-out from the day I first set eyes on him during my pre-Karaka inspections that year,” Ellis said.

“I was determined to buy him and at the time he was the highest priced lot ever sold by Waikato Stud. That’s no surprise as he was a magnificent individual that I could see evolving into a top class racehorse, and he certainly has.”

A brother to the Group One winner Diademe, Embellish was purchased by Ellis for $775,000 at the 2016 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Sale. His pedigree also features the dual Group One sprint winner Sacred Star.

He will make his next appearance in the Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie on January 27.

- NZ Racing Desk

Anevay’s last-start failure in the Gr.2 Royal Stakes (2000m) can be forgotten. The Ocean Park filly earned a crack at the feature after an impressive maiden mile win and trainer Glenn Old had been expecting a top run at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day. “The track went from a Good 3 to a Slow 7 and she was never comfortable,” the Matamata horseman said. “I had been very confident of her running in the money on a Good 3. She’s pulled up well and she’ll run over 1900m at Rotorua next Wednesday.

If she goes well then we’ll look at the Sir Tristram Classic or maybe the Oaks Prelude at New Plymouth.”

Trelawney Stud will offer Anevay’s yearling half-brother (Lot 918) by Reliable Man during the Book 2 Sale at Karaka next month.

Westland rained off The Westland Racing Club’s meeting at Hokitika is the latest meeting to be added to the long list of abandonments. Significant overnight rainfall led to yesterday’s fixture being called off after with an inspection of the course by stipendiary stewards and club representatives confirming safety concerns. Horses were galloped on the track yesterday morning and riders confirmed the nature of the track was inconsistent. Further rain is also forecast for today.

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway 4 12.53pm (NZT) NZ RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEAT 2 NZRSq, 457m 1 22155 Bigtime JayJay nwtd...........................L Cole 2 77765 Opawa Brad 25.94 J & ....................D Fahey 3 18117 Bigtime Redo 26.03 G & ........ S Fredrickson 4 62242 Hey Khali nwtd U & ...........................Cottam 5 48242 Jinja Roman 25.85 W & ..................T Steele 6 24526 Noah Who nwtd............................ H Mullane 7 64883 Bigtime Fred nwtd ..............................L Cole 8 64233 Golden Pixel nwtd ...................... G Hodgson 9 71451 Bigtime Sandy 26.09 G &....... S Fredrickson 10 21186 Opawa Rooster nwtd J & ................D Fahey 5 1.11pm NZ RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEAT 3 NZRSq, 457m 1 37152 Sovereign Jody 25.77 .......................S Ross 2 16372 Dream Kay nwtd..............................R Wales 3 17427 Kia Tere nwtd J & ............................D Fahey 4 66441 Bigtime Flyer nwtd .............................L Cole 5 85111 Bigtime Ottey nwtd .............................L Cole 6 164F3 Jinja Squeak 26.54 W & ..................T Steele 7 x1685 Bigtime Power nwtd G & ........ S Fredrickson 8 12512 Opawa Loyal nwtd ............................ S Clark 9 56647 Bigtime Brucie nwtd ...........................L Cole 10 71451 Bigtime Sandy 26.09 G &....... S Fredrickson 6 1.28pm HAUTAPU VETERINARY CLINIC STAKES C2, 457m 1 21568 Salvarotti nwtd............................D Schofield 2 43145 Amy Amy nwtd ............................... G Farrell 3 71451 Bigtime Sandy 26.09 G &....... S Fredrickson 4 11834 Sue Zooki 25.82 .............................. T Green 5 55444 King Shaq nwtd ............................... T Green 6 28672 Beltom 25.32 ..............................D Schofield 7 67663 Barwon Storm 25.86 ..................D Schofield 8 85687 See Eye Aye nwtd ........................ H Mullane 9 56647 Bigtime Brucie nwtd ...........................L Cole 7 1.46pm (NZT) BUZZ CAFE SPRINT C4, 375m 1 68588 See Eye Be 21.40 ........................ H Mullane 2 12131 Sparta 21.04 ................................... K Walsh 3 84788 Irinka Darcy nwtd ............................S Codlin 4 87634 On Fleek 21.62 .................................B Craik

5 84373 Sun Is Shining 21.08 .........................B Craik 6 55187 Nangar Panther nwtd .................D Schofield 7 61421 One Cool Chap 21.21 W &..............T Steele 8 F7622 Nitrology 20.86 ................................. S Clark 9 22246 Ekali 21.28 ..................................... G Farrell 10 41385 Kirkham Coby 21.07 J & .....................D Bell 8 2.03pm THE CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR STAKES C1, 457m 1 31368 Finkle Foot Fred nwtd D R & ............. D Hunt 2 64246 Hot Machine nwtd ........................... T Green 3 55665 Smash Mate nwtd ........................R McPhee 4 15x Thrilling Cruise nwtd ....................... K Walsh 5 54318 Stensness 26.17 .......................... H Mullane 6 33224 It’s Electric nwtd .........................C M Henley 7 78723 Barwon Babe nwtd .....................D Schofield 8 23252 Nangar Dream nwtd ...................D Schofield 9 71787 Uno Twenty Five 25.78 ................... G Farrell 10 22588 Atomic Missile nwtd ..................... H Mullane 9 2.21pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C5, 375m 1 14231 Danny Dee 20.94 ............................ K Walsh 2 11328 Bear Inda Square nwtd ......................L Cole 3 43138 Mad Harry 21.25 .............................. S Clark 4 11343 Beautiful Boy 21.16 ...........................B Craik 5 41462 Bigtime Blackie nwtd ..........................L Cole 6 53618 Hallo Star 21.08 R & ...........................L Udy 7 87x11 Timma Turtle 21.13 ...................... H Mullane 8 22172 Wong Way 21.50 U & ........................Cottam 9 86187 Mega Munchies 21.28 U &................Cottam 10 17356 Bruce Banner 21.12 ..................... H Mullane 10 2.38pm FARMLANDS HAUTAPU STAKES C5, 457m 1 45111 Thrilling Billy 25.48 .....................P Ferguson 2 61527 Pat Tama 25.74 ................................ S Clark 3 25633 Timmy Trumpet 25.31 ..................... K Walsh 4 57127 Oscar Tron 25.47........................D Schofield 5 x268x Thrilling Surge 25.48 ....................... K Walsh 6 25444 Thrilling Raider 25.45 ...................... K Walsh 7 26441 Me Jane 25.50 ...................................L Cole 8 43821 Zipping Vito 25.68 ......................D Schofield

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2.56pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SPRINT C3, 375m 1 24425 Shot Gun Harry 21.40 .................. H Mullane 2 82547 Tumbalaioo 21.20.......................P Ferguson 3 27712 Elouera Mist 21.68 .....................P Ferguson 4 63855 Jimmy’s Rocket 21.00 ...................... S Clark 5 51461 Electric Dee Eye 21.36 ...................P Green 6 28x27 Sonic Attack 21.04 .....................M Mathews 7 33333 Opawa Libby 21.33 W &..................T Steele 8 31325 Cawbourne Angus 21.82 J & ..............D Bell 9 44442 Bigtime Tomac nwtd G & ........ S Fredrickson 10 21564 Good Job 21.05 ..............................P Green 12 3.12pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD STAKES C3/4, 457m 1 71261 Fantastic Zoe nwtd .....................D Schofield 2 61521 Tullabung Googar 26.21 .............P Ferguson 3 14881 Zipping Arnold 25.60 ..................D Schofield 4 34366 He Can Yodel nwtd J &........................D Bell 5 35122 Lunch Special nwtd ............................L Cole 6 12116 Absinthe Minded 25.92 ................ H Mullane 7 26555 Raging Demon 25.62 R & ...................L Udy 8 65166 Cawbourne Symsy nwtd J & ...............D Bell 9 15163 Effectual 25.65 ..................................E Potts 10 52437 Beaumont 25.58................................B Craik 13 3.29pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C1, 375m 1 16 Sisco Kid 21.44 ..........................C M Henley 2 132 Talkabout Izzy 21.33 D R &............... D Hunt 3 21121 Token Jasper 21.30 .......................... S Clark 4 26x67 Cawbourne Cool nwtd J & ..................D Bell 5 23566 Alex Attack nwtd U &.........................Cottam 6 55233 Coruba Cate 21.34......................... G Farrell 7 6x621 Cawbourne Lick nwtd J & ...................D Bell 8 44275 Thrilling Wiggle 21.53................. G Pomeroy 9 66765 Microphone 21.85 .......................... G Farrell 10 56466 Cawbourne Johno nwtd J & ................D Bell 14 3.49pm DOGZONE SPRINT C1, 375m 1 32855 Thrilling Riot nwtd U & ......................Cottam 2 36553 Unconscionable 21.55 R & .................L Udy 3 52771 Secret Rory nwtd ........................... G Farrell

4 31622 Wairoa Angel nwtd ....................... H Mullane 5 43247 Agistri 21.37 ................................... G Farrell 6 36718 Lover Boy 21.75 ......................... W Toomath 7 33772 Cawbourne Merl nwtd J & ...................D Bell 8 52245 Swift Order 21.79 .......................C M Henley 9 56454 Fancy Gas nwtd M & ........................ J Smith 10 458x5 Cawbourne Owen nwtd J & ................D Bell LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Ali Ali Ali, Alyeska, Scott Tied Up, El Hefe, Cawbourne Brandy Race 2: Fancy Fox, Thrilling Arnold, Cameo Syd, Fancy Chap, Finkle Foot Hero Race 4: Jinja Roman, Opawa Brad, Bigtime Fred, Bigtime JayJay, Golden Pixel Race 5: Bigtime Flyer, Bigtime Ottey, Bigtime Power, Dream Kay, Sovereign Jody Race 6: Beltom, Salvarotti, Bigtime Sandy, See Eye Aye, King Shaq Race 7: Sparta, Nitrology, Sun Is Shining, See Eye Be, One Cool Chap Race 8: Thrilling Cruise, Nangar Dream, It’s Electric, Stensness, Finkle Foot Fred Race 9: Danny Dee, Beautiful Boy, Timma Turtle, Bear Inda Square, Wong Way Race 10: Me Jane, Thrilling Billy, Timmy Trumpet, Zipping Vito, Thrilling Raider Race 11: Jimmy’s Rocket, Tumbalaioo, Opawa Libby, Shot Gun Harry, Elouera Mist Race 12: Zipping Arnold, Absinthe Minded, Lunch Special, Raging Demon, Tullabung Googar Race 13: Token Jasper, Coruba Cate, Talkabout Izzy, Alex Attack, Sisco Kid Race 14: Unconscionable, Wairoa Angel, Cawbourne Merl, Thrilling Riot, Agistri

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Southland harness Today at Ascot Park Raceway

Northern Southland Trotting Club Inc Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 11 January 2018 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 3.05pm (NZT) KUBALA SEEDS/GORDON SUTHERLAND MEMORIAL MBL TROT $9000, 3yo+ r40 to r61 mob. trot, mobile, 2200m 1 0077x Bet’s Commando (1) fr 2 77610 I’ve Got This (2) fr ................... M Williamson 3 00778 Eyre’s A Rag Doll (3) fr ...............G McEwan 4 86934 Scarlett Lane (4) fr ....................M Purvis (J) 5 41xP5 She Aint No Angel (5) fr ...........P Williamson 6 119x8 Delestic (6) fr........................... N Williamson 7 x2190 Landora’s Lassie (7) fr ..................B Orange 8 91797 Jedi Josh (8) fr ..................................A Beck 9 20240 Grace O’Malley (21) fr .................... P Hunter 10 48460 Our Budd (22) fr ..................... S Walkinshaw 11 0x616 War Admiral (23) fr ........................... D Dunn 12 60889 Larch fr ......................................... Scratched 13 70230 Prince George (24) fr ...........S Tomlinson (J) 14 47413 Jeddy R Ya Ready (25) fr .........B Williamson 15 1272x Lynette The Vet (26) fr .........................G Lee 16 902P1 Crusher Collins (U1) fr .................. B Barclay Emergencies: Bet’s Commando, Eyre’s A Rag Doll 2 3.34pm MCMILLIAN FEEDS AT FARMLANDS MOBILE PACE $8000, up to mr47 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 72304 Star Ruler (1) fr ..........................R McIlwrick 2 50 Jaccka Oslo (2) fr .......................... B Barclay 3 27070 Kansas City Jim (3) fr..................... P Hunter 4 6F087 Buster Brown (4) fr ...................B Williamson 5 08480 Ripsnorter (5) fr.............................B Orange 6 x2559 Franco Rebel (6) fr .................. M Williamson 7 95693 Lady’s Lass (7) fr...................... T Robertson 8 7x97 Ohoka Waz (8) fr ..................S Tomlinson (J) 9 00x Jilaire’s Mac (21) fr .........................K Larsen

M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 11 January 2018 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 4.23pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C2, 295m 1 17146 Lisa’s Boy 17.24 ..............................R Casey 2 28843 Midnight Bolt nwtd..............................C Weir 3 35212 Homebush Austin 17.48 .........J T McInerney 4 87753 Black Dan 17.60.....................J T McInerney 5 34884 Smokey Action 17.49 S & ...............B Evans 6 81125 Miss Dupre 17.39 ............................. B Dann 7 76346 Joey Baxter 17.41 ..................J T McInerney 8 45378 Come Sunday 17.35 ...........................A Lee 9 28188 Bookie Monster 17.55 .......................J Dunn 10 27684 Roadworks 17.16 ............................ M Grant 2 4.48pm DURASTEEL STRUCTURES PH033796195 DASH C3, 295m 1 15866 Ohoka Magic 17.45 ......................A Waretini 2 66153 Smash Wild 17.32 ........................... M Grant 3 32151 Fired Up Jed 17.44 .......................... B Dann 4 38316 Flaming Sambuca 17.44 ........J T McInerney 5 57244 Ice Princess 17.39 ....................A Bradshaw 6 43517 Goldstar Scout 17.50 S & ...............B Evans 7 25228 Jinja Rules nwtd .....................J T McInerney 8 51131 Sheza Rippa 17.15 J & ...................D Fahey 9 71386 Homebush Banker 17.41 .......J T McInerney 10 15853 Genetic Marlow 17.42 ..................... M Grant 3 5.17pm A2C ASPHALT 2 CONCRETE PH.0800222583 DASH C4, 295m 1 45761 Opawa Sheldon 17.07.....................R Wales 2 31247 Homebush Rufus 17.34 .........J T McInerney 3 17611 Timely Affair 17.33 ............................J Dunn 4 12178 Vallende Star 17.21...........................J Dunn

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99790 Fleur Galleon (22) fr ...................C Ferguson 0x060 Blue Chip Lady (23) fr ...................... D Dunn 30866 Shindal (24) fr ...........................M Hurrell (J) 499 The Bull Pen (25) fr ................. N Williamson 0595 Carlo Gambino (U1) fr.................B McLellan 3 4.08pm bMAC SHEETMETAL LTD MOBILE PACE $8000, r40 to r49 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 60050 Pay Master (1) fr ........................R McIlwrick 2 x0430 American Magic (2) fr....................... D Dunn 3 41405 Martin McGuinness (3) fr ........ M Williamson 4 72430 Gunslinger Bromac (4) fr...................A Beck 5 56244 Nightmarch (5) fr ................. K McNaught (J) 6 03763 Annie Fitz (6) fr ......................... C Purvis (J) 7 08P07 Magnate Mara (7) fr ............................G Lee 8 42434 No More Change (8) fr ...............C Ferguson 9 96180 RnR Windermere (21) fr...........B Williamson 10 23823 Canardly Remember (22) fr .... N Williamson 11 57108 Bettor B Ready (23) fr ................... B Barclay 4 4.33pm MARK JONES RACING STABLES MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ f&m mob. pace, mobile, 1700m 1 69005 Evangeline Franco (1) fr ......... S Walkinshaw 2 342 High Line (2) fr .............................. B Barclay 3 35 Yankee Miss (3) fr ......................C Ferguson 4 x0356 Lis Amore (4) fr ..........................R McIlwrick 5 Char Ellie (5) fr ........................ M Williamson 6 0x9 Classie Princess (6) fr .............. P Luzumova 7 80x35 Firstjoy (7) fr ..................................... D Dunn 8 76980 Hans Ideal (8) fr ...................S Tomlinson (J) 9 24x53 I’mallaboutthebase (21) fr .........M Purvis (J) 10 24 Giftofjoy (22) fr ..............................B Orange 11 26994 Razcal Alley (23) fr ...................B Williamson 5 4.58pm SHANE MATHESON CRUTCHING LTD MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r50 to r55 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 L8219 Rocking Robyn (1) fr .......C Ferguson

2 53672 Jabali (2) fr ................................M Hurrell (J) 3 12424 Kilowatt Kid (3) fr ......................B Williamson 4 04486 Hurricane Banner (4) fr ........S Tomlinson (J) 5 32810 T C Business (5) fr ........................... D Dunn 6 65242 Cast A Shadow (6) fr............... M Williamson 7 44x15 Triroyale Brigade (7) fr............. N Williamson 8 078x9 Honey Cullen (8) fr .........................K Larsen 9 96159 To Ri Alby (21) fr ........................... B Barclay 10 70970 A Smart Excuse (22) fr .................B Orange 6 5.26pm CADUCEUS CLUB OF SOUTHLAND NUGGET FINAL MBL PACE $12,000, 3yo+ up to & including r55 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 23374 Excellent (1) fr ......................... N Williamson 2 0x391 Smoke N Reactor (2) fr .................B Orange 3 5x621 Zealand Star (3) fr ......................... B Barclay 4 65321 Jacks N Jazz (4) fr .................. M Williamson 5 4322 Maahes (5) fr.................................... D Dunn 6 070P0 Vincenzo Denario (6) fr ...............B McLellan 7 27221 Shelby Bromac (7) fr .........................A Beck 8 7341 Chilli Franco (8) fr.....................B Williamson 9 7713 Tres Vite (21) fr...........................C Ferguson 7 5.55pm OMALAS DRIED MOLASSES MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ r56 to r59 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 22764 Santanna’s Rocket (1) fr...........B Williamson 2 34541 Franco Huntington (2) fr ......... S Walkinshaw 3 x1033 Argyle Beach (3) fr .................. N Williamson 4 18602 Erin Jaccka (4) fr ........................... B Barclay 5 00305 Roxy Dale (5) fr ..........................C Ferguson 6 86913 Ansett Flight (6) fr .......................... P Hunter 7 50375 Rakarover (7) fr ....................... M Williamson 8 12751 Gore Bay (8) fr ..............................B Orange 9 4x116 Born To Run fr .............................. Scratched 10 09844 Mr Woodlea (21) fr .................... C Purvis (J) 11 31029 First Son (22) fr ....................S Tomlinson (J) 12 32719 Lilac Flash (23) fr ............................. D Dunn

8 6.20pm HOUSE OF TRAVEL LAKERS SUMMER CUP MOBILE PACE $12,000, 3yo+ r60 to r80 mob. pace, mobile, 2700m 1 0x277 Ossessione (1) fr.......................M Purvis (J) 2 x4166 Southbound Train (2) fr ...................R Swain 3 85040 Balius (3) fr...........................S Tomlinson (J) 4 78200 Gotta Del (4) fr ...............................C Barron 5 47831 Aloka (5) fr ....................................B Orange 6 61444 Bevan’s Cullen (6) fr ................ M Williamson 7 031x6 American Spirit (7) fr ........................ D Dunn 8 47105 Six Diamonds (8) fr ..................B Williamson 9 x5202 The Big Boss (21) fr .............M Anderson (J) 10 48089 It Ain’t The Money (22) fr............... B Barclay 9 6.48pm MOSSDALE/SSBA SOUTHERN BELLE SERIES MOBILE PACE $10,000, with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 1700m 1 29x42 Varenna (1) fr .................................K Larsen 2 109x0 Power Surge (2) fr ...........................R Swain 3 33716 Lorretta Franco (3) fr ................B Williamson 4 20241 Ideal Conquest (4) fr ..................... B Barclay 5 60361 Leah Mac (5) fr...........................C Ferguson 6 64341 Idealistic Lass (6) fr ................. N Williamson 7 9x117 Somejoy (7) fr.................................C Barron 8 22515 Hopes And Dreams (8) fr ................. D Dunn 9 51536 Delight My Soul (21) fr ............ M Williamson 10 06522 Goodlookin Chick (22) fr ...............B Orange 11 60x85 Art Courage (23) fr ...............S Tomlinson (J) 12 14464 Bontz (24) fr .................................. K Barclay 10 7.13pm HOKONUI HONDA MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ mr47 to mr51 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 4 Mach O’Melley (1) fr .............M Anderson (J) 2 00073 The Heart Rulz (2) fr ..................... B Barclay 3 77 Theodora Hope (3) fr .......... K McNaught (J) 4 25 Poldark (4) fr .......................... S Walkinshaw 5 6 Vigoroso (5) fr .................................. D Dunn

6 0x6 Son Of Lana (6) fr 7 x4364 Fast Profit (7) fr ............................. A Armour 8 03 Fun Sponge (8) fr ..........................B Orange 9 0 G T Reactor (21) fr ..........................B Morris 10 27730 James Butt (22) fr ..........................K Larsen 11 38923 Bettors Atom (23) fr....................C Ferguson 12 00 Tad Lincoln (24) fr ................... N Williamson LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS: Race 1: War Admiral, I’ve Got This, She Aint No Angel, Crusher Collins Race 2: The Bull Pen, Star Ruler, Ripsnorter, Franco Rebel Race 3: Magnate Mara, American Magic, Bettor B Ready, Nightmarch Race 4: High Line, Giftofjoy, I’mallaboutthebase, Firstjoy Race 5: Triroyale Brigade, Jabali, Kilowatt Kid, Cast A Shadow Race 6: Maahes, Zealand Star, Tres Vite, Shelby Bromac Race 7: Argyle Beach, Santanna’s Rocket, Roxy Dale, Lilac Flash Race 8: Aloka, It Ain’t The Money, Southbound Train, The Big Boss Race 9: Somejoy, Hopes And Dreams, Goodlookin Chick, Varenna Race 10: Poldark, Mach O’Melley, James Butt, The Heart Rulz

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway 5 31841 Platinum Marshal 17.15 ...............C Roberts 6 18665 Saraya Jayde 17.25 ..................... L Waretini 7 22552 Technic 17.21 H & ...............................Taylor 8 33522 Odin Slayer 17.41 .....................A Bradshaw 9 87276 Sweet Abby Lee 17.33 ..............R Blackburn 10 74588 Culvie Lass 17.45 H & ........................Taylor 4 5.47pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STAKES C2, 520m 1 21142 Full Speed 30.03 .............................. B Dann 2 84132 Spring Sam 30.74 ..................J T McInerney 3 67714 Homebush Ellie 30.49 ............J T McInerney 4 27531 Poetik 30.78 S & .............................B Evans 5 44276 Amy Bale 30.89............................C Roberts 6 66628 Botany Alan 30.46..................J T McInerney 7 54722 Draxler 30.32 J & ............................D Fahey 8 76174 Homebush Ragna 30.47 ........J T McInerney 9 66544 Verta Bale 30.65 ..........................C Roberts 10 475F5 Tamara May 30.26 .......................... M Grant 5 6.05pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK DASH C3, 295m 1 86222 Botany Cold 17.32 .................J T McInerney 2 x4415 Red Margin 17.43 ........................... M Grant 3 241x7 Replay 17.26 ...................................J Tanner 4 53515 Giancana 17.36............................S Hindson 5 88745 Justin Ryan nwtd S & ......................B Evans 6 67161 Treville 17.48 .............................R Blackburn 7 87413 Rum Gin Mixer 17.37 .......................A Joyce 8 84F31 Koputara 17.37 M & ..........................Jopson 9 71386 Homebush Banker 17.41 .......J T McInerney 10 16682 Captain Chilly 17.34 ...........................C Weir 6 6.31pm (NZT) ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH SPRINT C2, 295m 1 62132 Debbie Baxter 17.47 ..............J T McInerney 2 87815 Goldstar Linkin 17.52 S & ...............B Evans 3 74341 Homebush Miles 17.42 ..........J T McInerney 4 76176 Opawa Poppy 17.47 ........................R Wales 5 54728 Know Salute 17.29 .........................G Cleeve

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87858 Mandi Mae 17.21 ............................R Casey 21731 Mertz nwtd .............................J T McInerney 2668x Pyro Polly 17.33 ................................J Dunn 55678 Leo’s Son nwtd.......................J T McInerney 27684 Roadworks 17.16 ............................ M Grant 7 6.59pm GARRARD’S HORSE & HOUND SPRINT C2, 295m 1 62645 Settle Grettel 17.41 .........................J Tanner 2 46468 Culvie Jay Dee 17.53 H & ...................Taylor 3 34565 Sparkling Terra 17.23 ......................R Casey 4 34633 Ohoka Angel 17.41 ......................A Waretini 5 25727 Swirling Pearls nwtd ...........................C Weir 6 73622 Chop Shop 17.32 ...................J T McInerney 7 23875 Homebush Sloan 17.53 .........J T McInerney 8 11266 Lonely Baxter 17.41 ...............J T McInerney 9 55678 Leo’s Son nwtd.......................J T McInerney 10 28188 Bookie Monster 17.55 .......................J Dunn 8 7.22pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES C3/4, 520m 1 65242 Shreddin’ 30.44 J & .........................D Fahey 2 55681 Helski Bale 30.37 .........................C Roberts 3 71656 David’s Legacy 30.15 ................ M Robinson 4 475x4 Melan 30.53 S & .............................B Evans 5 45135 Replica Yella 30.48 .......................... M Grant 6 12116 Hilton Forabet 30.46..................A Bradshaw 7 31368 Crotty 30.41 ..............................A Bradshaw 8 4273x Know Jinx 30.08.............................G Cleeve 9 21421 Runway Bono 30.45 J &..................D Fahey 10 66186 Martha Magic 30.42 H & .....................Taylor 9 7.44pm NZ RACING SERIES ADVANCED FINAL NZRSf, 520m 1 72132 Junk Mail 30.23 J &.........................D Fahey 2 11663 Fair Pippa 30.09 J &........................D Fahey 3 62844 Think Tank nwtd .....................J T McInerney 4 x7371 Vikings 29.99 J & ............................D Fahey

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12814 Invincible Sue 30.15 ......................R Adcock 31273 Boston Billy 30.40 H & ........................Taylor 22261 Tom Tee 29.88...............................R Adcock 25512 Opawa Timo 30.21 J & ....................D Fahey 24415 Nozzno Fear 30.32....................A Bradshaw 43355 Princely Gold nwtd .................J T McInerney 10 8.02pm FOX & FERRET @ THE PALMS SPRINT C5, 295m 1 71424 Opawa Waihemo 17.33 ...................R Wales 2 2118x Know Respect 17.28 ......................G Cleeve 3 74253 Ohoka Clare 17.21 ....................... L Waretini 4 27172 NippaOfSambucca 17.30 .......J T McInerney 5 24415 Nozzno Fear 17.38....................A Bradshaw 6 21521 Swimming Goat 16.79........................C Weir 7 16431 Sergess 17.28 ........................J T McInerney 8 36624 Wow Madonna 17.19 M & ...............P Binnie 9 61848 Cosmic Odette 17.50 .............J T McInerney 10 38435 Seriously Grand 17.23 .......................C Weir 11 8.21pm STEVE ANNGOW DRAPES & BLINDS PH.0272719588 DASH C5, 295m 1 45811 Peaky Boy 17.33 .............................J Tanner 2 77312 High Dreamer 17.24........................ M Grant 3 16131 Custom Paint 17.06............................C Weir 4 61832 Cosmic Richie 17.43 ..............J T McInerney 5 25156 Detective Dash 17.54 .............J T McInerney 6 12368 Inside Affair 17.41 .....................R Blackburn 7 13143 Fired Up Jasper 17.21 ..................... B Dann 8 43355 Princely Gold 17.39................J T McInerney 9 61848 Cosmic Odette 17.50 .............J T McInerney 10 38435 Seriously Grand 17.23 .......................C Weir 12 8.39pm LIVAMOL SPRINT C4, 295m 1 2426x Flaps Down 17.36 .............................J Dunn 2 45186 Star Bucking 17.34.................J T McInerney 3 12526 Speedy Return 17.07 H & ...................Taylor 4 27215 Danziger 17.34..........................R Blackburn

5 7x58x Know Thanks 17.34 .......................G Cleeve 6 32527 Smash Attack 17.22 ........................ M Grant 7 11164 Dissident nwtd..............................C Roberts 8 13566 Amino Trouble 17.25 .................A Bradshaw 9 87177 Opawa Binge 17.31.........................R Wales 10 24577 Talk Talk 17.19 ....................................A Lee LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Midnight Bolt, Lisa’s Boy, Come Sunday, Miss Dupre, Bookie Monster Race 2: Sheza Rippa, Fired Up Jed, Smash Wild, Ohoka Magic, Ice Princess Race 3: Platinum Marshal, Opawa Sheldon, Technic, Timely Affair, Vallende Star Race 4: Full Speed, Draxler, Homebush Ellie, Spring Sam, Verta Bale Race 5: Botany Cold, Justin Ryan, Red Margin, Treville, Captain Chilly Race 6: Pyro Polly, Debbie Baxter, Homebush Miles, Mertz, Goldstar Linkin Race 7: Swirling Pearls, Sparkling Terra, Settle Grettel, Lonely Baxter, Culvie Jay Dee Race 8: Shreddin’, Helski Bale, Hilton Forabet, Melan, David’s Legacy Race 9: Tom Tee, Fair Pippa, Vikings, Junk Mail, Invincible Sue Race 10: Swimming Goat, Opawa Waihemo, Ohoka Clare, Sergess, Wow Madonna Race 11: Custom Paint, Fired Up Jasper, High Dreamer, Peaky Boy, Cosmic Richie Race 12: Dissident, Speedy Return, Flaps Down, Danziger, Star Bucking

8 3.57pm CRAIG CONNELL 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

7 7024 Tuff Girl (4) 56.5 .......................... C Johnson 8 5934. Makamojito (7) 56.5 ..................S McKay (a) 9 Onawing (3) 56.5 ............................R Myers 10 x7x00 Teraseeda (8) 56.5 ........................D Bradley 11 3 Missy Miu Miu (5) 55 .......................D Turner Blinkers on : Shezacraftsman (R1), Dandeedee, Keeping Faith (R2), Platinum Chanel, Poppin’ Bubbles (R3), Malo Bik (R4), Realm (R6), Teraseeda (R10) Blinkers off : Staywithme (R7), Ollie’s Note, Cuzzie Charlie, Magic Wonder (R8), Makamojito (R10) Winkers on : Peewee (R1), Commanding Prince, Fistfulofdollars (R2), Lady Kartel (R6), Choice Attitude (R7) Winkers off : Poppin’ Bubbles (R3), Teraseeda (R10) Pacifiers off : Flyboy (R1), Malo Bik (R4) SELECTIONS: Race 1: Weare Rocking, La Phyta, Suffice To Say, Eloquence, Turfshaker Race 2: Porcelain Princess, Terracotta Warrior, Jovanni, Commanding Prince, So It Was Race 3: Du’blues, Lisbeth, Lucidity, Rough ‘N’ Tumble, Poppin’ Bubbles Race 4: Book Smart, Malo Bik, Fabio, Boss, One More Round Race 5: Our Dynamite, Vincent, Windsor, Lady Amadeus, St Regis Race 6: Lisbeth, Lady Kartel, Unusual Achiever, Temptress, English Rose Race 7: Aridity, Choice Attitude, English Rose, Darsharp Princess, One More Round Race 8: Elegant D’Oro, La Jolie Fille, Mikjene, Jackson Road, Brakbar Race 9: Lillet Rose, Fishermans Blues, Star Quality, Last Man Standing, Candy Belt Race 10: Cullen Bohannon, He’s A Freak, Makamojito, Missy Miu Miu, Silver Missile

Wanganui gallops Today at Wanganui Raceway

Wanganui Jockey Club Venue: Wanganui Meeting Date: 11 January 2018 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 11.53am (NZT) WANGANUI FUNCTION CENTRE MAIDEN 2040 $10,000, MDN, 2040m 1 57583 Suffice To Say (8) 58.5 ................ C Johnson 2 79544 Heza Duke (12) 58.5 ......................... T Allan 3 x4298 Turfshaker b (10) 58.5 ...................M Tanaka 4 060 Flyboy (6) 58.5 ................................D Turner 5 0 Peewee (2) 58.5 .............................. A Jones 6 098 Post Graduate (7) 58.5..........C Waddell (a4) 7 58x92 La Phyta (1) 56.5.............................A Collett 8 044 Weare Rocking (3) 56.5 ..................R Myers 9 5940 Shezacraftsman (4) 56.5...........S McKay (a) 10 6 Eloquence (9) 56.5......................C Lammas 11 08x0 Bastille Babe h (5) 56.5 12 86 Our Matriarch (11) 55......................S Collett 2 12.27pm SPOONERS DRY CLEANING 2040 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2040m 1 52426 Terracotta Warrior (10) 59 ............... A Jones 2 72180 Jovanni (11) 58 ........................... C Johnson 3 x1x80 Commanding Prince (1) 57.5 ..........A Collett 4 6x009 Napoleon (4) 57.5 .........................D Bradley 5 x0812 Porcelain Princess m (6) 56.5 .........R Myers 6 42040 El Jodi h (12) 56 ................................ T Allan 7 x0197 Stellacanto (9) 56 ......................S McKay (a) 8 870x9 Wee Biskit m (2) 55.5 ............C Waddell (a4) 9 41006 So It Was tm (7) 55 .......................M McNab 10 9x300 Dandeedee (8) 54.5 ........................S Collett 11 100x0 Fistfulofdollars t (3) 54 ..................M Tanaka 12 080x0 Keeping Faith (5) 54 .............S O’Malley (a4) 3 1.02pm G BRISTOL & SONS MAIDEN 1200 $10,000, MDN 3YOF, 1200m 1 95x33 Du’blues (3) 56.5...........................M Tanaka

2 82 Lisbeth (9) 56.5 ...............................S Collett 3 36x Boyslightup (5) 56.5 ..................S McKay (a) 4 74 Rough ‘N’ Tumble (7) 56.5 ...........C Lammas 5 5 Balanto (13) 56.5 ............................D Turner 6 5 Lucidity (2) 56.5 ..............................R Myers 7 6x95 Platinum Chanel (8) 56.5 ................A Collett 8 6x5x8 Poppin’ Bubbles (6) 56.5 ...............M McNab 9 6 Ledgowan (12) 56.5 ......................D Bradley 10 5x0 Our Sydney (10) 56.5.................. C Johnson 11 6x Parka’s Lady (1) 56.5 ...................... A Jones 12 58x68 Deuce Coupe (4) 56.5..............M Singh (a2) 13 Eight Mile (11) 56.5 .............................C Dell 14 Naderca 56.5 ............................... Scratched 4 1.37pm RACE IMAGES-VISIT YOUR HORSE AT RACEIMAGES.CO.NZ $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 43656 Fabio (5) 58.5 ............................S McKay (a) 2 One More Round (2) 58.5 3 9x Gameplan (9) 58.5 .............. C O’Beirne (a3) 4 Mels Charlie (3) 58.5...................C Lammas 5 42x22 Malo Bik (11) 57 6 Boss (12) 57....................................R Myers 7 5x Coup Bradman b (8) 57 ................M McNab 8 5 Quaff (13) 57 ............................J Nason (a2) 9 Lincoln Star (10) 57.........................A Collett 10 226x2 Book Smart (1) 56.5.................M Singh (a2) 11 5054x Gata bh (7) 56.5 ..............................S Collett 12 24x Miss Contessa (4) 56.5 13 x6347 Petite Midas (6) 56.5 .....................M Tanaka 5 2.12pm MANELY HORSE 1200 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 1x420 Our Dynamite dbh (3) 59 .........M Singh (a2) 2 20241 Vincent d (9) 57.5.....................J Nason (a2) 3 14 Windsor d (6) 57.5 ..........................R Myers 4 x300x Great Haste d (7) 57.5 ...................... T Allan 5 3x143 Lady Amadeus d (5) 57...............C Lammas

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86688 Brother One tm (2) 57 ...........C Waddell (a4) 42754 St Regis d (11) 57 ....................... C Johnson 07774 Chouxperb (8) 56.5 .........................S Collett 4x986 Awesome Al (4) 56 ........................M McNab 09x65 Porotene Magnum d (1) 55.5 ..........D Turner x4377 Incantation d (10) 55 ....................... A Jones 6 2.47pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE $12,000, MDN F&M, 1340m 1 7732x Our Wonder h (8) 57.5 ..................M McNab 2 x8534 Temptress (4) 57.5 ..........................R Myers 3 63782 Unusual Achiever (7) 57.5........... C Johnson 4 3563 Lady Kartel (10) 57.5 ......................A Collett 5 x377x Veloce (1) 57.5 ..............................M Tanaka 6 09290 Dancing Auriole (5) 57.5 .....................C Dell 7 66x Kathy’s Lincoln (2) 57.5 .............. A Shin (a4) 8 6 Swift Saoirse (3) 57.5....................D Bradley 9 Lost Flag (12) 57.5 .......................... A Jones 10 733 Aridity 56 ...................................... Scratched 11 82 Lisbeth (11) 56 12 64. English Rose b (9) 56 13 6 Realm (6) 56 .............................S McKay (a) 7 3.22pm RACINGTIPS.CO.NZ MAIDEN 1340 $10,000, MDN, 1340m 1 3754x Staywithme (7) 58.5 2 64505 Choice Attitude (11) 58.5 ..............M McNab 3 One More Round (5) 58.5 ........M Singh (a2) 4 9 He’s Ric (8) 57 ................................ A Jones 5 Master Lincoln (12) 57 ....................A Collett 6 Platinum Wild Card (3) 57 .............M Tanaka 7 0x60x Devi (10) 56.5..................................S Collett 8 9x9 Close To Me (9) 56.5 ................... C Johnson 9 8x Wonder Lass (6) 56.5................S McKay (a) 10 733 Aridity (4) 55.............................J Nason (a2) 11 64. English Rose b (1) 55 .................C Lammas 12 Darsharp Princess (2) 55 ................R Myers

1600 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 960x0 Ollie’s Note dm (3) 59.5 ...........J Nason (a2) 2 05567 Prodigal Son m (2) 58 ................. C Johnson 3 x3824 Brakbar (6) 57.5 ..........................C Lammas 4 357x6 Jackson Road m (1) 57.5 ................D Turner 5 20x05 Mikjene (10) 57.5 ..........................M Tanaka 6 7x313 Elegant D’Oro (11) 57 ...................M McNab 7 088x1 Eepa Neema tdm (8) 56.5........M Singh (a2) 8 x1926 La Jolie Fille d (9) 56.5....................R Myers 9 27503 Royal Ruby (7) 56 ...........................S Collett 10 72x70 Cuzzie Charlie mh (4) 56 ..........S McKay (a) 11 0x075 Magic Wonder tdh (12) 54.5............A Collett 12 3PPPx Accolades m (5) 54 9 4.37pm COMMDIVES NZ MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 0x428 Star Quality (4) 58.5 ........................S Collett 2 65. Fishermans Blues bh (9) 58.5 .........R Myers 3 089x9 Acclaim (7) 58.5 ..............................D Turner 4 07x Heel Be Jake (2) 58.5 ..................... A Jones 5 77x3 Last Man Standing (5) 57............C Lammas 6 Massive Missive (11) 57.............. C Johnson 7 22 Lillet Rose b (1) 56.5 .....................M McNab 8 56x37 Candy Belt (3) 56.5 ...............C Waddell (a4) 9 49x4 Little Majella (8) 56.5.....................D Bradley 10 306x8 Word Savvy (10) 56.5 ...................M Tanaka 11 65 Lincoln Melody (6) 55......................A Collett 10 5.12pm WANGANUI RACEHORSE OWNERS ASSOCIATION 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 87x22 Cullen Bohannon b (6) 58.5 2 69x74 Wotamission (9) 58.5 ..........................C Dell 3 6x87x Soiree (10) 58.5 .......................M Singh (a2) 4 060 Flyboy 58.5................................... Scratched 5 8x445 He’s A Freak (2) 57 .......................M Tanaka 6 98x5 Silver Missile (1) 57 .....................C Lammas

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Kevin Bloody Wilson Almost Awesome Tour

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Show restricted to 18yrs and over. Content contains sexual references.

Mid-Canterbury Summer Singing School will bring you a veritable feast of music from some of the earlier musicals to the current day hits of Broadway.

Producer/Musical Director Jo Castelow and Director Alice Sollis guide these talented performers to develop their craft and excel in their performance.

TRADES, SERVICES

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HEALTH & BEAUTY

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Daily Events Thursday

Saturday

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh produce, hot and cold food and drinks. North End West Street car park, Ashburton.

ADULT

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Jan 11 and 13, 2018

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of may aircraft from past to the future.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET. Local crafts, new stalls welcome.

West Street Car park.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter,

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Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There is at least one fiveletter word.

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TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You like people, but you don’t cling. You’re confident you can find kinship with any number of people in the world.

You’ll wait for a love that’s intriguing. For you, curiosity is a key component in attraction.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You’re a naturally hospitable person, so you can’t fully enjoy yourself unless you know everyone is having a good time. Your generosity in this regard won’t drain you; instead it will renew your energy.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Account for what is going right for you: So much is that this will be a very long list. Your focus on the positive will reduce your worries. Your lighter, more joyful heart will attract the same.

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VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You have the chance to work behind the scenes. Is that really where you can do the most good? What if you put yourself front and centre? You’re in fine form and have something unique to contribute.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): It’s inside you now – that impish urge to upset the applecart. You know better, and you won’t make a move, but someone will find the daring gleam in your eye very intriguing.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You don’t preserve your self-esteem by doing things perfectly. Selfesteem is built through realising that even when you make mistakes you’re still worthy of your own love and the love of others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Everyone needs help from time to time, but even if you don’t really need it, ask for it anyway. Because people need to give you help. And the help they give makes them like and understand you better.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): How much do you want to accomplish? With little on your plate, you’ll work slowly. With lots on your plate you’ll work quickly, take shortcuts and just barely meet your deadline.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): What stops people having fun together is an entire story in their heads about how it should go – a story based on their assumptions about each other and not based on getting to know who is really there.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): There’s an art to making mistakes well. The weak way is to pass blame.

The strong way is to think in terms of cause and effect and figure out how to fix things.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian GREETINGS Ray Thompson 85 today

Love from all your family.

DEATHS

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KNIGHT, Brian Robert – On December 29, 2017 at Ashburton. Loved son of the late Mollie Moore. Brother and brother-in-law of the late Joan and Cyril Gibbons and uncle of Suzanne, and Nigel.

A private burial for Brian has been held.

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IN MEMORIAM

CHAPMAN, Winifred Louise – With fondest memories of our deeply loved mother, motherin-law and nana. Passed Paterson’s Funeral Services away one year ago today.

Your presence we miss FDANZ Ashburton Your memory we treasure Ph 307 7433 Loving you always McKEAN, Raymond (Ray) – Forgetting you never.

Passed away peacefully on Sandra, Les, Anna, Paul and January 8, 2018 at Terrace Linda.

View Retirement Village, Ashburton, in his 84th year with his daughters by his FUNERAL side. Loved husband of the late June. Dearly loved father FURNISHERS MASTER and father-in-law of Andrea and Eric Chesmar, Nicky Pile, MONUMENTAL MASON and Leah and Steve Baker.

E.B. CARTER LTD Loved Pop of Johanna For all your memorial Verzandvoort and partner requirements Zane and Nathan Chesmar.

New headstones and designs Loved Poppa of Matt and Renovations, Aimee Pile, Rob and Anna Additional inscriptions, Pile, Liv Pile and partner Cleaning and Concrete work Jina, Jesse Temaiharoa and Carried out by qualified partner Bee, and Kelsey tradesmen.

Temaiharoa, also loved great grand Pop of Isla. Special 620 East Street Ashburton thanks to the Terrace View Ph/Fax 308 5369 staff for taking great care or 0274 357 974 of Ray. A service for Ray ebcarter@xtra.co.nz NZMMMA Member will be held at St James Presbyterian Church, SATURDAY, January 13, 2018 at 3pm. Messages to 100 Melcombe Street, Tinwald, Ashburton 7700.

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7am The Biggest Loser – Glory Days 3 7:55 The Biggest Loser – Glory Days 3 8:45 American Ninja Warrior 3 (Part 2) 9:40 Entertainment Tonight 10am Infomercials 11:25 Family Feud Australia 3 11:55 House Rules PGR 3 0 1:05 M Eye Of The Hurricane PGR 3 2012 Drama.

Nicola Peltz, Melanie Lynskey, Colin Ford.

3:20 Entertainment Tonight 3:50 M Garfield – A Tail Of Two Kitties 3 2006 Comedy.

Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Bill Murray (voice), Billy Connelly. 0 5:25 Family Feud Australia 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

MAORI

6am The Legend Of Korra 3 6:25 Ben 10 6:50 Codename – Kids Next Door 7:15 Kung Fu Dino Posse 3 7:40 Duck Dodgers 8:05 Batman – Brave And The Bold 8:30 Danger Mouse 8:55 Tiki Tour 0 9:25 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:50 Jeopardy 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Road Trip 12:40 Madam Secretary PGR 3 0 1:35 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 2:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3pm Escape To The Country 3 3:55 Jeopardy 4:20 Tennis – ASB Classic: Men’s Week (HLS) Day Three.

From Auckland. 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm American Restoration 0 6:30 Pawn Stars

7pm Modern Family PGR 0 7:30 All-Star Family Feud – Comedians v Comedians PGR 3 0 8:30 M The Core AO 3 2003 Action. When the Earth’s inner core stops rotating, threatening life as we know it, a team of scientists must attempt to prevent the catastrophe. 0

7pm Storage Wars PGR 3 7:30 Man With A Plan PGR 0 8pm Superior Donuts PGR 0 8:30 Silent Witness AO 0 9:35 Louis Theroux – Drinking To Oblivion AO 10:50 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR

11:10 NewsHub Late A mix of news, entertainment and pop culture.

11:40 Heroes Reborn AO 3 Noah and Quentin target Renautas; Miko might end up in trouble when she tries to retrieve her sword.

12:30 Infomercials

11:50 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 The team presents the best of the day’s sports news.

12:20 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:25 Directors – Roger Donaldson PG 7:55 Social Suicide 16VLSC 2015 Drama. India Eisley, Olivia Hussey. 9:30 Double Mommy MC 2016 Drama.

Morgan Obenreder, Griffin Freeman.

The History of Comedy The X-Files 11am Lights Out MV 2016 8:45pm on TVNZ 1 8:30pm on TVNZ 2 Horror. Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello.

BRAVO THE BOX 12:20 Chicklit 16S 2016 10am Four Weddings USA 3 6am Wheel Of Fortune Comedy. Christian McKay, 10:55 Million Dollar Listing PG 6:25 Jeopardy! PG Dakota Blue Richards.

LA 3 6:50 Ice Road Truckers 1:55 The Magnificent 11:50 Snapped PGR 3 PG 7:40 Doctor Who PGV Seven MV 2016 Action 12:45 The Real Housewives 8:30 The Simpsons PG Western. Denzel Washington, Of Beverly Hills PGR 8:55 SVU – Special Victims Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke.

1:40 Vanderpump Rules 3 Unit MV 9:45 Can’t Pay? We’ll 4:05 Social Suicide 16VLSC 2:35 The Real Housewives Take It Away! MVL 10:40 The 2015 Drama. India Eisley, Of Beverly Hills 3 Cops MV 11:35 Jeopardy!

Olivia Hussey. 5:35 Bastille 3:35 Catfish 3 PG Noon Wheel Of Fortune Day 16VLC 2016 Action.

4:30 Four Weddings USA PG 12:25 Pawn Stars – UK Idris Elba, Richard Madden.

5:30 Hoarders 3 PG 12:50 The Force MC 7:05 Incarnate 16VLC 2016 6:30 Million Dollar Listing 1:20 Ice Road Truckers PG Horror. Called to save the LA 3 2:10 NCIS PGV 3:05 Doctor life of a boy possessed by a 7:30 Snapped PGR 3 Who PGV 4pm The Simpsons powerful demon, a scientist Did an Ohio man kill himself, or PG 4:30 Jeopardy! PG encounters a fierce and could his fiancée be to blame? 5pm Wheel Of Fortune elusive threat. Aaron Eckhart, 8:30 60 Days In PG 5:30 Ice Road Truckers Carice van Houten.

Jeff, the final participant, PG 6:30 The Force MC 8:30 Power Rangers MV enters the jail; Isaiah and 7pm Pawn Stars – UK PG 2017 Adventure. Five ordinary Robert fear their cover may 7:30 NCIS PGV 8:30 Hawaii teenagers are accidentally be blown; Robert makes a Five-0 MV 9:30 NCIS – LA MV imbued with ancient powers, risky move, leading Captain Maples to follow through with 10:30 SVU – Special Victims which they must use to save Unit MV 11:25 NCIS PGV the planet from a vengeful and consequences.

FRIDAY 12:20 Doctor Who powerful evil.

9:30 The Killing Season PGV 1:20 Wheel Of Fortune PG 10:35 Sam MLSC 2015 Two documentarians Romantic Comedy.

1:50 SVU – Special Victims investigate the unsolved Unit MV 2:40 Pawn Stars FRIDAY 12:20 A Sunday case of 10 dead sex workers PG 3:05 Town Of The Living Kind Of Love M 2015 Drama. discovered on Gilgo Beach, Dead MV 3:30 Town Of The 1:55 Bastille Day 16VLC 2016 Long Island.

Living Dead MV 3:55 Hawaii Action. 3:25 Incarnate 16VLC 10:25 Intervention AO 3 Five-0 MV 4:45 NCIS – LA MV 2016 Horror. 4:50 Power 11:25 Snapped PGR 3 12:15 Infomercials 3 Rangers MV 2017 Adventure.

5:35 The Force MC

MOVIES GREATS 7am Nothing But Trailers M 7:20 Blue Jasmine ML 2013 Drama. Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin. 9am Burn After Reading 16VLS 2008 Crime Comedy. George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt. 10:35 Contagion ML 2011 Thriller. Matt Damon, Kate Winslet. 12:20 Connie And Carla PGS 2004 Comedy. Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny.

1:55 The Sentinel MV 2006 Crime. Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria. 3:40 Blue Jasmine ML 2013 Drama.

Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin.

5:20 Confessions Of A Shopaholic PGL 2009 Romantic Comedy. Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy. 7:05 Cloverfield MV 2008 Action. Five young New Yorkers give their friend a going-away party the night a monster the size of a skyscraper descends on the city. Lizzy Caplan, TJ Miller, Mike Vogel. 8:30 Dark Shadows MVL 2012 Comedy Horror. An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer.

10:25 Zodiac 16V 2007 Crime.

FRIDAY 1am The Last Exorcism 16V 2010 Horror. 2:25 Confessions Of A Shopaholic PGL 2009 Romantic Comedy.

4:10 Zodiac 16V 2007 Crime.

CHOICE

6:30 Waiata Mai 3 6:40 Dora Matatoa 2 7am Huhu 7:10 He Rourou 7:20 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 7:30 Pukana 3 7:40 Avatar 3 8am Te Kaea 3 2 8:30 Morena 3 9am Whanau Living 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Cams’ Kai 3 10:30 The Big Sing 3 11am Te Araroa – Tales From The Trails 3 Noon Game Of Bros PGR 3 12:30 The Laughing Samoans 1pm The GC PGR 3 1:30 Kapa Haka Regionals 2016 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Waiata Mai 3 3:10 Dora Matatoa 2 3:30 Huhu 3:40 He Rourou 3 3:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 4pm Pukana 2 4:10 Avatar 3 4:30 Project Whenua 3 5pm Hakataetae 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 6:30 Te Kaea 3 2 7pm Paepae 3 7:30 Kai Ora 3 8pm What’s Up With The Tumoanas? PGR 3 8:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 9pm Sisters 3 9:30 Ahorangi Next Generation 3 10pm Te Matatini 3 10:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 11pm Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:30 Koroua 3 A series of conversations profiling some of the last remaining Maori male elders, focusing on the transition of Maori from before urbanisation to the present day.

Midnight Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am Cricket – Big Bash Hobart Hurricanes v Sydney Sixers. 6:30 Cricket – Big Bash Perth Scorchers v Melbourne Renegades.

7am Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Auckland Aces v Canterbury Kings.

7:30 Cricket – International (HLS) Australia v England – Fifth Test, Day Five. 8am Fox Sports News 8:30 Cricket – Big Bash (RPL) Brisbane Heat v Hobart Hurricanes.

Noon Cricket – Super Smash (RPL) Auckland Aces v Canterbury Kings.

3:30 Football – A-League (RPL) Western Sydney Wanderers FC v Adelaide United. 5:30 NZ Football Weekly Show 6pm ISPS Handa Premiership Highlight Show 6:30 Ironman Western Australia (HLS) 7:30 A-League Hour 8:30 Football – A-League (HLS) Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne Victory.

From Westpac Stadium.

9pm L Golf – European Tour The BMW SA Open – Round One. 11pm The Golf Show FRIDAY Midnight Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Sentry Tournament of Champions.

1am L Golf – European Tour The BMW SA Open – Round One. 4am Ice Hockey – NHL (RPL) Chicago Blackhawks v Minnesota Wild.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

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6am Love Nature – Wildlife SOS 7am Roar Of The Wild 7:30 Love Nature – Guardians Of The Wild 8:30 Auction Hunters 9am American Restoration 9:30 Gordon’s Great Escape – South East Asia 10:30 Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers – USA 11:30 Getaway Noon Relentless 1pm Monkeys Revealed 2pm Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction 3pm The Great Antiques Map Of Britain 3:30 Love Nature – Australia’s Deadliest Destinations 4:30 Nigel Slater Eating Together 5pm Valentine Warner’s Wild Table 5:30 Shed And Buried 6pm Auction Kings 6:30 The Story Of Cats 7:30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces George meets a young cheese salesman who plans to transform a 30-yearold horse trailer into a mobile cheese stall and food-festival attraction.

8:30 Escape To Costa Rica 9:30 Doctor In The House 10:30 Shed And Buried 11pm Auction Kings 11:30 Nigel Slater Eating Together Midnight Valentine Warner’s Wild Table 12:30 Roar Of The Wild 1am The Story Of Cats 2am Love Nature – Australia’s Deadliest Destinations 3am Getaway 3:30 The Great Antiques Map Of Britain 4am George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 5am Escape To Costa Rica

SKY SPORT 2 6am Football – A-League (RPL) Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne Victory.

8am Football – A-League (RPL) Western Sydney Wanderers FC v Adelaide United. 10am Fox Sports News 10:30 Football – A-League (HLS) Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne Victory. 11am Motorsport – Dakar Rally (HLS) Stage Four. 11:30 Motorsport – Dakar Rally (HLS) Stage Five. Noon ISPS Handa Premiership Highlight Show 12:30 Football Shootout 1:30 A-League Hour 2:30 Sky Sports News UK 3pm Fight Night 5pm Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Sentry Tournament of Champions.

6pm Inside The PGA Tour 6:30 The Golf Show 7:30 Cricket – International (HLS) Australia v England – Fifth Test, Day Five. 8pm Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Auckland Aces v Canterbury Kings.

8:30 Cricket – International (HLS) Blackcaps v Pakistan – Second ODI. 9pm Cricket – Big Bash Brisbane Heat v Hobart Hurricanes.

9:35 L Cricket – Big Bash Sydney Thunder v Perth Scorchers. FRIDAY 1:30 Tennis – Sydney International (RPL) Quarterfinal Two. 3:30 Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Sydney Thunder v Perth Scorchers. 4am Tennis – Sydney International (RPL) Quarter-final Three.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Deadliest Catch PG Fisherman’s Daughter.

7:30 Secrets Of Pangolin PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 MythBusters PG Mini Myth Madness.

9:10 Alaskan Bush People M 10am Homestead Rescue PG Grizzly Bait.

10:50 Alaska – The Last Frontier M The Day the Ice Road Shattered. 11:40 Web Of Lies M 12:30 Murder Comes To Town M Horror in the Heartland. 1:20 Murder Calls M Down By The River.

2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 How Do They Do It? PG 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG Blonde Ambition. 4:45 Bering Sea Gold PG Penny Dreadful.

5:40 MythBusters PG Underwater Car Escape.

6:35 Gold Rush PG Special 2. 7:30 Gold Rush PG 8:30 Bering Sea Gold PG Murky Waters.

9:25 Moonshiners M Tale of Tickle. 10:15 Alaska – The Last Frontier M The Day the Ice Road Shattered.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M 11:55 Murder Calls M FRIDAY 12:45 Murder Comes To Town M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaskan Bush People M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 Moonshiners M

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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Fury slims down

Sport

Tyson Fury is moving closer to fighting weight with the help of a new diet – despite eating seven meals a day and consuming a whopping 3500 calories. The former world heavyweight champion has not fought since he defeated Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015, but he is free to return to the ring after a drugs ban. And Fury, who is targeting a mega-fight with fellow Brit Anthony Joshua later this year, is now on a strict eating regime as he looks to get fighting fit. The 29-yearold has already lost nearly 25kg since returning to training.

Retiring at 106

Champion harness racing driver Ricky May continues to notch up the records, with more still to come.

PHOTO NEW ZEALAND HARNESS NEWS

$30m milestone

BY MATT MARKHAM

MATT.M@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

In his usual nonchalant manner, champion harness racing driver Ricky May notched up another notable milestone in his incredible career on the weekend.

The Methven horseman clicked over $30 million in stake earnings for his career at the Rangiora meeting on Saturday. May becomes just the third driver in New Zealand to achieve the feat behind Tony Herlihy ($36 million) and Mark Purdon ($30 million).

“I didn’t even know I was getting close to it,” May, in his usual understating manner, said.

“It’s a pretty good achievement though, especially when you look at who the other drivers are.

“I’m not really sure where it’s all gone though.”

Of the $30 million in stakes, May has received five per cent of that as his driving fee – making his stake in the overall picture $1.5 million.

Spread that over his 42 seasons of driving that equates to almost $36,000 in winning stakes in the back pocket each season – not a lot for someone who drives on average 700 horses a season.

Drivers are also paid a nominal fee for each drive they take on top of winning stakes which boosts the figure significantly.

“It’s still not probably a whole lot when you think about it, if we didn’t get paid for losing driving fees it wouldn’t probably be worth it.”

In his 42nd season of driving

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now with 31 wins on the board, May will be back out this season to continue a long standing record of his.

Since the 1987 season, he has only finished outside the top five drivers for wins in a season on three occasions, an incredible display of longevity for anyone in sport.

There’s been 67 New Zealand Group Ones along the way as well and the opportunity to sit behind some of the best to strut their stuff on the track with the likes of Inky Lord, Christian Cullen, Iraklis, Monkey King, Carabella, Terror To Love and more recently Monbet all on the list of big race winners for May. “I’ve been lucky when you look at all the good horses I’ve driven, that’s played a bit part

in getting to the $30 million I guess.” And despite an already long and lucrative career, May – who spends a good portion of his summer months on the header when he’s not at the track, is showing no signs of slowing down.

His combination with stables like that of Greg and Nina Hope and good mate Brendon Hill, among many others, sees him still in hot demand around the South Island.

“As long as the drives are still there, we will keep going.

“I still enjoy it and am lucky enough to have a bit of success along the way too.”

With just over 2800 wins next to his name for his career, the magical 3000 mark awaits May next and at his current rate it might not be long in coming.

The world’s oldest competitive cyclist, Robert Marchand, has decided to retire – at the age of 106.

Since he turned 100, the Frenchman has been setting new records for his age group on the velodrome. In February 2012 he set the mark for the one-hour record at 24.250km and improved on that two years later with 26.927km – a time that fit 20-yearold non-cyclists would struggle to better. Between those two efforts, he rode 300 laps of the Parc de la Tete d’Or Velodrome in Paris in four hours, 17 minutes and 27 seconds equivalent to 100km.

Parker on standby Joseph Parker’s promoter David Higgins has concluded a “very constructive” three-hour meeting with Anthony Joshua’s representative Eddie Hearn in London, and Parker is now on standby to fly to the United Kingdom to face the man with the highest profile in the heavyweight division. Higgins is hopeful the final details of the fight contract will be ironed out in a couple of days after his meeting with Hearn only hours after arriving in England’s capital.

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