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Has he saved the i-SITE?

BY SUE NEWMAN

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A wildcard, left-field idea could save Ashburton’s i-SITE from disappearing permanently from the inner town landscape.

The i-SITE’s closure in September sparked community outrage and generated petitions, a public rally and deputations to the Ashburton District Council.

But in the face of that outpouring of anger, the council and i-SITE operator Experience Mid Canterbury staunchly supported their stance, saying the i-SITE had had its day and that

money used to fund it was better directed to other areas of tourism promotion.

Radio Hokonui announcer Peter McQuarters had other ideas.

He and i-SITE campaigner Tony Todd booked speaking time at yesterday’s Ashburton District Council meeting and outlined a plan that could not only see the i-SITE reborn but could also play a big role in revitalising Ashburton’s town centre.

He’s keen to move the radio station into the i-SITE building and to reinstate the information business as part of the deal.

“We’re not a group of antagonists. We care deeply about Ashburton and we’re committed to improving the vibrancy of the CBD, it’s the heart of our town and we have to do everything we can to retain interest in our CBD,” McQuarters said.

“We could take over the building but the i-SITE component of it wouldn’t change. What’s required is a full visitor experience, not just a few pamphlets in the corner. I’m confident we could have the radio station in there.”

He suggested the station

would also make good use of the chessboard next door for events.

“We’d be looking for flexibility to use the enlarged area to bring life and pulse back into the CBD. We don’t want to be the little town where every second shop is closed.”

McQuarters said station staff were enthusiastic about the idea and he’d also run it by NZME chief executive Michael Boggs because the cost of relocating a radio station would be substantial. He was supportive.

“I’m floating the idea with the council – it would get you off the

hook. It’s simply an idea we’re putting in front of you and saying – how about it. If you agree, it gets it off your back,” he said.

While it was still a concept that needed a lot of work, McQuarters said the radio station would run the i-SITE but in return would need ‘favourable’ lease terms on the building. A new resource consent would also be needed.

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Recruiting Kiwis for Irish farms

By Sue NewmaN

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If two Irish farmers have their way, young Kiwis will be winging their way across the world to help fill yawning gaps in their country’s dairy farm labour pool.

Padrig Madden and John Brosnahan from Farm Relief Services were in Ashburton last night on a recruiting drive where they sold the dream of living, earning and learning in Ireland.

There’s already a well-worn path for young Irish workers to New Zealand, Madden said, and he’s keen to see the traffic become twoway.

“Coming here is not a hard sell for an Irish person, everyone knows someone who’s been here and had a great experience and we need to get some people coming back the other way,” Brosnahan said.

The need for farm staff in Ireland is now critical with the dairy industry opening up to expansion after many years of working within a quota system that kept herd sizes to an average of around 100 cows.

“The shackles are off and the only limiting factor now are access to land, access to processing and labour. There are 6000 people needed at all levels since the abolition of quotas for the next three years,” he said.

For young Kiwis accustomed to

working on large dairy farms often corporately owned, working in Ireland would provide an opportunity to work on family owned farms where they would work on every farm related activity from calf rearing to milking, Brosnahan said.

“We see that as a real selling point.”

The most recent exodus of Irish labour started in 2012 when unemployment ran at 15 per cent.

Now the Irish economy is booming and unemployment is back down around 5 per cent, Madden said.

Farm Relief Services is a farmer owned organisation that has been in the business of finding farm staff for 40 years.

Farms where young Kiwis are placed are carefully chosen. Staff are met at the airport and transported to their workplace and then delivered back to the airport when their contract ends. That contract could be three or six months or longer.

The organisation is working with Matt Jones from NZ Dairy Careers and he aims to have 25 young Kiwis working on Irish farms early next year.

“It’s a buyers’ market for them.

They can go wherever they want to go, whenever they want to go and for as long as they want to commit,” he said.

Wages are guaranteed and the

Creating opportunities for Ashburton’s young farm employees on Irish dairy farms, recruiters Padrig Madden and John Brosnahan.

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Once the first intake starts working in Ireland and information

starts to flow back, Jones knows enthusiasm for the scheme will build.

Currently five young people

have signed on for the scheme but interest is growing and Jones says he’s fielding inquiries from potential employees every day.

Has he saved the i-SITE? From P1 “Council doesn’t want to do this but someone has to step up and do it and we can and we can create a new business model that could be rolled out elsewhere.

Let’s be the town that leads, not the town that closes,” McQuarters said.

For district councillors and mayor Donna Favel, the concept appeared to be an easy sell.

Their reaction was almost unanimous and ranged from an “I could kiss you”, from Leen Braam to “Brilliant, absolutely brilliant,” from Lynette Lovett.

“Where to from here, we can’t let this lie on the table, we need

to get this rolling,” Russell Ellis asked.

To move the project forward, McQuarters said he needed feedback from the council on whether or not it was enthusiastic about the concept and he needed to put a detailed plan to Boggs.

“The whole thing is subject to due diligence; the costs will be the key and we’d have to look at this as a long-term project,” he said.

The idea came with no clear time line, but McQuarters suggested it could be up and running by the second quarter of next year.

“We certainly don’t want this to lie around and flounder for a long time.”

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■ MID CANTERBURY SCHOOLS

Budgets squeezed; teacher aides face reduced hours

By Katie todd

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Mid Canterbury schools are among those having to slash teacher aide hours at the expense of students.

A national New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) survey published earlier this week revealed 44 per cent of primary and intermediate schools are feeling a budget squeeze and subsequently having to limit their teacher aide hours next year.

Both Allenton School and Hampstead School confirmed their teacher aides will see reductions in their hours, and Ashburton Borough School said they are currently working hard to find the cash to keep their teacher aides on board.

Two teacher aides will also be leaving from Hampstead School, which Principal Peter Melrose said correlates with the proportion of special needs students moving out of Year 6 into Ashburton Intermediate.

However, Ashburton Intermediate principal Brent Gray said the number of teacher aides at his school will only increase by one, despite a number of children

who will be unable to be without a teacher aide at all times.

“There’s a pretty scarce amount of money going into teacher aide funding,” Gray said.

“It’s having to come out of our operational budget and other resources.”

Netherby School principal Phil Wheeler said at his school teacher aides were an important part of supporting the school’s English as a Second Language (ESOL) population.

The school is having to draw $10,000 to $15,000 of extra funding from special education, ESOL and at-risk grants to support their teacher aides, alongside what is provided for by the government.

Borough School principal Sam Winterbourn said teacher aides are a valuable aspect of schools, providing another pair of hands to work with children.

But Allenton School principal Graham Smith said the need for additional funding is also about making sure teacher aides are adequately equipped with training and skills – for example, the capacity to adequately help with ESOL. “Having that funding … it’s also

Forty-four per cent of primary and intermediate schools are feeling a budget squeeze and subsequently having to limit their teacher aide hours next year. about upskilling our staff and teacher aides,” he said.

The NZEI survey also asked principals what their top spending priorities would be if they were to receive more funding by scrapping

voluntary donations and taking up an extra $150 per student.

The most popular answer, shared by 41 per cent of respondents across the country, was to increase teacher aide hours – and

that sentiment was largely shared

by Mid Canterbury teachers.

“They’re a marvellous asset … we’d put teacher aides in every classroom if we could,” Melrose said.

■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Sugary drink ban bid rejected

By Sue NewmaN

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Attempts to have sugar sweetened beverages banned at council sponsored events and at council venues failed to gain traction when it was put to the vote at yesterday’s Ashburton District Council meeting.

If adopted the policy would have seen only healthy beverages available at those events and venues but when it was discussed at a policy and bylaw subcommittee meeting voting was tied. Yesterday the policy was tossed out on a seven–six

vote. Councillor Stuart Wilson led the charge against the policy.

“I vote the council does not adopt this policy. How are we going to police this? Do we make people tip drinks out?

“Most of our staff don’t want this so surely we should take into account what they are saying,” he said.

The council had more important things to do than worrying about sugary drinks, Wilson said.

Peter Reveley agreed, saying that banning sugary drinks from venues and events was not a council’s core business.

“We shouldn’t control what people eat and drink. If we passed this, how would we police it,” he said.

Selwyn Price supported the policy, saying the council would be looking after the social welfare of the community by banning sugar sweetened drinks from its venues and events. Saying it was too difficult to police was not an excuse, he said.

“If we vote against it because we can’t police it, why do we have a smokefree policy or any of a number of other policies we can’t police?”

New Zealand as a country had huge health problems and the council needed to show leadership and be an advocate for its community, Price said.

Ex-dental nurse Lynette Lovett said she’d rather give her support to having fluoride reintroduced into the Ashburton water supply rather than supporting the sugar sweetened drinks ban.

Change had to come in small steps, Russell Ellis said and by showing leadership on its own patch the council would be leading the way for other organisations who might opt to follow.

When it was put out for community consultation, the council received 11 submissions on the proposed policy; four were in support and seven against.

Several submissions in opposition were received from its own staff.

Councillors Neil Brown, Stuart Wilson, Lynette Lovett, Alasdair Urquhart, Mark Malcolm, Peter Reveley and Leen Braam voted against adopting the policy while mayor Donna Favel, Thelma Bell, Diane Rawlinson, Liz McMillan, Russell Ellis and Selwyn Price supported it.

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■ PLAINS RAILWAY

In brief

Perfect potatoes just in time for Christmas

By Sue NewmaN

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Too much sun and too little rain may not have made a perfect potato growing season, but the team at Tinwald’s Plains Railway are still unearthing a bumper crop of Christmas spuds.

Yesterday club members were out in the spud patch early morning to start what will be a daily chore that will run until Christmas Eve. Every day they’ll be in the paddock digging, picking and bagging potatoes that will find their way onto Christmas dinner tables around the district.

The lack of rain might mean this year’s yield is down a little, but Plains committee member Darryl Nelson said he’d run a taste test over the potatoes and the flavour was up there with the best.

Each year their potato harvest earns the railway team between $12,000 and $15,000 and along with their Christmas peas the two harvests play a big part in boosting the organisations bank account.

While the agria potatoes survived the super dry growing season, much of the pea crop did not, with one patch a complete write off this year.

Bags of potatoes will be on sale

Public plea pays off Marie McNulty put out a call for help and the Ashburton community responded. Faced with a growing need for more volunteers for the SEEDS (sharing everyday experiences and drawing on life skills) programme that she runs, McNulty made a public plea.

And the community answered.

She now has five new volunteers in training ready to help her clients learn practical household and parenting skills. SEEDS clients set goals they want to achieve over the three months they are on the programme and they are carefully matched with a volunteer for one hour each week.

Two seriously hurt A van and a motorbike have crashed in Coromandel, reportedly leaving two people with serious injuries. The crash happened about 5.30pm, police said.

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at Z Service stations and at the Plains Railway from now until Christmas. Freshly dug potatoes are delivered each day to all sale sites.

Plains Railway member Bruce Dellow and a team of fellow club members were out in the potato patch yesterday digging and bagging potatoes ready for sale.

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A collection worker has died in the Waikato after apparently falling from a rubbish truck and being run over while on the job, a police spokesperson says. Police attended the site of the incident on Alexandra Redoubt Road in Tuakau, where a person was hit by a vehicle about 12.30pm yesterday.

It appeared a rubbish collection worker had fallen from a rubbish truck and died after being run over, the spokesperson said.

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■ ASHBURTON TRUST LION FOUNDATION

Indecent assault

Trust donations exceed $1m

A taxi driver accused of indecently assaulting radio host Jay-Jay Harvey has pleaded not guilty and can now be named. Baljeet Singh, 27, appeared in the Auckland District Court yesterday for his second appearance on one charge of indecent assault. The West Auckland man was arrested and charged over the incident with the host of The Edge breakfast show in his taxi on October 1. His name suppression lapsed yesterday and he entered a not guilty plea, while also electing trial by jury. He was remanded on bail and will appear in court again during March next year. Harvey posted about the alleged incident on Facebook in October and said she was assaulted by the taxi driver after leaving a bar in Ponsonby. - NZME

Over the past nine months more than $1 million has been given away to groups and organisations in the Ashburton District by the Ashburton Trust Lion Foundation Regional Grants Committee.

This month the foundation gave away $262,600 to 18 organisations. The money comes from gaming machines operated in Ashburton Trust premises.

The largest grant, $50,000 went to the Ashburton Learning Centre which helps adults

needing literacy and numeracy education and also runs a child literacy programme. This money was tagged to go towards the purchase of a building to house the centre.

Funds distributed with this round of applications: Arthritis Foundation of NZ Inc - Ashburton $4725, Arthritis educator; Ashburton Cadet Corps Assn, $5500, computer equipment; Ashburton College Alumni Trust, $30,000 project co-Ordinator/website; Ashburton Learning Centre Inc,

$78,200, building purchase and running costs; Ashburton Multi Cultural Trust, $10,500, event co-ordinator; Ashburton Netherby School, $23,626, PA and computer equipment; Ashburton Performing Arts Theatre Trust $26,000, Mamma Mia technical equipment; Ashburton Senior Citizens, $27,000, rent and salaries; Ashburton Youth Café Charitable Trust, $10,000, rent; Cancer Society of NZ Inc-Canterbury West Coast Division, $2027, event support; Caninspire Charitable Trust,

$10,000, national co-ordinator salary; Coronation Target Shooting Club Inc, $6463, upgrade target wall; K 2 Youth Development Trust, $4000, operating costs; Methven Fire Fighters Support Group Inc, S6000, van purchase; Mid Canterbury Choir Charitable Trust, $10,000, fees, hire, administration; Mount Hutt College, $1570, v purchase of tents; Rakaia Bowling Club Inc, $5110, sprinkler system upgrade; Zonta Club of Ashburton, $1885, International Women’s Day Breakfast.

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Climate change ‘footprint’ in 2017

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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Mid Canterbury is likely to experience more extreme events due to climate change, but that does not mean every year will be as bad as 2017.

The district has come through a challenging year on the weather front, with floods in July and a hot and dry start to summer.

NIWA principal scientist forecasting Chris Brandolino said climate change is happening and it sits in the background as a footprint to all weather events.

“That’s our expectation of cli-

mate change, all weather events, particularly extreme events, they have a climate change footprint,” Brandolino said.

However, while the trend line was for climate change to increase in coming decades, that did not mean every year would feature extreme weather.

And just how much of any one event was due to climate change was something which required bespoke analysis and could not be determined until several months afterwards.

For example, whether any one weather event was 20 per cent

due to climate change, or 80 per cent due to climate change, required in depth study and analysis of the event and its variables.

In addition to climate change, natural variability occurred year to year.

For example, dry conditions in Mid Canterbury currently may be being influenced by a La Nina weather pattern.

Reduced rainfall for the interior of the South Island, and near normal to below normal rainfall for the east coast south of Christchurch, was typical of La Nina.

Becoming a welcoming community

BY SUE NEWMAN

SUE.N@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

St John Community Educator Shayne Cockburn helps Allenton Four Square staff member Laney Duncan upskill in CPR yesterday.

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Passing on life-saving skills to shop staff

BY KATIE TODD

KATIE.T@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Allenton Four Square staff left work yesterday afternoon with some valuable new lifesaving knowledge.

St John stopped by the shop to show

staff members how to use their Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) device, and how to give CPR to patients.

Four Square Owner Mark Swaney said he thought the team’s medical training could be of benefit to the local

community, particularly with the Allenton Medical Centre moving from opposite the shop to new premises down the road.

“It could be the difference between life and death, you never know,” he said.

Ashburton has become one of a small cluster of communities to pilot a Welcoming Communities programme that supports local authorities and their communities in making migrants and newcomers feel at home.

Along with Selwyn, Ashburton is flying the flag for Canterbury in the programme which is an initiative of Immigration New Zealand. The programme is part of an international welcoming movement that shares best practice. Similar programmes run in Canada, Australia, Europe and the United States.

A new standard has been released as part of the programme and this will be used to measure the success of individual welcoming communities when they get under way in the new year. Success will be measured across several categories including leadership, civic engagement and participation, how connected and inclusive communities are, the economic and business and employment opportunities offered.

The standards are about ensuring the participating districts become better host communities rather than simply expecting newcomers “Around the world, Kiwis are known for being friendly, hospitable, and inclusive and we want that to be the absolute reality for people living in the Ashburton and Selwyn Districts,” Ashburton Mayor Donna Favel said.

Being a welcoming community was about the district understanding the complexity and diversity of their communities and implementing solutions that would work at a local level, she said.

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Thieves on the prowl

By Katie todd

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A campervan, a car and a barbecue have all been whisked away from their Ashburton owners by thieves over the past nine days.

Now, police are seeking any information to help return them to their rightful owners.

The red, Weber barbecue was taken from a home in the Allen-

ton area last week on Wednesday. The white Mitsubishi campervan was taken on Monday night from the Tinwald area, and the silver Nissan Primera car was taken on Wednesday night also from the Tinwald area.

Police said they would like to hear from anyone who may have seen the vehicles in the area since they were taken, or

anyone who remembers seeing anything suspicious in the area during the time of the burglaries.

Anyone who knows any information that could assist police in locating the property taken, or in identifying those responsible, is urged to get in touch with Ashburton Police on 03 307 8400.

■ ASHBURTON COLLEGE

Work for computer scheme up, running

By Sue NewmaN

Sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

A work scheme being promoted

by Ashburton College is winning high praise from the business community.

Concerned that not all of his students could afford their own tablets or laptops required under the school’s bring-you-owndevice scheme, Preece came up with a novel way that would see students earn computers while their employer earned a tax break.

His scheme sees individuals or businesses employ a student for around the 25 hours needed to pay for a chromebook. When the work is completed, the employer pays the money to the college, the student receives a

chromebook and the employer the satisfaction of both helping a young person and knowing the money they’ve spent counts as a tax deduction.

“We’ve had a lot of positive feedback on the idea,” Preece said.

Positive feedback has been a little slower in translating into job offers, he said, but a handful of students were already well down the track towards earning a device for next year, he said.

He believes up to 100 Year 9 and 10 students could be involved in the scheme and is encouraging anyone who has work that could be completed by a 14 or 15 year old to contact the school. The suggested pay rate is $15 an hour.

■ QUEENSTOWN

Woman loses control of scooter; badly hurt New toilets will be a welcome addition to the Lake Camp, Lake Clearwater community and should hopefully lessen the impact of freedom campers.

New lakes toilets open for business Making a comfort stop at Lake Camp just got a lot more comfortable.

A new toilet block will be open at the inland lakes holiday spot before Christmas and will feature a disability access toilet and two other toilets to cater for the growing number of visitors frequenting the lake for camping and other recreational activities.

Portaloos will also be supplied over the summer.

The new toilets are environmentally friendly and do not result in any discharge to land, said Ashburton District Council open spaces manager David Askin.

“They’re also easily maintained and their design has a proven track record in similar areas in the Selwyn District. Although the toilets themselves are now open, landscaping work still needs to be carried out, and

we are planning to use native eco-sourced plantings,” he said.

Ashburton District Council constructed and installed the new toilets with the help of a $105,000 co-funded grant from Central Government through its Regional Mid-sized Tourism Facilities Grant Fund.

The toilets are located in the popular freedom camping area off Hakatere Potts Road before the Lake Clearwater settlement.

A woman has been seriously injured after crashing a scooter – mere metres from the central Queenstown store she’d rented it from.

She had hired the scooter earlier this evening from the Little Willy’s Scooter Rentals Ltd on Shotover Street.

A store employee said the woman had said she was experienced with small bikes.

“She hired a normal scooter and said she had driven one before and was really comfortable.

“Unfortunately it didn’t go well and she has lost her balance or something. The poor thing. I hope she is okay.

“She was literally just leaving and was only going at about 5km/h.”

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serious injuries.

A police spokesperson said they were called about the crash at 5.51 last evening. She said three cars were sent to the scene and officers diverted traffic as the crash was cleared.

Little Willy’s Scooter Rentals Ltd opened its doors just two weeks ago.

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■ UNITED STATES

Election loss a wakeup call?

President Donald Trump managed to endorse two different losing candidates in the same Senate race, a setback that is highlighting an experience deficit within the White House political team.

“As the leader of the party, I would have liked to have had the seat,” Trump acknowledged yesterday, a day after a special Senate election in Alabama led to the election of Democrat Doug Jones.

Republicans in Washington and around the country say a bungled approach to the race – in which the president wagered his party’s moral authority with nothing to show for it – should serve as a wakeup call for the administration going into what is sure to be a challenging mid-term election year.

“This White House is not working on all cylinders,” said Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary to former President George W. Bush.

Trump originally supported Senator Luther Strange in the GOP primary, but he lost to Roy Moore. Trump then stuck with Moore in the race against Jones even after the Republican was hit with multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

There is growing sentiment

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US Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at the end of an election-night party, in Montgomery, Alabama. Moore didn’t concede the election to Democrat Doug Jones. PHOTO AP both inside the West Wing and around the nation’s capital that there’s a shortage of political know-how in the upper echelon of the administration.

The Alabama defeat has some inside the White House hoping for a moment of reckoning with the president.

Trump may have proven

the pundit class wrong with his surprise win last November, but even inside the White House there is growing recognition that Trump may need their help in office.

Trump himself was the driver of the decision to re-engage in the Alabama race on behalf of Moore, according to people

familiar with the decision. He had only begrudgingly supported the Republican National Committee’s decision to pull out of the race. Some longtime aides said it was the first time they had come to question his political instincts, which served him so well in the past.

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Christmas comes early for homeless man French police are hunting a homeless man who made off with a “Christmas present” of 300,000 Euros ($505,000) after striking it lucky while rummaging through bins at Paris’ Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport.

Security camera footage shows the unidentified man rifling through rubbish at terminal 2F of France’s biggest air hub when he accidentally leans against a door leading to the cash depot of transport company Loomis.

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Prince Harry’s fiancee is set to join Britain’s royal family for Christmas.

Kensington Palace says Meghan Markle will join The Queen and other senior royals at Sandringham, a sprawling estate in Norfolk, 175 km north of London.

The royals usually exchange gifts on Christmas Eve and attend a church service at St. Mary Magadalene Church on Christmas Day before enjoying a gala lunch and, sometimes, a walk in the woods. “You can expect to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and Ms. Markle at Sandringham on Christmas Day,” the palace said.

after security personnel apparently failed to shut it properly.

In what Le Parisien called one of the biggest “bloopers” in the annals of crime, the man made off with the huge stash armed only with “luck and chutzpah”.

“It is true that this was totally fortuitous,” a source close to the inquiry told the French daily.

“This tramp benefited from a series of coincidences to hand himself a huge Christmas present.”

His unlikely heist first came to the attention of border police when an alarm sounded.

Rushing to the scene, officers found the money transport depot door open.

Viewing security camera footage to find out what had happened, they saw a “European” man aged around 50 rummaging through bins.

The man can then be seen leaning on the door of the cash depot and to his surprise it opens. The individual leaves his suitcase outside and enters. A few minutes later, he

is seen leaving with two large bags stuffed with cash. He then quickens his pace and is last seen heading in the direction of a road not covered by CCTV. Police recovered his suitcase, but it was empty. Although they don’t have his name, the man is known to security as one of up to 100 homeless people who move around the airport in search of scraps.

“He’s a man who has been wandering the area for some time,” said a source. - NZME

The next Primetime Emmy Awards will move to Monday night to avoid a huge potential tackle by Sunday Night Football.

NBC and the Television Academy said that the three-hour telecast will air September 17. The last time the Emmys was staged on a Monday was in 2014. The ceremony aired on a Sunday this year and was hosted by Stephen Colbert. It competed with pro football and drew 11.4 million people, one of the show’s lowest ratings. No host has been announced for the 2018 ceremony yet, which will originate from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

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Monster snake blocks Queensland road Police in Australia joked they were “going to need a bigger ladder” after encountering a 5m long python blocking the road.

Queensland Police officers encountered the amethystine python, also known as a scrub python, near the small community of Wujul Wujul.

The officers had to wait for the slithering reptile to cross the road, giving them enough time to capture a photo which has racked up over 50,000 shares and likes on Facebook.

“They breed them big in the Far North!” explained Senior

Constable Heidi Marek.

Seizing the opportunity for a quick photo, Sergeant Ben Tome sent his colleague, Acting Senior Constable Chris Kenny, out of the car to stand next to the giant.

Not fond of the police attention, the scrub python made his way quickly off the road so the officers could continue on their way.

Despite giving the officers a scare, this was not an exceptionally large scrub python: the non-venomous species typically grow up to 7m long.

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Weinstein ‘my monster’

Acting Senior Constable Chris Kenny was sent by his colleague to stand by the scrub python.

In an op-ed, Salma Hayek says that her refusals of Harvey Weinstein’s advances led to a nightmare experience making the 2002 Frida Kahlo biopic Frida. The New York Times published Hayek’s account in which she writes that Weinstein was for years “my monster”. The actress said that Weinstein would turn up at her door “at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location”. Hayek lists the many ways she denied Weinstein, including saying no to massages, showers and sex. “I don’t think he hated anything more than the word ‘no,’ she writes.

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Selling your property when you’re splitting up If you decide that your partner is going to stay in the house and he will buy you out, it’s a good idea to get the property valued. While you can get an idea from online valuations that take into account other sales in your area, a registered valuer will provide you with a more detailed appraisal. This will come at a cost, but you may decide it is worth it for the peace of mind. It may also be useful when you are talking to a lender, as a registered valuation can sometimes be required if you are refinancing.

The end of a relationship is tough on everyone involved. Some couples find it hard enough to divide up their furniture, let alone any joint property. If you find yourself in this position and you own a home together, it’s a good idea to get legal advice on your rights and responsibilities.

If you’re not keen to engage a lawyer just yet, your community law centre or Citizens Advice Bureau can be a good place to start. The Ministry of Justice and Community Law also have some useful information online.

While every situation is different, most separating couples either jointly sell the home or one of them decides to buy out the other. Sometimes they reach an agreement where they continue to co-own the property but just one of them will live in it.

If you both decide to put the property up for sale, any proceeds will be split. Ideally, this will enable you both to clear your share of the mortgage and help you start again.

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Bring on the sunshine! with feathered friends. Place pea straw or crushed bark around the plants to provide a clean bed for ripening strawberries. Maintain a close watch for botrytis (grey mould) and remove infected fruit or leaves immediately. Water plants as required, avoiding foliage if possible.

If plants are looked after, you should be picking strawberries well into January.

Summer is here and should bring a more settled month in the garden. According to weather experts, most of us are set to experience a warmer than normal summer thanks to La Nina. Although great for our holidays, protecting your garden will be imperative.

As we traditionally holiday in the Christmas/January period, deserting the garden at this time of year can lead to problems. However, with careful planning, problems can be reduced, if not avoided.

For instance, try not to have crops peaking at the same time, mulch your garden well, and install a timer on your irrigation system or ask a friend or neighbour to water your plants while you are away.

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December is probably the prime month for harvesting scrumptious strawberries in the home garden.

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Apply side dressings of Daltons Premium Rose Fertiliser at regular intervals to help maintain strong healthy growth. Some summer pruning may be necessary, especially with some varieties where growth is excessive and can lead to wind damage. Check your rose bushes regularly for outbreaks of black spot or rust, and instigate a regular spraying programme to control these diseases. Also keep an eye out for aphids as they can be prolific as the weather heats up.

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Easy as – how to build a retaining wall Building a retaining wall is a great DIY job.

It can be hard work, but it’s a good, simple, satisfying job that if done properly will look good and stay strong for decades.

Before you start Legal building requirements: This is how to build a timber retaining wall up to 1.5m high consisting of posts embedded in the ground and horizontal rails. It includes drainage behind the wall to prevent the build-up of water which could overload it. Suitable soil types for this type of wall are granular – such as firm gravel, stiff clay and sand or rock – or a mixture of these.

The wall detailed is not suitable for walls higher than 1.5m or where the wall supports a driveway, parking area, the weight of a bank or building above the wall – in these cases you must have the wall designed by an engineer and a building consent obtained. It’s also not suitable for soil types such as very soft clays (when they are wet you can easily squeeze the clay between your fingers), peat, made-up ground, fill or topsoil.

For a low retaining wall, the posts must go 100mm into the ground for every 100mm retained above ground. Walls higher than 1.5m may require a building consent in some regions. Make sure you check with your local council for specific regulations.

Handy hint For retaining walls 1m or higher, the New Zealand Building Code may require a safety barrier at the top.

In domestic situations this is likely to be required where the wall is beside an access path to the house. Alternatively, you can also build a fence.

Before you start digging, check with your local authorities to check the location of pipes and cables. You don’t want to hit anything you shouldn’t.

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Next, place start and finish pegs in the ground. These should be 300mm from the wall face to the centre of where the post will sit.

Attach string line to the pegs and then mark where each post will sit. The spacing of vertical posts will depend on the size of post and rails used. A 150mm square post can be placed at up to 900mm apart. If 200 x 200mm square posts can be obtained, the spacing can be increased to 1200mm.

The same applies for 150mm round posts.

Step 2 Use a post hole borer to dig 300mm diameter holes so that the total depth is as deep as the wall is high.

Angle the borer to allow for the slope of the poles 1:10 (so the posts lean 100mm for every 1m of height). Place about 100mm of drainage metal (scoria) in the holes and then put the two end posts in place.

Once the concrete has dried, remove all the bracing.

Brace all the posts temporarily in position Next, run a string line along the bottom so that they are vertical when viewed from of the posts to give a straight line to sit the the front, but slope towards the bank at first boards along.

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Once all the posts are in position, concrete them into place and allow to dry for 48 hours.

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Step 5 When all the rails are in place, lay 100mm depth of drainage scoria along the bottom at the back of the wall. Place a filter sock over the drain coil (to prevent it silting up) and then lay the drain coil on top of the

metal and lead the ends to where they can discharge into the open. Ensure the drain coil has some ‘fall’ (i.e. slopes down the length of the wall to allow water to run out).

If possible, have the drain coil accessible at both ends so it can be flushed out.

Cover the drain coil with 250mm of drainage scoria and overlay it with the geotextile fabric – this will reduce the silting up of the drain coil.

Continue to fill with drainage metal, ensuring that there is a minimum of 300mm against the wall.

The rest of the gap between the wall and the bank maybe filled with wellcompacted excavated material. The backfill and drainage metal can be kept separated by unrolling geotextile fabric as backfilling proceeds or by a rigid sheet of metal or hardboard or plastic which is slid up as the work progresses.

Finish backfilling 100mm below the top of the wall and lay geotextile fabric across the top of the drainage gravel.

The top 100mm can be covered with topsoil where plants can be grown, lawn laid or grass seed sown.

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“The BMW M5 has characterised the essence of a high-performance executive sedan for over 30 years”, says BMW Group New Zealand managing director, Florian Renndorfer.

“New Zealanders continue to have an insatiable appetite for performance vehicles, and the new BMW M5 will more than satisfy this demand with a new level of sophistication, engineering and performance”.

Heart of the matter: The new 4.4-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine.

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fter two years of development, competition race car builder Dallara has released what could be the best track toy of 2017.

The Dallara Stradale is an all-new streetlegal sports car that the company says is designed to ‘rediscover the real pleasure of driving on road or on track.’

You might not recognise the name Dallara, but you’ve diffidently seen their work. For over 40 years the Italianbased company has designed and built some of the world’s most iconic race cars from all corners of the globe. The mono-make chassis’ used in Indycar in America, GP2 & GP3 in Europe and Super Formula in Japan are all built by Dallara.

The company has also worked collaboratively on high performance road cars with the likes of Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche – so they know a thing or two about building a fast car.

Their newest creation, the Stradale, has been likened to the Lotus Seven of the ‘50s due to its essentially and simplicity by Dallara’s president, Giampaolo Dallara, but the sports car will be available in various configurations.

Built on a monocoque chassis and aluminium frames, and bodywork built primarily with composite materials and carbon fibre, the Stradale weighs in at only 855kg dry.

Power comes by way of a rear mid-engine mounted 2.3-litre 4-cylinder turbocharged engine that produces 294kW of power at 6200rpm and 500Nm or torque from 3000-5000rpm, paired with either a

six-speed manual or optional paddle-shift.

Both transmissions come with two different mapping modes: Normal and Sport.

The result of the lightweight body and comparatively high power output is a

claimed 0-100km/h time of 3.25s (pulling over 2g in the process), 100-200km/h in fifth gear in 8.5s and deceleration from 100-0km/h in 31 only metres.

The suspension and the calibration of springs, bars and dampers are said to maximise the compromise between grip and comfort, all of which have been set, developed and defined by test drivers and engineers using Dallara’s Driving Simulator.

Dallara also recruited the help of Bosh to develop the engine electronics and traction control system, and Pirelli to develop the Stradale’s own tyre.

The standard base configuration of the Dallara Stradale is a barchetta body (without doors) just like a single-seater racing car. However, if you didn’t want to wear a helmet every time you used the sports car, customers can opt for a roadster configuration with a curved windshield.

Dallara will also sell the Stradale as a T-Frame or hardtop coupe (bellow). Both roof configurations come standard with gullwing doors.

For those customers looking for ultimate track performance, a large rear wing will be available on all versions that produces 820kg at 280km/h which is among the highest in GT road cars.

Dallara currently build up to 200 race cars a year, but the company won’t yet say how many Stradales will be produced or how much the various configurations cost.

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cLaren has finally revealed its $1.5m, 588kW addition to the top-tier Ultimate Series, heralded as the brand’s ‘most extreme road

car yet.’

Originally referred to as P15 during development and testing, McLaren has chosen to name its latest creation after legendary Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna, who won all three drivers’ titles with the team.

The Senna name has not been used lightly. Unlike all other McLaren models to date, the McLaren Senna adopts a ‘formfollows-function’ design philosophy with a single-minded purpose - to be the ultimate track-focused McLaren with number plates.

The Senna is the lightest McLaren since the F1 of the 90s, has the most power internal combustion McLaren has ever built and aggressive styling moulded in the pursuit of maximum aerodynamic efficiency.

While the McLaren Senna is not a direct replacement to the P1 – currently the only model in McLaren’s Ultimate Series – the new model will sit alongside the hybrid hypercar along with an upcoming three-seater codenamed BP23.

The car’s unique appearance is largely due to newly-developed front and rear active aerodynamics components ‘clipped’ onto the teardrop shaped body. A large front splitter up front channels air over, through and un-

der the car, passing vented wheel arches, scoops, inlets and massive rear wing. Both the front splitter and rear wing feature active elements.

The double-element rear wing is 1219mm tall at its highest when the car is stationary. Hydraulically actuated, the wing constantly adjusts to optimise downforce and aerodynamic balance, as well as functioning as an airbrake under heavy braking.

A large double diffuser in the rear is made from a single piece of carbon fibre, creating a low-pressure zone that sucks the car to the ground.

McLaren’s carbon fibre Monocage III chassis forms the core of the McLaren Senna, a development of the structure used in the 720S and the strongest monocoque ever built by McLaren for a road-legal vehicle.

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Twenty-six stories later ...

I t wasn’t yesterday but it feels like it was only a few days before that.

I’m sure it was.

Well at least that’s how it seems, but really it’s a year ago.

A year ago since I was doing what I’m doing now – sitting down to write one last story for the year.

Fifty two weeks, 26 fortnights ago.

And that equals 26 stories.

Where on earth has that time gone?

Looking back as we tend to do at this time of year I realise the time has gone quickly because it’s been so much fun to be involved in contributing stories to Guardian Motoring.

And to be part of the Guardian Motoring team.

It’s been more than fun, it’s been interesting and it’s been enjoyable because of the people involved, especially the enthusiasts who have shared their stories and their memories with us.

And of course in some cases we’ve been able to look inside their garages and see fabulous vehicles.

All sorts, shapes and sizes of vehicles, all with one thing in common which makes them all special – they are the pride and joy of their owners.

Sometimes friends have shared photos of fascinating vehicles with us.

For example Tony Kloet, editor of the Micro Car Club newsletter, send these neat photos of French Micro Police cars, which demonstrate how useful little cars can be and how times have changed.

Both are Renaults, the first a 4CV in Paris in the 50s the second is the Renault Twizzy electric micro police car.

These came via the internet and so did a delightful story involving a canny Scottish millionaire Ferrari owner.

The story sent by Michael and Annette Monti who live in Nelson goes like this: A Scotsman walks into the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street, Central London and asks for the manager.

He tells the manager that he is going to Australia on business for two weeks and needs to borrow £5000.

The manager tells him that the bank will

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need some form of security for the loan, so Hamish hands over the keys and documents of new Ferrari parked on the street in front of the bank.

He produces the Log Book and everything checks out.

The manager agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan.

The bank’s General Manager and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the rough looking Scotsman for using a £120,000 Ferrari as collateral against a £5000 loan.

An employee of the bank then enjoys driving the Ferrari into the bank’s underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, Hamish returns, repays

the £5000 and the interest, which comes to £15.41.

The manager says, “Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled.

“While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire.

“What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow £5000?”

Hamish replies, “Where else in London can I park my car for two weeks for only £15.41 and expect it to be there when I return.”

Actually I need to tell you this is just one of a great many funny stories which the Montis, who have a superb sense of humour have entertained myself and others with.

On receipt of this one I couldn’t help responding with the suggestion it could end up in a motoring story.

Michael Monti’s retort was “don’t see why not”.

So there you have it.

Hopefully our ever helpful sub editor – himself also possessed of a great sense of humour – will agree.

If you’ve just read the story he does!

It really does only seem like yesterday when we were winding down at the end of last year.

It’s great to look back on the tales we’ve shared during 2017 and it’s really great to look forward to the stories we’ll share in the New Year.

For inspiration I must look back and see how we kicked off this year probably along similar lines to the way this column began – it only seems like yesterday I was writing the first column for last year.

Gee I’ve got the start for a column in January 2018!

Best of the Prancing Horse V8s

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poll of 4500 Ferrari fans has named the all-time top five greatest V8 Ferraris, with the 458 Italia in first

place.

Thousands of prancing horse devotees have overwhelmingly declared the Ferrari 458 Italia to be the greatest ever V8 from Maranello. Pitched against everything from the tax-break 208 to the current 488GTB, the 458 mopped up a landslide 42 per cent of the vote, more than twice the support for its nearest rival.

In its latest issue, quarterly magazine Enzo conducts an epic, beautifully photographed group test of some of the greatest V8 Ferraris of all time and delivers its verdict, and now the general public has delivered theirs.

Every issue of Enzo is 100 per cent Ferrari, with the team compiling a selection of road tests on the latest models as well as drive stories and track tests of classics from the Maranello brand’s glorious past.

Readers also get interviews with leading personalities in the Ferrari world, expert insights into the marque’s past and future, plus much, much more.

The top 5 greatest ever V8 Ferraris

1) Ferrari 458 Italia

introduced when it went on sale in 2015. Performance from the 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8 is spectacular with the 0-60mph dash being completed in just 3 seconds and the 488GTB topping out at 205mph. If you have £180,000 burning a hole in your pocket, you could barely spend it in a more thrilling way.

4) Ferrari F430

Just pipping a perennial favourite to fourth place with 6 per cent of the vote is the car that bridged the gap between the 360 and the 458. Having been first shown at Paris, it was in production from 2004 until 2009 and was powered by a 4.3-litre V8. Mid-mounted, of course. Kept honest by the E-Diff, it was a brilliant cross-continent sports car capable of a 3.9-second 0-60mph and just shy of 200mph.

Having taken its bow at Frankfurt in 2009, the successor to Ferrari’s 430 stayed in production until just a couple of years ago and was mobbed with plaudits and awards from day one. With a mid-mounted 4.5-litre V8, it revs to a mighty 9000rpm, boasts more than 550bhp, propelling it to 62mph in 3.4 seconds and on to a top speed of over 200mph.

raris and, with a capacity increase and the introduction of a new cylinder head, it was considered a real return to form.

The longitudinal 3.5-litre V8 cost just over £80,000 new and pumped out 375bhp for 0-60mph in 4.7 seconds and over 180mph.

Built in record numbers for a Ferrari at the time (over 11,000 were manufactured), it garnered some 20 per cent of the vote.

Following on from the less popular 348, the F355 was the darling of 1990s Fer-

With just under 10 per cent of the votes, the GTB was the first 488 variant to be

2) Ferrari F355

3) Ferrari 488GTB

5) Ferrari 308

Unquestionably the benchmark Ferrari that set the template for the company’s modern era, Leonardo Fioravanti’s svelte masterpiece may not have been the first V8 middie built by Ferrari – that accolade belongs to the Dino-badged 308GT4 – but it remains the most recognised and revered. Performance may be blunt by modern supercar standards, but 0-60mph in 6 seconds and a top speed of 152 was plenty in 1975!

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MX-5 with a red-hot top M azda will bring a burst of colour to the MX-5 range next spring with the launch of the new Z-Sport special edition.

This exclusive model will stand-out thanks to its deep cherry red fabric hood, 17-inch black BBS wheels, and Machine Grey Metallic paint.

Inside, the stand-out feel continues with Sand Leather seats, plus Z-Sport floor mats and scuff plates. While to further highlight its uniqueness, each car comes with an individually numbered

Z-Sport plaque on the dash. Exclusive to the UK and limited to just 300 cars, thanks to being based on the 2.0-litre 160ps Sport Nav, the Z-Sport features a limited slip differential, Bilstein dampers and a strut brace to ensure it has the dynamic excellence to match its sporty exterior looks.

With the distinctive look you’d expect of an MX-5 special model, the Z-Sport continues the

trend of offering sports car customers a striking and exclusive car at an affordable price.

The second MX-5 to wear the Z-Sport badge, the latest car revisits a name last used on the third-generation MX-5 in 2007. A 2.0-litre model with 17-inch BBS wheels, Stone Leather seats and Radiant Ebony Mica paint, the last Z-Sport’s cabin featured brushed aluminium dash inserts, alloy pedals and coordinated stitching on the steering wheel,

gear knob and handbrake. With just 400 examples sold, the 2007 Z-Sport shared the exclusivity of next year’s new Z-Sport MX-5.

Representing the first chance to buy a current-generation MX-5 convertible with an alternatively coloured fabric roof, the Z-Sport provides customers with exterior differentiation through its unique colour hood. The stunning combination of the cherry red roof and Machine Grey Metallic paint make this one of the most exclusive looking MX-5s ever offered.

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by David Bowie and ...? a. Perry Como b. Bing Crosby c. Andy Williams 7 – Anna, Gary and Tim are characters in which TV soap? a. Shortland Street b. Home and Away c. Coronation Street 8 – Which NZ city has an area of streets named after English poets? a. Auckland b. Wellington c. Christchurch

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Canadian fruit cake

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■ Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer until well blended.

■ Beat in eggs, one at a time (batter will look slightly curdled).

■ Gradually add dry ingredients; mix well.

■ Fold in remaining chopped almonds, raisins, currants, cherries and pineapple.

■ Pour batter into prepared pan.

■ Smooth surface, then arrange whole almonds on top.

■ Bake in preheated 150°C oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

■ Near end of baking time, combine sugar and water in small saucepan. Simmer over medium heat for 1 minute. Remove cake from oven and brush the top with the sugar syrup glaze.

■ Cool the cake in the tin for 15 minutes then remove cake from tin and cool completely on a wire rack.

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Can our superheroes save our i-SITE? Matt Markham

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very gripping tale needs a hero just as much as it needs a villain, even if it is the tale of the closure of an i-SITE. We say villain, but use the term loosely – there’s no real fault accredited to either Experience Mid Canterbury or the Ashburton District Council for the closure of the Ashburton i-SITE, but they have been the two identities in the public firing line, so aptly fit the bill of being villains in this particular instance.

And then there’s the heroes or the knights in shining armour; prominent business owner, Tony Todd and local radio host Peter McQuarters, who rode into the Ashburton District Council meeting yesterday on their white horses and offered up a solution that could, and we stress the word could, save the day.

There’s a few more bridges to be crossed before it gets over the line, but we at least saw some encouraging signs from around the council table yesterday when Peter Mac offered up his out-ofnowhere idea that could see an i-SITE reinstalled in Ashburton.

In fact, the proposal was met with such enthusiasm from councillors that one was even moved to wanting to kiss McQuarters for his effort – although the tongue-in-cheek comment that he was “getting them off the hook” drew more than one raised eyebrow too.

That enthusiasm alone was enough to suggest that previous claims that councillors were not interested in revisiting the i-SITE situation may have been off the mark and that those around the table are prepared to at least entertain the idea and see if it can be made plausible.

Like any good tale there’s been plenty of twists and turns on both sides of this story and you can bet your last dollar that what transpired yesterday is just the hook to keep you interested before we head off on another wave of dips and dives to reach a conclusion.

But the underlining story of it all is that a majority of people in this district wanted someone to stand up and fight for what they believed to be right and in Tony Todd and Peter Mac they got those heroes.

One a well-dressed, successful caped-crusader and the other his fast-talking, witty and clever sidekick – the perfect superhero combination.

YOUR VIEW Life Education Trust Through your newspaper I wish to pass on to all the individuals, firms, organisations, schools and service clubs throughout the Mid-South Canterbury region, our sincere thanks for their generous support during 2017.

The Life Education Trust would not succeed without this help. We would not be able to deliver our programme to over 8000 children in 66 schools and ‘Harold’ would be very sad.

Best wishes to everyone for a safe and enjoyable Christmas break.

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Ashburton Domain

In response to the letter from Dixy Robbins, published in the Ashburton Guardian on December 13.

This half of the year is often a great time to be out enjoying Ashburton District’s lovely open spaces, and for council it is also one of our most labour-intensive times. Mowing, planting and watering schedules are in full swing and they stretch our present resources to their limit.

While we always endeavour to have our parks and open spaces looking their absolute best, it is difficult to have every area perfect at the same time, and this means there can often be ongoing specific projects that are works in progress – as is the case for the area by the aviary. There is exten-

sive landscaping work under way in this area and unfortunately, resources have had to be directed to other maintenance programmes during this busy time, but we will return to it.

We are in the process of planting new flowers in the redesigned borders in Baring Square East to change its look and style.

These plantings include a mixture of annuals and perennials.

It is unfortunate that you visited at the end of the spring flowering display when the plants aren’t looking their best.

As is correctly pointed out, there are water restrictions in place, and this impacts how we maintain our plants.

Each year, council plants between 30,000 and 40,000 bedding plants twice a year throughout the district to provide colour.

This equates to a lot of flowerbeds, planning and of course ongoing maintenance. While we do have access to wells in the Ashburton Domain, not all areas are covered with timed irrigation systems and during water restrictions (Level Two), this means we have staff out watering our plants around our urban areas in the allocated 6pm to midnight timeframe.

Understandably during these drought conditions, some areas will look drier than our garden areas.

Of importance is to keep new plantings – particularly young trees – alive, as these are expensive and labour intensive.

Mature and more established trees and plantings are more able

to look after themselves. During these restrictions we are tanking water in, and staff water the trees individually, which of course requires extensive time and resources.

We would contend that with the volume of green spaces and gardens in our care for the community and visitors’ enjoyment that they are all a priority for us, however, like many organisations, limited resources can be stretched at peak times.

David Askin Open Spaces Manager Ashburton District Council * * *

Christmas Parade

The Plains Dames of Ashburton would like to congratulate Ashburton on a great Christmas Parade on a delightful Ashburton day.

We wish to thank those who assisted us and made it possible to enter Santa’s Workshop.

A grand job and a big thank you to Lindsay for his hard work and supplying so much toward the build, Craig and Keith his righthand man and Brian the ‘go-for’ of the team. Your work was exceptional.

To our generous sponsors we send a BIG THANK YOU and a Merry Christmas – Jeff Marshall Motorcycles Ltd, The Warehouse, Ken Neale, Dave Busby, Netherby Four Square, Countdown [South], Tinwald Super Value Supermarket, Barry Redmond (Peter Cates Ltd], Hello Banana, Mitre 10 and Sandra Ireland.

Lastly, the Plains Dames who

also dedicated hours of their time.

Looking forward to 2018.

H.R.H. The Hatter and Kuni Te Te of the Boulders The Plains Dames of the Red Hat Society * * *

Time for a change in focus

I was bought up in a system of yay or nay in the democratic world of voting.

And what I’m seeing right now, and past, is that the majority is clearly the underdog to the minority eg the i-SITE, museum and now the pipe band, of all things.

Personally I’m not a fan of the band but I will give them 100 per cent support for their commitment to their culture and community enjoyment.

I was in disbelief that our council has served them with severe bully-boy abatement notices because of their unruly act of producing music and practicing in the college grounds and, may I add, it was in daylight.

I can understand the minority keyboard warriors to complain after 9pm. But squeezing the cat way before that time is not exactly a complaint when there are many other louder noises present.

It’s about time this council takes a common sense approach to this situation and open their ears to the majority and not to paint themselves into a corner, where the general Jo Blow of this town will retaliate.

John McGuire

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Happy birthday Maddison Y

es! Maddy is 1 today.

I know right, where did that year go?

It has been an amazing year.

The same but different. There is certainly something to be said for ‘second time around parenting’.

So much more in the moment, appreciative and RELAXED about things.

Maybe it’s the state of shock you are in first time around?

Maybe you were busy trying to forge your way in the world, working hard to put a meal on the table, let alone pay off the mortgage.

From the first hold when she was minutes old and stared into my soul, to the big moments like “Dadda and Mumma”, crawling and the first few steps.

Even the moments when you can’t help but chuckle, because even though she blew a raspberry with a gob full of yoghurt and berries all over your face, she followed it up with a cheeky grin to melt your heart. I have loved every second of it.

I think our relaxed and happy home has rubbed off on Maddy, either that or we are just lucky.

She’s a very content wee bubba and has been an awesome sleeper since she was a couple of months old. Touch wood!

And that ladies and gentlemen is an excellent segue into this.

I had an interesting response to a Talky Bit on my Facebook page this week.

It was on the back of a story I came across about a South African paediatrician who has suggested babies should share their mother’s bed until they are at least three years old.

Dr Nils Bergman, of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, believes they should sleep on their mother’s chest for the first

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few weeks after birth.

Then they should stay in bed with their mother, and, I’m assuming, the father, unless of course he’s been banished to the doghouse, until they are at least three years old.

According to Bergman, sharing their mother’s bed would enable them to bond and improve behaviour as they grew up.

He monitored 16 babies and found that the hearts of babies who slept alone in a cot were three times more likely to be under stress. He also found that the sleep of babies in cots was more likely to be disrupted.

Dr Bergman’s advice flies in the face of that offered by many other experts who fear that sharing a bed could increase the risk of cot death.

However, he defended it, saying, “When babies are smothered and suffer cot deaths, it is not because their mother is present.”

“It is because of other things: toxic fumes, cigarettes, alcohol, big pillows and dangerous toys,” he said.

So I asked the question – what did locals think of the idea? I was expecting 95 per cent of the responses to be ‘hell, no’ or something similar.

There were a few along those lines, like Alden’s “that doctor obviously never had kids”.

Then there were several like Debbie who said “Not for me! But whatever gets everybody sleep I guess”.

I was surprised to read quite

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LETTERS a few positive comments like Aimee’s “Severe sleep deprivation with baby number 1 ‘sleeping’ in own bed. Baby number 2 sleeps in own bed during the day but overnight with me. Almost no wake-ups and when they do happen we latch on for a laying down feed and go back to sleep.

This has been happening for hundreds of years. Our culture dictates children be seen and not heard. Independent from day dot. In terms of historical parenting this is all very recent.

Bed sharers are simply doing what was done when mothering was instinct based rather than based on what we are told should be done”.

Elen “Hoops, it is an area of science being studied at Notre Dame Uni, Dr McKenna is an expert. Cultures that bed share safely have a decreased rate of

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SUDI (sudden unexplained death of an infant) and better breastfeeding rates. There was also another study published in the last couple of years that showed that mums who bedshare and breastfeed get 40 more mins sleep a night”.

I’m sure that last sentence will resonate with most parents in one way or another.

I think Cathie hit the nail on the head, “I don’t personally hold with ‘should’ do anything.

If families find the ‘right’ way for them, that’s the way to go”.

Till next week, hoo roo.

Phill Hooper – proud Dad. Phill Hooper is the breakfast host of Ashburton’s Hokonui radio station. The views expressed in this column are his and do not reflect the opinion of his employer or the Ashburton Guardian.

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Govt wants well-being measured Finance Minister Grant Robertson wants to go beyond mere dollars and cents to measure the government’s success in the 2019 budget, tasking the Treasury to develop a world-first framework.

The public will get a taste of where the government wants to move when it changes the Public Finance Act as part of its 100-days programme to show how many children have been lifted out of poverty in next May’s budget.

However, Robertson said that’s an entree for what will be “a major change in the way we identify what is success in this economy”.

“This is world-leading work, but it is important work as well that we get on and do it,” he said.

“For budget 2019 we should be in a position to be able to report the measure of success and indeed identify priorities for spending in line with the living standards framework.”

The Treasury started developing a living standards framework under former secretary John Whitehead, formalising the way officials weigh up social and environmental impacts as opposed to the ad hoc methods previously.

That’s been tinkered with over the past six years, and in the fi-

nal Treasury guest lecture of the year, current secretary Gabriel Makhlouf said on Wednesday that the department will produce a series of discussion papers in February focusing on further defining the four capitals it sees as measuring society: natural capital, social capital, human capital and finan-

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interconnects and when you tug on one end it distorts the shape in other places,” Makhlouf said.

The Treasury wants to hear from people in the “academic and practitioner communities” to help fill the gaps in its knowledge across the four types of capital, and Makhlouf said no one organisation

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cial/physical capital.

“Thinking about the four capitals together – and some of the policy issues associated with each of them – you start to see from an economic policy perspective, how it’s a bit like playing that string game Cat’s Cradle which many of us played as children: everything

will be able to answer all the questions.

“Weaving the LSF into public policy provides a significant opportunity for the Treasury and the wider policy community,” he said.

“It is another leap of thinking and we want to stay at the leading edge through working together with others to develop new frameworks that redefine how we design and deliver policy.”

Robertson said there aren’t any international models deep enough for what the government wants to achieve, but says Treasury is “up to the challenge”.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development released its 2017 well-being measure overnight, which showed New Zealand continued to perform well across a number of indicators.

While the homicide rate was low relative to its peers, only 65 per cent of people said they felt safe walking at night compared to the OECD average of 69 per cent.

The government’s plan to measure against a wider set of wellbeing indicators is part of its governing agreement with the Green Party to commit to work on new sustainable development measures.

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he Santa Rally appears to have arrived this week, with most markets rising.

December is traditionally the best month of the year for markets with the S&P500 averaging a gain of 1.62 per cent in December and showing a positive result 75 per cent of the time. However, 2017 has already been an exceptional year for markets.

The NZX50 has had 11 consecutive months of gains and, for the year to date, has climbed more than 20 per cent. Could this December buck the trend and see a negative result, or will the NZX50 continue to climb higher?

The US Federal Reserve raised the Fed Funds rate to between 1.25 per cent and 1.00 per cent.

This was the third rate hike for the year. Chairwoman Janet Yellen reiterated the path for interest rates for the next couple of years, with the Fed expected to raise rates three times in 2018 and again in 2019.

However, this is the second to last meeting with Yellen as Chair with Jerome Powell set to takeover in February. Although Powell is viewed as being sympathetic to the current path, analysts will be looking to February’s forecasts for more information.

Also in the US, the results from the Alabama Senate race has seen Democrat Doug Jones take the seat. The vote was close, however, Republican candidate Roy Moore was pipped at the post after a controversial campaign. The Alabama seat is a traditional safe haven for Republicans and the vote is seen as setback to President Donald Trump.

Ryman Healthcare announced that it has purchased a site in Karori Wellington as the site for a new retirement village. It pur-

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chased the site from Victoria University for an undisclosed sum, however it has an estimated worth of $20 million.

Westfield Australia has agreed to a takeover bid from European rival Unibail-Rodamco for $A32.7 billion. The purchase will add to the already impressive portfolio, creating a global property giant with 104 malls in 27 retail markets.

The market reaction was very positive, with the Westfield share price rising more than 13 per cent.

EBOS Group announced that long time CEO Patrick Davis would be stepping down from the position in March next year, surprising the market. However, Chairman Mark Waller has said that the company had been working on a succession plan, and current CFO John Cullity will take over.

This seemed to start a trend with fellow NZX50 components, Metro Performance Glass and a2 Milk both announcing that their respective CEOs were stepping down.

Metro Performance Glass’ CEO and Executive Director Nigel Rigby will step down, as at March 31, however the board has not named a successor. Geoff Babidge from a2 Milk will retire in 2018 to be replaced by former CEO of Jetstar, Jayne Hrdlicka.

The housing market continued to stabilise in November, from the look of the latest Real Estate Institute numbers.

The house price index (HPI), a more reliable indicator of market trends, was down marginally (-0.3 per cent) in November for Auckland, while the annual change is sitting at 0.3 per cent.

Outside of Auckland, the HPI was up 0.8 per cent for the month and has risen 6.7 per cent for the last 12 months. National sales volumes (after seasonal adjustments) were up 4.5 per cent compared to last month, although remain 9.2 per cent lower than this time last year. All regions, except the West Coast, saw sales volume increase in comparison to October.

Two key local economic releases in the week ahead include the latest ANZ Business Outlook survey, as well as the latest monthly migration numbers.

After the collapse in confidence last month, it will be interesting to see if businesses have found any holiday spirit as we head into the final days of the year.

The latest migration figures will also be important, especially given the political focus on immigration. Last month, monthly net migration increased slightly but remained well below the peak.

On an annual basis, net migration slowed to 70,410, the lowest since December 2016 but still significantly above the 20-year average of 18,500.

Despite a rebound in October, the overall migration trend has been down. The three-month moving average has been falling since the peak in late 2016, and is at the lowest levels in more than two years.

Jeremy Flood works for Craigs Investment Partners.

This article should not be deemed as advice. Disclosure statement available free of charge and on request.

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C Johnson 9 0760 Sulcifera (4) 56.5 Champion/Murphy J Morris 1

6 22858 Frazzle (2) 56.5 A Carston

J Laking 10 8X008 Minnie Pins (10) 55 Michael & Nikki White 7 90X5X Befiftytwo (8) 56.5 C Black 1 H Bennet (a3) 3:07PM DUNEDIN PRINT 4 8 Our Frankie (3) 56.5 Champion/Murphy S Wynne OPT 704 $10,000, Rating 60 Benchmark*, 1200m 9 Faux Pas (1) 56.5 S Robertson T Moseley 1

Good Choice SCRATCHED 10 Madame Brigitte (15) 56.5 F Hurst J Morris

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REAL CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 1600

$11,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1600m PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer Jockey OPT

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1 9X2X Good Intentions (12) 58.5 Sanders/Sweeney M Cameron 3 2 0X2 Heat Seeker (4) 58.5 J Dalley B Morgenrood 2 1 12154. Pacquiao (2) 59 Richardson/Parker R Elliot (a1) 2 3 3 Wordofmouth (8) 58.5 P McKay S McKay (a) 3 2 0X127. Joe Cargo (1) 56.5 P Stevens S Collett 4 X4436 Fabio (1) 58.5 R Priscott R Elliot (a1) 3 53186. Sasanof’s Hero (6) 56.5 J Collett T Abel (a4) 5 48 Clarios (5) 58.5 S Dowling C Lammas 4 4 41X15 Viktor Vegas (5) 56.5 Baker/Forsman M Cameron 6 0X47X No Doubt A Star (15) 58.5 T Da Cruz J Nason (a2) 1 5 83131. Dr Hank (3) 56 P Hollinshead M McNab 7 Keyser Soze (7) 58.5 O'Sullivan/Scott M McNab 6 55232 Pasabahce (9) 55 G & D Rogerson T Thornton 8 5X0 Del Boy (9) 58.5 Hanley/Whiting D Prastiyou 7 2X647 Uabasso (7) 54.5 C Evans C Lammas 1 9 3523X Silver Cloud (6) 56.5 Ramsay/Ritchie D Johnson 8 07X81 Link Road (8) 54.5 J Price S Weatherley (a) 10 304X2 Nuttee (3) 56.5 M Brosnan S Collett 9 13X57. Dangerous Pony (10) 54 S Ritchie D Johnson 11 60X34 Our Showgirl (13) 56.5 Moroney/Gerard P Moloney 10 9X867 Donna Anne Billy (4) 54 B Pomare J Nason (a2) 4 12 36 Goodnight Irene (10) 56.5 P & J Brosnan A Jones 13 Situla Star SCRATCHED 6. Lady Linwood (2) 55 F Ritchie T Thornton 3:27PM ICON SECURITY SYSTEMS 1200 MAIDEN 14 15 Riptyne SCRATCHED $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1200m OPT 102 0 16 Monreith Moyra (11) 56.5 L Somervell V Gatu 2 1 2X Le Brassus (10) 57.5 M Brooks S Collett 0 17 0X Wilson (14) 58.5 C Mortimer 1 1 2 3 Gothenburg (12) 57.5 D Guy M Coleman 18 Kasey Belle SCRATCHED 3 26X7 Come In Spinner (8) 57.5 T Pike 19 Bits And Pieces SCRATCHED 3 4 4 Sokitome (11) 57.5 T Autridge T Thornton 20 Sokitome SCRATCHED 5 Double Jay Dee’z (13) 57.5 J Dalley B Morgenrood 4:36 PM VISION FRESH-WORKING WITH KIWI GROWERS 1400 6 2X3X Bits And Pieces (7) 55.5 K & B Kelso C Lammas MDN $10,000, MDN F&M, 1400m 4 7 88X2 Fastellie (9) 55.5 A Fuller 1 J Nason (a2) OPT 104 8

Iffida SCRATCHED 1 6X22X Hinerangi (3) 57.5 Baker/Forsman M Cameron 2 9 8X6. Expedition (3) 55.5 P Stevens Kariokka SCRATCHED A Jones 1 3 3. La Estrella (6) 57.5 Moroney/Gerard 10 67. Dama Zorro (6) 55.5 D Greene P Moloney M McNab 4 4 X39X3 Secret Dreams (5) 57.5 G Brick 11 M Vance Eager Beaver (2) 55.5 B Hawtin R Elliot (a1) 12 C Lammas Le Castile (5) 55.5 M Blackie 1 M Cameron 5 6545X Don’t Lie To Me (1) 57.5 Richardson/Parker

13 0 Regal Assassin (1) 55.5 J Pender 1 6 X9266 Inverness (11) 57.5 K Hinton D Hain A Collett 14 S Collett Tenacious (4) 55.5 Moroney/Gerard P Moloney 7 6306X Shesallraaj (15) 57.5 M Blackie 1 15 2 8 46637 Unusual Achiever (8) 57.5 G & D Rogerson R Elliot (a1)

Rox The Castle SCRATCHED 16 9

Vendella SCRATCHED Dazed And Confused SCRATCHED

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25643 Classy Witch 31.03 36485 Homebush Ragna 30.47 1474 Gotcha Rocky nwtd 37257 Culvie Yogi nwtd 56645 Bossy Affair nwtd

2:23PM

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82445 Know Salute 17.29 41618 Gotcha Majenta 17.55 21367 Magma 17.60 34651 Ohoka Tyler 17.39 84577 Homebush Banker 17.41 45752 Idol Star 17.50 82368 Ester Action 17.52 74811 Chop Shop 17.32 55167 Gordy Junior 17.51 24646 Culvie Jay Dee 17.53

G Cleeve J T McInerney C Weir Hart & Taylor L Waretini

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

4 5 KOLORFUL KANVAS DASH 6 3 7 $1,685, C2, 295m 1 8 G Cleeve C Weir 9 R Casey 10 L Waretini J T McInerney R Wales S & B Evans J T McInerney McCook & Jopson Hart & Taylor

Compiled by

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

34434 Goldstar Dodge 30.72 14552 Know Other 31.21 53121 Goldstar Ashton 30.45 15612 Full Speed 30.31 52111 Dream Kay 30.29 25643 Classy Witch 31.03 18214 Jacinda 30.72

3:34PM

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S & B Evans G Cleeve S & B Evans B Dann R Wales G Cleeve B Dann

AMBER CLEANING SERVICES SPRINT $1,450, C1, 295m

1 27476 Lonely Baxter 17.61 2 J T McInerney 4 2 25548 Know Dollars 17.63 G Cleeve 3 52175 Zip Zap Zoe nwtd J T McInerney 4 57317 White Not Wong 17.53 McCook & Jopson 5 56235 Fiery Jen 17.61 B Dann 3

6 13222 Homebush Hundy nwtd J T McInerney MURRAY WIGLEY @ RAY WHITE PH021480250 2:41PM 1

7 33331 Lisa’s Boy 17.24 R Casey STAKES $2,505, C1, 520m S & B Evans 1 63136 Goldstar Liberty 31.16 S & B Evans 8 56414 Goldstar Bindi 17.89

9 51741 Opawa Jumper 17.17 R Wales 4 2 64123 Sozin’s Fortune nwtd J T McInerney K Cassidy 3 3 55121 Darlek Ian nwtd J T McInerney 10 63628 Bursar 17.40 4 43745 Know Leave 30.90 G Cleeve DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH 5 38774 Opawa Extreme 30.48 R Wales 3:52PM $1,450, C1, 295m 2 6 18214 Jacinda 30.72 B Dann 2 1 21178 Chief Doug 17.55 J T McInerney 1 7 5611 Jinja Stinger 30.78 J & D Fahey 4 2 33725 Homebush Patriot nwtd J T McInerney 8 18758 Arcane Sabre 30.35 McCook & Jopson 3 82434 Belfast Delanie 17.59 Hart & Taylor 9 37257 Culvie Yogi nwtd Hart & Taylor 4 27413 Gotcha Penny nwtd J T McInerney 10 73784 Goldstar Renee 31.73 S & B Evans 5 51866 Billy Frost 17.61 M K Dempsey 1 6 58233 Fired Up Jed nwtd B Dann GLENBYRE TAVERN SPRINT 2:58PM 3 7 22866 Abacus Magic 17.68 L Waretini $1,685, C2, 295m

8 67687 Opawa Sledge nwtd R Wales 3 1 33245 On Edge 17.71 J T McInerney S & B Evans 1 2 82351 Star Bucking 17.34 J T McInerney 9 15255 Lavarno 17.72

10 5871 Mitcham Moody 17.57 A Bradshaw 4 3 33248 Sweet As Brad 17.41 R Blackburn 4 86154 Goldstar Scout 17.50 S & B Evans PROTEXIN SPRINT 5 86345 Road Block 17.49 A Joyce 4:09PM $1,450, C1, 295m 6 26253 Ohoka Angel 17.41 A Waretini 4 1 83821 Kushka 17.69 Hart & Taylor 2 7 83414 Know Approval 17.32 G Cleeve 1 2 75884 Jinja Cream Fizz 17.27 A Joyce 8 67556 Tip The Babe 17.44 R Casey 3 74687 Goldstar Linkin 17.52 S & B Evans 9 55167 Gordy Junior 17.51 McCook & Jopson 3 4 43321 Mertz nwtd J T McInerney 10 64583 Homebush Kelso 17.04 J T McInerney 5 3781 Sozin’s Roar 17.77 J T McInerney DURASTEEL STRUCTURES PH033796195 STAKES 6 65432 Verbena 17.52 K Cassidy 3:17PM 2 7 73136 Epic Mango 17.18 FINAL $2,700, C1f, 520m McCook & Jopson 4 1 45123 Majestic Action 30.00 S & B Evans 8 61265 Homebush Austin 17.48 J T McInerney 2 12331 Hilton Hangover nwtd A Bradshaw 9 51741 Opawa Jumper 17.17 R Wales 2 3 43331 Inter Oblivion 30.32

S & B Evans 10 34881 Miss Dupre 17.39 B Dann

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Cabernet (12) 55 B & S Anderton 1 Smile (5) 55 M & M Pitman Heberite (6) 57 B & S Anderton 1 Mrs Gee Eye (7) 56.5 Michael & Nikki White Qashqai (13) 57 R McKenzie Ygritte (10) 55 B Verlinden 1 Mystical Eyes 0X Dreaming Easy (16) 55 S Tyler 1

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J Lowry (a) P Shaikh (a2)

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 4-5-6-7-8-9

9 67. Always On Call (10) 57.5 T Kennedy 1 10 520 Aquazurra (14) 56 M & M Pitman 11 69X83 Raven Darkholme (15) 56 N Wigley 12 3X050 Turbulence (8) 56 B & S Anderton 1 77 Chelsea Blue (2) 56 T Kennedy 1 SCRATCHED 13 14 Mossy Creek (3) 56 B & S Anderton 1 0

15 80X Wholelotarosie (6) 57.5 T Kennedy 1 CONTRACT WILD ANIMAL CONTROL LTD Aunty Alice $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 16

1 3X330 Galway Garry (10) 59 K Tyler 3 2

Road To Redemption 2 3 86154 Lay Off (1) 58 J & K Parsons 1 4 16686 Queen Serene (4) 58 M & M Pitman 5 90X97 Majic El (6) 57.5 C Anderton 1 6 00408 The Kraken (9) 57.5 M Stevenson 1 7 60X90 Bushido (7) 57 J & K Parsons 4 8 0X005 Bachata (5) 56.5 S Cameron 9 56998 Justice Well (8) 56 A Carston 10 300X0 Greta Valley (2) 55.5 A Dickson 11 6X070 Diorissimo (3) 55 Sarah & Matthew Smith

K Kwo (a3) SCRATCHED R Beeharry (a4) A Morgan (a1) S Wynne S Muniandy C Johnson L Callaway C Barnes T Moseley C Campbell (a3)

6:06PM OPT 709

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Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Dead; Direction: Righthanded; Length: 1800m; Straight: 350m; Rail: Rail out 5.5m; Weather: Mainly Fine

10 Aniceta (7) 57.5 K Zimmerman 11 Fluken 3 12 6X4 Amanjena (12) 56 S Marsh 13 Chill (9) 56 D Guy 14 Barzellar (2) 56 O'Sullivan/Scott 0 15 0 Isabella Gunn (13) 57.5 J Kofoed 0 16 000X8 Shindee (4) 57.5 J McKay 0 17 0X0X0. Love The View (14) 57.5 B Hawtin 0 18 Elle Eye Are (10) 56 Baker/Forsman

T Thornton SCRATCHED D Johnson M Coleman S Weatherley (a) M Hills R Jones G Cooksley

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6 5:48PM OPT 106

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MERRY CHRISTMAS DUNEDIN MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1600m

1 732X3 Itemize (7) 58.5 B & S Anderton 1 3 2 2 42244 Leuluai (17) 58.5 Charles/Corbett 3 30X92 Mac Murdoch (4) 58.5 J Dalton 4 8X63. Aboli (8) 58.5 T Kennedy 1 4 5 0X373. Cowboys Dont Cry (10) 58.5 P Robson 6 6539X Satin Flag (9) 58.5 B & S Anderton 1 7 75X46 Beam Me Up Scotty (2) 58.5 J Dalton 8 X7X55 Dad’s Brother (1) 58.5 J Dalton 9 75 The Publican (11) 58.5 Bros/Dennis 5:32PM NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE MAIDEN 10 9X Adventurine (3) 58.5 S Tyler 1 OPT 708 $12,000, MDN F&M, 1400m 11 0 Spanky (13) 58.5 S Prince 1 1 12 X5232 Los Cabos (5) 56.5 Kennedy/Furlong 1 1 39X2 Odalisque (4) 57.5 J & K Parsons C Johnson Sapphon (16) 56.5 A Hoffman 1 3 2 230X0 Per Form (9) 57.5 P Gray K Kwo (a3) 13 4 3 29X Crispin (1) 57.5 B & S Anderton 1 C Campbell (a3) 14 046 Dark Poppy (18) 55 Champion/Murphy 0

1 5 09X67 Al Be Civics (14) 58.5 S Cameron 2 4 X3439. Tatum (5) 57.5 Kennedy/Furlong J Laking 0 16 967X Park Lane (15) 58.5 A Hoffman 1 5 38X6 Lil Miss Swiss (13) 57.5 K Tyler K Kalychurun 0 17 8X89X Flag Duty (12) 58.5 B & S Anderton 1 6 360 Splendior (11) 57.5 Sarah & Matthew Smith T Moseley 0 18 X70X0. Jandles (6) 56.5 T Kennedy 1 7 6X440 Sweet Chastity (7) 57.5 Harris/Moore K Williams 19 Zah Wanted 8 5655X Papina (12) 57.5 J & K Parsons R Beeharry (a4) 20 Chelsea Blue

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C Barnes T Jonker (a3) K Mudhoo (a1) C Johnson L Callaway J Lowry (a) S Wynne D Bothamley K Kalychurun R Firdhaus (a2) S Muniandy J Laking H Bennet (a3)

SCRATCHED SCRATCHED

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 4-5-6-7-8-9 YOUNG READ WOUDBERG CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 2100 $10,000, R65 Benchmark*, 2100m

1 00X01 Rosso Corsa (7) 59.5 J Bell 2 M Cameron 2 66415 Battle Royal (5) 58.5 V Prendergast J Fawcett (a3) 3 Darci Deniro SCRATCHED 4 11X00 Brookbars (2) 58 B McKeagg 1 J Nason (a2) 1 5 X1440 Rodmar (4) 58 S Ritchie M Vance 6 6X020 Defer (9) 57.5 P Mirabelli S Collett 5:13PM ST PATRICK’S DAY RACES-SATURDAY 17/3 1400 MAIDEN 3 7 05039 Affogato (3) 57 R Wells M Hills 8 Hot In High Heels SCRATCHED $10,000, MDN, 1400m OPT 105 4 9 419 Ivy’s Court (6) 56.5 J Bell O Bosson 1 1 24X Boomerang (1) 58.5 R James L Innes 10 40094 Touch Of Silver (8) 56.5 M/Rogers G Cooksley 2 Leonardo SCRATCHED 11 Ascomanni SCRATCHED 3 33X6 Ming’s Emperor (14) 58.5 House/Douglas G Cooksley 12 5X507 Marshal (1) 54.5 Sanders/Sweeney S Weatherley (a) 3 4 43575. Suffice To Say (4) 58.5 G & D Rogerson R Elliot (a1) 5 6640X Plimmer (5) 58.5 P McKay S Collett 6:25PM KIWIFRUIT INVESTMENTS LIMITED 1400 6 080X5 Amen Corner (9) 58.5 K Coxon C Lammas $11,000, Rating 70 Benchmark, 1400m 7 Corleone (15) 58.5 A Campbell D Johnson OPT 107 8 75X Von Zipp (13) 58.5 P Mirabelli J Nason (a2) J Fawcett (a3) 1 3211X Captain Cavalier (9) 58.5 J Pender 1 2 9 662 The Swiss Maestro (6) 57 C Cameron D Johnson S McKay (a) 2 35019 Two Thirty (8) 58.5 S & E Clotworthy 2

10 3487 Finvara (2) 57 Sanders/Sweeney 3 55232 Pasabahce (11) 57.5 G & D Rogerson T Thornton 11 1 4 X24X1 Miss Horotiu (5) 57 K & B Kelso

The Mayor SCRATCHED M Coleman 12 0 Master Painton (8) 57 Autridge/Richards O Bosson 5 03X87 Ruby Armani (4) 57 Moroney/Gerard P Moloney 13 6 Swissky (10) 57 Baker/Forsman 4 6 6X584 Beauty’s Rose (2) 56.5 O'Sullivan/Scott S Weatherley (a) M Cameron 4 14 40X4 Marquita Miss (7) 56.5 K Zimmerman M Du Plessis 7 4749X Tavis Star (3) 56.5 Autridge/Richards T Newman (a4) 0 15 757 Mastaplaza (11) 57 Sanders/Sweeney A Collett 8 37561 Orange Shore (10) 55 P McKay 0 16 057X Riptyne (12) 58.5 J Pender 1 3 9 431X0. Raspberry Sweet (12) 54 Richardson/Parker D Prastiyou S Weatherley (a) 0 17 8. The Magnate (3) 58.5 R James M Coleman 10 X10X8 She’s Flossie (1) 54 A Fuller 1 A Jones 18 11

Taringamotu SCRATCHED Stacey Ann SCRATCHED 0 19 57X08. Flying Trapeze (16) 58.5 Richardson/Parker 12 800X0 Kaharoa Rose (6) 54 J Pender 1 A Collett 0 20 9908X Mighty Colombo (17) 58.5 C Mortimer 1 13 90X07 Precision Miss (7) 54 Richardson/Parker R Elliot (a1)

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Continued December 15, 2017

10 6X984 Anevay (15) 55.5 G Old 1 11 53655 En Soie (4) 55.5 Richardson/Parker $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1600m 3 1 5X536 Cassio (12) 57.5 G & D Rogerson T Thornton 12 0X4 Luxe (14) 55.5 E & D Browne Mark Two (2) 55.5 S Marsh 2 2 4. Executive Power (7) 57.5 L Brennan S Collett 13 0 Valotia (5) 55.5 Autridge/Richards 4 3 54 St Andre (10) 57.5 R James M Coleman 14 0 15 0 The Good Fight (8) 57.5 S Ritchie 4 Curious George (11) 57.5 J Bell P Moloney 0 16 79 Sunburst (16) 55.5 D Guy 5 He’s Unforgettable (13) 57.5 R James S Weatherley (a) 17 Spectra 6 9 Just Warrior (3) 57.5 S Barr B Morgenrood 0 18 777 Salient (9) 55.5 Sanders/Sweeney 7 King Of The Dance SCRATCHED

19 Counting Crows 8 6 Sacred Party (1) 57.5 T Pike L Innes 9 5620 Replica (6) 55.5 Baker/Forsman M Cameron 6:58PM OPT 108

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33266 Opawa Blair 17.53 28586 Minder 17.83 82256 Bigtime Danger 17.85 11484 Cawbourne Pottsy 17.58 23437 Culvie Den 17.80 16112 Who’s John Galt 17.82 33282 Mitsuta 17.63 42534 Pat Patterson 17.77 12738 Ndora 17.81 26558 Bella Jade 17.89

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Ross/Voyce L Cole J T McInerney W Kite J & D Bell M Flipp N Udy L Bell D Edlin S Stone

J P PRINT PETONE C2

76165 Lil Diva nwtd 17261 Bigtime Break 17.57 53165 Opawa Crusade nwtd 73658 Kalisi 17.71 32675 Brilliant Jayla 17.53 85371 Niamh’s Way 17.81 25511 Lightning Lu 17.83 26478 Cawbourne Looks 17.75 12738 Ndora 17.81 67556 It’s The Lovely 17.58

5:03PM

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Today at Hatrick Raceway

ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C2

56241 Jinja Coll 17.59 14511 Bigtime Bev 17.70 47686 Holly Blue Blood 17.64 21254 Al’s Apprentice 17.59 48512 Thrilling Mia 17.61 66217 If It Fitz 17.74 62443 Brighteye’s Soul 17.79 13655 Wetchester 17.77 12738 Ndora 17.81 76675 Act Naturally 18.28

4:45PM

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Wanganui Dogs $1,685, C2, 305m Trainer

PX # REC Greyhound Fastest time

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A Collett R Elliot (a1) J Nason (a2) D Johnson M McNab O Bosson

KIWI BUS BUILDERS 1600 MAIDEN

J T McInerney L Cole M Flipp N Udy P C Morris P Blanche S & C Blackburn J & D Bell D Edlin K Gommans

5:24PM

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SCRATCHED

December 15, 2017

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26847 Spare Some Time 30.01 47142 Cawbourne Symsy nwtd 31181 Thrilling Eddie 30.13 28235 Bigtime Rise 30.11 F7367 Bigtime Dazzler 30.44 61264 Golden Pixel 30.50 44648 Bigtime Fred 30.29 11216 Cawbourne Toddy 30.46 81857 Bigtime Wild 30.42 84657 Bigtime Welldone 29.88

5:54PM

SCRATCHED

$3,325, C2/3, 520m

L Cole J & D Bell M Gowan L Cole L Cole G Hodgson L Cole M Roberts L Cole L Cole

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21724 Bigtime Shaker 17.56 34621 Hypocritical 17.32 11237 So Over It 17.49 21266 Kirkham Kylie 17.51 13136 Homebush Minnie 17.61 32512 Bigtime Stu 17.48 82832 Scooter’s Rose 17.47 21175 Vee Marina 17.71 32545 He Can Yodel nwtd 24187 Cawbourne Mezza 17.41

A Turnwald J & D Bell M Roberts

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Alexandra Park Harness Today at Alexandra Park

December 15, 2017

HR FISKEN & SONS LTD HANDICAP TROT

$20,000, 3YO+ R50–R58, 2200m

1 510 Kotare Cullen (1) R Dunn 2 2 02221 Conway Beach (2) Purdon/Rasmussen 3 X1062 Bare Knuckle (3) Purdon/Rasmussen 4 4 79223 Hail Christian (4) P Court 5 American Empress 6 8X422 Lerato (5) B Purdon

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Barrier

9 83815 Djokovic (21) L Chin 10 3X114 Bordeaux (22) P Iggo 11 41465 Commander Paris (23) Wallis/Hackett 12 84653 Eyre I Come (24) Wallis/Hackett 3 13 15713 Kyvalley Blur (25) B Lilley 1 14 X221X Speeding Spur (26) J & J Dickie

Invercargill Races Tomorrow at Ascot Park

SOUTHERN INSULATION HANDICAP

$22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2500m PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer Jockey OPT

1 32201 Sebring Dragon (2) 59 Charles/Corbett 2 3 2 X4214 Beethoven (10) 58.5 L Beck 1 3 X9542 Slammer (8) 58.5 B & S Anderton 4 4 X5360 Gazza The Guru (5) 58 S McKay 1 5 619X7 Point Proven (1) 57.5 G Wright 6 77610 Erin’s Babe (13) 56.5 B & S Anderton 7 10X00 Perceptive (6) 56.5 B & S Anderton 8 05410 Sunset Girl (4) 56.5 Harris/Moore 9 00156. Rock Solid (3) 56 J Gordon 1 10 F6680 The Energizer (11) 56 K Tyler 11 62589 The Quiet Man (9) 55.5 S Blair-Edie 12 5X470 Tapilize (12) 54 K & I Taplin 0 13 77X67 Lady Lindauer (7) 54 S Tyler 14 Mystery Man

J Laking S Wynne J Lowry (a) T Moseley K Kwo (a3) C Campbell (a3) C Barnes K Williams K Mudhoo (a1) K Kalychurun A Bohorun (a4) G Jogoo (a1) R Firdhaus (a2) SCRATCHED

December 16, 2017

9 50 Supagili (15) 57 S Cameron 4 10 Johnny Come Lately (7) 57 L Vaughan 1 11 X4640 Dezzies Delight (13) 56.5 S Kirkland 1 12 8X842 Missing Hazard (10) 56.5 S McKay 1 13 Aunty Alice 14 Carol’s Cheval (14) 55 S McKay 1 0 15 Stephanie (16) 56.5 K Cairns 16 Mowenna 0 17 0X580 Tap Dis (9) 56.5 K & I Taplin 0 18 67X86 El Famoso (3) 56.5 S McKay 1 0 19 576X8 Gun Law (1) 56.5 J Curran 1 0 20 09X67 Al Be Civics (5) 58.5 S Cameron 2:09PM 604

OPT

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L Chin D Dunn T Mitchell B Mangos T Williams J I Dickie

K Mudhoo (a1) S Wynne R Firdhaus (a2) SCRATCHED T Moseley K Kwo (a3) SCRATCHED K Williams

NIGEL ROBERTSON BUILDING HANDICAP

$25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m

1 3153X Ablaze (8) 61 B & S Anderton 4 J Lowry (a) 1 2 X4261 Raise You Ten (9) 61 B & S Anderton C Campbell (a3) 3 386X0 Flying Sardine (3) 58.5 K Tyler K Kwo (a3) S Muniandy 12:59PM INVERCARGILL LICENSING TRUST HANDICAP 4 72386 Gold’nguru (4) 57 L Beck 3 5 19102 Wild Jack (7) 57 S Blair-Edie A Bohorun (a4) OPT 602 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1100m 2 6 311X2 All Black Magic (1) 56.5 A Schwarz L Callaway 2 1 83X46 Tickets On Her (4) 59 J & K Parsons G Jogoo (a1)

7 0X213 Katango (5) 54.5 B Laking

S Toolooa (a4) 1 2 36371. Macy (5) 58 T Kennedy S Muniandy

8 34585 Docket (2) 54.5 B Tapper

K Williams 3 Mia Mamma SCRATCHED K Kalychurun 3 4 8X117 Nightcap (6) 57.5 Bros/Dennis K Kalychurun 9 X9180 It’s Pandemonium (6) 54 K Tyler 5 5944X All Dressed Up (3) 56.5 J Gordon 1 R Firdhaus (a2) 2:49PM SHEET METALCRAFT HANDICAP 4 6 00260 Ellerstina (2) 54 Charles/Corbett K Mudhoo (a1) OPT 605 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 7 500X0 Supatwista (1) 54 B Tapper K Williams 4 1 77X1 Fulltothebrim (1) 59 B Laking J Laking 1:34PM VERSATILE HOMES & BUILDINGS MAIDEN 2 2 X0173 Napoleon Dynamite (4) 58.5 G Tippett T Moseley OPT 603 $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 3 62X05 Pippi Rea (3) 58.5 J & K Parsons G Jogoo (a1) 1 1 59432 Edward (8) 58.5 C Anderton R Cuneen J Lowry (a) 4 0167X Friar Tuck (7) 57.5 B Howden 3 5 8X271 Feisty Jane (9) 57 M Daly 3 2 0X02 Get Rythm (2) 58.5 S Blair-Edie K Williams A Bohorun (a4) 3 X86X4 Drumroyal (12) 58.5 L Beck S Muniandy 6 17X08 Flavouring (6) 57 S Cameron 4 45X Midnite Kaos (6) 58.5 A Dickson D Bothamley L Callaway 7 1800X Our Charlie (12) 57 L Vaughan 1 2 5 8X368 Tussock (11) 58.5 J & K Parsons L Callaway G Jogoo (a1) 8 6100X Taponisme (11) 57 K & I Taplin

6 45X70 Coatncollar (4) 58.5 J Yeo 1 9 X9180 It’s Pandemonium (2) 56 K Tyler

K Kalychurun D Bothamley 7

Zah Wanted SCRATCHED 10 X2559 Knutquacker (5) 55.5 E Winsloe S Wynne 8 6 Rock Master (17) 57 S McKay 1 S Toolooa (a4) 11 X8642 Oh So Smart (8) 55 B Tapper K Mudhoo (a1)

2 3

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

75164 You’re The Best 17.90 33777 All In Berlin 17.44 13445 Watch Your Back 17.86 52883 Uno Nathan 17.77 75831 Celestial Action 17.82 67737 Bigtime George 17.65 21277 Mikachu 17.82 12738 Ndora 17.81 88817 Mary Blue Blood 17.70

7:20PM

7:51PM

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5

3

1 34778 Doubtless Princess (15) 59 G & D Rogerson R Elliot (a1) 2

Tobi SCRATCHED 3 Rainbow Song SCRATCHED 4 19X57 Sovereign Prince (9) 58.5 Sanders/Sweeney M Coleman 2 5 07X33 Tavigarde (7) 58 G & D Rogerson S Collett 6 0X007 Black Lace (12) 57.5 N Bishara T Wenn (a3) 4 7 X7X17 Poppy Star (13) 57.5 T Pike M McNab 8 92920 Its A Kinda Magic (4) 57 P & J Brosnan J Nason (a2) 9 56610 Marissa (11) 57 S Ralph J Fawcett (a3)

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N Udy B Marsh W Kite M Flipp K Gommans L Cole A Turnwald D Edlin J T McInerney

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B Mitchell M Goodier J & D Bell J & D Bell N Udy L Doody L Cole L Cole L Cole Howe/Woods

5

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

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8:52PM

L Cole L Cole L Cole M Roberts L Cole M Roberts

WANGANUI TOYOTA C4 $2,390, C4, 305m

1 42526 Bigtime Redfoo 17.52 2 2 57187 Bigtime Champ 17.66 3 X8521 Cheap Shot Matty 17.41 4 1454P Bigtime Mark 17.60 5 71676 Kirkham Jasper 17.60 4 6 55646 Allegro Lass 17.50 7 32643 Daisy Lara 17.35 1 8 77472 Bear Inda Square 17.29 CHRISTMAS AT THE RACES DASH C3 3 9 78828 Harry Brown 17.48 $2,035, C3, 305m J T McInerney 10 78748 Kirkham Webby 17.58

8:10PM 506

6

$50,000, 3YO MOB. PACE, 2200m

8:41PM 507

7

$100,000, 4YO+ Mares FFA, 2200m

ALABAR 3YO CLASSIC MOBILE PACE

1 11111 Chase Auckland (1) Purdon/Rasmussen 1 4 2 14341 All U Need Is Faith (2) Purdon/Rasmussen 2 3 11122 King Of Swing (3) R Green 3 4 3X329 Spankem (4) Purdon/Rasmussen 5 1X422 Ashley Locaz (5) Purdon/Rasmussen 6 22202 The Devils Own (6) Purdon/Rasmussen

Culpeka (7) B Mangos 7 29X21 Barrier

OPT

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

$2,860, C2, 520m

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Right-handed; Length: 1006m; Weather: Fine OPT

10 00X62 Unfazed (3) 57 Autridge/Richards O Bosson 3 11 63X21 Fiscal Fantasy (2) 56.5 F Ritchie T Thornton 1 12 21 So You Sparkle (5) 56.5 T Pike L Innes 13 10X49 All Razzle Dazzle (1) 56.5 Richardson/Parker M Cameron 14 50X63. Hot Saki (10) 56.5 S Ritchie M Du Plessis 0 15 100X0 Carradine (6) 58 G Alton B Morgenrood 0 16 47X57 Real Savvy (8) 55.5 O'Sullivan/Scott S Weatherley (a) 17 Gangsters Lass SCRATCHED 18 Gris Dame SCRATCHED 0 19 66006 Barnaby (14) 59 J McKay 20 She’s Flossie SCRATCHED

4 44218 Bigtime Eve 30.19 5 12864 No Time Toulouse 30.21 3 6 64513 Bigtime Flyer 30.19 4 7 75323 Quistis Bale nwtd 2 8 455X3 Bigtime Jason 30.06 THE ROCK 95.2FM WANGANUI C2 9 75877 Cawbourne Kaz nwtd

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SUNLIVE 1600

$10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m

1 11883 Nippa Eel 17.86 3 ADEPT ACCOUNTANTS WANGANUI C2 1 2 82475 Cawbourne Dora 17.60 J & D Bell 6:21PM $2,860, C2, 520m 3 51256 Leroy Spirit 17.88 A Turnwald 2 1 15323 Bigtime Forest 30.55 L Cole 4 711F8 Another Flag 17.68 M Flipp Howe/Woods 5 52457 Polly The Dolly 17.71 WANGANUI CHRONICLE C2 2 31511 Eye Kno 31.25 J & D Bell

3 47721 Making It Up 30.66

C J Morris $1,685, C2, 305m 6 34147 Uno Again 17.71 N Udy 4 4 23213 Cawbourne Web 30.23 J & D Bell 2 7 71152 Let’s Go Sprite 17.65 G & S Fredrickson N Udy 5 84168 Cawbourne Ridge 30.43 J & D Bell 4 8 53136 Rapper Tilly 17.73 S Kite J T McInerney 3 6 41183 Bigtime Tyson 30.45 L Cole 9 16484 Doosh 17.59 J T McInerney L Cole 1 7 76652 Bigtime Brucie 30.08 L Cole 10 28364 Devil’s Tongue 17.77 S Stone J & D Bell 8 44544 Allegro Beaty 30.26 L Cole L Bell 9 77341 Extrapolate 30.27 PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION C4 L Cole 8:22PM L Cole 10 44556 Thrilling Wilson nwtd $4,030, C4, 520m N Udy D Edlin L Cole LASER PLUMBING WANGANUI C2 1 51388 Bigtime Phantom 30.18 M Flipp 6:49PM 1 2 66424 Bigtime Paddy 29.79 L Cole $1,685, C2, 305m D Edlin M Roberts P C Morris 1 75576 Ngakawau 17.82 J T McInerney 3 11645 Cawbourne Trixy 30.02

4

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1 86515 Blackie Chan 30.20 3 FIRST SECURITY C5 2 52666 Bigtime Boy nwtd 4 3 63241 Cawbourne Steele 30.71 $2,860, C5, 305m L Cole 4 5F157 Cawbourne Merl 30.51 M Roberts 5 752F6 Idol Jazz 30.75 C J Morris 6 23178 Erasmus 30.91 2 7 55422 Bigtime OnFire 29.94 J & D Bell 1 8 32112 Bigtime Donny 30.44 J T McInerney L Cole 9 8755X Bigtime Michelle 30.65 M Flipp 10 16785 Bigtime Forecast 30.41

7 580X2 A Lister (6) Purdon/Rasmussen 1 T Williams Shenandoah (7) Purdon/Rasmussen D Dunn $20,000, R64 to R93 SpecHcp TROT, 2700m 8 8X206 Barrier

PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver 3

9 343X1 Rain Man (21) S Reid R May 3 1 34442 George (1) T Macfarlane T Macfarlane 10 86314 Sea Of Gold (22) R Green D Butcher 2 20616 Primus Inter Pares (2) R Paynter R Argue (J) PETER BRECKON MEMORIAL CADUCEUS CLUB PACE 3 42228 Tereskova (3) L Chin L Chin 7:09PM 4 787P1 Roi Des Gitans (4) B Mangos $85,625, 3YO Fillies, 2200m B Mangos OPT 504 4 5 50541 The Crown Jewels (u1) N Chilcott N Chilcott 1 79089 Alta Shangri La (1) R Green D Butcher 6 L4236 Royal Willie (1) R Paynter D Butcher 1 2 42X14 Elle Mac (2) Purdon/Rasmussen N Rasmussen 2 7 30613 Shady Sadie (1) J Stormont J Stormont 4 3 114X1 Bettor Joy (3) C Dalgety D Dunn 8 73677 KD Hall (u1) T Vince T Herlihy 4 11225 Bettor Trix (4) Purdon/Rasmussen N Purdon (J) 9 98X81 Princess Mackendon (1) Wallis/Hackett T Cameron (J) 5 27428 Caitlyn Clarke (5) T Macfarlane T Macfarlane 1 10 81122 The Foot Tapper (2) B Purdon Z Butcher 2 6 511X1 Dizzy Miss Lizzy (6) N McGrath B Orange J I Dickie 6:11PM IRT PACE 7 2137 Somethingaboutmary (7) J & J Dickie 3 Delight In Me (8) Purdon/Rasmussen T Williams $20,000, 3YO+ R60–R80, 2200m OPT 502 8 1352 Barrier

1 97172 Wrangler (1) R Dunn J Dunn 4 2 X2132 Italian Delight (2) T Herlihy T Herlihy 7:40PM ROSSLANDS LYELL CREEK STAKES MOBILE TROT 1 3 12654 Recco Lover (3) R Green Z Butcher OPT 505 $50,000, FFA MOB. TROT, 2200m 4 1X742 Zadaka (4) G Small G Small 1 12522 The Almighty Johnson (1) T Herlihy T Cameron (J) 5 29X35 Check In (5) S Telfer J MacKinnon (J) 4 2 81122 The Foot Tapper (2) B Purdon Z Butcher 3 6 9X325 Forgotten Highway (6) M Kerr D Dunn 3 33087 Yagunnakissmeornot (3) R Dunn B Orange 7 5111X Utmost Delight (7) S Reid B Orange 2 4 01112 Lemond (4) R Paynter M McKendry 2

8 X5131 Step Up (8) S Telfer

D Butcher 5 8280X Sunny Ruby (5) D Butcher D Butcher

Barrier 6 23059 Destiny Jones (6) K Townley J Dunn 9 11415 Dance Time (21) S Telfer B Butcher (J) 7 60X21 Temporale (7) T Herlihy T Herlihy R May 6:39PM SIMS PACIFIC METALS PACE 8 31261 Everybody Knows (8) G & N Hope 5:39PM OPT 501

7:28PM 109

OPT

N Rasmussen N Purdon (J) D Butcher T Herlihy P Butcher T Williams B Mangos

ROSSLANDS QUEEN OF HEARTS PACE

1 1X820 Rocknroll Princess (1) S Telfer 2 71745 Three Kisses (2) Hollis/Robertson 3 58X55 Jo’s Dream (3) A Kiddie 4 33770 Lusty Mac (4) M Berger 4 5 113X4 Partyon (5) Purdon/Rasmussen 1 6 42222 Opoutama (6) B Purdon 7 Gotta Go Dali Queen

Valor Lustre (7) S Telfer 8 34488 Barrier

9 9X717 Seaswift Joy (21) J Stormont 3 10 75X13 Juice Brogden (22) N Chilcott 2 11 X2211 Bonnie Joan (23) C Dalgety 12 2X150 American Tart (24) R Dunn 0 13 29453 American Empress (25) J Young 14 65562 Pakipaki (26) Hollis/Robertson

B Butcher (J) L Hollis A Poutama P Butcher N Rasmussen Z Butcher SCRATCHED D Butcher J Stormont N Chilcott D Dunn J Dunn S Abernethy T Herlihy

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9:21PM

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BOOK YOUR FUNCTION @ HATRICK C4 $2,390, C4, 305m

57465 Bigtime Jane 17.54 78454 Bigtime Basher 17.41 76537 Bigtime Sugar 17.31 85567 Box Of Fluffies 17.41 34176 Butterball 17.59 73522 Frisky Gambler 17.63 88562 Bigtime Trev 17.55 28373 Polly Cracker 17.67 78828 Harry Brown 17.48 78748 Kirkham Webby 17.58

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

L Cole L Cole L Cole G & S Fredrickson M Gowan A Turnwald L Cole L Pearce L Cole J & D Bell

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

4 72543 Max Phactor (4) M Berger 5 11631 Raptors Flight (5) B Purdon 1 6 1111X Vincent (1) Purdon/Rasmussen 2 7 31223 Jack’s Legend (2) B Purdon 4 8 P1X12 Motown (u1) J & J Dickie 9 11296 Titan Banner (1) Purdon/Rasmussen 3 10 53102 Heaven Rocks (u1) Purdon/Rasmussen 9:41PM 509

OPT

1 1 3 2 2 3 4 5 4 6

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10:11PM 510

OPT

Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Dead; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1800m; Straight: 215m; Rail: Rail out 4m 700-1300, remainder true; Weather: Mostly Fine

12 00X76 He’s Mi Brother (10) 55 S Blair-Edie 3:29PM OPT 606

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A Bohorun (a4)

GORACING HANDICAP

$35,000, OPN HCP, 1200m

1 16X99. Coulee (5) 60 B & S Anderton 1 2 81644 Darci Mac (1) 58.5 A Sharrock 4 3 33399 Timy Tyler (6) 56.5 K Tyler 3 4 26X32 Johnny Jones (7) 55.5 J & K Parsons 2 5 6X122. King Pin (4) 54.5 S McKay 1 6 2974X Shaara (3) 54 J Gordon 1 7 4X120. Passito (2) 54 S Prince

C Campbell (a3) S Wynne K Kwo (a3) G Jogoo (a1) R Firdhaus (a2) K Mudhoo (a1) J Morris

$25,000, 2YO MOB. PACE, 1700m

Bettor Getta Lover (1) G Dunn Tycoon Tiger (2) T Macfarlane Stun Gun (3) P Court Franco Niven Pembrook Charlie (4) T Herlihy Smart Fortune (5) B Mangos Beaudiene Western (6) R Green

Barrier

$20,000, 3YO+ R50–R64 SpecHcp, 2700m

D Dunn T Williams B Orange J I Dickie Z Butcher SCRATCHED N Chilcott M McKendry P Butcher

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

13 0X005 Bachata (12) 55.5 S Cameron 14 4799X Letthethunderroll (5) 54 S McKay 1 15 Tapilize 5:14PM 609

G O’Reilly T Macfarlane R May SCRATCHED T Herlihy B Mangos D Butcher

10 NEW YEARS EVE AUCKLAND TWILIGHT RACES TROT

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

OPT

P Butcher S Phelan N Rasmussen Z Butcher J I Dickie D Dunn T Williams

9 BRECKON FARMS YOUNG GUNS SERIES HT MOBILE PACE

1 X2103 Musculus (1) P Iggo 1 2 94D9X Stress Factor (2) Purdon/Rasmussen 4 3 X7108 Galleons Victory (u1) Wallis/Hackett 2 4 1266X Sertorius (u1) J & J Dickie 9:11PM LINCOLN FARMS BLOODSTOCK FRANKLIN CUP HCP PACE 5 62725 Lovely Bundy (1) P & V Blanchard 6 Red Castleton OPT 508 $50,000, R80 to R126 SpecHcp PACE, 2700m 1 94X21 A G’s White Socks (1) G & N Hope R May 7 73429 Harry H (2) N Chilcott 2 X3X44 Brydon Ideal (2) J Young 3 8 0X312 Geena’s Success (u1) Wallis/Hackett M McKendry 3 43166 Northview Hustler (3) R Green D Butcher 9 62800 Grey Stoke (u2) L Edwards

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G & S Fredrickson L Cole L Pearce L Cole J & D Bell L Cole L Cole L Cole L Cole J & D Bell

9

R Firdhaus (a2) SCRATCHED

TIM YEO CONTRACTING HANDICAP

$30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1600m

1 5821X The Gordonian (10) 61.5 J Gordon 1 D Bothamley 2 0X666 Magic Epic (4) 59 S McKay 1 R Firdhaus (a2) 3 X5810. Fascinate (1) 58.5 B & S Anderton C Campbell (a3) 4 05454 Secret Power (2) 57.5 A Hewitson K Williams 4:04PM AWS LEGAL SOUTHLAND CRYSTALS 2 5 02735 Spider (6) 57.5 P Rudkin T Moseley OPT 607 $35,000, OPN HCP, 2150m 1 6 27421 Lord Sibford (7) 56 S Cameron J Lowry (a) 1 1 18X31 Gallant Boy (4) 60 B & S Anderton S Muniandy 4 7 X4355 Thought That (3) 55.5 E Winsloe S Wynne 2 2 81162 Come Fly With Me (8) 55 S Blair-Edie L Callaway 8 15159 Shakti (5) 54.5 J Gordon 1 K Mudhoo (a1) 4 3 X8345 Motorboat Mike (5) 54.5 S Price R Cuneen 3 9 39X31 Willow (9) 54 B & S Anderton C Barnes 4 40107 Sureasyouwereborn (3) 54 N & B Blatch T Moseley 10 3X221 Indiana Pearl (8) 54 S McKay 1 R Cuneen 5 X5540 Odi Et Amo (2) 54 K Tyler K Kalychurun 6 21510 Dee And Gee (6) 54 Charles/Corbett S Wynne 5:47PM NZME HANDICAP 7 17X09 Taniwha (1) 54 J Curran 1 J Morris OPT 610 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 3 8 55881 Victoryshallbemine (7) 54 Charles/Corbett C Campbell (a) 1 61X88 The Believer (4) 60 Bros/Dennis R Cuneen 4:39PM AON INSURANCE BROKERS HANDICAP 1 2 68X24 Can You Hear Me (11) 57.5 S Cameron L Callaway $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m OPT 608 2 3 30X53 Road To Redemption (3) 57.5 A Schwarz D Bothamley 1 0X641 Kilowatt (3) 59 K Tyler K Kalychurun K Williams 4 X0430 Sir Ed (14) 57.5 K Tyler 2 42951. Nesta (6) 59 S Blair-Edie S Wynne L Callaway 5 06559 Travel Wise (13) 57.5 Charles/Corbett

3 3 X5275 Centavada (8) 58 J Dalton 1 6 000X3 Blue Flag (8) 57 S Price

T Moseley K Kalychurun 4 4 X08X4 Teddytwinkletoes (13) 58 A Dickson S Muniandy K Kwo (a3) 7 81. Jakaya (1) 57 J & K Parsons 5 00X75 Jakob Gambino (9) 57.5 B Tapper J Morris J Laking 8 799X0 Sally Getcha Gun (7) 57 J Curran 1 3 9 5X526 Lizzie Bordon (6) 56.5 S McKay 1 6 5X300 Smokem Up (1) 57.5 E Winsloe G Jogoo (a1) S Wynne 7 53431 Leila Eve (10) 57 J Gordon 1 K Mudhoo (a1) K Mudhoo (a1) 10 9X9L9 Limousine (12) 56.5 G Robinson 1 8 54X03 Franconi (7) 57 G Robinson 1 C Campbell (a3) D Bothamley 11 D3310. Dream Rich (2) 56 R McKenzie 1 9 4X762. Countess Ruby (11) 56.5 T Kennedy R Firdhaus (a2) S Muniandy 12 40X46 Miss Tuscan (9) 55 S McKay 1 4 13 X4788 Waimate Bill (10) 55 S Blair-Edie 10 70X00 Tantella (4) 56.5 J & K Parsons A Bohorun (a4) G Jogoo (a1) 11

I’m Horace SCRATCHED 14 X4796. Yodelay (15) 54.5 A Hewitson K Williams 2 12 X5213. Courte Zarindi (2) 55.5 S McKay 1 0 15 5X470 Tapilize (5) 54 K & I Taplin T Moseley

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In brief

■ ALEXANDRA PARK

Partyon the enigma A blunt assessment of her performance last week has Natalie Rasmussen feeling like things are a little up in the air with the second favourite for tonight’s Group 1 Queen of Hearts, Partyon.

While the former Oaks-winning filly was good in running home for fourth behind Bonnie Joan in the Northern Breeders Stakes, the mare’s co-trainer and driver wasn’t all that impressed.

“I thought she was pretty flat and should have been a bit better than that,” Rasmussen said yesterday.

“I know she was first up and probably needed the run, but she actually felt like she was having me on a bit which is a bit of a concern.”

Rasmussen’s instructions to Tim Williams, who has been overseeing the Auckland All Stars team this week, were straight to the point.

“I told Timmy to get the work into her this week and try and wake her up a little bit and see if we can get her back on the right track.”

There’s no hiding the fact that if the best version of Partyon rocks up to Alexandra Park, she’ll take a power of beating, but Rasmussen’s assessment of her last run and the hesitancy in her thoughts for this week will be enough to make those who have been enticed by the $2.60 fixed odds on offer more than a little concerned.

“We’ve got a draw to put ourselves in the race, I certainly won’t be driving her for luck, put it that way.

“Maybe buzzing her out of the

Mare poised to win Brookbars could provide Brian McKeagg with a deserved change of luck on his home track today.

The Tauranga trainer is tipping a bold showing from the mare in the Young Read Woudberg Chartered Accountants Handicap (2100m) to put an end to a frustrating run.

McKeagg has had the misfortune this year to lose a pair of talented horses in the multiple winners Galloping Gerte and Cantare.

“Galloping Gerte did a suspensory ligament and she’s in foal to Wrote and Cantare has been retired as well,” he said.

- NZME

Devise looking good Shaune Ritchie is bullish about Devise’s prospects in the Gr.2 Cal Isuzu Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa tomorrow. “She looks a good chance to get some more black type on the pedigree page,” the Cambridge trainer said. “As long as she races up to expectations and comes through well, the Zabeel Classic is on the cards.” Devise will be ridden by Michael Coleman while Chris Johnson will be aboard her stablemate Let Her Rip. - NZME

Telegraph top target Partyon is no sure thing in tonight’s Queen of Hearts at Alexandra Park, says Natalie Rasmussen. gate to try and get forward might get her on the job, we will have to wait and see.”

The premier meeting will be another big night out for All Stars judging by the form books, with 17 horses engaged on the night and Rasmussen’s card is quite exceptional – although only number five.

Of her chances, which comprise of Conway Beach, Elle Mac, Chase Auckland, Partyon and Vincent, the strike-rate horsewoman lumped for the unbeaten Chase Auckland as her best chance of the night.

“He’s handled his first trip up

there really well and to this point we haven’t really had to take a lot out of him so the chance is there to drive him positively and look to keep the record intact.

“He would be my best chance for the night I think.”

While she was brimming with confidence for Chase Auckland, Rasmussen was keen to stress that the prospects of Vincent were very much going to come down to luck.

“I’m driving him this week because I think he might be vulnerable first up.

“There’s no doubt he can win because he’s a good horse but he

will probably be a false favourite in my opinion.”

The brilliant Heaven Rocks, who will take on Vincent, was given a good push by her usual driver.

“He can definitely win.

“I thought he was great last week and if he gets it right he’ll be hard to beat.”

Vincent was rated a $2 favourite for the Franklin Cup ahead of Heaven Rocks at $2.40 with New Zealand Trotting Cup and New Zealand Free-For-All placegetter, Jack’s Legend the only other runner in single figures at a $7 quote.

- NZHN

■ TAURANGA

Group One contender ‘looking terrific’ Multiple stakes winner Chance To Dance will further his Group One preparation at Tauranga today.

The well-travelled eight-yearold has won two of his three New Zealand starts and is progressing well toward the Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day. The Irish-bred Chance To Dance was successful first-up in the Listed Karaka Classic (1600m) at Pukekohe before he was caught three wide without cover when beaten in the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) at Hawke’s Bay. The son of Teofilo then bounced back at Ellerslie last month to beat Mime in the Gr.3 OMF Stakes (2000m) and has purposefully been kept fresh since.

“We wanted to give him a bit of time as an older horse and he appreciates a quieter lifestyle,” said Jamie Richards, who trains Chance To Dance with Stephen Autridge.

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Chance To Dance in winning form with Opie Bosson on board.

“He looks terrific and we were going to trial him at Te Aroha, but the track was a bit firm so

he’ll have a gallop at Tauranga with Scrutinize.”

Now a five-year-old, Scruti-

nize showed some encouraging form at three and was a dual winner and runner-up in the Gr.2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m).

“He had a tendon injury and had 18 months off and he’s in good condition now,” Richards said.

Scrutinize hasn’t raced since he was out of the money in the Gr.2 Waikato Guineas (2000m) 22 months ago.

“We’ve taken it slowly with him and he trialled well on the Matamata track last month,” Richards said.

Meanwhile, Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) winner Embellish and Age Of Fire, who was runner-up in the Riccarton feature, have returned to their Matamata quarters.

“They’re in good shape and both colts will run in the 1400m race at Ellerslie on Boxing Day with Embellish going to the Karaka Million 3YO Classic and Age Of Fire to the Levin Classic,” Richards said.

- NZME

A Group One date with the older horses is the preferred option for Sensei during next month’s Wellington Cup carnival. The colt has been nominated for the Gr.1 Grant Plumbing Levin Classic (1600m) on January 13, but trainers Michael and Matthew Pitman are keener to tackle the JR & N Berkett Telegraph a week later if Sensei can gain a start. The three-year-old has won three of his 10 starts. - NZME

Kiwi-bred wins again Civil Disobedience furthered his prospects of a possible trip home with his latest success at Mornington. The Kiwi-bred son of Raise The Flag, who posted his second win from six starts for trainer Darren Weir over 2000m on Wednesday, holds a nomination for next year’s Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m). Civil Disobedience is currently a $61 chance in the Derby market.

- NZME

Options for O’Rourke Edward O’Rourke is weighing up his options with From Within as the filly zeroes in on her first start with the Irish trainer. O’Rourke has accepted for races at Randwick tomorrow and Canterbury tonight, and said discussions with owners in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa would determine where the three-year-old resumed. If she runs in the Book Summer Holiday Today Sprint at Canterbury she will have Kerrin McEvoy aboard to help overcome a wide gate and older, more experienced mares.

- AAP

Eamon flying the flag A couple of weeks back, Westwood Beach trainer Graeme Anderson transferred Titan Banner back to the Purdon-Rasmussen team, so he’s pinning his hopes now on Eamon Maguire to fly the flag for him. Anderson admits it has been a rocky start for last season’s Southern Supremacy Stakes winner, who three weeks earlier finished third in the New Zealand Derby. “I’ll take him back to Forbury on the 21st, then hope he can show his potential in the Free For All at Omakau.” - NZHN

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In brief

■ CRICKET

Fixers target Ashes The International Cricket Council has launched an investigation into spot fixing allegations targeting the third Ashes test between Australia and England in Perth, which started yesterday.

The Sun newspaper has published purported evidence of bookmakers offering to sell details of rigged periods of play for betting purposes.

Alex Marshall, the ICC’s head of anti-corruption, said the council had received all of the material in The Sun’s investigation.

“We take the allegations extremely seriously and they will be investigated by the ICC AntiCorruption Unit working with anti-corruption colleagues from member countries,” said Marshall.

“From my initial assessment of the material, there is no evidence, either from The Sun or via our own intelligence, to suggest the current test match has been corrupted.

“At this stage of the investigation, there is no indication that any players in this test have been in contact with the alleged fixers.

“The allegations are wide ranging and relate to various forms of cricket in several countries, including T20 tournaments.

“We will look closely at all the information as part of our investigation,” said Marshall.

During a video secretly recorded by The Sun, information on fixes are heard to be worth around $A200,000.

“Before match, I will tell you this over, this runs and then you have to put all the bets on that over,” a man, who the newspaper claims is a bookmaker, says in purportedly undercover video footage.

There is also mention of fixing “four to five” Big Bash League matches.

One of the bookies alleged they were working with a fixer

within Australian cricket known as The Silent Man and claimed a fix attempt was due during the middle of the Ashes series.

According to the report, one bookie claimed corrupt players

would “signal” to spotters in the crowd when the fix was on.

“The allegations raised by media outlets are of serious concern.

“Cricket Australia takes a zerotolerance approach against anybody trying to bring the game into disrepute,” Cricket Australia

said. “Cricket Australia will cooperate fully with any ICC AntiCorruption Unit (ACU) investigation. Australian cricket has a long-standing, proactive approach to sports integrity management.

“CA works closely with the ICC ACU on all international fixtures played in Australia.

“Players are able to report any suspicions they have on a confidential basis and in the past there has been a strong Australian player culture to do so.”

The ICC appointed Alex Mar-

shall, who served in the UK police for 37 years, earlier this year as the head of their ACU. Three international captains have reported illicit approaches in the past two months.

As opposed to the most recent high-profile news report of fixing in cricket, the 2010 no-ball sting involving several Pakistan players, there are no names, games or specific details in the report or footage posted by The Sun. The ICC banned three players – Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir – following a News of the World investigation that detailed how Asif and Amir would bowl no-balls at certain points of a test.

The Sun has posted footage in which two men also discuss how they claim to distort elements of Twenty20 cricket games in Australia and India.

“You want to see something magic in the Big Bash? Big Bash we can do, winning and loss, some matches – some news, we got some confirmed news,” one man says in the clip, claiming he has connections with Australia, South Africa and Pakistan players.

“In Big Bash we will get four to five matches confirmed news.”

The individual claims he can arrange games to follow “scripts” that cover run-rate and wickets – and that corrupt players would signal the fix is on by using subtle gestures, such as changing their batting gloves or aborting their bowling run-up, and that individuals at the ground would relay this information to bookmakers.

During the video information on fixes are heard to be worth around $A200,000.

“We take all allegations of corruption seriously and welcome The Sun’s offer to share this information,” the ICC is quoted as saying.

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Santner ‘work in progress’ says Hesson

By DaviD Leggat Mike Hesson likes what he’s seeing from allrounder Mitchell Santner, but admits it is still “a work in progress’’.

Lefthander Santner is a young man of talent but he’s yet to produce the real breakthrough performance.

In 17 tests, he has scored 535 runs at 25.47, just twice reaching 50 in 21 innings; his 34 wickets have come 37.05 each.

In his nine tests in New Zealand he has taken 13 wickets and averages 25 with the bat.

Taking wickets in New Zealand historically tends to be hard going for spinners.

The pitches are rarely conducive before the final day.

There are a pile of lessons to absorb while mastering the craft.

Hesson clearly feels Santner can become a medium to long term No. 6 batsman, and likes his ability to keep runs to a minimum with the ball, so he’s performing a role even if the wickets aren’t tumbling.

“Mitch is progressing nicely.

“He’s averaging close to 30 in his last six tests, and was part of three very important partnerships in the West Indies series.

It’s a really important job he does in that role.’’

Santner was the wingman to the imperious Colin de Grandhomme on his way to a 71-ball century at the Basin Reserve; then made valuable contributions with de Grandhomme again and centurymaker Ross Taylor at Hamilton.

The idea that the New Zealand spinner should be able to run

Mitchell Santner through opposing batting lineups in this country is fanciful.

Only three times in New Zealand’s 206 home test matches in 87 years has a spinner taken 10 or more wickets in a match – Daniel Vettori with 12 for 149

against Australia at Eden Park in 1999-2000; and 10 for 183 against Sri Lanka in Wellington in 200607; and John Bracewell with 10 for 106 in the celebrated seriesclinching win over Australia at Eden Park in 1986.

Hesson pointed out Santner’s economy rate, and ability to keep an end tight, plays an important part in his job.

“Spin bowlers in New Zealand don’t take a lot of wickets so they’ve got to do a slightly different role than they’d do in other parts of the world,’’ Hesson said.

Santner’s most successful test, when he came closest to a notable allrounder contribution, was at Kanpur late last year, when he had a batting double of 32 and 71, and took five wickets in the match, all batsmen in India’s top six.

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Less tests scheduled An increased diet of Twenty20 cricket and a reduction of the number of tests are features of the Black Caps proposed international schedule from 2019-2023. The Future Tours programme will see New Zealand play 28 tests over the four-year period, but none at home against Australia and England. It’s the joint lowest number of tests among major countries alongside Pakistan. The Black Caps would play 49 Twenty20 games and 45 ODIs, according to the proposal which is set to be signed off in February.

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Anderson fires up England cricket spearhead Jimmy Anderson has resumed his slanging match with Steve Smith, saying Australia’s skipper was more interested in sledging than talking with his batting partner at Adelaide Oval. Anderson and Smith have been swapping barbs throughout the Ashes series, which resumed in Perth yesterday. England’s alltime leading wicket-taker claimed Australia were bullies before the second test, a word that shocked Smith given Anderson is “one of the biggest sledgers in the game ... to me in particular”.

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Tough job for Bayliss The heat is on coach Trevor Bayliss as he attempts to improve England’s batting, bowling and behaviour this summer. Bayliss is one of the best cricket brains in the business.

The Australian was hired by the England and Wales Cricket Board on the eve of the 2015 Ashes and helped the hosts to reclaim the urn.

But pressure is starting to build and it’s unlikely to ease if they lose at the WACA. Much of the scrutiny has centred on a series of alcoholfuelled incidents. Bayliss has put his charges on notice that careers are at stake if anybody misbehaves – but some pundits wonder why he hadn’t taken control of the situation earlier.

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Sharma’s double ton Rohit Sharma hit his third double hundred in ODI cricket yesterday as India beat Sri Lanka by 141 runs and levelled the three-match series at 1-1. Riding Sharma’s 208 not out, India scored 392-4 and later restricted Sri Lanka to 251-8.

Angelo Mathews’ knock of 111 not out went in vain. Sharma hit 13 fours and 12 sixes off 153 balls.

His 208 runs was the highest individual ODI score in Mohali, beating Virat Kohli’s 154 not out against New Zealand in 2016. - AP

De Grandhomme out Black Caps all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme has returned to Zimbabwe following the sudden passing of his father yesterday. De Grandhomme will be replaced in the ODI squad to face West Indies

by Doug Bracewell. Black Caps selector Gavin Larsen said the team’s thoughts were with de Grandhomme. “This is obviously extremely sad news for Colin and his family and we’re all thinking of them at the moment,” said Larsen.

“Right now the most important thing is that Colin is with his family.”

There is currently no timeline for when de Grandhomme will rejoin the squad. The 31-year-old bludgeoned his way to his maiden test century in Wellington. - NZME

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In brief

■ RUGBY SEVENS

Melanie earns black jersey

BY JAIME PITT-MACKAY JAIME.P@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Melanie Puckett is set to sign off what has been a “crazy” year on the rugby paddock with her first appearance for New Zealand this weekend at the World School Sevens on Saturday.

Puckett, who plays for Canterbury in both sevens and 15-a-side, was selected for the New Zealand under-18 side after a selection process that spanned the entire year.

“It has been pretty exciting, we have been in camp in Auckland since Tuesday and it has been great learning from a whole bunch of new people who have different skills,” she said.

“It is also going to be my first time playing internationally, so coming up against teams with completely different styles of play will be interesting.”

There is plenty of familiar faces for Puckett in the side, with her fellow Farah Palmer Cup winning team-mate Grace Brooker being named in the team, while several players who played for Waikato are also representing the side.

“It is really professional but there are a few of us that have had that kind of exposure to it,” she said.

The side has been drawn in the pool with Japan and Tonga, while the other pool consists of the New Zealand under-17 side, Australia and Samoa.

“I am probably more excited than nervous.

“It has been a long campaign with a lot of camps and trainings so I am just looking forward to getting out there, but I am sure there will be a few nerves on Saturday morning,” she said.

The tournament will be the last of a busy year for Puckett, but things will still be busy early in the new year.

“With Canterbury we were lucky enough to win (the Southern Region Tournament) so we will be going to nationals so if we can get a place there that would be fantastic,” she said.

Finishing high school this year, Puckett said she is hoping for basically a repeat of this year, except studying at Lincoln University on a rugby scholarship.

“That should be a really good chance to improve,” she said.

“Hopefully I will end up doing this year all over again next year.

“There have been a lot of things that went my way this year but pulling on the black jersey this weekend is sure to be a highlight, and winning the Farah Palmer Cup was a huge thing as well.”

Big guns at nationals The cream of New Zealand men’s road cycling have all committed to race at the national championships in Napier. All six Kiwis holding World Tour contracts will contest the men’s race on January 7, including this year’s Tour of California winner George Bennett. In arguably the strongest field assembled for the race, Bennett (Lotto NL Jumbo) will compete against World Tour rivals Jack Bauer and Sam Bewley (both MitcheltonScott), Tom Scully (EF Education First-Drapac), Patrick Bevin (BMC Racing Team) and Alex Frame (Trek Segafredo). Olympic rowing great Hamish Bond will test himself again in his new career as a cyclist.

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Bike extravaganza The biggest motorcycling event in New Zealand will take place at Hampton Downs in early March with MotoFest bringing together some of the sport’s top names. The Mike Pero MotoFest will take place March 3-4 and will mix a round of the national championship with a celebration of legendary riders like Aaron Slight, Hugh Anderson and Graeme Crosby as well as celebrated American Randy Mamola – the original great entertainer of Grand Prix racing. Additionally there will be motocross, ATV racing, trial bikes, a bike show and an opportunity for fans to get involved in racing.

- NZME

TRS still possible

Melanie Puckett is set to pull on the black jersey for the first time when she plays for the New Zealand under-18 side at the World School Sevens on Saturday.

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At least three Kiwi drivers are trying to put together and 11th hour bid to compete in this summer’s Toyota Racing Series starting next month. Pukekohe’s Taylor Cockerton, who ran a full campaign in 2017, as well as promising Toyota 86 drivers Tom Alexander and Ryan Yardley are all working on getting a budget together to compete in the country’s leading race categ-ory.

Cockerton would seem the most likely of the three to get some-thing over the line but he admits time is fast running out with the first round in mid-January.

- NZME

Injuries hit Crusaders Caption this Crusaders loose forward Tom Sanders will miss the beginning of next year’s Super Rugby season after suffering a serious ankle injury in preseason training.

Sanders has had surgery on an acute fracture, with an anticipated recovery time of between three and four months.

The Crusaders are currently working to secure a replacement to provide cover.

It’s another blow for the defending champions, who have already suffered a blow with news All Blacks skipper Kieran Read will miss the start of the season with a back injury.

Read is due to have surgery on Saturday on a prolapsed lumbar disc in his back, an injury he sustained at the end of the season.

The expected recovery time for such injuries is approximately four months so Read is also likely to miss a fair chunk of the Super Rugby season.

Read will have surgery tomorrow

for a prolapsed lumbar disc, an injury he sustained at the end of the All Blacks’ season.

He has been reviewed by the All Blacks and Crusaders medical teams, as well as a back specialist, who will continue to monitor his recovery. Expected recovery time for such injuries is about four months.

Read, who was a talented top order batsman at the Karaka Cricket Club, faces an extended recovery period which he plans to spend in front of the TV watching cricket.

“So lucky there’s a big summer of cricket coming up as I will be spending plenty of time here over the next few weeks,” Read said in a post on social media.

“Head in for surgery on a disc in my back on Saturday, which I injured at the end of the season. Hopefully I don’t miss too much of the Super Rugby season. I’ll get through it thanks to the ACC [Alternative Cricket Commentary].”

- NZME

Guardian photographer Tetsuro Mitomo captured this image on Saturday at Lauriston in Mid Canterbury senior cricket action. We think it’s too good not to use so, along with the team at Stirling Sports Ashburton on Tancred Street, have decided to run a Caption This competition. The best entry, as judged by a panel from the Guardian editorial team, will win a $100 Stirling Sports Voucher and we will announce the winner in the Guardian on Tuesday, December 19. E-mail your entries to matt.m@theguardian.co.nz or send by letter to The Editor, Ashburton Guardian, PO Box 77, Ashburton. Entries will close on Monday, December 18 at 3pm.

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■ OPINION

Time to rekindle an age-old rivalry

I

think I may have seen the light when it comes to the next great sporting rivalry between Australia and New Zealand.

The Bledisloe will forever hold weight, and cricket has had some interesting match-ups, but I think the true excitement lies on the football field.

Unfortunately, due to confederations and all that carry-on, we don’t get to play our Australian friends very often.

In fact, the last time we played them was back in 2011, on June 5, which means the All Blacks have won two world cups since the last time the two football sides locked horns.

The main reason I think something like this needs to come

back, is because we can beat the Aussies.

They had their golden generation in the 2000s, but since then have leaned heavily on Tim Cahill and his supersonic forehead and kangaroo leap for goals to qualify them for this World Cup. They limped past Syria, and managed to keep their cool against a Honduras side that were just a bunch of hotheads that lacked footballing ability.

The All Whites now have Chris Wood scoring consistently for Burnley, Winston Reid has been back to his rock solid best, keeping back-to-back clean sheets against Chelsea and Arsenal.

We also have Ryan Thomas who has really made a name for himself in the Netherlands, and

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plenty of talent making their way in the MLS in America.

Australia have more depth, with players spread throughout lower teams in Eastern Europe and countries like Germany, but don’t have a standout player that is superior to anyone in the All Whites.

Scheduling is a nightmare for international teams, and with Australia playing in the Asian confederation and the All Whites

in Oceania, they don’t meet up in any competitions, and would be limited to friendly games.

Back in the 90s, there was something called the Trans-Tasman Cup, which was contested between the two sides when they were both in the Oceania federation.

Introducing something like this would stoke the rivalry we have with Australia and help develop New Zealand football until we are essentially guaranteed a spot in the world cup when it expands in size in a few years.

With both teams without a coach, and Australia’s footballing governing body a mess at the moment, any progress on the idea could take a while, but we can always hope.

Vancouver signs Bevan New Zealand striker Myer Bevan has signed a full Major League Soccer contract with Whitecaps FC. The club announced the 20-yearold is contracted for 2018, with options for the following three seasons. Auckland-born Bevan, who made his All Whites debut in September, qualifies as a domestic player through his Canadian family background.

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PSG into quarter-finals Defending champion Paris Saint-Germain reached the French League Cup quarter-finals after winning 4-2 at Strasbourg yesterday. PSG, which has won the past four editions, was keen to prove a point after Strasbourg ended its unbeaten start to the season with a league win earlier this month. Strasbourg beat PSG 2-1 at home on December 2 but it was a different story this time. - AP

Klopp rages again Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp was left raging at the match officials for the second time in four days after his team had a late goal disallowed in a 0-0 home draw with West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League yesterday.

Dominic Solanke’s goal was ruled out for handball by an assistant referee, having initially been given by referee Paul Tierney. It was ruled the ball had rebounded off Solanke’s chest and onto his arm from fellow substitute Joe Gomez’s cross. Klopp was furious on the touchline.

- AP

Milan gets through AC Milan will play rival Inter Milan in the quarter-finals of the Italian Cup after beating Hellas Verona 3-0. Suso, Alessio Romagnoli and Patrick Cutrone scored the goals to send Milan through. Inter scraped into the quarter-finals by beating third-division Pordenone 5-4 on penalties on Tuesday. Milan is struggling in Serie A but coach Gennaro Gattuso, who replaced the fired Vincenzo Montella, had won his first match on Sunday. - AP

Bayern marches on David Silva celebrates the first of a double he scored against Swansea City yesterday.

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■ FOOTBALL

City thumps Swansea Manchester City maintained their irresistible Premier League charge with a record 15th successive league win as they outclassed struggling Swansea City 4-0 yesterday.

David Silva scored twice as unbeaten City eclipsed the mark set for most consecutive wins by Arsenal during the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons.

“Considering we have a lot of games in our legs, a demanding game at Old Trafford three days ago, we were solid, we were serious and we made a good performance,” manager Pep Guardiola said.

“Winning 15 games in a row gives us a lot of confidence.”

Manchester United remain 11

points behind in second after beating Bournemouth 1-0 and Tottenham moved up to fourth with a 2-0 win over Brighton among the night’s six other games.

Silva set City on the way with a 27th-minute opener and Kevin de Bruyne made it 2-0 before half-time.

Silva’s second came just after the restart and Sergio Aguero added a late fourth.

“At times it was horrible to be on the sideline watching that, seeing my side trying but suffering for long periods,” Swansea boss Paul Clement, whose side remain bottom of the table, said.

Manchester United bounced back from their weekend loss to

City by beating Bournemouth with Romelu Lukaku’s goal.

“I am pleased with the three points, it was difficult match,” manager Jose Mourinho said.

“They had one more day’s rest than us, they were fresher than us, and mentally fresher because a big match takes more from our players.”

Tottenham are back into the top four following their home win over Brighton.

Serge Aurier and Son Heung Min scored as Spurs jumped over Liverpool, Burnley and Arsenal into the final Champions League place.

Liverpool and Arsenal both were held to 0-0 draws.

Liverpool’s Dominic Solanke

had a goal disallowed for a handball and also had a shot cleared off the line on a frustrating night against West Brom.

“That was not our best game tonight but I think we had enough chances to win,” Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said.

The point allowed West Brom to climb out of relegation on goal difference over Crystal Palace.

Arsenal’s away woes continued with a draw at West Ham that left them with just two wins from nine on the road.

Shinji Okazaki’s brace helped Leicester beat Southampton 4-1 for their fourth straight win, while Wayne Rooney scored the only goal as Everton won at Newcastle.

- DPA

Bayern Munich have beaten winless bottom club Cologne 1-0 to stretch their Bundesliga lead to nine points. Poland striker Robert Lewandowski scored the winner on the hour for Bayern who were not fully convincing but are in full control at the top ahead of the final round before the winter break on the weekend. Schalke climbed into second place with a hard fought 3-2 over Augsburg.

- AP

Arnold dismisses report Graham Arnold has shut down a report he’s been offered the Socceroos job and reiterated he’s heard nothing from Football Federation Australia. Based on an anonymous source, Fox Sports claimed on Wednesday night the contracted Sydney FC coach has been told the job is his if he wants it on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. That’s despite FFA’s expert panel having only just started defining the job criteria for Ange Postecoglou’s successor, a process it says does not involve talking to candidates until early January.

Arnold is the standout local frontrunner.

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Friday

6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am - 11.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Drop in and pre loved clothing shop. Cnr Thomson and Jane Street.

10am - 4pm ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL OF ASHBURTON. Christmas Tree of Remembrance. Pop a star ($2) on the special Christmas tree in the arcade, Ashburton. All profits go to Palliative Care.

5pm - 7pm ST DAVID’ S UNION CHURCH. Kidz Club, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

Saturday

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

Main Street, Methven.

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10am - 4pm ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL OF ASHBURTON. Christmas Tree of Remembrance. Pop a star ($2) on the special Christmas tree in the arcade, Ashburton. All profits go to Palliative Care.

1pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Association croquet, singles and doubles. Waireka Croquet Club, the Domain, Philip Street.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. (draw) Golf croquet, casual doubles for all ages. The domain, Philip Street.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Play association or golf croquet.

Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

1.30pm ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Social play, new members welcome. 115 Racecourse Road.

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

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET. Local crafts, new stalls welcome. West Street Car park.

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Christmas Tree of Remembrance The Arcade Ashburton residents will have the opportunity to remember family members or friends who will not be with them at Christmas and at the same time provide funds for Palliative Care in Ashburton. This project has been run by Altrusa International of Ashburton for several years, proving popular with the public as well as providing funds for Palliative Care.

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Programme runs from 16 December—21 January 2018.

Ashburton Social Latin Dance Group Salsa, Cha cha cha & some ballroom. Please enquire for location, as it is changeable. All welcome, including beginners.

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Topp Lodge Xmas Concert Topp Lodge, 12 Burgess Road, Staveley Featuring Topp Twins - Cam Luxton and; Phil Doublet and Amelia James.

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December 17

Mt Peel Lily Day Mt Peel Station Church of the Holy Innocence will also be open for the day, it’s all repaired now from earthquakes etc At the day will be: Artists working in the garden, Morris dancers, a historic talk by Johnny and Rose Acland, Opera singer Carolyn McAtamney, and tea and coffee available $15 per adult, kids free, proceeds to Anglican Parish of Geraldine.

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Unusual Adornment - Summer Holiday Programme Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre This hands-on holiday programme is fun for the whole family. Drop-in to the Gallery daily and give it a go!

It takes inspiration from Elfi Spiewack’s exhibition ‘In Splendour Moot, Adornment Re-framed’ which combines materials of high and low value. Come along this summer to make your own unique adornment from recycled materials, including bottle caps, old beads, buttons and much more.

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Ali Harper: Christmas Joy Ashburton Trust Event Centre Join Ali at this special time of the year and capture the spirits of Christmas in this heartwarming concert.

Following on from her popular shows last year, Ali’s special guests this year are The Voices Co. Youth Ensemble.

Tickets: Adult: $29* Child: $18* (0-16yrs) Conc: $25* (65yrs+) (*fees apply).

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December 19 Yusuf - Cat Stevens - 50th Anniversary Tour Horncastle Arena, Christchurch Yusuf - Cat Stevens toured New Zealand in 2010 for the first time ever, and the shows had the critics raving.

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Carols for Christmas at Holy Name lawn, corner of Winter and Sealy Streets Friday, December 22, 7pm Hosted by Ashburton Christian Ministers’ Association Bring your own seats.

(If wet, venue will be the Holy Name Church, Sealy St) 7.00pm

December 24

A Christmas Journey Christmas Eve Service The Sinclair Centre A special Christmas Eve service featuring singing of Christmas Carols, meditations and music.

This family friendly service is very popular. Come and join us as we light the Christmas tree, hear the Christmas story in a surprising and new ways as we journey to Christmas and as we enjoy the wonder and excitement of Christmas Eve. 11.00pm – 12.15am

December 30 Hot Rod & Classic Car Show The Blue Pub, Methven The hot rods and classic cars are once again coming to Methven for a show. Public can view all the cars on display around the Blue Pub car park. Proceeds will be going to Methven Charities.

Any enquiries ring Gerard McCloy - 027 417 2067 or email - g.a.mccloy@xtra.co.nz or check out the Facebook page ‘Rods at Methven’.

Door Sales Only – Adults: $5.00, Children: $2.00 10.00am – 3.00pm

January 3 Shabby Chic Market Day Rochester Villa, 21 Connal Street, Christchurch Heaving Trestles with Vintage items, linens, clothes, costumes, jewels, collectables, retro, Kitsch and kitchen, antiques, craft works, furniture, restored, revamped and recycled items.

Books, toys, art, homewares, Bric a Brac and assorted fancies - All in The Shabby Chic theme.

5 Rooms to Explore inside The Historic Rochester Villa.

Look for the Signs off Ferry Road and Rutherford Street Corner.

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February 4

11.00am – 3.00pm

January 7 Plains Railway Combined Craft Group Plains Museum, 19 Maronan Road Spinning Weaving, Embroidery, Knitting, Card Making, Patchwork, Quilting, Crochet, Creative Fibre etc etc All craft people welcome to come along, bring your friends, make new friends, spend an enjoyable day with us.

There is no charge, bring your lunch as tea and coffee provided.

For more information please call Jenny Cook 308 5911, or Pam Whiteford 307 2802.

11.00am–4.00pm

January 13 Salmonella Dub Featuring the Return of Tiki Taane Hagley Park North, Rolleston Ave, Christchurch From their very first live appearance in 1993 to the forthcoming 25th-anniversary tour, passion, creativity, energy, driving bass beats and pure joy are the signature hallmarks of one of New Zealand’s most successful bands.

Salmonella Dub and Tiki Taane will be joined onstage by Fat Freddy’s Drop and Ladi6 when they perform at Christchurch’s Hagley Park.

GA: $89.00 2.00pm

January 14 Plains Railway Combined Craft Group Plains Museum, 19 Maronan Road Spinning Weaving, Embroidery, Knitting, Card Making, Patchwork, Quilting, Crochet, Creative Fibre etc etc All craft people welcome to come along, bring your friends, make new friends, spend an enjoyable day with us.

There is no charge, bring your lunch as tea and coffee provided.

For more information please call Jenny Cook 308 5911, or Pam Whiteford 307 2802.

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Plains Railway Combined Craft Group Plains Museum, 19 Maronan Road Spinning Weaving, Embroidery, Knitting, Card Making, Patchwork, Quilting, Crochet, Creative Fibre etc etc All craft people welcome to come along, bring your friends, make new friends, spend an enjoyable day with us.

There is no charge, bring your lunch as tea and coffee provided.

For more information please call Jenny Cook 308 5911, or Pam Whiteford 307 2802.

Wolves (out now via Universal New Zealand). Joining Rise Against in NZ will be special guests SWMRS. 8.00pm

February 22

Michael Jackson HIStory Show Ashburton Trust Event Centre A musical tribute and live concert experience that journeys through Michael Jackson’s vast and incredible catalogue of work including his beginnings as a member of the Jackson 5, his groundbreaking theatrics in the 80s and his evolution onward into the 21st century.

11.00am–4.00pm

8.00pm–10.30pm

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Plains Railway Combined Craft Group Plains Museum, 19 Maronan Road Spinning Weaving, Embroidery, Knitting, Card Making, Patchwork, Quilting, Crochet, Creative Fibre etc etc All craft people welcome to come along, bring your friends, make new friends, spend an enjoyable day with us.

There is no charge, bring your lunch as tea and coffee provided.

For more information please call Jenny Cook 308 5911, or Pam Whiteford 307 2802.

11.00am–4.00pm

February 14

Kevin Bloody Wilson “Almost Awesome Tour” Ashburton Trust Event Centre Kevin Bloody Wilson’s show is not just a concert, for many it’s a full-on special event providing the chance to laugh and sing along again with an hilariously familiar friend, while for others it’s the opportunity to put a tick against “see Australia’s most unique international comedy legend” on their Bucket Lists.

8.30pm–10.30pm

February 17 Rise Against Horncastle Arena, Christchurch The politically-charged, punk four-piece will play two shows – their biggest headline shows in our country to date - in celebration of their charttopping eighth studio album

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Royal New Zealand Ballet: The Piano: the ballet Wellington, Napier, Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch, Palmerston North.

Inspired by Jane Campion’s award winning film The Piano (1994), central character Ada McGrath is given a powerful new voice in dance within this captivating tale of desire and hope is set against the rugged landscape of mid-19th century New Zealand. This brand new full-length work by revered Czech choreographer Jiří Bubeníček is presented in association with the NZ Festival and Auckland Arts Festival and includes excerpts from the original film score, and music by Debussy, Arensky, Stravinsky, Schnittke, Brahms and Shostakovich. www.rnzb.org.nz

March 10 TMC Trailers Trucking Industry Show 2018 Canterbury Agricultural Park, Christchurch It’s a great family day out. Be prepared to be there all day because there is going to be so much to see. It’s very hard not to get excited when you see over 400 working trucks that have been polished back to new condition. There is something for everyone at this show, so don’t miss out!

Free admission.

9.30am – 5.00pm

211A WILLS ST, ASHBURTON, 7700 * Fees apply

Ali Harper: Christmas Joy DECEMBER

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Join Ali at this special time of the year and capture the spirit of Christmas in this heart-warming concert.

Following on from her popular shows last year, Ali’s special guests this year are The Voices Co. Youth Ensemble.

Time Travellers “Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School”

JANUARY 12 &13 Fri, 7.30pm Sat, 2pm & 7.30pm All tickets: $25*

Kevin Bloody Wilson Almost Awesome Tour FEBRUARY

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Thu, 8pm Tickets: Adult: $59*, Child: $30* (12yrs & under), Group 6+: $54*pp

Tickets: Adult: $59.90* 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.

The outrageously funny Kevin Bloody Wilson returns to New Zealand with his “Almost Awesome Tour” in February featuring special guest artist, Jenny Talia from Australia.

He’s irrepressible and irreverent and guaranteed to make you laugh with his unique brand of humour, a must-see for anyone wanting to see absolute original Australian comedy.

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Celebrate Michael Jackson’s creative genius and unsurpassed talent with a riveting live performance through accomplished impersonator Dantanio-electrifying in his role as Jackson plus a live band, choreographed dancers, authentic costumes, state-of-the-art sound and theatrical lighting, vision and effects. Truly a mind-blowing stage production - do not miss it!

If you would like to see your upcoming event listed here, please contact Emma - email emma.j@theguardian.co.nz

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Puzzles and horoscopes www.guardianonline.co.nz Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. A classic father, Walter Horatio wrote (5) 4. Crossbeam of sort man can manufacture (7) 8. Entrap men in a way that’s there to stay (9) 9. Musk-bag found in a school of whales (3) 10. Think back on what a speculum can do (7) 12. Combination of nations can almost impede it (4) 14. First thing for diner is for him to give the ‘off’ (7) 17. Time for a Muslim nymph to lose one (4) 18. Violent as doctor can be with a facial twitch (7) 20. Container one will soundly deserve to get (3) 21. Course pet took to bring one before a court (9) 23. Cost writer included in a variety of exes (7) 24. Deal with the menace once hydrogen is removed (5)

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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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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Your admired someone to be and the person that someone actually is ... well, of course they can’t be the same – unless you’re a fiction writer inventing a person.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): This conflict embodies the same source of all conflicts. Both sides believe they are doing what’s best; they just have drastically different ideas and definitions of what that entails.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Think about the problem as if it were your own, whether or not that’s the case. Of course, solving problems that aren’t yours always comes with the added problem of getting others to adopt your solution.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Accepting someone’s story is often a matter of convenience over plausibility. We all believe what we’d rather believe. Remember this, because you’ll be in a position to convince someone of the truth.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): The good thing about your cosmic mindset is that it limits the amount of time you’re willing to spend on trivial, personal minutia. There are much, much bigger things with which to concern yourself.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): When good taste prevents a person from getting involved with good people, that’s called snobbery. The division is bad for everyone. You’ll fight this in yourself and you’ll call it out in others.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): When you’re not sure what to do next, a small voice inside will chime in: “Is this really what the world needs now?” Your focus on what’s missing in the world (instead of what’s missing in you) will light the way.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Loved ones don’t always agree on how to get things done, but today you’ll agree on the goal. Focus on this and unify your efforts. You’ll prevail.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Purge your stuff and your soul gets purged, too. Release the old; let go of the tired; get rid of the rubbish. It will help you take advantage of opportunities that will come with next week’s new moon.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Sleep is what you long for when the alarm clock goes off in the morning and yet still resist in the wee hours of a fun night. For optimum health and vitality through the end of the year, guard your sleep this weekend.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): When the environment is neat and orderly, you feel that all is right with the world. It’s why you’ll work so hard today to straighten things up and organise what you have.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): The mirror isn’t enchanted; the tomb isn’t cursed; the artefacts don’t come with power beyond what they’re given.

But some things really ought to be sacred. Do this by giving it sacred attention.

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DOWN 1. Member of a ship’s crew (8) 2. Artery (5) 4. Removed from office (6) 5. Unexpectedly (12) 6. Attain (7) 7. Pipe (4) 8. Visual signals (4,8) 12. Remains (colloq) (5,3) 14. Rowdy (7) 16. Entertained (6) 18. Dissuade (5) 19. Silences (4)

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Areas morning cloud, then fine, apart from isolated afternoon and evening showers.

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High pressure covers New Zealand. A weak cold front moves onto the bottom of the country during the afternoon. The ridge persists over central and northern New Zealand through the weekend. A front moves onto the South Island on Sunday, then the North Island Monday as a ridge builds over the south.

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You can care for families like the Collinses this Christmas. Support our Christmas Appeal and give hope to those who need it most.

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This Christmas, The Salvation Army will be called upon to give care to more than 17,000 families, providing support ranging from food parcels to counselling and accommodation.

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Together, the family worked on a plan to address their most serious issues, beginning with their living situation and then through financial and family mentoring programmes and food parcels.

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Northeasterlies, a southerly change overnight.

The cupboards were empty, the bills piling up and they were close to losing their home due to rent arrears. When the family received an eviction notice they knew they needed help, so they turned to their local Salvation Army.

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A Christian and his Jewish fiancée bring their diverse families together for the holidays. Wendie Malick, Cynthia Stevenson, Vikki Krinsky. 0 2:50 Celebrity Name Game PGR 3:20 Sticky TV 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm Susie Nordqvist presents comprehensive coverage of global and local news.

4:25 Entertainment Tonight 4:55 Best Of Family Feud 0 5:30 Family Feud Australia 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6am Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 6:25 World Of Quest 3 6:50 Codename – Kids Next Door 7:15 Kung Fu Panda – Legends Of Awesomeness 7:40 Duck Dodgers 8:05 Johnny Test 3 8:30 Henry Danger 3 8:55 Tiki Tour 0 9:25 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:50 Jeopardy 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 3 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Road Trip 12:40 Madam Secretary AO 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 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 5pm Jeopardy 5:30 Prime News 6pm American Restoration 0 6:30 Pawn Stars

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7pm M Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone PGR 2001 Fantasy. On his 11th birthday, Harry Potter learns he is the orphaned son of two wizards and is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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7pm The Project 8pm The Graham Norton Show AO 0 9pm 7 Days AO 10pm Legend Of The Gumboot PGR 0

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Best Of Top Gear PGR 8:30 Soundtracks – Songs That Defined History PGR 0 9:30 Sleepy Hollow AO 0 10:30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR

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11pm NewsHub Late 11:20 Bob’s Burgers PGR Linda is determined to host a party at the restaurant to spread a little extra cheer, but things do not go well.

11:50 Bob’s Burgers PGR 12:20 The Project 3 1:20 Infomercials

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 The team presents the best of the day’s sports news.

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MOVIES PREMIERE 6:30 The Daughter MLS 2016 Drama. Geoffrey Rush, Paul Schneider. 8:05 The Lennon Report MVLC 2016 Drama. Richard Kind, David Zayas. 9:30 The Benefactor 16LC 2015 Harry Potter and the Philo- Sleepy Hollow Drama. Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning. 11am Nerve sopher’s Stone, 7pm TVNZ 2 9:30pm on Prime MC 2016 Adventure.

Emma Roberts, Dave Franco.

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Sport Taylor into top 10 Ross Taylor has joined New Zealand team-mate Kane Williamson in the top-10 of the latest test cricket batting rankings. Following the Black Caps’ 2-0 home sweep of the West Indies, Taylor climbs to 10th on the back of his record-equalling 17th century in the second test at Hamilton. New Zealand captain Williamson remains fifth, with some distance back to the third-ranked Black Cap, opener Jeet Ravel in 30th.

Neil Wagner, who took 14 wickets in the series, climbs two places to seventh in the bowling ranks.

Hunt to fight Blaydes

The Mid Canterbury Hammers will have a new coach at the helm next season, with Sean Carter taking the job, being assisted by Dale Palmer and Jason Rickard.

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The Mid Canterbury’s Hammers’ hunt for a new coach is over, calling on a local name in the form of Sean Carter to take up the job.

Carter is coming off a successful season co-coaching the Rakaia team that made the final of the Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition, as well as the final of the Watters Cup, games they both lost.

It is not his first time being involved with Mid Canterbury, having worked as assistant coach in 2011 and 2012, Carter is the current coach of the sevens side that has qualified for nationals, as well as coaching Canterbury Metro and coaching professionally in Russia.

“I am really looking forward to it,” Carter said.

“Obviously they showed their capabilities towards the end of last season and showed they were a top team and it was just

a shame they had a few matches during the season that let them down.”

Carter said his goals for the team were pretty simple, by getting them back into the top tier

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There is a lot of young talent coming through and it is exciting to be involved with and mentor those guys

of the Heartland Championship.

“In the time I have spent within the union this is probably the strongest the Watters Cup competition has been,” he said.

“There is a lot of young talent coming through and it is exciting to be involved with and mentor those guys.”

When it came to areas where he thought the team needed to

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improve, they were pretty simple.

“Just finishing and making the most of the opportunities to score when we get them, and having the mental strength to

finish off games when we are in winning positions,” he said.

Carter will be joined in the coaching box by Dale Palmer and Jason Rickard, two coaches that have been working their way up through the Mid Canterbury ranks.

Palmer made a name for himself back in 2015 when he guided Methven to the Combined Com-

petition title, the first Mid Canterbury side to do so.

Both Palmer and Rickard have spent the past two years in charge of the Mid Canterbury Development team, winning the Hanan Competition in 2016.

“They are both young men who are really the future of Mid Canterbury Rugby,” Carter said.

“They both have a lot to give back in terms of longevity which is exciting and I am sure they will keep me on my toes, and hopefully I will be able to show them a few things.”

Mid Canterbury Rugby’s Chief Executive Officer, Ian Patterson, said “We are very pleased to have secured the services of Sean, Dale and Jason for the union, they are all skilled coaches and their skills and experience complement each other very well.

“It is also great to see coaches progressing through our local pathway to coach the union’s premier team.”

Veteran Kiwi heavyweight Mark Hunt’s return to the mixed martial arts ring has been confirmed for Perth in February. Hunt, 43, will face 26-year-old Curtis Blaydes at UFC 221 in his first fight since beating another American, Derrick Lewis, in June. Hunt was pulled out of an event in Sydney in November to be medically assessed after admitting to slurring his words and memory loss. Ranked fifth in the heavyweight division, Hunt (13-1-1) is expected to be challenged in the February 11 fight by Blaydes (8-1).

King into quarter-finals New Zealand’s Joelle King has retained her perfect record against English rival Sarah-Jane Perry to book a place in the quarter-finals of the squash world championships in Manchester. Ninth seed King held her nerve in two tense closing games to win 11-1 6-11 14-12 11-6 in just under an hour to set up a showdown with third-seeded French opponent Camille Serme on Saturday (NZT).

Ninth-seeded Kiwi Paul Coll plays his men’s quarter-final against French top seed Gregory Gaultier this morning (NZT).

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