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BY SUE NEWMAN

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Lake Hood property owners plan to fight a proposal to change the way their settlement is rated, says property owners group secretary Matt Harris.

The Ashburton District Council intends to change the settlement from a rural to an urban rating district and that will see property rates rise by 37.8 per cent (an average of $760 per property).

It’s a proposal property owners say is blatantly unfair.

The Huntingdon Park Property Owners Association believes the proposal is flawed and it is encouraging residents

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to let the council know their concerns by making a submission on its draft revenue and financing policy.

Residents were united in feeling the rating change was unfair, Harris said, and he’s urging people to make a submission spelling out the reasons why being part of the urban rating district was not appropriate for Lake Hood.

The council is making the change because it now provides the same range of services to lake residents as it does to residents in Ashburton and Tinwald. Those facilities include street lighting, footpaths, kerb and channel, streetscapes, sports grounds, parks and

reserves, as well as a kerbside rubbish collection and town water supply. It believes the most equitable approach is to bring Lake Hood rating in line with the Ashburton urban amenity rates.

But saying the services are the same for both areas is way off the mark, Harris said.

Street lighting at the lake was not the same as in Ashburton, neither were kerbs and channels, he said.

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Vegetation fires prompt call for people to be prepared

By Katie todd

Left – Vegetation fires are a common cause of callout for Ashburton firefighters.

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Vegetation fires are on the rise and Mid Cantabrians need to remember “little, simple” safety precautions, say Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ).

Following a 25 per cent increase in the number of vegetation fires around New Zealand, FENZ are urging people to minimise any fire risk to their homes.

FENZ have attended over 2215 vegetation fires since November 2017, which is around 440 more than the same time the year before.

While deputy principal rural fire officer Don Geddes said no significant increase has been noted in Ashburton District of late, vegetation fires were still recorded here more commonly than any other kind of fire throughout last year.

Volunteer firefighters attended 110 vegetation fires in Ashburton District last year, only slightly more than the average of 98 a year since 2001.

In Ashburton, vegetation fires were the fourth most common reason for a callout in total, behind probable false alarm (PFA) callouts, “medical assist” jobs and “assist occupier” jobs.

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Geddes said it was important to make a “defensible” area around rural properties, by removing combustible materials,

keeping lawns mown and watered, keeping spouting clean and clear of leaves and having a functional fire extinguisher on

hand inside the house.

He also recommended restricting activities with any spark hazards.

‘We will fight lake rates’ From P1 “Many streets in Lake Hood only have footpaths on one side and the streets in the lifestyle blocks have no footpaths. Kerb and channel are not to the minimum requirements of urban Ashburton and streetscapes are in need of repair,” he said.

It was incorrect to say the settlement had its own sports grounds as the tennis court was owned by the Ashburton Aquatic Park Charitable Trust (AAPCT) and the pitch and putt golf course had been created by volunteers, Harris said.

He’s also questioning the ap-

propriateness of bringing rural blocks and adjoining farmland into the urban zone.

“We might not be rural but we’re not urban either, we’re somewhere in between.”

In saying that Lake Hood now had access to urban services such as the town water supply and kerbside rubbish collection was entering a red herring into the debate, as they were rated separately, he said.

“It seems a very blunt thing this proposal; there have to be other options.”

Property owners association chairman Peter George said that

property owners already paid a levy of $360 a year to the AAPCT. Ninety per cent of this was used for maintenance of the park and its surrounds and the other 10 per cent was used for projects to improve the park.

“Having to pay this levy as well as the increase in rates is not fair and equitable. Ashburton urban residents who own properties next to the Tinwald or Ashburton domains don’t pay an extra levy to maintain them so why should Lake Hood residents,” he said.

Currently the council pays about 30 per cent of the cost of

maintaining the park, $140,000 a year, but it would be a fairer deal if it upped this to $360,000 as this would match the proportion of land vested in the council, George said.

In 2010 the AAPCT gave the council an $11 million cash gift which was used to buy the existing lake and some surrounding land.

That deal came with a condition that the council maintained the lake for recreational use and enjoyment of the public.

Submissions on the draft revenue and financing policy close at 5pm on Monday.

“We’ve had a couple of callouts from people mowing their lawns and making sparks, so it’s probably best to do that in the morning when there’s still a bit of dew around,” he said.

FENZ regional rural manager Richard McNamara said the main message the organisation wanted to urge was “be prepared”.

“Obviously we can’t have a fire appliance on every corner, but if you’re living in these areas there’s a lot you can do to protect your home.”

A restricted fire season is currently in force for Ashburton District, meaning open air fires can only be lit with a permit.

Permits can be applied for through the Timaru District Council, are free of charge, and “are not difficult to get”, Geddes said.

Busy Valentine’s for local florists

By Katie todd

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Valentine’s Day served up a big workload for florists across the district yesterday, as Mid Cantabrians splashed out on treats for their significant others.

For florists like the team at Samantha Rose, this meant staying up until 10pm on Valentine’s eve making preparations, before presenting box loads of red roses to a steady stream of keen customers throughout the day.

“All in all it’s been amazing, it’s been really above expectations,” said Rose.

“We had lots of walk in customers and then pre-orders as well.”

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Good breeding success feather in cap for Russell

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Left – Lagmhor farmer and conservationist Russell Langdon has had good breeding success with the rare brown teal at his wildlife centre this summer.

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Every day is a day for ducks at the Riverbridge conservation area at Lagmhor.

However, some ducks are not allowed to live there, much to the disappointment of owner Russell Langdon.

Langdon has had breeding success with one rare species, the brown teal, this summer, but has been turned down yet again in his efforts to have blue duck at the site.

The conservation area has a breeding stock of 10 brown teal and this summer 14 chicks fledged.

Brown teal are among a multitude of birds doing well there.

They also include weka, kakariki, white swans and little owls. In addition there are many visitors to its wetlands, and these include rare banded dotterels, spoonills, black swans and grey teal.

Brown teal are the fourth most endangered duck in the world, and were once on the verge of extinction in New Zealand.

Their comeback has been supported by breeders such as Langdon, and a New Zealand brown teal recovery programme which releases the rare dabbling ducks throughout the country.

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of a blue duck, but they are a nice little bird,” Langdon said.

He wants to open a blue duck breeding centre at the 10-hectare conservation area, and with a change of government last year once again tried his luck with the new conservation minister.

“But she just handed it back to the same old bureaucrats,” Langdon said.

Langdon maintains such a centre would help the species and be a tourist attraction for Mid Canterbury.

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blue duck recovery group leader Andrew Glaser said the department had recently identified key breeding facilities meeting the demand of its release sites for the species.

“Our current assessment is that we don’t need to have a further fa-

cility at the present time. For the forseeable future, we have plenty of birds being produced from existing captive facilities to take up available predator-controlled spaces on rivers,” Glaser said.

“Whio have large territories, so this is an important consideration, they need room to thrive.

This is why we are not looking to increase the number of captive facilities at this time.

“We acknowledge that being able to see whio is likely to be a significant drawcard for the public, however, the welfare of captive whio and the overall whio population must be our first consideration. If we captively breed too many animals, neither are going to benefit.”

■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Big spend on arts, culture but no policy

By Sue NewmaN

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Over a year almost $2 million in rates money is spent on arts related activities in the Ashburton District.

That money is given in grants to the Ashburton Museum, Ashburton Art Gallery and Ashburton Trust Event Centre, and with the council looking to make a new investment into community events, mayor Donna Favel

is questioning why the council does not have an arts and culture policy.

A policy was developed and adopted by the council in 2001 but this was removed in 2015.

At a meeting of the council’s bylaw and policy subcommittee yesterday, Favel suggested it was time some critical thinking was put around the money that was put into the arts, that perhaps a policy was needed.

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“I think the time is now where we could look at a bigger picture as we’re going to be funding events. We need to be looking at setting some narrative around the funds we already invest in the arts for the community,” she said.

If the library was included in the arts bracket, then funds allocated to the arts would rise to $2.8 million, Favel said “I’d like to see some kind of words around this so we can be

sure we maximise the benefits for the community.

“I want to make sure we tell the story to the community on why we do these things. I want us to be proactive rather than reactive.”

Staff undertook a survey of other local authorities to determine whether they had arts and culture policies and found that few did unless they actually owned and operated facilities themselves.

Few of her councillors were keen to see the council revert to having a policy again but Selwyn Price suggested a policy was important to make it clear to ratepayers why the council did and what it spent in the arts area.

“It’s a big chunk of our annual budget and we need a policy to say why we do this, why we bother,” he said.

There was little support for developing a policy.

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School has UV rays and bad food in its sights

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Good health is about changing behaviours at the grass roots level, say (from left) Tinwald School principal Peter Livingstone, Health Promoting Schools health promoter Pup Chamberlain and Cancer Society Mid Canterbury health promoter Mandy Casey.

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Part of the nutritional health promotion was to undertake a survey of lunch boxes.

Livingstone’s observation to date was that about two-thirds of children at the school had adequate lunches with little packaged processed food, however, there were some lunch boxes that contained only that.

Part of Chamberlain’s role as the health promoter is to link with groups such as the Cancer

Society Mid Canterbury.

This week the society’s health promoter Mandy Casey visited the school, and talked about the logistics of sun smart behaviour.

Some schools had introduced sunscreen stations, and she planned to bring UV beads to Tinwald. Children could put the beads in the sun and see them change colour according to the amount of UV light.

Being sun smart meant not

only slip, slop and slap, but also getting enough sunlight for the production of Vitamin D, and advice was that sunscreen not be applied until after 9.30am each day.

Health Promoting Schools team leader Tim Weir in Christchurch said research had shown that for health programmes to be effective they needed to be complemented by broader approaches that went beyond lessons.

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Whooping cough rate high

By SuSan SandyS

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Canterbury District Health Board figures show Mid Canterbury has had the worst rate of whooping cough in the region over the last 12 months.

For the 12 months to January, the rate of notifications, calculated as the average per 100,000 of population, was 110 for the Ashburton District, compared to the next highest rate of 108 for Westland, and 102 in Waimakariri.

Contributing to this was Mid

Hinds vat fire Staff at the Hinds Wayside Inn received a fright when a vat in their kitchen went up in flames on Tuesday. The fire began at about 8pm after oil in a cooking vat became too hot and ignited.

Volunteers from Hinds Rural Fire Force were called to help out, but chief fire officer Dave Kingsbury said staff had already done a good job of managing it by the time they arrived. “The pub staff had done everything right and it was all contained to the vat. It hadn’t spread to any other part of the kitchen,” he said. “It was just a matter of waiting for it to cool down.” While vat fires can be tricky to manage, he said the staff had “obviously done their training”.

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If children can make behavioural changes supporting their health now, it will help deflect a tsunami of medical issues looming over New Zealand.

That is the philosophy clear in the minds of those working as part of Health Promoting Schools.

Facilitating the Community and Public Health initiative in Mid Canterbury is Pup Chamberlain, and he is currently working with eight schools in the district over three-year terms.

Tinwald School is among the latest to come on board, and Chamberlain has worked alongside principal Peter Livingstone to choose sun safety and good nutrition as two focus topics the school will work on. They are considered highly relevant, considering New Zealand has the highest rate of melanoma in the world and it is threatened with a diabetes tsunami.

“We are hoping to influence some long-term better decision making by our children,” Livingstone said.

Chamberlain said it was a topof-the-cliff approach.

“We don’t want to be seen as food nazis, it’s that gradual change of behaviour that people come to accept that as the norm.”

In brief

Canterbury’s rate being boosted well over its average due to a high rate of cases in December. There were 10 cases for the month in the district. This was followed by a further three cases in January.

Figures provided so far for February, from February 2 to February 9, show no cases as yet for the month.

Mid Canterbury infants in particular are at risk of contracting the potentially fatal disease as a nationwide epidemic gathers steam.

It was a global phenomenon for an epidemic to occur every four to six years, and they generally lasted from 18 months to two years.

The last one in New Zealand began late in 2011 and did not settle until 2014.

Pink advised people with a cough or feeling unwell to avoid visiting relatives and friends with infants.

Some adults with the illness may not even know they had it, he said.

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Pay rise on cards for mental health workers

Three in leader race

About 3800 mental health and addiction workers will soon get a pay rise in line with last year’s pay equity settlement for home care workers.

But the government won’t yet say what kind of bill it faces over the decision.

Health Minister David Clark confirmed yesterday he had agreed to begin negotiations to extend the settlement to cover the mental health and addiction workers.

“We are correcting a problem created by the previous government, which failed to make the settlement broad enough to include mental health and addiction workers,” he said.

“We are doing the right thing for these workers.”

However, Clark would not comment on how much the government could potentially end up paying in total, saying it would have to wait until negotiations were finished.

“We have an estimate of the parameters, but more will be revealed in the budget,” he said.

The previous pay equity set-

David Clark tlement gave home care workers pay rises of between 15 per cent and 50 per cent.

Unions, including the Council of Trade Unions, the Public Service Association and E tu welcomed yesterday’s announcement.

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The National Party leadership has reached three contenders, with Selwyn MP Amy Adams joining Simon Bridges and Judith Collins in announcing a run for the top spot.

The trio confirmed yesterday they wanted to succeed former prime minister Bill English, who on Tuesday said he would be leaving parliament in two weeks.

Adams made her announcement on parliament’s lawn in the afternoon, flanked by felllow MPs Nikki Kaye, Chris Bishop and Maggie Barry.

Collins was the first to step up in the morning.

Asked whether she could take on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the next election, Collins told TVNZ: “I don’t underestimate her, but I do have her measure and I can beat her.”

Ardern was reluctant to reply.

“I’m absolutely comfortable that my job is to do the best job I can on behalf of New Zealand.

That remains unchanged regardless of who is in the opposition seat and I wish them all well,” she told reporters.

Bridges announced his tilt to reporters at parliament a few hours later, saying he believed he had “strong support” in the caucus.

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Amy Adams “I think I offer the right blend of generational change and experience,” the 41-year-old former transport minister said.

Meanwhile, National Party veteran Steven Joyce was also not ruling himself out.

“I’m considering my position currently ... I’m taking some soundings from colleagues,” he said.

“But ultimately it’s not about any individual, I really believe that. This is about putting together the best possible team.”

Rodney MP Mark Mitchell told reporters he too was considering running. Former health minister Jonathan Coleman was not ruling

himself out either.

Auckland Central’s Kaye – the youngest among the speculated candidates for the role – ruled herself out yesterday before showing up to support Adams.

Deputy leader Paula Bennett also said she was not running, but would campaign to keep her current role.

And while some opposition MPs declined to comment on the race, Foreign Minister Winston Peters was not pulling any punches.

“The National Party really needs somebody who’s intelligent, popular, seriously good on their feet, charismatic and the kind of gentle hearted person that the last time they had someone like that was 25 years ago,” he told reporters.

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Confirmed: Judith Collins, Simon Bridges, Amy Adams Maybes: Mark Mitchell, Steven Joyce, Jonathan Coleman Out: Paula Bennett, Nikki Kaye, Maggie Barry

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Triathlon tests Methven students Year 3-6 speedsters from Methven Primary School ran, cycled and swam their way through a voluntary triathlon last Friday. An army of spectators cheered as 83 non-competitive participants and 52 competitive participants took on the challenge.

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Our Lady of the Snows students enjoy sun, surf, sand Students at Our Lady of the Snows School packed togs and towels and journeyed north to Christchurch for a beach education day at New South Brighton Surf Club last week. Under sunshine-filled skies, lifeguard instructors Sam and Jade took smiling students through some water safety basics.

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February 16: St Joseph’s School Swimming Sports, Longbeach School Triathlon & house colour mufti day

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February 19: Ashburton Borough School Year 7/8 camp to Wainui (until February 23)

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February 20: Hampstead School Junior Swim Sports

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February 20: Opuke Community of Learning teacher-only afternoon, Rakaia School House Competition Day, Longbeach School bus safety with police

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February 21: Hampstead School Senior Swim Sports, Mayfield School Triathlon, Methven Area Swimming Sports

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February 22: Mid Canterbury Primary Schools’ Triathlon at Hampstead School

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February 26: Hampstead School Triathlon

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February 27: Longbeach School visit from St John

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February 28: Methven Primary School Swimming Gala, Ashburton Christian School Year 4-6 and Year 7/8 Camps (until March 2), Hampstead School Year 6 Camp (until March 2)

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March 1: Ashburton Borough School Year 7/8 Family Picnic

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March 2: Lagmhor School Family Camp (until March 4)

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March 6: County Swimming Sports, Mid Canterbury Rugby Union School Rippa Rugby Tournament

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March 7: Mid Canterbury School Cricket Tournament

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March 9: Mayfield School preparation for Mayfield Show, Tinwald School Year 1/2 Duathlon

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March 11: Tinwald School fete

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March 12: Ashburton Borough School Year 5-8 World of Maths Roadshow

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March 16: Our Lady of the Snows Mufti Day, St Patrick’s Day theme

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March 19: Hampstead School Photos

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Students end the year with a splash When Longbeach School saw out the last school year, it was in fun, alfresco style. A Lake Hood fun day, complete with kayaking aplenty, saw dozens of students getting out on the water and having a good time.

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The pool’s cool and so is school at Hampstead Room 1 at Hampstead School has welcomed a squad of enthusiastic new students, eager to get amongst classroom life and even sample the cool waters of the school pool last week.

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whose families can no longer afford to use the centre. And there will be sporting codes who look for other venues.

The council’s motivation in wanting the centre’s costs to be a 50/50 rates/user funded split is probably right, but sometimes right isn’t all that right.

Sometimes a local authority has to bite the bullet, look at the greater good and accept that sports centres don’t make money.

They’re a community facility

not a cash cow.

And then there’s the looming battle over Lake Hood rates.

That’s a tough one.

The council says Lake Hood residents receive exactly the same services as Ashburton residents and therefore they should pay the urban amenity rate.

On paper that’s right, but it’s thinking that’s also flawed.

The greater Lake Hood is a community asset.

It was built on the blood, sweat, tears and a fair slice of cash from a small group of dedicated people who were committed to the dream.

Yes, people who live at the lake are now living that dream, but they’re also paying more than rates for the privilege.

Every property owner pays around $360 a year to the lake

trust to maintain the aquatic park and residents carry the costs of lake water testing.

The council is also a property owner and pays this fee on the land it owns. It also pays into the lake trust maintenance fund.

All of that makes Lake Hood a special case.

If the rates proposal goes through most homeowners will be footing a rates bill that’s around $700 higher next year.

You can’t blame them for being riled up.

Changing the way Lake Hood is rated isn’t a simple job.

It’s not as easy as swapping rural for urban, it’s somewhere in between.

People affected by both changes should not feel impotent they should react.

There comes a time when you

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hen you try to create a level playing field, someone’s always going

to lose.

And that’s the dilemma Ashburton’s district councillors are facing on a number of fronts as they try to balance the books for the coming year.

They’ve had their staff working over time shaving dollars off across a range of areas of expenditure.

Most, ratepayers won’t notice, but there are some cuts and attempts at equity that have raised hackles.

Two of those rattling cages are the proposed 40 per cent increase in fees for court space at the EA Networks Centre and the 9 per cent increase in pool and gym fees.

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just can’t sit back and take what’s tossed at you, when you can’t just sit back and hope that what you see as the right result will be achieved. Sometimes you have to stand up and be counted.

There are just a handful of days left for people in this district to have their say on the document that’s driving these changes, the council’s draft revenue and financing policy.

Submissions close on Monday.

If you’re angry about the proposed changes, do something.

Make a submission, put on your big girl or boy pants and tell councillors you want to stand up in front of them, that you want to tell them why they’ve got it wrong.

If enough people say the same thing often enough they absolutely have to listen.

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Today’s Highlight in History: On February 15, 1798, a feud between two members of the US House of Representatives boiled over as Roger Griswold of Connecticut used a cane to attack Vermont’s Matthew Lyon, who defended himself with a set of tongs.

On this date: In 1564, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa.

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In 1898, the US battleship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbour, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.

In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami.

In 1942, the British colony Singapore surrendered to Japanese forces during World War Two. In 1952, a funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain’s King George VI, who had died nine days earlier.

In 1961, 73 people, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.

In 1971, Britain and Ireland decimalised their currencies, making one pound equal to 100 new pence instead of 240 pence.

In 1989, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan, after more than nine years of military intervention.

In 1992, a Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys.

In 2002, a private funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain’s Princess Margaret, who had died six days earlier at age 71.

Stevie Benton (Drowning Pool) is 47. Actress Renee O’Connor is 47. Actress Sarah Wynter is 45.

Olympic gold medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen is 45.

Actress-director Miranda July is 44. Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 42. Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 42.

Thought for Today: “We live by encouragement and die without it — slowly, sadly and angrily.” — Celeste Holm, American actress (1917-2012).

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PETE’S PERSPECTIVE

W

e Kiwis are an interesting bunch.

It’s often easy to forget we are geographically pretty isolated and there are comparatively few of us, but despite this, we manage to leave our mark in all sorts of ways.

Yep, we all know how we led the world in giving women the vote, how we play the best rugby on the planet, and how we launch rockets into space and were first to split the atom.

But there’s another way we dominate, and that’s in our love of collector vehicles.

Our sheds are full of them, literally.

Get this: apparently, per head of population, we have more collector vehicles than any other place on earth!

I distinctly remember reading that somewhere once and if it’s not true now, we are certainly right up there.

And I’m guilty to being part of the statistic.

We love to hunt down the cars of our youth, or cars of an era that resonate and fill us with a great feeling of rose-tinted nostalgia.

Usually it’s the vehicles from the time we got our driver’s licence, or vehicles we aspired to at that time. For most of us it’s cars, but specialist vehicles and even trucks are coveted by enthusiasts for whom it becomes essentially, an obsession.

Recently Mrs Mac and I decided to host a “shed warming” for our relatively new Joe’s Vintage Garage which houses our version of the infatuation that is old vehicles.

We threw the doors open one sunny Sunday afternoon recently to fellow local members of the Vintage Car Club and stood back to see who responded to the lure of scones with jam and cream, a cuppa and plenty of “old car talk”.

What a buzz to see people in their dear old machines roll through the gate and settle in for a casual afternoon of vintage motoring indulgence.

I got hooked from an early age.

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Email us! editor@theguardian. co.nz Facebook us! facebook.com/ ashguardian PRESS COUNCIL My grandad had an old 1929 Essex as his daily driver and I thought it had a tremendous presence and a ton of character.

And the lines – and that big beautiful front end. I was smitten with that era.

All hope of being cured disappeared when, as a schoolboy, I made my way up to Smallbones showroom (where Braided Rivers is now) to witness a vintage car display in their showroom on a Friday evening, ahead of the annual rally.

I fell head over heels in love with one car in particular, and 50 years later I still fondly recall it.

Local man Mike Crum had located a 1929 Stutz 2 door Straight Eight Coupe and restored it to concours condition.

I remember my 10-year-old jaw literally dropping to the floor at first sight of this gorgeous specimen with a paint finish you could seemingly dive into, and a stance and grace that I found intoxicating.

I just stood there and gawked at it all night. I was buggered from that point. A hopeless addict of the world of collector heritage vehicles.

And here’s an interesting thing.

Not enough of us saved and put away the everyday cars of our youth.

If you are of my vintage, they were the Ford Escorts and Capris, the Zephyrs and Zodiacs, the Vauxhall Crestas, PABX and Vivas, the AP5 Valiants, EH Holdens and a host of other everyday runners.

How many Ford Escorts or Anglias have you seen on the road lately?

Yet the aspirational cars we saw relatively few of back in the day are now reasonably prolific.

Why? Because plenty of people, having raised their family and dealt to the mortgage, are taking advantage of the opportunity to grab the dream cars of their youth off the back of a wave of importation from, mainly, the USA. There’s a huge market in that area and it’s put some wonderful heritage cars on New Zealand roads.

Check out any long weekend during the warmer months and they’re out there on our highways and byways, heading off to some event to gather with like-minded souls to bask in the rich glow of auto nostalgia. And it’s fun! It really is.

Did you know that the Vintage Car Club is open to any vehicles, cars, trucks or motorcycles, older than 30 years of age?

So yes, that 1988 Toyota Corolla is eligible this year.

And the club, with its 36 branches nationwide, is keen to regenerate its ranks and foster the newcomers.

There’s a perception that it’s all for the antique stuff and that’s a myth the club is keen to dispel.

The country’s garages are full of half-finished projects that have eaten up the financial

resources and drained the will of would-be restorers.

Taking on an old vehicle restoration can be hugely satisfying if you make it to the finish line.

But the best advice I’ve heard to anyone wanting get into old vehicles, is be realistic about your ability and your resources.

“I don’t have the time” usually translates into “the project got the better of me”.

Once you’ve been honest with yourself about the basics, it may well be best to watch what’s on offer on the market and score the vehicle of your dreams, completed by someone else, often at a fraction of what their real costs of restoration were.

And you can get in and start enjoying it straight away. Converting petrol into pleasure.

So, stick the iPad on private search and off you go in pursuit of classic auto porn.

Like any infatuation, there’s a thrill, a sense of danger and the edginess of heading into the unknown.

But once you find her, she might just be a keeper.

That gorgeous, lanky, American ’57 Chevy.

Oooooooh, I’m so jealous!

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■ UNITED STATES

NY bomber gets life The man who set off pressure cooker bombs in New York and New Jersey in 2016 has been sentenced to life.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi injured 30 people when he set off a bomb in Manhattan.

The Afghan-born US citizen, who was captured after a shootout with police, told the court that he does not “harbour hate for anyone”.

According to federal prosecutors, the 30-year-old has not shown remorse and has attempted to radicalise others in prison to support Islamic State.

Rahimi, known to many as the Chelsea bomber, was convicted in 2017 October on all eight counts brought against him in court, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a public place.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a statement “justice has been served”.

“The sentencing will not heal the pain and suffering that this despicable act caused New Yorkers, but it sends a strong message that we will not tolerate those who seek to sow fear, hate and violence.”

On the morning of September 17, 2016, Rahimi left his home in Elizabeth, New Jer-

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Ahmad Khan Rahimi who set off small bombs on a New York City street and at a charity race in New Jersey, has been sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison. PHOTO AP sey with several homemade bombs. The first bombing location he chose was along the route of a Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.

Due to a last-minute change to the race schedule, no people were injured when that pipe bomb detonated.

Investigators said Rahimi

then planted two bombs in the Chelsea neighbourhood of New York but one failed to detonate.

Other remaining devices were left in a discarded rucksack in a rubbish bin at a train station in New Jersey on the day after the weekend attack.

The trial in October heard that Rahimi’s fingerprints and

DNA were discovered on both bombs laid in New York City.

Jurors also saw CCTV footage of the suspect walking the Manhattan streets to where the bombs were placed.

Rahimi was arrested two days after the attacks following a shootout with police in New Jersey, which left him in hospital for weeks.

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Fame or love?

Cyclone Gita’s destruction emerges Homes have been destroyed, government buildings flattened and churches devastated following the severe tropical cyclone Gita.

The full scale of destruction is beginning to emerge from Tonga in the aftermath of the storm with reports of around 50,000 people or almost 70 per cent of the country’s popula-

Celine Dion has added another date to her New Zealand tour, heading to Auckland’s Spark Arena in August. The legendary Canadian singer will now perform on Sunday, August 12, in addition to the original show set for Saturday, August 11, as part of her LIVE 2018 Tour.

The tour marks Dion’s first visit to New Zealand in over 20 years. The superstar’s ongoing Las Vegas residency is the most successful concert residency of all time, with Dion playing over 1000 shows to more than four million fans. Though Dion has sung her biggest hits – such as My Heart Will Go On and The Power of Love – countless times, she says it’s the fans that breathe new life into the tracks every time.

tion having been affected, a third of whom are children.

Oxfam’s country director for Tonga, Jane Foster, said the agency’s main focus now is to work with local partners to find out exactly where the most urgent needs are.

She said water supplies across the main island of Tongatapu had sustained signifi-

cant damage, which brings with it the risk of further outbreaks of waterborne diseases.

“The impact of this severe storm will be felt on many people’s livelihoods for a long time to come.

“We also have grave concerns for the immediate threat from damage sustained to water supplies as the risk of contami-

nation is high. There is a real risk of a second disaster from water and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue,” she said.

“Oxfam’s main relief efforts will focus on our area of expertise: providing safe water for people, as well as sanitation supplies and public health support to help prevent the spread of diseases.”

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Fans are wondering if Married at First Sight Australia star Davina Rankin is looking for fame rather than love, as it turns out this is her third reality TV appearance. According to the Daily Mail, the MAFS hopeful has been “trying to be a celebrity for years”. She appeared on Channel Seven’s First Dates in 2016, and also appeared on Big Brother back in 2012. Rankin did not appear as a contestant, but rather featured during an episode in which a “fake” Big Brother house was constructed and she and some other models were brought in for a pool party.

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The five biggest risks facing NZ

South bound motorists are forced to use one lane of the Auckland Motorway before the harbour bridge after the high tide and strong on shore winds caused several lanes to be under water. risk, around the GFC,” he said.

“Then it became a lot more varied. Geo-political risk, technological risk – like cyber – and societal risks have come more to the fore.”

But in the past few years environmental risks have started to dominate.

The top five perceived risks for local respondents were: natural catastrophe, extreme weather

events, large cyber attacks, assets bubbles and urban planning.

This was understandable given New Zealand’s geographic situation, Hedrich said but also reflected that wider global trend.

He noted that “urban planning” was an unusual risk to feature so far up the list of concerns, but having done some research about New Zealand’s housing, transport

and infrastructure issues he now understood it.

It was the case that there was often a perception bias toward the issues that were dominating the news of the day, he said.

“But it also shows a real change in the perception of those risks by the business community,” he said.

It also mean that regardless of

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Bevan McKenzie ing it could have been much worse than that if they had had to do a dirty great big capital raising,” he said.

Lister said weakness in Fletcher Building, which has a 6.2 per cent weighting on the NZX-50 index, was the main reason behind the index’s near one per cent fall in the opening minutes of trade.

“Other than Fletcher Building, it was a pretty benign market, so Fletchers will be dominating that decline,” he said.

The company earlier announced $660 million total losses from its Buildings and Interiors division, the resignation of chairman Sir Ralph Norris and told shareholders they will get no dividends.

Further provisional losses of $486m have been announced from the Buildings and Interiors business, “leading to a total projected loss of $660m. Fletcher Building chairman announces he will step down no later than the 2018 annual shareholders meeting. No interim dividend payment for half-year 2018,” the company says.

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“Following a review of projects in the Building + Interiors (B+I) business of the Construction Division, Fletcher Building today announced a further provision of $486m for project losses,” the company said.

“Combined with provisions previously announced in October, as well as overheads and other costs, this leads to a projected $660 million EBIT loss for B+I in FY18.

“Earnings guidance for the Fletcher Building group excluding B+I remains $680 million to $720 million as announced in October.”

Ross Taylor, chief executive, said the new provisioning was informed by a review of 16 B+I projects, accounting for approximately 90 per cent of the construction backlog, and incorporating external input from independent construction experts and KPMG. “The provisions we have announced today are informed by a considerable amount of further project analysis, and while we continue to target agreed completion dates across the portfolio, we have factored in significant cost and timeline contingencies,” Taylor said.

“Our absolute focus is finishing our remaining B+I projects within these provisions and to a high quality for our customers. To achieve this, we are refocusing the entire B+I business on project delivery only, and ceasing all bidding on vertical construction projects in New Zealand. This will allow us to direct all resources in B+I to the completion of the current book.”

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Unit lost nearly a billion dollars in past two years; Norris resigns A troubled Fletcher Building unit will lose almost a $1 billion in a two-year period, the company’s chief financial officer Bevan McKenzie announced yesterday.

Difficult construction contracts caused losses in the Buildings + Interiors division of $292m in the June 30, 2017 year but a further $660m of losses were projected in the current June, 2018 year, McKenzie said.

Sir Ralph Norris, Fletcher chairman, cited quantity surveyor estimates, which were as much as 100 per cent wrong, rising building costs and the flow of communication from management to the board as just some of the reasons for losses which McKenzie said amounted to $952 million during the two years.

Fletcher Building’s shares price dropped by 13.3 per cent after the stock came off a trading halt yesterday and was a factor in taking the share market index down by nearly one per cent.

By 10.05 am the stock was trading at $6.74, down $1.03 from its closing price last of $7.77 last Wednesday. The NZX-50 index was down 0.58 per cent at 8055 while the rest of the market was flat.

Fletcher Building makes up 6.2 per cent of the index.

Mark Lister, head of private wealth research at Craigs Investment Partners, said the share price could have been much lower if the company had planned a big capital raising to rectify its debt problems, as some in the market had suggested.

“It was a good result consider-

where you stood on the science of climate change, the governments, consumers and investors were shifting their behaviour and that meant the change was very real for business.

It was important when assessing risk not to become overly gloomy, he said.

With the exception of a few disastrous events like nuclear war, most risks also presented an opportunity for those businesses that positioned themselves well to meet the challenge.

“Shifting consumer preference means new products and new services can be offered.”

There were also limits to how much you could do to protect yourself from risk, he said.

So while you should do all you could on cybersecurity it was almost impossible to protect yourself 100 per cent from attack. That meant that how you responded to risk was key, Hedrich said.

“The need for business is to become more agile, in the decision making and risk management.

At the same time we need to see a shift from protection to recovery or response, to be more agile when things happen.”

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Natural catastrophe and extreme weather events have topped the list of perceived risks to New Zealand in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks report for 2018.

That reflects a global shift towards environmental issues and away from economic concerns in the past few years, according to the report – now in its 13th year.

Put together in partnership with the Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) Risk Center, the research polls 1000 senior business leaders from the World Economic Forum’s global network.

The results showed the top five global risks (by likelihood) were perceived to be: extreme weather, natural disaster, cyberattacks, data theft and failure to adapt to climate change.

This list represented a big shift from the concerns dominating thinking after the global financial crisis, said Wolfram Hedrich, MMC executive director at the Asia Pacific Risk Center.

Hedrich was in New Zealand this week to present the research.

“When we started the report there was a focus on economic

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Great turn-out to field day

By Colin WillisCroft colin.w@theguardian.co.nz

An open-gate field day at the Align Longfield property on Tuesday that focused on farm environmental practices attracted a crowd of about 100 people.

The morning’s programme began with an introduction from Irrigo Centre environmental manager Eva Harris, before MHV Water chief executive Mel Brooks gave a run-down on her company’s environmental programme.

Harris said Canterbury farming was in a cycle of continuous improvement when it came to looking after the environment, the cornerstone of which was individual farm environment plans (FEPs).

Those plans help farmers identify environmental risks on their farms and the actions needed to deal with them, she said, which in turn helped farmers to better understand their properties.

Align Longfield farm manager Matt Bell and Align Farms’ head of operations Rhys Roberts gave a summary of how the 283-hectare Ealing dairy farm operates, its environmental and staff management practices and how the farm fits into the overall Align operation, which includes a further four properties throughout Mid Canterbury.

Bell also spoke about the benefits of fenceline plantings of toetoe and flaxes on the farm, which include providing windbreaks and shelter for animals. He also noted the potential of plantings to reduce nose-to-nose contact between animals, an increasingly important biosecurity consideration to reduce the spread of diseases like mycoplasma bovis.

Agricom animal nutritionist Glenn Judson then explained how the company’s new Ecotain plantain combines four different nodes of action that work together to reduce nitrate leaching from urine patches.

He said Ecotain could be added to pasture to help plug nitrate

Those who attended Tuesday’s field day at Align Longfield relished the opportunity to get out in the paddock and find out more about how the farm operates.

PHOTO COLIN WILLISCROFT 130218-CW-247 leaching by diluting the nitrate load in a urine patch, by reducing the amount of dietary N excreted in urine, by delaying the conversion from ammonium to nitrate in urine patches and by reducing nitrification through the use of a biological inhibitor.

Judson acknowledged that Ecotain was yet to be recognised by farm nutrient budgeting software Overseer, but he expected that would happen within a couple of years.

Soil moisture monitoring is an increasingly important tool for modern farming operations and IrrigationNZ chief executive, Andrew Curtis, shared some of his insights with those at the field day about the use of sensors to get the best out of irrigation water.

The final speaker was Enviro Plan director Alison van Polanen, who covered the FEP audit process, something all Canterbury farmers have to comply with. She explained just what environmental auditors will look for and some of the gains farmers can achieve from the process.

It’s good for farmers’ bottom line I t was great to see the interest shown by farmers at this week’s field day at Align Longfield.

The focus of the event was environmental management and it does the industry credit that around 100 people took time out of their day to attend.

The sector gets a bad rap about the effect it has on the environment, but many Mid Canterbury farmers are actually leading the way when it comes to what’s termed “environmental best practice”.

They realise that more often than not environmental best practice is also financial best practice, particularly if you’re looking at the long-term. Overuse of resources like fertiliser and irrigation water is not only bad for the environment, it’s also bad for the bottom line.

After all, why pay for something when you’re not getting best use

Colin Williscroft

out of it?

It was interesting to hear one of the field day hosts, Align Farms head of operations Rhys Roberts, say that his company’s focus is not having the highest production figures going around.

Instead, it was more about providing environmental leadership and being able to utilise the associated good management practices to tap into the market for value-added milk products.

The logic behind the statement was pretty easy to understand.

With commodity prices at current levels, there’s not a lot of

leeway if you’re purely focused on churning out as much as you can.

There are better margins in being able to prove you’re a responsible farmer and selling your product at a premium because of that.

I might be wrong, but that sounds like good economic sense to me.

Of course we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that in general the people who show up at these types of field days are already more than likely to be doing their bit anyway, so there is an element of preaching to the converted.

However, it’s got to be positive that there are farmers out there doing great things and that they are willing to share their experiences with others.

Now, if we can just get that message out to the general population.

Colin Williscroft is the Ashburton Guardian’s rural reporter

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First livestock cadet graduates Anzco’s first livestock cadet, Daniel Fenemor, has graduated from the cadetship programme and is about to embark on his career in the industry.

Fenemor, who featured in the August 2017 edition of Guardian Farming, started his cadetship in May 2017 when Anzco established the programme to help get more young people in to the industry, particularly in the important livestock representative role.

He comes from a sheep and beef farm at Mataroa, north-west of Taihape, has spent the past eight months working throughout Anzco’s business before he started procuring stock.

“Our goal is to have cadets coming out more versed in the wider business, technology and more aware of Anzco’s business outside stock procurement,” Grant Bunting, Anzco’s general manager Agriculture and Livestock, said.

Fenemor said the past eight months have given him a good understanding of the wider Anzco business, including the important customer relationship, which is a strong part of Anzco’s business model, before starting the livestock role.

“At the start of the cadetship I was openminded about where in Anzco I’d end up working, but the experience reinforced to me that I wanted to be out and about on-farm,” he said.

“In my new role I’ll be working with farmers in the Cheviot/North Canterbury area and I’m looking forward to getting out onfarm and visiting new and existing Anzco farmers.”

Anzco will shortly be advertising for cadets to start the programme in May 2018.

Anyone interested in becoming an Anzco cadet should register their interest at www. careers.Anzcofoods.com

Left – Anzco’s first livestock cadet, Daniel Fenemor (right), on-farm in North Canterbury with Anzco regional livestock manager, Tony Kelly.

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Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 – Which ward does councillor Stuart Wilson represent? a. Ashburton b. Eastern c. Western 2 – The won is the currency of which country? a. Myanmar b. Vietnam c. South Korea 3 – Which of these is not a variety of grape? a. Molto negro b. Albarossa c. Centurian 4 – In which year was the video game Pac Man first released? a. 1978 b. 1980 c. 1982 5 – Which colour playing piece starts a game of chess? a. White b. Black c. Either 6 – Gorgonzola is a type of...? a. Cheese b. Ham c. Pasta 7 – The hamburger was developed by McDonald’s in which decade? a. 1930s b. 1940s c. 1950s 8 – Which is the fourth largest city in New Zealand? a. Dunedin b. Palmerston North c. Hamilton

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Ashburton mum Tharina Nel (left) celebrated the establishment of her homebased business, The Cakelady, by wowing guests with a wide selection of delicious treats, both savoury and sweet.

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Club news Thursday, February 15, 2018

www.guardianonline.co.nz Age Concern Ashburton Age Concern is delighted to once again present a Positive Ageing Expo for the Ashburton and wider community. Thursday, March 8, 2018 is the date for this very worthwhile and exciting event, at the Ashburton Racecourse, from 10am to 3pm. Over 60 site holders will be showcasing what they have to offer our valued and more mature citizens.

Across the spectrum – support organisations, financial affairs, hobbies, craft, sport opportunities, mobility issues, health and wellbeing. Light refreshments will be available on site, so, put this date on your calendar, and take the opportunity to avail yourself to a wealth of information.

We are also pleased to offer a Confident Driving course on Friday April 20. This will be held at the Ashburton Seniors Centre, 206 Cameron St with facilitator, Yvonne Palmer, from Christchurch. Registration and enquiries are welcome at the Age Concern office 3086817, or call into 206 Cameron Street.

206 Club, ladies exercise class, hospital visiting are all underway for the year, as is Hip Hop for seniors, our courtesy driving service and Steady as you Go groups for falls prevention.

Enquiries for these as well as garden-

ers and Total Mobility Assessments all welcomed at the office on 3086817.

Allenton Bowling Club Members and visitors are enjoying playing on our new artificial green.

Many thanks to all involved.

Progress pairs played on February 2 – Skips – 1st John Bruce – 3 wins. 2nd Alan Leis – 2 wins. Leads – 1st Bruce Hopwood – 3 wins. 2nd Graham Tappin – 2 wins.

Congratulations to the team of G. Bishop, M. Smallridge & J. Mitchell winners of the Green Keepers Tray – very appropriate for our Green Keeper Graeme.

Also congratulations to the “Spice Girls” aka S. Holdom, W. Watson, S. Doig & R. Johnston winning the Jubilee Tray at the Hinds Ladies Fancy dress fours Tournament on February 7 – a lot of fun was had by all!

Men’s championship 4’s have finally been completed and the team of A. Crawford. B. White, B. Holdom & R. Kane prevailed over G. Bishop’s team 21-10 – well done.

Allenton Croquet Club Club President Ann Sunbeam welcomed a good attendance of members to the monthly meeting.

For a change the weather has been kind to us on playing days and the hot

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Ashburton Bridge Club A tight 3 No Trump contract requires recognition of 2 main issues – which suit to develop for the extra tricks needed, as well as the timing of actually working on it. North/South reach the final contract of 3 N.T., with dealer, North, opening 1 N.T., and South using Stayman to check for a possible 4 card major fit and raising to 3 N.T. when no major fit is found.

Although North was shown a 4 card Heart suit, East, on lead, chooses the Heart J. Declarer should win with the Heart A in hand and immediately look to set up 2 Spade tricks in dummy, which will happen as long as defenders’ honours are split 2-1. So, a low Spade from hand at trick 2, the Q appears from East, the Ace from dummy, West following low. The next play must be a Spade from dummy which will be taken

by West’s J, East having to discard.

West then leads the Heart Q, taken by the K in dummy, and a 3rd Spade is led; taken by West’s K, but what can be now lead to let East cash his 2 established Heart tricks? Sadly, nothing works and a relieved North temperatures have affected attendances at Club afternoon’s for Association players while golf croquet players have been playing in the mornings.

Invitations to fun days in Timaru and Oamaru were received.

Maurice Sunbeam won the 18-to-24 South Canterbury Association tournament.

In the South Canterbury Association doubles tournament Ann and Maurice did well and were in the count back for runner up.

Arrangements were made for selling tickets for our Easter Raffle.

Shortly the Waireka Croquet Club will be using our greens while their greens are upgraded.

The next meeting is on Wednesday March 7 at 3.30pm.

Ashburton Dahlia Circle The 1st Dahlia Table show for the sea-

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Debutants Mark Chapman (20 off 13 balls) and Tim Seifert (14 not out off six), both hit two sixes apiece and provided just the right extra push in the closing stages.

“They added a lot of energy, which was great,” Williamson said.

“They came in with limited opportunities and the way

they approached their innings and performed, they were outstanding. It was brilliant to see.”

England gave themselves a decent chance of overhauling the record-equalling score on the ground by New Zealand, but 25 off the last over was too much.

Still, they showed their tour here promises to be highly entertaining.

Opener Alex Hales, lefthander Dawid Malan and a spot of late-innings hitting from left arm seamer David Willey gave England a sniff. However Trent Boult – one of three New

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Hearts. 3 top Clubs, 2 top Hearts and a 3rd Heart gives East 2 heart tricks, the Club J, and now he will exit with a Diamond. No matter what declarer does, he cannot avoid losing either 2 Spades, or 1 in each of the Spade and Diamond suits.

son was held on Tuesday January 30 in the Tinwald Hall.

The hottest day of the year at 35deg.

Keeping the Dahlia fresh was a challenge and also all the members, who did so well to attend, and those who brought along some stunning blooms.

New Members Vivian and Russell Pearce won the Novice Section with a lovely small Fimbriated Dahlia ‘Lemon Honey’. As 1st time exhibitors they really have excelled.

The Intermediate Section was won by Alison Donald a lovely 3 bloom vase of the waterlily ‘Taratahi Ruby’and a single bloom vase Medium decorative ‘Trengrove Millenium’.

The Open Section was won by Joyce Read with a 3 bloom vase of ‘Rycroft Brenda T’ and the single vase of a Medium Decorative ‘Dikari Jodi’, which also was awarded the Premium Bloom of the evening.

From ‘uh oh’ to winning knock

Black Caps captain Kane Williamson in action against England.

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Kane Williamson acknowledged he dodged a bullet during his man of the matchwinning performance in Tuesday night’s opening T20 match against England in Wellington.

Runs production had been skinny for the New Zealand captain in his last three T20 internationals, just 17 runs in three innings.

On other days he would have been run out first ball last night. Instead, after misjudging a quick single, pushing the ball towards mid on, he saw fast bowler Mark Wood’s hurl at the stumps at the non-strikers end fly narrowly past with Williamson still a couple of metres short of his crease.

About an hour later, Williamson was finally out for 72 off 46 balls, setting up New Zealand’s 196 for five, which led to a 12-run win over England.

“It just happens,” he said of the crucial moment.

“I thought the ball was going to roll a bit further. It didn’t and I thought ‘uh oh’,” he said last night.

“Sometimes you get a bit of luck; sometimes you get a bit of bad luck. You just think about the next ball and try to stick to your plan.” It was Wil-

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Zealand bowlers to grab two wickets – shut the door on the chase with two wickets in consecutive balls in the 18th over.

New Zealand got top value out of part time medium pacer, Colin Munro, who bowled two tidy overs for 11; while legspinner Ish Sodhi was clever, and pricy, by turn, finishing with two for 49 off his four overs; and left arm spinner Mitchell Santner was highly effective with two for 29.

Santner did blot his night by dropping one of two chances which went down during the chase, spilling a catch on the long on boundary off Sodhi, which rebounded over the rope for six.

Tim Southee, usually a safe pair of hands, then completely missed a skier at deep mid wicket off Santner.

The teams reconvene at Hamilton next Sunday by which time the result may be immaterial to the Tri-Series.

If New Zealand beat Australia at Eden Park on Friday night, the two will meet again in the final on the same ground next Wednesday.

England must hope for an Australian win, then beat New Zealand themselves in Hamilton.

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Thank you to our judges for the evening, Graham Gunn and Jackie Ryan.

Dahlias are now at their peak of flowering, a little earlier than usual due to the warm weather.

This weekend February 17 and 18 is the Jubilee National show to be in Blenheim. Jeannette and John Cuthbertson from Hinds Paradise Gardens will be attending as Jeanette is the National Secretary. Graham Gunn will also travel to Judge.

The next club Table show will be Held in the Tinwald Hall on Tuesday February 20. Hall is open from 6.30pm.

Visitors welcome.

Already being advertised is the Combined Dahlia Show with Canterbury Dahlia Circle to be held as a day event in the Tinwald Hall on Sunday March 4.

The Hall will be open to the Public from 1pm – 3.30pm no door charge.

Stoinis keen for more Marcus Stoinis is relishing his return to the ground which launched his international career as Australia’s Twenty20 side prepare to face New Zealand in Auckland.

With a spot in next week’s tri-series final already locked up, the visitors will be out to maintain their unbeaten run when they face the Black Caps on Friday night at Eden Park.

The ground holds fond memories for Stoinis, who became the talk of the cricketing world when he scored an incredible 146 not out during last summer’s one-day international series.

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In brief Horn’s bout off to LA Jeff Horn’s world title boxing fight against American Terence Crawford has been moved from New York to Las Vegas. Australian boxing’s latest star was scheduled to defend his WBO welterweight title against Crawford for the WBO on April 14 at Madison Square Garden. But according to media reports, the new venue will be the Mandalay Bay Resort, with details likely to be confirmed in the next week.

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Beale’s back NSW Waratahs “barometer” Kurtley Beale is playing in today’s rugby trial against Melbourne Rebels but the nation’s two most established halfbacks will be missing. Both teams will field eight Wallabies in their starting side with test lock and new Rebels captain Adam Coleman making his first appearance for the Victorian franchise. However among the notable absentees are Rebels and Wallabies halfback Will Genia (back) and his Test deputy and Waratahs No.9 Nick Phipps (calf).

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Crusaders branch out The standup paddleboard event at Lake Hood this weekend is designed to appeal to those who paddle for fun and fitness.

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Fun emphasis to challenge

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Standup paddleboarding: Everyone should be doing it.

That’s the view of Bill Dawes, who is running a paddleboard event at Lake Hood this weekend to raise the profile of a sport that is fun, low-impact and burns the calories. It can also be fiercely competitive.

Lake Hood is the venue for New Zealand’s first standup paddleboard team challenge and Dawes hopes the sport will catch on and the 15 teams at this year’s event will turn into 30 next year.

“It is a completely new concept in water sports events and hopefully the first in a worldwide se-

ries.” Dawes said the Lake Hood event on Saturday and Sunday will be a trial to test the format of a day of fun challenges for teams of four.

The event is intended to capture the interest of thousands of people who paddleboard for fun and fitness, as opposed to those who race paddleboards.

“The competitive side is a small majority. Most people just want to have fun,” Dawes said.

The event is designed for people of all paddleboard abilities and involves 10 team challenges which will test fitness and skill.

The day also includes a session with the experts aimed at improving skill levels.

“The only requirement to entering was that they be able to stand up. They don’t have to be a hot shot.”

Dawes expects a lot of laughing at the lake, with challenges based at the Lake House. The action will be in the canals and on the lake in front of the Lake House.

The 15 teams include paddleboarders from Christchurch, Methven, Tekapo and Dunedin.

The youngest competitor is nine and the oldest mid-60s.

Dawes said the man-made lake near Ashburton was a perfect venue.

Paddleboarding was also an accessible sport, easy to learn and with little equipment required.

Paddleboards being used at Lake Hood will be inflatable boards that perform like hard boards when blown up.

“As an exercise it is low impact and you won’t bugger your knees or get knocked down. It is very safe. It is also good for core strength and balance and you burn a lot of calories.

“And psychologically, there’s something good about being on the water.”

A good board can cost up to $1500 but would last 10 years.

The modern inflatable boards worked like a camping mat and could be rolled up for easy transport. Boards for the challenge are being supplied by Red Paddle Co.

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Ko disappears from Twitter after day of drama Lydia Ko has undergone another offseason change, with the former world number one deleting her Twitter account.

The surprising move follows Ko once again changing her caddie and coach for the 2018 LPGA Tour season, with former PGA golfer Ted Oh her new coach, and Johnny Scott her new caddie.

They replace Gary Gilchrist and Peter Godfrey respectively, with Scott set to be her 11th caddie since she turned pro in 2013.

Shortly after the announcement, it was discovered that Ko had also disappeared from Twitter.

The decision does not seem to be based on Ko receiving any

abuse on the popular social platform, with most of the Twitter response to her decision being balanced.

Ko still has an active Instagram account, where she posted a positive message going into this year’s campaign.

The 20-year-old failed to add to her 14 career LPGA titles in 2017 having a down year for end high standards but still finished second in three events and had 11 top tens across the year.

She held the number one spot until midway through June before slipping down to world number nine at season’s end.

Ko gets her season under way at the Australian Open on Thursday morning.

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The Canterbury Rugby Union and Crusaders have taken minority ownership stakes in the American professional rugby side, the Seattle Seawolves. Chief executive of the Canterbury Rugby Union, Nathan Godfrey, told Radio Sport Breakfast that the minor investment was made to “open doors in America” and “further develop the Canterbury Rugby franchise”. “Canterbury Rugby and the Crusaders have made a really small investment in the Seattle Seawolves franchise, probably about 1 per cent, but clearly we see other in-direct benefits in that ownership long-term,” Godfrey said.

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DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club February 17 - Weekend Ladies Teams Ambrose mixed Starters S. Bradford 0211590983, B. Fechney 0211305366 February 20 - Mid-Week Ladies Sandhurst Qualifying, 4BBB Starters P. Bell 0276065194, J. Dunlop 0276723112, Report 8.30am February 22 - Nine hole Men and Women Rnd 1 Medal-Stroke, Report 9.15am Starters W. Smith 3089207, E. Langford 3081559, Club Captain Sally Lemon 0274054910

RESULTS ■ Golf Tinwald Golf Club

Lydia Ko has deleted her Twitter account.

February 13 - LGU Silver: Bron Flannery 80-11-69, Bronze 1: Barb Harris 98-26-72, Bronze 2: Val Prendergast 103-30-73 Murray Young Property Broker #2 Di Bell, Sims Bakery #6 Linda McClea, Mac & Maggie #12 Di Bell, Outdoor Adventure #16 Madeleine Smith.

2’s Di Bell & Di Lowe 9 Hole Competition Stroke & Putting Teresa O’Connell 37, Shirley Young 15.

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Barrett adds power to precision for Canes

Veronica Wall, in her Ashburton College colours from 2017, is making a splash at the national rowing champs at Lake Karapiro this week.

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Locals shine at championships Ashburton Rowing Club’s Veronica Wall is among a number of Ashburton Rowing Club crews producing strong results at the New Zealand Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro.

Wall is through to the finals of the under 22 single sculls and the under 20 doubles (with Grace Wilson) after winning her heats. She has also progressed to the semi-finals of the under 20 single sculls by finishing first in her heat, along with Wilson, who finished fourth.

Wall, Wilson and Mollie Gibson have also earned semi-final spots in the senior women’s singles, Wall and Gibson finishing first in their respective heats, and Wilson second.

Also into A finals is the senior women’s quad of Wilson, Gibson, Olivia Gibson and Fran Connelly-Whyte. Wilson and ConnellyWhyte are through to the A finals of the senior women’s doubles, along with the Gibson sisters.

The men’s crew are also posting impressive results, with Matt Rae and Haxby Hefford both through to the semi-final of the men’s club singles, and combining to make the club doubles semi-final.

A good sprint by Rae and Hefford, rowing in a composite quad with Michael Wall and Cameron Moffat from Timaru, meant they just pipped a Cambridge Rowing Crew in the first heat of the men’s club quad, also taking the quali-

fying spot for the final tomorrow.

The champs will run until Saturday and a wide range of clubs are represented, with 792 athletes on the water across 69 events.

Ashburton para rower Terry O’Neill will also contest the final of his grade on Friday.

Wall easily posted the best time on Tuesday in qualifying for the senior women’s singles, with 8:25.35 – it was better than some of the times posted by premier scullers.

In that next grade, world champions Brooke Donoghue (Waikato RPC) and Olivia Loe (Southern RPC) won their respective heats (8:06.61 and 8:08.05), with Hannah Osborne

(Waikato RPC) placing second, five seconds behind Loe. The leading contenders for the men’s premier single sculls, John Storey (Southern RPC), Robbie Manson (Central RPC) and Mahe Drysdale (Auckland RPC), lined up after having two earlier races in other boats, while world champion Chris Harris (Central RPC) was a late scratching from the event.

Drysdale and Manson won their respective heats comfortably (7:20.06 and 7:16.29 respectively), while Storey was second behind Drysdale (7:28.30), setting themselves up for a good contest in the final on Saturday.

Semi-finals are due to take place today.

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History rewritten: Wales beat England 13-12 The vanquished, it seems, can rewrite history as they please if they complain hard enough and appeal with enough conviction.

That’s what Wales and their coach Warren Gatland have managed in the wake of losing to England last weekend in the Six Nations: they have badgered World Rugby into saying that they didn’t really lose at all because they were denied a try by the incompetence of the Kiwi TMO Glen Newman.

Big, bad England, playing at their fortress Twickenham, were given an unfair helping hand by the officials and Wales, always ever eager to cast themselves as the greatest hard luck story in all of sport, can wallow in self-pity with the new narrative safely ensconced in the public conscious.

There are, in no particular order, several reasons to be massively concerned by World Rugby’s decision to publicly condemn Newman for not awarding a try to Gareth Anscombe after 23 minutes.

The first is that World Rugby are now guilty of being entirely inconsistent when it comes to making public clarifications around contentious decisions. Or in other words, they seem happy enough to throw some officials under the bus, but not others.

The governing body had no hesitation in confirming that Romain Poite had been wrong in 2013 to red card South African hooker Bismarck du Plessis at Eden Park and Craig Joubert was condemned for his decisionmaking in the last minute of the World Cup quarter-final between Australia and Scotland.

In both instances the mistakes those officials made were glaring and significant. But when Poite made an equally horrendous and damaging mistake at the same ground last year in the final minute of the third test between the All Blacks and British & Irish Lions, there was radio silence from World Rugby.

They stayed quiet despite the

fact there has rarely, if ever, been a more obviously wrong decision made in the history of the game.

Newman’s error in not awarding the try at Twickenham was, given the video evidence, a mistake. But it wouldn’t rank as game-defining or sit anywhere near rugby’s list of all-time howlers.

There are marginal decisions made in almost every test these days and coaches, should they choose, could single out instances after any game and attribute their defeat to that one decision.

Most choose not to because if they start pulling that thread, the entire fabric of the game will unravel. For every decision that goes against a team, there will be one that goes their way and this is the natural balance that the sporting universe maintains.

Wayne Barnes missed that forward pass by the French at the World Cup in 2007, but four years later Joubert seemed to miss a few offside infringements by Richie McCaw.

There is rough and there is smooth – in sport it is imperative to accept them both, but apparently that ethos is crumbling.

There is a new pathway for defeated and vexed coaches now, which is called blaming someone else.

And coaches who take this path have the added incentive of knowing that if they make enough fuss and divert media into focusing on the failings of an official rather than the inadequacy of the gameplan, then World Rugby may cave in to what has become a pseudo witch hunt and give the seething masses what they want – an official’s head on a stick.

This may sound beyond the realms of possibility, but it is clearly not as it is what has happened in the case of Wales losing 12-6.

Millions of rugby followers didn’t watch the game but will consider that Wales really won it 13-12 and remain on track to win a Grand Slam.

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Jordie Barrett is doing his very best to lose the “Udon” nickname given to him by older brothers Beauden and Scott.

Renowned for his tall and gangly frame, the Hurricanes and All Blacks utility has packed on seven kilos over the off-season, hoping to hold his own in the tackle and become better suited to a midfield role in 2018 and beyond.

The 20-year-old rose quickly through the ranks in 2017, making his Super Rugby debut for the Canes and then earning two Test caps.

Yet those achievements have mostly occurred from a fullback position, where Barrett’s composure under the high ball and creativity have served him well.

He said he was happy to keep playing fullback, with Ngani Laumape and Vince Aso forming a fearsome Canes midfield pairing in 2017.

But he’d like to be as versatile as possible.

“Yeah – I hope it’s muscle,” Barrett said with a grin.

“Just trying to get a bit stronger and more powerful, and to be able to serve in midfield as well – hopefully that extra body weight will be good for me.”

With a starting All Blacks berth all but certain due to Ben Smith’s sabbatical, Barrett’s 2017 campaign was cut short in August by a shoulder injury.

He underwent shoulder surgery over the off-season and was forced to watch on as the likes of Damian McKenzie and David Havili earned black jumpers.

But he was looking forward to staking his claim again in 2018.

Barrett will miss the Canes’ trip to away matches against the Bulls in South Africa and Jaguares in Argentina, but should be fine to return in their Kiwi derby clash against the Crusaders in Wellington in early March.

“In a way it’s freshened me up, given me a break from the game to think about other things in life and work on the mental, the technical sides,” Barrett said.

“I have a few things in the back of my mind but my focus shortterm is on finishing my rehab, getting back out on the field and hopefully playing well.”

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Lightning target for speedster Smart sprinting mare Carnival is on a return path to Wellington.

The Riccarton-trained fouryear-old has the Listed Te Akau Lightning Handicap (1200m) on her programme to open a possible two-start North Island campaign.

“She’ll go up for the Lightning and then maybe a Listed 1200m sprint at Hawke’s Bay,” said Kevin Hughes, who trains the daughter of Showcasing with his wife Pam. “We’re running out of options for her really. We were toying with the idea of going to the Sydney carnival for a Group Three fillies and mares on the last day, but we’re in no rush.

“She will get stronger with more time so we’ll wait and look at Australia next season, we think she’s good enough.”

Carnival has won four of her 11 starts, including the Gr.3 Stewards’ Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton in the spring.

She has since finished a gallant sixth in the Gr.1 Telegraph (1200m) and was then freshened before running second on her home track last weekend.

“The draw didn’t help her at Trentham and Cameron Lammas said if she had drawn a closer marble she would have got some of it,” Hughes said.

“She needed the run the other day and when Don Carlo came alongside you couldn’t see her –

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Future undecided The future of Group One performer Ever Loyal has yet to be confirmed.

The New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) place-getter has been freshened since he finished fifth in the Listed Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m). “He’s having a short break and when he comes back a decision will be made whether he stays here or goes to Australia,” trainer Tony Pike said.

Good surface overdue The frustrated connections of Heroic Valour are praying for fine weather on the opening day of the next month’s Auckland Cup carnival. The four-year-old has already missed Group One opportunities this year in both the Railway (1200m) and the BCD Group Sprint (1400m), with wet tracks forcing his late scratching on both occasions. In between times, he finished strongly at Trentham to run fifth in the Gr.1 Telegraph (1200m).

Australian debut

She may only be small but, according to Carnival’s trainer Kevin Hughes, she’s tough. there’s not much of her, but she is tough.”

Meanwhile, the stable fancy their chances of getting some of their own money back with Bonaparte in the Hughes Racing

Stables Rating 85 (1400m) at Riccarton today.

“We’re very happy with him,” Hughes said. “He can take a sit and if he leads he does relax so we’re quite confident of a good

run.” Bonaparte has won two of his last three starts and with Tanya Jonker’s claim he will drop five kilograms on a last-start fifth on the course.

– NZ Racing Desk

Derby-bound stablemates hard to split Mission Hill has had the better of his barn-mate Vin De Dance in two previous meetings, but the stable isn’t reading too much into that just yet.

The three-year-olds will square off again in Saturday’s Gr.2 Electrolux Avondale Guineas (2100m) at Ellerslie and cotrainer Andrew Forsman said there is little between the pair.

“It’s been a case of Mission Hill being a bit sharper at the shorter trips, he’s been ready for a while.”

In brief

The son of Teofilo, who has drawn 20 at Ellerslie, is unbeaten this preparation following wins at Pukekohe and Te Rapa with Vin De Dance finishing fourth and sixth behind him.

“Vin De Dance is still on the way up, we’re really happy with both horses,” said Forsman, who trains at Cambridge with Murray Baker.

Danielle Johnson will replace Opie Bosson, who will be in Melbourne to ride Embellish in the Gr.3 C.S. Hayes Stakes (1400m)

at Flemington, on Mission Hill while Jason Waddell has been booked to partner Vin De Dance.

Decisions on riders for the Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) have yet to be confirmed.

Mission Hills’ winning form has propelled him to equal $7 second favouritism with Mongolianconqueror for the Ellerslie classic behind the $3.50 market leader Scott Base. Vin De Dance is rated a $14 prospect.

Meanwhile, last-start Gr.1

Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) winner Lizzie L’Amour will defend her Gr.1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m) crown at Ellerslie on March 10 at her next appearance.

“She’s come through Te Rapa really well, as did Nicoletta,” Forsman said.

Nicoletta was a game third in the Herbie Dyke and a decision has yet to be made whether she tackles the New Zealand Stakes as well.

– NZ Racing Desk

New Zealand Group One winner Aide Memoire will carry topweight when she makes her Australian debut for trainer Kris Lees on Saturday in the Gr.3 Triscay Stakes (1200m) at Randwick. The daughter of Remind has impressed her Newcastle trainer in the two months she has been with him, but he believes she will be suited to softer track conditions than the Good 4 surface Randwick is currently rated. “She’s a Group One winner in New Zealand and she’s not a very big mare so carrying 58 kilos will be against her as well,” Lees said.

Colt to show more grunt Mick Price is expecting Grunt to show his serious side when the New Zealand-bred son of O’Reilly steps up in distance. The Caulfield trainer has reservations about the colt’s chances in Saturday’s Gr.3 C. S. Hayes Stakes (1400m) with the Flemington outing a means to an end. “You’ll see him go a lot better in the Australian Guineas over a mile and even better over 2000m,” Price said. “I really like the horse, but I don’t think 1400m is ideal for him, so I guess we’ll see him balance up in the back half (of the field) and with a bit of room he can run on.”

- NZ Racing Desk

Manawatu harness Today at Manawatu Raceway

Manawatu Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 15 February 2018 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 5.09pm (NZT) NEXT MEETING MARCH 13TH & 15TH HANDICAP TROT $10,000, 3yo+, non-winners & up to r46 with cond. spechcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 87223 Caroline Wozniacki (1) fr ......... J Abernethy 2 79 J Cees Choice (2) fr ................S Abernethy 3 54988 T A’s Cracker (3) fr .......................S Phelan 4 66667 Imnotquitesure (1) 20 ............... P Ferguson 5 30922 Sunny Bill (1) 30 .......................... B Orange 6 43024 Hot N Fast (2) 30 .................D Ferguson (J) 7 70076 Above The Rest (3) 30 ....................K More 8 06408 Fira (U1) 30 .................................D Butcher 2 5.37pm P NORTH CITY FESTIVAL GOLD CUP MARCH 29MBL PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r40 to r55 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 07399 The Hurricane (1) fr .................S Abernethy 2 35573 Toll Gate (2) fr................................. A Pyers 3 80226 Jack Bates (3) fr .................. T Cameron (J) 4 56434 Itsokbeingbetter (4) fr .................K Marshall 5 20685 Hezaluckygrinner (5) fr ............ J Abernethy 6 79681 Nova Time (6) fr........................... B Orange 7 01737 Balfast (7) fr .................................D Butcher 8 70888 Contractual Issues (21) fr ....D Ferguson (J) 9 03077 Strawberry Moose (22) fr.......... P Ferguson 10 1662 Volando Denario (23) fr ................S Phelan 11 6344P Captain Kirk (24) fr ....................A Poutama 3 6.02pm SILVESTER CLARK MOBILE PACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+ mob. pace, mobile,

2000m 1 54556 Santanna Legend (1) fr .................. A Pyers 2 Lady Liberty (2) fr ................D Ferguson (J) 3 70x69 Spritz (3) fr...................................D Butcher 4 37P72 Delia May (4) fr ........................ J Abernethy 5 34045 Cha Cha B (5) fr ........................A Poutama 6 40P33 Toppatherock (6) fr ..................S Abernethy 7 99559 Delightful Kas (7) fr...................... B Orange 8 82344 Viewfield Chatton (21) fr ...............S Phelan 9 3850 Pump Up The Volume (22) fr .......P Butcher 10 30222 Toro Delago (23) fr ................... P Ferguson 4 6.28pm T MARKET FRESH TROT $10,000, 3yo+ r46 to r52 trot, stand, 2500m 1 90661 Kai Time (1) fr ............................A Poutama 2 65444 Burt Munro (2) fr ...........................S Branch 3 03506 Xtra Time (3) fr .............................S Phelan 4 44421 Dauntless (4) fr .......................... B Edwards 5 08337 Meander With Pegasus (5) fr ... J Abernethy 6 72325 Oto Invasion (6) fr ..................... P Ferguson 7 04463 Commando One (U1) fr .......D Ferguson (J) 8 53815 Monaro Mia (U2) fr ..................S Abernethy 9 P3202 Mekong Princess (U3) fr.............. B Orange 5 6.53pm KEVIN & SHIRLEY FARRIER MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r50 to r55 mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 15403 Carbonado (1) fr ..........................D Butcher 2 36045 Hes Fast And Furious (2) fr .D Ferguson (J) 3 83729 Master Of Escape (3) fr ..............K Marshall 4 56164 Emira (4) fr ..............................S Abernethy 5 23154 Jenora (5) fr .............................. P Ferguson 6 645P3 Madiba (6) fr ..................................S Doody

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86229 Gotta Moment fr ......................... Scratched 22802 Our Wicklow (21) fr .......................S Phelan 75318 Ohoka Maximus fr ...................... Scratched 30081 Sauchiehall (22) fr .....................A Poutama 31492 Ask Me Art (23) fr ........................ B Orange 6 7.18pm KEN FRASER MEMORIAL HANDICAP TROT $10,000, r54 to r74 discrhcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 98827 Majestic One (1) fr ...................S Abernethy 2 81339 Clifden Clowers (2) fr................. A Donnelly 3 79774 Danke (1) 10..................................S Doody 4 45061 Clover Kate (2) 10 .................... P Ferguson 5 25343 Trouble Giero (1) 20 ..................A Poutama 6 61142 Caitlin’s Surprise (2) 20 ..............K Marshall 7 06858 The Prince (3) 20..........................S Phelan 8 83555 Sol Invictus (U1) 30 ..................... B Orange 9 13216 November Guy (U2) 30 ...............D Butcher 7 7.43pm SPEIGHTS ALE HOUSE MANAWATU CUP MOBILE PACE $17,500, up to & including r83 mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 41436 Gunpowder (1) fr ..........................S Phelan 2 62661 Eldolar fr ..................................... Scratched 3 13132 Black Chevron (2) fr................. J Abernethy 4 31221 Classie American (3) fr ........D Ferguson (J) 5 x4693 Ultimate Desire (4) fr ...............S Abernethy 6 35038 Imajollywally (5) fr...................... A Donnelly 7 36482 Max Phactor (6) fr........................P Butcher 8 3P164 Marshal Star (21) fr .................... S Dickson 9 43091 Delightful Zen (22) fr...............B Butcher (J) 10 x8477 Bettor Spirits (23) fr ...................A Poutama 11 44115 Shillelagh (24) fr .......................... B Orange 12 27145 Ideal Roman (25) fr .....................D Butcher

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8.08pm HARRISONS CARPET MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r40 to r49 mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 24687 Pure Desire (1) fr .........................D Butcher 2 00508 Show Business (2) fr ...............S Abernethy 3 46865 Bobby M (3) fr.......................... J Abernethy 4 77609 Amaro (4) fr ..................................S Phelan 5 24756 Rangi Rangdu (5) fr .........................K More 6 69168 Tennyson Inlet (6) fr.............D Ferguson (J) 7 93988 Arcano (7) fr ............................. P Ferguson 8 40932 Atom Hanover (21) fr .................A Poutama 9 19586 Lincoln Lovely (22) fr ........... T Cameron (J) 10 x9634 Hold All Bets (23) fr ....................K Marshall 11 x0000 Was Meant To Be (24) fr .............. B Weaver 9 8.33pm MANAWATU ITM MOBILE PACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+ mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 4x097 Moniaive (1) fr .............................D Butcher 2 006 Ashley Tisdale (2) fr................. J Abernethy 3 32584 Go Paddy (3) fr ............................... A Pyers 4 52325 Marrera (4) fr ............................... B Orange 5 69037 Hunter Red (5) fr .................D Ferguson (J) 6 30043 Wicklow Star (U1) fr ...................K Marshall 7 44600 Bonnie Boy (U2) fr .....................A Poutama 8 5Px92 The Hawke (U3) fr .........................S Doody 10 8.58pm CARTOWN MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r54 to r69 mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 31350 Paul’s Verdict (1) fr......................K Marshall 2 56965 Whale Rider (2) fr ..........................S Doody 3 34253 Royal Jester (3) fr ......................A Poutama 4 P4026 Ardent Lustre (4) fr ......................S Quill (J) 5 72218 Santanna Mach (5) fr................... B Orange 6 75221 Mister Harris (6) fr .......................D Butcher

7 36253 Rhythm N Blues (7) fr .............B Butcher (J) 8 89552 Franco Lennox (21) fr ...................S Phelan 9 50211 Sheeza Sport (22) fr ....................P Butcher 10 62661 Eldolar (23) fr............................. A Donnelly Pacifiers off : Max Phactor (R7) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS: Race 1: Sunny Bill, Caroline Wozniacki, Hot N Fast, Fira Race 2: Captain Kirk, Volando Denario, Nova Time, Toll Gate Race 3: Toro Delago, Delia May, Lady Liberty, Spritz Race 4: Mekong Princess, Dauntless, Kai Time, Monaro Mia Race 5: Madiba, Hes Fast And Furious, Sauchiehall, Carbonado Race 6: Trouble Giero, Caitlin’s Surprise, Clover Kate, Sol Invictus Race 7: Max Phactor, Black Chevron, Delightful Zen, Classie American Race 8: Arcano, Atom Hanover, Bobby M, Hold All Bets Race 9: The Hawke, Marrera, Wicklow Star, Hunter Red Race 10: Rhythm N Blues, Sheeza Sport, Eldolar, Mister Harris

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M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 15 February 2018 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 4.32pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C3, 295m 1 21112 Coco Bango 17.27 ......................J McInerney 2 64583 Justin Ryan 17.27 S & ...................... B Evans 3 F4744 Eagle Tee 17.26 .............................. R Adcock 4 27542 Smash Attack 17.22 ..........................M Grant 5 44327 Ice Princess 17.39 ...................... A Bradshaw 6 21776 Abacus Magic 17.43 .......................L Waretini 7 67813 Fabre’s Lass 17.32 .....................R Blackburn 8 66567 Opawa Waihemo 17.33 .................... R Wales 9 18178 Runnin’ Cloggs 17.19 .......................J Tanner 10 77464 Opawa Binge 17.31 .......................... R Wales 2 4.57pm I PAVE CONCRETE SPRINT C4, 295m 1 12218 Homebush Banker 17.36 ............J McInerney 2 23x81 Miss Harper 17.34 ..............................B Dann 3 58346 Flower Bomb 17.23 .................... A Bradshaw 4 45122 Smash Wild 17.32..............................M Grant 5 17747 Chop Shop 17.32........................J McInerney 6 23747 High Dreamer 17.24 ..........................M Grant 7 58826 Culvie Lass 17.45 H & .......................... Taylor 8 14448 Birdie Tee 17.01 .............................. R Adcock 9 8x575 Know Respect 17.28 .......................G Cleeve 10 73886 Koputara 17.37 M & ............................Jopson 3 5.21pm STEVE ANNGOW DRAPES & BLINDS PH.0272719588 DASH C3, 295m 1 41338 Rick’s Treasure 17.24 .......................R Casey 2 874x4 Smash Lilly 17.34 ..............................M Grant 3 76627 Sweet Abby Lee 17.33 ...............R Blackburn 4 23124 Oskitz 17.29................................... C Roberts

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Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway 5 11667 Homebush Skip 17.50 ................J McInerney 6 33224 Captain Chilly 17.34 ............................C Weir 7 53732 Genetic Marlow 17.42........................M Grant 8 14664 Jinja Brian 17.15 ............................ A Waretini 9 18178 Runnin’ Cloggs 17.19 .......................J Tanner 10 77464 Opawa Binge 17.31 .......................... R Wales 4 5.48pm A2C ASPHALT 2 CONCRETE PH.0800222583 DASH C4, 295m 1 44352 Star Bucking 17.34 .....................J McInerney 2 24735 Technic 17.21 H & ................................ Taylor 3 23758 Express Gunn 17.30 ....................... R Adcock 4 83614 High Return 17.31 .............................M Grant 5 51148 Epic Mango 17.18 M & .......................Jopson 6 36281 Magic Mike 17.16 .......................... C Roberts 7 74331 Timely Affair 17.22.............................. J Dunn 8 12878 American Warrior 16.91 J &.............. D Fahey 9 8x575 Know Respect 17.28 .......................G Cleeve 10 36888 Sozin’s Blue 17.41 ......................J McInerney 5 6.12pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK SPRINT C4/5, 295m 1 86176 Sergess 17.28 ............................J McInerney 2 55142 Platinum Marshal 17.15 ................. C Roberts 3 12221 Custom Paint 17.06 .............................C Weir 4 14148 Nicey Spicey 17.36 ..................... A Bradshaw 5 43833 Sarcasm 17.28 ................................G Cleeve 6 11813 Danziger 17.10 ...........................R Blackburn 7 827x8 Smash That 17.21 .............................M Grant 8 15387 Saraya Jayde 17.25 ........................L Waretini 9 8x575 Know Respect 17.28 .......................G Cleeve 10 36888 Sozin’s Blue 17.41 ......................J McInerney 6 6.41pm (NZT) FOX & FERRET @ THE PALMS DASH C3, 295m 1 82526 Treville 17.48...............................R Blackburn 2 65186 Red Margin 17.43 ..............................M Grant 3 61578 Tricky Action 17.48 S &..................... B Evans

3 24184 Junk Mail 30.23 J & .......................... D Fahey 52771 Sparkling Terra 17.12........................R Casey 4 74671 Ride Ain’t Over 29.95 .................... C Roberts 63557 Valyrian Steel 17.49....................J McInerney 5 42187 Helski Bale 30.18........................... C Roberts 31383 Midnight Bolt 17.47 ..............................C Weir 6 14723 Shreddin’ 30.34 J & .......................... D Fahey 25543 Odin Slayer 17.41 ....................... A Bradshaw 7 44612 Avenger Bale 29.82 ....................... C Roberts 41352 Rum Gin Mixer 17.37.........................A Joyce 8 1347x Ring The Bell 30.15 ........................ R Adcock 18178 Runnin’ Cloggs 17.19 .......................J Tanner 77464 Opawa Binge 17.31 .......................... R Wales 10 8.18pm 2018 FLAIR LADIES BRACELET C5, 520m 7 7.04pm KAISA EARTHWORKS PH.0272073323 1 72172 Dream Kay 30.29.............................. R Wales DASH C4/5, 295m 2 11663 Fair Pippa 30.09 J & ......................... D Fahey 1 27615 Vikings nwtd J & ............................... D Fahey 3 45116 Viktoria Vikkers 30.46 .................... C Roberts 2 26633 Fliberty Jiberty 17.25 ............................ A Lee 4 53761 Tamara May 30.26 .............................M Grant 3 75551 Cosmic Richie 17.30...................J McInerney 5 84868 Mina Allen 30.08 ............................ C Roberts 4 18151 Swimming Goat 16.79 .........................C Weir 6 11737 Opawa Shackley 29.86 J &............... D Fahey 5 16161 Homebush Rufus 17.34 ..............J McInerney 7 22522 Amy Bale 30.89 ............................. C Roberts 6 24262 Wow Madonna 17.19 M & ................ P Binnie 8 65318 Hilton Forabet 30.46 ................... A Bradshaw 7 36346 Fired Up Jasper 17.21 ........................B Dann 9 82827 Ana Dior 30.77............................... C Roberts 8 63251 Amino Trouble 17.25 ................... A Bradshaw 10 48561 Verta Bale 30.65 ............................ C Roberts 9 8x575 Know Respect 17.28 .......................G Cleeve 11 8.44pm THE TURF BAR DASH C4/5, 295m 1 33136 Seriously Grand 17.23 .........................C Weir 10 73886 Koputara 17.37 M & ............................Jopson 8 7.28pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STAKES C3/4, 520m 2 11114 Sheza Rippa 16.92 J & ..................... D Fahey 1 26744 He’s All Power 30.16 J & .................. D Fahey 3 28158 Botany Cold 17.22 ......................J McInerney 2 42211 Allen Hadrian 30.24 ....................... C Roberts 4 16727 Rosa Tee 16.91............................... R Adcock 3 35361 Princely Gold nwtd......................J McInerney 5 42827 Hey Jude nwtd ............................J McInerney 4 23223 Opawa Racer 30.23.......................... R Wales 6 74133 Opawa Sheldon 17.07 ...................... R Wales 5 23332 Opawa Timo 30.21 J & ..................... D Fahey 7 11245 Peaky Boy 17.33...............................J Tanner 6 56355 David’s Legacy 30.15 ................. M Robinson 8 31452 Ohoka Clare 17.21 .........................L Waretini 7 32576 Cactus Jack 30.06 J & ...................... D Fahey 9 8x575 Know Respect 17.28 .......................G Cleeve 8 62245 Replica Yella 30.48 ............................M Grant 10 73886 Koputara 17.37 M & ............................Jopson 9 42116 Full Speed 30.03 ................................B Dann 12 9.09pm LIVAMOL SPRINT C4, 295m 1 45777 Talk Talk 17.19 ...................................... A Lee 10 46161 Spring Sam 30.74 .......................J McInerney 9 7.53pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES C5, 2 68563 Inside Affair 17.41.......................R Blackburn 520m 3 14577 Smash Bomber 17.32 ........................M Grant 1 11211 Allen Ablett 29.83 .......................... C Roberts 4 25153 Think Tank 17.51 ........................J McInerney 2 61151 Tom Tee 29.86 ................................ R Adcock 5 48824 Detective Dash 17.54 .................J McInerney 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

6 68276 Crotty 17.43 ................................ A Bradshaw 7 24487 Know Hassle 17.29..........................G Cleeve 8 45653 Watta Gunn 17.32........................... R Adcock 9 8x575 Know Respect 17.28 .......................G Cleeve 10 73886 Koputara 17.37 M & ............................Jopson LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Eagle Tee, Coco Bango, Justin Ryan, Smash Attack, Opawa Waihemo Race 2: Birdie Tee, Flower Bomb, Homebush Banker, Miss Harper, Smash Wild Race 3: Jinja Brian, Sweet Abby Lee, Captain Chilly, Oskitz, Smash Lilly Race 4: American Warrior, Timely Affair, Express Gunn, Technic, Star Bucking Race 5: Custom Paint, Platinum Marshal, Danziger, Sarcasm, Sergess Race 6: Sparkling Terra, Midnight Bolt, Treville, Red Margin, Rum Gin Mixer Race 7: Swimming Goat, Vikings, Fliberty Jiberty, Wow Madonna, Cosmic Richie Race 8: He’s All Power, Cactus Jack, Opawa Timo, Allen Hadrian, Opawa Racer Race 9: Allen Ablett, Tom Tee, Avenger Bale, Ring The Bell, Junk Mail Race 10: Fair Pippa, Opawa Shackley, Hilton Forabet, Dream Kay, Viktoria Vikkers Race 11: Sheza Rippa, Rosa Tee, Seriously Grand, Hey Jude, Ohoka Clare Race 12: Talk Talk, Inside Affair, Watta Gunn, Smash Bomber, Know Hassle

Christchurch gallops Today at Riccarton Park

Canterbury Racing - Canterbury Jockey Club Venue: Riccarton Park Meeting Date: 15 February 2018 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.43pm (NZT) RICCARTON PARK FUNCTION CENTRE MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 2000m 1 40x02 Run Forrest Run (4) 58.5........... K Williams 2 94903 Ferocious (3) 58.5 ..............K Mudhoo (a1) 3 9x093 Satin Flag (7) 58.5 ....................J Lowry (a) 4 084 Tacktheflag (2) 58.5 ................K Gundowry 5 x0878 Bannock 58.5..............................Scratched 6 06770 Epee (1) 58.5 ................................ J Laking 7 x7370 Justrush (6) 56.5..........................C Barnes 8 076 Ticky Tu (8) 56.5 ................... T Jonker (a3) 9 8x009 Molly Pond 56.5 ..........................Scratched 10 0x09 Zante (5) 56.5 ............................C Johnson 2 1.19pm HUGHES RACING STABLES $11,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1400m 1 x3347 Absolut Excelencia tdm (1) 60.5 K Mudhoo (a1) 2 22775 Volcano td (2) 58.5 ....................... A Collett 3 x5572 Tomm Jones d (3) 57.5 .T Comignaghi (a2) 4 56115 Bonaparte t (5) 56 ................ T Jonker (a3) 5 x4834 Whispering (4) 54 ..................G Jogoo (a1) 3 1.54pm PUNTERS CHALLENGE APRIL 7 - ENTER NOW $10,000, 2&3YO SW+P, 1200m 1 1 Guvnor td (3) 57.5 ........................ J Laking 2 421x Acekingsuited d (6) 57.5 .....K Mudhoo (a1) 3 67536 Disruption tdmb (1) 57.5 ............... A Collett 4 x5113 Pipiana tdh (5) 56.5 ..................... S Wynne 5 3x Non Blonde (2) 54 ............... H Bennet (a3) 6 48x07 Tears In Heaven (4) 54 ................. S Collett 4 2.29pm SPEIGHT’S MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 2. Dutch Courage (12) 58.5 .......G Jogoo (a1) 2 x8083 Chorister (9) 58.5 ...............K Mudhoo (a1)

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 15 February 2018 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.16pm (NZT) WELCOME TO CAMBRIDGE RACEWAY SPRINT C0, 375m 1 73557 Sky Ryder nwtd ..............................M Black 2 55733 Snoopy’s Bro nwtd R &........................Hunt 3 36467 Bright Boy nwtd ...............................B Bond 4 88x76 Kaeshius nwtd .................................S Clark 5 2 Leezrom nwtd ..................................B Craik 6 86 Billy Bright nwtd .........................B Littlejohn 7 72466 Secret Hombre nwtd...................... T Patton 8 43432 Just A Matthew nwtd ......................M Black 9 67567 Surge Ahead nwtd R & ...................... L Udy 2 12.34pm HAUTAPU VETERINARY CLINIC SPRINT C2/3, 375m 1 24464 Ekali 21.28.....................................G Farrell 2 63123 Opawa Libby 21.33 W & ................ T Steele 3 16545 Jinja Roman 21.82 W & ................. T Steele 4 51268 Opawa Loyal 21.34..........................S Clark 5 1F857 One Cool Chap 21.21 W & ............ T Steele 6 32113 Coruba Cate 21.24 ........................G Farrell 7 81247 Mitsuta nwtd ....................................D Edlin 8 28236 Good Job 21.05 ............................. P Green 9 8868F Fantastic Zoe 21.37 .................. D Schofield 10 64264 Electric Dee Eye 21.36 .................. P Green 3 12.51pm FOND FOODS LTD SPRINT 1 C1, 375m 1 41123 Suspicious Minds 21.29 ..................B Craik 2 88442 Finkle Foot Fred nwtd R & ...................Hunt 3 52485 Aussi Joshy nwtd .............................S Clark 4 28672 Tabulam Girl 21.61 W &................. T Steele

3 36x20 She’s A Ripper (8) 56.5 ............... S Wynne 4 0427x Lady Davone (1) 56.5 ...............J Lowry (a) 5 20368 Miacoca (2) 56.5 ........................ K Williams 6 0x584 Rubymoon (7) 56.5 ....................... S Collett 7 475. Live In Hope (6) 56.5 ............ T Jonker (a3) 8 63477 Petite Midas (10) 56.5.................R Cuneen 9 7x050 Hand Of Aces (3) 56.5 ..T Comignaghi (a2) 10 8 Popsico (11) 56.5....................... T Moseley 11 52005 Aquazurra h (5) 56.....................C Johnson 12 Miss Brahmos (13) 56 .................. A Collett 13 9. Respin (4) 56 ................................ J Laking 5 3.04pm CLARE YARDLEY - BARRISTER $11,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1200m 1 4227x Zawhip tdm (10) 59....................... J Laking 2 05152 Pippi Rea d (3) 58.5...............G Jogoo (a1) 3 01327 Flytime d (9) 58...................K Mudhoo (a1) 4 x8002 Elusive Boxers d (2) 56 5 19022 Mia Mamma d (6) 56 ....T Comignaghi (a2) 6 23136 Sacred Desire tdm (8) 56 ............. A Collett 7 24047 Cantilena td (7) 55.5 .................J Lowry (a) 8 0L164 Queen Serene tdmh (5) 55.5B Hong (a4) 9 0x551 Vishnu (4) 55 .............................C Johnson 10 82819 Red Tiara d (1) 54......................... S Collett 6 3.39pm KORU CARE CHARITY DINNER MARCH 23 MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 43830 Leuluai b (8) 58.5 2 0x343 Tony Two Chips (4) 58.5 ..............C Barnes 3 88462 Tussock b (12) 58.5 ......T Comignaghi (a2) 4 67734 Galisini (16) 58.5 ................K Mudhoo (a1) 5 8 Federer Express (9) 58.5.............. A Collett 6 99596 Louvres (14) 58.5 ..............R Firdhaus (a2) 7 9x996 Flag Duty (1) 58.5 .....................J Lowry (a) 8 x7560 Producer (6) 58.5....................... T Moseley 9 0 Baban (10) 58 ........................G Jogoo (a1) 10 887 Coup Dreamwood h (3) 58 ........C Johnson

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0 Vividredsky (5) 58 ..................... L Callaway 0888. Pamir (15) 56.5 .................... H Bennet (a3) 08x07 Ancient (11) 56.5 ........................R Cuneen 0x Just Aflutter (17) 56.5 ................ K Williams 8x009 Molly Pond (2) 56.5...................... S Wynne 0323 Cardrona (18) 56 84820 Lake Chalice (7) 56 ...................... S Collett Harper Jean (13) 56 ......................J Morris 7 4.14pm COLOUNDRA CUP TOUR 2018 - BOOK NOW $11,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1600m 1 01245 Forged tdm (6) 59 ...............K Mudhoo (a1) 2 90971 Opihi Ranger d (1) 58 .................. S Wynne 3 7x763 Waylay m (8) 57.5 .............C Campbell (a3) 4 21221 Los Cabos d (7) 57 ....................... S Collett 5 8344x Parana (5) 56 ................................ A Collett 6 09389 Golden Bay td (2) 54.5 ..............C Johnson 7 01000 Savannah Gem td (3) 54 .......G Jogoo (a1) 8 60549 Ivanskavinskyskvar d (4) 54 ...... T Moseley 8 4.49pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2000m 1 x4482 Satin Guru m (8) 60 ..........C Campbell (a3) 2 57413 Keep The Lot d (13) 57.5 .......G Jogoo (a1) 3 48240 Pickup t (14) 57.5 ......................C Johnson 4 36213 Red River Rock b (6) 57 .............R Cuneen 5 x0841 Papina d (10) 56.5 ........T Comignaghi (a2) 6 89068 Blue Print tm (11) 56.5 .......K Mudhoo (a1) 7 82640 Taxihome t (3) 56.5 ....................... J Laking 8 7x544 Lady Bealey (9) 56 ....................... A Collett 9 59770 Travel Wise m (1) 56 ............. T Jonker (a3) 10 7x0P6 Karayah (7) 55 ...............................J Morris 11 x4009 Sweet Indulgence td (12) 55........ S Wynne 12 x0096 Cavallucci (2) 55 ........................... S Collett 13 x2990 Minutes To Midnite t (4) 55 R Firdhaus (a2) 14 07600 Sharp Elle (5) 54 ....................... T Moseley 9 5.24pm RACECOURSE HOTEL & MOTOR LODGE $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m

1 36230 Augustace (2) 59 ...................... L Callaway 2 2075x Madame Libre m (11) 58.5 .......... S Wynne 3 040x5 Final Say 58.5.............................Scratched 4 x8834 Hoofbeat b (6) 58.......................C Johnson 5 24213 Sensibility d (14) 57.5 ................ T Moseley 6 7x492 Acrylic m (1) 57.5 ......................... S Collett 7 30x07 Waipari Lad (16) 57.5 ..................C Barnes 8 2214x Fire Lily (17) 57.......................... K Williams 9 460x8 Longford (9) 57 .........................J Lowry (a) 10 0x898 Pinsharp (3) 56.5 ................K Mudhoo (a1) 11 x4650 Pinzano td (5) 56.5 .....................R Cuneen 12 73020 Saronic Miss tdh (13) 56.5...... B Hong (a4) 13 x6179 Madam Swiss (18) 56 ................... A Collett 14 39350 Indy Evolution m (15) 56......A Morgan (a1) 15 305x0 Smoke House Bay d (8) 56.. T Comignaghi (a2) 16 x5107 Windermere Lass td (10) 56 ....C Campbell (a3) 17 9060x Bravo Supremo m (12) 57 .............J Morris 18 06275 Alakazam (7) 54.5 19 90x67 Kenya (4) 55.5 Emergencies: Bravo Supremo, Alakazam, Kenya Blinkers on : Epee (R1), Live In Hope, Respin (R4), Baban, Coup Dreamwood, Pamir (R6), Bravo Supremo (R9) Blinkers off : Producer (R6), Smoke House Bay (R9) Winkers on : Cantilena (R5), Galisini, Just Aflutter, Cardrona (R6), Golden Bay (R7), Cavallucci (R8) Winkers off : Coup Dreamwood (R6) Pacifiers on : Producer (R6) LEGEND: Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going

t - Won at track X - Spell of three months Race Information hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt - high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt - welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances SELECTIONS: Race 1: Satin Flag, Justrush, Run Forrest Run, Ferocious, Tacktheflag Race 2: Whispering, Volcano, Tomm Jones, Absolut Excelencia, Bonaparte Race 3: Pipiana, Disruption, Non Blonde, Acekingsuited, Guvnor Race 4: Dutch Courage, She’s A Ripper, Miss Brahmos, Aquazurra, Chorister Race 5: Zawhip, Pippi Rea, Sacred Desire, Queen Serene, Elusive Boxers Race 6: Lake Chalice, Cardrona, Leuluai, Federer Express, Producer Race 7: Forged, Los Cabos, Waylay, Golden Bay, Opihi Ranger Race 8: Red River Rock, Pickup, Satin Guru, Sweet Indulgence, Karayah Race 9: Hoofbeat, Saronic Miss, Sensibility, Fire Lily, Pinsharp

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STAKES C3/4, 457m 1 67753 Lochinvar Brogue 25.75 ........... D Schofield 2 43121 Bigtime Power nwtd G &........S Fredrickson 3 47236 Zipping Ringo 25.89 R & .....................Hunt 4 75777 Oscar Tron 25.47 ...................... D Schofield 5 65664 Thrilling Billy 25.48 ................... P Ferguson 6 11161 Nangar Dream 25.65 ................ D Schofield 7 16815 Tullabung Googar 25.90 ........... P Ferguson 8 55652 Jimmy’s Rocket 25.47......................S Clark 9 11534 Kapai Bart 25.92 W & .................... T Steele 10 67455 Letron James nwtd ........................C Steele LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway 5 64834 Hot Machine 21.91 ........................ T Green 6 26485 Midnight Daydream 21.40 R & .......... L Udy 7 44862 Jack No Lag 21.60 ........................Y Castro 8 55175 Oloroso 21.64 U & ...........................Cottam 9 58468 Jelani nwtd ......................................D Edlin 10 14788 Atlas Shrugged nwtd .................. H Mullane 4 1.09pm FOND FOODS LTD SPRINT 2 C1, 375m 1 52231 Don Morocco nwtd P &.................J Cleaver 2 54387 Deception Diva nwtd W & .............. T Steele 3 63156 Warrior Tony 21.55 U & ...................Cottam 4 61664 Simple Request nwtd ......................B Bond 5 55665 Smash Mate 22.00 .....................R McPhee 6 52471 Barwon Bandit nwtd ................. D Schofield 7 65621 Mobility Scooter 22.17 ....................M Black 8 65441 Schiehallion 21.68 ...........................D Edlin 9 48x46 Girl Queenie 21.77 ....................W Toomath 10 45778 Zara Storm 21.57 ..........................G Farrell 5 1.28pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA POTTS C2, 375m 1 26262 El Hefe nwtd G & ...................S Fredrickson 2 13486 Bigtime Bakagain nwtd ............... H Mullane 3 47314 Ali Ali Ali 21.42 ..............................G Farrell 4 32122 Brotastic 21.46 ................................B Craik 5 25643 Umaga Rama 21.34 .......................M Black 6 27218 Luke Skywalker nwtd .....................L A Hunt 7 63662 Noah Who 21.35......................... H Mullane 8 44115 King Shaq 21.22 ............................ T Green 9 75514 Jinja Mia 21.37 W &....................... T Steele 10 45187 It’s Electric 21.32 ..........................C Henley 6 1.45pm FARMLANDS HAUTAPU SERIES FINAL C1f, 457m 1 15671 My Red Hero 26.34 R & ......................Hunt 2 26772 Thrilling Riot 26.09 U & ...................Cottam

3 55423 Out Of Paper nwtd ......................... T Green 4 14351 Thrilling Cruise 25.87 .................... K Walsh 5 16122 Sisco Kid nwtd ..............................C Henley 6 648F2 Opawa Anthony nwtd W &............. T Steele 7 672F1 Cosmic Barwon 26.17 .............. D Schofield 8 18563 Secret Babe nwtd W & .................. T Steele 9 85333 Bigtime Owen nwtd G & ........S Fredrickson 10 11354 Kiwi Gal nwtd U &............................Cottam 7 2.05pm BOX 1 GOLD SPRINT C1, 375m 1 22552 Emoji nwtd .......................................B Craik 2 5748x Lytworx 21.35 ........................... D Schofield 3 55864 Zimmer Frame nwtd R & ................... L Udy 4 48x46 Girl Queenie 21.77 ....................W Toomath 5 33478 Unconscionable 21.55 R & ................ L Udy 6 83774 Bark De Triomphe 21.64..................B Craik 7 74466 Zarzuella nwtd ...............................S Codlin 8 47466 Agistri 21.37 ..................................G Farrell 9 27866 Was Just Saying nwtd R & ................ L Udy 10 55447 Bigtime Moola nwtd R & .................... L Udy 8 2.22pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SERIES FINAL C3f, 457m 1 57272 Jetsun Jamie nwtd........................ G Wilson 2 72827 Yooldome 25.87........................ D Schofield 3 17363 Barwon Annie 25.93 ................. D Schofield 4 52351 Global Conquest 25.78 W & .......... T Steele 5 16346 Effectual 25.65 ................................ E Potts 6 24375 Beaumont 25.58 ..............................B Craik 7 53164 Sovereign Jody 25.77 ......................S Ross 8 84864 Bigtime Redo 26.03 G &........S Fredrickson 9 16545 Jinja Roman 25.85 W & ................. T Steele 10 55652 Jimmy’s Rocket 25.47......................S Clark 9 2.40pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C4/5, 375m

73621 Alyeska 21.40 ..................................B Craik 42122 Nitrology 20.86 ................................S Clark 21314 Sparta 21.04.................................. K Walsh 11615 Elouera Mist 21.43 ................... P Ferguson x2716 Sonic Attack 21.04 ................... M Mathews 16113 Classy Impact 21.19 ...................... T Green 52818 Shot Gun Harry 21.40 ................ H Mullane 64228 Bruce Banner 21.12 ................... H Mullane 61457 Hallo Star 21.08 R &.......................... L Udy 84657 Mad Harry 21.25 .............................S Clark 10 2.56pm GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND STAKES C2, 457m 1 87416 Opawa Silver nwtd...........................S Clark 2 67746 Bigtime Dazzler 25.49 ..................... E Potts 3 33622 Bigtime Coffee 26.02 G &......S Fredrickson 4 21321 Token Jasper nwtd...........................S Clark 5 13231 Cameo Syd 26.08............................B Craik 6 18778 Salvarotti 26.11 ........................ D Schofield 7 31413 Thrilling Major 25.80 ...................... K Walsh 8 35287 Barwon Storm 25.86................. D Schofield 11 3.14pm THE CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR STAKES C1, 457m 1 22546 Opawa Vegan nwtd W & ................ T Steele 2 85333 Bigtime Owen nwtd G & ........S Fredrickson 3 88658 Opawa Velocette nwtd W & ........... T Steele 4 87554 Hitch A Ride 26.09 ........................ T Green 5 76564 Barwon Babe nwtd ................... D Schofield 6 32826 Thrilling Stan nwtd ...........................D Edlin 7 11354 Kiwi Gal nwtd U &............................Cottam 8 87435 Victini 26.31 ..................................C Henley 9 67x45 Fushidara nwtd .............................. L Martin 10 74845 Home Bound 26.28 ....................... T Green 12 3.31pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Leezrom, Snoopy’s Bro, Just A Matthew, Sky Ryder, Kaeshius Race 2: Ekali, Opawa Libby, Coruba Cate, Good Job, Jinja Roman Race 3: Suspicious Minds, Finkle Foot Fred, Hot Machine, Tabulam Girl, Aussi Joshy Race 4: Barwon Bandit, Don Morocco, Mobility Scooter, Schiehallion, Warrior Tony Race 5: El Hefe, Brotastic, King Shaq, Ali Ali Ali, Noah Who Race 6: Cosmic Barwon, Thrilling Cruise, My Red Hero, Sisco Kid, Out Of Paper Race 7: Emoji, Bark De Triomphe, Lytworx, Agistri, Zimmer Frame Race 8: Global Conquest, Beaumont, Yooldome, Effectual, Barwon Annie

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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): Generations before you did things a certain way and the principles they used are still relevant, modern problems require you to build on that foundation, acquiring the tools in coming weeks.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): The best way to predict what happens next is the same as always: Make it happen. Today’s work may be rushed, but it’s still remarkable and generous if not as polished as it might have been with more time.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The antidote to selfishness is publicity. Most would avoid being called out for putting their own interests before those of loved ones, teammates or the group – unless selfishness is the cultural norm.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Is any creature on Earth built for empathy? It could be argued that empathy plays against survival instincts. It’s not the first instinct of humankind, yet it’s required for the survival of our species.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Don’t wait until life forces you to sprint. Just sprint to prove that you can. No one can sprint for the whole of the race, but a good marathon runner builds the occasional sprint into the over-all plan.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’re going to do the brave thing – not because you have less to lose (if you had nothing to lose, it wouldn’t be brave) but because you realise more than the others do that your action is what’s sorely needed.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): The situation will trigger your competitive instincts. Suddenly it will be important to dress, talk and move like the winner. Much of this will come naturally, although some study may also be involved.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You won’t be satisfied with just any result. You want your work to be artful and useful, or you’d rather not turn it in at all. The thing is, you’re not the best judge of this today. Just turn it in.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): The omens warn against selling your future for today’s quick fix. Fixing something quickly doesn’t always spell trouble in the future. Examine options from a long-term perspective. Do your best.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Life is easier when you make fewer promises. However, everything you do sets up an expectation. The promises are implicit. And every one you keep builds trust that you’ll keep them in the future, too.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): How you imagine yourself will define your position. What one person considers a position of weakness another may consider a position of strength.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): As you climb the mountain to get a better view you are more conspicuous to those below. This may not be your aim, but you should be aware the beauty and knowledge you seek make you more influential.

ACROSS 1. Perhaps they lack the means of opening doors (8) 7. Public address can take advantage of a breathing-space (5) 8. Stomach showed it was hurt when one took a fall (7) 9. Dig it out near the hut that was built around it (7) 10. Its appearance in Waterloo kept occurring (4) 12. The green pound is needed in dream the East shatters (7) 14. Losing form when the heat is on? (7) 17. Carried it along to make a hole (4) 18. Hold a conversation with territorial division in France (7) 21. Create a stir with it in a street in Scotland (7) 22. We swallowed the rubbish as author produced it (5) 23. Would not accept the Right and got thrown out (8) DOWN 1. There’s not much to go with preliminary examination (6) 2. About time stand-in office worker took it by mouth (8) 3. A term for fifty-per-cent (4) 4. Manage to last out under arrangement with the English (6) 5. Seem happy to pour nothing out right (4) 6. Way to do them out of it (6) 7. Right now it’s a gift to put on in the theatre (7) 11. He has the good taste to make pie serve as remedy (7) 13. One of Jason’s crew ran out with silver compound (8) 14. Birds sound like crows when mothers are around (6) 15. Agrees to distribute the palm-oil (6) 16. After a loss the unhearing conclude one will be protective (6) 19. A Mauretanian may get a line ashore (4) 20. Give one sack to shoot (4)

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TODAY

TODAY

FZL: Above 3000m

Showers developing about the divide from late morning. Mainly fine further east, but isolated showers possible from afternoon.

Wind at 1000m: NW 30 km/h developing afternoon. Wind at 2000m: NW 30 km/h developing morning, rising to 45 km/h afternoon.

Areas of morning cloud and early patchy drizzle, clearing to a fine day.

Northeasterlies, dying out afternoon.

Fine with high cloud. Northerlies developing morning.

TOMORROW

SATURDAY

FZL: Above 3000m

SUNDAY Fine. Northeast breezes.

SATURDAY

Rain about the divide easing to showers, then clearing later. Becoming mainly fine further E. NW, gale in exposed places at first, dying out at lower levels.

Rain spreading north. Winds changing southerly.

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Waitaki Kurow at 2:11 pm, yesterday

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Cloudy with showers about the divide, some possibly heavy. High cloud further east.

Wind at 1000m: NW 30 km/h, rising to 45 km/h in the evening. Wind at 2000m: NW 45 km/h, rising to 65 km/h in the afternoon.

Partly cloudy. A few showers about southern Canterbury with a brief southerly change.

Thursday, 15 February 2018

A ridge of high pressure lies over northern and central New Zealand. Frontal features move onto the west and the south of the country this afternoon.

A northwest flow develops over the South Island, with a couple of embedded fronts moving across tomorrow and Sunday.

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6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 10am Whanau Living 10:30 Four In A Bed 11am The Chase 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces PGR 3 0 2pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3pm Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 The Best Of New Zealand With Nick Honeyman Waikato.

Nick meets one of New Zealand’s leading race-horse owners, who is also a major beef farmer, and then visits New Zealand’s only organic tea plantation. 0 4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Karena And Kasey’s Kitchen Diplomacy 0 8pm Topp Country 0 8:30 The History Of Comedy 0 9:25 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:25 1 News Tonight 0 10:55 Walliams And Friend PGR 0

6am Infomercials 6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Peppa Pig 0 7am My Little Pony – Friendship Is Magic 3 0 7:25 Milo Murphy’s Law 0 7:50 Beyblade Burst 3 8:15 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 0 8:35 Doc McStuffins – Toy Hospital 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am The Amazing Race 0 Noon Jeremy Kyle PGR 1pm Judge Rinder 2pm Home Improvement 3 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Chuggington – Little Trainees 3 0 3:35 Ultimate Spider-Man 0 4pm N Stuck In The Middle 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

11:35 Insert Name Here PGR Sue Perkins presents a comedy panel show about famous people, past and present, who share the same name.

12:10 The Special-Needs Hotel 0 1:10 Te Karere 3 2 1:35 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

11:15 Police Ten 7 (Starting Today) 3 0 11:45 This Is Us PGR 0 12:35 Never Teach Your Wife To Drive PGR 3 0 1:25 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:50 Infomercials 2:55 Army Wives PGR 3 0 4:25 Cougar Town 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 N Police Ten 7 0 8pm N The Big Ward Series that follows morbidly obese Kiwis as they set out on the road to healthier lives. 0 8:30 First Dates Australia PGR 0 9:35 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Australia 0

Karena and Kasey’s The Big Ward Kitchen Diplomacy, 7:30pm 8pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 10am Four Weddings USA 3 10:55 David Tutera – Celebrations 3 11:43 The Dish 3 11:45 Snapped PGR 3 12:40 The Real Housewives Of New York City 1:43 The Dish 3 1:45 Vanderpump Rules 3 2:40 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills 3 3:38 The Dish 3 3:40 How Do I Look?

4:35 Four Weddings USA 5:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 6:30 David Tutera – Celebrations 7:28 The Dish 3 7:30 Snapped PGR 3 8:30 60 Days In Thanksgiving presents new opportunities and challenges for the six remaining participants.

9:30 Killing Season After a private investigator’s revelation that there are longhaul truckers moonlighting as serial killers on America’s interstate system, Josh and Rachel set out to research them.

10:30 Intervention AO 3 11:25 Snapped PGR 3 12:15 Infomercials 3

SKY 5 6am Last Man Standing PG 6:25 Modern Family PGL 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Border Security PG 8:05 Pawn Stars – UK PG 8:30 The Force MC 8:55 Ice Road Truckers PG 9:45 NCIS PGV 10:40 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 11:35 Last Man Standing PG Noon Modern Family PGL 12:30 The Flash M 1:25 Hawaii Five-0 MV 2:15 NCIS PGV 3:05 Border Security PG 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Last Man Standing PG 5pm Modern Family PGL 5:30 Ice Road Truckers PG 6:30 The Force MC 7pm Pawn Stars – UK PG 7:30 DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow M 8:30 CSI MV 9:30 NCIS PGV 10:30 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 11:25 Ice Road Truckers PG FRIDAY 12:20 Border Security PG 1:20 Pawn Stars PG 1:50 CSI MV 2:40 DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow M 3:30 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 4:20 The Force MC 4:45 NCIS PGV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

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4:30 The Block Australia 3 Emotions get the better of some of the Blockheads as they continue work on their guest bedrooms; a practical joke backfires.

5:30 Modern Family 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6:30 Waiata Mai 3 6:40 Dora Matatoa 2 7:10 Huhu 7:20 He Rourou 7:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka (HLS) 7:40 Kia Mau 7:50 Cube 3 8am Te Kaea 3 2 8:30 Morena 3 9am It’s In The Bag 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3pm Waiata Mai 3 3:10 Dora Matatoa 2 3:40 Huhu 3:50 He Rourou 4pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 4:10 Kia Mau 3 4:20 Cube 3 4:30 Project Whenua 3 5pm Voices Of Our Future 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 6:30 Te Kaea 3 2 7pm Pukuhohe 3 7:30 Kitchen Kura 3 8pm Te Taumata Kapa Haka 2017 3 8:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 9pm The Ring Inz AO 3 9:30 Toa – Toa O Aotearoa PGR 3 10pm Ka Tu Ka Korero 10:30 Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 3

6am The Living Room 7am Gardeners’ World 7:30 Love Nature – Wild Mississippi 8:30 Auction Hunters 9am American Restoration 9:30 Destination Flavour Scandinavia 10am Peter Kuruvita’s Coastal Kitchen 10:30 Sacred Rivers With Simon Reeve 11:30 Tiny House Hunting Noon Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle Revisited 1pm Alone AO 2pm Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction 3pm Gardeners’ World 3:30 Love Nature – Australia’s Deadliest Destinations 4:30 Gourmet Farmer 5pm Valentine Warner’s Wild Table 5:30 Shed And Buried 6pm Auction Kings 6:30 Martin Clunes – And A Lion Called Mugie 7:30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 8:30 Meet The Humans PGR 9:30 The Truth About Calories Calories are a national obsession, the language of many diets and healthyeating plans, the numbers stamped on every packet of food we buy, but are they really worth counting?

10:30 Shed And Buried

11:15 NewsHub Late A mix of 4am Closedown news, entertainment and pop culture.

11:35 Heroes Reborn AO 3 The destinies of Noah and Luke cross as Malina releases her true power; Tommy may need to unite with his enemy. 0 12:30 Infomercials

11pm Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:30 Koroua 3 A series of conversations profiling some of the last remaining Maori male elders, focusing on the transition of Maori from before urbanisation to the present day.

Midnight Closedown

11pm Auction Kings 11:30 Gourmet Farmer Midnight Valentine Warner’s Wild Table 12:30 Undersea Edens 1am Martin Clunes – And A Lion Called Mugie 2am Love Nature 3am Tiny House Hunting 3:30 Gardeners’ World 4am George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 5am The Truth About Calories

6am Olympic Winter Games Breakfast Show 0 7am Olympic Winter Games Breakfast Show 3 0 8:05 Batman – Brave And The Bold 8:30 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky And Dawn 3 8:55 Tiki Tour 0 9:20 Antiques Roadshow 3 0 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Road Trip 12:40 Elementary AO 3 0 1:35 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 2:30 Wheel Of Fortune 3pm The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:30 Olympic Winter Games 5:30 Prime News 6pm Olympic Winter Games (HLS) Day six of the figure skating from Gangneung Ice Arena, hosted by Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. 0 7pm The Project 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Modern Family PGR 3 0 7:30 Death In Paradise PGR 3 8pm 9JKL PGR DI Humphrey and the team Josh asks to join Andrew and must solve a difficult case Harry’s monthly racquetball when the body of a scientist game; Eve and Judy is discovered on the side of a begrudgingly spend their free live volcano. 0 evening together. 0 8:35 N Bull PGR 8:25 M Exodus – Gods And 9:35 Olympic Winter Games Kings AO 3 2014 Action. 0

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Jaimie Alexander, Wes Bentley.

8:10 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 8:30 Deadly Voltage PGC 2016 Drama.

Mike Dopud, Alaina Huffman.

9:55 Redistributors MVL 2016 Thriller. James Allen, Natan Barreto, Tim Bentinck.

11:20 Masterminds MVSC 2016 Crime Comedy.

Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson.

12:55 Collateral Beauty ML 2016 Drama. Will Smith, Helen Mirren. 2:30 Broken Vows MVLS 2016 Thriller.

Jaimie Alexander, Wes Bentley. 4pm Deadly Voltage PGC 2016 Drama.

Mike Dopud, Alaina Huffman.

5:25 Americons 16VLSC 2015 Drama. Beau Martin Williams, Matt Funke. 6:50 Random Tropical Paradise 16VLSC 2017 Comedy. Bryan Greenberg, Brooks Wheelan. 8:30 Alien – Covenant 16VLC 2017 Sci-fi Thriller. The crew of a colony ship discover a seemingly uncharted paradise, but it is not what it seems.

10:35 The Birth Of A Nation 16VLC 2016 Drama.

6:30 Wishful Thinking MVL 1997 Romantic Comedy. Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Beals. 8am Just Go With It MS 2011 Romantic Comedy. Adam Sandler, Jennifer Anniston. 9:55 Shall We Dance? ML 2004 Comedy. Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez. 11:40 Bride Wars ML 2008 Comedy.

Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston. 1:10 The Vow PGLS 2012 Romance.

Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum.

2:55 Wishful Thinking MVL 1997 Romantic Comedy.

Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Beals.

4:25 Man On Fire 16VC 2004 Crime. Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning. 6:50 The Switch MS 2010 Comedy.

Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman. 8:30 Alex Cross MVS 2010 Crime Action.

A young homicide detective and psychologist meets his match in a twisted serial killer as they engage in a highstakes game of cat and mouse.

Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols.

10:15 Pushing Tin ML 1999 Comedy. John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie.

12:35 Lost Boy MVS 2015 Drama. 2:05 Americons 16VLSC 2015 Drama.

3:30 Random Tropical Paradise 16VLSC 2017 Comedy.

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7:30 Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race (HLS) Leg Four.

8am Cricket – T20 Tri Series (HLS) Blackcaps v England.

8:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 9am Ice Hockey – NHL (RPL) Philadelphia Flyers v New Jersey Devils.

11am Fox Sports News 11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Noon Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race (HLS) Leg Four.

12:30 Super League Fulltime 1pm Sky Sports News UK 1:30 Fox Sports News 2pm The Golf Show 3pm Golf – European Tour (HLS) AT&T Pebble Beach ProAm. 4pm Golf – PGA Tour Champions (HLS) BOCA Raton Championship.

5pm L Golf – Women’s Australian Open Round One. 8pm The Crowd Goes Wild 8:30 Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race (HLS) Leg Four.

9pm Fox Sports News 9:30 L Basketball – NBL Brisbane Bullets v Sydney Kings.

From Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

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Greg Roadley will line up alongside other extreme adventurers in the Godzone race in Fiordland next month.

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Godzone the next test

BY LINDA CLARKE

LINDA.C@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Twelve months ago Mid Canterbury dairy farmer Greg Roadley was trudging across the brutal Arctic circle; he leaves at the end of this month for an adventure closer to home.

His biggest problems won’t stem from frozen fingers. They will feature mosquitoes, constant rain and team-mates.

Roadley is part of a fourmember team navigating 550km through rugged Fiordland, where adventure racers will mountain bike, kayak, raft and trek to a finish line. If you sleep, you lose.

The 100 teams are unsupported, which means Roadley and team-mates Jo Turnbull, Mike Robins and Jim Cotter must carry what they need and plan carefully for allocated drop boxes of

food and equipment.

The event is one of the most technically challenging expeditions in the world and teams will take up to 10 days racing day and night on unknown terrain, using a map and compass. Team-mates must stay within 100 metres of each other at all times.

Roadley thrives on physical and mental challenges and is looking forward to Godzone.

In March last year he took part in a gruelling 560km footrace across the Arctic Circle, he ran six marathons in six days in the Sahara Desert in 2016 and has competed three times in the Coast to Coast longest day.

He was approached to join the Godzone team after one of its members heard Roadley talk about the Arctic Race. They needed someone to replace an injured

team-mate and Roadley seemed like a guy who was fit, strong and wouldn’t complain.

Roadley had only just got the feeling back into his numb toes in September and a couple of months on, he was looking for another challenge.

He has been training with a 20kg pack around the Mid Canterbury foothills and Port Hills, and kayaking on the irrigation pond on his dairy farm, to prepare his body.

The mental challenge will come in the form of constantly wet feet, mosquitoes and sleep deprivation. He must also quickly learn how to get along with his team-mates, who have expertise in navigating and logistics.

The adventurers must be able to break down their mountain bikes and reassemble them, kay-

ak, pack raft, climb and have rope skills.

Roadley said two 5kg packrafts would be carried at all times and he expects to have one of them in his pack.

“It is quite a logistical exercise making sure you have the right gear at the right place at the right time.”

Team dynamics are critical, he says, as is the ability to make good decisions when your brain and body are exhausted.

He expects to burn through 5500 calories a day and will fuel his body with dehydrated food, nuts, beef jerky and chocolate.

Even then, his body will turn to his reserves.

He says the team had a trial run in the area last month and spent two and a half days trekking through heavy bush and pad-

dling to check they were compatible.

The dairy farmer said he didn’t have to think hard about saying yes to the Godzone adventure as it had been on his wider radar. Wife Rachel, who helps him problem-solve and supports him 100 per cent, will be in Te Anau with their son Guy for the duration of the 10-day race.

Daughter Mia, 14, at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in Christchurch, has caught the adventure bug and taken up competitive kayaking. She will be away at the national championships on Lake Karapiro.

Roadley said while organisers allowed 10 days for teams to complete the course, his Tavendale Partners-sponsored four hoped to nail it in seven.

The race starts March 1.

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