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If you have $16.7 billion in change you could own every house, every building and every piece of land in the Ashburton District.

Three yearly valuation figures for the district were released yesterday

by Quotable Value, showing that at $16.7 billion, total capital value of the district had risen by 24 per cent since 2012, a rate of growth national revaluation manager Gail Smits says is faster than many rural service towns.

“The district has seen some quite healthy increases. Three years ago there was not a lot happening. The district was coming off a fairly quiet rural time and it was after the earth-

quakes. Residentially, the district has seen growth,” she said.

The most significant change in residential dwelling movement was in Ashburton’s east (19.1 per cent) and Rakaia (18 per cent). In the residential sector overall, the capital value gain has been 16.4 per cent.

“Percentage wise there’s been a lower change on the west side of Ashburton and higher change on the east, but these are generally lower value properties and they’re the ones that have come up more,” Ms Smits said.

For the purposes of revaluation Ashburton is divided by State Highway One. The highest average current value for dwellings is in Methven, $362,000

and the lowest in Rakaia, $284,000. A total of 9832 properties are classed as residential.

The most significant change has been in the rural sector where capital values have risen 29.2 per cent and land values 32.3 per cent.

Farming which includes pastoral and dairy farms makes up 41 per cent of the district’s capital value while arable and specialist farming comprises another 23.5 per cent.

Across the district, 2242 properties are classified as farms with another 1600 as lifestyle.

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Busy time for birthdays Kiwis wallets are in for a “hammering” this month, with Statistics New Zealand warning that 180,000 New Zealanders will celebrate – or not celebrate – their day of birth. And those who were born on September 30 may or may not be happy to know they share their ‘special’ day with about 14,000 other Kiwis. “Peak birthday” period begins on Saturday and in the 13 days between September 19 and October 1, the 10 most popular birthdays will occur, Statistics New Zealand senior demographer Kim Dunstan said. At the other end of the spectrum, the least common birthdays tend to be around fixed public holidays like Christmas Day, she said.

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Gorillaz star lands first fine art exhibit Gorillaz co-founder and Tank Girl creator Jamie Hewlett is set to stage his first fine art exhibition in London in November.

The artist is preparing to debut a show titled The Suggestionists. It will comprise of three bodies of work called Tarot, which will feature the art of tarotica, Honey will be an homage to 1960s and ‘70s exploitation movies, and Pines will show large-scale illustration of trees. The Suggestionists will open at the Saatchi Gallery on November 18 and run until December 2.

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Brown may be banned R&B singer Chris Brown’s plan to play a show in New Zealand may be stymied by Immigration New Zealand due to his 2009 attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna. It was announced yesterday that Brown’s world tour One Hell of a Night would visit New Zealand in December. However Brown’s violent past may mean he cannot get into the country. Brown performed two sold-out shows in New Zealand in 2008. A year later he viciously attacked Rihanna in her car. He was charged with felony assault and was eventually sentenced to community labour, five years on probation with a restraining order which required him to stay away from his victim. But in June 2010 Brown was refused permission to enter the UK on the grounds of being guilty of a serious criminal offence. Yesterday Immigration New Zealand confirmed that Brown’s rejection from the UK meant he could not enter New Zealand.

“If Chris Brown has been excluded from another country he will be ineligible to be granted a visa to enter New Zealand unless given a special direction,” INZ spokesman Marc Piercey said.

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Taylor Swift’s guests on short notice Taylor Swift has confessed she does not do much planning when it comes to scoring high-profile surprise appearances on her current tour. Her usual approach is to call famous audience members up onto the stage. The Shake It Off hitmaker is in the middle of her 1989 World Tour, and she has already recruited stars including Julia Roberts, Matt LeBlanc and John Legend for cameos. Her surprise guests have made headlines over the past few months, but Swift admits most of the appearances were agreed upon at the last minute. “Interviewers always ask me how we ‘get’ these people to come to the shows to walk, and the truth is that everyone who has walked the catwalk at one of the shows was already there just to see the show,” she said. “Usually I ask them in my preshow meet and greet if they want to come out on stage, then I’ll explain to them how the stage/elevator lift works and we just wing it.”

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Glen Campbell back home Country music legend Glen Campbell has moved from an Alzheimer’s facility to his own home. It is reported that Campbell, who entered the facility last year for the treatment of the disease, moved home with his wife Kim in late July. She is now his primary caregiver. The Rhinestone Cowboy hitmaker is currently in stage six of the seven stages of Alzheimer’s where his communication skills are severely limited and he is prone to lashing out physically.

Even with those diminished abilities, his wife says that there is still a glimmer of his former self. “He calls me Mrs. Campbell.

But he definitely understands smiles, hugs, kisses,” she said. “He’s physically healthy, cheerful and content most of the time but he can become extremely combative if you try to redirect him to something that he doesn’t want to do. “I have a black eye right now. I know that’s not him, that’s not who he is; it’s just the Alzheimer’s.”

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■ RURAL THEFTS

Farmers urged to lock up gear

By Michelle NelsoN michelle.n@theguardian.co.nz

It’s a problem all too common in Mid Canterbury’s rural communities – farmers awake to find vehicles and equipment stolen.

Ashburton police receive regular complaints about thefts off farms, senior sergeant Scott Banfield said.

The trend of stealing from farms is often linked to drug use,

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and farmers have a role to play in making it harder for thieves to strike.

“A lot of volume crime, which is what this is, is linked to drug use in the community, it could be stealing to pay back a drug debt or to buy drugs,” Mr Banfield said.

“More and more often when we interview people we find through their admission they were stealing to pay debts.”

Open implement sheds protect equipment from the weather, but not opportunistic prying eyes.

Isolation also makes rural properties attractive to criminals. Farm bikes, in particular quad bikes, seem to be high on the list of frequently stolen items.

“Some farmers need to take more responsibility for their equipment, don’t leave keys in vehicle ignitions, or farm bikes –

they are quite popular to steal,” Mr Banfield said.

“Nine times out of 10 they are not registered so they can be flogged here and end up in the top of North Canterbury and we wouldn’t know.

“As a farming community let’s make it hard for them – let’s lock things up.

It’s a lot easier to prevent the crime in the first place.”

Police patrol rural areas and

quiet streets and question anyone acting suspiciously late at night, but can’t be everywhere at once, he said.

Residents can help stem rural crime by noting the registration details of questionable vehicles.

While stock theft hasn’t been in the limelight in recent months, Mr Banfield said it would be naïve to believe it wasn’t happening.

■ TSUNAMI WARNING

Officials urge people to ‘be cautious and follow guidelines’

A man who was seen carrying a military style assault rifle in Ashburton yesterday morning has been arrested.

Ashburton police responded to calls from the public at 9.40am after a man was seen exiting a motor vehicle on East Street carrying a “military style weapon”, Senior Sergeant Scott Banfield said.

The man entered a nearby public toilet before returning to his vehicle and leaving the area.

He was later arrested when police stopped the vehicle in Dunsandel, and an assault rifle was located on the front seat of his vehicle, Senior Sergeant Banfield said.

“This person’s behaviour caused considerable alarm within our community and is simply unacceptable,” he said.

The man was not local to Ashburton, he said.

Firearms related charges have been laid and the man will appear in the Ashburton District Court on September 23.

A deadly earthquake 9000km away spurred Mid Canterbury’s Civil Defence team into action yesterday.

A warning was issued yesterday afternoon that tsunami surges of up to 1m high could hit the Mid Canterbury coast after an 8.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile.

The surge was expected to hit the majority of New Zealand’s east coast, as well as both Stewart Island and the top of the North Island.

Following the announcement, the Ashburton District’s incident management team kicked into action.

Ashburton District Council emergency management officer Don Geddes said residents in coastal settlements were notified of the warn-

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Stellar growth for our district From P1 And while valuations were a snapshot in time, they also took into account current conditions in the rural sector, Ms Smits said.

“Rural properties are not the most by numbers but they are the greatest by value.

“In revaluing we do recognise there have been changes in the dairy industry this year and we don’t consider the values at July 1 as peak values; they’re below peak values and reflect current values. We’ve made allowances.”

Valuations were dated July 1, but they would not impact on rates until July next year, Ashburton District Council A d vfinance i c e •manager T r u s t Sandy • C aHogg r e said.

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The council’s website and Facebook page were also updated with relevant information.

While the warning was the first for the district in over a year, Mr Geddes said emergency services and response teams were not “panicking” about the situation.

If waves did hit, they were expected to strike at around low tide, he said.

“We’re telling people to be cautious and follow the guidelines we put out there,” he said yesterday afternoon.

By 4.30pm yesterday, five people were confirmed dead and one million people had been evacuated in Chile following the earthquake.

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amount they paid in rates, this was incorrect. Any movement in capital values would have little impact on overall rates, she said.

Property owners will receive their valuation notices next week and will have until October 29 to lodge objections.

In 2012 about 200 objections were lodged by Ashburton property owners, Ms Smits said, and these were a mix of people who thought valuations were too high or too low.

QV was always aware of improvements to a property if a building consent had been lodged, but would not be aware of improvements such as kitchen or bathroom renovations that may not have required a consent but that added value to a property, she said.

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■ SOCIAL SEVICES

In brief

Changes intended to better deliver social services

By Caitlin Porter

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A community-based pan-agency set up could be the way to go to better deliver social services, says Safer Ashburton manager Kevin Clifford.

This follows the release of a 411 page report released by the Productivity Commission earlier this week, which is intended to make the nation’s social services more effective.

The commission recommended a number of things including a move away from the current top-down approach, and getting various groups to

work together to help families with complex issues.

Mr Clifford said a multipronged client centres approach could be the way to go, as those most at risk need to be looked after.

A way to do this could be done by mirroring Children’s Teams, a system set up to ensure vulnerable children do not slip through the cracks, he said.

The teams work in with different Ministries but also work with existing resources and services in each local area.

As an example a person in

the health sector may see two children from the same family with respiratory issues, it could be the family has budgeting issues, is in a cold house or has more complex needs but the children are only being seen by a GP, Mr Clifford said.

However with the Children’s Teams, GPs can identify the vulnerable children and step in early.

“It seems to me that is a brilliant model that could be emulated for all sorts of social services,” Mr Clifford said.

Potentially a government agency could act as a fund

holder and the local group or team could attach money to clients so as they can access the necessary services, he said.

“It sees people working in partnership which is key.”

Canterbury Clinical Network facilitator Craig Watson, who is also spearheading the development of an integrated health alliance in Ashburton, agreed with Mr Clifford.

The Christchurch Children’s Team was a great example of an established formal model of social services working together in the region, he said.

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If parents or caregivers have concerns about their crayons, the Ministry of Health recommends checking with the supplier or disposing of the crayons.

Hot car project The horrifying image of a distraught mother returning to a hot car with her dead baby inside spurred a team of creatives from Auckland’s AUT University to come up with a solution. Students Praveer Srivastava, Tom Davies and Ben O’Connor beat 50 other students to take out the inaugural AUT Kickstarter Award at the weekend with their idea for a sensor-based alarm system for hot cars. The idea was to use a sensor to tell if a child was in a car seat, as well as a temperature gauge to alert parents of any overheating danger.

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Open day attracts plenty of potential users

By Sue newman

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Sports house in Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre is today an office waiting for occupants.

But the Ashburton District Council is crossing its fingers that after an open day for potential users this week, its desks will shortly be full.

The open office space is designed as a headquarters for a number of sports administrators from a range of sporting codes.

It has eight desks available and these can be taken up by a single, permanent occupant or they can be hot desked by up to two users.

Mid Canterbury Netball has become the house’s first permanent residents with Sport Mid Canterbury likely to follow shortly.

The open day was seen as a way to show potential users what the space could offer them, said council service delivery manager Neil McCann.

Representatives from a number of groups including croquet, softball and bowls turned up to check out what was on offer and several indicated the shared desk option could be just what they were looking for.

The area will include lockable cupboards and filing cabinets for each group using the area.

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A hunter who endured a night trapped down a ravine near Tongariro National Park has spent his 43rd birthday searching for his dogs that are still missing. Dave Ruatara, a stock manager, was pig hunting on Monday with his 17-year-old son Brody and three dogs when he fell about 30m down the ravine by Papamanuka Stream, next to the Whakapapa intake road off State Highway 47.

He and one dog were rescued via helicopter on Tuesday morning, but the other two dogs are yet to be found. Mr Ruatara and three others were to abseil back down the ravine yesterday to search for the two missing dogs.

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Wereta sentenced Damian Wereta might be locked up for the next 17 years, but it could have been worse. The Crown wanted preventive detention – an indefinite term of imprisonment – for the 35-year-old Paremoremo inmate who “shanked” two fellow prisoners. But yesterday, Justice Pamela Andrews declined the application, instead jailing Wereta for another 7 years 9 months. The term will be served on top of the 11 and a half year stint the Black Power member was sentenced to in 2013 for a Dunedin armed robbery and a vicious attack on a group of Corrections officers while on remand.

- NZME Ashburton District Council service delivery manager Neil McCann (right) discusses options for using the EA Networks Centre’s sports house as their administration base with Carl O’Neill and Bronwyn Bayliss from Mid Canterbury Softball.

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shelves and cupboards up now, we want to talk to everyone to see what they need first,” Mr McCann said.

The area also includes a break out area for small group meetings as well as an enclosed meeting room.

For some potential users there was disappointment that sports house did not offer en-

closed office space they say was promised when the idea was first discussed, and that may cost it some potential users said Jan Cochrane from Sport Mid Canterbury.

Sports houses were well used in many sporting complexes, she said, and many of those offered an administrator who could take care of the secre-

tarial work for several smaller groups.

“The concept is brilliant and it’s been used successfully around New Zealand for about 15 years.”

There was also potential for sports house to become the control centre when large scale events were held in the stadium, Mrs Cochrane said.

Spa regulations People buying a spa will no longer need to worry about fencing it off under a law change. A lockable cover will be sufficient protection under legislation that has passed its first reading yesterday with cross-party support. The Government has also backed away from lowering the depth at which pools need to be fenced after public backlash against the idea that paddling pools would be covered. The new legislation will replace the Fencing of Swimming Pools Act 1987.

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Keeping an eye on impact of low dairy payouts As dairy farmers count their income in falling numbers, Ashburton mayor Angus McKay is keeping a close eye on the impact lower dairy payout prices will have on overdue rates.

While he has had no formal discussions with any dairy groups on rates payments, Mr McKay said he was in regular contact with the Mid Canterbury Rural Trust to ensure the council was forewarned if farmers were getting into financial difficulty.

The Waimate District Council has already taken a proactive approach to the impact of the low payout on farmers’ ability to pay their rates, opening the door for people struggling to meet rates deadlines to talk to staff and put in place payment options.

Mr McKay said no one from the dairy sector had approached the council over rating issues, but that rates were a relatively small bill when measured against most farm outgoings.

The council had a rates relief policy that could come into play if there were farmers – or other ratepayers – who were in financial difficulty, he said.

Under its rates postponement policy the council can enter into a deal with ratepayers facing extreme hardship with applications decided on a case-by-case basis.

The scheme is designed to provide breathing space for an applicant, with rates deferred not cancelled.

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Pupils pay tribute to principal After a decade in the top job, Ashburton Intermediate School principal Gavin Cooper took to the stage to address staff and students one final time this week.

Mr Cooper’s final school assembly was a study in contrasts, with plenty of laughs as well as a few tears.

Pupils paid tribute to their long-serving principal through games, a musical performance, and a tribute video.

Mr Cooper announced his resignation in

July, and is leaving Ashburton to manage a camping ground in the North Island with his wife.

At the assembly on Wednesday, he told staff and students that he would miss his role at the school.

“Ashburton Intermediate is a great school,” he said.

“Teaching’s great, but it takes a lot of energy, and I’m going to put my energy somewhere else.”

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■ INFORMATION CENTRES

In brief

I-Sites back in the game

By Sue NewmaN

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As growing numbers of travellers seek information and make bookings online, bricks and mortar information centres could be living on borrowed time.

But an investment in technology by the Ashburton District’s two i-Sites has seen the pendulum swing back towards more travellers making faceto-face bookings through information centres.

I-Site manager Katherine Lorenzo said that through a partnership with Book-It and Travel Bug, the district’s two centres were now able to quickly identify available accommodation across New Zealand.

And that fits in well with the emerging pattern for travellers booking their first night’s accommodation and then use

i-Sites to book accommodation in advance as they were travelling , Ms Lorenzo said.

“There’s a perception that people are booking online, but research shows people are coming back to booking through iSites. This software has put us back in the game.”

The new software also provided i-Sites with detailed information about the types of travellers who were making face-to-face bookings and that had yielded a few surprises, she said.

“One of the biggest sectors is the backpackers’ market, not the older travellers. We’re getting a big segment of younger people who are now coming in and booking through us.”

Providing information was still an i-Sites’ number one function Ms Lorenzo said.

Ashburton’s information

centre is preparing for a busy summer as there was a growing trend for travellers heading north to stop in Ashburton for information and to make bookings ahead of arriving in Christchurch.

While Methven’s i-Site is open seven days, Ashburton’s is only open at the weekend until 2pm on Saturday.

Her aim is to have Ashburton open seven days a week too, but until retail shops opened on Sunday, that’s unlikely to happen, she said.

Ashburton’s information centres receive about half of their funding through Experience Mid Canterbury, which is funded by the Ashburton District Council and the remainder of their income is generated through commission on accommodation and activity books and brochure sales.

Staff are preparing for a busy summer, Ms Lorenzo said, with New Zealand Tourism tipping this summer to be the busiest on record with tourist numbers anticipated to hit an all-time high.

“Tourism is in a really good space at the moment,” she said.

Ashburton was part of a nationwide survey of i-Sites to establish the spin-off to communities from money spent on their services.

The Economic Impact Analysis report showed that the information network was a significant contributor with $5.20 returned to every household from every $1 spent in an i-Site.

Canterbury is the fourth largest region in terms of commission based tourism sales, about $8.4 million in i-Site sales each year and $671 million in holiday activity spending.

■ ASHBURTON MONTESSORI PRE-SCHOOL

Pre-school children show their support It was a sea of black and white at Ashburton Montessori Pre-school yesterday, as students and teachers alike showed their support of the All Blacks.

Teacher Mady Pretorius said the children had shown an interest in rugby so the early childhood centre decided to hold a day dedicated to the Rugby World Cup. The children played games of Rippa Rugby, practised their ball skills and even got to munch on some themed cupcakes.

Shoddy communication on shift change-overs has been blamed for a Wellington train derailment which led to an air compressor breaking through a carriage floor.

The incident occurred on May 20, 2013 as the train, filled with 315 passengers, was heading into Wellington Station from Porirua.

A Transport Accident Investigation Commission report released yesterday said a loose brake component fell onto the track and jammed against undercarriage machinery. KiwiRail general manager metro David Shepherd said after the incident it acted urgently to improve communication and second checks on its safety procedures. - NZME

Distracted drivers A man texting on two cellphones at the same time, another texting in one hand and using the other to drink a beer and a woman sending messages on her phone while driving three kids and a horse float. These are just some of the drivers pinged by cops during a national campaign targeting driver distractions. On Wednesday West Auckland officers were left shaking their heads after a two hour operation on Lincoln Rd. During that time they issued 54 infringement notices for cellphone use. “That sort of driving behaviour is frightening,” Waitemata road policing manager Inspector Trevor Beggs said. “It’s not worth a lifetime of regret if you kill someone behind the wheel because you needed to tell someone to get the washing off the line or your boss that you’re running late.”

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Skydive surprise Twenty minutes before Papamoa real estate agent Greg Purcell was due to jump out of a plane from 10,000 feet, he was only just finding out. “What? No!” Unknown to him, the Ray White Mount Maunganui and Papamoa franchise owner was the lucky, or unlucky, winner of the Throw Your Boss From A Plane draw, on Wednesday.

The event, made possible by Payless Plastics Tauranga, called for employees to dob in their bosses for the 10,000ft fall. Katie Phillip had been working for Mr Purcell for more than two years and thought he was the perfect candidate for the “prize”. “Just because he’s awesome, he’s funny, he’s such a good person to work for. He’s always playing tricks on us so it’s pay-back time,” another staff member said.

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KiwiRail ordered to pay $110,000 for emotional harm KiwiRail has been ordered to pay $110,000 to the family of man who can no longer eat, speak or walk after a horrific accident.

It is thought to be one of the highest emotional harm payments awarded in this country.

Paul Anderson was working on a digger on the Raurimu Spiral line as a Downer contractor in June last year when a train ploughed into him,

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causing him severe traumatic brain injury, as well as chest and lung trauma.

He was choppered from the central North Island site to Waikato Hospital where neurologists said his injuries were some of the worst they had ever seen.

Mr Anderson was put in an induced coma for the next three weeks and eventually transported to a specialist fa-

cility in Porirua where he has since been receiving 24-hour care.

His 34-year-old partner Vashti Faulkner had her victim impact statement read in Auckland District Court yesterday afternoon where she spoke of the “cruel and unfair” fate for her and the couple’s two daughters, aged 6 and 13.

Doctors had told them Mr Anderson was unlikely to re-

main alive for another year.

She described the moment she first saw him in hospital after the incident.

“He was unrecognisable,” Ms Faulkner said. “Tubes going into his nose, mouth, arms and chest ... eyes huge and black, swollen shut.

“Though he did not die that day, the man I knew is gone forever.”

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Former All Black Andrew Hore, “more than most”, should have acted responsibly when it came to managing firearms, a judge said as he convicted him yesterday on a firearms charge. The bid

by Andrew Keith Hore, 37, of Patearoa, to be discharged without conviction for supplying a shotgun to an unlicensed person on the opening day of the duck-shooting season was opposed by police and rejected by Judge Dominic Flatley.

“You, more than most, should have acted responsibly here,” Judge Flatley told Hore during sentencing in the Alexandra District Court.

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■ LOCAL ACCIDENT

■ REVIEW

Crash causes no serious injuries

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Emergency services were called to a car crash in Ashburton on Wednesday afternoon. St John was alerted to the crash, at the intersection of Elizabeth St and Cross St, at 5.23pm, a spokesman said.

An ambulance was sent to the scene to assess patients, but none of the occupants of the vehicles required hospitalisation.

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■ MISSING PERSONS

Catlins couple missing at sea The Owaka friends missing at sea were experienced sea-goers and were well known and loved in the community.

The small Catlins community was “a bit raw” as the search continued yesterday, incident controller Senior Constable Murray Hewitson, of Owaka, said. “People will be grieving in their own way.”

Whetuki Sam Kopua, 77, known as Sam, and Matekino Lucy Burling, 60, known as Lou, were reported missing by Mr Kopua’s wife about 6pm on Wednesday after they failed to

return from a fishing trip.

About 60 people searched unsuccessfully for the pair yesterday.

Mr Kopua’s overturned 5.2m Kiwi-Kraft boat, Kristala, was spotted by searchers in a fixedwing plane about 10am on Wednesday, southeast of Nugget Point, but the pair were not inside. The friends were always safe fishers and Mr Kopua had a “phenomenal” knowledge of the Catlins coastline, Mr Hewitson said.

“If I said they were the two people that went out to sea

most in this town, I wouldn’t be far off,” he said. “They’d be – easily – the two people that go fishing the most.”

Mr Hewitson said yesterday’s fruitless search was more emotionally difficult than usual for those involved as Mrs Burling was a Catlins land search and rescue member.

Mr Kopua, retired, was married to a long-serving member of St John, and had a long history of being involved in the community.

A helicopter with a spotlight searched for the pair from

8.30pm to 10.30pm on Wednesday, but was hampered by fog and limited visibility.

When the boat was discovered, searchers’ hopes hit a high, but those were dashed when no trace was found of the missing pair, said Mr Hewitson from the Catlins land search and rescue base in Owaka.

NZ Police, NZ Rescue Coordination Centre and marine search and rescue had six boats, a fixed wing aeroplane, and a helicopter were involved in the search from daybreak on Wednesday.

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■ RENOWNED AUTHOR

Kiwi author uses science to illustrate the craft of writing Exploding balloons, high-vis gear, and flashing lights- there was plenty of excitement during renowned Kiwi author Des Hunt’s visit to Methven yesterday.

Pupils from Methven Primary School, Lauriston School, and Mount Hutt College were treated to a visit from the famed author, who used science to talk them through the process of crafting a story.

For example, he inflated a

helium balloon until it exploded, which represented the climax of a novel.

“I use science to explain the structure of writing,” he said.

“I tell them the story, and each part is illustrated.”

Mr Hunt has written dozens of novels for children and young adults, including ‘The Last Tuatara’ and ‘Cry of the Taniwha’.

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It could not have been stated any simpler by Jackie Heffernan, Director of this production. The performance of Blood Brothers by the Big Little Theatre Company has to be seen to be believed.

The tragic tale of twin boys born to a single mother who can ill afford to keep one let alone two, plays out through an emotional roller coaster.

The illegal adoption of one of the babies serves to demonstrate that inequality and prejudice were indeed well to the fore, indicative of real life situations years ago.

A stunning stage set with a live band strategically camouflaged within, made an immediate impact.

Narrator Caleb Livingstone bound the story together with ease, never intruding but with a strong commitment.

Performing the parts of twins Mickey and Edward Johnstone, Mitchell Farr and Oliver Livingstone were truly outstanding. That they worked so hard as to present themselves in character (including Mickey’s Liverpudlian accent) is to be much applauded. We watched as these boys traversed the years…meeting as children and taking a blood brother’s vow.

Mickey gives Edward a locket to keep when Edward’s parents move to the country in order to leave the riff-raff behind. The boys meet again as teenagers and with friend Linda (wonderfully acted by Elise Heffernan) enjoy the camaraderie special to such an age group.

The story continues to twist and turn, causing the audience to laugh out loud and feel happiness, but then have it torn away as yet another cruel blow occurs.

Its conclusion comes suddenly and not without emotion both on and off the stage.

Each and every actor in this production should feel immense satisfaction from having presented this work with the professionalism one might expect from a touring company. It was outstanding.

Actors, stage crew, musicians, vocalists, lighting crew and each and every other person involved in this production must take a huge bow.

I will go again and there had better not be an empty seat in the house. Blood Brothers is a must see.

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Quake rattles, sets off tsunami A major earthquake just offshore rattled Chileans, killing five people and shaking the earth so strongly the tremor was felt in places across South America.

Authorities worked into the early hours assessing damage in several coastal towns that saw flooding from small tsunami waves set off by the quake.

The magnitude-8.3 quake hit off northern Chile, causing buildings to sway in the capital of Santiago and prompting authorities to issue a tsunami warning for the Andean nation’s entire Pacific coast.

People sought safety in the streets of inland cities, while others along the shore took to their cars to get to higher ground.

“Once again we must confront a powerful blow from nature,” President Michelle Bachelet said in an address to the nation.

Authorities said five people had been killed and one person was listed as missing.

Bachelet urged people who

Police patrol a debris strewn street in Valparaiso, Chile, after a tsunami, caused by an earthquake hit the area yesterday.

evacuated from coastal areas to stay on high ground until authorities could fully evaluate the situation. Officials said schools would be kept closed in most of the country.

Numerous aftershocks, including one at magnitude-7 and four above 6, shook the re-

gion after the initial earthquake – the strongest tremor since a powerful quake and tsunami killed hundreds in 2010 and leveled part of the city of Concepcion in south-central Chile.

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“Earthquake impact is a little

■ INDIA

Saudi diplomat accused of raping two maids A Saudi Arabian diplomat accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two Nepalese maids has left India under cover of diplomatic immunity, while Nepal has called for justice for the women.

India’s External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup identified the diplomat as Majed Hassan Ashoor, the first secretary at the Saudi Embassy in New Delhi.

The statement said Ashoor, “who is allegedly accused of abusing two Nepali maids, has left India”.

It gave no details on how the diplomat left the country, but said “the first secretary, being a diplomat, is governed by the provisions of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations”.

The two Nepalese, working as maids in the diplomat’s luxury apartment, have accused him of illegally confining and raping them during the past few months.

Police removed the women from the apartment last week after receiving a complaint from a non-governmental organisation. They have since returned to Nepal.

Although a case was registered against the diplomat, police could not act against him because of diplomatic immunity. Under the Vienna Convention, diplomats cannot be arrested or face criminal prosecution in the country where they are posted.

The Saudi Embassy has denied the allegations against the diplomat, and refused to let police question him.

An Indian official said Saudi Arabia decided to withdraw the diplomat and his family. - AP

like real estate: what matters is location, location, location,” said Susan Hough, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey. “But it is true that preparedness and risk reduction in Chile is ahead of that in much of the world, and that makes a difference.”

The tremor was so strong that people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the other side of the continent, reported feeling it. People in Peru and Brazil also reported feeling the shakes.

No injuries were reported outside Chile.

Claudio Moreno said he was in a Santiago bar when it hit.

The shaking was powerful, but more worrisome was how long it lasted, he said.

“We went out in the street when we felt it was going on too long,” he said. “It was more than a minute.”

Authorities said some adobe houses collapsed in the inland city of Illapel, about 280 kilometres north of Santiago and about 55 kilometres east of the quake’s epicentre.

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In brief Thatcher on $10 bill?

Britain is abuzz with US presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s suggestion that Margaret Thatcher should grace the new $10 bill.

Mock-ups of a $10 note featuring the former prime minister feature prominently on newspaper websites yesterday. Bush made Thatcher his choice during the Republican presidential debate after candidates were asked their choice for the bill, which President Barack Obama has said will feature a woman. “I would go with Ronald Reagan’s partner, Margaret Thatcher,” Bush said. “Probably illegal, but what the heck?” - AP

Drive-by shooting Egypt’s Ministry of Interior says gunmen opened fire from a car and killed a senior police officer in northern Sinai. The ministry says Maj. Gen. Khaled Kamal Osman was inspecting security positions in the city of el-Arish when the gunmen started shooting. Police fired back and the attackers fled the scene.

Security forces have cordoned off the area and are searching for the perpetrators.

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Coup confirmed While gunfire rang out in the streets, Burkina Faso’s military took to the airwaves yesterday to declare it now controls the West African country, confirming that a coup has taken place just weeks before elections. The announcement aired on national television and radio said the transitional government was dissolved and the interim president no longer in power. The coup leaders, identified themselves as the National Council for Democracy.

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Croatian police said yesterday that some 5650 migrants have come into the country since the first groups started arriving early on Wednesday. Authorities have been using trains and buses to transfer them to refugee centres in the capital, Zagreb, and elsewhere.

Authorities say they are forming a special body to deal with the influx. Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said the country has the situation under control. But he warned that “if huge waves start coming through Serbia we must consider different moves.”

Croatia represents a longer and more arduous route into Europe for the asylum-seekers from Syria and elsewhere

who have been fleeing into Europe in the past months. But they have little choice after Hungary sealed off its southern border with Serbia and began arresting anyone caught trying to enter the country illegally.

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Both attacks were carried out by bombers on foot, wearing explosivesladen vests, two police officers said.

One bomber struck in Baghdad’s Bab al-Sharji area, killing nine civilians and three police officers there. Forty-five people were wounded in that explosion.

The second bomber hit in al-Wathba Square, killing nine people, including four policemen, and wounding 31.

Two medical officials confirmed the casualty figures.

Iraq is going through its worst crisis since the 2011 withdrawal of US troops.

The Islamic State group controls large swathes of the country’s north and west after capturing Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul and the majority of the western Anbar province last year.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group, a splinter of Iraq’s al-Qaeda branch.

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Health system unhealthy Stu Oldham

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hat many Mid Cantabrians are referred back to their family doctor instead of seeing a specialist shows the gulf between expectations and what our tax dollars deliver.

There are calls for an independent review on the back of reports thousands of people have been refused a first specialist assessment for surgery over the past six years.

About 29,000 Cantabrians were instead referred back to their general practitioner. The district health board says that’s about 5500 a year, or about 10 per cent of all those expecting an assessment.

This is happening across the country. In the North Island, some GPs say they have stopped sending low-end ailments up the chain because they doubt they’d be accepted.

Here, Ashburton GP Charlotte Cox says some patients struggle to get state-funded CT scans and x-rays, and hernia and varicose vein operations. Meanwhile, others get non-urgent elective surgeries.

Such patients cannot be blamed for meeting the health board’s eligibility criteria. After all, the most important ailment in the world is the ailment one carries oneself.

The health board says it sometimes does not have the capacity to see some patients.

Its funding boss says it can only do what it can do.

What it does is determined by the budgets it sets which, in turn, are framed within the funding it gets from the government. This funding reflects government priorities.

It is true the government invested more money in elective surgery and that 34 per cent more Cantabrians got a first specialist assessment last year compared to six years ago.

However, that this happened in an overall health spend that lags behind inflation means the board does not have the wiggleroom to see everyone that needs to be seen.

And if this means some GPs are reluctant to refer patients, knowing they’ll get knocked back, then health spending is affecting many more people than official figures suggest.

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“W

e understood the responsibility to stay alive over choosing suicide,” said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, defending his decision to end his rebellion against the European Union’s tough terms for bailing out the Greek economy.

He needed to defend it, since he finally gave in to even harsher terms.

Sometimes defiance at all costs is a mistake.

If Tsipras really knew he was going to lose his David and Goliath struggle with the EU eventually, shouldn’t he have settled earlier for better terms?

If he didn’t realise that, what was he doing in the prime minister’s office?

So now the firebrand who turned Greek politics upside down is a bit of a zombie.

Back in mid-August, when Tsipras called the snap election that will be held this Sunday, he was still basking in the afterglow of the defiant ‘No’ that Greek voters gave to austerity in his July referendum, and the opinion polls gave his Syriza party 42 per cent support.

At least Tsipras had stood up to the wicked Germans and their rich allies in the EU, even if it meant that the banks closed for three weeks and the economy went into a nosedive.

But a lot of Greeks are having sober second thoughts.

Tsipras’s quixotic battle with the EU killed what was starting to look like a modest outbreak of growth in the Greek economy, and analysts are now predicting a further decline of up to 4 per cent in Greek GDP this year.

Unemployment is still at 25 per cent (50 per cent for young people). Was it all worth it?

Maybe not, and that thought may even have occurred to Alexis Tsipras by now. He was certainly very subdued in his television debate with Vangelis Meimarakis, leader of the New Democracy Party, last Sunday, and well he might be.

In the past six weeks, Tsipras’s own Syriza party has

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split, with 25 of its members of parliament forming a new Popular Unity party. They condemn him for accepting austerity and want Greece to quit the euro instead.

They have taken a lot of Syriza’s former voters with them, so Syriza and the centreright New Democracy party are now neck-and-neck in the polls, with less than one percentage point between them.

That one percentage point matters a lot, since in Greek elections the party that wins the most seats is then given another 50 seats as a bonus. But even if Syriza is that party, it will still be very hard to form a new government after Sunday’s election.

During the last debate, Tsipras rejected Vangelis Meimarakis’s call for a broad coalition, saying that it would be “unnatural” for his party and New Democracy to be in government together.

It’s hard to see what would be unnatural about it, considering the deal Tsipras signed with the EU, but he is still in denial about what he has done.

Tsipras, like many, maybe most Greeks, wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to keep the euro, because he calculates that Greece would have

to leave the European Union if it went back to its old currency, the drachma.

That is not technically inevitable, but most Greeks reckon it is very likely, and they desperately want to stay in the EU. But neither Tsiras nor Greek voters want to live with perpetual austerity, which is probably the price of staying in the euro.

Countries like Greece, that have run up huge foreign debts, usually deal with the problem by devaluing their currency, but there is no way for Greece to devalue the euro.

There is one way out of this dilemma, of course: get your creditors to give you “debt relief ”.

If they would agree to cut the amount Greece owes by half, it could probably service the remainder of its debt and still grow its economy.

In fact, that’s exactly what Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told the eurozone finance ministers last month.

“I remain firmly of the view that Greece’s debt has become unsustainable,” she said. (It’s now heading for 200 per cent of GDP.) So she called on the European Union to make

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“concrete commitments ... to provide significant debt relief, well beyond what has been considered so far.”

The rich eurozone countries don’t want to do that, because other highly indebted members of the EU would then demand the same relief. If they refuse to do it for Greece, however, the IMF will not take part in the 86-billion-euro bail-out of the Greek government and banks.

If the IMF won’t play, several EU parliaments (notably the German) may not ratify the deal, whose final details must be settled next month. But a solution will probably be found in the end, most likely by giving Greece a very long grace period, say 30 years, during which it only has to pay the interest, not the principal, on a large part of its debt.

But it’s increasingly unlikely that Alexis Tsipras will be the Greek prime minister who negotiates that deal – even though you could argue that it was really his defiance and brinkmanship that forced Greece’s creditors to consider such a deal at all.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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■ SOLID ENERGY

Creditors reject last minute bid

BY SUZE METHERELL Creditors of New Zealand’s failed state-owned coal miner Solid Energy have voted in favour of an orderly sell-down over the next 2½ years, rejecting a last minute foreign bidder’s request to delay the watershed meeting ahead of a possible buyout.

Korda Mentha administrator Brendon Gibson said a move

by Australian company Mach Capital to adjourn yesterday’s creditor meeting while it completed due diligence and make an alternative offer was rejected when creditors “overwhelmingly supported” the deed of company arrangement (DOCA).

Still, Mach would be able to participate in the sell-down of Solid Energy’s assets, he said.

The DOCA will see Solid Energy’s day-to-day creditors and employees paid in full while debt owed to other creditors, including the bank and bondhold-

ers, will be paid over the next 2½ years, the miner said in a statement.

“It is not unusual to receive such an approach in an administration, but it is unusual after the formal administrators’ report has been issued,” Gibson said in a statement issued after Compiled by

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ties and Investment Commission last week and yesterday changed its name to Global Resources Partners.

Publicly available ASIC records give no clue to its ownership, although its backers are understood to be Asian investors looking for opportunities in the coal sector created by the global slump in coal prices that have forced Solid Energy into administration for break-up.

Korda Mentha’s proposed DOCA was unveiled on September 10. At that time it had the support of a wide range of banks, local authorities and creditors including KiwiRail and Fonterra Co-operative Group, based on its potential to return between 35 cents and 40 cents in the dollar following an orderly asset realisation process, for which the banks would extend a two and a half year moratorium on debt repayments.

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■ LOCHINVER STATION SALE

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the vote.

“This approach has not changed the process. The watershed meeting has proceeded as planned.

The meeting was advised of the approach made to us and this matter was dealt with within the meeting”.

The DOCA envisages all obligations to staff and trade creditors being paid in full, while rehabilitation costs at mine sites are covered by an indemnity negotiated last year with the government, with a cap minimising risk to local councils.

The company was placed in voluntary administration last month after concluding it had no realistic prospect of refinancing $239 million of debt facilities due to mature in September next year.

The company’s downward spiral began in 2013 when slumping global coal costs exposed its commercial error in carrying substantial debt on its balance sheet to pursue a variety of novel energy projects that a previous board and management believed would give the business a future beyond coal extraction.

Little is known about Mach Capital, which was registered with the Australian Securi-

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Govt overturns OIO approval Ministers have gone against the Overseas Investment Office recommendation in declining a bid by Chinese-owned Pure 100 Farm Ltd to buy Lochinver Station.

The Overseas Investment Office had recommended it be accepted in what Associate Finance Minister Paula Bennett described as a “finely balanced” decision.

However, ministers did not believe the benefits to New Zealand were great enough and used their discretion to reject it.

“While the OIO said the question of whether the benefits or the potential investment to New Zealand are or could be substantial and identifiable was finely balanced, it recommended approving the application.

“We agreed parts of the proposed investment could benefit New Zealand but our judgment on the overall balance of evidence the benefits are not likely to be substantial and identifiable.”

It is the first time ministers have rejected a bid to buy a significant landholding in New Zealand since the rules were tightened in 2012 during the Crafar Farms decision to require the OIO to assess whether a foreign buyer could offer more than a New Zealand buyer would.

Pure 100 Farm is a subsidiary of the China-based Shanghai Pengxin and applied last year to buy the 13,800 hectare farm near Taupo for $88 million.

Ms Bennett said while ministers recognised the importance of overseas investment, it was a privilege to own ‘sensitive’ New Zealand assets and investors had to meet statutory requirements set out in the Overseas Investment Act. “After detailed and careful individual consideration we are not satisfied there will be, or is likely to be, a substantial benefit to New Zealand – a key requirement for applications of sensitive land of this size.”

NZ First deputy leader Ron Mark said the ministers’ decision to block the sale was “baffling” given the Government had signed off on significant land sales in the past.

He questioned why ministers had seen benefits in allowing the sale of the Crafar Farms to the same company – Shanghai Pengxin – in 2012 and the 13 Synlait farms in Canterbury.

“The National government has merrily ticked off over

a million hectares of land to foreigner buyers, and none of those sales add substantial benefit for New Zealand.”

Paula Bennett denied the decision to override the Overseas Investment Office was because of public concerns about foreign investment.

“I have no qualms in sitting here and saying it was a decision in the best interest of New Zealand and not a political decision in response to public opinion.”

She said the Government welcomed foreign investment and did not believe the decline of one application would be a significant deterrent.

She denied it was because of concern about Chinese buyers.

“I’m not going out there and deciding who buys land on the basis of their surname.”

She said one of the reasons for declining was the low number of extra jobs it would provide.

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Roosters rule out Pearce

BY STEVE ZEMEK Sydney Roosters young gun Jackson Hastings is better prepared than most to handle the pressure cooker of an NRL semi-final after Mitchell Pearce failed in his bid to be passed fit.

That’s the view of Roosters coach Trent Robinson after it was confirmed that Hastings will again be in the hot seat for tonight’s elimination clash with Canterbury.

After being named on Tuesday, halfback Pearce couldn’t get through yesterday’s captain’s run, succumbing to the hamstring he picked up against Brisbane three weeks ago.

Fearing further damage, it was decided to rest Pearce in the hope he would be ready to line up should the Roosters win through to a preliminary final against Brisbane next week.

While Hastings has acquitted himself well during Pearce’s three-game absence, tonight’s must-win clash with the Bulldogs at Allianz Stadium represents the biggest challenge of his young career.

The former St George Illawarra junior exhibited his prodigious talent in the side’s qualifying final loss to Melbourne.

With his side needing a bit of

magic to get back in the contest, he put in an inch-perfect chip which landed on the chest of winger Shaun Kenny-Dowall for one of the tries of the year.

Robinson said one of the reasons he was so comfortable with resting Pearce was because Hastings had been able to perform so well in his place.

“Jackson’s been preparing for longer than most,” Robinson said.

“He’s been dreaming of big game footy and he’s played a lot of big game footy as a young kid.

“He’s been preparing as a football player 24 hours a day.

“It’s probably been going on eight or nine years now, since he was a kid.

“He lives and breathes it.”

Of Hastings’ 15 top-grade appearances this year, only five have been in the No.7 jumper and has spent most of the season coming off the bench at dummy-half in place of hooker Jake Friend.

During the week, Hastings put his performance in the No.7 jersey down to the calming influence of halves partner James Maloney.

Maloney has taken a greater playmaking role since Pearce went down against the Broncos

Jackson Hastings: Big boots to fill for the Roosters tonight.

and Hastings said that was rubbing off on him.

“Jimmy’s been massive,” Hastings said.

“Every game I’ve played in the halves has obviously been alongside Jimmy.

“He’s really taken it upon himself to lead the team around the park and he’s taken extra responsibility for me.

“He’s made me feel really comfortable and welcome. It’s been outstanding.”

Meanwhile Roosters coach Trent Robinson has fired back at Melbourne counterpart Craig Bellamy, defending his criticism of the Storm’s wrestling tactics.

After the Storm upset the minor premiers 20-18 in last week’s NRL qualifying final, Robinson said the referees had failed to police the ruck.

He said the Storm were allowed to lie on the attacking player during last Friday’s match, despite the NRL promising to speed up the play the ball this year.

That prompted Bellamy to fire a shot across Robinson’s bow on Wednesday, saying the Tri-colours coach probably wasn’t used to losing.

He also called for Robinson and Broncos mentor Wayne Bennett to be removed from the NRL Rules Committee because they were able to exercise their influence to help their sides.

The tit-for-tat continued yesterday with Robinson standing by his comments.

“To be honest (Melbourne) played well last week, my comments I thought were right,” Robinson said. “It wasn’t attacking Melbourne at all, he can take it how he wants.

“I was commenting on the game.”

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Key match-ups in this weekend’s semi-finals TONIGHT First semi-final Sydney Roosters v Canterbury, Allianz Stadium 7.55pm (AEST) The winner will progress to play Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium in the first preliminary final next Friday night, the loser is done for the year.

2015 results: Roosters 24 bt Bulldogs 10, round 10, ANZ Stadium; Roosters 38 bt Bulldogs 28, round 21, Allianz Stadium Blake Ferguson v Josh Morris Ferguson had a shocker in defence last week, allowing two tries on the Roosters right edge.

This won’t have gone unnoticed to Morris who was key to the Bulldogs’ epic comefrom-behind victory over the Dragons.

Kane Evans v Sam Kasiano “Ohhhhh Samuel ...” Who could forget Evans’ massive hit on Kasiano last time these sides

met, and Ray Warren’s classic commentary to match.

There won’t be an exact repeat of the Evans shoulder charge that caused such drama, but these two are sure to go looking for one another when they are launched off the bench and into the fray.

Trent Robinson v Des Hasler Robinson was outcoached by Craig Bellamy in the Roosters’ upset loss to Melbourne last week as the Storm successfully employed their borderline “wrestling” tactics.

Hasler is a finals specialist but Robinson can lift too as he showed in the Roosters’ 2013 title triumph.

SATURDAY Second semi-final North Queensland v Cronulla-Sutherland, 1300 Smiles Stadium 7.55pm (AEST) The winner will progress to play Melbourne in the

second preliminary final next Saturday at AAMI Park, the loser is gone for the year.

2015 results: Sharks 24 bt Cowboys 18, round 16, 1300 Smiles Stadium; Sharks 30 bt Cowboys 18, round 22, Remondis Stadium Johnathan Thurston v Jack Bird Jack Bird is about the most unconventional modern day playmaker you could get, but he gets the job done.

And the boom rookie has made no secret of his desire to knock Thurston off his perch in Townsville.

Easier said than done.

Jason Taumalolo v Paul Gallen

Jason Taumalolo

Whoever controls the middle, controls the game and these two monsters are key for their respective sides. Especially when they can gain big yards followed by a quick playthe-ball.

Jake Granville v Michael Ennis The young buck up against the wily old master.

Ennis’ ball playing at the line is crucial to Sharks’ attack.

Granville can ignite the Cowboys’ offensive thrusts with his lightning quick darts out of dummy half.

Cowboys want revenge Still seething over their last start against Cronulla, North Queensland prop James Tamou says an embarrassed Cowboys pack will be out to prove a point against their bogey side in Saturday night’s NRL knockout semi-final in Townsville.

Test front-rower Tamou still winces at the thought of their round 22 loss to the Paul Gallen-led Sharks, admitting the Cronulla pack ran through them without injured co-captain Matt Scott (neck).

Now a Scott-led Cowboys pack want to set the record straight in a bid to keep their hopes of a maiden premiership in their 20th anniversary season alive.

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Hunt refines skills Brisbane halfback Ben Hunt reckons an improved kicking game is the biggest reason for a rise which has made him one of the NRL’s most influential players. Hunt was described last week by Wayne Bennett as his biggest “project” at the Broncos following his coaching return. It’s clear that focus is paying huge dividends with the 25-year-old playing a central role in the Broncos’ resurgence in 2015 which has earned them a home preliminary final. Hunt says he’s done a lot to fix up one element of his game that was most letting him down.

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Sharks’ confidence high Supersub Ben Barba likens the confidence surging through the Cronulla team to that which carried Canterbury all the way to an NRL grand final in 2012. The Sharks, together with a chartered flight full of fans, depart for Townsville today planning to continue their fairytale run in Saturday’s semi-final against North Queensland. The Cowboys will start as heavy favourites but Barba, who has played in the past four postseasons, said the positive energy in the Sharks squad felt familiar. “You can definitely feel the confidence,” Barba said. “If I could compare it to anything, I could compare it to the 2012 side that I played with at the Dogs, just the confidence of the side is that high.”

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Farah rules out move Unwanted Wests Tigers skipper Robbie Farah has ruled out a move to the Super League but says he’s no closer to knowing where he’ll be playing his football next NRL season. The 31-year-old left Sydney for Bali on Wednesday to ponder his immediate playing future, three weeks after being told by the club he was free to move out of Concord at the end of this season.

And while Leeds had already been mentioned as possible suitors, Farah said a desire to keep his NSW State of Origin jumper meant he would return to Australia for the pre-season.

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New CBA ‘in principle’ Johnathan Thurston looks to have come up with arguably the best try-assist of his career, with the NRL agreeing in principle to a revised collective bargaining agreement with the Rugby League Players’ Association (RLPA).

Thurston had threatened to boycott this year’s gala awards after negotiations stalled on a number of player concerns. - AAP

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Riccarton Park Races Tomorrow at Riccarton Park

September 19, 2015

11 43336 Eme rge ncy Call (5) 56.5 K & P Hughes D Prastiyou (a2) T Moseley $10,000, mdn, 1200m 12 79504 Eye s Wide Shut (6) 56.5 N Ridley R Black (a1) PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer Jockey 13 99454 Zah Ke isha (13) 56.5 K Tyler 80 Coolin Roo (10) 56.5 K Thomson D Walsh 1 0 Izsmart (8) 58.5 M Price S Wynne (a) 14 8 Rathlin (11) 56.5 M McCann S Muniandy 3 2 X2722 Daifuku (4) 56.5 J & K Parsons G Jog oo (a3) 15 1 16 En Suite (21) 54 K Myers R Myers 3 3 Mulbe rry (12) 56.5 N Ridley R C uneen (a2) 0 17 8X9 Forwarning (1) 58.5 S Robertson 4 50X Pe rfe ct Octaine (11) 56.5 D Thomson T Direen 0 18 X8670 Le t’s Divorce (9) 56.5 Charles/Corbett 5 006 Its No Se cre t (2) 56.5 M & M Pitman P Shaikh (a3) 0 19 37008. Your Honour (4) 58.5 N Ridley 6 08X0 Ruby Ashle y (5) 56.5 R McKay A McKay (a3) 0 20 76680 Re se t The Turbo (2) 58.5 M & M Pitman 1 7 25X Son Of Mahe r (1) 56 M & M Pitman D Bradley 0 21 7607 She ’s Galvanise d (12) 56.5 M McCann 8 35 Bushido (7) 56 J & K Parsons R Myers 4 9 4 Powe rball (6) 56 M & M Brown T Moseley 1:32pm COCA-COLA RATIN G 75 2 10 Bishop Rock (10) 56 Autridge/Richards C Lammas opt 604 $18,500, rating 75 be nchmark, 1400m 11 Passamaquoddy (3) 56 L Didham C Barnes (a1) 1 11855. Natkingcole (4) 60.5 R McKay A McKay (a3) 12 Jona Mac (9) 54 K & L Rae L C allaway 2 0917X Commanding Oak (9) 60 M & M Pitman H Bennet (a4) S Wynne (a) 12:22pm STALLION TEN DER OPTION S BOOK N OW MAIDEN 3 7534X Karaka Jack (7) 59 P Rudkin J Lowry (a3) opt 602 $10,000, mdn, 1200m 4 12261 Do Uno Whoiam (11) 56.5 J Burrows C Barnes (a1) 1 Ruairi (13) 58.5 S Hewitt J Lowry (a3) 5 120X6 Ash (8) 56 L Didham R C uneen (a2) 2 0X67X Abe ll Road (6) 58.5 L Didham R C uneen (a2) 6 6611X El Nahra (6) 55.5 N Ridley 3 7 473X3 Vive La Diffe re nce (3) 54 Autridge/Richards C Lammas 3 0X Ambrosius (1) 58.5 S Haisma L C allaway 4 8 511X3 Montrache t (10) 54 A Carston D Walsh 4 007X If Raaj Rings (7) 58.5 D Thomson R Bishop 2 9 X2911 One forthe ditch (2) 54 K Myers R Myers 4 5 0228 Backhand (8) 56.5 M & M Pitman D Bradley 1 10 1541X Platinum Command (1) 54 L Latta D Bradley 6 22470 Urban (11) 56.5 J & K Parsons G Jog oo (a3) G Jog oo (a3) 7 X280X Borntobe irish (9) 56.5 M & M Pitman P Shaikh (a3) 11 00564 Ke vildo (5) 54 T & L Prendergast 8 4X Sunflowe r (2) 56.5 K Myers R Myers 2:07pm PRYDE’S EASIFEED RATIN G 65 9 490X7 Noide a (5) 56.5 R McKay A McKay (a3) opt 605 $17,500, rating 65 be nchmark*, 1400m 3 10 72 El Be e Darci (12) 56 R McKay C Barnes (a1) 1 5X686 Coup Rotorua (13) 59 M & M Pitman D Bradley 1 11 22. Sniparinda (3) 56 J & K Parsons S Wynne (a) 2 6489X Stone mason (5) 58.5 A Carston R C uneen (a2) 2 12 Dire ctor (10) 56 B Court D Walsh 3 3 32513 Tomm Jone s (1) 58 J & K Parsons K Mudhoo (a4) 13 6X677. Rapid Rise (4) 56 K & L Rae T Moseley 4 19. Court Orde r (15) 57.5 B Court T Moseley 2 5 6266X Longbe ach (11) 57.5 M & M Brown D Walsh 12:57pm LIN WOOD PARK STALLION S MAIDEN L C allaway $10,000, mdn, 1600m 6 176 Me talworke r (16) 57.5 M McCann opt 603 1 X4252. Bobby Al (15) 58.5 Champion/Murphy R C uneen (a2) 7 05412 Fe rgie (8) 57 S Laming R Bishop 2 2 48263 Location (3) 58.5 T & L Prendergast J Lowry (a3) 8 2264X Misste e flying (14) 57 A Carston C Barnes (a1) 3 662 Luke (14) 58.5 N Ridley D Bradley 9 06X10 It Aint Ove r (10) 56.5 P Rudkin C Lammas 4 6D626. Paw Patrol (7) 58.5 M Hamilton L C allaway 10 650X7 Marce lle (6) 56 Kennedy/Furlong D Prastiyou (a2) 5 054X7 Mr Gus (17) 58.5 S Hampton 1 11 8X1X4 Me lanie Claire (7) 56 J Hay A McKay (a3) K Williams 6 5547X Putthe hamme rdown (8) 58.5 M Price 4 12 315 The Browne Ke e pe r (9) 56 K & P Hughes C Lammas R Myers 3 7 5048X Talle mosa (19) 58.5 Adrian & Harry Bull R Black (a1) L Werner (a4) 13 9X139 Toe twotoe (18) 56 T & M Stokes 8 985 High In De mand (20) 58.5 T & M Stokes S Wynne (a) S Wynne (a) 14 4260X Fille Du Roi (2) 55.5 B Blackie 0 15 30427 Flossy The Cat (17) 55 A Carston 4 9 6. Bullse ye (18) 58.5 K Hampton R Bishop 16 10 0 Hi Yo Ugo (16) 58.5 V Mackle Steelfix SC RATC HED T Direen 11:50am opt 601

RACECOURSE HOTEL & MOTOR LODGE MAIDEN

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$1,400, c2, 295m

61132 Baduzzi 17.5 1 82685 Bo’s Busine ss 17.2 7 13383 Mulbe rry Brook 17.4 5 21542 Gump’s The Name 17.4 5 13688 Ilabb 17.32 65645 Be llwave 17.2 0 17637 Cawbourne Rowan 17.18 13375 Car Bootle 17.62 76878 Gossip Que e n 17.18

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$2,200, c2, 520m

Hart & Taylor J T McInerney G C leeve R Blackburn S & B Evans J & D Fahey Lane & Wales Lane & Wales G C leeve H C airns D Stapleton J Tanner M Grant J T McInerney J T McInerney L Waretini C Roberts M K Dempsey A Bradshaw

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

31117 Arctic Action 30 .64 23425 Thrilling Luke nwtd 41134 All About Echo 30 .36 13473 Opawa Grunte r 30 .38 74746 Know Ambition 30 .5 3 78331 Run Zola 30 .5 1 15667 Black Sails 30 .66 76651 Know Che e rs 30 .4 4 35347 Miss Valle y Inn 30 .4 6

2:56pm

1 3 1 2 2 3 4 5 6 4 7 BUSIN ESS TIME AT STUD SPRIN T 8 $1,400, c2, 295m 9

J & D Fahey McC ook & Jopson J Dunn Lane & Wales G C leeve Hart & Taylor Hart & Taylor G C leeve C Roberts

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ROBBIE’S BAR & BISTRO DASH $1,400, c2, 295m

37436 Hanna The Spanna 17.2 3 21124 Cawbourne Doze r 17.33 21534 Human Instinct 17.4 9 56767 Gle nn Is Goode sy 17.2 0 31266 Struggle Is Re al 17.63 27741 Zippora Blaze 17.4 3 48272 Te rra Mondo 17.4 7 15766 Fair Cruzin 17.38 76878 Gossip Que e n 17.18

3:14pm

D Stapleton C Weir J T McInerney M Grant Hart & Taylor McC ook & Jopson C asey & Fag an J T McInerney A Bradshaw

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PROTEXIN SPRIN T

$1,400, c2, 295m

1 66665 We ars The Gold 17.5 0 2 3 2 33553 Ohoka Hope 17.38 1 3 26462 Ne ddy Se agoon 17.2 9 4 4 37211 Home bush Fine 17.65 5 77X6X Opawa Albie nwtd 6 47885 Conaloo 17.5 3 CLARKSON SIGN STUDIO STAKES 7 54315 Rainche ck 17.5 6 $2,200, c2, 520m 8 56876 Adjudicator 17.2 3 G T Bennett 9 76878 Gossip Que e n 17.18

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

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DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

2 1 2 3 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 9 OPAWA BOWL & JACK TAVERN STAKES 10

22162 Boston Billy 30 .69 61243 Anothe r Me ssage 30 .4 7 41212 Know Worth 30 .72 52324 Elwood Se nsation nwtd 21636 Stich Up 30 .71 42643 Ambilight 30 .30 73431 Opawa Kuru 30 .4 1 74576 Opawa Tania 30 .5 8 76651 Know Che e rs 30 .4 4 21856 Me ga Surge 30 .5 3

2:21pm

J T McInerney M Grant K C assidy A Lee McC ook & Jopson D Stapleton C Roberts M Robinson A Bradshaw

2 28982 Sir Ge orge Gre y (u1) D Balle 3 47114 Mob Star (u2) S Cornwall 3 4 343FX Lucky Fortune (u3) A & L Neal 5 3922D Re gal Pe tite (1) P Screen 1 6 31111 Any Old Way (2) J MacKinnon 7 21167 Mome nt Of Truth (u1) L Milina 4 8 X0327 Whitne y (1) R Dunn 9 38854 Charle magne (2) C Butler LIQUOR LEGEN DS F&M PACE $13,500, 3yo+ f&m 2 10 43P8X Re alme in (1) M Pemberton

1 Lincolns Keepsake SC RATC HED 2 X2746 Jubile e Prince ss (1) Telfer/Garlick S Phelan 3 64792 Nicole Vaidisova (2) A Matthews S Abernethy 3 4 52354 Saharazona (3) M Berger P Butcher LIN COLN FARMS PACE $7,500, 4yo+ c1–c2 jun.d, 5 2X351 Love Is A Drug (4) B Purdon 6:36pm B Mang os 2700m opt 502 1 6 X1223 Hartofdixie (5) B Purdon B Purdon 1 41557 Waingaro Mara (1) N Chilcott K Marshall (J) 7 72136 Eve rlasting Grace (6) G Small D Butcher 4 2 56301 Concorde (2) Reid/McMullan J Moka (J) 2 Stars And Sound (7) Hollis/Robertson M Anderson (J,C l) 8 53390 Barrier 3 3 15532 Sky Art (3) B Purdon M Reynolds (J) 1 4 02232 The Faithful (4) B Purdon S Grayling (J) TEGEL FOODS MOBILE PACE 2 5 1738X Alotbe ttor (5) A Donnelly M Johnson (J) 8:06pm $13,500, 3yo+ c1 to c2 mob. pace , 2200m 6 69785 Hadrian (6) A Matthews T C ameron (J) opt 505 4 1 34X21 Kimani (1) B Purdon B Purdon 7 47013 Elliot Danie l (7) J Abernethy T Lethaby (J) T Mitchell

V C De ll (u1) T Vince J MacKinnon (J) 2 757X4 Tazzy’s De vil (2) R Hughes 8 236P0 Barrier

3 Zach Mag uire SC RATC HED 4 58580 Bourbon Stre e t (3) A Matthews S Abernethy 3 5 3249X Shandale (4) M McKendry M McKendry 7:06pm RADIO SPORT TROT $13,500, 4yo+ c1–c2, c3 with 1 6 150X1 Art Form (5) Reid/McMullan D Butcher opt 503 cond. +claime r spe chcp, 2200m 2 7 3X111 Motown (6) J & J Dickie S Lawson 1 04303 Ve ntimiglia (1) A & L Neal L Neal

8 44P11 Be ttabe Pe rfe ct (7) T Herlihy T Herlihy 2 84317 Opawa Spe e d (2) D Iremonger S C ruickshank

Barrier 3 3 0X321 Prince ss Macke ndon (3) Wallis/Hackett T Mitchell

9 Blinding Lig ht SC RATC HED 4 42248 Allingham (4) D & C McGowan T Macfarlane 5 52369 Gintaras (5) R Brosnan EDWARDS SOUN D SYSTEMS TROT $14,999, 5yo+ R Brosnan 8:36pm 2 6 97932 Brookside Colt (u1) J MacKinnon c3–oc +claime r spe chcp, 2700m M Anderson (J) opt 506 7 29454 Torbjorn (1) R Brosnan P Ferg uson 1 76464 San Die go Love (1) E Downey R Downey

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1 25586 Busine ss Re vie w 17.4 4 AMBER CLEAN IN G SERVICES STAKES 3 $1,800, c0, 520m 2 58115 Showroom 17.38 1 3 3646X Mary Marlow 17.14 Hart & Taylor 4 86721 Te ll The Boys 17.2 7 S & B Evans 5 51523 Botany Ze nvo 17.33 McC ook & Jopson 6 26575 Ohoka Coby 17.13 M Robinson 4 7 82757 Lagoon May nwtd Lane & Wales 2 8 21336 Jimmy Hamme r 17.34 J & D Fahey 9 76878 Gossip Que e n 17.18 R Blackburn

1 4 Rae wyn nwtd 2 2 3 Rio Action nwtd 3 6X473 Te pirita Rata nwtd 4 63285 Coldrum nwtd 5 88 Opawa Le igh nwtd 1 6 Opawa Ze na nwtd 3 7 78632 Acamas nwtd 8 54346 Private Action nwtd 9 27743 Opawa Bucks Eye nwtd 10 7576 She e ran nwtd

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1 3 2 2 $1,400, c2, 295m 4 3 M K Dempsey 4 J T McInerney 5 J T McInerney 6 C asey & Fag an 1 7 C Weir 8 McC ook & Jopson 9 D Stapleton 10

17575 Out Back Bill 17.31 64512 Vito Baxte r 17.37 72814 Eye Adam 17.12 86278 We e Te rra 17.34 64434 Cawbourne Danial 17.2 5 21624 Go Tommo 17.10 45668 Little Midnight 17.2 4 35621 Harkone n Bale nwtd 76878 Gossip Que e n 17.18

1:29pm

1:46pm

GARRARD’S HORSE AN D HOUN D SPRIN T

Today at Alexandra Park

1 DAWSON HARFORD & PARTN ERS TROT

1 3 Viking Rule r (1) P & G Wolfenden 3 2 8 Dr Livingston (2) M Berger 3 X4487 Donna May (3) Wallis/Hackett 4 00054 Duke Castle ton (4) J Cole 1 5 33512 Acougarzsun (5) P & V Blanchard 6 Reine Des Gitans 7 04476 South Coaste r (6) B Mowbray 2 8 24X63 Thanks Shane (u1) R Richardson 9 15080 Lady J (1) Wallis/Hackett 10 9X353 Ove rstaye r (2) D Marshall

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September 18, 2015

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D Butcher J Stormont A Neal T Mitchell J MacKinnon (J,C l) P Ferg uson T Herlihy P Butcher M McKendry

CHEVALIER WHOLESALE PRODUCE MOBILE PACE

$14,999, 4yo+ c3 & faste r mob. pace , 2200m

1 McRoyal 2 6X268 She sthe re alde al (1) A Matthews 3 3 31112 Unforgiving (2) Reid/McMullan 4 13730 First Home (3) Telfer/Garlick 4 Ide al Succe ss (4) A Donnelly 5 1850X Barrier 6 Voluntad 7 God Forbid 8 River Polka 9 16411 Ide al Flybye (21) Telfer/Garlick 10 21313 Vice Consul (22) T Herlihy 11 45474 Johnny Fox (23) T Herlihy 2 12 8810X Be sotte d (24) R Green 1 13 1633X Ohoka Punte r (25) T Herlihy

SC RATC HED S Abernethy S Reid S Lawson A Donnelly SC RATC HED SC RATC HED SC RATC HED S Phelan B Mang os M McKendry D Butcher T Herlihy

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

C Roberts L Waretini J Dunn J T McInerney H Wanhalla M Robinson M Grant S & B Evans A Bradshaw

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

7 X6607 M T Pocke ts (7) S Green 4 Wynbe rg Courage (8) M Berger 8 07624 Barrier

1 9 9X42 Atomic Be tty (21) B Purdon 2 10 03 Prime Lustre (22) Telfer/Garlick 3 11 9255X Wimbaliri (23) P Fensom 9:59pm 509

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Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Good; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 2400m; Straight: 400m; Rail: Rail out 8m to 1200 then 9m to wp; Weather: Few Showers

17 LX974 Shanzou (4) 57 A Carston 0 0 18 0X649. He ’s A Bigde e l (3) 55.5 P Robson 0 19 4X1 Prince ss Davone (19) 54 Autridge/Richards 0 20 00564 Ke vildo (12) 55 T & L Prendergast

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

S McMullan D Butcher P Butcher B Mang os S Butcher T Mitchell M McKendry B Purdon

SIMS PACIFIC METALS MOBILE PACE

$7,500, claime rs mob. pace , 1700m

1 76031 Supe rshake s (1) P Scaife 2 36570 Charming De sire (2) I Brownlee 9:34pm POWELL TRAN SPORT MOBILE PACE 3 3313X G J Se e lstar (3) I Brownlee $7,500, 4yo+ c0 mob. pace , 2700m opt 508 4 4 439XP De bs Pal (4) T Vince 1 7 Gange s (1) J Abernethy T Lethaby (J) 3 5 5X431 No Apache me e (5) J Stormont 2 94088 Eye catche r Fire (2) J Stormont J Stormont 6 62488 Atomic Falcon (6) A Matthews 3 Son Of A Wish (3) K Sefonte M Anderson (J) 1 7 12283 Four Starzzz Shiraz (7) J & J Dickie 4 X0056 Without Pre judice (4) D Marshall K Marshall (J) 2 Rive r Empe ror (8) J Abernethy 8 5X245 Barrier 5 64496 Tyche (5) R Brosnan R Brosnan 6 99X Pure De sire (6) Reid/McMullan S McMullan 9 43810 With A Ve nge ance (21) T Vince

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SWEET LOU AT WOODLAN DS STUD PACE $12,000,

1 4 Booming Je t (1) Reid/McMullan 2 2 56 Eye s On The Mone y (2) P & V Blanchard 3 79X0 Re al Cyclone (3) M Berger 4 8X Vinland (4) Hollis/Robertson 3 5 5X2 Tuape ka Sky (5) R Green 4 6 7637X Art Of Gold (6) S Judson 7 60565 Eye Brow (7) P Screen 1 Can’t Re fuse (8) B Purdon 8 53X Barrier

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D Butcher T Herlihy I Brownlee B Mang os J Stormont T Macfarlane S Lawson S Abernethy J MacKinnon (J)

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

6 40X81 Royal Raine (7) 56.5 K & L Rae T Moseley 7 219X7. Spe cial Me morie s (11) 56.5 Autridge/Richards C Lammas 8 63. Manamanup (2) 56.5 S Washington R Black (a) D Prastiyou (a) 2:38pm CAN TERBURY WESTLAN D RACIN G OWN ERS ASSN 9 665X3 Lindis Pass (3) 56.5 K & P Hughes K Williams RATIN G 75 $18,500, R75 be nchmark, 2000m 10 05X3 Strolling Vagabond (6) 56.5 G Innes opt 606 S Wynne (a) 1 39576 Ke e p The Courage (9) 60.5 T & L Prendergast J Lowry (a3) 11 6 Aspe n Lass (9) 56.5 T Rae 2 X4386 Rockahoy (4) 60.5 N Ridley R C uneen (a2) 4:27pm CHRISTCHURCH CASIN O N EW ZEALAN D CUP TRIAL HCP 3 3 6X024 Astroturf (12) 59 M Daly D Bradley opt 609 $25,000, opn hcp, 1800m 4 316X6 Kina Win (13) 58.5 S Kirkland D Walsh 1 1 1116X Be nzini (2) 59 Adrian & Harry Bull R Myers 1 5 41323. Ze ntangle (1) 57.5 K Myers R Myers 2 2 71635 Duffe rs Cre e k (1) 59 K Myers T Moseley 4 6 03161 Spe e dy Jax (7) 57 K & P Hughes C Lammas 3 27425 Uppland (10) 55.5 K & L Rae R C uneen (a) 7 52802 Fly Me To Da Moon (11) 56 S Blair-Edie L C allaway 4 308X7 She ’s Insatiable (8) 54 Charles/Corbett J Morris 8 7X081 Lord Of The Stars (6) 56 L Robinson T Moseley 3 5 14211 Silhoue tte Noire (11) 54 T Rae S Wynne (a) 2 9 X9713 Pre tty Good Excuse (8) 55 A Carston K Williams 4 6 33012. Kings Pal (3) 54 B Smith D Bradley 10 08131 Howzat (2) 55 Charles/Corbett R Black (a1) 7 12455 Lakota (7) 54 Charles/Corbett R Black (a) 11 18071 The Ene rgize r (5) 54 K Tyler S Wynne (a) 8 61045 Cody Cat (5) 54 A Carston C Barnes (a) 12 65462 Slick Nicke l (10) 54 S Laming G Jog oo (a3) 9 00141. Phe asant (6) 54 S Stewart R Bishop 13 98535 Blu Mach (3) 54 L Didham D Prastiyou (a2) 10 Merci C herie SC RATC HED 14 57896 Gild The Lily (14) 54 L Stewart T Direen 11 0X743 Golde n Towe r (9) 54 S Blair-Edie L C allaway 15

Merci C herie SC RATC HED 12 02008 Miss Mia (4) 54 N Ridley L Werner (a)

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DYER DECORATIN G OPEN HAN DICAP $25,000, opn hcp, 1200m

1 2343X Toma Vale a (9) 59 T & M Stokes 3 2 2 122X5. Ove rthe rive r (7) 58 K Myers 3 44255. The Lone Range r (3) 57 N Ridley 4 8585X El Chico (6) 56.5 M & M Pitman 4 5 4126X Re d Dirt Girl (1) 55.5 M McCann 1 6 1115X Soubre tte s (2) 55.5 M & M Brown 7 13355 Jack’s Run (8) 55.5 J Hay 8 134X1 Pacific Choice (5) 54 T Rae 9 1110X Anothe r Coup (10) 54 M & M Pitman 10 X1112 Maybe Miami (4) 54 K & P Hughes

R C uneen (a2) L Werner (a4) D Prastiyou (a2) H Bennet (a4) S Muniandy D Walsh K Williams S Wynne (a) D Bradley R Myers

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SPEIGHT’S MID ALE RATIN G 65

$17,500, rating 65 be nchmark*, 1800m

1 2X032 Admiral Rous (8) 59 N Ridley 3 2 X6708 Re ve lator (16) 59 J & K Parsons 2 3 9X12. Supe rior Court (9) 59 B Court 1 4 1X Me gablast (4) 58 K Myers 5 30021 Jigge r Inn (2) 57.5 T & M Stokes 6 43961. Maste r Cubitt (12) 57.5 J & K Parsons 7 84351 Maste rze d (3) 57.5 L Stewart 8 52252. Odabe lla (1) 57 K & P Hughes 4 9 42204. Ange l Falls (7) 56 Champion/Murphy 10 0221 Bahhare Babe (17) 56 J Hay 11 45242 Ruby Tue sday (5) 56 K & P Hughes 3:47pm N EW ZEALAN D BLOODSTOCK CAN TERBURY BELLE 12 60814 She ’s Payback (13) 56 C Spittles STAKES $50,000, 3yof sw, 1200m 13 34731. Ina Jam (14) 55.5 P Rudkin opt 608 2 1 191X1 De zzie s Dre am (4) 56.5 S Kirkland J Lowry (a) 14 13083 Moonofklaire ssa (6) 55.5 B Smith 1 2 1150X Windborne (1) 56.5 Autridge/Richards R Myers 0 15 61077 Nakoma (18) 55.5 M McCann 3 3 2X31X Pe ach Cove (8) 56.5 M & M Brown D Bradley 0 16 0X500 McMay (11) 55.5 T & L Prendergast 4 4 4X1 Prince ss Davone (5) 56.5 Autridge/Richards D Walsh 0 17 46405 Wande rin Star (15) 54.5 R Beckett 5 371 Salu (10) 56.5 R Beckett R Bishop 0 18 98535 Blu Mach (10) 55.5 L Didham

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Hastings Races Tomorrow at Hastings

September 19, 2015

11 45X33 Empress Elect (2) 55.5 L Somervell T Thornton D Johnson $30,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 2200m 12 10X16 Bee Tee Junior (15) 55.5 S Ritchie 1

13 0X211 Sacred Master (8) 55.5 T Pike

L Innes PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer Jockey 14 521X9 Nigelissima (1) 55 Emma-Lee & David Browne V C olgan 1 1 X3212 Earl’s Court (9) 59 David & Emma Haworth O Bosson 15 9X404 Perfect Mix (13) 54 S Brown M Hills 4 2 42334 El Bandido (12) 59 J Pender C Grylls 16 201X0 Skybird (9) 54 S Cookson C Johnson 3 06X16 Michelin (1) 59 G Nicholson K Myers 0 17 00602 Sing For The Sun (6) 54 T Devcich 2 4 X2232 Private Hero (2) 59 T Pike L Innes CHARM SPIRIT @ WINDSOR PARK 1300 5 00412 Zedbee (5) 58.5 I G Wyeth R Goldsbury (a2) 1:57pm $30,000, sp cond, 1300m 6 01429 Cool Hand Duke (3) 57.5 J Bary 1 L Magorrian (a1) opt 404 1 1 13 Seventh Up (8) 58 S Hale 3 7 19473 Sarabi (7) 57 H Renall C Grylls L Allpress 3 2 1. City Boy (3) 58 R Collett 8 X9810 Pentime (4) 57 M Ivil O Bosson D Turner (a1) 9 25261 Zedace (10) 57 T Bambry D Johnson L Hemi (a2) 3 3624X Dartmoor (2) 57 B Hawtin 10 08555 Cyclone Tracy (8) 55.5 J Lynds J Riddell D Johnson 4 53420 Faaltline (15) 57 J Wallace 4 5 X222X Silver Blade (16) 57 K Zimmerman 11 77537 Ducati (6) 55.5 D Parry M C ameron N Teeluck (a3) 2 6 2X3 Astrolabe (7) 57 Fraser-Campin/Campin 12 30599 Beau Zed (11) 55 P Keegan T Thornton C Johnson 13 40504 Dance In The Park (13) 54 T Bambry 28 Drahma (6) 57 T Pike L Innes R Hannam 7 8 35494 Is Possible (14) 57 C McDougal 1 S Spratt TRINITY HILL 2000 9 96X34 Flying Treasure (11) 57 E Holmes 12:47pm P Holmes $40,000, opn hcp, 2000m 10 X7X18 Charlie Chine (4) 55.5 G Nicholson opt 402 K Myers 3 1 35412 Authentic Paddy (7) 59 L Latta R Hannam 11 223X5 Panella (19) 55 K Fursdon M C oleman 2 2 200X1 Blizzard (9) 54 Emma-Lee & David Browne C Grylls 12 47732 Queenofharpz (17) 55 J Bary 1 L Allpress 3 422X5 King Kamada (5) 54 L Latta K Myers 13 2234X She Knows (9) 55 S Brown V C olgan 1 4 75X11 Celebrity Miss (3) 53.5 L Somervell T Thornton 14 8953 Kittykittybangbang (18) 55 G Brick M Hills 4 5 32774 Biologist (1) 53.5 G Alton L Allpress 15 X76X4 Stylish Attack (13) 55 G Hughes R Hannam 6 18158. Kipkeino (10) 53.5 L de Lautour M Dravitzki (a1) 16 36X36 In Another Life (10) 54.5 P Campbell 1 C Johnson 7 91648. Dragon Beauty (6) 53 G Vile R Goldsbury (a2) 0 17 3X65. Nicoshine (5) 57 T Bambry 8 31115 Gesemi (2) 53 Baker/Forsman D Johnson 0 18 85X00 Bennies Approval (1) 57 G Innes 9 34516 Ngario (8) 53 S Kay N Teeluck (a3) 0 19 0X00X Miss Finnerty (12) 55 J Moeke 1 10 9397X Guess What (11) 53 J Mason L Hemi (a2) 20 Strolling Vagabond SC RATC HED 11 31808 Jackfrost (4) 53 David & Emma Haworth 12:12pm opt 401

BOSTOCK NEW ZEALAND SPRING CARNIVAL R65 2200

Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Dead; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1700m; Straight: 375m; Rail: Rail out 5m; Weather: Showers

12 4X092 Zuccato (8) 57 McKee/Chippendale 3 13 4266X Cristal (16) 56.5 J Lynds 14 X302X Endure (7) 56.5 K Gray 15 41454 Veracious (18) 56.5 D Parry 4 16 0X15 Donna Beel (17) 56 J Bary 1 0 17 1X5 Rock My Soul (5) 58 E Holmes 0 18 18008. Torricella (6) 58 G & D Rogerson 0 19 X14X0 Buck Cannon (10) 57.5 A Fieldes 0 20 15X Maitre Du Jeu (13) 57.5 G Vile

S Spratt L Innes D Johnson T Baker (a3) L Magorrian (a1) P Holmes R Hutchings (a)

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6 4:20pm opt 408

8

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 4-5-6-7-8-9 WINDSOR PARK PLATE

$200,000, wfa, 1600m

1 41129. Spin Doctor (12) 59 McKee/Chippendale J Riddell 2 23X51 Kawi (11) 59 A Sharrock 1 L Innes 4 3 697X2 Shuka (5) 59 Williams/Richards M C ameron 3 4 71314 Addictive Habit (1) 59 L Somervell S Spratt 5 3101X Julinsky Prince (8) 59 F Auret J Parkes 6 040X0 Puccini (2) 59 P & J McKay D Johnson 3:05pm HAWKE’S BAY BREEDERS GOLD TRAIL STAKES 7 804X7 Nashville (4) 59 Adrian & Harry Bull K Myers $70,000, 3yof sw, 1200m 8 139X0 Farm Boy (15) 59 T & M Carter opt 406 V C olgan M C oleman 1 1120X Maritimo (10) 56.5 G & D Rogerson J Parkes 9 277X8 Weregoingtogetcha (14) 59 D Hayes C Grylls 2 6358X Strata Lady (5) 56.5 O'Sullivan/Scott M C oleman 10 4159X Delago’s Secret (9) 59 R James 2 11 131X6 Turn Me Loose (6) 58.5 Baker/Forsman O Bosson 3 218X6 Serena Miss (8) 56.5 G & D Rogerson L Innes R Hutchings (a) 3 4 120X Nahema (12) 56.5 S Marsh D Johnson 12 58X60 Soriano (10) 57 G & D Rogerson L Allpress 5 1755X Bella Court (9) 56.5 L Latta K Myers 13 10X08 Pondarosa Miss (7) 57 P Hollinshead C Johnson 6 14X High Class (4) 56.5 J Mahoney R Hutchings (a) 14 66023 Miss Three Stars (3) 57 T Beckett 0 15 75X11 Celebrity Miss (13) 57 L Somervell T Thornton 4 7 2419X O’Dianne (3) 56.5 McKee/Chippendale S Spratt 1 8 1 Love Triangle (1) 56.5 Autridge/Richards M C ameron AON INSURANCE BROKERS R85 1400 4:55pm 2 9 1X Sally’s Mustang (11) 56.5 S Ritchie O Bosson $30,000, rating 85 benchmark, 1400m 10 24X4. Miss Wilson (6) 56.5 J Bary 1 J Riddell opt 409 C Grylls 11 X34X7 Stacey Ann (13) 56.5 D Hollinshead D Hain 1 2987X Graphic (14) 61 Moroney/Ormsby 1 2 7X491 Tyne Cot (12) 60.5 N Connors L Hemi (a2) 12 8 Bellissimo (2) 56.5 J Wallace L Allpress 3 3 6219X Gwynethanne (3) 60 K Zimmerman N Teeluck (a3) 13 Iff So Happens (7) 56.5 J Moeke 1 C Johnson 4 14412. Blathwayt (4) 58.5 A MacGregor J Riddell 3:40pm HAWKE’S BAY MASTER PLUMBERS 1200 5 2021X Dubai Shuffle (16) 58.5 G Richardson M Dravitzki (a1) $40,000, opn hcp, 1200m 6 9X11X Lady Le Fay (11) 58 T Pike opt 407 M C oleman 1 3175X Mighty Solomon (11) 59 L Latta 4 7 7202X Casino (2) 57.5 G Kenny R Hannam J Riddell 2:32pm BAY FORD PUNTER OF THE YEAR OCTOBER 3RD R65 1400 8 3 2 1110X In Style (8) 58.5 D Guy Elusive Tracy SC RATC HED O Bosson 1:22pm LIVAMOL OPTIMISER R75 2000 opt 405 $30,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1400m 2 9 0X97X Grace With Power (15) 57 K Zimmerman 2 3 27X72 Ryan Mark (5) 58.5 J Morell K Myers M C oleman opt 403 $30,000, rating 75 benchmark, 2000m 1 1 87X53 Blame de Angels (15) 59 G Innes 1 4 30X1X Recite (4) 58 J Bary 1 D Turner (a1) V C olgan C Grylls 10 2326X Miss Foxwood (13) 57 R James 1 19X00 Centre Attention (5) 59 G Innes V C olgan 5 3140X Allez Eagle (10) 57 T Pike L Allpress D Turner (a1) 2 56222 Cancellara (11) 59 G Brick D Johnson 11 332X8 Shezgorgeous (9) 57 P Campbell 1 2 X6942 Flint (12) 59 H Renall O Bosson 6 6X100. Barbaric (14) 57 S Marsh D Johnson K Myers 3 43X42. Empathy (3) 59 O Blane M C ameron 12 7119X Thee Auld Floozie (6) 55.5 S Marsh 2

4 3 25821 Jimmy Mac (7) 59 G Andrew 4

4 2X452 Maestro Tom (14) 59 K Fursdon M C oleman 13 02335. Clara Jane (10) 55 R James L Innes L Allpress 7 688X1 Kisses (9) 56.5 Fraser-Campin/Campin T Thornton 2 4 01611 Jochen Rindt (11) 59 T Wenn N Teeluck (a3) 8 288X9 Pussy O’Reilly (3) 56 K & B Kelso S Spratt 5 18449 Pass It On (9) 59 R Allen R Hutchings (a) 14 54432 Miss Appleton (8) 55 G Vile

5 58254. Rocky (16) 57.5 P Nelson 1

6 Seventeen Seventy SC RATC HED J Parkes 15 X686X Miss Selby (7) 55 J Bary 1 J Parkes 9 8142X Shelford (6) 56 T Pike L Innes 6 36241 Selwyn (3) 57.5 S Kay R Hannam 7 5X943 Custer (4) 58 G Hughes M Hills 10 2470X Breaking Dawn (13) 55.5 J Mason L Magorrian (a1) C Johnson 16 1211X Stolen Dance (19) 54.5 D Greene

0

3 7 42111 Alinko Prince (4) 57 F Auret

8 051X Dr Watson (1) 58 S Kay R Hannam 17 X416X Porotene Park (1) 54.5 F Auret O Bosson 11 46421. Salamanca (1) 55.5 M Breslin J Parkes 0 18 310X8 Mae West (18) 54.5 J Bary 1 8 142X5 Endeavour (17) 56.5 David & Emma Haworth H Tinsley 12 4427X Emerald Queen (7) 55 Kennedy/Furlong S Spratt C Grylls 9 145. Dynamo (12) 58 B Hawtin V C olgan 0 19 6117X Ekraarstatic (17) 54 Autridge/Richards 9 92350 Taipa Tiger (10) 56.5 L Latta 10 Eye Raced Ninety SC RATC HED 13 3262X Designated Driver (12) 54 Thompson/Brown 1 R Hannam M C ameron M C oleman 10 1X617 Tiger Tim (14) 56 J Bary 1 0 20 55113 Southern Icon (5) 55 A Tait K Myers 14 1153X Irish Heartbeat (2) 53 T Autridge J Riddell 11 4440X Berg En Dal (2) 57 P Mirabelli M Hills K Myers

4

6

2

h M8 1

Methven Harness

Sunday at Mt Harding Racecourse

CASHMERE CLUB PACE $7,000, 3yo+, c0 with

PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer

1 00087 Diamond Delight (1) G Hall 2 74775 The Ghost (2) R Low 3 067 The Professor (3) W Stapleton 4 X2046 Dreamcoat (4) C Morrison 1 5 20262 Rock Diva (5) G & N Hope 2 6 03 Tirol’s Rocket (6) B Zampese 7 Best Laid Plans (7) J McDermott 3 8 42X42 Franco Tariq (8) P Anderson

Tiger John (9) K Dixon 9 0X Barrier

4 10 5463 Bettor In The Dark (21) C Kennedy 11 Mista Shark (22) P Burrows 12 0X00X Ling Rowl (23) R Harneiss 13 0X00X Mister Zeus (24) R Harneiss 12:28pm

2

1 2 1 3

3

B Butt M Neilson R C lose R Harneiss

N Buchan J Markham (J) J Versteeg R May K James L C happell B C lark I Lee (J) J C urtin T Quate (J) J Morrison (J) L O'Reilly P Wakelin R C lose C McKay M Heenan D Dunn L Newton

RANGIORA & ASHBURTON RSAS PACE $7,000, 3yo+ c0 pace, 2400m

h M7 1

C DeFilippi G O'Reilly J W C ox J Morrison (J) R May C D Thornley D Dunn M Jones K C ox (J)

$7,000, 4yo+ c0 trot, 2400m

5 Culley Backy (1) M Heenan 775X Hesa Dazzler (2) G Lamb 62433 Lis Rulz (3) G & N Hope

12:43pm 701

cond., 2300m Driver

OXFORD CLUB TROT

1 504X5 Pure Success (1) N Edge 2 Tehoro Nova (2) C Markham 3 Brylin Rose (3) J Versteeg 4 070 Brylins Choice (4) D Isherwood 4 5 46236 Diana Harbour (5) K James 0 6 80X Allineedisamiracle (6) K Townley 0 7 85X8 Franco Helios (7) Hannah/Chappell 8 0 Landora’s Logan (8) B Clark 2 9 X avier John (9) J Hay 10 Westy Boyz (10) M Fuller 0 11 X5656 Ruthless Success (11) K Fairbairn 0 12 5385D Trouble Del (12) W Stapleton 13 82X Mon Richie (13) D Ross 3 14 57452 Squire John (14) Wakelin/Noble 15 6X324 Pat’s Success (15) N Edge 16 563D9 Playboy’s Brother (16) C McKay 17 Stellar Success (17) M Heenan 1 18 223P2 Cuddly Jess (u1) M House 19 0578X Merlot (u2) K Hadfield 12:58pm

J C urtin J Dunn R May

1 92985 Bad Lover Boy (1) H Hunter 3 2 7 Star Spangled Gem (2) P Hunter 3 0 Hopes And Dreams (3) G & J Knight 1 4 Cullens Avenue (4) M Swain 5 9X597 Montana Mandy (5) D McLachlan 2 6 4X303 Franco Synergy (6) T White

El Cartel (7) Katrina & John Price 7

Barrier 8 Dazed And C onfused 9 97669 Jessica Sanchez (21) B McLellan 4 10 67X47 Hokuri Hangover (u1) A Hoffman 11 00X05 Carletta (u2) K Barclay

S Walkinshaw P Hunter M Williamson A Beck T Dewe (J) C Barron N Williamson SC RATC HED B McLellan R McIlwrick (J) K Barclay

4

16 4 17

34342 Insignificant (u1) B Hutton C lassy Boyz

2:28pm

6

K C ox (J) SC RATC HED

WOOLSTON CLUB MOBILE PACE

$7,500, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace, 2300m

7

5

8

1:43pm

September 20, 2015

3 REGENT CAR COURT CLAIMERS PACE

$5,500, claimers c1–c2 with cond. +claimers, 2200m

1 58497 Tisbury Hardlife (1) K Barclay 2 63989 Big Bad John (2) M Saunders 3 09808 Tubby Jim (3) B Gooch 3 4 74947 Beaudiene Clemintyne (4) M G Brown 2 5 54243 Billy The Bus (5) M Swain 6 70997 Eja Patron (6) B McLellan 4 7 6586X Macardo (7) M G Brown Jerry Fitz (8) G & J Knight 1 8 53137 Barrier

9 00329 Jaccka Emberz (21) G & J Knight 10 X0070 Never Eyre (22) K Dance 2:10pm 704

opt

4

N Williamson B Barclay S Walkinshaw A Armour C Barron B McLellan C Ferguson (J) M Williamson A Beck R McIlwrick (J)

PANSPACIFICFLIGHT AT MACCA LODGE MOBILE PACE $5,500, 4yo+ c0 mob. pace, 2200m

1 36602 Thinking Smart (1) G & J Knight 4 1:13pm LINCOLN FARMS MOBILE PACE 2 X9598 Pocket Caesar (2) L Veint opt 702 $6,500, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace, 2200m 3 0 Deceitndesire (3) I Wilson 1 598FX Popular (1) B Gray 2 4 50X8 Cruising At Altitude (4) S Walkinshaw N Williamson 3 2 91554 Robyn’s Bad Boy (2) R Wilson C Ferguson (J) 5 56814 Jaclyn Smith (5) M G Brown 3 20846 Laughing Cavalier (3) H Hunter 1 6 09XP0 That Cat (6) M Saunders S Walkinshaw 4 35618 Elle Ko (4) M G Brown A Armour 7 73340 Kazzacan (7) H Hunter 4 5 54326 Smiling Armada (5) H Hunter H Hunter Pacific Hilight (8) J Lott 8 90550 Barrier

1 6 X5101 Arden’s Concord (6) M Saunders B Barclay 3 9 PX701 Kate Jackson (21) K Barclay 2 7 35173 Tetrick (7) B McLellan B McLellan Waltzing Queen (22) Katrina & John Price

The Tisbury Terror (8) K Barclay T Dewe (J) 10 8 43436 Barrier 11 68 Flashing Good Time (23) B Morris

2

S Golding (J) J Morrison (J) C DeFilippi C R Thornley P Davis L O'Reilly G O'Reilly M Jones J W C ox D Dunn

Track Information Type: Grass; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1386m; Weather: Few Showers

1 317X7 Chasing Shadows (1) D Jones G O'Reilly 4 2 53180 Love That Guest (2) R Dunn J Dunn 3 44398 Tuscaloosa (3) C Morrison J Morrison (J) 1 4 4X1P3 Louie Finn (4) M Jones M Jones 5 79674 Brute Ute Anvil (5) J Bromley C D Thornley P Davis KAIAPOI WORKING MEN’S CLUB PACE 6 34981 Flagpole (6) M Nyhan 1:28pm 2 7 38744 Riga Doon (7) T May R May $7,000, 3yo+ c0 pace, 3000m 3 8 50X62 Flyin Heather (8) P Burrows G Smith 1 00980 Rainy River (1) C McDowell C McDowell Shadow Rider (9) F Shrives C DeFilippi 2 X0507 Gene Time (2) D Heffernan B Williamson (J) 9 7307X Barrier

3 0096 Loire Franco (3) W Stapleton J Morrison (J) D Dunn 4 0X758 Born To Delight (4) M Heenan G O'Reilly 10 26648 Nui Toc Tien (21) S Dolan 11 Oncewerechristians SC RATC HED 3 5 37694 Tuapeka Art (5) G Payne R Payne T C hmiel 6 67X97 Yippe Ki Yay (6) K Neilson K Butt (J) 12 40X86 Danny Del Vito (22) L Mosely K O'Reilly 7 09089 Jayees Supreme (7) G Telfer G Telfer 13 32695 Sounds Swift (23) K O'Reilly 8 X8800 Lynley Morris (8) G McStay R C lose NEW BRIGHTON CLUB MOBILE PACE 9 008 Rhythmist (9) P Anderson M Jones 2:57pm $7,500, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace jun.d, 1609m 10 0068 The Katz Pyjamaz (10) C Markham C Markham 1 6358X Romanite (1) B Hill M Blakemore (J) 1 11 94X3 Formula One (11) B Negus D Dunn 2 60972 Incredible Anvil (2) G Smith K Butt (J) 12 56409 Olde Oake Arnie (12) J McDermott C D Thornley 1 3 25243 Change The Rulz (3) G & N Hope S Golding (J) 2 13 06 The Nans Man (u1) L O'Reilly L O'Reilly 4 2100X Maximus Prime (4) M Heenan J Morrison (J) 4 14 X6958 Karanga Sweet P (u2) D Jones S Ottley 2 5 100X2 Free Falling (5) P Burrows B Williamson (J) 4 6 46312 Live To Tell (6) B Negus K C ox (J) ASHBURTON MSA LIQUOR CENTRE LTD TROT 1:58pm M Purvis (J) $7,500, 4yo+ c1 trot, 2400m 7 31009 Kotare Mahdi (7) R Dunn 3 8 1X Charlie Chuckles (8) J Hay I Lee (J) 2 1 1 Fratellino (1) K Townley D Dunn Music (9) B Negus J Young (J) 2 60427 Explosive Star (2) M Heenan L O'Reilly 9 54070 Barrier

1 3 900X1 October Rain (3) G Smith G Smith 10 55176 Simply Fun (21) C McDowell H C larke (J) 4 500D2 Young Stranger (4) T Grant C R Thornley 11 4814X Arizona Eyre (22) M Brown C Smith (J) 5 25216 Momentous (5) A Garters C DeFilippi 12 1310X Pay Me Visa (23) A Stuart J Harrington (J) 6 X29X1 Trial Separation (6) B Hutton J C urtin 13

Talktomeurmattjesty SC RATC HED 7 50397 Filigree Sheree (7) N Edge R C lose 8 2D1X3 Little Mo (8) K Ford C Ford HORNBY WORKING MEN’S CLUB HANDICAP PACE 3:33pm 9 00960 Illustrious Queen (9) C McKay $8,000, 4yo+ c2 to c4 spechcp pace, 2400m C McKay 10 68558 Little Bro (10) M Nyhan P Davis 1 2899X Nero Star (1) N McGrath M Jones 11 72422 Sarah Palin (11) M Nyhan S Golding (J) 2 32807 Canndew (2) M Nyhan P Davis 3 12 23664 Jean Sebastien (12) C Markham D Dunn J Markham (J) 3 54867 Whyamibettor (3) D Pearce 13 36330 Shadow Galleon (13) J Smolenski J Smolenski 4 65423 Aveross Brachole (4) D Pearce K C ox (J) 14 3 5 0X534 Ideal Arden (5) B Hutton

Dream Big SC RATC HED G Smith 15 07568 Kerryn Kylie (14) K Ford A Tomlinson 6 77015 Westburn Jewel (6) I Court S Phelan

Sunday at Ascot Park Raceway

NET TEN EOM AT MACCA LODGE MOBILE PACE

September 20, 2015

4 Native Pic N Mix (4) K Estreich 5 0000X Omihi El (5) J Withell 6 Sketching (6) K Dixon 7 3423X Tom Bola (7) D Ross 3 8 Paleface Sioux (8) M Nyhan 9 0800X Lady Cullens Reign (9) J Hooper 4 10 290 Kia Kaha (10) G Dunn 2 11 45624 Derringer (11) M Jones 12 286X0 Shard Diego (12) J Wederell 13 07049 Mustang Bullitt (13) W Stapleton

Invercargill Harness

$5,500, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, 2200m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver opt

7

5

3

12:02pm

9

M Williamson R McIlwrick (J) A Beck S Walkinshaw A Armour B Barclay H Hunter C Barron K Barclay N Williamson B Morris

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1029m; Weather: Fine 2:40pm 705

5

$6,500, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, 2200m

3:15pm 706

6

$7,000, 4yo+ c2 to c6 spechcp pace, 2700m

opt

WOODLANDS STUD MOBILE PACE

1 00X36 Combien (1) M Kerr 2 Not Bad (2) S Walkinshaw 3 Tuas Delight (3) P Hunter 4 00525 Red Electric (4) D McLachlan 5 3X40 Caballo Blanco (5) W Adams 6 77250 Annie Fitz (6) R Wilson 4 7 6X Swap Over (7) B Shirley

Lucas (8) D Wilson 8

Barrier 3 9 359X2 Only In Rome (21) B Shirley 1 10 448X3 Arden Caviar (22) Katrina & John Price 2 11 0X0X5 Franco Cortese (23) M G Brown opt

R Swain S Walkinshaw P Hunter T Dewe (J) C Ferguson (J) B McLellan N Williamson K Larsen

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

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

7 5887X Carrickmannon (7) G O'Reilly 4 8 02192 Princess Arts (8) Paul & Mitchell Kerr 9 1500X Verdun (9) J Bartlett 10 83007 Karanga Red Fantasy (1) D Jones 1 11 X2121 Maverick (2) N McGrath 12 4P10X Speedy Jack (3) J Miller 13 53X6F New York Town (4) G & N Hope 14 591X0 Johnny Eyre (5) M Brown 15 1409X Explosive Art (1) P Court 2 16 X4156 Jerry Garcia (2) L O'Reilly 4:09pm

9

RICHMOND CLUB HANDICAP TROT

$8,000, 5yo+ c1 to c4 discrhcp trot, 2400m

1 Dream Big 2 0X008 Classy Boyz (u1) M Boa 3 05005 Getaway Doug (1) N Burton 4 10X10 Princess Galleon (2) G Dunn 5 000X5 Wishes Star (u1) T Soal 6 60133 Pegasus Dream (1) N Taylor 3 7 34D11 The Earth Moved (2) G & N Hope 1 8 21154 Prestine (1) T Butt 9 927X8 Zachary Binx (2) K Ford 4 10 0409X Jayceekay (3) N Munro 11 1300X X mas Joyella (4) F Morris 2 12 13111 Tessa’s Rocket (u1) R Rennie 4:44pm

10

SC RATC HED C D Thornley N Burton J Dunn S Ottley D Dunn R May K Butt (J) A Tomlinson G O'Reilly S McNally R C lose

PAPANUI CLUB INC PACE

$7,500, 4yo+ c1 pace, 2400m

1 4P384 Reklaw Supreme (1) M Jones 1 2 06603 Boomer Bailey (2) G Telfer 4 3 X38X1 Ralph Elliott (3) K Barron 4 0269X Outta Sight (4) R Bennett 5 900X6 Bank Raider (5) L O'Reilly 6 4003X Tubbys Sister (6) D Swanston 7 5X998 Inchbonnie Lad (7) G Crabbe 8 2160X Shantahlia Romeo (8) G Lamb 3 9 3720X Call Me Danny (9) R Thornley 10 97560 Hestia Franco (10) L Smart 2 11 42848 McArdle Royale (11) M House 12 48217 Spinyback (12) N Perkins DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

C Barron A Beck N Williamson B Barclay S Walkinshaw C Ferguson (J) R McIlwrick (J) M Williamson

4:27pm 708

opt

B Barclay A Milne A Malcolmson P Hunter E Swain R McIlwrick (J) D Simpson N Williamson M Tapper A Beck P Williamson C Barron M Williamson

8 AMERICAN IDEAL TRANS TASMAN CHALLENGE MBL PACE $6,500, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, 2200m

1 56789 Ellnbac (1) B McLellan 2 2 XF546 First Flight In (2) M G Brown 3 3 2388X Degas (3) Katrina & John Price 1 4 411 Zenmach (4) G & J Knight 4 5 66952 Minstrel Boy (5) H Hunter 6 0X155 Balfour Butler (6) J Dillon 7 05X86 Nightmarch (7) M Kerr 3:51pm INVERCARGILL WORKOUTS COMMITTEE HANDICAP TROT 8 37460 The Black (8) A Hoffman $6,000, 4yo+ c0 to c3 spechcp trot, 2200m 9 0X309 Nothingforthemedia (u1) D McLachlan opt 707

1 96376 Miss Coco (1) F Service Barrier F Service

7

W Higgs D Dunn B Orange J Morrison (J) L O'Reilly G Smith C D Thornley J Dunn K C ox (J) R C lose J W C ox T C hmiel

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

2 743 Easy Moment (2) M Williams 4 2 3 040X0 Dream Big (1) M Tapper 4 85609 Mum Beat Lyall (2) A Malcolmson 5 26831 Grace O’Malley (3) C Thomas 6 5406X Sunvasion (4) E Swain 7 60P1X Belmont Invasion (5) O Lawrence 8 25216 Blink (u1) D Simpson 9 6052X Eltsunami (u2) D Simpson 10 0X570 Ottawa (u3) M Tapper B Shirley 11 9900X Southland Reflector (1) E Swain B Barclay 1 12 97239 Kylie Castleton (2) P Williamson A Armour 13 14753 Anothersuperstar (3) A Shaw 3 14 12314 Pyramid Magic (1) P Williamson ASCOT PARK HOTEL HANDICAP PACE

1 41078 Mach Of The Man (1) T Stratford 3 2 72481 Moondyne Joe (2) B Gray 2 3 2726X Costa Del Magnifico (3) B Shirley 4 4 08426 Jaccka Mara (4) B Gray 5 84507 Acolyte (1) H Hunter 6 5439X Milligan (2) R Wilson 1 7 12053 Titan Banner (3) G Anderson 8 00840 Bettor’s Brigadier (u1) D McLachlan

G O'Reilly J Dunn R C lose S Ottley N McGrath C D Thornley S Golding (J) M Neilson R May L O'Reilly

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In brief

■ SWIMMING

Masters hit the water If you’re aged 25 and over, then in terms of the swimming world, you’re considered ‘old’.

But if you’re a competitive swimmer and you’re part of the masters’ swimming world, then you’re a water baby.

And this weekend, some of the country’s best and youngest water babies will be joining their older counterparts in the EA Networks Centre pool during the South Island Masters’ Games 25 metre championships.

Centre manager Steve Prescott is organising the event, and said it has attracted more than 80 of New Zealand’s best.

The event, however, is also an opportunity for newcomers to competitive swimming to get a taste of competition, Mr Prescott said.

Many of those competing will be hoping to defend national titles and distance records and he expects some fierce competition among the younger swimmers, 25 and 26 year olds.

The largest competitive sections are for swimmers aged between 40 and 49, but there will be serious competition across all age ranges, with competitors coming from across New Zealand he said.

The shortest distance swum is over 50 metres (two lengths of the Ashburton pool) and the longest 800 metres (32 lengths) As well as championship titles age group medals will be at stake.

Placed swimmers will accumulate points over their chosen six events with medals awarded for most points in each age group.

The EA Networks main pool will be closed during the event which runs between 5pm and 7pm tonight, 8am to 10am and noon to 2pm tomorrow.

Hewitt, Murray fire up Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Murray traded psychological volleys as tensions rose on the eve of Australia’s Ashes-like Davis Cup semi-final with Great Britain. The battleground is the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, as close as Murray will ever likely come to hosting such a crucial tie in his own back yard.

Hugely reliant on the world No.3, Murray will almost certainly need to win both his singles matches plus the doubles to keep alive Britain’s hopes of lifting the trophy for the first time in 77 years. “A lot of the pressure is obviously on Andy,” said Hewitt. “Whoever gets the opportunity to take him on really has nothing to lose. You can go out there swinging and play your game while Andy pretty much has to win that match. It’s going to be a big rubber for them.”

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Trio renew rivalry Rory McIlroy knows his grip on golf’s No.1 world ranking is tenuous at best, and there’s just one way to keep Jordan Spieth and Jason Day at bay. “It’s just about playing well,” McIlroy said as he prepared for the start of the BMW Championship, the penultimate event in the US PGA Tour’s four-tournament FedEx Cup playoffs that will end with the Tour Championship.

McIlroy goes into the tournament with a narrow lead over Spieth atop the world rankings, having regained the summit on Monday even though neither played last week.

- AFP

Zagreb stun Arsenal Steve Prescott: Manager of the EA Networks Centre pool and accomplished masters swimmer.

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■ WINDSOR PARK PLATE

Odds-on Kawi makes Sharrock uneasy The horse is fine but the short odds worry Allan Sharrock heading into the Windsor Park Plate (1600m) with Kawi at Hastings tomorrow.

The New Plymouth trainer admits to being “spooked’ by having an odds-on favourite for a Group One weight-for-age race.

“The uncomfortable part for me is having a $1.90 favourite,” he said.

“That adds a little bit of pressure. It is still a Group One and it’s never that easy. They don’t give these sort of races away.”

Kawi has been at short odds for the second leg of the Hastings triple crown since putting away his rivals with relative ease in the opening leg, the Gr.1 Makfi Challenge Stakes (1400m).

The Savabeel five-year-old should be suited by the step up in distance and Sharrock is confident the horse has improved with his second-up run.

“I’m really happy with him.

“He had been hanging on to his winter coat a bit but his coat has definitely improved and I

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Kawi and Leith Innes are at short odds to win the Windsor Park Plate at Hastings tomorrow.

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think he’s improved physically slightly too.

Sharrock can also see positives in Kawi’s barrier of 11, at the tricky 1600m start.

“I’m happy with the draw. He doesn’t like being cluttered up on the fence.

“In an ideal world, he would have been in six or seven but, for me, the worst place to draw at that start is in the first three or four, where you often have to be kicked up to hold a place.”

Sharrock was also encouraged by the way Kawi raced for

new rider Leith Innes in the Makfi.

Kawi has often been slow away and can also over-race but jumped well and relaxed in the running.

“His last start was probably the only time in his whole career that he has done everything right,” Sharrock said.

“It could be a maturity thing or that the horse and Leith just gelled.

“Having said that, he could jump in the air and miss it by six lengths on Saturday.

“But it does look, going forward, that’s he starting to do it right and I’ve always said that’s when he will be at his most potent.”

Kawi had an easy week but has been tightened with four gallops in the past 10 days.

“His work has been very pleasing,” Sharrock said.

Four-year-old Turn Me Loose, a likely improver from the Makfi, was a $6.50 second favourite for the Windsor Park yesterday, with Puccini at $9 the only other runner at singlefigure odds.

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Arsenal’s surprise 2-1 defeat to minnows Dinamo Zagreb all but completed a week of misery for English clubs in European Champions League action. The Gunners were reduced to 10 men and then shocked by Zagreb who won for the first time in 16 Champions League matches yesterday. Following disappointing defeats for Manchester City and Manchester United, Chelsea were left to fly the English flag beating Maccabi Tel-Aviv 4-0.

- AFP

Rousey confident “It is tiring fighting a bitch, it really is.” Perhaps then it’s lucky that Ronda Rousey actually has some respect for her upcoming opponent in the UFC193 event in Melbourne. Rated as the top women’s mixed martial arts fighter, Rousey was at her abrasive best on Wednesday, promoting the defence of her bantamweight title against fellow American Holly Holm on November 19. While she made it clear not all the women she took on are her cup of tea, there was no risk of this media conference spilling over. “It’s nice to have a little time off from it and Holly is an awesome chick,” Rousey said. “But the fact is, I’m still the greatest fighter in the world.”

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F1 could be smoky Lewis Hamilton might have to fight through choking smoke on his way to a third world title as the Singapore Grand Prix battles thick smoke from southeast Asian forest fires. Visibility could be a serious concern at the night grand prix, held under floodlights on a narrow and bumpy street circuit which snakes past downtown Singapore landmarks.

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■ RUGBY

Hammers hit by injuries

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Mid Canterbury will look to extend their unbeaten run when they host East Coast in week five of the Heartland Championships at the Ashburton Showgrounds tomorrow.

The Hammers’ campaign has been the polar opposite of Coast’s so far.

Grant Keenan’s side have registered four victories in as many weeks to top the points table, while tomorrow’s opponents are yet to record a win this term.

Keenan will have a selection headache at first five-eighth with stalwart Murray Williams still a doubtful starter due to a hamstring strain, and Ewan Scott unavailable after picking up a knock.

Wing-turned-centre Seta Koroitamana may also be out with a hamstring injury of his own.

“We’re really troubled by injuries and we need to see who is fit and who’s standing, so our focus is entirely on us, our depth is really being tested,” said Keenan.

East Coast’s injury ravaged year continued on Tuesday when prop An-

thony Tuahine’s season came to an abrupt end after snapping his Achilles in training.

Coast coach Willie Waitoa will bring a depleted squad to Ashburton with hooker Kareti Palmer recovering from a bout of pneumonia and blindside flanker Simon Beale also sidelined with a shoulder complaint.

“It’s been a trying season for us so far, we’ve just struggled to get our top team out through injuries,” said Waitoa.

Waitoa said he is expecting a tough encounter against the Meads Cup holders and has concerns over his weakened forward pack.

“We managed to field our top team against Horowhenua Kapiti last week and gave them a good run, but this week we’ll be missing key players.

“It’s almost half the forward pack out,” he said.

“They (Mid Canterbury) have a tough, strong forward pack and good backs to complement that, they’re pretty much the full package.”

Heartland Championship week five: Mid Canterbury v East Coast, Ashburton Showgrounds, 2.30pm.

Seta Koroitamana is one of Mid Canterbury’s key players likely to be out with injury tomorrow.

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LIKELY ABS 23 15: Ben Smith, 14: Nehe MilnerSkudder, 13: Conrad Smith, 12: Ma’a Nonu, 11: Julian Savea, 10: Dan Carter, 9: Aaron Smith, 8: Kieran Read, 7: Richie McCaw, 6: Jerome Kaino, 5: Sam Whitelock, 4: Brodie Retallick, 3: Owen Franks, 2: Dane Coles, 1: Tony Woodcock. Reserves: 16: Keven Mealamu, 17: Wyatt Crockett, 18: Charlie Faumuina, 19: Luke Romano, 20: Victor Vito, 21: TJ Perenara, 22: Beauden Barrett, 23: Sonny Bill Williams.

Whitelock will no doubt get the nod at lock with Luke Romano likely to enjoy a reasonable run from the bench.

With just three specialist locks in the party, Retallick, Romano and Whitelock are going to have to be judiciously rotated to strike that balance between finding their form and avoiding fatigue.

Jerome Kaino, Richie McCaw and Kieran Read are hard to go past as the loose trio, they remain the three best players and the best combination.

Enough said.

Aaron Smith and Daniel Carter surely take the decisionmaking roles, with Ma’a Nonu and Conrad Smith in the mid-

New Zealand punters have shown their faith in the All Blacks with 89 per cent of the nearly 30,000 entrants in the TABs “One Punt in a Million” competition tipping the 2011 champions to defend their title. However they won’t put their money where their mouth is with just 43 per cent of Rugby World Cup tournament bets placed with the TAB on the All Blacks to win the tournament. The “One Punt in a Million” competition allows people to guess the winning team and the margin of all 48 matches.

If anyone gets all the predictions right, they’ll get a cool $1 million in return.

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Crackdown on diving

All Blacks’ top line-up foregone conclusion The World Cup kicks off tomorrow morning with a handful of coaches still not sure exactly what their best team looks like.

The All Blacks are not one of them, and that should be confirmed when they name their side to play Argentina.

There’s no need or desire from the selectors to pull any tricks.

They don’t need to make a big statement selection to prove a point or try something unusual to throw everyone, nor do they need to worry particularly about the fact they play Namibia just four days later.

They have enough depth and trust in the 31 players to pick the team they want to take on the Pumas without having to factor in how they will have to reshuffle the cards for the next game.

On that basis, there isn’t much, if anything that will have required debate.

A front row of Tony Woodcock, Dane Coles and Owen Franks is expected.

These three are deemed to be the best scrummaging unit available and whatever expansionist ideas are taking hold within the Pumas, they are not going to ditch their centuryplus love of scrummaging any time soon.

Brodie Retallick and Sam

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field - not for old time’s sake, but because they still have the hunger, skills and desire to be the best in the world.

Julian Savea has to play on the left wing, Ben Smith at fullback and with Waisake Naholo still not fit, Nehe Milner-Skudder will presumably continue on the right wing.

One accusation that can’t be levelled at the All Blacks is that they don’t know their best team.

Trickier to guess is the bench.

Presumably Keven Mealamu will be picked with a view to allowing Codie Taylor to start against Namibia.

Wyatt Crockett will most likely be one reserve prop and

Charlie Faumuina the other.

The big Blues tight-head needs game time and it could be he’s given a decent run in all of the pool games.

Romano will back up at lock, and it’s probably a straight choice between Victor Vito and Liam Messam for the loose forward berth.

TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett will most likely provide the cover at halfback and No 10 and possibly Sonny Bill Williams will be preferred ahead of Malakai Fekitoa for the remaining backs’ spot. Williams is short of a gallop and a 25 minute burst might be the perfect way to enable him to find his touch.

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Referees at the Rugby World Cup have been instructed to take swift action against players found to be diving or feigning injury. World Rugby match officials selection committee John Jeffrey revealed any player found guilty of such an offence would be sin-binned or even banned, as the governing body battles to prevent “football culture” creeping into the game.

Those players that go unpunished on the pitch could still be issued off-field yellow cards by the citing commissioner, with repeat offenders in danger of receiving dates with the judiciary.

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AB jersey ‘the best’ The All Blacks’ sleek all black get-up has been named the best jersey of the Rugby World Cup by a British newspaper. While the USA’s stars-and-stripes adorned shirt came in last in the Telegraph’s rankings, the black jersey topped the list with a score of 9.5 out of 10 - losing half a point for being “still a bit tight”. The Telegraph paid tribute to the history of the jersey and its links to the Originals team of 1905, summing up its conclusion by crediting its effectiveness in intimidating opponents.

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Changing on the bus There will be no sightings of a shirtless Sonny Bill Williams after training at the Rugby World Cup - unless you have a seat on the team bus.

The All Blacks will become accustomed to changing among the cramped confines of their bus, a compromise that enables sponsor AIG the maximum exposure permitted by tournament rules. The All Blacks are forbidden from arriving at their hotel with the American International Group logo still across their chests. Since changing clothes before boarding the bus would deny AIG precious time in front of the television cameras, the players will instead undress once behind tinted windows.

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Jonah tips England England can win the Rugby World Cup - but only if the whole country gets behind the team. That, said All Black great Jonah Lomu, would create a “formidable” force within the tournament. After showing the Brits how the haka is done, Lomu told the Evening Standard yesterday that England “could win it”. “No one’s done it back-to-back so the All Blacks will be trying to do that, but there’s about six teams on the day that could beat each other,” he said.

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For over 135 years, the Ashburton Guardian has been market leaders in the specialist field of delivering news to Mid Canterbury.

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Nemani Nadolo has scored a truckload of tries for the Crusaders, and now he’s at the World Cup about to exercise his powers over England in the first match of the tournament.

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■ RUGBY

Giant winger about to be unleashed When Jonah Lomu swept to global prominence by trampling through defences at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, it was the English who came off the worst at the hands of the giant New Zealand winger.

“He’s a freak,” England captain Will Carling said after Lomu’s monstrous, four-try display in the semifinal, “and the sooner he goes away, the better.”

Twenty years on, another powerful South Pacific winger is threatening to blow a hole in England’s defence on rugby’s biggest stage - and this one is more enormous than Lomu.

Standing at 1.96 metres and weighing almost 128 kilograms, Nemani Nadolo is the hard-running, goal-kicking wideman who is the pride of Fiji and the main danger to England in the tournament opener at Twickenham tomorrow morning.

Nadolo - the cousin of past and present Australia internationals Lote Tuqiri and Tevita Kuridrani has been compared to Lomu ever since his potential emerged in the Australia Under-20 side in 2008.

But that was purely because of his size rather than his exploits on the rugby field.

Now a proven and prolific finisher on the Super Rugby and international stage rather than simply a battering ram, Nadolo is a fearsome opponent.

Pity the players over the next few weeks charged with stopping the biggest winger ever to play at the Rugby World Cup. “Throughout my entire career, people have doubted me and said I was too big,” said Nadolo, who was 83 kilos before his 12th birthday.

“I’m working hard to get into my prime.

“I’m not far off.”

Educated at Nudgee, one of Australia’s top rugby schools, Nadolo had inauspicious spells with the Waratahs in Australia and in French and English domestic rugby, before the Crusaders plucked Nadolo from Japanese team NEC Green Rockets in 2014.

He was the joint-leading try-scorer in the 2014 competition before adding nine more tries for the Crusaders this year, developing skills he previously lacked to make him much more than simply a barger.

For Fiji, he scored 13 tries in his first 15 tests including crossing in 10 tests in a row.

Nadolo could have represented Australia, but he is a proud Fijian, and the guy the team will rally around at the World Cup. “For me, in a way, I look at it like I’m putting Fiji on the map,” said Nadolo, who is from Sigatoka - a town of about 10,000 people and the real powerhouse of Fiji rugby.

“Wherever I go, wherever I play, I know I’m not just carrying my family now, I’m carrying my friends, I’m carrying the country, and I love that.”

Still, more than his try-scoring, it’s his giant frame that makes Nadolo stand out more than anything.

Jamie Roberts, the Wales centre who is regarded as one of the most physical backs in European rugby, has said it is the ultimate “man test” facing Nadolo.

The man directly opposing Nadolo tomorrow will be Anthony Watson, who is 32 kilos lighter.

“It will be a massive challenge,” Watson said.

Nadolo’s talents also extend to kicking goals for Fiji, probably making him the first name on the team sheet when the lineup was announced on Wednesday.

Fiji made only one change to the starting XV which ran over Canada 47-18 in London 11 days ago, with Ben Volavola picked at flyhalf over Josh Matavesi, who was in the reserves.

Volavola, who was unwanted by New South Wales this year, made his Fiji debut this year, and has been signed for next year by the Crusaders.

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Their role is to plan and carry out direct sales activities such as maintain and develop relationships with prospective and current clients. This would involve communicating with clients, responding and follow up sale enquiries.

Forklift experience would be an advantage but not essential, some heavy lifting would be required.

To be successful in these roles you will: • Computer literate.

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This position offers fantastic opportunities for progression within the organisation and the sooner the start the better the transition into the role so we would like to hear from you today. Some Saturday morning work is rostered.

If this sounds like you please send your CV with cover letter outlining your relevant skills and current circumstances to: Allan McCormick Helmack ITM 92 Dobson Street, Ashburton allanm@helmackitm.co.nz

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Section 101,Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 G and K Holdings Ltd, 1 Methven Chertsey Road, Methven 7730 Publicans has made application to the District Licensing Committee at Ashburton for the renewal of a Tavern/Restaurant licence in respect of the premises situated at 116 Main Street, Methven 7745 and known as The Dubliner Irish Bar and Restaurant.

The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is: Restaurant/Bar. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or intended to be) sold under the licence are: 7 days a week: 8am till 2am.

The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Ashburton District Licensing Committee at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, PO Box 94, Ashburton District Council.

No objection to the renewal of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

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The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is: Tavern and Bottlestore The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are: On Licence Monday - Sunday 7am till 3am the following day.

Off Licence Monday - Sunday 7am till 11pm Off Licence across the bar Monday - Sunday 7am till 11pm The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Ashburton District Licensing Committee at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, PO Box 94, Ashburton District Council.

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Saturday

permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 157 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings www.toylibrary.ashburtononline.co.nz/ Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE.

New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10.00am - 12.00pm VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road. Tinwald.

10.00am - 12.00pm ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Preloved clothing bargains. St Andrews Anglican Church, Cnr Thomson and Jane

Street. Tinwald.

10.00am - 1.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. New rooms open for research. Ground floor Heritage Centre, all welcome, West Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton

Airport, Seafield Road.

5.00pm ASHBURTON MASTERS SWIMMERS SOCIAL EVENINGS. A social group for Masters swimming. E A Stadium, River Terrace.

6.00pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

6.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.00am - 2.00pm ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Annual bird and accessory sale. 67 South Street.

9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Artificial glory can be bought. It’s shiny and makes an impression strutting down the street. People, including you, sense real confidence. That’s what you respond to today.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): The early day is filled with imperfect delights. The temptation will be to improve upon them later, although the more artistic choice may be to see how memory enhances the picture.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You have a way with words and they’re always right where you need them — well, almost always. Today brings an unfamiliar sensation: the argument getting lost on the tongue. It’s for the best.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Just because they can’t handle it doesn’t make it “too much.” You have a different tolerance, a different facility with the subject matter and a degree of confidence you can’t expect them all to understand.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): If it’s important to you, it’s important. The same goes for the foolishness of the past. Have compassion for “past-you.” You had your reasons, even though you no longer believe them.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): If there’s someone you want to know better, ask now while you’re impulsive, assertive and charming. Don’t think too much. Just aim and launch.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Though your most accurate answer to today’s questions may be “I don’t know,” it’s not the answer that will move you forward. Resolve to learn whatever is necessary to succeed with your project.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Good opportunities in the near future will come at a time of day you wouldn’t normally choose to be active, but don’t let that stop you from saying you’ll be there. It will be worth it to change your schedule.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): The village idiot often winds up the wisest one of all. That’s why you respectfully listen (if only for a limited time) to all opinions today.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Being able to entertain views that differ from your own in a calm, detached way will give you an advantage should you need to resolve a conflict of interest.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): There are a lot of people you like but truly hitting it off with another person is a rare gem and worth following through on.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): The exercise routine that’s fallen away doesn’t need to stay away. Your energy may be low but that’s more reason to push yourself. The effort will invigorate you.

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Family Notices 26 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

HAMMOND, Arthur Geoffrey, (Geoff) (Reg No 233729) – On September 17, 2015 at Coldstream House, Ashburton. Aged 95 years.

Dearly loved husband of the late Hazel. Loved father of Lynette Rolston and father in law of Bruce. Loved grandad of Anna, Jennie and Gaven Burgess, Shelley, and Kieran, and loved great grandad of Ella, and wee Chloe Burgess.

Messages to Hammond Family, P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A special thanks to the staff at Coldstream House and Dr Penny Holdaway. A celebration of Geoff’s life will be held at our Chapel, cnr East & Cox Streets, Ashburton on TUESDAY, September 22, commencing at 1.30pm. Followed by private interment.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

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Rain developing from the south during the afternoon and evening. Snow lowering to 500 metres at night.

Wind at 1000m: NW 60 km/h easing, then changing S 40 km/h from afternoon.

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6am Breakfast The Breakfast team presents news, interviews, weather and information.

9am Good Morning 10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 11am The Chase 0 Noon One News 0 12:30 Coronation Street PGR 3 Dev comes to Chesney’s rescue; Tina may have bitten off more than she can chew. 0 1:30 Jo Frost Family Matters PGR Parenting expert Jo Frost presents a new talk show aimed at mending Britain’s broken families.

2:30 Come Dine With Me 3 3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Kiwi Living Former All Black Josh Kronfeld puts Lee-Anne through her paces to see what it takes to be a star player; Mike cooks an All Blacks inspired dish. 0 8:30 Coronation Street PGR Rob goes behind Tracy’s back; Grace educates Faye in the art of manipulation. 0 10:30 One News Tonight 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Sooty 0 6:40 Sofia The First 0 7am My Little Pony 0 7:25 Gravity Falls 3 0 7:55 Phineas And Ferb 3 0 8:25 The Octonauts 0 8:35 Tiki Tour 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Home And Away 3 0 11:30 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon Cougar Town PGR 3 0 12:30 Jeremy Kyle PGR 1:30 Hell’s Kitchen AO 3 0 2:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3:30 F Penn Zero – Part-Time Hero 0 4pm I Didn’t Do It 0 4:30 The 4:30 Show 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 The Voice Australia The remaining contestants perform in the semi-finals; in a treat for fans, the superstar coaches perform The Beatles classic Let it Be. 0 9:45 The Big Bang Theory PGR 3 0 10:45 2 Broke Girls PGR 3 0

6am Paul Henry 9am Infomercials 10:30 Story 3 0 11am Rachael Ray 3 Rachael prepares slow-roasted leg of lamb and mint sauce; Elisabeth Hasselbeck makes lemon-poppy trifle.

Noon 3 News 12:30 Baggage PGR 1pm Dr Phil AO Claims of child abuse to an infant are disputed by her parents after the father is sent to jail.

2pm The Ricki Lake Show PGR 3pm The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills PGR Brandi moves into her new house; Kyle and her family land in Lake Tahoe.

4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:30 The Block – Triple Threat 6pm 3 News 7pm Lip Sync Battle PGR 0 7:30 Bullseye PGR Four men and four women test their bodies and brains as they are dragged by a helicopter, speed down a hill in a giant zorb, and race on jet skis to win $50,000. 0 8:30 The Graham Norton Show PGR 3 0 9:30 Live At The Apollo AO 3 0 10:30 Newsworthy

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Scaredy Squirrel 3 7:55 Rugrats 3 8:25 Chuggington 3 8:35 Hi 5 House 9am The Moe Show 0 9:10 Peppa Pig 3 9:20 Fireman Sam 0 9:30 Thomas And Friends 9:45 Bob The Builder 3 9:55 Wonder Pets 3 10:15 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:35 Big Time Rush 3 5:05 Victorious 3 5:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3 6pm Malcolm In The Middle 3 0 6:30 How I Met Your Mother 3 0 7pm The Simpsons PGR 3 0 7:30 Nitro Circus PGR 3 8pm Nitro Circus PGR 3 8:30 M Blade AO 1998 Action. Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff. 0 10:55 House Of Lies AO (Starting Today) 3 The aftermath of the sexual-harassment scandal leaves Marty and his Pod adjusting to a new corporate culture at Galweather Stearn.

11pm N Hostages Series about a top surgeon asked to operate on the President of the United States, and then kill him. 0 12:45 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 1:10 Infomercials

11:15 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 12:15 Brooklyn Nine-Nine PGR 0 12:45 Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 1:35 Infomercials 2:35 The 100 PGR 3 0 3:20 Arrow 3 0 4:05 Regular Show PGR 3 0 4:20 Prankstars 3 4:40 The 4:30 Show 3 5:10 Neighbours 3 0 5:35 Jessie 3 0

11pm The Blacklist AO 3 The team targets the Undertaker, a lifeinsurance figure who steers ordinary people into becoming contract killers; Liz and Red must discover Tom’s secrets. 0 Midnight The Night Shift AO 3 12:55 The Borgias AO 3 2am Infomercials

12:05 Entertainment Tonight 12:30 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Iron Chef America 7:30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features 8:30 Love Nature – Coast 9:30 Gourmet Farmer Afloat 10:30 Double Your House For Half The Money 11:30 Buy It, Fix It, Sell It Noon Sean’s Kitchen 12:30 Luke Nguyen’s United Kingdom 1pm Poh And Co 1:30 In Search Of Perfection 2pm Iron Chef America 3pm Nick Knowles’ Original Features 4pm Love Nature – Monkey Thieves 4:30 Atlantic Edge 5pm Destination Flavour Down Under 5:30 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Cosmopolitan Cook 6pm Buying Alaska 6:30 House Crashers 7pm Auction Kings PGR 7:30 Better Homes And Gardens 9pm 100 Day Bach 9:30 The Get Growing Roadshow 10pm Beyond River Cottage 10:30 Auction Kings PGR 11pm Destination Flavour Down Under 11:30 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Cosmopolitan Cook

SATURDAY

Midnight House Crashers 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Nick Knowles’ Original Features 2am Love Nature – Monkey Thieves 2:30 Atlantic Edge 3am Buying Alaska 3:30 House Crashers 4am 100 Day Bach 4:30 The Get Growing Roadshow 5am Beyond River Cottage 5:30 Buying Alaska

PRIME

6:30 Pukoro 2 7am Dora Matatoa 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 8am Patapatai 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am The Fit Club 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 2 11am Toku Reo 2 Noon Korero Mai 2 1pm Toku Reo 2 2pm Ako 2 3pm Tangaroa With Pio 3:30 Pukoro 2 4pm Dora Matatoa 2 4:30 SpongeBob

THE BOX 6am The Glades MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Storage Wars PG 7:40 Parking Wars PGL 8:05 Survivor – China PG 8:55 CSI – Miami MV 9:45 Criminal Intent MV 10:35 CSI – New York MV 11:25 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 12:15 Longmire 16V 1:05 Pawn Stars PG 1:30 CSI – Miami MV 2:20 The Glades MV 3:10 Survivor – China PG 4pm Storage Wars PG 4:30 Parking Wars PGL 5pm The Simpsons PG 5:30 CSI – Miami MV 6:30 Pawn Stars PG 7pm Storage Wars PG 7:30 CSI – New York MV 8:30 SVU MVS 9:30 Wild West Alaska M 10:30 Criminal Intent MV 11:30 CSI – New York MV

SATURDAY

12:30 Survivor – China PG 1:20 Hardcore Pawn PGL 1:45 The Glades MV 2:35 Criminal Intent MV 3:25 The Simpsons PG 3:55 SVU MVS 4:45 Wild West Alaska M 5:35 Pawn Stars PG

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6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 1pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 2pm MasterChef USA PGR 3 In a field challenge of epic proportions, the top 16 home cooks must feed 101 off-duty firefighters.

3pm Storage Wars 3 A new town means new faces, and with their financial futures at stake, the buyers must choose to fight or befriend those eager to meet and in some cases, join, the Storage Wars team.

3:30 Antiques Roadshow 3 4:30 Hot Bench 5pm Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm Escape To The Country 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 60 Minutes PGR 3 8:30 Bones PGR 9:30 Jane The Virgin PGR Jane and Rafael discover a secret of Petra’s, which makes them doubt her intentions.

10:30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

Midnight Home Shopping 1:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

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7am Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Wellington v Otago. From Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

9am Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Tasman v North Harbour. From Trafalgar Park in Nelson.

9:30 Pacific Warriors 11am #SkySpeed 11:30 NRL Fulltime Noon NRL Footy Show 2pm Golf Central 3pm Golf World 3:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Wellington v Otago.

4pm Mainfreight Rugby 5pm #SkySpeed 5:30 World Rugby 6pm The Making Of Black 7pm L Rugby – ITM Cup Taranaki v Waikato. From Yarrow Stadium in New Plymouth.

9:30 Weight Of A Nation

11:30 World Rugby Midnight Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Taranaki v Waikato.

2am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Semi-final One – Roosters v Bulldogs.

2:30 Pacific Warriors 4am Weight Of A Nation

SKY SPORT 2 6:30 L Rugby League – Super League Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers. From Headingley Carnegie in Leeds.

9:30 NRL 360 10:30 Big Weekend With Matty Johns 11:30 Sky Sport Select Noon Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Wellington v Otago.

From Westpac Stadium in Jane the Virgin Wellington.

9:30pm on Prime 12:30 Pacific Warriors A documentary exploring how the DISCOVERY MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS tiny Pacific Island nations of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa reconnect with 6am Auction Kings PG Dinosaur 6:25 The Time Traveler’s 6:05 The Making Of Fury PGV their heritage and take on the giants Tooth; Victorian Furniture.

6:20 Closed Circuit MVL 2013 Crime. Wife MV 2009 Drama. Eric Bana, of the rugby World Cup, against all 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG Greatest Rachel McAdams. 8:10 2 Fast Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall. 7:55 3 the odds.

Game Ever Fished. 7:30 Gold Rush Days To Kill MVL 2014 Action.

2 Furious MV 2003 Action.

2pm Big Weekend With Matty PG Lovestruck. 8:30 Mythbusters Paul Walker, Cole Hauser, Eva Mendes.

Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld.

Johns PGR 9:30 Naked And Afraid M 9:55 Head Of State MLS 2003 9:50 Ouija 16VLC 2014 Horror.

3pm Rugby League – Super 10:30 Sons Of Winter M End of Comedy.

Chris Rock, Bernie Mac. Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff.

League (Replay) Leeds Rhinos v Days. 11:30 Double Cross M Into 11:30 American Gangster 16VLSC 11:20 Let’s Be Cops MLSC Castleford Tigers.

Thin Air. 12:30 Crimes That Shook 2007 Crime. Denzel Washington, 2014 Comedy. Jake Johnson, 5pm NRL Footy Show The World M The Backpacker Killer.

Russell Crowe. 2:20 Yes Man Damon Wayans jr. 1:05 Closed 7pm L Rugby League – 1:30 Deadly Affairs M 2:30 How MLS 2008 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Circuit MVL 2013 Crime. Eric Bana, Rhys Darby. 4:05 The Last Samurai Holden Cup Semi-final One – Sea It’s Made PG 3pm How It’s Made Eagles U20 v Wests Tigers U20.

MV 2003 Drama. Tom Cruise, PG 3:30 Gold Rush PG Gold at Last. Rebecca Hall. 2:40 3 Days To Kill 9pm Rugby League – Super MVL 2014 Action. Kevin Costner, Ken Watanabe. 6:40 Mercury 4:30 Naked And Afraid XL M 40 League (Highlights) Leeds Rhinos v Rising MVL 1998 Action Thriller.

Days No Escape. 5:30 Mythbusters Hailee Steinfeld. 4:35 Out Of Castleford Tigers. From Headingley Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, PGR 6:30 Mythbusters PG Indy The Furnace 16VLC 2013 Thriller.

Carnegie in Leeds.

Miko Hughes, Chi McBride.

Car Special. 7:30 John Eales Christian Bale, Casey Affleck.

9:30 L Rugby League – NRL 8:30 Team America – World Reveals – Life After Sport PG 6:30 Lone Survivor 16VLC 2013 8:30 River Monsters PG Prehistoric Action. Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch. Police 16VLS 2004 Animated Action. Semi-final One – Roosters v Bulldogs.

Voices of Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Terror. 9:30 Deadliest Catch PG SATURDAY 8:30 Prisoners 16VLC 2013 Crime.

Kristen Miller. 10:10 Inside Man Lunatic Fringe. 10:30 How It’s Midnight Football – Europa Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal.

MVL 2006 Crime. Denzel Washington, League (Replay) Tottenham v Made PG 11pm How It’s Made PG 11:05 The Giver MV 2014 Drama.

Clive Owen, Jodie Foster.

11:30 Gold Rush PG Gold at Last.

Qarabag.

Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep.

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Workers clean the seats at Twickenham Stadium, London, this week as final preparations are made for the first game of the World Cup, England v Fiji, at 7am tomorrow morning (NZT).

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Twickers all set for kick-off To get ready to face England tomorrow morning in the Rugby World Cup opening match, Fiji turned to England fans.

Back in Fiji, the team set up speakers on the sidelines at practice and blasted the sounds of a Twickenham crowd so the players would know what to expect, somewhat, and find a way through the noise to communicate calls.

Coach John McKee said on Tuesday it went well.

“It was good in those sessions we did it, it affected the intensity of the training,” he said.

“It’s hard to hear calls and the communication in the game.”

Fiji vice-captain and hooker Sunia Koto said they expect the atmosphere to be intense and loud.

He will have to throw in at lineouts, and cutting through the cacophony to make sure everyone understands the calls will be critical, he added.

“It’s quite tough when playing in a big stadium when the hype is there and everybody’s singing, it’s quite hard to get the calls over,” Koto said.

“We tend to shout a lot during

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the lineout. I have to be really focused on doing my duty.

“It’s the Rugby World Cup opener. The noise will be really up there.”

Fiji has played at Twickenham only once in this century, in 2012, a 54-12 loss to England.

Meanwhile England coach Stuart Lancaster says he’s too busy to be worried about spies at England’s practices.

A screen surrounds England’s training field at Pennyhill Park, with walking security, but Lancaster discounts how much spies could take from their practices.

“We’re quite relaxed. I trust the security we have got is more than adequate.

“I understand the point, but there is so much footage out there.

“What else can you learn from a training ground session? The analysis is so detailed, I’ve got enough to think about.”

All Blacks backs coach Ian Foster said they also have security for spies.

“I guess there are (concerns),” he said.

“We have to take precautions like everyone else to make sure

that what we do is just to us at this point.”

Foster said he’s seen a drone, but not at All Blacks training.

“Funnily enough, I saw my first drone a while back at my daughter’s soccer practice,” he said.

“One of the parents had one, showed me how high they can go, and you can’t even see them up there.

“I guess we could have a shotgun or something to shoot them down, but apart from that, there’s not much you can do about them.”

- AP

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