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Call for Fonterra to stop using coal BY MICHELLE NELSON

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Environmental activists gathered in Ashburton at the weekend to take a stand against the use of coal in the dairy industry. Based at the Tinwald Domain, Coal Action Network Aotearoa (CANA) held its annual Summerfest under the title Coal, Cows and Climate. Speakers addressed about 50 environmentalists from around New Zealand on Saturday afternoon. Former Green Party co-leader and CANA member Jeanette Fitzsimons said Ashburton was chosen for the meeting as it was at the heart of Fonterra’s dairying operation. Fonterra is the country’s second largest user of coal, having overtaken the Huntly Power Station, and the dairy

co-operative still has plans to expand, Fitzsimons said. Fonterra requires vast amounts of energy to convert liquid milk into milk solids, and its consumption has been growing in the face of plans to phase out national use of the “dirty” fuel by 2027. Fitzsimmons said the link between the use of coal and global warming is irrefutable, in particular lignite (brown) coal. “Up to 80 per cent of the coal used by Fonterra is lignite – which is the lowest grade, wettest, nastiest coal there is,” she said. While steel manufacturing has little choice but to use coal at this point, there are options for the dairy industry. Fitzsimons said developing technology had proved waste wood from forestry residues were an effective alternative to coal fired boilers.

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“Fonterra’s bottom line is that Fonterra needs to keep expanding – our bottom line is that we need to protect the planet for our grandchildren,” she said. CANA activist Cindy Baxter, who also addressed the gathering, said 2016 was the hottest year on record – a trend observed for the third consecutive year. With 97 per cent consensus that climate change was occurring, the naysayers were losing the battle, she said. Signatories to the United Nations Paris Agreement on climate change, which includes New Zealand, agreed to limit warming to below 2°C and aiming for 1.5°C.

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■ SALMON FISHING SEASON

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Dismal start to season BY MICHELLE NELSON

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Anglers are reporting record low numbers of salmon catches in Mid Canterbury rivers. Rangitata Hut Holders’ Association president Trevor Isitt has been fishing the river for 45 years and says it’s the worst season he can recall. “There’s a growing concern among anglers that this could be the start of the finish for our salmon runs.” So far this season, which opened on October 1, only a “handful” of salmon catches have been recorded. “Once more than 100 fish would have been caught by this

time of the year,” Isitt said. “The fish have a lot to contend with. The water quality in the river and in the spawning streams has deteriorated – we’ve had very poor spawnings which doesn’t bode well for the future.” About 95 per cent of salmon returning to the Rangitata River spawn in Deep Creek and Deep Stream, high in the Mid Canterbury lakes district. Last season Fish and Game aerial surveys found low numbers of fish had made it to the spawning grounds both in the Rangitata and the Rakaia rivers. Anglers complained of low numbers of salmon coming through the mouth of both rivers, how-

ever Isitt said this year was worse. Aside from water quality, low flows have resulted in warmer water in steam which is not conducive to fish health, he said. “For the first time ever we’ve had to put a boil water notice on our water supply at the huts and at the motor camp because of coliforms. Like a lot of rural water supplies it has been compromised by intensive farming practices.” Central South Island Fish and Game officer Rhys Adams confirmed just 14 salmon had been weighed in at the settlement on the southern side of the Rangitata, as of Tuesday. “Hopefully it will pick up

through February and March, when the main run begins, Adams said. North Canterbury Fish and Game officer Steve Terry said it was too early to make predictions about the state of the salmon fishery. While recorded catches in the Rangitata and the Rakaia rivers were low, the fish could still arrive. Terry said a higher number of freshes and floods in the rivers had possibly left anglers with fewer opportunities to bag salmon, however aerial surveys would paint a more accurate picture when they begin later in the season.

■ ELECTRIC CARS

Car charging ports coming to Ashburton BY SUE NEWMAN

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Electric car charging ports are coming to Ashburton, with or without government funding assistance. EA Networks has committed to establish three ports in the Ashburton District, at Rakaia, Methven and in Ashburton and was part of a South Island lines com-

panies’ bid to gain government funding to establish a network of ports the length of State Highway One. That application was unsuccessful, says the lines company’s general manager Gordon Guthrie, but his company is committed to the project locally. Work has started on the three ports and a bid for the network

funding will be lodged over the next two months. The Ashburton District Council has ticked off three sites for the ports – opposite Salmon Tales in Rakaia, the southern end of the West Street carpark in Ashburton and near the medical centre in Methven. While the battery life between charges for electric cars was becoming longer, a South Island

network of ports was essential so motorists were assured they wouldn’t be left stranded and unable to recharge their cars. This concern has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks to a faster uptake of electric cars, Guthrie said. The planned network would enable motorists to travel the length of the South Island.

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■ FONTERRA

Call for use of coal to stop From P1 “What we know is that if all governments do what they have pledged, it will take us to 2.7 °C of warming – under the current policies that will take us to 3.6 °C.” Other speakers included veterinarian and agro-ecology consultant Alison Dewes and Greenpeace water campaigner Genevieve Toop. Fonterra managers are conscious of the impacts of all industries on greenhouse emissions, chief operating officer Robert Spurway told the Guardian last week. “We have had ongoing discussions with CANA over recent years and understand and share their position on coal,” he said.

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■ LAND SALE

Kermode St land changes hands BY SUE NEWMAN

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A large block of land on Kermode Street, home to a succession of Ashburton electricity companies since the 1930s, has found a new owner and will shortly find a new life. The Ashburton Power Board’s headquarters were built on the two plus hectare site and over the years this company became Electricity Ashburton and today

is known as EA Networks. The lines company relocated from Kermode Street to the Ashburton Business Estate in 2015, leaving the old buildings largely untenanted. Much of the site was later cleared and the large tract of land put on the market. This has now been sold to Hamilton-based Livingstone Building. Business development manager Errol Newlands spent part of last week in Ashburton checking out

the site and while he’s not yet releasing details of the company’s plans for the future, he said a number of possibilities were on the drawing board. His company mainly works on developments in the North Island but he said the Ashburton property presented a unique opportunity to undertake a project in a town it believed was vibrant and growing. “We’d been looking in Ash-

burton for something and this popped up and we’ll be firming up our proposals in the next few weeks,” Newlands said. Livingstone is in talks with the Ashburton District Council about its plans to extend Park Street through the site to connect with Dobson Street West. The council had previously talked with EA Networks about acquiring a strip of land to set aside for roading extensions.

Any development will not be immediate, however, as the work will be tied to the installation of traffic signals at the Park and Moore streets intersection and this will involve subsidised funding from the New Zealand Transport Agency. Livingstone Building needed to have details around the future road confirmed up before it firmed up its own plans, Newlands said.

■ ORGAN TRANSPLANTS

■ POWER CUT

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EA Networks workers replaced a power kiosk damaged when a motorist smashed into it on Saturday morning. PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 210117-JP-0082

Crash causes 11-hour power cut A motorist who crashed into a power box outside the Orange Hall on the corner of William and Tancred streets caused an 11-hour power cuts for nearby residents. Police were called to the scene at about 3.30am on Saturday, where it was discovered a vehicle had collided with a power kiosk

containing a transformer stationed outside the Orange Hall. A police spokesperson said the driver was uninjured. Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade also attended the incident and secured the scene until an EA Networks crew arrived to isolate the power supply.

EA Networks operations manager Shaneel Singh said about 50 customers were affected by the outage. A replacement power kiosk was required to replace the original kiosk, which was shunted about three metres from its base, Singh said.

A record number of organ transplants from deceased donors were carried out in 2016, says Health Minister Jonathan Coleman. He says from 61 deceased donors 181 organs were transplanted. The number of organs transplanted has increased 57 per cent in the past four years. “Organ transplantation is a life-saving treatment and for people with organ failure it’s often the only option available,” says Dr Coleman. “Decisions by families of deceased donors and by living donors, together with the compassion and hard work of staff means that more and more patients are receiving transplants.” In New Zealand, there are more than 550 people waiting for an organ or tissue transplant, Organ Donation New Zealand says. The Compensation for Live Organ Donors Bill, brought by MP Chris Bishop, was passed by parliament in November last year.

Jonathan Coleman The legislation helps to remove the financial deterrent to becoming a live organ donor, Dr Coleman says. The Ministry of Health is developing systems and processes to meet the Act’s provisions, with the law due to come into effect before the end of this year. - NZME

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■ MT ALBERT BYELECTION

Labour launches campaign Labour has launched its campaign for the Mount Albert by-election after officially confirming list MP Jacinda Ardern as their candidate. Labour leader Andrew Little kicked off the campaign in the electorate yesterday ahead of what is expected to be a battle between Ardern and Green Party candidate Julie Anne Genter. The byelection on February 25 in the safe Labour seat is to replace David Shearer, who resigned from parliament last year to lead United Nations peace keeping missions in

South Sudan. Shearer won the seat in 2014 with more than 20,900 votes over National’s 10,300 and the Green Party’s little over 3000. As in any byelection, people have only one vote – for their electorate MP. There is no party vote. “Mt Albert is a vital electorate. It’s had outstanding high quality Labour MPs representing it for many, many years and many decades and we’re about to make sure that that tradition continues,” Little said launching the campaign. Prime Minister Bill English has

said Ardern would be “difficult to beat” after revealing National would not run a candidate against her in the byelection. The party will instead look ahead to contesting the seat in the general election later in the year. Joe Carolan, who received 290 votes in 2014 as a candidate for the Internet MANA Party is standing again, this time representing Socialist Aotearoa. The only competition from the right comes from Vin Tomar, who will represent the New Zealand People’s Party. - NZME

Search to be reviewed Police have given up hope of finding missing North Shore woman Pat Wearn alive, nearly a week after she disappeared. The 73-year-old hasn’t been seen since leaving her Torbay home for a walk last Monday. But searches are continuing for Mrs Wearn, who has Alzheimer’s disease. Mrs Wearn had been shopping with her husband last Monday morning and left home around noon to go on a regular walk. - NZME

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■ ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Helping boost local reading levels Erewhon Masonic Lodge members are doing their bit to help boost reading and fitness levels for Mid Canterbury children. The lodge provided two bicycles as an incentive to encourage children up to the age of 13 years to read over the holidays. Young borrowers taking a book out of the Ashburton Public Library were given a penny token. When they had collected 20 tokens and read their 20 books they chose a small prize out of a basket. At the same time their names were entered in the monster prize draw for the two bikes. The Reading is Cool challenge ran for just over five weeks during the holidays, lodge secretary Noel Lowe said. Librarian Adrienne Moodie said the project aimed to beat the summer slump, where children’s reading skills slip backwards over the long holiday break. Well over 200 children took part, ensuring they will be ready to start the school year at the same, or perhaps even a higher, reading level. Lowe said lodge members were keen on projects to help children’s education so they considered the competition was a worthwhile investment in the community. Two-and-a-half-year-old Charlotte Carr enjoys her mother reading books to her and subsequently won a bicycle. The Carr family of four children borrowed 80 books from the library during the competition. A parent reading to children is most important as it creates an interest of books and reading for a lifetime, Moodie said. Sam Holland, who read 40 books, found the bicycle size was a bit small so he offered to loan it to his brother Josh, also a participant in the competition.

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Is Kim Dotcom engaged? Going off his Twitter account, it might seem so. The internet tycoon tweeted earlier yesterday, saying “Follow @lizz_donnelly aka Elizabeth Dotcom” and posted a diamond ring emoji. Dotcom and Donnelly, an Auckland woman, announced they were a couple last year. Dotcom revealed the pair were head over heels in love. The pair have a 21-year age gap. - NZME

Dunsandel crash Three people were taken to hospital yesterday after two vehicles crashed in Canterbury. The accident happened on State Highway 1, south of Dunsandel, about 3.40pm yesterday, police say. Three people with moderate injuries we taken to Christchurch Hospital. - NZME

New kiwi chick New Zealand gets its own “lucky” kiwi chick – a day after the Year of the Rooster Chinese New Year festivities kicked off in Auckland on Saturday. The 88th kiwi chick for the season hatched yesterday at Rotorua’s Kiwi Encounter. Eight is considered a lucky number in Chinese because it sounds like the word “prosperity” and 88 is considered doubly lucky. The 357g as-yet-unnamed kiwi chick is from the Rotokare Scenic Reserve, east of Eltham. - NZME

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Ashburton Public Library and Lodge Erewhon summer reading challenge winners (from left) Josh and Sam Holland, Pam Carr and her daughter Charlotte Carr. PHOTO NOEL LOWE

Official Lotto results for draw number 1614 drawn on Saturday. Winning numbers (in ascending order): 3, 7, 13, 20, 30, 34. Bonus number: 19. Powerball winning number: 3. Strike: 13, 20, 3, 34.

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■ SHEEP NUMBERS

Sheep numbers continue to drop BY SUE NEWMAN

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The Ashburton District is not alone in watching its traditional sheep flock disappear in the wake of changing farming practices. Ten years ago New Zealand’s sheep flock numbered 39.1 million; today it sits at 27.6 million and dropping. The latest data released by Statistics New Zealand shows the national sheep flock has been in free fall for several years and is now at its lowest point in possibly a century. When numbers hit 29.8 million in 2014 they fell to an 80-year low. The current drop was 5.3 per cent or 1.5 million. Statistics New Zealand’s agricultural production statistics manager Stuart Pitt said the 10-year drop in numbers was about 30 per cent. “We now have fewer than six sheep for each person. This is down from 1982’s historic high,

when there were over 70 million sheep, or 22 for every person,” he said. At the same time as sheep numbers plummeted, beef cattle numbers also dropped, by 2.1 per cent to 3.5 million. Deer numbers fell 5.2 per cent over the year to .85 million. Dairy cattle however remained relatively unchanged on 2015 figures at 6.5 million. Evidence that local sheep numbers have plummeted came last

month when the Tinwald Saleyards closed after 138 years of business. Stock numbers through the yards peaked in 1980s at 300,000 (mainly sheep) but over the past few years yardings often dropped to just a few dozen sheep each week. The practice of taking sheep to the saleyards had given way to onfarm sales, but at the final sale of its life, the Tinwald Saleyards saw 1200 sheep go under the auctioneer’s hammer.

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■ PORK PIE CHARITY RUN

Cinema shows support for charity BY MEGAN GNAD

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As the local contingent gears up to participate in Easter Weekend’s Pork Pie Charity Run, movie buffs can show their support by attending a film premiere at Ashburton’s Regent Cinema. It is the fifth year the event will be held, involving 60 Minis travelling from Kaitaia to Invercargill over six days and seven nights, to fundraise for KidsCan. Ashburton’s Regent Cinema jumped on board to offer a special premiere fundraiser for the national release of the Goodbye Pork Pie remake. Proceeds from the event, on Thursday, February 2, will go to KidsCan, supporting disadvantaged Kiwi children. Local participant Gavin Agnew said he was blown away with the support so far. “You could have knocked me over with a feather when I found out from Regent,” he said. It is hoped they will sell 120 tickets to the private movie screening.

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Mr Agnew, who is a teacher, said he had worked at schools in the North Island and saw firsthand the practical way in which KidsCan helps children. “They provide shoes, raincoats and food for kids living in poverty,” he said. “I’ve seen the impact of it and there’s a need for it here too.” Tickets for the Pork Pie Opening Evening Charity Event are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first-in, first-served basis. For more information, visit the organising group’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ JR5254

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■ ASHBURTON PIPE BAND FESTIVAL

Pipe band making comeback By Sue NewmaN

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This year’s Ashburton Pipe Band festival will be a significant occasion for Ashburton’s Scottish Society Pipe Band; they’ll be participants in their own event. For 10 years a group of pipe band stalwarts have kept the festival running but Ashburton has been unable to stake its own claim to the day by fielding a band; this year that has changed. Over the past year the band has been reborn as past members have returned and new members joined. It’s now up to full strength, says drum major Derek Cullimore, and for the first time in a decade will be starring in its own festival. While the band never went into recess, it did go into hibernation, Cullimore said, but it’s now back and while it won’t be chasing the competition circuit, members are taking huge pleasure in simply playing for enjoyment, he said. And for them, the ultimate reward will be stepping out in the festival street march and then performing solo in front of home-town crowds. Their first public appearance was at the Ashburton A&P Show.

The pipe band festival has been on the district’s summer calendar for around 40 years and is always run to the same format – a street march followed by individual performances by participating bands, wrapping up with a mass band number. This year eight bands will be taking part in the event. The street march starts at 12.30pm on Sunday and will take bands along Elizabeth Street from Ashburton Hospital and into the Ashburton Domain’s picnic area off Grigg Street. In the past dozens of bands competed for local trophies but in recent years the festival has become one that has attracted provincial rather than top grade bands. With Ashburton taking part for the first time in a decade, the festival will have a special edge this year, Cullimore said. The festival always attracts large crowds who come with chairs and picnic hampers to enjoy the event. The Ashburton Pipe Band Festival will be held in the Ashburton Domain’s Grigg Street picnic area. The street march starts at 12.30pm with the festival starting at about 1pm.

The Ashburton Scottish Society Pipe Band have been practicing for their comeback at the Ashburton Pipe Band Festival after a 10-year absence. PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 220117-JP-0200

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■ PERFORMING ARTS

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Ashburton’s Annelise Diamond and Libby Higson are pursuing careers in the performing arts, and now have scholarships to help them on their way. The two 18-year-olds are longtime attendees of the Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School, and were among the school’s three scholarship recipients this year, each receiving $300. The pair, who completed Year 13 at Ashburton College last year, say every little bit counts, and the money will be a big help towards their studies.

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Ashburton College graduates Annelise Diamond (left) and Libby Higson are pursuing careers in the performing arts.

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Higson is off to the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Arts (NASDA) next month, to undertake a three-year Bachelor of Performing Arts. “My overall goal would be to end up overseas performing in Broadway productions,” Higson said. Diamond plans to attend the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts next year, also achieving a Bachelor of Performing Arts, and needs to save as much as possible this year so she can afford the tuition fees. She has part-time work and is looking for either full-time or

additional part-time jobs. She wants to add a teaching qualification and open her own performing arts school. “I would love to perform on stage as well, but that’s a goal I can have and incorporate the thing that I love,” she said. Both Higson and Diamond have pursued their love of live performance over many years in their home town, and they have lost count of the number of productions they have been in. They include numerous shows including not only the summer singing school, but also Big Little Theatre Company, Mid Canter-

bury Children’s Theatre, DanceWorx and Variety Theatre Ashburton. The pair are grateful to summer singing school founder Jo Castelow for giving them the confidence to own the stage. “She’s watched us develop through the years, and she’s been such a big help, and without her we wouldn’t have got to where we are,” Higson said. “I think I would still probably perform if I didn’t have Jo as a teacher, but I wouldn’t be able to perform to the standard I do, especially my singing,” Diamond said.

■ January 25-29 - Zirka Circus, Walnut Ave, Ashburton, 7pm to 9pm. Zirka Circus has successfully been entertaining families in NZ for more than six years and this show takes it to whole new level of entertainment. ■ January 27 – Fiona Pears and Band, Arts on Tour NZ, at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 7.30pm. Open hat night. ■ January 29 – Ashburton Art Gallery exhibitions open 2pm – Michael Armstrong, The Blurred Fringes of the Hyperbolic, and James Robinson, Strange Attractor. The opening includes an artist talk and special musical performance. ■ January 30 – James Robinson Stranger Attractor exhibition by this Dunedinbased painter at the Ashburton Art Gallery, to February 25. ■ February 1 – Woodblock Print Workshops kick off, also on February 8, 15 and 22. Creative classes for adults at the Ashburton Art Gallery. ■ To February 19 – Yours and Ours exhibition, recent additions to the Ashburton Art Gallery collection. ■ March 17 - Grumpy Old Women - Game of Crones, from 8pm to 10pm. They conquered NZ with Grumpy Old Women, took Australia and the universe by storm with 50 Shades of Beige and now they’re back. Geraldine Brophy directs and stars with Lynda Milligan and Julie Edwards in this hilarious piece of fantasy. ■ To February 19 – Yours and Ours exhibition, recent additions to the Ashburton Art Gallery collection. ■ To August 23 – Mark Braunias Assemble, Disassemble, Reassemble exhibition at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

■ NZ CONCERTS

Lauper, Blondie heading to New Zealand Two of the most iconic names in music, Cyndi Lauper and Blondie are teaming up and heading to New Zealand. In a world first, the two massive acts will co-headline a tour playing arena shows in Christchurch and Auckland this Easter, marking Blondie’s first visit to New Zealand in seven years and Lauper’s first trip to our shores. They’ve got 13 New Zealand top 10 hits between them and both Lauper and Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry have pushed the boundaries and stereotypes of being women in rock, each mak-

ing undeniable impressions on the music landscape. Blondie rose up out of the late 1970s punk scene in New York and went on to sell more than 40 million albums worldwide and join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the band spanned genres including pop, rock, disco, hip hop and even reggae. Their hits include The Tide is High, Heart of Glass, Call Me, Rapture and more, and they’ve just completed a new album set to release in May. Their tour mate Cyndi Lauper is one of only 20 people in history

to earn Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards, and has sold more than 50 million albums since her debut just over 30 years ago. She may be best known for hits like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Time After Time, but recently she’s moved into the country sphere, putting her signature spin on some of the genre’s classics. The acts couldn’t be happier to tour with one another, with Lauper heralding Blondie as one of her biggest influences. “Blondie were the true trailblazers of the New York City

new wave and punk scenes. As a young artist, they had such a big impact on me. I just thought that Debbie was so cool. She is still a hero of mine. We are going to have a blast,” Lauper says. While Harry sums it up by simply declaring: “The bitches are coming back to make it happen all the songs and music you want to hear from us and much, much more.” Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, January 31 from noon, with a Frontier members pre-sale beginning Wednesday, January 25 at 2pm. - NZME

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■ WEATHER

Wild weather causes havoc Thousands of Aucklanders are still without power, Wellington is getting blasted by strong winds and rivers are high in Tasman district in the South Island. The low predicted to bring foul weather less than a week after a “weather bomb” delivered yesterday. “On the Terrace Wellington severe wind lifted me up when I was walking and flung me over a parked car’s bonnet,” a woman called Rosie told Fairfax. A gust of 140km/h was recorded at Mt Kaukau at 7am and strong winds continued in Wellington

yesterday afternoon. A few flights were cancelled at Wellington Airport. Police have closed Vivian Street in Wellington between Taranaki Street and Cambridge Terrace because a piece of glass has fallen from a building, landing on a parked car. Another piece is loose and may fall. There are no reports of any injuries. The Fire Service says it’s busy in Wellington, while social media is full of pictures of downed trees in Auckland. Vector, the power supplier to

Auckland, says there are now 9500 customers affected by outages, down from 15,000 with several large feeders close to restoration. But as soon as it fixes lines others come down. “As an example of the strength of the elements, we’ve just been notified of a bouncy castle that’s become tangled in our lines out in Kumeu,” the company says. A man suffered serious injuries at Drury, south of Auckland, on Saturday night when a tree came down on the Southern Motorway, hitting his car. At the top of the South Island,

Nelson Tasman Civil Defence reports strong winds and heavy rain overnight brought rivers in the Takaka Valley to high levels. During a five-hour period, 153mm of rain fell in the Waingaro Valley, with 41.3mm falling in one hour. This resulted in the Waingaro River, and the Anatoki River, reaching 10-year flood levels. These flows are the third-highest since flow monitoring began in 1979. The Upper Takaka river peaked at flows experienced only eight times before in the past 50 years.

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the main supply pipe to Wellington City. They were back yesterday morning, in the bottom of a four metre deep hole, next to the Wellington Railway Station. Gary O’Meara from Wellington Water said it’s likely that the November earthquake was behind the leak. “We know that the foreshore area suffered the worst, and our pumping stations and pipelines in the port area suffered damage in the November 14 quake,” he said. “When our guys cut through the concrete road base where

Road closure warnings were issued for the state highway at Upper Takaka, and either side of Takaka Township. Flooding in the Aorere valley was more moderate, although road closure signs were placed at Ferntown on the road to Pakawau. Wind gusts reached 105km/h in Richmond, short of the 136km/h reached in 2015. The high winds resulted in a number of trees falling. Rivers throughout the Tasman and Nelson region are dropping but care is still needed. - NZME

the leak was, they found a big hole. It’s clearly been leaking for a while.” The leak, from a damaged valve leading off the main pipe, appears to have been eroding the sandy soil beneath the road surface. It was touch and go on Friday night whether Wellington would have enough water on Saturday morning, as the two main storage reservoirs supplying the central and eastern suburbs slowly emptied out in the evening peak. “Operators worked hard to reroute supply, but it was never

going to be enough. If we hadn’t fixed it by 6am yesterday, we would have had to ask people to ease off. “And if the leak had happened further up the pipe, near Ngauranga, we would have had major issues,” Mr O’Meara said. The vulnerability of Wellington City’s water supply is well known, Wellington Water says. Plans are in place to build a 35 million litre reservoir in Prince of Wales Park, and for an alternative pipeline into the city but it will take years. - NZME

A New Yorker has purchased a one-way ticket to New Zealand to escape Trump’s America. At the very moment Trump swore his oath to become America’s 45th President, Gary Belis, 64, was flying through the sky to start a new chapter in his life. Belis told The Daily Beast he chose New Zealand for its location alone – 9000 miles from his home soil. “It is as far away as I can get from Donald Trump,” he said. His departure date, the day before the inauguration or January 19 in America, was carefully choreographed. “I do not want to be here for one minute of his presidency,” Belis said. Belis landed in New Zealand on Saturday, meaning he avoided the day of Trump’s inauguration altogether. “I literally will have erased January 20th from my life,” he said. Belis has had a personal run in with the new President himself. Nearly 30 years ago, Belis reviewed Trump’s book, The Art of the Deal, for Fortune Magazine where he worked as a publicist. Trump responded with a letter describing Belis’ “stupidity” and “deep seated prejudice” in great detail. He even demanded Belis be fired. “The letter has been on my wall for 30 years, it is a badge of honor,” Belis said. Belis isn’t alone. On election night, Google searches in the United States spiked for “move to New Zealand” among other countries including Australia. Anti-Trump Americans also searched for property on our shores ahead of and after the election. Several celebrities also vowed to leave America should Trump be voted in, but have since backtracked. These include Amy Schumer, Whoopi Goldberg and Samuel L. Jackson. - NZME

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Melbourne toll rises A 10-year-old girl, 25-year-old man and a woman, 32, died at the scene after the car driver sped along Bourke Street Mall and a 33-year-old man died in hospital on Friday night. Police said on Saturday night that 37 other people injured in the incident have been treated in hospital and confirmed that four remained critical. Among those reported to be hospital are the mother and sister of the 10-year-old girl, who died. Community members have been left shocked by the young girl’s death, and have banded together to donate funds to the family. Avi Yemini has set up a crowdfunding campaign and $4666 has already been raised. “This is a family like any of ours,” Yemini said. “The public space where they were so terrorised, is a space which belongs to every single one of us. “We are all devastated by what has happened.”

The accused driver, Dimitrious “Jimmy” Gargasoulas, 26, was known to police and had been driving erratically round Melbourne after allegedly stabbing his brother that morning. He was eventually stopped on Bourke Street when police shot him in the arm. He was expected to be charged following surgery at the weekend. Police said on Saturday night he remained under police guard in hospital and was yet to be interviewed. The accused mother, Emily Gargasoulas, told reporters on Saturday she felt sick her son was involved. “I’m ashamed, I’m ashamed to be his mum,” Ms Gargasoulas said. ‘I couldn’t believe it... it make me feel sick.” The Victorian State Coroner Sara Hinchey said a coronial investigation will begin immediately. She will examine the entire event, including police endeavours to catch the man, the role of the justice system in previous dealings with him and issues around

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his alleged mental health and drug abuse. Premier Daniel Andrews says she will be given any additional resources she needs and the government would make whatever changes were necessary. Mr Gargasoulas was spotted on camera on Friday morning behind a journalist doing a news report about the stabbing. He was charged with assault on January 14 and released on bail despite police opposition. He had been due to appear back in court on Friday. Mr Ashton defended the police pursuit of the man after the stabbing, including a decision to call it off when the man was driving erratically. “From my perspective, all decisions the officers made were in the interests of trying to protect community safety,” he said. Police were quick to reassure the public that the attack was not terror-related, and encouraged people to come to the city undeterred. Many did come to pay their respects on Bourke Street, where a floral tribute was building. - AAP

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Austrian police foil 89 bodies Vienna terror attack found in mass grave in Iraq Police in Austria have foiled an imminent attack, possibly on the Vienna underground, when they arrested a radicalised 18-year-old, an official with the Interior Ministry says. There were “indications that such an attack was planned and just about to happen,” Konrad Kogler, the ministry’s general director of public security, told Austria’s ORF radio. The explosion of a bomb in the underground was “one of the possible scenarios,” he added. Initial investigations indicated that the young man arrested at the weekend, an Austrian of immigrant heritage, had been radicalised by Salafism, an ultra-conservative strand of Sunni Islam. “There is evidence suggesting that the suspected was planning an imminent attack in Vienna that was motivated by ter-

rorism,” a spokesman for the ministry said. He said the young man had recently been involved with radical Albanian Islamists. Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said the man, known to police as a petty criminal, came from the “Albanian milieu.” Police said they had been warned about the planned attack by friendly foreign intelligence agencies. Sobotka said the suspect had been to Germany once and had been under surveillance in the past few days. He assured people there had been no risk to the public. The young man is being held in detention under suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organisation. Searches in Vienna and Lower Austria, the state which surrounds the capital, turned up mobile phones and other material which police have seized. - DPA

The bodies of 89 people, thought to be soldiers killed by Islamic State, have been found in a mass grave in Iraq. Officials say the grave was found on Saturday in the grounds of a presidential palace complex in the city of Tikrit, which was recaptured from IS in March 2015. The bodies were thought to belong to soldiers who were captured while fleeing a nearby military base during the mid-2014 offensive in which Islamic State captured much of Sunnipopulated northern and western Iraq. The Sunni jihadist group claimed at the time to have executed 1700 Shi’ite soldiers who had surrendered to it after fleeing Camp Speicher. It said 800 Sunni troops had been “pardoned”. Photographs published by the group showed large groups of young men being rounded up, driven in the backs of trucks to fields, and then made to lie on the ground in rows as gunmen apparently opened fire on them. A video later released showed other men being hustled to the riverside one by one, beaten, shot in the head and thrown in the water. An investigation into the massacre by Human Rights Watch identified execution sites at the palace complex. Several other mass graves have been found there since the recapture of the city. In August, 36 extremist militants convicted of involvement in the massacre were hanged. - DPA

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Adele to take stage Adele is set to take the stage at next month’s Grammy Awards, where she is nominated for album, song and record of the year. The Recording Academy announced that Adele will perform at the February 12 show at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. Previously announced performers include Metallica, Carrie Underwood, John Legend and Keith Urban. Adele had a hiccup during her Grammy performance last year after a microphone inside a piano fell onto the instrument’s strings. This year the 10-time Grammy winner has five nominations, including album of the year and best pop vocal album for 25. - AP

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Honour for Crystal Gayle Country music legend Crystal Gayle has being inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, nearly a half-century after she first walked onto its stage to perform as a teenager. Gayle’s sister, country luminary Loretta Lynn, inducted her into the country music institution at the Ryman Auditorium, the Grand Ole Opry announced. The honour comes almost 50 years after Gayle made her Grand Ole Opry debut, singing Ribbon of Darkness at the Ryman when she was just 16. - AP

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Prison or probation? A prosecutor has urged a federal judge to sentence Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller to prison instead of probation for bankruptcy fraud. Assistant US Attorney Gregory Melucci called witnesses to buttress his contention that the reality TV show star tried to avoid repaying hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt by hiding about $775,000 in income from a bankruptcy court. Miller’s attorneys will call witnesses when the hearing continues February 24, after which she’ll be sentenced. Miller and her attorneys said they won’t comment until then. - AP

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Nine survivors pulled from Italian hotel Five people have been confirmed dead at the hotel demolished by an avalanche in central Italy, and nine survivors have been pulled from the rubble, the national fire service says. There were around 30 people in the Hotel Rigopiano when a tsunami of snow smashed into it last week, and around 15 are still unaccounted for. The body of one man was recovered from the shattered ruins of the hotel at the weekend, after those of two women were found overnight, raising the known death toll to five, fire service spokesman Luca Cari said. Four survivors – two men and two women – were recovered overnight after hours of painstaking digging by firefighters, who moved cautiously for fear the buried air pockets might collapse. Four children and a woman were saved on Friday, dug out from under tonnes of snow and debris in a remote valley in the

Abruzzo region. The avalanche came hours after a series of tremors struck the area, which was devastated by deadly quakes last year, and had been grappling with heavy snowfall. The four-storey building was obliterated, and debris spread for hundreds of metres down the valley in the Gran Sasso park. A further five people have now been found dead elsewhere in the Abruzzo after the double blow of snow and quakes, the national civil protection agency said yesterday. Italian media reported yesterday that a number of other voices had been heard under the rubble of the hotel, but that it was proving hard to establish where exactly they were. There was no immediate confirmation of this from the emergency services. Rescue teams would continue to work night and day until everyone was accounted for, Cari said. - AAP

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Madonna performs on stage during the Women’s March rally in Washington. PHOTO AP lot about blowing up the White House,” she said. “But I know that this won’t change anything. We cannot fall into despair.” Instead, she called for a “revolution of love”. The pop icon Cher, speaking in an interview backstage, said she hoped people could now mobilise against Trump the way they mobilised against the Vietnam War. “I think people are more frightened than they’ve ever been,” the 70-year-old singer said. “Everything that we gained, we’re just watching slip away. It’s not only one thing, it’s everything — the progress that we made is all go-

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In brief Five killed in bombing Five people have been killed in a car bombing targeting a Syrian refugee camp near the border with Jordan, a local activist said. Over 30 others were injured in the bombing that hit a market in the densely populated Rukban camp, located in a Syrian desert area, activist Ahmed al- Ramadan said. An estimated 70,000 people are living in the camp. Most of the refugees there are people who fled areas in eastern Syria after they had fallen to Islamic State. The camp also houses rebels fighting Islamic State in Syria, al-Ramadan said. He blamed Islamic State for the attack. - DPA

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If you wondered where many of Hollywood’s A-list celebrities had gone during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, you didn’t have to wonder any longer yesterday, when scores of them showed up at huge women’s marches in Washington and other cities to send the new president a pointed message that he was in for a fight — and that, as so many signs said, women’s rights are human rights. Madonna, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson, Cher, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Emma Watson, Amy Schumer, Jake Gyllenhaal and feminist leader Gloria Steinem were just some of those at the march in Washington, where officials said the crowd could number more than half a million. In New York, Helen Mirren, Cynthia Nixon and Whoopi Goldberg joined a crowd of protesters marching to Trump’s home at Trump Tower. In Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival was under way, TV host Chelsea Handler was joined by Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart and more. In Los Angeles, Miley Cyrus, Jamie Lee Curtis, Demi Lovato and Jane Fonda were among tens of thousands protesting. In the capital, a sea of pink, pointy-eared “pussyhats” mocking the new president stretched far and wide as Madonna took to the stage — and, to no one’s surprise, held little back. “Yes, I have thought an awful

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ing away.” Asked whether she thought the new president would hear the message of the march, she replied: “I don’t care what he’s hearing. It’s important what the people are hearing. He’ll hear it, but he won’t pay attention.” Actress Edie Falco, of Sopranos and Nurse Jackie fame, noted: “Everyone I know is here today.” “Nothing has ever felt this important in my lifetime,” she said. “We’re not just going to say, ‘it’s OK,’” she added of Trump’s agenda. “Because it’s not OK.” Actress America Ferrera told the thousands assembled that they were marching “for the moral core of this nation, against

which our new president is waging a war. Our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack, and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday. But the president is not America. ... We are America, and we are here to stay.” The Washington march included plenty of men, too — some of them wearing “pussyhats” in solidarity. Among the performers were soul artist Maxwell and Janelle Monae. “It’s because of women that we’re all here,” Maxwell said. “I’m so happy to say that I was here for the women. This is one for the books.” In New York, Goldberg told a cheering crowd that “what’s at stake is everything you believe in ... We’re going to show America what we can do in New York.” Mirren, who is British, said that on this day, she was a New Yorker. And Nixon said she was there “to tell Washington they need to think twice about messing with women and think twice about messing with New Yorkers. We will not just roll over and play dead.” In Park City, singer John Legend and actors Benjamin Bratt and Jason Ritter, along with actresses Theron, Stewart, Maria Bello and Laura Dern, were among an estimated 8000 people who turned out with Handler. “Love, not hate, will make America great,” they chanted. - AP

An experienced diver who was mauled by a shark in the Torres Strait managed to swim back to his boat before waiting three hours to get medical attention. The 55-year-old man told paramedics he was bitten several times on his arms and stomach by a 4m bull shark while free-diving about 12.40pm on Saturday. He managed to surface from a depth of 15m and swim back to the charter boat but could not receive immediate medical attention because of bad weather. He was yesterday flown to Cairns by the Royal Flying Doctors Service for further treatment, including microsurgery. - AAP

Car explodes A car has exploded near the Italian and Egyptian embassies in the Libyan capital Tripoli, the independent Libyan news website Alwasat reports. The blast in central Tripoli caused no casualties, the report added without details. The website reproduced images posted online purportedly showing a car engulfed in flames resulting from Saturday’s blast. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion believed to be a car bombing. - DPA

Train derails in India At least 23 people have been killed and over 100 injured after a train derailed near Kuneru station in the southeastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Seven coaches and the engine of the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express train derailed near Kuneru station yesterday, Times of India newspaper reported. Medical sources confirmed the death toll, adding that the number of victims could rise as numerous passengers were trapped inside the affected carriages. The cause of the crash was unclear. - EFE

MH370 search Relatives of passengers and crew for the missing MH370 plan to present the Malaysian transport minister with letters urging that the search resume. Sheryl Keen, a supporter of the international victims’ advocacy group Voice370, said she plans to hand Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai dozens of letters from relatives when Liow meets in Perth with Transport Minister Darren Chester. Last week, Malaysia, Australia and China announced that the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had been suspended. - AP

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here’s frequently conflict between so called “greenies” and industry. On the one hand there is a desire to protect the planet for future generations and on the other ever increasing efforts to expand production. This weekend Fonterra was in the firing line at Coal Action Network Aotearoa’s annual Summerfest, held in Ashburton. The environmental activists want the giant dairy co-operative to look at sustainable alternatives to fire the coal fuelled burners used to convert liquid milk into milk solids, primarily for export markets. CANA members point out Fonterra’s expansion plans, particularly in the South Island where using natural gas is not an option, comes at huge environmental costs. There is no longer any doubt the world is heating up, and the link between coal and the emissions contributing to this has been scientifically established. Another problem with Fonterra’s expansion plans is the increase in the number of dairy cattle which would be required to fully utilise new plants, such as that planned at Studholme near Waimate. While the company has scaled back on its original proposal at that site, it is moving ahead with plans to build a mozzarella cheese plant at Clandeboye. Whether the free draining Canterbury soils can stand the burden of thousands more cows is under question. While we all want a high standard of living, full employment, decent health care and education, the extras in the form of material possessions will matter little if we leave behind a barren desert as our grandchildren’s inheritance. Agricultural intensification must be balanced with environmental protection. The majority of Kiwi farmers are now well onboard with this sentiment and many are going above and beyond regulatory requirements. However, the time may be approaching when these farmers need to ask the hard question of companies like Fonterra, the country’s second largest user of fossil fuel. There are alternatives. While advancing the technology to use biomass fuels may come at a price, the cost of not doing so will be significantly higher.

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stand on the marine deck of the expedition ship in my bikini, ready to jump into the dark grey chop of the Southern Ocean. I’m mustering up a little courage: the air temperature is below zero, an icy wind is whipping my bare stomach, and there’s a small crowd of people staring at me. These vast waters at Cierva Cove off the Antarctic Pensinsula are hardly the Whitsundays. Distant icebergs and drifting pack ice bellow of what this zero-degreetemperature water is capable of - apparently it could turn a body rigid in four minutes. Hence the crowds. This is no place for a peaceful, solo swim. I even have a canvas belt around my waist attached to a rope in case the Poseidon Expeditions crew needs to pull me out. Then I jump, feet first, pushing away from the ship as far as I can. The cold bites my skin and takes my body. The water looks almost black, but also appears amazingly clear and clean. I lurch into a messy freestyle for five or six strokes before stopping to take it all in. The first thing I notice is my distance from the ship – perhaps 20 metres; the current is stronger than I thought. Then I clock the concerned faces of the crew, who start to tug at the rope attached to my belt. I swim back to help them but already my body feels heavy and slow. And when I’m out of the water wrapping myself in a towel, I’m shivering and shaking and talking in gasps. It’s short-lived, of course. I’m soon cradled in the warm bubbles of the jacuzzi on Sea Spirit’s top deck, our cheery barman Sixto handing me the shot of Argentinian Patron tequila I’d ordered for after. I sink down alongside fellow elated jumpers – a couple of Germans, a Liverpudlian and a Chinese-American – to absorb the late-afternoon beauty. A misty grey sky hovers like tissue paper over a bright, white sun. Silvery rays are breaking through here and there, flickering on the waves and darting across lonely glaciers on the horizon. As views from tubs go, it’s out of this world. In true Antarctic style, a new weather front is on its way. A wind is building, carrying rain and sleet, and a swell is rising in the grey water. Within minutes my bubble buddies have departed and I take in the scene alone – which often I prefer because it makes me feel more vulnerable and in this way, the conditions more magnificent.

Getting up close with Mother Nature at her coolest. It’s Antarctica’s unpredictable weather that prevents us camping. The winter has left floating pack ice yet to melt and if we stay on land overnight, there’s a danger we could get iced in. While our ship is ice classed (which means its hull is strengthened to navigate through sea ice), it’s no icebreaker. I can’t help my disappointment. I was excited about digging an ice pit, lying out in the open in my bivy bag and experiencing the brief twilight that is an Antarctic summer’s night. At least a good sleep in a warm, blacked out cabin readies you for trekking, which is so varied on the Antarctic Peninsula and its surrounding islands. During our six days here with Chimu Adventures, we wander past penguin rookeries and sleepy elephant seals laid out like bread dough; we walk on crunchy volcanic beaches and climb snowy glaciers. One of my favourite treks is at Orne Harbour, which marks our first landing on mainland Antarctica. In a wind chill of about minus

IF YOU GO GETTING THERE: Qantas, Latam and Air New Zealand fly from the east coast of Australia to Santiago and Buenos Aires, where you can connect to Ushuaia or Punta Arenas. Puntas Arenas in Chile offers flights to the South Shetland Islands, where passengers board their ship. The upside of flying is avoiding the infamously choppy Drake Passage. But this option is more expensive and flights across the Drake to Antarctica are highly dependent on weather conditions and are frequently delayed or cancelled. Ushuaia in Argentina is the major gateway for cruises to the Antarctic Peninsula as well as sub Antarctic islands such as South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. Cruises last between 10 and 21 days. Crossing the Drake takes between one and a

half to two days. PLAYING THERE: The Antarctic tourism season runs between November and March, when the days are long, temperatures nudge above freezing and sea ice melts enough to allow access. Early season is best for huge, dramatic icebergs and thick, pristine snow, but sea ice can prevent ships penetrating too far south. Later in the season opens up greater accessibility and the slightly warmer temperatures bring with them whales, penguin chicks and seal pups. Antarctica cruises with Chimu Adventures start from around $8950, including accommodation in Ushuaia on the night before embarkation. For more information, visit http://www.chimuadventures.com/ en-au/destinations/antarctica

10°C, we trudge up a mountain through snow that’s thigh-high in parts (there’s always an option for less able travellers too, who can walk on the flat near the shore-

line). The blizzard feels fast and fierce on this exposed side of the glacier. It cracks our lips, burns our skin and white-cakes any hair showing

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through hats, hoods and scarves. It also temporarily destroys our cameras, so we tuck them up under our jackets and ignore them. The expedition team have laid out a zigzag of red flags for us to follow for our safety and as I reach the top, I collapse into the soft, squeaky white. Through goggles and whizzing snow, I look down the steep glacier to jagged ice as it falls into the dark sea, and make out our tiny Sea Spirit at the other side of the bay. The weather and light in Antarctica is always changing, and has been doing so like this for centuries. It’s another world from my life back home. It is pristine and unspoiled. It is inhuman. And in some ways it feels hard to connect with. To have dug into its surface and dipped into its waters has been an amazing way to penetrate even a tiny part of this place, and I feel so privileged. Just sitting still for a while, on a mountain in a blizzard, is a chance to breathe it all in. * The writer travelled as a guest of Chimu Adventures. - AAP

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In brief Cruden ‘may struggle’ NZ-born French international Tony Marsh has raised doubts about whether All Black first-five Aaron Cruden is suited to playing club rugby in France. Marsh signed with Montferrand in France and eventually playing 21 tests for his adopted country. “No doubt, Aaron Cruden is a class player, but I’m not necessarily speaking about the rugby itself, there are a whole lot of other factors that go with it and a whole lot of pressures that we’re not used to.” - NZME

Hartley gets message Dylan Hartley has been forced to sharpen his tackle technique in response to the suspension that will leave him desperately short of match fitness for England’s Six Nations rugby opener against France. Hartley is next week set to be confirmed as skipper for the grand slam defence despite being out of action since December 3 after being charged with striking when on club duty for Northampton against Leinster. - PA

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Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova makes a forehand return to compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova during their fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne yesterday. Pavlyuchenkova moved into the next round with a 6-3 6-3 victory. PHOTO AP

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Pavlyuchenkova charging By John Salvado No woman has done more damage to the Russian cause at the Australian Open than No.24 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The 24-year-old from Moscow continued her best-ever campaign at Melbourne Park yesterday by upsetting No.8 seed and two-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 6-3 in the round of 16. Two of Pavlyuchenkova’s previous victories this year were also against countrywomen Evgeniya Rodina and Natalia Vikhlyantseva. Her only non-Russian scalp to date was No.11 seed Elina Svitolina – and she hails from neighbouring Ukraine. Of the 11 Russian women who made it through to the main draw this year at Melbourne Park, only Pavlyuchenkova and No.30 seed Ekaterina Makarova survived the first week. Pavlyuchenkova, 25, has enjoyed previous success at Melbourne Park as a junior, winning back-to-back girls’ titles

in 2006 and 2007. She has now also reached the last eight at each of the four slams at senior level and will next face veteran American Venus Williams as she chases a maiden major semifinals berth. “I was always wondering why I could never have a good start here in Australia after a good pre-season, good off-season, and a lot of practising,” said Pavlyuchenkova. “But now it seems like I’ve found a way, and I’m super-excited to still be in the second week here. “I have a lot of memories, because I won it twice in juniors and was showing some good tennis, as well. “But in the pros I’d never achieved something big here even though it’s one of my favourite grand slams.” The only Russian woman to lift the Australian Open crown was Maria Sharapova back in 2008. Meanwhile Daria Gavrilova has the chance to formalise her status as Australia’s new tennis queen.

Gavrilova enters her Australian Open fourth-round showdown with Karolina Pliskova today not only chasing a maiden grand slam quarter-final berth but also tantalisingly close to ending Samantha Stosur’s long reign atop the national rankings. Stosur, a one-time US Open champion and world No.4, has enjoyed an unbroken stint as Australia’s top-ranked women’s player since displacing Casey Dellacqua way back in October 2008. But now Gavrilova is just two wins away from breaking the Queenslander’s remarkable eight-year tenure following another emotion-charged run to the last 16 of her home-town major. The 22-year-old Melburnian overcome a mid-match wobble to upset Swiss 12th seed Timea Bacsinszky 6-3 5-7 6-4 in a thirdround centre-court thriller on Saturday night. Gavrilova admitted her dropping of the second set evoked memories of her mental capitulation from 6-0 2-0 up against

Carla Suarez Navarro in the fourth round last year. “Well, I went to the bathroom. “I think I was losing my cool a little bit in the second set,” Gavrilova said. “I told myself ‘just try and be composed, don’t do what you did last year’. “I told myself to be really focused and play a tough point every point. “I said ‘okay, just give it (your) all for the next 30 minutes’ or however long it had to take.” Standing in Gavrilova’s path now is the formidable US Open finalist Pliskova, who has trounced Australia’s former world junior champion in straight sets in both their previous meetings. “She’s playing unbelievable,” Gavrilova said. “She’s definitely playing her best tennis right now. I actually told to a reporter, before the draw came out: ‘If it wasn’t me, who do you think is going to win the tournament? I picked her’. “Yeah, I do respect her a lot. I do absolutely have to play my best to beat her.” - AAP

Biathlon’s governing body has dropped proceedings against 22 of the 29 Russians who were under investigation last month following the McLaren report due to lack of evidence. The IBU, however, said it had opened a formal investigation into the Russian biathlon union (RBU) which had been given until February 9 to provide a report on the remaining seven cases. - AAP

Porte lauds Ewan Richie Porte hopes he and Caleb Ewan will light up this year’s Tour de France. Porte took a commanding 48-second overall lead into yesterday’s last stage of the Tour Down Under. He and Ewan have dominated the race – Porte has won the two stages with summit finishes and Caleb has taken out the other three that have ended in bunch sprints. “He’s amazing, I’d love to see him at the Tour this year. He’ll win three or four stages this year if he’s there.” - AAP

Bathurst to feature This weekend’s NZ Festival of Motor Racing at Hampton Downs belonged to Ken Smith but next year the Waikato circuit will celebrate all things Bathurst. Hampton Downs owner Tony Quinn is excited about bringing the cars and stars from the iconic Australian racetrack to New Zealand. “It’s been a great weekend for the NZ Festival of Motor Racing, one of the best ever,” says Quinn. “It’s been a wonderful tribute to Kenny Smith but we’re already looking forward to next year, because Bathurst holds a special place in the hearts of everyone involved in motorsport in New Zealand and Australia.” - NZME

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High praise for McCullum Star Brisbane Heat batsman Chris Lynn has sung the leadership skills of Brendon McCullum ahead of their Big Bash League semi-final on Wednesday night. McCullum has led the Heat to a showdown with the Sydney Sixers, and Brisbane have done it with big-hitting Lynn sidelined by a bulging disc injury. Lynn has hit 26 sixes, including 11 in one game, in scoring 309 runs at a whopping 154.5 with a strike rate of 177 in just five games. Scans have shown the extent of Lynn’s injury but yesterday he paid tribute to former New Zealand skipper McCullum’s distinctive captaincy style. “We know what he can do on the field. For us, that’s the easy part,” he said of the player with whom he’s been nicknamed half of the Bash Brothers. “But what Baz brings is that confidence. “You mightn’t be the best skills bloke but you can bluff the opposition. He gives the blokes the confidence to play the ball not the bowler. “You don’t look down the wicket and see (big-hitting West Indian batting star) Chris Gayle. “You look down and put a 50 cent piece and land it on that,” he said.

Tom Blundell’s selection as the specialist wicketkeeper for the Chappell-Hadlee series means he should be invested with the full confidence to perform, rather than flirting with Tom Latham as a quick-fix solution. With Luke Ronchi yet to recover from his groin injury, Blundell and Latham have been shouldertapped to prepare for glovework rather than recalling BJ Watling to the limited overs format after his batting struggles against Australia in December. The 26-year-old Blundell has excelled for Wellington this season, emerging as the leading candidate from a four-way joust between himself, Central Districts’ Dane Cleaver, Northern Districts’ Tim Seifert and Auckland’s Glenn Phillips to take the gloves into the next generation. It is imperative New Zealand find a successor to Ronchi and Watling as both move further into their 30s. Selector Gavin Larsen stressed Blundell was the frontline option

Brendon McCullum has captained the Heat into the Big Bash semi-finals. “He instills that confidence whether they’ve played five or 50 games, that you can win from any position. “It’s all about execution and it’s unbelieveable how much he bluffs teams.” McCullum, who missed one game through suspension over a slow over rate from the Heat, has hit 277 runs at 46.16 in seven games, with a 170 strike rate. Lynn also appeared to confirm longheld suspicions over the veracity of the bowling speed gun,

which detects the pace at which fast bowlers are delivering the ball. “It depends how much hype there is around the bowler. They might bump it up for the ratings. We’re talking about entertaining. “They, say, put the radar up five or six km/h and you get more ratings because people are interested in talking about it,” Lynn said. And 26-year-old Lynn gave lie to the notion that playing

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test cricket for Australia is every players’ dream. Lynn, who has played one ODI and five T20s, maintains playing for his country isn’t his priority. “I’m not going to say yes or not to the baggy green (Australian cap). “At the end of the day you have 15 years tops to maximise your career. If I get a baggy green great. “If not, I’ve always said it’s not the end of the world. “There’s more to life than playing cricket for Australia.” - NZME

to keep against Australia, with opener Latham being considered as a way to incorporate an extra batsman or bowler into the XI. However, as a developing player, Blundell needs to know he has the backing to be that extra batsman against the world No.1s. Any hesitation could raise selfdoubt. Latham has kept for New Zealand in three of his 49 ODIs and four of his 12 T20Is. Realistically, he needs to be afforded a chance to further establish himself as Brendon McCullum’s long term successor in the opening role. Yes, he had success against Bangladesh with his highest ODI score of 137 in Christchurch, followed by 22 and four in Nelson. That contrasted against 34 runs at 11.33 and a strike rate of 63 against Australia in December. Latham will keep for Canterbury against Auckland on Saturday in Rangiora to see if he feels capable of meeting the international challenge. If he goes behind the stumps it comes with an opportunity cost; he is an athletic fielder capable

Tom Blundell of outstanding catches and tenacious chasing. Blundell didn’t get the chance to further showcase his talents yesterday in the Ford Trophy, with the Wellington-Auckland match abandoned. Yet anyone watching his 69 off 43 balls at Seddon Park to see the Firebirds home with an over to spare chasing 176 in the McDonald’s Super Smash would be convinced of his maturity. Blundell scored three half-cen-

turies with an average of 30.37 and strike rate of 134 as his side came from behind to win the T20 competition. Blundell’s glovework has been better showcased at Plunket Shield level where, after five rounds this season he leads the table alongside Auckland’s Brad Cachopa with 14 dismissals (13 catches and a stumping). Blundell said he understood the selectors desire to see him make runs in Wellington’s next List A match against Canterbury on Wednesday. “All wicketkeepers have to bat well these days. It does add a bit of weight. “If I can perform, and they see that, they’ll back me to do a job. “I had a good T20 campaign and I got 40-odd [41] in the Ford Trophy the other day [against Otago] so I’m backing my ability. I feel good at the moment. “I think the key is just being a busy player with the gloves and the bat. ‘Ronks’ always helps me out and we have some good chats on keeping. “He’s been fantastic.” - NZME

Boon, Hayden into Australian cricket’s Hall of Fame Test great David Boon says it’s a huge honour to join Matthew Hayden and women’s pioneer Betty Wilson as inductees into Australian cricket’s Hall of Fame. The trio will be formally in-

Play abandoned There was no play yesterday at Hagley Oval in the test between New Zealand and Bangladesh. On Saturday afternoon the rain swept in and the light dimmed, Bangladesh earned parity with New Zealand on the second day. The Black Caps slumped to 256 for seven in the space of 15 balls as spinner Shakib Al Hasan collected three wickets. The players left the field two overs later with Henry Nicholls unbeaten on 56 and Tim Southee not out four. The hosts are 260 for seven in reply to the visitors’ 289. - NZME

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ducted at the Allan Border Medal function in Sydney tonight. “It’s an enormous honour,” Boon said yesterday. “To join some of those great players from past eras, some of the guys that

I played with as well, it’s a huge honour and something that is going to be very special to my family and I for a long period of time.” Boon made more than 7400 runs in his 107 tests in the 1980s

and 1990s while Hayden scored more than 8600 in his 103 Tests. Wilson played 11 tests in the 1940s and 1950s and had stellar averages with the bat – 57.46 – and with the ball – 11.80. - AAP

The Melbourne Renegades have been slugged with a $2000-per-player fine for their slow over rate in their crucial one-run Big Bash League win over Brisbane. The franchise was hit with the penalty by Cricket Australia after completing their 20 overs nearly nine minutes behind schedule at the Gabba on Friday night. Even with allowances, they were found to be the equivalent of two overs over their allotted time. Heat captain Brendon McCullum was suspended for his side’s clash with the Stars because of two slow over rate infractions earlier in the tournament. - AAP

Gayle hitting out Chris Gayle is at it again. The controversial superstar has taken to social media to slam his former employers over a proposed pay dispute, citing he hadn’t been paid for his Big Bash season in 2015/16 in over a year. Gayle was released from his contract and was fined $10,000 by the Melbourne Renegades after making suggestive comments to Mel McLaughlin in a post-innings interview last year. Gayle’s rage appeared to have grown to a tipping point, tweeting to his 3.3 million followers. “It’s been one year now and I need my money ASAP!” - AAP

Foran not ready yet Warriors halfback Shaun Johnson says that new team-mate Kieran Foran isn’t ready for an NRL return just yet. Foran’s contract has yet to be registered by the NRL as they seek assurances surrounding his mental health. “He’s coming along really well,” Johnson. “I’ve just been so happy to see him really start thinking about footy again. I just see him every day showing up and putting in the work and everything’s leading towards that one goal of getting back on the footy field and starting over again.” - NZME

Kearney the right man Former NZ Warriors head coach Andrew McFadden admits his demotion to assistant has been “weird”, but insists the club is better for it, heading into the 2017 NRL season. McFadden lost his top job at the end of last year, after compiling a 28-win/34-loss record with the Auckland-based franchise over two seasons. He was replaced by Kiwis legend Stephen Kearney, who had to step down as NZ national coach to take the appointment, but McFadden has found a valuable role in Kearney’s staff. Ironically, McFadden was named as Kearney’s assistant for the 2014 Anzac test, but had to withdraw when he replaced Matthew Elliott as Warriors head coach. - NZME

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Huge upset for Cowan Racha Cuneen’s stellar season continued at Trentham where he doubled his Group One tally with a boil-over success aboard Signify. The 25-year-old, who opened his top-flight account in the spring aboard the star filly La Diosa in the NZ 1000 Guineas, guided the 45-1 shot to a narrow victory in Saturday’s J. R. & N. Berkett Telegraph. “It’s amazing and I’m very grateful to have the opportunity. “I’m glad I got the job done,” said Cuneen, who is apprenticed to Neill Ridley. Signify came with a powerful late finish from the back to narrowly deny the Gr.1 Railway Stakes winner Start Wondering a notable double. The well-supported Perfect Fit finished third ahead of the deadheaters Reilly Lincoln and Lady Zafira. “I was travelling really well and I waited for as long as I could and then asked the horse to go and he got there,” Cuneen said. Despite the closeness of the finish, he believed he had got in the deciding stride – “I was reasonably confident,” he said. Signify is trained at Ashburton by the former leading jumps jockey Alex ‘Snooky’ Cowan, who

Lisa Latta is confident that her diminutive four-year-old Princess Belle can follow her older sister’s lead and make her mark in black type company. The Awapuni trainer produced the well-related mare to complete a Trentham double when she backed up admirably on Saturday to add the Lincoln Farms Premier to her record. “She’s a horse that does very well and she came through the first day without a problem, she even looked like she had improved,” Latta said. - NZME

Ellerslie next up was urged to have a crack at the race by Cuneen. “Racha rode him when he ran second at Wingatui on Boxing Day and I told him that I had nominated the horse for the Telegraph,” said Cowan, whose wife Tracey owns the horse. “He said you’ve got to run him

and after Racha ran second in the Telegraph on Miss Seton Sands last year he had a good feel and knowledge around the race.” The race was marred by the loss of the Michael and Matthew Pitman-trained mare First Serve, who suffered a fatal leg injury in the early stages. - NZME

Above – Signify, trained in Ashburton by Alex Cowan, gets up right on the line for Racha Cuneen in the Telegraph at Trentham on Saturday. PHOTO TRISH DUNELL

Hayden Tinsley and Savaria take out the Wellington Cup. “I was a bit worried coming to the corner, but it was a patient ride and they got the last run at

them,” Bergerson said. “It’s great for Des and Kay, they’re wonderful people.”

Savaria settled back of midfield and she took advantage of runs near the fence to move into contention across the top before finishing off resolutely in the run home. “I got bit worried coming to the 1000 metre mark when they started swooping, but I got the inside runs,” Tinsley said. “She had been working well since she last raced and I really rated her chances.” A half-brother to Savaria (Lot 523) by Niagara will feature in Trelawney Stud’s draft to NZ Bloodstock’s upcoming Select Sale. The favourite Jacksstar came from the tail end of the field to run second with Perfect Start, who placed in the Gr.3 New Zealand Cup in the spring, taking third money from last year’s Oaks winner Fanatic. - NZME

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Guineas not an upset for the Andertons Brian and Shane Anderton were far from surprised by Raise You Ten’s defeat of his fellow threeyear-olds in Saturday’s Listed Gore Guineas. The southern father and son training combination were quietly confident about their 41-1 longshot’s chances in the Liquo-

The local thoroughbred breeding industry suffered a major loss this weekend when the Haunui Farm based Gr. 1 Australian Guineas winner Ferlax was euthanised after sustaining a paddock injury on Thursday afternoon. On the eve of transporting his first crop of yearlings to the annual National Yearling Sales series at Karaka, the death is a bitter pill for his connections to swallow. “We are quite devastated,” said Haunui Farm’s Managing Director, Mark Chitty. - NZME

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Savaria plays another blinder at Trentham The Wellington stage brings out the best in Savaria and she gave another award-winning performance there on Saturday. She first came to prominence at Trentham in 2015 when she won the Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks and now she has added the Gr.3 Wallaceville Estate Wellington Cup to her record in the capital. While Savaria’s form has been largely patchy in between times, trainer Roydon Bergerson had been in a confident pre-Cup mood. “It’s a great feeling and we’ve had a few knockers, but she’s a very good mare and her leadup runs had all been good,” he said. Raced by Taranaki couple Des and Kay Fleming, Savaria was ridden by Hayden Tinsley who had also been aboard the daughter of Savabeel in the Oaks.

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rland-sponsored feature event. “I think he’s one of the better horses we’ve had for a fair while,” Brian Anderton said. “Since we gelded him he’s knuckled down and he’s a real racehorse now.” Ridden by Courtney Barnes, Raise You Ten came with a strong

finishing burst to down Showemup and the well-backed Starvoia. The son of Raise The Flag is now likely to make his next appearance in the Listed Dunedin Guineas on February 4. “He’s raced by his breeder Frank Conway, who’s 90 now and

he also raced Mayo Gold,” Anderton said. An outstanding galloper of the late 1960s whose many wins included the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes and the Railway Handicap, Mayo Gold also features in the pedigree of Raise You Ten. - NZME

A trip north this week is on the cards for impressive Trentham winner Travimyfriend who completed a winning treble on the weekend. The imposing Tavistock four-year-old had commenced his winning run on his home track at Otaki back in mid-December with a maiden victory over 1200 metres before making it two on end when stepping up to rating 65 company over 1400 metres earlier this month. Saturday’s special conditions event over the same 1400 metre journey saw the gelding installed favourite and, despite carrying topweight of 59kgs, he didn’t disappoint after a peach of a ride from regular pilot Hayden Tinsley. - NZME

No problems for filly A pleasing trial performance at Cambridge earlier in the month hinted quality three-year-old filly Honey Rider would be hard to beat at her next racetrack appearance and so it proved at Te Rapa yesterday. The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman trained filly hadn’t been seen since a dismal performance in the Gr. 2 James & Annie Sarten Memorial Stakes at Te Rapa back in October. The filly had her first serious hit-out at the Cambridge trials on January 10 where she finished close-up behind multiple Group One winners Turn Me Loose and Xtravagant. - NZME

Eventful day for Dunn After being dumped from a horse before the opening race at Moonee Valley, Dwayne Dunn has ridden through pain to post a win on Ameristralia in the final event. Dunn was dumped off Malaise before the opening race and said he landed flat on his back. “It went up in the air and flipped me and I lost my balance and just flopped on my back,” he said. He continued to ride through the meeting but said he had considered standing down, but he said with the adrenaline he got through the meeting. “I thought about standing down but I had Ameristralia in the last and I thought my other rides were good,” Dunn said. “As it turned out I had three seconds and a winner. - AAP

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3 74069 Our Budd (3) fr 4 94387 Denn Nee Nose Best (4) fr.............. E Swain 5 47772 Moa Bones (5) fr .............................. D Dunn 6 89086 Eyre’s A Rag Doll (6) fr ...............G McEwan 7 71 President Roydon (7) fr ................. B Barclay 8 08603 Eagle Galleon (8) fr ..............S Tomlinson (J) 9 53x18 Jeddy R Ya Ready (9) fr ...........B Williamson 10 2P525 Overcast (U1) fr.....................R McIlwrick (J) 11 8x694 I’ldoitmyway (U2) fr .......................B Orange 12 0x707 The Badger (U3) fr .........................K Larsen 13 7x801 Pyramid Mustang (U4) fr ...........M Hurrell (J) 14 0x306 Hustle Hill (U5) fr..................... M Williamson 15 0700x Scarlett Lane (U6) fr.......................... S Lock 16 7x066 Way To Go (U7) fr ............................. B Gray Emergencies: Our Budd, Scarlett Lane 4 2.37pm ULTRAMOX WORMERS AT FARMLANDS MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, 2200m 1 50800 Fear Xchange (1) fr .................. T Robertson 2 60639 Canardly Remember (2) fr .............H Hunter 3 53009 Change It (3) fr ................................ E Swain 4 74680 Gunslinger Bromac (4) fr..........B Williamson 5 0336 Argyle Beach (5) fr ................. S Walkinshaw 6 06 Real Steal (6) fr .............................. P Hunter 7 04x90 Lis Amore fr.................................. Scratched 8 68642 Don’t Pass I’m Fast (7) fr.............A Suddaby 9 2336P Tour Director (21) fr ................... M Purvis (J) 10 0 Yankee Diva (22) fr.........................K Larsen 11 9x American Magic (23) fr.................. B Barclay 12 9 Northview Bonnie (24) fr ......S Tomlinson (J) 13 0x Thaboyz Toy (25) fr .......................... D Dunn 5 3.12 NRM EQUINE FEEDS ‘YOUR BREEDING FEEDS’ MBL PACE $8000, 3yo+ c0, mobile, 2200m 1 9 Ben Washington (1) fr ..........S Tomlinson (J)

2 Johnny Machintosh (2) fr ...............K Larsen 3 84440 A Smart Excuse (3) fr ................C Ferguson 4 0 Von Richthofen (4) fr ................B Williamson 5 008P7 Okains Bay (5) fr ..................... M Williamson 6 30 Captain Mannering (6) fr .................. D Dunn 7 0x556 Flyin OE (7) fr.......................... N Williamson 8 000x Tangled Up In Blue (8) fr ............... B Barclay 9 00490 Gabby’s Delight (21) fr ..........R McIlwrick (J) 10 Magical Marn (22) fr ...................... K Barclay 11 4 Sportzstar (23) fr .................... S Walkinshaw 12 9784 Ever Ready (24) fr .......................A Suddaby 13 8 Cleaver Green (25) fr ....................B Orange 6 3.47pm STRATEGY T WORMERS AT FARMLANDS MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, 2200m 1 x0000 Lady’s Lass (1) fr...................... T Robertson 2 Lausanne Lass (2) fr ..................... B Barclay 3 87x39 Bull Hayes (3) fr ...................... N Williamson 4 80x9 Makers Mark (4) fr.........................B Orange 5 47980 Mini Wee VC (5) fr ..........................H Hunter 6 Southern Lights (6) fr ..................... P Hunter 7 x0707 Big Smoke (7) fr ..........................B McLellan 8 9875 Admiral’s Flight (8) fr .......................... B Rae 9 02585 Sheezus (21) fr ................................ D Dunn 10 44640 Three Hundy (22) fr....................C Ferguson 11 45 Aidan Junior (23) fr .....................A Suddaby 12 20298 Just Wish (24) fr ...................S Tomlinson (J) 13 37x00 Ted Cady (25) fr .......................B Williamson 7 4.24 GREAT COATS USE LIVAMOL FROM FARMLANDS MBL PACE $7000, c1 with cond, 2200m 1 89877 Magnetic Watch (1) fr ......................R Swain 2 3350x Glenburn Joy (2) fr ........................B Orange 3 98090 Justan’s Sister (3) fr ..................M Parker (J) 4 50x80 Ansett Flight (4) fr .......................... P Hunter

8 5.04pm MCMILLAN EQUINE FEEDS SOUTHLAND

RACING MBL PACE $8000, 3yo+ c1, mobile, 2200m 1 84409 Risk Factor (1) fr ............................K Larsen 2 33247 Tact Rousey (2) fr .....................B Williamson 3 20502 No More Change (3) fr ...............C Ferguson 4 06193 Cullens Avenue (4) fr ............. S Walkinshaw 5 79500 Backseat Chick (5) fr ...................B McLellan 6 23139 Don Sebastian (6) fr ..........................A Beck 7 52353 Bold Ruler (7) fr.............................. P Hunter 8 23613 Baileys Rock (8) fr ............................ D Dunn 9 14 Goodlookin Chick (21) fr ...............B Orange 10 26614 First Son (22) fr .........................M Parker (J) 11 06770 Balius (23) fr............................ M Williamson 12 05890 Porsche Canardly (24) fr ................H Hunter 13 296x5 Tactical VC (25) fr.......................... B Barclay 14 2P878 Sweet As (26) fr ....................R McIlwrick (J) 15 5P619 Swap Over (27) fr .................... N Williamson Emergency: Porsche Canardly Shane Walkinshaw will fancy his Pacifiers off : Makarewa Rum (R2), Flyin OE (R5) SELECTIONS chances with Cullens Avenue in the

last on the card at Ascot Park today. Race 1: Flushing Meadows, Franco Huntington, Expresso Martini 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

46805 Black Athena (5) fr .........................B Shirley 9x00x Another Windermere (6) fr ...... N Williamson 10356 Bonnie Medley (7) fr ...................C Ferguson 05890 Porsche Canardly (8) fr ..................H Hunter 65455 Nightmarch (21) fr ............................ A Milne 78x06 My Rona Gold (22) fr .................... K Barclay 570x8 Stunnin VC (23) fr .................R McIlwrick (J) 08890 Fiery Ferret (24) fr ................... M Williamson 87096 Pat’s Legacy (25) fr ..................C Faithful (J) 00575 The Kaik (26) fr ................................ D Dunn

Race 2: Pure Emotion, Makarewa Rum, Delestic, She Aint No Angel Race 3: KIng Kone, Our Budd, Sundons Wish, President Roydon Race 4: Argyle Beach, Real Steal, Don’t Pass I’m Fast, Yankee Diva Race 5: Ben Washington, Okains Bay, Sportzstar, Cleaver Green Race 6: Lausanne Lass, Southern Lights, Aidan Junior, Bull Hayes Race 7: Ansett Flight, Bonnie Medley, The Kaik, Glenburn Joy Race 8: Bold Ruler, Cullens Avenue, Baileys Rock, Tact Rousey,

LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

Woodville Pahiatua gallops Today at Woodville Raceway

Woodville Pahiatua RC Venue: Woodville Meeting Date: 23 Jan 2017 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.32 MURRAY CONTRACTORS $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 5347x Class Above (11) 58.5.................... J Parkes 2 75087 Brother One (5) 58.5 .........R Goldsbury (a2) 3 x7x78 Maximillien (9) 58.5 ........................S Wynne 4 27x32 Mystigan b (6) 56.5 .........................R Myers 5 89620 Bellontherocks (7) 56.5 ......................M Hills 6 0x8 Ethnee (4) 56.5 ................................K Smith 7 Classic Touch (3) 56.5................. R Hannam 8 x6x66 Jessicova (1) 56.5 ...........................A Collett 9 La Phyta (10) 56.5................. N Teeluck (a2) 10 x9638 Ballet Choux (12) 55 .................S McKay (a) 11 Shock Rock (2) 55..................... D Hirini (a2) 12 7x8 Thats Amore (8) 55 .......................M Tanaka 2 1.07 MCI & ASSOCIATES/TARARUA CLUB $7000, MAIDEN, 1600m 1 2x732 Superveloce b (3) 58.5...................H Tinsley 2 6x867 Handyman (4) 58.5 .................B Hutton (a1) 3 0x0 Molizlad (9) 58.5 ................................M Hills 4 0064 Handfull h (11) 57 ...........................J Riddell 5 65 The Cossack (6) 57..................... R Hannam 6 52746 Pinsraad (8) 56.5 ............................R Myers 7 87065 Salvinia (1) 56.5 ........................ D Hirini (a2) 8 69x0 Blackgammon (7) 56.5 ..................M Tanaka 9 Indicar (5) 56.5 ...................... N Teeluck (a2) 10 x0706 Sian (2) 56.5 ....................................K Smith 11 407 Queen Bexs (10) 55 ........................A Collett 3 1.42 PRENTERS READY MIX CONCRETE $7000, MAIDEN, 1600m 1 04342 Denny’s Lincoln (1) 58.5 ...............M Tanaka 2 45x55 Deep Blue (11) 58.5 .................A Jones (a1) 3 567x0 Acclaim (6) 58.5 .............................H Tinsley 4 40x44 Bluesuede Chouxs b (3) 57 ............J Riddell 5 96979 Itz My One (4) 57 ......................S McKay (a) 6 Trebbiano (9) 57 ..............................R Myers 7 680 Rock Noir (10) 56.5 .........................A Collett 8 966 Swiss Angel (8) 56.5 .................A Chan (a3) 9 700x0 Belladita (5) 55 ...........................L Hemi (a1) 10 5 Cottoneva (7) 55 ............................ J Parkes 11 8 Midnight Duchess (2) 55 ....................M Hills 4 2.17pm GOLDEN BAY CEMENT $7000, MDN, 1400m

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Jonathan Riddell is aboard Carlow in the Woodville Cup at the Woodville meeting today. 1 54 Final Stand (13) 58.5 .................. R Hannam 2 65x Marty O’Ceirin (10) 58.5 ................H Tinsley 3 9x5 Our Luck Dragon (6) 58.5 ....S O’Malley (a4) 4 4050 Rascallion (8) 57 .......................S McKay (a)

5 459x2 Allmosta b (16) 56.5 ..................A Chan (a3) 6 338x3 Grandly (11) 56.5 .......................L Hemi (a1) 7 2x5 Starossa (12) 56.5 ......................... C Perrett 8 3 Audacious (15) 56.5 ........................R Myers 9 30x43 Foxy Porotene (3) 56.5................... J Parkes 10 49673 Panella (2) 56.5 ........................A Jones (a1) 11 84274 Suo Lin Nang (9) 56.5 ...................D Bradley 12 339x6 Oscar’s Shadow (4) 56.5...............M Tanaka 13 Fetish (5) 56.5 .........................B Hutton (a1) 14 862 Rosetta (1) 55 .......................... K McCulloch 15 47056 Aly’s Belt (7) 56.5 ..................C Waddell (a4) 16 8x98 Mocca (14) 55 Emergencies: Aly’s Belt, Mocca 5 2.51pm TUI “BACKING A WINNER SINCE 1889” $7000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 2 Cullen Bohannon (13) 57.5 ............H Tinsley 2 34 The Rippa (1) 57.5 ..........................J Riddell 3 8x694 Chouxperb (9) 57.5 ..................... R Hannam 4 46x65 Cashel (8) 57.5 .........................S McKay (a) 5 5 Man In The Moon (14) 57.5R Goldsbury (a2) 6 Figure On (5) 57.5................S O’Malley (a4) 7 64256 Moyrabella (10) 55.5 .......................R Myers 8 3 My Jolene (2) 55.5 ................... K McCulloch 9 974 Red Sierra (3) 55.5 .........................A Collett 10 08x84 Zip Zap (11) 55.5 ..........................M McNab 11 0 Aikaterine (15) 55.5.................B Hutton (a1) 12 Eye’s Wide Open (7) 55.5 .............. J Parkes 13 Rousseau (4) 55.5 ........................M Tanaka 14 0 Signorina Svelta (12) 55.5 .........L Hemi (a1) 15 60 Roll The Gold (6) 57.5 ........................M Hills 16 5x09 Miri’s Belt 55.5.............................. Scratched Emergencies: Roll The Gold, Miri’s Belt 6 3.27pm PURPLE HAZE LAVENDER $7000, MDN, 2100m 1 46032 Napoleon (19) 58.5 ..........................K Smith 2 8x703 Art Of War (3) 58.5 .........................S Wynne 3 50635 Nemesis (9) 58.5............................H Tinsley 4 7x637 Staywithme (1) 58.5 ......................M Tanaka 5 9x7 Tensile (16) 58.5 .............................J Riddell 6 43435 Hollypop b (17) 56.5................. K McCulloch 7 69x32 Ruby Woo (4) 56.5 .....................L Hemi (a1) 8 9x357 Moss Jazz (11) 56.5 ................B Hutton (a1) 9 x3464 Deemico (10) 56.5 ..........................R Myers

10 855x0 My Isabella (14) 56.5 ..................... J Parkes 11 570x5 Kit (5) 56.5 ........................... S MacNab (a3) 12 0x759 Eventide (12) 56.5 ..................... D Hirini (a2) 13 43445 Pathfinder (18) 55 ...........................A Collett 14 7x598 Venla (2) 55 ........................... N Teeluck (a2) 15 50686 Platinum Monarch (15) 56.5........ R Hannam 16 38006 Bear Gryls (7) 58.5 17 0797 Pinsonella (6) 56.5 18 99x88 Pampas Pony (13) 58.5 19 000 Lincoln’s Ace (8) 56.5 Emergencies: Platinum Monarch, Bear Gryls, Pinsonella, Pampas Pony, Lincoln’s Ace 7 4.05pm BAMBRY’S WATER TREADMILL (WOODVILLE CUP) $20,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2100m 1 689x6 King Nero m (4) 60....................A Chan (a3) 2 55850 Carlow (12) 57.5 .............................J Riddell 3 80121 Evadir La Bala (13) 57.5 ...... S MacNab (a3) 4 77590 Kairanga Lad (8) 57.5 ....................H Tinsley 5 x6095 The Beama d (11) 57 ......................A Collett 6 35323 Dr Watson t (15) 56.5 ......................R Myers 7 47430 Sanjara tdm (17) 56 .............. N Teeluck (a2) 8 00110 Zed Leppelin d (2) 56 ..................... J Parkes 9 1x200 All In Vogue (7) 55.5..................S McKay (a) 10 02057 Bella’s Delight m (3) 55.5 ...............S Wynne 11 03012 Terracotta Warrior (6) 55 ....................M Hills 12 13722 Woodbine Ladd (19) 55............... R Hannam 13 62210 Alcaldesa dm (5) 54 ......................M Tanaka 14 35451 Jumanah t (16) 54 .................... K McCulloch 15 54413 Alarinda (9) 54 16 x3000 Mr Frankey (10) 54 17 93030 Judith Kate (18) 54 18 00x84 Freelinks (14) 54 19 48586 Mischelt (20) 54 20 67370 The Great Guru m (1) 54 Emergencies: Alarinda, Mr Frankey, Judith Kate, Freelinks, Mischelt, The Great Guru 8 4.45pm NEW WORLD PAHIATUA $8000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 18764 All In Luck tdm (16) 60 ..........C Waddell (a4) 2 21x Hoist d (9) 59 ............................A Chan (a3) 3 80581 Perfect Shock (10) 58.5...................J Riddell 4 4x483 Shindano td (8) 58.5 .......................R Myers 5 11x09 Dreamcruza th (15) 58 ...............L Hemi (a1)

6 2519x High In Demand (5) 58..............S McKay (a) 7 9315 Beaumarchais db (11) 57.5...........M McNab 8 3x505 Judi Anne (4) 57........................ D Hirini (a2) 9 18x63 Icehouse 56.5 .............................. Scratched 10 39x71 Madrekay d (7) 56.5 ....................... J Parkes 11 67671 Shrimp Cocktail (12) 56.5 .R Goldsbury (a2) 12 24x66 Worldclass (14) 56.5 .....................M Tanaka 13 22680 Sakura (2) 56 .............................. R Hannam 14 9x580 The Duke Of Jazz m (13) 55 .... K McCulloch 15 8997x Morris Lass d (6) 54.5 ........... N Teeluck (a2) 16 4x956 Elusive Jane (3) 54 17 3090x Master William (1) 56 Emergencies: Morris Lass, Elusive Jane, Master William Blinkers on : Class Above (R1), Rosetta (R4), Eventide, Lincoln’s Ace (R6), Kairanga Lad (R7), Worldclass (R8) Blinkers off : Ethnee (R1), The Duke Of Jazz (R8) Winkers on : Final Stand (R4), Red Sierra (R5), The Duke Of Jazz (R8) Winkers off : Maximillien (R1), Judi Anne (R8) SELECTIONS Race 1: Class Above, Classic Touch, Maximillien, Bellontherocks Race 2: Salvinia, Handfull, Pinsraad, The Cossack, Superveloce Race 3: Denny’s Lincoln, Acclaim, Cottoneva, Bluesuede Chouxs Race 4: Starossa, Rascallion, Rosetta, Fetish, Starossa, Grandly Race 5: Cullen Bohannon, Man In The Moon, Moyrabella, My Jolene Race 6: Art Of War, Hollypop, Ruby Woo, Pathfinder, Napoleon Race 7: Kairanga Lad, Sanjara, Woodbine Ladd, Terracotta Warrior Race 8: Beaumarchais, Shindano, Hoist, All In Luck

LEGEND: Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months Race Information: hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

Palmerston North Greyhound Racing Club (2014) Incor- 2 11757 Mark’s Boy nwtd ...............................L Ahern porated Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 23 3 45445 Downgrade King 21.91 G R & ......... S Voyce Jan 2017 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4 36538 Kirkham Kylie 21.75 .....................M Roberts 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 5 47521 Vegas Danny 21.35 .....................A Turnwald 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 6 35535 Kirkham Coby 21.54 ....................M Roberts 1 2.29pm FORMPRO RATINGS FREE EVERY MON- 7 22773 Cawbourne Cooks nwtd ...............M Roberts 8 56188 Feel The Force 21.61 ............... S Gommans DAY C0 C0, 375m 9 47654 Making Time 21.85..............................S Kite 1 2263 See Eye Aye nwtd ............................L Ahern 2 2364 Blackjack Man nwtd ...................B Goldsack 10 85867 Miss Eldora 21.88 .......................A Turnwald 3 722 Cawbourne Angus nwtd ...............M Roberts 4 3.21 AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES C1, 375m 1 32384 Opawa Top nwtd J & ...........................D Bell 4 1 Bigtime Ellie nwtd.............................L Ahern 2 47576 Kentaro Baxter 21.68 .............J T McInerney 5 26233 Cawbourne Buckle nwtd ..............M Roberts 3 53142 Wetchester nwtd ................................. L Bell 6 52855 Ebony Haze nwtd .............................S Stone 4 67868 Apatche Ajay 21.89 ....................B Goldsack 7 43343 King Cormack nwtd L & ..................... Morris 5 85732 Midnight Action 22.24 ......................S Stone 8 22751 Barn Door Billy nwtd .............K A Gommans 6 85878 King Hit Mike 21.88 .................. S Gommans 9 67682 Walnut nwtd ......................................M Flipp 7 1x1 Jugatui 21.76 ...................................L Ahern 10 x7365 Noonoo nwtd L & ............................... Morris 8 52355 Cawbourne Jacko nwtd ................M Roberts 2 2.45pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS C1 C1, 375m 9 74674 Todd Blue Blood nwtd ............J T McInerney 1 27245 Opawa Gumisie nwtd J & ....................D Bell 2 75578 Kaylah Blueblood nwtd...........J T McInerney 10 67364 Take The Shorts 22.02 L &................. Morris 3 64383 Shinzigzag 21.56 .......................B Goldsack 5 3.37pm BUCK FEVER@ STUD C2 C2, 375m 1 18888 Homebush Tiare 21.55...........J T McInerney 4 82335 Allegro Power 21.72 .........................L Ahern 2 46436 Banshee Boy 21.82 ....................B Goldsack 5 27145 Unawares 21.81 ..........................A Turnwald 3 387F8 Holly Blue Blood nwtd ............J T McInerney 6 75667 Terra Trip nwtd.......................... S Gommans 4 12863 Cawbourne Hint 21.73 J & ..................D Bell 7 11161 Bigtime OnFire 22.12 .......................L Ahern 5 85524 Slick Star 21.71 ...........................B Hodgson 8 83778 Scotta Pie nwtd .......................... L M Pearce 6 51184 Bigtime Taylor 21.51 .........................L Ahern 9 44527 Opawa Perissa nwtd .........................M Flipp 7 28878 Cawbourne Spree 21.78 ..............M Roberts 10 83783 Johnny Angel nwtd.................. T McCracken 3 3.05pm USE PETRAVELLER.COM.AU C4 C4, 375m 8 64255 Cawbourne Frost 21.89................M Roberts 9 42775 Bigtime Rise nwtd ............................L Ahern 1 47353 Robins Zarr Hood 21.67..............A Turnwald

10 16835 Kinetic Assasin 21.70 K & .................Phillips

6 3.54pm SHAKEY JAKEY @ STUD C2 C2, 375m

1 21121 Daisy Lara 21.80 ..............................L Ahern 2 27878 Pacific Vibe 21.66...................J T McInerney 3 67666 Homebush Rocky nwtd ..........J T McInerney 4 44126 Enhancer 21.51...........................B Hodgson 5 82152 Bigtime Summer 22.32 ....................L Ahern 6 54526 Cawbourne Gunna 21.72 .............M Roberts 7 x7281 Miss Universe 21.62.......................... I Howe 8 27166 Shelly McBell nwtd .................J T McInerney 9 21446 Knead You nwtd ..........................A Turnwald 10 34685 Asa Cash Queen 21.51................M Roberts 7 4.19pm J P PRINT, PETONE C3 C3, 375m 1 72128 Stormy Days 21.57 ..........................L Ahern 2 34341 Uno Nathan 21.85 .............................M Flipp 3 85736 Allegro Runnings 21.72....................L Ahern 4 41177 Hu Xian 21.72 G R & ...................... S Voyce 5 52381 Americano 21.54 ..............................L Ahern 6 15517 Don’t Muzzle Me 21.71 ..............B Goldsack 7 52321 Viva La Vixen 21.73 ....................A Turnwald 8 41443 Air Express 21.83...................J T McInerney 9 46745 Big Boy Deno 21.55 J & ......................D Bell 10 17382 Mousey Mousey 21.86 ................A Turnwald 8 4.40pm BROOKS TIMING C1 C1, 457m 1 43743 Magic Latte 26.53 ............................L Ahern 2 67867 Cawbourne Ohio nwtd ....................L Doody 3 67457 Kirkham Harvey 26.63 ....................L Doody 4 34444 Cawbourne Merl nwtd J & ...................D Bell 5 42411 Stole Me Car nwtd ................K A Gommans 6 16657 Mobilize nwtd ................................M Gowan

7 x6131 Geordie Who nwtd ...........................L Ahern 8 33457 To The Bank 26.32 ....................... P Denbee Emergencies: 9 67536 Cawbourne Lyns nwtd..................M Roberts 10 56545 Cawbourne Miami nwtd ..................L Doody 9 4.58 OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY FINAL C1f, 457m 1 21511 Cawbourne Trixy 26.17 ................M Roberts 2 68472 Speedy Dispatch nwtd J & ..................D Bell 3 24212 Cawbourne Ruby 26.48 ...............M Roberts 4 74662 Tammy’s Fire nwtd .................. T McCracken 5 55431 Cawbourne Muzza 26.33 .............M Roberts 6 343F1 Unbeknown 26.69 .......................A Turnwald 7 61222 Cawbourne Crowie nwtd ..............M Roberts 8 43753 Bigtime Power nwtd .........................L Ahern 9 51134 Bigtime Lonestar 27.28 ....................L Ahern 10 43743 Magic Latte 26.53 ............................L Ahern 10 5.15 PERSONAL PROTECTIVE SERVICES C2, 457m 1 74354 Boston Lightning 25.95 ...............A Turnwald 2 37453 Blackie Chan 25.94 .......................B Mitchell 3 54772 Bernie’s Boy 26.24 ........................B Mitchell 4 51134 Bigtime Lonestar 27.28 ....................L Ahern 5 53683 Cawbourne Toddy 26.03 ..............M Roberts 6 12126 Thrilling Wilson 26.13 ...................... K Walsh 7 73243 Molly O’Shea 26.54.....................B Hodgson 8 55253 Bigtime Bell nwtd .............................L Ahern 9 88262 Arcane Rampage 26.14 L &............... Morris 11 5.41 PRESTON’S MASTER BUTCHERS C3, 457m 1 84752 Ace Bale 26.25.............................C Roberts 2 82767 Autumn Lights 26.04 ...................A Turnwald 3 41461 Mr. Maize 26.33...........................A Turnwald

4 5 6 7 8

68615 Bigtime Sweetie 26.81 .....................L Ahern 28576 Lady Zeena 26.52 ........................ T Downey 45612 Nitehawk Rose 26.26 ..................B Hodgson 68323 Cawbourne Matty 26.13 J &................D Bell 4111F Cawbourne Cents nwtd................M Roberts 12 5.57 CALANDAR RESTRICED AGE MIDDLE DISTANCE R/A, 457m 1 53874 Kirkham Webby 25.95 ..................M Roberts 2 11742 Bigtime Lady 26.29 ..........................L Ahern 3 32351 Bigtime Jason 26.00 ........................L Ahern 4 32478 Spare Some Time 26.36 ..................L Ahern 5 21531 Cawbourne Foxy nwtd .................M Roberts 6 31111 Thrilling Raider 26.00 ...................... K Walsh 7 51237 Thrilling Sabre 26.12 ....................... K Walsh 8 12F15 Map My Run 26.04...........................L Ahern SELECTIONS

Race 1: See Eye Aye, King Cormack, Cawbourne Angus, Ebony Haze Race 2: Bigtime OnFire, Allegro Power, Shinzigzag, Kaylah Blueblood Race 3: Robins Zarr Hood, VDowngrade King, Cawbourne Cooks Race 4: Jugatui, Apatche Ajay, Opawa Top, Wetchester Race 5: Homebush Tiare, Slick Star, Cawbourne Spree, Banshee Boy Race 6: Pacific Vibe, Cawbourne Gunna, Daisy Lara, Bigtime Summer Race 7: Hu Xian, Viva La Vixen, Stormy Days, Americano Race 8: Geordie Who, Stole Me Car, Cawbourne Merl, Kirkham Harvey Race 9: Cawbourne Ruby, Cawbourne Trixy, Cawbourne Crowie Race 10: Thrilling Wilson, Boston Lightning, Bigtime Lonestar Race 11: Ace Bale, Nitehawk Rose, Cawbourne Matty, Mr. Maize Race 12: Kirkham Webby, Thrilling Raider, Thrilling Sabre LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Rooney breaks record Wayne Rooney curled home a superb free kick deep into injury time to become Manchester United’s all time leading goalscorer and give his side a 1-1 draw against Stoke City in the English Premier League yesterday. Stoke went ahead in the 19th minute following a quick counter-attack when Manchester United’s Juan Mata steered Erik Pieters’ cross-shot from a tight angle into his own goal. Jose Mourinho’s side squandered plenty of chances to equalise, with Mata spurning a superb chance to redeem himself by sending Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s pass over with the goal at his mercy. United won a free kick deep into stoppage time and Rooney curled it spectacularly into the top corner to notch his 250th goal for the Red Devils, breaking Bobby Charlton’s record. “Obviously it is a proud moment,” Rooney said. “It is a bit of a strange feeling as obviously we wanted three points but didn’t get it. “But on the other end it is a proud moment for myself to get that record and a huge honour for me. “I’ve been at the club a long time. “Obviously those goals have built up over the years but to finally get that record it is a great feeling.” The 1-1 draw may be frustrating now, but in years to come the historic strike will no doubt be one he savours. “We looked at set-pieces before the game and we knew it could be important today,” Rooney said before boarding the United team bus. “When we got it, I actually indicated over to (Ander) Herrera that I was going to

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You can’t see him, but Wayne Rooney has fired in this free kick to save the draw for Manchester United, and in the process breaking Bobby Charlton’s goal-scoring record. PHOTO AP

shoot, to make sure the players try and get across the keeper to try and put him off a bit. “As soon as I hit it, I knew it was in.” Rooney was also praised by former United player Mark Hughes, even if the free kick cost his Stoke side victory. “It is unbelievable,” the Stoke boss said.

Chasing a third win in seven days and seeking to back up Tuesday’s hugely encouraging win over the high-flying Melbourne Victory, Wellington were instead left to rue another sucker punch when Maclaren struck. The substitute was the beneficiary of both some generous defending from captain Andrew Durante and a Phoenix attack

Carroll stars for Hammers The Dimitri Payet saga has been preying on the minds of West Ham fans of late but the swaggering talent of big Andy Carroll is helping them forget about it. Once again, Payet was nowhere to be seen in the Hammers squad that visited Middlesbrough and again it was England striker Carroll who reminded them what having a hero to salute felt like. Carroll scored twice in the 3-1 win at the Riverside. It followed Carroll’s astonishing scissor-kick goal against Crystal Palace the previous week and Hammers’ manager, Slaven Bilic was quick to praise the striker. “Week in, week out he is a brilliant player. Not only goals, he makes an impact with his presence,” Bilic said. “His work rate is quality and he is unbeatable in the box. It is very hard to stop him. “Defending, too – he loves it. He gives you everything. Hopefully, he is going to stay fit.”

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“Sir Bobby’s record has stood for 40-odd years, so it tells you how difficult it is. “A lot of good strikers have come and gone in that time and not got anywhere near it. “Clearly we didn’t want it to happen today but he has done that throughout his career.” - AAP

Phoenix stumble on their top-four run A week that began with the Wellington Phoenix at their impressive best ended with a brief glimpse of their frustrating worst in an agonising defeat against the Brisbane Roar on Saturday night. Jamie Maclaren scored the solitary goal in the 87th minute to disappoint the home fans and deny the Phoenix a chance to climb into the top four on the A-League ladder.

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This, of course, is the key with Carroll. Hammers’ fans know that if he can avoid injuries, he is quite capable, with his power and physicality, of making life a misery for every defence he encounters. Scoring in successive Premier League games for the first time since April, Carroll, whose brace also marked the first time he had netted twice in a Premier League away game, was in magnificent form in both defence and attack. He converted a bullet header – his 23rd headed Premier League goal out of the 48 he’s scored in total – after just nine minutes. Then, after Cristhian Stuani had equalised for Middlesbrough, he snaffled up the key goal with a poacher’s instinct just before the break after Victor Valdes could only parry Michail Antonio’s shot. “I said before the game that (West Ham) don’t have Payet but with Carroll now they are better,” Boro manager Aitor Karanka noted. - AAP

that, as has often been the case this season, was unable to kill off a game they dominated in patches. The Roar may have come into the clash without a win in their last four games but, especially in a scoreless first half, they wasted little time in establishing their supremacy in midfield and displaying their potency in the final third. - NZME

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Merrett Salver, Gross WFA. Mayfield Golf Club. 10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven. 10am - 12pm TAI CHI. Free “Have A Go” Session, St Johns Rooms, Tancred Street (opposite Briscoes). 12pm - 1.30pm BAPTIST CHURCH FREE

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ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and Golf Croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street. 6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road. 7.30pm ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Speaker Graham Gunn, sales table and raffle. Sports Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

9.45am WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet handicap singles. Waireka. Philip Street. 10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter. Main Street, Methven.

12pm - 3pm JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Signing Centre, New Community House, 44 Cass Street. 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future, Seafield Road.

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Monday, January 23, 2017

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ACROSS 1. Providing Pa’s about and not thinking well of it (12) 8. Pro is well thought of (2,6) 9. Where the church is concerned, it’s the East End (4) 11. Where the aircraft may be standing in front of the proscenium (5) 12. Sufficient reason for them to be left in a coffee pot (7) 13. To baste or give it a hammering (4) 15. To encounter a reverse, yet be very fruitful (4) 19. Irene guessed one was about to apostatise (7) 20. The food is gone, so tea is taken two ways (5) 22. Sort of glass found sticking out to sea? (4) 23. A bad role to be played, yet so worthy of love (8) 24. Where the bidding starts low? (6,6) DOWN 2. If turning fine, right to gather it (5) 3. The coming end VAT is involved with (6) 4. Take it one will gamble recklessly to get in the pool (6) 5. Encroach on mine? Pig might! (7) 6. Mechanic one must bribe with mischief (6-6) 7. His PRO can’t: I’m turning to man-hating (12) 10. A cunning person to trot to the dance (3) 14. Religious house converting coven to the New Testament (7) 16. Starts as good example of the era (3) 17. Models are not often changed (6) 18. The man with the cheque is an Indian body-servant (6) 21. The index board (5)

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

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

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6am Breakfast The Breakfast team presents news, interviews, weather, and information. 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show With special guest Ben Affleck. 0 10am Tipping Point Quiz show in which four players take on an extraordinary machine, hoping to win its jackpot. 11am The Chase A quiz show where contestants must stay one step ahead. 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale 0 1pm Location, Location, Location 3 0 2pm Kiwi Living 3 0 2:55 Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 Millionaire Hot Seat 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm MasterChef Australia 0 8:05 Gadget Man 0 8:35 N Our Girl Lance Corporal Georgie Lane, an experienced army medic, joins Captain James and 2 Section on a humanitarian tour to Kenya. 0 9:50 Criminal Minds AO 0 10:50 1 News Tonight 0 11:20 American Crime AO A revelation leads to the members of the basketball team facing DNA testing. 12:15 Murder In The First AO 0 1:10 Te Karere 3 2 1:35 Infomercials 5:05 Impact For Life 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

Our Girl

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BRAVO 10am Million Dollar Listing 3 10:55 Hoarders 3 11:50 Snapped – Killer Couples PGR 3 12:40 Vanderpump Rules 1:35 Dance Moms 3 2:30 Botched 3 3:30 Flipping Out 3 4:30 Dance Moms – Abby’s Studio Rescue 5:30 Hoarders 3 6:30 Million Dollar Listing 3 7:30 Hoarders 3 8:30 Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles Josh Flagg makes a decision that surprises his friends and family; Madison helps a client downsize to a new Westside home, but has trouble holding her attention. 9:30 Wahlburgers Concerned for his friends’ health, Mark challenges his assistant, Big A, and childhood friend, Nacho, to a weight-loss competition. 10pm Wahlburgers 10:30 Hoarders 3 11:30 Snapped – Killer Couples AO 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

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PRIME

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Little Monstar 3 0 7am The Jungle Bunch – To The Rescue! 3 0 7:25 Transformers – Robots In Disguise 3 0 7:50 Kung Fu Panda 3 0 8:15 The Lion Guard 0 8:35 Goldie And Bear 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Step By Step 3 0 11:30 Shortland Street 3 0 Noon The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 1pm I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here 2:30 Judge Rinder PGR 3:30 The Jungle Bunch To The Rescue! 0 3:40 Wander Over Yonder 0 4:05 KC Undercover 3 0 4:30 My Wife And Kids 0 5pm Friends (Starting Today) 3 0 5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

6am Infomercials 7am Sticky TV 7:05 Kate And Mim 3 7:30 Sticky TV 7:33 The Moe Show 0 7:55 Sticky TV 8am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 8:25 Sticky TV 9am Rachael Ray 10am Infomercials 11:30 Baggage PGR 3 Noon The Biggest Loser Australia 1pm M Dangerous Lessons PGR 2015 Thriller. Louise Lombard, Alex Esola, Richard Haylor. 2:55 Entertainment Tonight 3:25 American Ninja Warrior 3 0 4:25 Wipeout 0 5:25 The Best Of Family Feud 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm Shortland Street 0 7:30 The Big Bang Theory PGR 0 8:30 Life In Pieces 0 9pm The Mick 0 9:30 First Dates UK Ladies’ man Terry is back in the restaurant to find love, hoping the third time is the charm. 0 10:35 Two And A Half Men AO 3 0

7pm The Block Australia PGR 0 8:10 M Nanny McPhee Returns PGR 3 2010 Family Comedy. Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a young mother who must run the family farm while her husband is away at war. 0 10:20 NewsHub Late 10:50 Gallipoli AO 0

11:05 Mom PGR 0 11:35 The Undateables AO 0 12:40 Desperate Housewives (Starting Today) 3 0 1:40 Shortland Street 3 0 2:05 Infomercials 3:05 The Good Witch 3 0 3:55 The Real 3 4:40 Baby Daddy PGR 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:50 Entertainment Tonight 12:10 Infomercials 5:30 City Impact Church

First Dates UK

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THE BOX 6am CSI MV 6:50 Criminal Intent MV 7:40 Storage Wars – New York PG 8:05 Storage Wars – New York PG 8:30 Shipping Wars PG 8:55 The Simpsons PG 9:20 Criminal Minds MV 10:10 NCIS MV 11am NCIS LA MV 11:55 NCIS LA MV 12:50 Container Wars PG 1:15 Criminal Intent MV 2:10 CSI MV 3:05 The Carbonaro Effect PG 3:35 Shipping Wars PG 4:05 The Glades MV 5pm The Simpsons PG 5:30 Criminal Intent MV 6:30 The Carbonaro Effect PG 7pm Container Wars PG 7:30 NCIS MV 8:30 Shearing Gang PG 9pm Shearing Gang PG 9:30 Ice Road Truckers PG 10:30 Criminal Minds MV 11:25 NCIS MV TUESDAY 12:15 Shipping Wars PG 12:40 Container Wars PG 1:05 The Glades MV 1:55 Criminal Minds MV 2:45 CSI MV 3:30 The Simpsons PG 3:55 Shearing Gang PG 4:20 Shearing Gang PG 4:45 Ice Road Truckers PG 5:35 The Carbonaro Effect PG

6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7:30 Pukana 2 8am Miharo 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Fresh 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Ako 3 2 3pm Head Start 3:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 4pm Iwi Anthems 3 4:30 Paki Vault 3 5pm Kapa Haka Regionals 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Pukoro 3 2 6:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 32 7pm Hahana 3 7:30 The Game Chef 3 8pm Aotearoa 3 Taupo. 8:30 F Corp And Anam AO 9:30 Hunting Aotearoa AO 3 10pm Whawhai Fight Night 10:30 Te Kaea 3 2

Midnight The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 1am Football – English Premier League Chelsea v Hull City. 3:05 Cricket – International (HLS) Blackcaps v Bangladesh – Second Test, Day Four. From Hagley Oval in Christchurch. 3:35 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 4:05 Closedown

11pm Te Kauta 3 Chat show featuring guests who reminisce about their younger days and some of their naughtiest secrets. 11:30 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS 6:25 Mr Bean’s Holiday PGC 2007 Comedy. Rowan Atkinson. 7:55 10,000 BC MV 2008 Adventure. Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis. 9:45 Notting Hill MLS 1999 Comedy. Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant. 11:50 Taken 16VS 2008 Action. Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen. 1:25 Hulk MV 2003 Adventure. Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly. 3:40 Big Daddy PGL 1999 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Leslie Mann. 5:15 Lions For Lambs MVL 2007 Drama. Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise. 6:45 Clash Of The Titans MV 2010 Action. Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson. 8:30 Made In Dagenham ML 2010 Biography Drama. Dramatisation of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins. 10:25 Van Wilder 16LSC 2002 Comedy. Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid. 11:55 Something To Talk About ML 1995 Comedy Drama. Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall. TUESDAY 1:40 Clash Of The Titans MV 2010 Action. Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson. 3:25 Big Daddy PGL 1999 Comedy. 5am Made In Dagenham ML 2010 Biography Drama.

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6am The Fairly Odd Parents 6:25 Kid v Kat 6:50 The Penguins Of Madagascar 7:15 Bella And The Bulldogs 7:40 Henry Danger 8:05 Avatar – The Last Airbender 8:30 Sanjay And Craig 8:55 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:25 Wheel Of Fortune 3 9:50 Jeopardy 3 10:20 The Doctors 3 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 12:10 Bondi Rescue PGR 3 12:35 Mayday PGR 3 1:35 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 2:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3pm Escape To The Country 3 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 0 5pm Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Prime News 6pm Wheel Of Fortune 6:30 Jeopardy 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 60 Minutes Special: Barack Obama - 8 Years In The White House PGR 8:30 M Braveheart AO 1995 Historical Drama. In the late 13th century, Scottish rebel William Wallace returns to Scotland and unites his people against the English. Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau. 0

7:50 Daddy’s Home MVLS 2015 Comedy. Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg. 9:25 The Making Of Mad Max – Fury Road MV 2015 9:40 The Martian ML 2015 Drama. Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain. Noon Focus MVLS 2015 Crime. Will Smith, Margot Robbie. 1:45 Batman v Superman – Dawn Of Justice MV 2016 Action. Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams. 4:15 Joe Dirt 2 – Beautiful Loser MLS 2015 Comedy. David Spade, Brittany Daniel. 6:05 Straight Outta Compton 16VLSC 2015 Drama. O’Shea Jackson jr, Corey Hawkins. 8:30 The Vatican Tapes MV 2015 Horror. The Vatican is called on to fight an ancient satanic force to save the soul of a young woman. 10:05 The 33 MC 2015 Drama History. Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche. 12:10 Cold Deck 16VLS 2015 Crime. Stefano Gallo, Paul Sorvino. 1:30 Joe Dirt 2 – Beautiful Loser MLS 2015 Comedy. David Spade, Brittany Daniel. 3:15 The Making Of Mad Max – Fury Road MV 2015 3:30 Straight Outta Compton 16VLSC 2015 Drama. O’Shea Jackson jr, Corey Hawkins. 5:55 The Vatican Tapes MV 2015 Horror.

MAORI

SKY SPORT 1 6am Tennis – Australian Open (HLS) Day Seven – Night Session. 7am Golf – US PGA Tour (HLS) CareerBuilder Challenge – Round Three. 7:30 Cricket – International (HLS) Australia v Pakistan – Fourth ODI. 8am Golf Central 10am Cricket – International (HLS) Blackcaps v Bangladesh – Second Test, Day Three. 10:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Bangladesh – Second Test, Day Four. 1:05 The Cricket Show 1:35 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Bangladesh – Second Test, Day Four. 6:30 Cricket – International (HLS) India v England – Third ODI. 7pm Cricket – International (HLS) Australia v Pakistan – Fourth ODI. 7:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (RPL) Melbourne Stars v Sydney Sixers. 11pm World Rugby 11:30 Football – EFL Championship (RPL) Teams TBC. TUESDAY 1:30 NZ Football Weekly 2am Football – A-League (RPL) Western Sydney Wanderers v Newcastle Jets. 4am Cricket – International (HLS) Blackcaps v Bangladesh – Second Test, Day Four. 4:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (HLS) Hobart Hurricanes v Perth Scorchers. 5am Cricket – International (HLS) India v England – Third ODI. 5:30 Cricket – International (HLS) Australia v Pakistan – Fourth ODI.

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

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6am Benny Hinn 6:30 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammies 7:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 8:30 The Frankincense Trail 9:30 Jamie At Home 10am Jamie’s Big Feastival 10:30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 11:30 The Water Brothers Noon Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge 1pm The Frankincense Trail 2pm 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammies 3pm Poh’s Kitchen 3:30 Baby Animals – In Our World 4:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things 5pm Peter Kuruvita’s Coastal Kitchen 5:30 Tiny House Hunting 6pm Junk Gypsies 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 Chinese New Year – The Biggest Celebration On Earth 8:30 Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 9:30 Walking The Himalayas 10:30 American Pickers

11:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things Midnight Peter Kuruvita’s Coastal Kitchen 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Double Your House For Half The Money 2am Baby Animals – In Our World 3am Junk Gypsies 3:30 Tiny House Hunting 4am Extreme Fishing With Robson Green PGR 5am Walking The Himalayas

SKY SPORT 2 6am Cricket – International Blackcaps v Bangladesh – Second Test, Day Three. 6:30 L Ice Hockey – NHL Detroit Red Wings v New York Rangers. 9:30 Golf – European Tour Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championships – Round Four. 10am Football – A-League Wellington Phoenix v Brisbane Roar FC. 10:30 NZ Football Weekly 11am Cricket – International India v England – Third ODI. 11:30 Hockey – India League Kalinga Lancers v Delhi. 1pm Basketball – NBL New Zealand Breakers v Perth Wildcats. 1:30 Motorsport – WRC Monte Carlo Event – Day Three. 2pm The Fishing Show 3pm Golf – US PGA Tour Careerbuilder Challenge – Round Four. 3:30 Golf – European Tour Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championships – Round Four. 4pm Golf Central 5pm World Rugby 5:30 Fishing Show 6:30 Squash – PSA Tournament Of Champions Final. 7:30 Basketball – NBL New Zealand Breakers v Perth Wildcats. 9:30 Fox Sports News 10pm The Crowd Goes Wild 10:30 Cricket – International TUESDAY 12:30 Cricket – International 1am Cricket – International 1:30 Cricket – International 2am Ice Hockey – NHL 4am Football – A-League 4:30 NZ Football Weekly 5am Tennis – Australian Open 23Jan17

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 How Do They Do It? PG Chinamax; Russian Standard; Abalone. 8am Auction Hunters 8:30 MythBusters PG 9:25 Deadliest Catch – Dungeon Cove PG Final Crossing. 10:20 Gold Rush PG Eye in the Sky. 11:15 Deadly Sins M Head Games. 12:10 Cry Wolfe M Organ Trail. 12:35 Cry Wolfe M Girl Gone Wild. 1:05 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones M 2pm How It’s Made PG 2:25 How It’s Made PG 2:55 How Do They Do It? PG St Petersburg Metro; Civet Coffee; Chip Makers. 3:20 Auction Hunters 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG 4:45 What On Earth? PG 5:40 MythBusters PG 6:35 Running Wild With Bear Grylls M Courteney Cox. 7:30 You Have Been Warned M Not Safe for Work. 8:30 MythBusters PG The Reddit Special. 9:30 What On Earth? PG 10:30 What Happened Next? M 11pm What Happened Next? M 11:30 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG TUESDAY 12:30 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones M 1:25 Cry Wolfe M 1:50 Cry Wolfe M 2:20 Auction Hunters 2:45 Auction Hunters 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:10 Treehouse Masters PG 5:05 Moonshiners M

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Hadwin joins elite club Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin became the eighth player to break 60 on the US PGA Tour, and the second in successive weeks. Hadwin shot a 13-under 59 yesterday to lead the Career-Builder Challenge in California. Hadwin’s brilliant round comes nine days after American Justin Thomas fired an opening 59 at the Sony Open in Hawaii. “I got away with a few shots on the back (nine) and, for whatever reason, whenever I hit a putt, it went in ... I legitimately thought about it (shooting 59) on 11, walking off (the green),” Hadwin said.

Allenton’s Jeremy Punselie sends the ball down the wicket towards Methven’s opener David Maw on the way to Allenton’s comprehensive 6-wicket victory over Methven. PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 210117-JP-0135

Allenton takes the shield BY JAIME PITT-MACKAY JAIME.P@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Allenton have claimed the Pritchard Shield after a dominant six-wicket victory against Methven at the Methven Domain on Saturday. Both teams were looking to make the most of the artificial surface and get some runs on the board. Methven won the toss and chose to bat first with captain Mitch Sim and David Maw opening. The innings did not go to plan for Methven however, only posting a total of 83 runs from 39.3 overs. The opening pair struggled to get bat to ball against what proved to be an extremely economical Allenton bowling attack.

Jeremy Punselie removed the top three batsmen for a combined total of 24 runs and from that point Methven offered little resistance. Jeremy Punselie finished with 38/3 from nine overs, Scott Punselie with 13/2 from nine overs and Jack Dudley with18/2 from 7 overs. Ryan Bell offered 5/1 from his six overs while the bowling of Dylan Stoddart proved to be most economic, conceding only seven runs from his nine overs, bowling four maidens. Despite Methven’s best efforts, it took Allenton just 19 overs to achieve the target of 84 runs, losing four wickets in the process. Lyall Jemmett top scored for Allenton with 23 runs while R. Bullard was the best Methven

bowler, taking 19/2 from four overs. Allenton skipper Jeff Naish said he was pleased with the result and impressive bowling after losing the toss and being sent out to field on a wicket they would have preferred to have batted on first. With Methven losing to Allenton, second place was still up for grabs if Coldstream could beat last placed Tech in the other fixture. Tech won the toss and elected to bowl, a decision that may have backfired with Coldstream setting an impressive total of 241/9 off their 45 overs. Coldstream faltered at first, losing their first wicket for only seven runs, however Johno Print and Bo Houston were on hand

to anchor the innings and see Coldstream past the 100-run mark. From that point the runs continued to tick over with a healthy supply coming in the form of extras, 39 in total. Print and Jay Houston top scored for Coldstream with 45 runs each. Harry Jones was a bright point in the Tech bowling ranks, taking three wickets for 26, bowling four maidens in the process. Tech’s chase was always going to be challenging with two players forced to retire. Kieran Hunt top scored with 60 runs off 54 balls, but this was not enough with Tech all out for 158. The final standings in the Pritchard Shield read, Allenton, Coldstream, Methven, Lauriston and Tech.

Rookie takes the honours at Teretonga Giles Motorsport’s Richard Verschoor, a series rookie, has continued his charge in the 2017 Castrol Toyota Racing Series after another consistent pointscoring day at Teretonga Park that ended with a race win. The 16-year-old finished sec-

ond in the first of the day’s races to second-generation racer Pedro Piquet, then won the afternoon feature race comfortably despite starting from fifth place on the grid. “I didn’t expect to win, or to be on the podium even,” Ver-

Cruden ‘could struggle’ in France P16

schoor said. “We knew our pace was good in the rain, but if you come from fifth and you’re behind then you get the spray and it’s always harder.” New Zealand’s leading hope was local driver Brendon Leitch, but luck wouldn’t be on his side,

crashing in the opening race and finishing seventh in the feature. The remaining two New Zealanders, Marcus Armstrong and Taylor Cockerton, finished fourth and fifth in race two, then fourth and ninth in the weekend finale. - NZME

Fofana out for season France’s hopes for the Six Nations were dealt a huge blow towards the end of the first half here, when Clermont’s centre, Wesley Fofana, a key member of Les Bleus’ midfield, ruptured his Achilles tendon. He will now miss the entire championship. In a statement Clermont said the 29-year-old would need an operation on his left leg. In the game itself, Exeter’s hopes of a Champions Cup quarter-final were ended by a ruthless first-half display from Clermont Auvergne, who bagged five tries to lead 34-0 at the break.

Spurs ‘the best team’ Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola hailed Tottenham as the best team in the English Premier League after they staged a late comeback to earn a 2-2 draw at the Etihad Stadium. Guardiola was in complementary mood to Mauricio Pochettino’s side, while ruing his team’s missed chances. “They know when they play well because they were aggressive, but I would like to say we played well with and without the ball,” the City boss said. “Tottenham are by far the best when you let them play, when you let them play they are the best team in the league.”

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