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Water bottling back on horizon

By Sue Newman

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A second attempt to establish a water bottling plan on the outskirts of Ashburton is in the early planning stages.

An application for a change of conditions to a groundwater consent has been lodged with Environment Canterbury, but the new activity would also require a resource consent from the Ashburton District Council. This would involve an assessment of effects and an analysis of the objectives of the council’s

district plan.

Council environmental services manager Jane Donaldson confirmed that about eight weeks ago the council received a resource consent application from consent holder Fairton LP to use water from the bore for commercial bottling.

The application was rejected, Donaldson said, because it failed to include an assessment against the district plan.

“The applicant has now resubmitted the application, apparently with all of

the required information. This confirms that a land use consent is required under the Ashburton District Plan, as well as a resource consent from ECan for the use of the bore,” she said.

At this stage, Fairton LP had applied to ECan only and the council had not been involved in any pre-consultation, Donaldson said.

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Heated debate at final meeting

By Sue Newman

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There might have been words of praise for retiring councillors but when Ashburton’s district councillors and mayor met for the final time in this term, there were also plenty of shots being fired across the council table.

Yesterday’s council meeting was the last one for the current council team, but neither those seeking re-election nor those retiring were prepared to sit back and let issues go unchallenged.

If Stuart Wilson expected to have a previously discussed grant of $125,000 to the Hekeao-Hinds Water Enhancement Trust ticked off as part of the minutes of a previous meeting, he was mistaken.

The grant to the trust’s managed aquifer research (MAR) project was signed off by the council’s environmental services committee with the money to come out of council’s economic development budget.

Selwyn Price said he was opposed to the grant because no business case had been presented.

“How on earth can we spend $125,000 of ratepayers’ money without a business case. This is ludicrous,” he said.

Neil Brown was quick to disagree.

“A business case was made six months or more ago by MAR. They need to move forward and get this project up and running. They’re

Together for the final time, members of the 2016 to 2019 Ashburton District Council (back, from left) Stuart Wilson, Leen Braam and Alasdair Urqhuart. Middle, from left: Mark Malcolm, Peter Reveley, Lynette Lovett, Selwyn Price, Liz McMillan, Russell Ellis, Thelma Bell and Diane Rawlinson and (in front) deputy mayor Neil Brown and Ashburton Mayor Donna Favel.

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looking for $1 million so this is a small amount in the overall picture,: he said.

Russell Ellis might have been attending his final council meeting but he was hot on the case for the funds not coming out of the economic development budget.

“This money is rated for economic development purposes

and yes, we loosely discussed this could be seen as having economic gain but we have no report on this. The community has had no chance to say they’re happy with $125,000 going into this small area,” he said.

Ecan was also contributing to this project and that meant the district’s ratepayers were contrib-

uting twice through both sets of rates, Ellis said.

“Are there any performance measures or outcomes required around this grant as we do with other grants, or is this a spend it as you like grant?”

When Stuart Wilson joined the debate, he called a point of order on his fellow councillors for mak-

ing speeches rather than asking questions. Councillors were elected to make decisions, and they should have the courage to make them, he said.

“What a negative, ignorant lot some of you are. This is a New Zealand first and you have results.

This water is not only reducing nitrates and raising well levels. If this money has not been spent on economic development what better place to spend it than on raising well levels and improving water quality.”

The MAR project was in the third year of a five-year term, he said and if councillor Price did not realise that he was either deaf or blind, Wilson said.

“I’m totally in favour of this. the benefit is not just for the immediate community, it’s for the whole community.

Price replied that he was neither deaf nor blind and he was not questioning the value of the project, he was simply asking where the business case was.

To get the debate back on track, Mayor Donna Favel said counclilors had asked staff for a report on the grant.

This came to a council committee and that’s what the decision was made on, she said.

Keen to wrap up the debate, she called for a vote and by a majority, councillors agreed that the MAR project should receive a $125,000 grant.

Live streaming trial a winner for council

By Sue NEwman

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The live streaming of meetings of the Ashburton District Council is being hailed a success by its communications team.

Over the past six months the council trialled live streaming both council and council committee meetings and on Thursday at the final meeting of this term, agreed that the trial should become a permanent part of the way it communicated with ratepayers.

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Meetings are recorded and are available to watch either while the meeting is in progress or later on either Facebook or You Tube.

There had been some issues raised by viewers unable to determine how councillors voted on issues because they did not have microphones on at that point, but otherwise the trial had been problem free, communications manager Ruben Garcia said.

The microphones installed in the council chamber cannot be

used for voting as only four are able to be activated at any one time. No solution was found other than the mayor or committee chairman listing the names of those who voted for or against a motion.

Because the council chamber is currently in a temporary building, budget level equipment and fixed cameras were being used, but high tech equipment would be installed in the council chamber in the new administration building and that would solve

any of the current issues, he said.

The trial has included 21 live meetings during the trial and had received a total of 18,179 views over 49,813 minutes. Ninety three per cent of views were via Facebook. Full council meetings, rather than committee meetings, attracted the greatest number of views.

Lynette Lovett questioned whether the brief delay in the live stream feed was sufficient.

“I’ve had people querying whether when they see council-

lors on their tablets or phones that they are interacting with members of the public,” she said.

Given the equipment used, a delay much longer than a few seconds was not possible, Garcia said.

And chief executive Hamish Riach reminded councillors that interaction with the public was prohibited during meetings under council protocol. That the public could influence voting was a perception rather than a reality, he said.

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Snow follows sudden hail fall

By Susan Sandys

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Hail and thunder sent Mid Cantabrians fleeing indoors on Wednesday as a storm hit the district.

Announcing its arrival with plummeting temperatures around 3pm, the front rolled in on what had been a balmy spring day, where the mercury had climbed over 15°C. It brought hail and loud thunder, leaving Methven and the foothills, coated in a layer of white miniature balls of ice.

This was followed by five centimetres of snow later that evening, with snow even falling in Ashburton for what was the first snowfall for the town this year.

The unseasonal weather is to be followed by improving conditions, however, MetService is forecasting a “changeable start” to the school holidays.

MetService meteorologist Andy Best said the strong southwest flow would gradually ease over New Zealand last night and into today.

And Mother Nature is gifting a fine day to climate protesters in Canterbury as marches are held around the country today.

Tomorrow and Sunday the good weather continues and the South Island has fine days in store, with temperatures climbing to above average, 19°C in Ashburton on Saturday and 16°C on Sunday, accompanied by a

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Mount Hutt College senior students got a first-hand look at an emergency response to a car accident yesterday afternoon as a single-vehicle car crash involving five people played out on the school field.

Fortunately the victims were acting students, their injuries were fake and the car was from the wreckers, but they all came together to deliver an important message about road safety.

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Mt Hutt Station was a winter wonderland yesterday morning after snow fell on Wednesday night.

PHOTO ROBYN HOOD few high clouds, with developing north-westerlies.

“For the start of the school holidays, there’s quite a mixed bag,” Best said.

“A couple of fronts move on to the country during Monday and Tuesday, bringing change-

able conditions, with blustery north-westerlies and rain ahead of each front, changing to cooler south-westerlies again behind the fronts.”

MetService meteorologist Melissa Oosterwijk said yesterday the latest forecasts were

showing temperatures rising to 18°C on Monday, but a cold change coming through with showers, and temperatures reaching only 12°C the following day.

Snow is forecast down to about 500 metres.

Mock crash held at Mount Hutt College

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head girl Caitlin Smith, a member of St John Youth, who wanted to show students what happens at car accidents as part of Students Against Dangerous Driving.

“I got the (Methven Volunteer) Fire Brigade and St John onboard and there have been lots of local people that have worked to make it happen,” she said.

Mock crashes had been a regular event at Ashburton College in the past, but Smith said it was the first time she had seen something like it in her seven

years at Mount Hutt College.

The scenario of the crash was that a driver on a restricted licence had been using her phone while driving and had crashed into a pole with four passengers in the car.

Three people were able to walk away from the mock crash, while one had a broken leg and had to be taken away in a wheelchair, with the last being taken away on a spinal board.

The fire brigade was on hand to go through their usual procedures at an accident, including

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the removal of the roof of the vehicle.

Senior station officer Shane Davidson talked through the entire process with the students, explaining what equipment they were using and why they were using it.

“We talk through the entire procedure with the people in the car, if we are making a cut.

We tell them we are making a cut, if we are moving something, we tell them we are moving it,” he told the students yesterday.

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The applicant has not set a timeframe around the establishment of the plant.

It is planned for land zoned Rural B and the processing, bottling, storage and transportation of water is expected to utilise only a small portion of the overall site.

Any buildings are intended to blend in with the existing character of the area.

The site is close to State Highway 1 and is within an area of mixed use – farming and the now closed Silver Fern Farms meat processing facility.

The land runs alongside the railway line and is bounded by Works Road to the north, the Ashburton Business Estate to the east and the Rural Transport Ltd yard to the south.

The land and the current consent are owned and operated by a New Zealand incorporated and owned company and the water bottling plant is expected to create a number of employment opportunities for the Ashburton District.

As well as water bottling, the applicant is looking at other commercial uses for water from the bore, including local craft beer manufacturing.

A pre-application meeting has been held between the applicant, their lawyer, resource management consultant and staff from Environment Canterbury.

ECan confirmed that the consent application was currently in process.

Additional information had been requested under Section 92 of the Resource Management Act, and a decision could only be made once all of the information was received from the applicant, the media spokesperson said.

If a consent were to be applied for from the Ashburton District Council, ECan could consider a joint process.

In 2016 an attempt was made to establish a water bottling plant on council-owned land in the north-east business park. There was strong public reaction to the council selling a section with a bore already in place to a water bottling company and the deal was called off later that year.

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Last chance to grab a bargain at Bookarama

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay

Punters flocked to the opening day of Bookarama on Monday.

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They will also be running specials on Saturday, which is the final day.

“We have some good deals like $5 for a bag of books and things like that,” he said.

“Of the books that are left, we keep the good ones for next year, give away a lot of them to community groups and recycle the rest.”

Smith said for they would also

be taking all leftover children’s books to Children’s Day this year.

Bookarama is held at the Ashburton Sports Hall on Tancred Street and runs until this Saturday.

Safer Ashburton demand up

By Sue Newman

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For the past 25 years Safer Ashburton District has become the district’s powerhouse provider of social and crime prevention services.

Each year the range of services it provides for other social agencies increases and demand for those services grows, manager Kevin Clifford said.

Looking ahead, a strong focus would be on a new project – Lives Worth Living. This is aimed at addressing suicide risk in the community and it was great to see it had secured longterm funding, he said.

“We identified the need for the service and put together a business case and we’ve received tremendous support from many spheres, particularly our local community, for the new role.”

In his annual report to its major funder, the Ashburton District Council, Clifford gave a run down on the programmes the organisation now has

under its umbrella.

During the past 12 months Safer Ashburton has had demand for its services from outside the district in the supervised access area.

With Christchurch agencies struggling to meet the high level of demand, Ashburton has stepped in and picked up some of this, he said.

One of the big wins over the past year had been the reduction in youth offending in the district and that meant a much lower level of demand on the supervision with activity programme, he said.

“A year ago we were dealing with 10 to 15 young offenders and this year we only worked with two and they haven’t been charged with further offences since we started working with them.”

Youth support provides a one-on-one support service for young people and their families, to target issues that are creating obstacles in their lives.

Over the past year staff had worked with 28 children and the need in this area was growing, Clifford said.

The community youth programme that worked with young offenders and those at risk of offending was having positive results and last year had 14 young people on its books, up three from last year.

“Most of the young people on this programme have successfully made changes in their lives, which is positive for our community,” he said.

One of Safer Ashburton’s success stories was the SEEDS project, a free family wellbeing programme targeting families with pre-schoolers.

Volunteers work with families over a three month period and in the past year 38 referrals were received, 13 more than its contract allowed.

“Numbers have been going up every year for the past few years,” Clifford said.

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Laundering arrests Police have arrested two men who were wanted for money laundering in relation to an ongoing “sophisticated phone scam” which is alleged to have cost Kiwis millions. The two men, aged 21 and 22, were arrested yesterday and will be appearing in the Auckland District Court today on money laundering charges. Yesterday’s arrests bring the total number of arrests to date for Operation Deadwood to 15 people. “We want to remind the public that police or any legitimate business will never ask you to transfer money over the phone and you should never give your personal details out to a stranger,” a police spokesperson said.

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Bookworms are running out of time to get a deal at this year’s edition of Bookarama.

Today and tomorrow are the final days of the Rotary Club of Ashburton’s popular event which has had another successful year.

Organiser Mike Smith said there were around 100 people ready to enter when the doors opened on Monday morning.

“If you don’t get out of the way once they are opened you will get trampled,” he said.

“We have had a good turnout so far and the weather seems to be helping.

“Sales would be about on par with last year.”

Smith said books about history and religion had been some of the most popular this year, along with the specials section.

Local schools have been invited to head down to Bookarama on Friday with each child able to take one book each for free.

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has been working with Oranga Tamariki on a contract that sees it provide a supervised access service for children who are not in their parents’ care.

Staff oversee and monitor visits and works with several families most weeks. Over the past year there were referrals for 18 families.

The organisation has provided a school attendance service since 2002 and over the past year received 98 referrals for non-attending students.

Referral numbers were down on the previous year and that indicated the primary school programme, Mana Ake, was having a positive impact, Clifford said.

Over the past year Safer Ashburton received $940,603 in grants and project funding – $214,988 of this is from the Ashburton District Council and $252,997 from Oranga Tamariki.

It also receives funds from a number of other organisations to run programmes.

Girl swept away Search and rescue teams were searching for a 9-year-old girl who was swept away near the Hokitika River mouth on the West Coast while whitebaiting yesterday.

Police were called to the area after reports of two people needing help.“The missing person, who is a 9-year-old girl, was understood to be whitebaiting on the shore with another person when they were swept into the water,’’ police said.

Police said yesterday afternoon that search efforts from the air, on the water and on the shoreline were taking place for the child.

An elderly man was pulled from the water but the girl remained missing.

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Five injured in crash Five people were rushed to hospital, including a seriously injured man in his 30s, after a car smashed into a power pole and rolled near an oyster farm in Kawakawa Bay, south of Auckland yesterday.

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Wanted man arrested A man wanted in connection to the abduction and sexual assault of a teenage girl has been found by police. The 62-year-old man was found in Tauranga yesterday morning and was arrested without incident a police spokeswoman confirmed. He was due to appear in court yesterday charged with abduction and sexual violation.

Investigations are continuing into a second attack against a 29-year-old woman in Auckland.

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Delayed start to salmon season

By Susan Sandys

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Salmon fishing is to be curtailed with a shorter season and lower bag limits.

Local fish and game council members are desperately hoping to rejuvenate the fishery as they introduce the new regulations for the coming season.

Instead of opening on October 1, the sea-run salmon season will open on December 1. It will finish on the same date, March 31.

In addition, the daily bag limit has been reduced to one, from two, and night fishing is prohibited.

Fish and Game councils are also asking anglers to voluntarily limit their total seasonal harvest of sea-run salmon to four or less.

Central South Island Fish and Game (Waitaki River, Opihi River, Orari River, Rangitata River, Ashburton River) and North Canterbury Fish and Game (Rakaia River, Waimakariri River) have aligned their regions in agreeing to the new rules as they attempt to bring back numbers of sea-run salmon.

“The fishery is at rock bottom,” said Steve Terry, a fish and game officer for North Canterbury.

Spawning counts for the last couple of years had been the

lowest they had been in 26 years of records.

Rebuilding the fishery required a conservative harvest, and Fish and Game was also looking at other initiatives including ongoing efforts towards rebuilding habitat and ensuring fish screens worked effectively.

While some expert fishers who

caught 10 or more salmon per season may object to the regulations, most anglers caught none, while the next most common seasonal catch was just one, Terry said.

“If there are more available, everyone has a better chance of getting at least one,” he said.

Anglers used to getting out on

the rivers when the first salmon began to come into rivers in November would have to adjust to a later opening.

“Rangers will be actively patrolling the rivers,” he said.

Fish and Game officer Rhys Adams at Central South Island said the low salmon runs had been a trend for all sea-run

salmon fisheries in Canterbury.

“The sea-run salmon fishery is at a point where we need to ensure enough wild salmon are making a successful run up the rivers and are spawning to maintain a viable fishery,” he said.

Rangitata fisherman Phil de Joux said he supported the new regulations. He generally began fishing in November and for the last few years had averaged a couple of salmon each season.

“Fish and Game have given the statistics, some change will work, we are confidant they are doing their best to bring the salmon back to what they used to be.”

However, not all anglers agree.

Murray Beach, at the Hakatere Huts, said he did not think curbing recreational fishing would bring back numbers.

“I don’t think that’s the problem, I think the (commercial) by-catch of salmon out at sea should be stopped completely for 10 years,” Beach said.

He believed other factors contributing to the reduced fishery included pollution and climate change.

“They are not there like they used to be in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. There’s been a massive turnaround in the last 25 years,” Beach said.

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Ashburton council gets tick for low debt level

By Sue Newman

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Current and projected debt levels for the Ashburton District Council see it ranked as one of New Zealand’s least indebted local authorities.

Out of the country’s 66 local council’s Ashburton is ranked 42nd for its likely debt ratio over the next decade. Currently this sits at 103.9 per cent of its income; over the 2019 to 2028 period this will increase to 113.6 per cent.

Seven councils now have, or

will have, over the next 10 years, a debt ratio that is more than 200 per cent of income.

Rising debt levels are prompted by the need for council’s to focus on replacement of existing infrastructure rather than investing to accommodate growth.

Economic monitoring agency Infometrics predicts debt levels will continue to increase as population pressures, tourism growth and ageing infrastructure come together to form a perfect debt storm.

Christchurch City is expected

to rise from being the 10th most indebted council over the past decade to become the most indebted over the next.10 years at 291.7 per cent.

Ashburton will rise just two places on the indebtedness list, an increase in debt levels of 10 per cent.

Many local authorities are watching debt levels more than double over that time – Marlborough will rise from 54.1 per cent to 171.2 per cent, Gore from 89.7 per cent to 132.8 per cent, Invercargill from 97.4 per cent to

131.2 per cent, Timaru from.138 per cent to 166.8 per cent, Rangatiki from 21.2 per cent to 109.6 per cent and Hurunui from 55.4 per cent to 93.9 per cent.

Just 26 local and regional councils will see their indebtedness decline.

Higher debt ratios, however, don’t necessarily show that councils are borrowing too much, the Infometrics report said.

For some council’s high debt ratios can more accurately highlight a lack of income needed to

grow even as their population has grown.

A Productivity Commission report has identified some alternative funding options for local authorities including payments from central government based on building work put in place, the use of special purpose vehicles to fund infrastructure and more funding from tourism levies.

The average local council debt level is currently 188.1 per cent.

This is expected to rise to 215.9 per cent over the next 10 years.

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Show entries slowly coming in

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

Entries might have been a bit slow so far for the Ashburton A&P Show, but administrators are expecting a flood of entries to get them to their standard mark of around 4000.

Entry forms went out on August 18, and entries are also open online.

This year’s show will be administrator Lucille Brown’s fifth.

“Those entering the equestrian especially, enter online,” she said.

“We get an email and it syncs to the server and I check them but don’t have to enter anything which is pretty handy when you are getting 20 horse entries.”

The equestrian events remain the most popular in the show, said Brown, while entries had been slow across the board so far.

“Entries have been slightly slow this year, I’m hopeful this week this week they will flood in,” she said.

“We have had around 1300 and normally get nearly 4000.”

All entries for the show close on October 17, but Brown said she tries to get as many entries in to the show as she can.

“I am probably pretty relaxed, I like to see entries in the show and I like to think people enjoy coming to the show,” she said.

More details about entering the show can be found on their website www.ashburtonshow. co.nz Currently there are around 101 trade sites booked in for the show, which is described as a jigsaw by organisers.

“We call it the jigsaw, the regulars don’t like to move so you have to work around them, we are in the process of allocating the trade sites at the moment,” she said.

Food sites have to go through a tender process, but trade sites are open for application.

“If anyone wants to have a site we don’t say no to them,” she said.

Right – Marie McAnulty and Heather Willis fill out their entry forms for the Ashburton A&P Show at the Ashburton Showgrounds on Wednesday.

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Free WiFi a CBD possibility

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

Ashburton’s neighbours down the road in Temuka are now getting more access to free WiFi in the town, and the Ashburton District Council says they are considering expanding the free public WiFi service in the town.

Starting last week, anyone on the central section of King Street and around the Alpine Energy Community Centre in the Temuka Domain can access 500MB of free WiFi every day through the Timaru District Council.

Paul Brake The Ashburton District Council currently provides free WiFi services within the main council offices, the Ashburton Public Library and the EA Network Centre facilities.

“While we do not cur-

rently offer free public WiFi outside of these locations, council officers are looking into, and considering, a free public WiFi service as part of the ongoing CBD upgrade activities,” business support group manager Paul Brake said.

“This research is ongoing as it may require significant capital investment for equipment and installation, agreements with building and/or other asset owners for mounting access points, and working with appropriate utility companies to provide the service.”

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Tough day for Trump NZME President Donald Trump’s mood went from feisty to self-pitying to deflated as he fended off questions about a July phone call in which he urged the president of Ukraine to work with Attorney General William Barr on potential corruption investigations connected to former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic rival.

Although Trump sought to present a business-as-usual image in his annual trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly – by highlighting a trade deal with Japan, among other things – his anger and anxiousness took over his day, aides said.

He appeared aggrieved in comments to reporters ahead of a meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but by late afternoon, Trump appeared so exhausted that he spoke unusually slowly at a rambling news conference meant to sum up his trip at the United Nations.

He opened by naming 28 countries whose leaders he had met with and said that unfortunately reporters were far more interested in his phone call with Zelenskiy.

“I’ve been up from early in the morning until late in the evening and meeting with different countries, all for the good of our country. And the press doesn’t even cover all of this.”

Then he moved on to the call, and the words he said spoke to the Ukrainian president.

“They were perfect,” Trump said.

“They were all perfect.”

He added: “I didn’t threaten anybody. In fact, the press was asking questions of the president of Ukraine and he said, no pressure.

“I used the word pressure and I think he used the word push, but he meant pressure,

Donald Trump had a very bad day at the office.

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but it’s the same thing.

“No push, no pressure, no nothing. It is all a hoax, folks.

“It is all a big hoax.”

The president went so far as to suggest that his enemies had intentionally sabotaged his excellent adventure in Manhattan.

“So that was all planned like everything else,” Trump said.

“It was all planned. And the witch hunt continues,” he said.

Aides who had lived through the day-to-day nerves of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, for roughly two years had thought the worst was behind them.

But they said the growing storm around their boss’ call with Zelenskiy drove home the new reality that an impeachment inquiry would consume the next months.

Although several of the president’s allies sought to downplay the contents of the reconstructed transcript of the call released Wednesday, two people close to Trump said that the transcript matched what they knew of his dealings with

world leaders on the phone.

One former senior official called it the typical playbook: Engage in flattery, discuss mutual cooperation and bring up a favor that then could be delegated to another person on Trump’s team.

At the White House, a grim sense of frustration has set in.

Aides said they thought Democrats had gone too far.

Nonetheless, they acknowledged that the impeachment inquiry represented the likely death of any hope of passing legislation in the next 13 months.

Several expressed fear that other witnesses would come forward in relation to Trump’s contacts with the Ukrainian president, or that other whistleblowers on other matters would emerge.

The White House Counsel’s Office is prepared for an impeachment inquiry, but other departments in the West Wing are badly depleted by staff departures and plagued by exhaustion.

In the morning, White

House officials briefed about a dozen Republican members of the House and Senate on the reconstructed call, providing them with talking points.

Trump called into the meeting as the members sat around the table in the Roosevelt Room, insisting it was a hoax and that Democrats had gone overboard in pursuing him.

Anger from current and former administration officials was directed at Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s longtime friend and personal lawyer, who had repeatedly told Trump that he believed Ukraine was involved in the 2016 election interference.

The aides believe that Giuliani, eager to land something that would please Trump, had gotten too far out on a limb.

And they cringed at his television appearances.

Trump had little chance to catch up with his media coverage at the United Nations, but aides said they were bracing for the president to react angrily when he finally saw some of it.

Kylie Jenner has reportedly been hospitalised with “flu-like symptoms”. The 21-year-old reality star – who is mother to 19-month-old daughter Stormi, whom she has with boyfriend Travis Scott – was reportedly taken to hospital this week after suffering from an “intense illness”, according to TMZ. The publication claims Kylie was admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles when she was struck down with severe flu-like symptoms which, according to one source, included nausea and dizziness. Kylie was reportedly supposed to attend the Emmy Awards alongside her sisters Kim Kardsahian West and Kendall Jenner, but was too sick to make the appearance, and checked herself into hospital just days later.

Cardi alleges assault Cardi B has alleged she was sexually assaulted during a magazine shoot. The ‘I Like It’ rapper has claimed she was on set for a photoshoot for a magazine when the photographer “pulled his d**k out”, allegedly telling her she would need to touch him in order to “get in this magazine”. Cardi – who is married to Migos rapper Offset, with whom she has 14-month-old daughter Kulture Kiari – also alleged the owner of the magazine didn’t seem to care about the misconduct, and claims experiences like hers happen to women “every day”.

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Disclosure for sellers

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It’s no secret that selling real estate is all about the right kind of marketing, and real estate advertising is designed to show a property in the best light.

An advert might focus on the sundrenched location while neglecting to mention the busy road, for example, or highlight the spectacular views rather than the difficult access from the street.

Glossing over a property’s quirks if they are likely to be easily spotted at an open home (or by reading the marketing material closely) is one thing, but lying by omission or design about more serious matters is risky.

“When thinking about selling, it’s a good idea to get legal advice about your obligations before you sign an agency agreement,” says Real Estate Authority chief executive Kevin Lampen-Smith.

Most agency agreements, which set out the terms and conditions of your contract with the real estate agent, require you to confirm that you do not know of any problems with the property and that you haven’t withheld any information about it.

As a seller, you should also confirm

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that your property has all the consents and code compliance certificates for any building work and if you have given consent to any works at a neighbour’s property because this is likely to impact on the view or enjoyment of your property.

“This is important for several reasons.

“Real estate agents have clear obligations when it comes to disclosure. They must not mislead a seller or a potential buyer or withhold any information.

While it’s not up to the agent to uncover hidden issues with a property, they must tell any prospective buyers what they know,” says Lampen-Smith.

Under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008, if licensed real estate agents suspect that a property may have a defect then they are obliged to ask the seller about it and, if confirmed, advise potential buyers of any risks. For example, if a property is next door to a proposed new development, or if it’s in an area that’s been subject to flooding, the agent must tell prospective buyers rather than turning a blind eye. If your property is prone to weathertightness issues – thanks to its age or cladding – then the agent will need to disclose this to prospective buyers.

If you choose to get additional checks on your property, it’s wise that the report is done by a qualified building inspector who has professional indemnity insurance, understands the strict legal requirements of their role and carries out their work in line with the New Zealand Standard for Residential Property Inspection (NZ S 4306:2005).

“If you know there are issues with your property, whether it’s something small like a garage door not working properly, or a bigger deal like an unconsented deck, it’s best to discuss them with the agent you are working with. They can help you understand the importance of being open and honest and will guide you through what could happen if you don’t disclose. They can also help you decide how to tackle a problem – whether that means fixing it or sharing the information with potential buyers. Your agent isn’t able to tell buyers about problems with your property without your agreement. If you can’t agree, they may decide not to take your listing,” Lampen-Smith says.

“If you knowingly mislead a buyer, you may be in breach of the terms of your sale and purchase agreement and they may have the right to cancel the

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sale or re-negotiate a reduced buying price. They can even take you to court and claim damages.

“These rules for disclosure offer more protection to buyers than the traditional approach of caveat emptor (let the buyer beware), which assumed that the seller would always know more than the buyer and any sale was at the buyer’s risk. However, buyers should always do their own research about a property before signing a sale and purchase agreement. Buyers should also ask the agent about anything they are concerned about – no matter how trivial it may seem. It’s far better to be aware of an issue as early as possible than finding out when it’s too late,” Lampen-Smith says.

Buying a house is not only a matter of weighing up the numbers and doing your homework, it’s just as much about the feeling you get. When thinking about what you have to tell buyers about your property, it’s a good idea to flip things around and ask yourself what you would want to know if you were in their shoes and had fallen in love with a property.

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Jonty Downes might not own his own home yet, but he is already working towards selling his first house.

The 18-year-old is Christchurch’s youngest real estate agent, and he has 10 buyers wanting him to find them their new home.

He is also the second youngest licensed real estate agent in New Zealand.

The youngest a person can be registered for a real estate licence is 18.

He has been interested in real estate since he was a small boy.

As a 7-year-old, Jonty would cycle around his neighbourhood, see “for sale” signs and be interested in new houses built in the area.

By the time he was in Year 12 at Hag-

ley College he was attending auctions and putting his foot in the door of the real estate industry.

“I’ve always had a real passion for houses,” he said.

But he found people could not understand his passion or take him seriously for wanting to leap into real estate straight out of high school.

Traditionally, real estate is a second or third career for people, entering the industry as a career change from their previous job.

Real Estate Authority Statistics show 2071 people aged 53 to 57 were issued with their licences in the first half of 2019 in New Zealand, compared with 171 people aged 18 to 22.

Avonhead Harcourts branch manager Lisa Yardley-Vaiese decided to give Jonty a chance, offering him a place on the Grenadier graduate programme.

She said it was more difficult for young people in terms of credibility because, usually, younger people had not yet bought a house.

Older people tended to create the perception that they knew the industry better and buyers were more likely to have confidence in them.

Real Estate Authority head of regulatory services Josh Doherty said the number of people aged 18 to 21 issued with a salesperson’s licence in New Zealand had remained relatively stable over the past five years.

More young people have joined Grenadier’s graduate programme in recent years, though Yardley-Vaiese said she had never mentored someone as young as Jonty.

In spite of his age, Jonty has proved his worth and knowledge with colleagues and buyers.

*At the time of printing “I’ve nicknamed him Wikipedia because he just knows so much,” Yardley-Vaiese said.

To enter real estate, agents must complete 13 papers before registering for a licence.

Jonty remembers the moment he got his licence and said it was his best achievement so far.

“I was quite excited to just call buyers and do anything real estate-related, because I think it had been inside of me for ages and I just wanted to let it out.”

He does not yet own a home, but said it was on the cards.

He is not looking for anything fancy – a one-bedroom flat would be perfect.

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PHEV adds a new dimension C hange is healthy – for you and the earth.

Outlander PHEV will change your life. For the better.

You’ll rethink your approach to energy. You’ll play a part in shaping the future and feel good doing it.

But some things won’t change, like the practicality you want from an SUV. In fact, the only things you’ll say goodbye to are high emissions and a long string of petrol stations.

Charging your devices is something you don’t really think about.

It’s the same with Outlander PHEV. Plug it in at home in a standard 10amp socket while you sleep.

This means you’ll make the most of off-peak rates, which will be around $1.41.

You can set charge times easily from the smartphone app.

A full battery will get you 54km (based on the ADR 81/02 test procedure) with no emissions and practically no noise, enhanced even further by soundproofing throughout the vehicle.

When you’re going downhill, regenerative braking puts power back into the battery. If you’re out and about, the ever-growing national network of fast-charge stations can fill the battery to 80 per cent capacity in just 20 minutes.

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The vehicle chooses the best drive mode automatically, letting you enjoy the journey and the exceptional fuel economy – as low as 1.7L per 100km.

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Happy anniversaries Roger Hart ROAD TEST

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oincidentally, last century both Bernard Egan and I worked – albeit at different times – in the then Public Trust buildings right next door to the Ashburton Guardian on Burnett Street.

Our office car was a Ford Mark One Zephyr, which in those days rated in the desirability stakes just behind Jaguars and the Ford/Chevy V8s.

Said Zephyr was garaged along at Smallbones (and that firm is just 40 years younger than the Guardian) and we office boys were always really keen to get behind the wheel of it without the boss present.

In such situations the necessity of checking out the grassed tracks near the airport and the River Road were exceedingly important, where the Zephyr’s handling capability, or lack of such was tested.

Then with a new Vauxhall Victor replacing the Zephyr, the driving excitement was suddenly gone.

And keeping impromptu vehicle testing in mind, rumour has it that the Benelli step-thru scooter, which did a sterling job during working hours at the Guardian in the early 70s also led a very interesting night and weekend life!

Which may well have included circuits around, through and finally rising to great heights on the roof a certain flat’s in Alford Forest Road.

These odd tricks are rumoured to be attributed to sub-editor Steve Devereux and his assistant Bruce, as they perhaps created their version of Mike Hailwood astride a Benelli during the Isle of Man TT. Motoring columnists over more recent

years have included Ron Daly, current sub-editor Donald Hurst and Chris Mole.

When launching new vehicles some of the motor companies, particularly so in the years prior to the financial downturn of 2008, went to extremes, both with launch activities including both challenging drive programmes and after match functions.

The opportunities to drive these new vehicles on not only most of NZ’s more interesting roads, but on some race tracks, both here and in Oz have been much appreciated and enjoyed over the years by myself and they previously mentioned.

Particularly so when having the likes of Greg Murphy and the late Chris Amon on hand for track days to advise, observe and then so easily demonstrate just how it should have been done.

The last twenty plus years have seen a huge leap forward in vehicle quality, reliability, affordability and choice as well as both vehicle safety and driver aids.

But sadly it seems an apparent corresponding drop off in driving skills, together with often-dangerous distractions like mobile phones.

That is something that Murphy, who very enthusiastically spearheads Holden’s Street Smart driving education programme for young drivers is determined to help change.

I’ve observed a day-long course at Ruapuna Raceway and strongly recommend this.

“Simplify and add lightness”, said Lotus founder Colin Chapman.

Which is pretty much the formula Mazda have stayed with for the MX-5, which has just celebrated its 30th birthday.

Well that is until the addition of Bernard as pictured here into the latest RF model.

But anyway, this MX-5 is well set up for such additions, for it has the latest version of the 2-litre Sky-Activ engine with an extra 17kW of power and 5Nm of torque for totals of 135kW and 205Nm respectively.

Happy 140th birthday Guardian – what a milestone, long may your wheels keep turning!

Bernard tries out the exciting new MX-5, which is also celebrating a birthday.

The venerable Mk 1 Zephyr served as an excellent office/rally car back in the day.

Greg Murphy spearheads Holden’s Street Smart driving education programme.

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A real doozy

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ne thing’s for sure.

When readers opened the first edition of the Ashburton Guardian 140 years ago today they would not have seen anything about cars.

The new-fangled horseless carriages were still some years away.

No doubt, as time went on, buggies, traps and drays were advertised in this newspaper.

Perhaps reports appeared regarding new models.

Carriages were probably reviewed, or maybe test driven to consider size, comfort, suspension and the likes.

Discussion about horsepower would have related to the actual creatures and the consumption of oats and other feed would have been equivalent to present day fuel consumption data.

Emissions were another matter!

Around 20 years into the life of the Guardian, cars began appearing in our district.

Motorised vehicles had a major impact on our community and became signifi-

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cant for the newspaper.

Dealers needed to advertise and automobiles made delivery to subscribers, especially those in rural areas, easier and more efficient.

Around the time the Guardian was born, several people who would go on to play a major role in the automobile industry and gain a place in automotive history also arrived in the world.

Walter Chrysler was born four years previously and Henry Ford – at that stage still a twinkle in his parents’ eyes – came along a little later.

One person who would have a marked influence on motoring was born in the

Whatever way you look at it, the Duesenberg was a stunning motor vehicle.

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ould the founders of this newspaper have imagined that this the 140th anniversary edition would feature a motoring section?

Probably not, but through foresight they would have expected things to evolve and those of us who are enthusiasts are glad the paper dedicates space to motoring matters.

If Roger, Steve and I had been around 140 years ago it would not have been as the Guardian Motoring Team.

The Horse and Gig Team doesn’t have quite the same ring to it!

But today we are the Guardian Motoring Team and we’re very pleased about that.

Our connection with the paper is great for all sorts of reasons, not the least being because the Guardian is like a Duesenberg – it’s a doozy!

same year as the Guardian – 1879 – their birthdates were quite close.

He was August (Augie) Duesenberg who along with his older brother Fred began working on cars at the beginning of the 20th century.

German-born Americans, they had previously raced bicycles and motorbikes, before producing very fast racing cars.

The Duesenbergs were soon setting speed records and ultimately built some passenger models which are now hugely collectable and still regarded as being among the most luxurious fast cars ever produced.

Some attribute the phrase “it’s a doozy,” meaning something awesome, extraordinary or powerful, to Duesenberg’s nickname, Duesy.

Duesenbergs were incredibly expensive in their day, with some costing as much as $25,000, a figure approaching half a million in today’s money.

With the cost came some amazing luxuries and other features which were well ahead of their time.

Family and vehicles intertwined

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istory is fascinating and because it’s a subject which he likes it’s always interesting and enjoyable to discuss it with Jim Lischner.

A recent chat was particularly fascinating, especially in light of the anniversary we’re celebrating today.

Jim mentioned that about the same time this newspaper appeared in our town, which was then a small community, a business was established by the Todd family in another small town – Heriot in Otago.

From quite humble beginnings the Todds would go on to be major players and innovators in the New Zealand automotive industry.

They would have connected with the Guardian, albeit indirectly via advertisements placed by local agents.

Jim’s family connection with the Todds goes right back to those early days and he has kindly agreed to us sharing it in a later column.

While the Todds ultimately moved from Heriot they never forgot and W. B. Bell in fact are still connected with the town.

Likewise the Guardian has always remembered the place of its birth.

The Guardian has stuck to its knitting in innovative ways.

As will be mentioned elsewhere in today’s edition, family have played a major role in the longevity of this newspaper.

The Bell family ownership, which began when the paper was 21 years old, coincided with the arrival of the first automobiles.

Over four generations Bruce and his ancestors have been guardians of our news.

We’re not sure if Robert Bell had a car, but he probably did.

His son W. B. Bell – Bruce’s grandfather – had a superb Wolseley 6/110, which Roger Hart and I recall as a magnificent, almost regal car, which seemed to be fitting for its owner and vice versa.

Bruce recalls his grandfather’s car in a similar way saying “it was two tone blue/grey and from a very young boy’s perspective it was just one down from a Rolls Royce!”

In the next generation Bruce’s dad John, who at various times owned both Fords and Holdens, was proud of his cars and it showed.

And of course Bruce – probably in part inspired by ancestral influences – likes (understatement) cars too.

Historical influences have a habit of becoming entwined and that’s certainly the case with families, motoring and this newspaper.

Cars and influential automotive people are part of Guardian history.

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ELECTRIC SPEED FREAK M

ADMAX Team Rider Zef Eisenberg raced in to the record books last weekend setting four new motorcycle records at the Straightliners ACU/FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) World Speed Records event at Elvington, North Yorkshire on board the Nottingham University Isle of Man TT zero bike.

International multiple ACU Motorbike speed record holder and self-proclaimed Speed Freak Zef Eisenberg achieved four FIM World records for an electric motorbike (unfaired), with an average kilometre speed of 185mph, and peak GPS speeds of 197mph. He secured the title for the fastest electric motorbike bike in the world (naked – no fairing).

The four new ACU national category records include: the FIM Flying Kilometre speed of 185.103 mph, with best one-way speed of 194.086mph, with GPS peak speeds of 197mph, the FIM Flying Quarter Mile, the FIM Standing Quarter, the FIM Standing Mile and ACU Flying Quarter Mile.

These speed records are particularly poignant to Eisenberg, as it was the bike that MADMAX rider Daley Mathison rode to the last three podium wins at the Isle of Man TT. Daley helped the Nottingham University Team to test and engineer the e-bike, providing them with valuable feedback on the bike’s behaviour.

Tragically Daley was killed this year in the Superbike round at the TT. Eisenberg promised Daley’s wife Natalie Mathison that he would help make Daley’s bike, the worlds’ fastest electric bike in the world, as a tribute to the racer.

“The record attempts had the full blessing of his wife Natalie. I felt that Daley rode the bike to victory with me. It was my absolute honour to do it in his memory”.

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A Panoramic Glass Roof is now available on the Continental GT W12, whilst High Gloss Carbon Fibre technical finish for fascia and doors is now offered on all models.

Courtesy of its powerful V8 petrol engine, the Continental GT V8 blends a lively and engaging drive with unparalleled levels of luxury and cutting-edge technology.

The V8 model has recently launched on Bentley’s car configurator, where customers can explore the vast array of options available to build a truly unique car matching perfectly individual tastes, needs and lifestyle.

Often regarded as one of the most configurable cars available, the Continental GT has seven billion different configurations possible alone.

Giving a new perspective on the occupants’ Extraordinary Journey whilst illuminating the exquisite craftsmanship of the Bentley’s cabin, a Panoramic Glass Roof is now offered as a cost option – starting at £3150 – on the Continental GT Coupe W12.

The sunroof is equipped with polarised glass that reduces glare allowing the passenger a clearer view of their surroundings, and an interior blind that is electronically

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operated from the console for when they wish to feel cocooned by the luxurious cabin of their Continental GT. The blind is clad in Alcantara® that matches one of the 15 headliner colours available from the Bentley palette.

A further stylish option now available on all Continental GT models is a High Gloss Carbon Fibre technical finish.

Reinforcing the luxurious feel for which Bentley cabins are renowned, the High Gloss Carbon Fibre is applied to the fascia and door waistrails, while the centre console is Piano Black Veneer.

The Continental GT V8 is equipped with a new-generation 4.0-litre, twin-turbocharged engine developing 542 bhp (550 PS) and 568 lb.ft (770 Nm) of torque.

It combines immense power with impressive fuel efficiency, plus a characterful V8 burble though the stylish quad exhaust pipes.

Designed, engineered and handcrafted in Crewe, the third generation Continental GT V8 and GT V8 Convertible combine driver-focused performance with exquisite refinement and cutting-edge technology.

The new GT V8 offers a unique breadth of grand touring abilities.

The third-generation Continental GT represents the pinnacle of Bentley’s design and engineering achievements and

sits in the modern luxury Grand Tourer segment that the British brand created in 2003 with the launch of the first-generation model.

Excellent weight distribution makes the dynamic GT V8 feel even more agile and responsive.

The new-generation 4.0-litre, 32-valve V8 petrol engine delivers a top speed of 198 mph (318 km/h) and 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds (0-100 km/h in 4.0 seconds) for the Coupe; and 0-60 mph in 4.0 seconds (0-100 km/h in 4.1 seconds) for the Convertible.

Spirited performance is complemented by refined efficiency, stemming partly from the ability of the engine to de-activate four of its eight cylinders in suitable conditions, without compromising the drive.

Stop-Start technology, which operates at near-to-stop speeds, is also available.

Effortlessly elegant, the new V8 is a truly breath-taking car, featuring 20-inch, 10-spoke painted alloy wheels and the option to choose from nine other designs measuring up to 22-inches.

Both Coupe and Convertible models are distinguished by quad exhaust pipes and subtle V8 badging to the front wings.

The Continental GT V8’s innovative,

luxurious interior offers unrivalled Grand Touring refinement. It seamlessly integrates natural materials such as the highest quality leathers and rare, sustainably sourced veneers into the finest handcrafted cabin.

A 10-speaker Bentley Audio system pumps out a powerful 650 watts of entertainment.

The GT V8 comes with an advanced, fully digital, driver-focused instrument panel and the optional Bentley Rotating Display. The latter features a 12.3-inch touchscreen housed in a three-sided unit, which revolves from the veneer to reveal the touchscreen, as well as three elegant analogue dials.

The new Continental GT V8 provides the driving character expected of a class-leading Grand Tourer, along with the opportunity to explore the range of performance available via the Bentley Drive Dynamics selector. The different modes offer the full breadth of performance, from class-leading refinement and comfort to focussed handling in Sport mode.

Both GT V8 models are both equipped with front and rear hollow, lightweight anti-roll bars for exceptional handling.

The air suspension further improves ride comfort and dynamic character, with the scope to vary from sporting spring stiffness to luxury limousine refinement.

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n October, mullet-wearing beer-bellied petrol-heads all over Australasia will bow their heads to mourn the two-year anniversary of a day that we should’ve all probably seen coming.

The last Aussie-made V8 sports sedan to roll off the Holden production line was a bright red Holden Commodore SS — gazed upon with furrowed brows and the odd tear by everyone at GM-Holden’s Elizabeth plant, as it was shuffled down the production line.

The moment signified the end of largescale Australian car manufacturing and the death of a string of vehicles many people considered as ‘ours’.

But – as history tells us – it was anything but the end of Ford and General Motors rear-wheel drive V8 battle. The Holden versus Ford war still rages on; although admittedly with the much more international theme of Camaro versus Mustang.

And finally, with the fresh arrival of the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, Kiwis are able to get a taste of America’s uber-powerful ‘super muscle’ sub-segment.

But, before we get ahead of ourselves, there’s the thorny issue of price to tackle.

In the land of apple pie, the ZL1 starts at roughly $94,290. Here in Aotearoa however, that price skyrockets to $173,990.

Most of this significant jump can be explained by the ZL1’s niche availability (less than 30 are set to come to New Zealand, and half are already sold) and the complexity of the right-hand drive conversion it gets at HSV’s Melbourne facility.

The quality of HSV’s conversion is unquestionable. However, the same can’t be

said of the quality of the rest of the interior.

Next to the standard 2SS, the ZL1 gains a pair of leather-appointed Recaro bucket seats, a nifty additional rear camera adapted into the rear-view mirror, and suede inserts all over the doors and steering wheel. But it’s less about what’s been added and more about what remains. The hard plastics on the dashboard, centre console, and doors are stretching things in a $100,000 car, and are an even bigger shame on something that costs almost twice that figure.

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selector, and the change in character from Tour to Sport to Track is among the most extreme I’ve ever come across.

Switch from Tour to Sport, and a number of things happen. The bi-modal exhaust slips down an octave, the magnetic damping firms up, and steering gets noticeably heavier. Explore further into Track mode and the steering gets heavier still and the transmission sharpens significantly at high speeds. So sharp is the transmission in Track mode that it makes the car borderline undriveable in average traffic.

The Camaro’s wings are also clipped in terms of noise. Australian and New Zealand ZL1s meet a 75db noise limit.

It still sounds like thunderous applause from the heavens when it’s singing proud in the higher rpms, but down low the

Bowtie’s engine note is a little flat.

Whether it’s wet or dry, the ZL1 struggles to put its power down with the harder tyre compound. They take their time in conducting temperature, and effectively render Chevrolet’s claimed 0–100km/h time of four seconds as a pipe dream.

That’s unless you get to keep the original Goodyears, which HSV NZ hopes to offer to local buyers for track-use purposes.

Until the ZL1 is fitted with those tyres though, it remains a wheel-spinning, tail-snapping monster.

Really, that’s part of what separates the Camaro from just about every other car in this story.

The driving experience it serves up is entirely its own; an equal measure of cool and chaotic.

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OUR VIEW

Time to dish out a little thanks . . .

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arning: The following opinion will be full of praise for different groups of people.

If you’ve somehow managed to skip past the pretty obvious in today’s special edition of the Guardian, firstly well done – that’s quite an effort and, secondly, it’s our 140th birthday.

Yes, that’s right. The little old Ashburton Guardian today turns 140 years old.

New Zealand’s only fully-owned, independent, daily newspaper has been here for 14 decades.

Not a bad effort really.

But in order to get there, it’s taken a heap of dedication from a wide-ranging amount of people. Some have made significant contributions over a long period of time, others have been along

for the journey for almost as long as we’ve been here and there are some who are new to the party.

No matter which category they fit into, everyone has played a role.

The first vote of thanks is probably the most important and it’s to the Bell family.

Four generations of one family who have ensured that this newspaper that you are reading right now isn’t tainted by the corporate world of media. We’ve been able to stay true to our core

beliefs of traditional journalism because of the Bell family’s passion for the newspaper business and, most importantly, this business.

For more than 100 years they’ve ridden through it all and stuck with the ship – something we should all be very grateful for because what you’re reading now would most likely be very different if they hadn’t.

The second vote of thanks is for our advertising base.

Newspapers don’t run on thin air. They need support from outside influences and it’s a true sign of support each and every day to open the paper and see some of this district’s most recognisable names using our space to advertise their products and services.

Then there is you – our readers.

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere today, we can have all the news and advertising we like, but the most important thing of all is having someone to share that with. Subscribers and casual readers come and go, but each is as important to us as the other.

Thanks also need to be given to our community for their willingness to talk.

Mid Canterbury is a hot-bed of news and happenings and on a daily basis we are picking up the phone, or paying a visit to a multitude of people to seek information for news items.

It’s not something that has to be done, but most people are willing and we are grateful for that each and every day.

And last, but certainly not least, it’s an especially big thank

you to the staff of the Guardian.

Both present and those who have gone.

A wise head in this office estimates the amount of people to have been on the payroll over the years to sit somewhere in the thousands.

Everyone who walks in the door and sits down at a desk in this business does so with a passion for delivering a quality product to the district. There’s times where that gets tough and then there are days where it’s a breeze.

But it’s done with the same amount of gusto – irrelevant of the circumstances.

It is a privilege to work for this business and that’s because of the people. Those I’ve given thanks to here, and a whole lot more too.

they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.

In 1996, in Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.

In 2013, following the success of her single Royals, Lorde’s first studio album Pure Heroine debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 charts Ten years ago: German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a second term, along with the centre-right majority that had eluded her four

years earlier, nudging Europe’s biggest economic power to the right.

Five years ago: The Mount Ontake volcano in central Japan erupted, killing 57 people. Hong Kong activists kicked off a massive civil disobedience protest to challenge Beijing over restrictions on voting reform.

One year ago: During a day-long hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford said she was “100 percent” certain that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, and

Kavanaugh then told senators that he was “100 percent certain” he had done no such thing; Today’s birthdays: Actress Kathleen Nolan is 86. Actor Wilford Brimley is 85. Actor Claude Jarman Jr. is 85. Author Barbara Howar is 85. Singermusician Randy Bachman is 76. Rock singer Meat Loaf is 72.

Actress Liz Torres is 72. Actor A Martinez is 71. Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is 69. Actor/opera singer Anthony Laciura is 68. Singer Shaun Cassidy is 61. Comedian Marc Maron is 56. Rock singer Stephan Jenkins is 55. Actor Patrick Muldoon is 51. Singer Mark

Calderon is 49. Actress Amanda Detmer is 48. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is 47. Rock singer Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down) is 41.

Christian rock musician Grant Brandell is 38. Actress Anna Camp is 37. Rapper Lil’ Wayne is 37. Singer Avril Lavigne is 35.

Bluegrass singer/musician Sierra Hull is 28. Actor Sam Lerner is 27.

Actor Ames McNamara is 12.

Thought for today: “I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.” – Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), American humorist (1818-1885).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Friday, September 27, the 270th day of 2019. There are 95 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On September 27, 1879, the first edition of the Ashburton Guardian was printed.

On this date: In 1779, John Adams was named

by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s peace terms with Britain.

In 1825, the first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated

by George Stephenson in England.

In 1854, the first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurred when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survived.

In 1917, French sculptor and painter Edgar Degas died in Paris at age 83.

In 1935, Judy Garland, at age 13, signed a seven-year contract with MGM. In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War Two. In 1942, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra performed together for the last time, prior to Miller’s entry into the army. in 1974, New Zealander William Sutch was charged with spying against New Zealand.

In 1979, Congress gave its final approval to forming the US Department of Education.

In 1991, President George H.W. Bush announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating all US battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.

In 1994, more than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the US Capitol to sign the “Contract with America,” a 10-point platform

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Knives out at UN G

reta Thunberg: jumpedup schoolgirl or saint in the making?

Swedish, angry, young person and furious climate-change activist, Greta Thunberg, glowered and glared at her United Nations audience in New York this week, as she berated every delegate there present, accusing them of – among a number of other things – “stealing her childhood”, and asking them, with intense ferocity, “How dare they?” – then going on to describe a world apparently in its last stages of degradation and collapse.

Her challenge to the comfortably suited and seated representatives from the 147 countries on display, must have at least jolted them out of their comfort zones when faced by such an emotional outburst, delivered with almost overwhelming violence.

Greta scowled and screwed her features, to the point of hatred, while tears streamed down her fired-up cheeks.

By any standards it was a tour-de-force and, at once, drew stark attention to what we are assured is the “nuclear moment” of our time, man-made climate change or, as other less convinced opinion-makers would have it, simply the remorseless revolution of our world continuing on its pre-ordained path as it has since the ‘Big Bang’ of aeons ago.

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But apart from lack of choice and inconvenience for regional passengers, what else does it mean?

An inevitable price hike on Air NZ flights is coming surely? Regional passengers should rightly be worried. The provinces never get a great run on airlines: they come, they dabble, they go. It’s become a familiar pattern.

But champion of the regions Shane Jones says not if he has anything to do with it – he’ll watching Air NZ closely. I guess that’s an early shot across the bow for whoever the new CEO is.

Jones has warned Air NZ not to use this as an opportunity to “gouge” people, but aside from an initial PR flurry of offering

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Inevitably, Thunberg’s heartfelt oration has produced sharply diverging reactions, with the Arch Denier himself, Trump, even coming up with a sarcastic rejoinder with which to belittle the young crusader.

Nevertheless, though world-weary adults may yawn and reach again for the gin bottle, it seems a fair guess that Greta is speaking, with great sincerity, for her generation and those of the future.

The spread of world-wide youthful demonstrations on this issue would suggest their elders and betters should not feel too smug about it.

Meanwhile, Jacinda Ardern was graciously given a twenty-five minute audience with The President, which seems to have been conspicuously bland, with Jacinda trotting out her oft-repeated but deeply-felt thoughts about the lessons to be drawn from the Christchurch massacre, six moths on, as well as trade talks and the like.

Notably absent from these discussions, any mention of climate change, no doubt at the

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Greta Thunberg behest of the President.

Lots of smiles, effusive comments as to the effectiveness of the talks, praise for Ardern, and the President’s admiration for all things New Zealand, in particular, golfing great, Sir Bob Charles!

All in all Jacinda’s brief audience with “the leader of the free world” didn’t amount to much.

It was hardly in the same passionate bracket as Thunberg’s tirade at the UN but that depth of feeling is a rare quality these days, if on the rise.

Back home, Winston was thor-

oughly, if inevitably’ grumpily enjoying his latest stint of acting PM, a role he plays more and more these days as Jacinda flits her way around the world to yet another mega meeting with all her other international heavy mates.

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discounted fares to affected Jetstar passengers, you get the feeling Air NZ will be creeping those prices up any day now.

But should we be surprised that Jetstar’s bailing out?

It’s been losing money and its reputation hasn’t been great.

It has a well-known nickname which I won’t repeat here that starts with “Sh” and ends in “Star”.

Jetstar was often the subject of news headlines for delayed and cancelled flights, poor service, and chaotic airport practises. I don’t know that it was any worse than Air NZ necessarily, but it seemed to unfortunately garner a lot of bad press.

They did offer cheap flights though, an alternative service to the national carrier, and help keep Air NZ’s flights competitively priced – for

that they will be missed.

Jetstar airline blames weakening demand and fuel prices for the withdrawal. There’ll be other reasons like capacity to grow and whether or not the regions are even that important to them if they’re not making any money.

But for all the players who’ve tried to take on Air NZ in the regions, none of them seem to go the distance. Even Air NZ has had to cut some regional services.

You have to give them credit, they’ve by and large hung in there and have served the regions better than anyone else.

So for all the people bemoaning the loss of Jetstar, the hard reality is not

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enough people used it.

The onus now is on Air NZ to do the right thing, to hang in there – and to not gouge passengers who use them.

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Fonterra vows to clean house NZME Fonterra has posted a net loss of $605 million for the July year, slightly better than expected, on asset writedowns of $826m, mainly on its offshore businesses.

This follows the previous year’s loss of $196m and has sparked a billion dollars worth of asset sales and a significant change in direction for the dairy giant.

New Zealand’s biggest company is cleaning house after a disastrous financial performance and is expected to cut a swathe of staff at its Auckland head office.

The co-op was forced to delay the release of its annual accounts while auditor PwC worked through significant accounting adjustments related to the writedowns.

The Financial Markets Authority has also been in discussions with Fonterra after a formal complaint from a shareholder about its financial accounts from 20152018.

The writedowns included a $203m impairment of its China Farms investment and $237m

on its New Zealand food service business. The overall figure would have been worse if not for a $100m gain on the disposal of ice cream company Tip Top. In its release yesterday, Fonterra said its normalised earnings before interest and tax was $819 million, down 9 per cent. It confirmed no dividend would be paid for the year to July 31 as it pays down debt, and announced a final farmgate milk Price for the 2018/19 season of $6.35/kg milksolids.

But a major change to the company’s dividend policy and an upbeat future earnings per share target suggest brighter days ahead for its long-suffering farmer-shareholders and listed unit holders.

The five-year plan is to deliver a target of 50c per share, and the dividend payment will from now on be 40-60 per cent of reported net profit after tax, instead of 6575 per cent, reflecting market criticism that the company doesn’t retain enough earnings.

The co-op forecast a 6.25-7.25 per kgMS milk price range for the

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“We made the decision to reduce the carrying value of several of our assets and take account of one-off accounting adjustments.”

Commenting on the underlying performance, Hurrell said Fonterra’s normalised earnings per share for the year was 17 cents, which was above the last forecast for the year of 10-15 cents.

“The gross margin from our largest business, New Zealand Ingredients, was $1332 million, up 3 per cent on last year due to increased sales and price performance.

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2019/20 year and forecast earnings per share of 15-25 cents.

Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell said that 2019 was incredibly tough for the co-op but it was also the year Fonterra made decisions to set it up for the future.

“These included us reflecting changing realities in asset values and future earnings, lifting our financial discipline, getting clear on why we exist and completing a strategy review.

“Many of these calls were painful, but they were needed to reset our business and achieve success in the future.

also improved on last year, with gross margin up 10 per cent.

“This was despite lower total sales volumes, following a slow start to butter sales in Greater China and Asia.

“But we can’t ignore that we had a number of challenges across the year – these included Australia Ingredients, our businesses in Latin America and the consumer businesses in Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and New Zealand.”

Sales revenue was down 2 per cent at $20.1 billion.

Hurrell announced a new organisational structure to enable the cooperative to deliver its new business strategy.

It would move from two large central businesses, ingredients and consumer and food service, to three in-market sales and marketing units that would be close to customers. Called APAC for Asia Pacific, Greater China and AMENA covering Africa, Middle East, Europe, North Asia and the Americas, the new units would be led by a new team working under the office of the chief operating officer.

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t was a mixed week for global sharemarkets, with political tensions continuing to sway markets.

Locally, Spark’s share price bounced back after a bad start to the telco’s Rugby World Cup coverage, the OCR remained unchanged, and Fonterra reported another large loss.

The Rugby World Cup coverage Sparks headaches.

Spark’s Rugby World Cup streaming debut got off to a rocky start following its poor-quality coverage of the first All Blacks match.

Spark was forced to play the second half of the game on free-toair TV after many customers had issues with their stream.

The stock sunk early Monday following the fiasco, however, has since recovered, with news the network is testing 5G in Alexandra.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand announced the Official Cash Rate (OCR) is to stay at 1.0 per cent.

This announcement was in-line with market expectations, following the widely unexpected record 50 basis-points cut in August.

Governor Adrian Orr said that reduced demand for local goods and services, in combination with overseas political tensions, continued to weigh on the economic outlook.

Fonterra reported a $605m loss on Thursday, with CEO Miles Hurrell saying the year was “incredibly tough”.

Its share price is down more than 26 per cent so far this year.

The dairy co-operative recognised a significant write-down on assets, although announced a new

Jeremy Flood ON THE MARKETS

strategy that will see it employ a more back to basics approach.

The focus for the co-op coming up will be on domestic milk production.

The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) says monetary policy has become less effective in Australia.

Philip Lowe raised concerns of softening consumer spending, saying monetary policy has become less effective and that there has been no growth at all in consumption per person.

Lowe said that this was an “unusual outcome at a time when employment is growing strongly”.

However, he still expects Australian house prices to rise further as people use interest rate cuts to reduce debt instead of increasing consumer spending.

Many are expecting the RBA to follow global trends and cut interest rates again in the future.

Investors remain highly sensitive to trade war headlines and political tension.

Tensions appear to have increased in relation to the US and China trade war, with China scrapping its US farm tour and President Trump saying he will not accept a “bad deal” in trade talks.

Meanwhile, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launch of formal impeachment

proceedings against the President on Tuesday alleging that Trump asked Ukraine’s President to investigate political opponent Joe Biden.

Across the Atlantic, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament was deemed ‘unlawful’ by Britain’s Supreme Court and he faced angry MPs upon his return to parliament.

Germany’s Purchasing Managers Index fell to its lowest level since the Global Financial Crisis.

The German Manufacturing PMI fell to a post-GFC low of 41.4, while the Eurozone equivalent wasn’t much better, falling to 49.1, its lowest in nearly seven years.

The decline in these key PMIs highlights the slowing of the European economy.

Travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed this week.

After 178 years of operation, UK tour operator Thomas Cook announced that it would be liquidating its assets and filing for bankruptcy on Monday.

Around 600,000 travellers worldwide were stranded following the downfall.

Thomas Cook had debts of £1.7bn, which the CEO called “insurmountable”.

Despite Thomas Cook sinking, some saw this as an opportunity for rivals and travel stocks leaped following the news.

Jeremy Flood works for Craigs Investment Partners.

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$1,365, C0, 295m

S & B Evans M Dempsey J McInerney J McInerney B Dann N Wanhalla J McInerney L Waretini S & B Evans J McInerney

45211 Just Izzy 17.35 72653 Homebush Finn 17.21 17648 Regal Jock nwtd 41647 Sozin’s Symphony 17.58 43551 Twizel Storm 17.55 36256 Citizen Aguero 17.56 31747 Goldstar Whitey 17.45 61164 Don’t Cry Joni 17.62 75148 High Violet 17.40

$1,365, C0, 295m

J McInerney S & B Evans D Roberts G Cleeve J & D Fahey J McInerney L Waretini J McInerney S & B Evans A Botherway

CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES

$2,860, C2, 520m

R Wales S & B Evans J & D Fahey C Roberts C Roberts J & D Fahey S & B Evans G Cleeve J & D Fahey J & D Fahey

CLARKSON’S SIGN STUDIO DASH

$1,685, C2, 295m

B Dann J McInerney J McInerney J McInerney M Grant J McInerney S & B Evans A Lee R Blackburn

$7,500, NZRSf, 520m

L Waretini N Wanhalla R Wales D J Lane R Wales J & D Fahey J & D Fahey R Wales A Bradshaw A Bradshaw

10

SPECTATOR’S BAR & BISTRO DASH

11

I PAVE CONCRETE SPRINT FINAL

$1,685, C2, 295m

J McInerney H Anderton J McInerney J McInerney M Grant J McInerney S & B Evans G Cleeve R Blackburn Hart & Taylor

$1,900, C2f, 295m

51482 Know Approval 17.28 22132 Smash Over 17.44 34361 Opawa Vinny 17.23 83241 Know Charisma 17.19 11212 Super Over Drama 17.16 55213 Amuri George 17.33 31611 Dyna Quark 17.52 74642 Reign Of Fire 17.36 65143 Goldstar Marvely 17.35 72653 Homebush Finn 17.21

3:18PM

G Cleeve M Grant J & D Fahey G Cleeve S & B Evans J McInerney C Roberts J McInerney S & B Evans J McInerney

12

PROTEXIN DASH

$1,685, C2, 295m

42672 Cosmic Jase 17.42 56731 Amuri Liv 17.28 83873 Homebush Tesan 17.28 55444 Broken Penniless 17.40 47144 Goldstar Power 17.49 64F21 Vasterbottenost 17.47 84867 Punch On Rex nwtd 16757 Lucky Scar 17.44 75148 High Violet 17.40 48454 Special Affair 17.30

J McInerney J McInerney J McInerney G Cleeve S & B Evans A Lee J McInerney R Wales R Blackburn R Blackburn

c M6

Gore Races Today at Gore

September 27

Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Slow; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1600m; Straight: 350m; Rail: True; Weather: Few Showers DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6 12:30PM OPT 337

1

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 2-3-4, 6-7-8 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 3-4-5-6-7-8 $10,000, MDN, 1335m Jockey

1 55242 Gerry Joyce (8) 58.5 J Gordon 2 0454X Our Boy Ritchie (4) 58.5 K & A Tyler 3 24X08. Picture This (18) 58.5 S Prince 4 57X0X All About Roy (13) 58.5 J Wyllie 5 0956X Mr Intelligence (2) 58.5 N & B Blatch 6 3506X Rock Master (5) 58.5 S McKay 7 0X Shaker (3) 58.5 B & S Anderton 2 8 33053 She’ll Cat Choux (10) 56.5 A Frye 9 Dublin Rose 3 10 49733. Belle South (19) 56.5 J Dalton 4 11 2 Secret Sound (14) 56.5 T Kennedy 12 030X Melanite (1) 56.5 B & S Anderton 13 5360X June Rose (12) 56.5 S Tyler 14 Neruda (16) 56.5 T Kennedy 0 15 0 Tramway Road (11) 58.5 L Beck 0 16 0X0 Gas Craic (15) 56.5 J Dalton 0 17 600X6 Ray’s In Command (9) 58.5 T Kennedy 0 18 60X0X Trickle Treat (17) 58.5 S McKay 0 19 69L0X Zedaam (7) 56.5 A Hoffman 0 20 X3474. To Sir With Love (6) 58.5 S Blair-Edie

1

1:05PM 338

2

LIVESTOCK SUPPLIES HANDICAP

1 64527 Bakela (5) 59 T Kennedy 2 0226X Shirley Maude (3) 58 L Vaughan 3 2X707. Nesta (4) 58 S Blair-Edie 4 4 8040X Nopele (2) 58 J Gordon 5 7108X Son Of Surf (8) 57 S McKay 6 0212X The Style (9) 56.5 R Dennis 7 X2016 Elegido (6) 55.5 S Woodsford 8 15839. Opio Rose (7) 55.5 S Blair-Edie 2 9 10815 Regent Street (10) 55.5 A Schwarz 1 10 52654 Promising (1) 54 K & A Tyler

3 4 2

3

K Mudhoo K Asano (a3) J Laking L Callaway R Mudhoo (a3) T Comignaghi C Campbell (a2) K Kwo (a3) SCRATCHED B Murray (a2) C Barnes J Lowry K Williams C Johnson T Moseley

$11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1335m

3

1:40PM OPT 339

8 16048 Tachibana (3) 55.5 J Dalton 9 4X70X Whackomaco (11) 55 S Laming 10 79079. Little Flick (12) 54.5 J Gordon 11 X0090 Garment (8) 54 M Forde 12 06036 Boyslightup (10) 54 A Frye 13 Dangerous Pony 14 X8X88 Dream Rich (6) 54 R McKenzie

2:15PM 340

OPT

B Murray (a2) T Moseley J Laking R Mudhoo (a3) T Comignaghi C Campbell (a2) C Johnson A Bohorun (a3) L Callaway K Kwo (a3)

2:50PM OPT 341

3:26PM 342

OPT

$10,000, MDN, 1200m

5

6

4:01PM OPT 343

4 2 1 3

C Campbell (a2) SCRATCHED K Asano (a3) R Mudhoo (a3) SCRATCHED T Moseley SCRATCHED C Johnson K Williams A Bohorun (a3) K Kwo (a3)

ADVANCE AGRICULTURE HANDICAP

$10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m

7

4:36PM 344

8

S Toolooa (a3) B Murray (a2) T Moseley T Comignaghi SCRATCHED K Asano (a3) C Barnes SCRATCHED C Campbell (a2) C Johnson K Williams SCRATCHED K Kwo (a3) L Callaway

AON INSURANCE BROKERS HANDICAP $12,000, OPN HCP, 1800m

A Bohorun (a3) K Kwo (a3) T Moseley J Lowry K Mudhoo L Callaway C Barnes

KEVIN COYLE MEMORIAL

$10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1800m

1 3137X Pableau (15) 59 A Dickson 2 25803 Fly Without Wings (13) 58.5 S Blair-Edie 3 00180. Karm ’N’ Easy (12) 58.5 K & A Tyler 4 28475. Midnite Kaos (11) 58 A Dickson 5 95437. Red Major (1) 58 G Gibson 1 6 60X01 Pushyaluck (2) 57.5 S Woodsford 4 7 70264 Sun Genes (6) 57.5 K & A Tyler 8 75726 Bet Ya Wood (10) 57 T Kennedy 9 65090 Smokem Up (14) 57 E Winsloe 1 1 10 07202 Spider Lily (5) 56.5 L Stewart 2 11 78354 Eager Beaver (16) 56 K & A Tyler 3 12 86475. Mrs Gee Eye (3) 55.5 White/Callaway 0 13 78405. Olaf (4) 56.5 S McKay 0 14 250X9. Franconi (8) 56.5 G Robinson 0 15 907X0. Minue (9) 54 N & B Blatch 0 16 33053 She’ll Cat Choux (7) 54 A Frye

R Mudhoo (a3) A Bohorun (a3) K Kwo (a3) K Mudhoo J Laking C Johnson K Asano (a3) B Murray (a2) T Moseley T Comignaghi C Campbell (a2) L Callaway

d M9 Whanganui Dogs

Today at Hatrick Raceway

1

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 7-8-9-10-11-12 ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C1/2

PX # REC Greyhound Fastest time

3

1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

21348 Zara Zara 17.81 33323 Sozin’s Fortune 17.93 18681 Dottie Bell 18.09 36564 Bigtime Chris 17.56 1245F Big Time Dusty 18.09 71577 Bigtime Boy 17.76 78683 Homebush Minnie 17.61 51382 Big Time Clare 18.02 8X888 Bigtime Kiowa nwtd

2

5:28PM 229

3

5:58PM 225

4

ADEPT ACCOUNTANTS C1/2

6:28PM 222

5

ACCELL LEADING THE WAY IN CANINE THERAPY C4/5

6:58PM 212

6

LIQUORLAND WANGANUI C2/3

7:28PM 208

7

PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION C4/5

7:58PM 204

8

THE ROCK 95.2FM C3/4

8:28PM 197

9

8:58PM 193

10

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

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

3 4 2 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

OPT

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

2 1

3 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

OPT

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

1

OPT

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

1

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

2 3

September 27

OPT

3 $1,685, C1/2, 305m 2 Trainer

M Flipp J McInerney J & D Bell G & S Fredrickson L Cole P B Briggs J McInerney L Cole Agent & Williams

L Bell4

5:09PM 232

OPT

1 3 2

OPT

Weather: Few Showers DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6 4:49PM OPT 237

10 82233 Bright Concept 17.84

OPT

$12,000, OPN HCP, 1200m

1 3534X Come Fly With Me (3) 60 S Blair-Edie 2 47X41 Lochan Ora (6) 60 K & A Tyler 3 31531 Nomen Ludi (4) 59.5 E Winsloe 1 4 15248. Londonderry Air (1) 56.5 B & S Anderton 5 24011 Ringbolt (7) 54 J Gordon 6 2210X Road To Redemption (2) 54 A Schwarz 7 00110. Choice du Jeu (5) 54 J Curran

OPT

J Laking L Callaway A Bohorun (a3) J Lowry K Asano (a3) R Mudhoo (a3) T Comignaghi K Mudhoo T Moseley SCRATCHED C Barnes SCRATCHED K Kwo (a3) SCRATCHED C Campbell (a2) C Johnson

CROYDEN CONTRACTING HANDICAP

1 04452 Vice Marshall (7) 60 S Clark 2 195X0 Touch The Sky (12) 58 A Frye 1 3 853X3 Free And Easy (4) 57.5 N & B Blatch 4 0566X Non Blonde (8) 57 S McKay 5 Fascino Lass 6 6X10X Times Time (9) 56.5 K & A Tyler 7 0X902. Drumstorm (11) 56.5 L Beck 8 Louis Luck 4 9 47X5P Fine Bouquet (10) 56 A Hoffman 10 7758X Marquita Miss (3) 55 T Kennedy 3 11 74037. Starmaker (5) 55 S Woodsford 12 Iffida 0 13 6X785 Knutquacker (2) 54 E Winsloe 1 0 14 0000X Park Ranger (1) 55.5 B Tapper 0 15 9768X Expedition (6) 54 N & B Blatch

2

4 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1335m 2 T Moseley J Lowry SCRATCHED K Kwo (a3) C Campbell (a2) K Asano (a3) R Beeharry (a3)

BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM MAIDEN

1 X1864 Irish Excuse (4) 62.5 E Winsloe 1 2 Sword Of Osman 3 4619X Timy Tyler (6) 57.5 K & A Tyler 4 6177X King Pin (3) 56 S McKay 5 Darci Mac 2 6 10056 Dreaming Easy (5) 54 S Tyler 7 Waimate Bill 4 8 X4621 Always On Call (7) 54 T Kennedy 3 9 43184 Black Label (8) 54 S Tyler 10 281X0. Moss Jazz (1) 54 S Blair-Edie 11 3426X What’s Up Alf (2) 54 K & A Tyler

1

LONGFORD TAVERN / FALLS HOTEL

1 0383X Aulyn Star (5) 59.5 J Dalton 2 X410X Haywood (9) 58 A Hewitson 3 Qashqai 4 21 Hazelnut (1) 57 K & A Tyler 5 4354X Morrellmac (7) 57 L Vaughan 6 86083 Abbey Kay (4) 56.5 S Tyler 7 7182X He’s Got Power (2) 56 K & A Tyler

4

R Mudhoo (a3) S Toolooa (a3) K Mudhoo C Johnson B Murray (a2) SCRATCHED L Callaway

1 4538X Deceptio Visus (12) 58.5 S Prince 2 9X43X Renounce (15) 58.5 N & B Blatch 3 3 X3474. To Sir With Love (4) 58.5 S Blair-Edie 4 07X75 Hurricane Aubert (6) 58.5 S Prince 1 5 6X348. Rosie Glow (3) 56.5 K & A Tyler 6 Icanttellya (11) 56.5 G & M Eade 7 Love To Dream (1) 56.5 S McKay 8 8X Mother Goose (14) 56.5 J Gordon 4 9 Show Park (10) 56.5 S Tyler 10 Exaltation 11 Just Henri (2) 54 G Robinson 12 Youneverknow 0 13 0 Busy (13) 56.5 G Gibson 1 14 Rosso Cavalla 0 15 8X Speights (8) 56 B & S Anderton 0 16 6X0 Ginny (5) 54 T Kennedy 0 17 87X Sandy Cool (9) 54 G Robinson 0 18 28066. Buster Bolt (7) 58.5 S Price

2

HOKONUI CONTRACTING MAIDEN

PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer

OPT

1

NZ RACING SERIES NOVICE FINAL

32587 Zefside 17.74 73753 Right On Time 17.52 33563 Homebush Hotshot 17.46 82514 Punch On Buzz 17.37 56751 Smash Surprise 17.49 11675 Homebush Velma 17.46 33332 Goldstar Renee 17.42 23225 Know Scrutiny 17.24 75148 High Violet 17.40 15673 Culvie Lass 17.33

2:59PM

$1,365, C0, 295m

DURASTEEL STRUCTURES PH 033796195 DASH

48214 Opawa Lara 30.10 64672 Kia Tere 30.48 11621 Go Vegas 30.19 31544 Darla Bale 30.42 15122 Neptune Allen 30.51 38X54 Spring Mechanic 29.96 65143 Goldstar Marvely 30.17 42236 Know Leave 30.71 16658 Max Dancer 30.13 37335 Canya Sniper 29.98

2:07PM

1 2

5

6

$1,365, C0, 295m

BEACH CAFE & WINE BAR DASH

87637 Impressive High nwtd 65877 Goldstar Perrie nwtd 66F27 Captain Davo nwtd Know Baby nwtd Opawa Di nwtd 3 Homebush Mandy nwtd 54252 Ohoka Megan nwtd 85 Chicago Head nwtd 88 Goldstar Beau nwtd 5658 Sheer Flattery nwtd

1:51PM

4

4

57868 Goldstar McQueen nwtd Ginger Cracker nwtd 2 Mitcham Manering nwtd 64438 Homebush Jennia nwtd Calm Inferno nwtd TF384 Cancun nwtd 87 Bound Up nwtd 2T4 Prince Zulu nwtd 88 Goldstar Beau nwtd 26685 Homebush Liz nwtd

1:31PM

N Wanhalla N Wanhalla A Joyce S & B Evans A Bradshaw K Cassidy R Wales J & D Fahey D J Lane N Wanhalla

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

1

9

16231 Creme Brulee 30.33 2T142 Hustle Ace 30.72 41722 Go Punter Go nwtd 21111 Tricky 30.32 27814 My Giovanni 30.57 11231 Opawa Toddy 30.25 26151 Go Diego 30.38 74827 Opawa Al 30.53 24228 High Sparrow nwtd 43324 Barrel Runner nwtd

2:40PM

KOLORFUL KANVAS SPRINT

57263 Punters Kirsty nwtd 34757 Homebush Maree nwtd Two Be Frank nwtd 5732 Cool Beans nwtd 77666 Goldstar Hadlee nwtd 46465 Mulberry Rock nwtd 545 King Theoden nwtd 67423 Eric Blueblood nwtd 88 Goldstar Beau nwtd 78565 Jinja Twinkle nwtd

1:14PM

B Dann G Cleeve J McInerney M Grant J McInerney R Blackburn S & B Evans J McInerney S & B Evans H Anderton

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAY ANDERSON DASH

58555 Zara Jewel nwtd 43322 Billy Budd nwtd 46255 Homebush Brave nwtd Homebush Odette nwtd Curly Bill nwtd 46 Mitcham Treasure nwtd 33253 Dreaming Abbie nwtd Know Majority nwtd 88 Goldstar Beau nwtd 67666 Grey Wind nwtd

12:56PM

2

3

$1,365, C0, 295m Trainer

STEVE ANNGOW DRAPES & BLINDS PH0272719588 STAKES $2,390, C0, 520m

43842 Billy Ray nwtd 22553 Trevor Wilks nwtd 52323 Jinja Dylan nwtd 5636 Goldstar Smithie nwtd 52 Max Volume nwtd 64564 Mulberry Tip nwtd 72324 My Pablo nwtd 5X231 Sheza Looker 30.74 Gary nwtd 34367 Ain’t He Lucky nwtd

12:39PM

2

2

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

3

J M Lane

Compiled by

4 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

43455 Allen Mack 30.10 22115 Bavaro nwtd 72148 Jay Grim nwtd 28112 Big Time Vince 30.91 11155 Simply Smooth 30.46 73432 Bigtime Fred 30.29 87652 Bigtime Mike 30.42 11221 Cheeseball nwtd 87767 Dyna Bryleigh 31.11

33871 Bigtime Banjo 17.59 76131 Big Time Flash 17.60 76153 Bigtime Eve 17.41 67353 Bigtime Pearl 17.64 11727 Hey Fernando 17.88 42414 Bigtime Emjay 17.52 41166 Eye Far 17.62 42215 Big Time Billie 17.67 7618X Alamein Stryda 17.74 17785 Idol Nifty 17.46

46466 Token Vikkers 17.75 88X88 Thunderation 17.48 18348 Butterball 17.59 38686 Mitsuta 17.61 74846 Bigtime Charlote 17.77 21587 Bigtime Maci 17.67 14781 Alamein Tane 17.86 58823 Go Ash 17.61 8X888 Bigtime Kiowa nwtd

48175 Hip Hop Rapper 17.49 52687 Fifi 17.38 81567 Three Amigos 17.55 76346 Dyna Vernon nwtd 14636 Dynamite Danger 17.69 18574 Bigtime Stella 17.58 43635 Queen Big League 17.61 63287 Bigtime Sheer 17.62 7618X Alamein Stryda 17.74 17785 Idol Nifty 17.46

56317 Bigtime Bruno 30.39 31457 Buddy Loaded 30.62 88684 Trojan Hoarse 30.04 22772 Bigtime Benji 30.44 87221 Rowdy Ruby 30.39 62446 Blazin’ Carter 29.83 5F244 Cossie Cooper 30.35 11518 Big Time Ocean 30.52 75526 Bigtime Caleb 30.12 27275 Our Hemi 30.70

16234 Big Time Chance 17.78 51178 Big Time Frosty 17.64 72518 Bigtime Ziggy 17.66 33137 Bigtime Bronx 17.65 51541 Alamein Lady 17.79 88223 Bigtime Bremner 17.48 43171 Viking Ash 17.79 15424 Big Time Lebron 17.88 7618X Alamein Stryda 17.74 17785 Idol Nifty 17.46

21534 Nature’s Gent 29.68 51781 Bigtime Rod 29.91 43734 Gray Bale 30.23 24353 Tyson’s Quest 29.98 11142 Bigtime Cooper 30.05 84441 Bigtime Homie 30.16 52255 Bigtime Annie 30.58 13367 She’s For Us 30.30

2 3

11

$1,685, C1/2, 305m

J McInerney1 S J Phillips N Udy M Flipp D P Symes S Gommans L Cole1 L Cole Agent & Williams2 Kettlewell & Phillips3

FIRST SECURITY C1/2 4

2X743 Tiger Uppercut 17.89 35468 Bigtime Molly 17.71 47432 Guru’s Choice 17.76 75624 Nippa-A-Spot 17.82 62524 Hashtag Blessed 17.81 47322 Bigtime Spark 17.74 81545 Thrilling Ivy 18.10 65816 Light Cruiser 18.02 8X888 Bigtime Kiowa nwtd 12647 Cawbourne Moss 17.66

9:28PM 189

OPT

WHANGANUI CHRONICLE C1/2

26734 Queen Kong 17.77 77753 Bigtime Luna 17.95 37385 Mr. Postman 17.85 13846 Scoobasi 17.68 42845 Bigtime Baxter 17.67 55187 Homebush Shea 17.91 22446 Bigtime Honey 17.67 55835 Bigtime Forest nwtd 8X888 Bigtime Kiowa nwtd 23687 Alamein Dip 17.95

1 16723 Zara Cheebee 17.73 2 67414 Breed Apart 17.75

$1,685, C1/2, 305m

L Bell L Cole Agent & Williams J McInerney N Udy G & S Fredrickson K Gommans G Atwood Agent & Williams M Roberts

$2,860, C1/2, 520m

M Roberts G & S Fredrickson J & D Bell L Cole L Cole L Cole L Cole L Cole M Roberts

$2,860, C4/5, 305m

L Cole2 L Cole3 L Cole L Cole1 G & S Fredrickson G & S Fredrickson M Flipp4 L Cole Kettlewell & Phillips M Flipp

$2,035, C2/3, 305m 4

N Udy G & S Fredrickson0 M Gowan D Edlin L Cole S Kite Kettlewell & Phillips M Flipp Agent & Williams

$2,860, C4/5, 305m

B Marsh J McArthur2 J & D Bell1 M Roberts G & S Fredrickson3 L Cole G & S Fredrickson L Cole3 Kettlewell & Phillips2 M Flipp

$4,030, C3/4, 520m

L Cole G Hodgson L Cole L Cole1 S Kite L Cole M Olden L Cole4 L Cole A Turnwald

AON CPF C4

$2,390, C4, 305m

L Cole L Cole L Cole G & S Fredrickson Kettlewell & Phillips4 L Cole3 N Udy L Cole Kettlewell & Phillips1 M Flipp

WATERLOO CUP (GROUP 1) HEATS

$4,735, C5, 520m 2 A Turnwald L Cole M Roberts B Marsh 1 L Cole L Cole 2 L Cole 4 M Roberts

RIVERCITY GAS C2/3

$2,035, C2/3, 305m

M Flipp M Olden

GUARDIAN

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

4 1

85434 Sozin’s Noir 17.71 14811 Funzalo 17.61 5612F Bigtime Cutie 17.82 24352 Bigtime Jamie 17.71 61155 Chilli Ragnar 17.93 61177 Naharis 17.73 8X888 Bigtime Kiowa nwtd

9:58PM OPT 185 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1 2 3 4

12

J McInerney B Hodgson L Cole L Cole N Udy D Edlin Agent & Williams

BOOK YOUR FUNCTION @ HATRICK C2/3 L Cole L Cole W Kite M Olden M Flipp J McInerney J & D Bell G & S Fredrickson Agent & Williams

b M8 Addington Harness Today at Addington

September 27

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 5-6-7-8-9-10 COMMODORE AIRPORT HOTEL MOBILE PACE

1 0 Pay Me Smart (1) G Burgess 2 86595 Woodlea Diego (2) T Twidle 3 Arden’s Reality (3) Dalgety/Purdon 4 Pur Dan (4) Purdon/Rasmussen 5 Mr Clooney (5) S Blair 6 30X4 Chase The Hat Trick (6) K Chapman 7 X5607 Georgie Zukov (7) B Waldron 8 0 Make Believe (8) J Harrington 9 22 Gilligans Island (9) P Court

1 4

R Close M Williamson B Orange T Williams C D Thornley S Tomlinson (J) S Ottley J Harrington R May

Barrier

10 34234 Manly Olsen (21) R Dunn

5:48PM OPT 195

1 2 03 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 2 14 1 15 16 3 17

4

1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

3

$10,000, NON-WINNERS 3YO+ F&M., 2600m

Barrier

10 44424 Deja Blue (21) M Cations 11 95084 Held To Ransom (22) A Stuart 4 12 Fine By Me (23) B Hill

6:48PM 198

4

7:19PM 199

1 2 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

T Williams J Dunn J Morrison (J) M Williamson A Mugford (J) B Orange T Grant K Newman (J) B Butt T Chmiel J Alford (J) R May

HYDROFLOW HANDICAP TROT

$10,000, R51-R59 DiscrHcp, 2600m

1 38966 Bright Glow (1) I Cameron 2 81310 Milly An Eyre (2) M Smolenski 3 33284 Don’t Look Back (3) D Gillespie 4 69031 Blink N Bones (4) B Ford 5 6327X Natives Lasting Love (5) A Thornton 6 318X Desperateandangerous (u1) B Borcoskie 4 7 59731 Some Time (1) L & J Smith 3 8 D6542 Easy Pickings (2) G & N Hope 9 50573 Another Chapter (3) J Whittaker 10 0957X Idle Moose (4) R Austin 1 11 4X312 Monrika (u1) M Howard 12 2X130 Escargo (u2) K Townley 13 56481 Jerry Garcia (u3) L O'Reilly 2 14 5X703 Maria Tsarina (u4) D & C Butt OPT

B Orange J Keast M Cations J Dunn J Morrison (J) P Wakelin M Perriton S Thornley (J) B Weaver M Edmonds K Cameron SCRATCHED T Chmiel S McNally S Ottley T Grant K Townley

DUNSTAN HORSE FEEDS MET MEGA SERIES MOBILE PACE

On A Roll (1) Purdon/Rasmussen Diamond Party (2) M Purvis 29563 Iron Woman (3) K Kelly 334X5 Deanne Panya (4) T Barron 95306 Don’t Tell Ange (5) A Mugford 97X42 Woman In Gold (6) Dalgety/Purdon 0000X Vera Stanhope (7) T Grant Yuko (8) B Hill P8X22 A Delightful Act (9) M Kerr

OPT

10 11 12

16 Plutonium (21) K Barron 04 Lennox Bromac (22) K Butt 042 Fly Lika Falcon (23) J Harrington

B Orange J W Cox G Smith

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

Barrier

2 4 1 3

I Cameron J Dunn G Smith B Ford K Cameron B Borcoskie J Smith B Hope (J) J Curtin B Orange S McNally S Ottley L O'Reilly B Butt

5 SPECTATORS BIRTHDAY SHOUT - 13 OCTOBER MBL PACE $10,000, R40-R49., 1980m

6X008 Cullenmore (1) A Garters C D Thornley 673X4 Pat Campbell (2) B Negus J Young-Grant X2004 Woodlea Shawn (3) Peter & Mitchell Robertson T Williams 23444 All Nuts N Bolts (4) D Pearce B Orange 06037 Frosty Reception (5) M House S Ottley 56659 Thats Bettor (6) D McKenzie R Holmes 43028 Frankie D (7) K Butt J W Cox 56256 Every Option (8) M Smolenski S McNally

7

8

BLUE STAR TAXIS MOBILE PACE

Barrier

3 1 2 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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

3 1 4

9

R Close R May K Barron G Smith S Ottley S Smith (J) G O'Reilly B Orange T Williams

M Williamson J Dunn R Holmes

CHRISTCHURCH CASINO MOBILE PACE

$12,500, R63-R70,R71-R75 W/C., 1980m

487X3 Global Domination (1) T Barron 916X7 Dadndave (2) T Trathen 76178 Copperhead Rose (3) D Jones 33112 Kruizr (4) M House 85456 Pay Me Visa (5) A Stuart 9X635 Hayden’s Meddle (6) R Dunn 11511 Arden Roanoke (7) Dalgety/Purdon 41544 Smarter VC (8) M Purvis Barrier

9:48PM 205

OPT

R Close J W Cox R May C DeFilippi A Lethaby B Orange J Dunn R Holmes J Young-Grant S Ottley J Harrington B Butt

$10,000, 3YO+ R52-R59., 1980m

1 33117 Lets Hustle (1) R Todd 2 3911 Skippys Delight (2) B Hill 3 8X719 Dark Rage (3) K Barron 4 1 Tyron’s Bit Of Lemon (4) R Dunn 5 0412 Willison (5) M Jones 6 1 Somekindawonderful (6) R Dunn 7 95506 Doctor Tim (7) G Dunn 8 11 Im A Gigolo (8) Dalgety/Purdon 9 XP16X Letterkenny Boy (9) Purdon/Rasmussen

9:18PM 203

M Williamson B Butt J Keast R May B Orange S Smith (J,Cl) S O'Reilly (J,Cl) A Cameron (J,Cl)

10 CROSSINGPACEFASHION STARTS HERE COMP OPEN NOW

$10,000, 3YO+ R40-R55, 2000m

009X0 Dodgethebullet (1) S Blair 74982 Overarm (2) T Chmiel 1 Aqua Sancta (3) Purdon/Rasmussen 82933 King Of Heroes (4) R Todd 66696 Bound To Impress (5) J Versteeg 92530 Ardent Lustre (6) I Court Simply Dreaming 09X60 Sister’s Delight (7) M Heenan 2119X Shot In The Dark (8) A Faulks 21187 Cathy Brown (9) J Howe 75368 Woodlea Explorer (10) T Twidle 50592 Eastwood Isabella (11) S Smolenski 14993 Jungle Gem (12) B Borcoskie 54255 Ideal Rule (13) J & A Lethaby 312 Franco Garrett (14) S McRae

J Dunn T Chmiel T Williams C DeFilippi J Versteeg R Holmes SCRATCHED R May A Faulks J W Cox M Williamson S Ottley B Borcoskie A Lethaby C D Thornley

b M5 Alexandra Park Harness Today at Alexandra Park

September 27

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Right-handed; Length: 1006m; Weather: Few Showers DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6 6:07PM OPT 5

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2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 4-5-6-7-8-9 FAKAALOFA LAHI ATU ITS PASIFIKA 11/10 MBL PACE

$15,000, 4YO+ R52-R60. JUN.D, 1609m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver

1 2 4 3

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9502X Miracle Moose (1) T Herlihy 53821 Vespa (2) T Vince 00X16 Diamondsrbettor (3) Cooney/Hopkins 92552 Megastar (4) R Dunn 29X75 Park Avenue (5) J & J Dickie 02694 Spirit Of Anzac (6) White/Berger 57X51 Callie’s Delight (7) J & J Dickie 20585 Adieu Flirt (8) J Abernethy Barrier

9 33636 Santanna Mach (21) M House 10 86551 Pegasus Kommander (22) T Vince

6:37PM OPT 7

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418X6 Pembrook Charlie (21) K Marshall 16776 Final Delight (22) M House X2657 Unfinished Business (23) I Brownlee 40942 Bettor Sensation (24) K Marshall 37020 The Lone Ranger (25) S Telfer

K Marshall Z Butcher T Macfarlane P Ferguson B Butcher

T Hanara (J) F Schumacher (J) A Harrison (J) D Ferguson (J) K Bublitz (J) L Whittaker (J) C Smith (J) A Drake (J)

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$15,000, R40-R54,R55 W/C., 1609m

1 67X48 Banner Of Art (1) I Brownlee

T Cameron

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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WHAT THE HILL TENDER IN BY OCT 11 MOBILE TROT $20,000, R54-R64., 1609m

40383 Fira (1) A Donnelly 37724 Eyre I Go (2) J Young 88000 George (3) G Noakes 0001X Tobruk (4) Wallis/Hackett 31555 As Free As Air (5) R Paynter 67956 Sol Invictus (6) J Abernethy 8347X Puma Road (7) S Reid 74607 Majestic One (8) S Abernethy

S Phelan M McKendry G Noakes T Mitchell M White J Abernethy Z Butcher S Abernethy

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9 X0160 Invictus (21) Wallis/Hackett 10 71705 Jansson (22) Wallis/Hackett 3 11 044X3 Makarewa Jake (23) Wallis/Hackett

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

1 3

3 2 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

4

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$30,000, R73-R118 DiscrHcp, 2200m

3 2 1

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M Wallis T Herlihy K Marshall A Neal S Phelan P Ferguson T Mitchell M McKendry

$20,000, R56-R67., 1609m

9 14178 Troubador (21) B Mangos 1 10 13244 Delightful Major (22) M House

B Mangos J I Dickie

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8

“DOING IT GRACE FILLY SINCE AGES AGO” MBL PACE

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8 Ally Mae 9 The Paua Diver 10 395X1 Brydon Earl (21) J & J Dickie 4 11 72089 Hunter Bromac (22) S Telfer

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9

K Marshall T Macfarlane J Stormont B Mangos S Abernethy Z Butcher S Phelan SCRATCHED SCRATCHED J I Dickie B Butcher

IRT ID19 NOMS 30/09 11AM 09 631 1163 MBL TROT

$15,000, R40-R53., 1609m

40449 Saint Michel (1) T Vince 71890 Keystone Cavalier (2) T Hall 9659X Superfast Ninja (3) A Poutama 57X46 Still Eyre (4) E Rowden 48788 Caroline Wozniacki (5) J Abernethy 55339 Prince Mackendon (6) Wallis/Hackett 73624 Prince George (7) A Poutama 1060X Natty Pagger (8) T Herlihy Barrier

N Chilcott F Schumacher (J) A Poutama T Macfarlane J Abernethy T Cameron M McKendry T Herlihy

September 27

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PK6 1-6 $25,000

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FRANKLIN LONG ROOFING 2019 SPRING CUP HCP PACE

$30,000, R73-R118 DiscrHcp, 2200m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 9 10 11 12 13 2 14

1 3

38X12 The Devils Own (1) B Mangos 36X01 Bettorstartdreaming (2) J & J Dickie 91896 Our Bare Knuckle (3) B Mangos 43154 The Moonshadow (4) T Herlihy 26375 Red Reactor (5) S McCaffrey X5112 Blazen River (6) T Herlihy 11601 Ball Of Art (7) B Purdon 88137 Baileys Knight (u1) S Reid 1143X Triple Eight (1) S Telfer 12433 Check In (2) S Telfer 1233X Mach Shard (3) B Purdon 71X11 Solid Gold (u1) Cooney/Hopkins 10249 Our Dance Time (u2) S Telfer 933X8 Star Galleria (1) S Reid

8:09PM

3 2 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

4 3 2 1

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N Chilcott Z Butcher S Abernethy J Abernethy SCRATCHED

$25,000, FFA., 1609m

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9 13421 C K Spur (21) A Donnelly

4

M Wallis T Herlihy K Marshall A Neal S Phelan P Ferguson T Mitchell M McKendry D Butcher

WWW.ID19.CO.NZ IS NOW LIVE MOBILE PACE

$20,000, R56-R67., 1609m

51661 Warloch (1) M House X7198 Mister Slick (2) T Vince 55819 Simon (3) T Vince 57X76 Edamfast (4) A Matthews 16412 Flying Finn (5) B Purdon 63621 Court On The Edge (6) S Telfer 71564 Bettor My Dreamz (7) R Green 36277 Shillelagh (8) M House

J Stormont A Poutama S Abernethy S Phelan B Butcher D Butcher P Ferguson

9 14178 Troubador (21) B Mangos 1 10 13244 Delightful Major (22) M House

B Mangos J I Dickie

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3 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

D Butcher B Mangos B Butcher T Cameron T Herlihy F Schumacher (J) S Phelan M McKendry

THAI AIRWAYS MOBILE TROT

1 72082 Mr Good And Evil (1) Wallis/Hackett 2 54133 Sex On Fire (2) T Herlihy 3 0X969 Gershwin (3) R Paynter 4 03168 Credit Master (4) A & L Neal 5 42318 Sunny Glenis (5) B Purdon 6 1131X Pres The Belle (6) R Dunn 7 1200X Massive Metro (7) Wallis/Hackett 8 D124X Lemond (8) R Paynter

9:08PM

T Cameron S Phelan T Mitchell D Butcher A Poutama Z Butcher J Stormont B Butcher

$15,000, NON-WINNERS 3YO+., 1609m

62X57 Christianshavtime (1) Hollis/Robertson 0962X Jetson Hunter (2) B Mangos 5 Doc Holliday (3) S Telfer 97736 Torea Lane (4) I Brownlee 5X06 Prince Of Pleasure (5) T Herlihy 03578 Comedy Act (6) T Hall 4X Thumbs Up (7) B Purdon 75 Johnson Step (8) A Matthews

8:38PM

B Mangos J I Dickie M McKendry T Herlihy

2 DOWNBYTHESEASIDE - ‘FAST FRESH FERTILE’ MBL PACE

9 2 Nice Vintage (21) N Chilcott 4 10 23223 Double Or Nothing (22) R Green 11 77249 Benjamin Button (23) S Abernethy 12 58484 Mac Paua (24) J Abernethy 13 Alta Boy

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$15,000, R40-R55., 1609m

1 76369 Bold Ruler (1) D & C McGowan 2 X508X Fantasize (2) T Macfarlane 3 080X3 Magilligan Point (3) J Stormont 4 21376 Happy Place (4) T Vince 5 33327 Hit The Sky (5) J & M Teaz 6 1225X Eyespywithmylittleye (6) S Reid 7 22133 Sole Ambition (7) B Purdon

10:08PM OPT 22

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Z Butcher J Stormont A Poutama S Abernethy S Phelan B Butcher D Butcher P Ferguson

9:38PM OPT 19

Pick6

D Butcher

51661 Warloch (1) M House X7198 Mister Slick (2) T Vince 55819 Simon (3) T Vince 57X76 Edamfast (4) A Matthews 16412 Flying Finn (5) B Purdon 63621 Court On The Edge (6) S Telfer 71564 Bettor My Dreamz (7) R Green 36277 Shillelagh (8) M House

3 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

N Chilcott Z Butcher S Abernethy J Abernethy SCRATCHED

$25,000, FFA., 1609m

1 72082 Mr Good And Evil (1) Wallis/Hackett 2 54133 Sex On Fire (2) T Herlihy 3 0X969 Gershwin (3) R Paynter 4 03168 Credit Master (4) A & L Neal 5 42318 Sunny Glenis (5) B Purdon 6 1131X Pres The Belle (6) R Dunn 7 1200X Massive Metro (7) Wallis/Hackett 8 D124X Lemond (8) R Paynter

9:08PM OPT 17

D Butcher B Mangos B Butcher T Cameron T Herlihy F Schumacher (J) S Phelan M McKendry

S Abernethy B Mangos P Ferguson

b M20 Fasttrack $25k Harness

THAI AIRWAYS MOBILE TROT

9 13421 C K Spur (21) A Donnelly

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9 06969 Grenado (21) J Abernethy

2 10 5X198 Havehorsewilltravel (u1) D Simpson 1 11 86921 Resonate (u2) R Dunn

$15,000, NON-WINNERS 3YO+., 1609m

9 2 Nice Vintage (21) N Chilcott 4 10 23223 Double Or Nothing (22) R Green 11 77249 Benjamin Button (23) S Abernethy 12 58484 Mac Paua (24) J Abernethy 13 Alta Boy

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B Mangos J I Dickie M McKendry T Herlihy D Ferguson (J) T Cameron S Phelan T Mitchell D Butcher A Poutama Z Butcher J Stormont B Butcher S Reid

DOWNBYTHESEASIDE - ‘FAST FRESH FERTILE’ MBL PACE

62X57 Christianshavtime (1) Hollis/Robertson 0962X Jetson Hunter (2) B Mangos 5 Doc Holliday (3) S Telfer 97736 Torea Lane (4) I Brownlee 5X06 Prince Of Pleasure (5) T Herlihy 03578 Comedy Act (6) T Hall 4X Thumbs Up (7) B Purdon 75 Johnson Step (8) A Matthews

8:38PM OPT 15

M Wallis B Hackett T Cameron

FRANKLIN LONG ROOFING 2019 SPRING CUP HCP PACE

38X12 The Devils Own (1) B Mangos 36X01 Bettorstartdreaming (2) J & J Dickie 91896 Our Bare Knuckle (3) B Mangos 43154 The Moonshadow (4) T Herlihy 26375 Red Reactor (5) S McCaffrey X5112 Blazen River (6) T Herlihy 11601 Ball Of Art (7) B Purdon 88137 Baileys Knight (u1) S Reid 1143X Triple Eight (1) S Telfer 12433 Check In (2) S Telfer 1233X Mach Shard (3) B Purdon 71X11 Solid Gold (u1) Cooney/Hopkins 10249 Our Dance Time (u2) S Telfer 933X8 Star Galleria (1) S Reid

8:09PM OPT 13

K Blakemore (J) S Iremonger (J)

BONECRUSHER PROMOTIONS SPRING SOTB RD2 PACE

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$12,500, R60+ DiscrHcp, 2600m

10 X4075 Machs Mareta (21) M Purvis 11 1485X Above N Beyond (22) R Dunn 12 P3242 Givemewhatineed (23) M Nyhan OPT

9 10 11 2 12 3 13

1 4

AIRPARK CANTERBURY HANDICAP TROT

20X22 Lone Star Lad (1) R Todd 4P86X Globe Trekker (2) J & A Lethaby 71157 Diana Harbour (3) P McClelland 082X9 Missie Castleton (4) T May 6796X Justamollyarcher (5) J & A Lethaby 74140 Unique Marshall (u1) M Edmonds 2X121 The Player (u2) R Dunn 51457 Madeleine Stowe (1) M Nyhan 27035 Sundons Flyer (1) B Negus 22714 Ruthless Kayla (2) K Fairbairn 37X67 Hey Yo (1) J Harrington 120X0 Woodstone (u1) R Dunn

8:48PM 202

OPT

S Abernethy S Phelan M McKendry J Abernethy D Butcher A Poutama J I Dickie

$10,000, 4YO+ R55., 2600m

M Hurrell (J) S Ottley B Hope (J) R May M Williamson J Dunn G O'Reilly T Williams R Holmes

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94469 Spirit Of Love (2) M Collins 25427 Highview Justice (3) J Kriechbaumer 89485 Jackhammer Joe (4) M Salaivao 077X3 The Blue Beat (5) A Matthews 0150X Mhai Tickled Pink (6) A Donnelly 76356 Drum Withers (7) K Sefonte 696X3 Lagertha (8) J & J Dickie

GRAPHITE DEVELOPMENTS FUTURITY PRELUDE PACE

574PX Valiant Charger (1) T Bagrie 22X Stunin Magic (2) S Golding 04 Krystal Delight (3) G & N Hope 2X037 Philadelphia Freedom (4) B Hill 58882 Skreemr (5) B Mowbray 06 Sam’s Town (6) G Burgess 30X41 Bettor Getta Lover (7) G Dunn 3X104 Portalegre (8) R Todd 33210 Silk (9) I Court

4 2

PEEK EXHIBITION TROT

$10,000, R40-R49, 2600m

6

A Lethaby C DeFilippi J Dunn

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

3

J Dunn

230X5 Miss Moppet (1) M Purvis 0900X Midnight Sioux (2) D Jones 9X Faith No More (3) M Cations 54367 Shpeedy (4) J Thomas 78X72 Stellar Success (5) M Heenan 67029 Rusty I Am (6) Wakelin/Noble 5070X Lisa Marie P (7) M Perriton 36266 Don’t Rock The Boat (8) R Thornley 53988 One Night Out (9) B Weaver 66600 Chivasion (10) M Edmonds 0000X Prince Teka (11) G McCrea Heavenly Love X8P00 Jaw D Nancy (u1) M Howard 17P10 Ardee Trouble (u2) B White 008X6 Sioux Princess (u3) M Jones 5X478 Rachmaninov (u4) T Grant 50654 Chasing Great (u5) K Townley

6:19PM OPT 196

3 2

2

7:48PM 200

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$10,000, NON-WINNERS 3YO+., 1980m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver

2 3

10 64495 Beau Vista (21) J & A Lethaby 11 79860 Den’s Legacy (22) B Negus 12 0349X El Capitan (23) C Wigg OPT

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

K Cox

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9 98329 Delightful Tanner (9) K Cox

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$2,035, C2/3, 305m

77861 Bigtime Coco 17.72 12287 Bigtime Jasmine 17.61 12232 Waterloo Girl 17.90 34322 Running Freer 17.69 63556 Idol Duke 17.86 65312 Cosmic Marty 17.94 F3667 Justa Gift 17.62 12263 Bigtime Sam 17.96 8X888 Bigtime Kiowa nwtd

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6 5:19PM OPT 194

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“DOING IT GRACE FILLY SINCE AGES AGO” MBL PACE

$15,000, R40-R55., 1609m

1 76369 Bold Ruler (1) D & C McGowan 2 X508X Fantasize (2) T Macfarlane 3 080X3 Magilligan Point (3) J Stormont 4 21376 Happy Place (4) T Vince 5 33327 Hit The Sky (5) J & M Teaz 6 1225X Eyespywithmylittleye (6) S Reid 7 22133 Sole Ambition (7) B Purdon Barrier

8 Ally Mae 9 The Paua Diver 10 395X1 Brydon Earl (21) J & J Dickie 4 11 72089 Hunter Bromac (22) S Telfer

10:08PM

SCRATCHED SCRATCHED J I Dickie B Butcher

IRT ID19 NOMS 30/09 11AM 09 631 1163 MBL TROT

$15,000, R40-R53., 1609m

40449 Saint Michel (1) T Vince 71890 Keystone Cavalier (2) T Hall 9659X Superfast Ninja (3) A Poutama 57X46 Still Eyre (4) E Rowden 48788 Caroline Wozniacki (5) J Abernethy 55339 Prince Mackendon (6) Wallis/Hackett 73624 Prince George (7) A Poutama 1060X Natty Pagger (8) T Herlihy

N Chilcott F Schumacher (J) A Poutama T Macfarlane J Abernethy T Cameron M McKendry T Herlihy

9 06969 Grenado (21) J Abernethy 2 10 5X198 Havehorsewilltravel (u1) D Simpson 1 11 86921 Resonate (u2) R Dunn

S Abernethy B Mangos P Ferguson

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

6

K Marshall T Macfarlane J Stormont B Mangos S Abernethy Z Butcher S Phelan

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■■NEW ZEALAND CUP

In brief

Radical plan for Thefixer

By Michael Guerin Defending New Zealand Cup hero Thefixer is the centre of a radical plan to get him back to our greatest harness race.

And while champion trainer Mark Purdon describes himself as relatively confident Thefixer can make it to Addington for the second Tuesday in November it is very much a case of punters beware in futures betting.

Thefixer has yet to race this season and was supposed to trial this week, but has been suffering from hoof soreness.

Purdon, training partner Natalie Rasmussen, their vets and blacksmith have come up with an idea not even Purdon has tried before in his legendary career.

They have found Thefixer is happiest when not wearing conventional shoes so they plan to shoe him the mornings he fast works, then immediately take the shoes off and only put them back on again for his next workout.

“In between times he would wear a boot, similar to the ones endurance horses wear when they are competing on rocky surfaces, to protect the hooves.

“It is not ideal obviously and we have never tried anything like this before but we think it can work.”

Thefixer has long struggled with hoof problems, particularly in the frog area at the rear of the hoof.

The stable tried to cover that with what is known as an eggbar shoe but they found it was restricting the blood flow to the hoof and not letting it spread on impact with the ground and therefore dissipate the concussion load.

“So his hooves were getting worse and after we took his shoes

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U May Cullect outed Kirstin Barclay’s dreams of training and driving a horse in the 2019 New Zealand Trotting Cup has been shattered. The connections of U May Cullect​were handed news yesterday that Southland’s star race horse will be sidelined for between four and six months. U May Cullect was initially scratched from Sunday’s Hannon Memorial because of a minor stone bruise.

But a vet check yesterday morning discovered a small tear in the lower tendon, ruling out any hope of him lining up in November’s New Zealand Cup. - NZME

JRA Cup assignment

Natalie Rasmussen with Thefixer after last year’s New Zealand Cup victory. off on Monday he has been a lot happier since.

“He will wear the endurance boots when he is on the treadmill or in the resistance cart and then shoes when he is fast worked.”

Purdon says hoof issues aside Thefixer is very forward and he could even race in the Canterbury Classic at Addington tomorrow week, depending on how he handles his new regime and fast works on Monday.

“Even if he can’t make it there he has races like the Methven Cup and Flying Stakes at Ashburton and the races even closer to the Cup. “So we think we can get him there but we also know things like this put him at a disadvantage compared with a horse like Spankem, whose campaign has gone so well so far.”

Spankem’s track record-equalling win at Oamaru on Sunday has seen him ascend to $3.40 favouritism for the Cup on November 12, while Thefixer is now the $4.20 second favourite, but that is certain to drift.

The reality is while Thefixer overcame some issues on his way to winning the Cup last year, he is at best of comparable ability to Spankem but at the moment one is in the zone and the other not so much.

Both horses were among nine the All Stars nominated for the Inter Dominions, which start at Alexandra Park on November 29, with the leading stable entering six pacers and three trotters.

Spankem and The Fixer are joined by Ultimate Sniper, Chase Auckland, Ashley Locaz and the surprise nomination of Queens-

land Derby winner Self Assured, who isn’t in the New Zealand Cup. And their trotting team is headed by Oscar Bonavena with Winterfell and Luby Lou. Entries for the Inter Dominion close at 11am on Monday morning and are free so while that may lure some decent Australian numbers in, how many make it to Auckland for the series will be interesting.

There is an understandable fear of the Purdon-Rasmussen horses from Australian stables but in reality, with Thefixer’s issues, the fact Ultimate Sniper and Self Assured and only four-yearolds and Ashley Locaz and Chase Auckland lose more than they win in open class, Spankem is the only truly scary Interdom pacer the All Stars have and he was unplaced in the final last season.

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Platinum Dubai wins eventful 2YO race NZME The Lisa Latta-trained filly Platinum Dubai showed professionalism to take out the Otaki Mail (800m) for two-year-olds yesterday (left), leading throughout to land the prize while race-favourite Piaggio was slow into stride and bucked off rider Jason Waddell shortly after.

A daughter of Pride Of Dubai, the filly is Karaka Million eligible and that will be a long-range target, having been sold through the draft of Ardsley Stud for $100,000 at the New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale.

“She is a natural two-year-old.

“She’s a precocious little filly,” Latta said.

“We will just give her a week in the paddock and then all going well she will go to the Wellesley Stakes (Listed, 1000m).

“We were looking for an early

type of filly and Neville McAlister, who owns half of her with Lincoln Farms, really liked her pedigree and then we liked her on type as well.

“She has got a very good brain and that bit of toughness that is good to see in a filly.”

Meanwhile, Latta reports that Sentimental Miss will skip the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) in preference to easier options later in spring following her disappointing fifth placing at Hawke’s Bay last weekend when beaten 3.5 lengths

by Peso.

“She didn’t come up at this time of the year last year.

“It wasn’t until late October that she came up,” she said.

“We will probably take a backward step and look at the Thompson Handicap (Gr.3, 1600m) at Trentham in late October on a track where we are going to get the fire out of the ground.”

Group One-winning stayer Glory Days will take a step closer to the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) when she lines-up at Moonee Valley today. The daughter of Red Giant will compete in the Gr.3 JRA Cup (2040m) and trainer Bill Thurlow has been happy with her progress since her fifth-placing over 1700m at Flemington earlier this month.

“I was very happy with her firstup run in Australia, she went very well,” he said. “She has got through a bit of work since and seems pretty good. I am happy enough with her, but she still might need another run.”

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Pike eyes up Guineas Cambridge trainer Tony Pike is happy with the way his three-yearold fillies Loire and Kali have pulled up after Saturday’s Gr.3 Hawke’s Bay Breeders’ Gold Trail Stakes (1200m). Pike was particularly pleased with Loire’s performance to finish third and believes she will be suited to stepping up to the mile of Novembers’s Gr.1 gavelhouse.com NZ 1000 Guineas.

“Loire has come through it in superb order, it was a really good run,” he said. “She was one of the few that really closed from a fair way back all day so it’s really encouraging heading forward to a mile at Riccarton.”

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Focus on Ellerslie Danielle Johnson’s focus this weekend is firmly on Ellerslie on Saturday with six rides at the meeting, including last-start stakes performer Sorrentina in the Bill Sattler Memorial (1300m). The Lib Petagna-raced Savabeel filly made her debut for Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh in this month’s Listed O’Learys Fillies Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui and closed strongly from last to finish third to Riva Capri. “She was really good the other day,” Johnson said. “She was very professional down there, especially having her first start. I didn’t think she would go through the gaps like she did but she was really brave.”

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Bobby Dazzler sold Albury trainer Mitch Beer has purchased last season’s Listed Wanganui Guineas (1340m) winner Bobby Dazzler from the stable of Stephen Marsh and is looking forward to training his latest Kiwi import.

The four-year-old son of Zed has won three of his 14 starts in New Zealand and Beer said he would cost around A$40,000, including transport, by the time he arrives at his country New South Wales base.

“He has obviously proven himself at a very good level,” Beer said.

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Friday, September 27, 2019

■■RUGBY

The midfield conundrum NZME Described as the Rubik’s Cube for All Blacks selectors, picking the right midfield combination to start at the Rugby World Cup could prove vital.

The All Blacks have plenty of options in the midfield with four players capable of starting in seven different combinations.

Ryan Crotty and Anton LienertBrown can play both second fiveeighth and centre, while Sonny Bill Williams is a specialist at 12 and Jack Goodhue at 13.

We take a look at the records of the All Blacks midfield combinations when they have started together.

12) Sonny Bill Williams, 13) Ryan Crotty The incumbent pairing for so long, but a combination of injuries and, well, the general effects of aging has seen both struggle to hold their spots in the midfield.

Two impressive victories on South African soil as well as the opening win over the British and Irish Lions. Just one defeat as a starting combo came against the Wallabies in Brisbane two years ago.

Record: 13 wins from 14 games Notable games: 32-30 win v South Africa, Pretoria 2018 57-0 win v South Africa, Auckland 2017 25-24 win v South Africa, Cape Town 2017 30-15 win v Lions, Auckland 2017 23-18 loss v Australia, Brisbane 2017 12) Sonny Bill Williams, 13) Anton Lienert-Brown Impressive in that must-win

Buck fires up over haka calls NZME

Sonny Bill Williams and Jack Goodhue Bledisloe Cup decider against the Wallabies at Eden Park, with both running and defending well. Pairing was disrupted in that famous loss against the Lions in Wellington when Williams was sent off.

Record: 4 wins, 1 loss Notable games: 36-0 win v Australia, Auckland 2019 21-24 loss v Lions, Wellington 2017 (SBW sent off) 12) Sonny Bill Williams, 13) Jack Goodhue The only unbeaten midfield combination, and one that perhaps gives the All Blacks the most game-breaking attacking potential. But both have struggled with injuries and form this year. And were not at their best in the draw against the Springboks in Wellington.

Record: 2 wins, 1 draw Notable games: 16-16 draw v South Africa, Wel-

lington 2019 16-15 win v England, Twickenham 2018 12) Ryan Crotty, 13) Anton Lienert-Brown Given the task of starting the All Blacks’ first match of the World Cup against the Springboks and passed with flying colours.

Lienert-Brown, in particular, showed why Steve Hansen called him the most in-form midfielder of the bunch. The most experienced combination apart from the SBW-Crotty pairing.

Record: 8 wins, 1 loss Notable games: 23-13 win v South Africa, Yokohama (RWC) 2019 36-34 loss v South Africa, Wellington 2018 57-15 win v South Africa, Durban 2016 12) Ryan Crotty, 13) Jack Goodhue A solid and consistent com-

bination. Struggled against Ireland’s rush defence in their loss in Dublin in 2018.

Record: 1 win, 1 loss Notable games: 16-9 loss v Ireland, Dublin 2018 38-13 win v Australia, Sydney 2018 12) Anton Lienert-Brown, 13) Jack Goodhue Combination of youth and form over the last year suggests this is the All Blacks’ ideal pairing on paper. But they have been rarely tested together, with the combo losing their only test in this year’s loss against Australia in Perth.

Record: 1 loss Notable games: 47-26 loss v Australia, 2019 12) Anton Lienert-Brown, 13) Ryan Crotty Another option is LienertBrown at 12 with Crotty at 13.

However, these two have never started a test match together.

Hodge hit with three-game ban for big tackle Wallabies winger Reece Hodge has been found guilty of a dangerous tackle charge and will serve a three-game suspension at the Rugby World Cup. A four-hour judicial hearing

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deemed Hodge had met the high tackle sanction threshold when he collided with forward Peceli Yato during Saturday’s win over Fiji in Sapporo.

The ban means Hodge will

miss all three remaining pool games, against Wales, Uruguay and Georgia.

However it is expected that Australia may appeal and plenty on social media piled on the call

to ban the winger, labelling it ‘ridiculous’, while The Australian’s Simon McLoughlin tweeted that players would be “shitting themselves” on the back of the decision.

New Zealand rugby icon and the man credited with revitalising the All Blacks’ haka, Buck Shelford, has hit back at an Irish writer’s call for the traditional challenge to be stopped at the World Cup. Ewan MacKenna asked why the World Cup was still “pandering to the dance”, calling it “unfortunate as New Zealand are justifiably big-headed enough without a massaging of their already massive egos”.

MacKenna claimed the haka gives the All Blacks a “psychological edge through self-inspiration and via an attempt at opponent intimidation”, and said it also “provides a small physical edge as others are forced to stand still and go briefly cold”.

After a social media backlash on Wednesday, MacKenna doubled down on his comments, claiming to have “enraged the idiocy of New Zealand”.

Former All Blacks captain Shelford said MacKenna’s comments were ignorant.

“He’s just another writer who thinks that the haka is about getting a psychological advantage over the opposition. Well, mate, get a life. If that is all you can get out of 80 minutes of rugby, you don’t deserve to be writing about our great game,” Shelford said.

“Until you live in a country that has a great Maori culture like New Zealand … you are pretty naive, to say the least.”

According to Shelford, foreigners – and even opposition players – often don’t fully appreciate what the haka means to Kiwis.

“The haka is about our mana to go into battle but more to the point, it is about total respect for the opposition,” said Shelford.

“I have never heard any nation say anything about Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga’s challenges. Could it be because those teams don’t normally win their excursions to, say, the UK and Europe?”

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Draw out for debut season

Former White Fern and current New Zealand Cricket president Debbie Hockley, former England player Mandie Godliman and Rachel Candy from Canterbury Cricket were special guests at a girls’ cricket session run by Kathryn Clark in Ashburton this week.

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Stars come out for our girls An introductory event designed to get more girls into cricket attracted some of the sport’s biggest names to Ashburton on Wednesday.

Former New Zealand cricket player and current New Zealand Cricket president Debbie Hockley was one of the special

guests at the event run by local cricket coach Kathryn Clark at the indoor wicket at the Ashburton Domain, along with former England player Mandie Godliman and current Canterbury Cricket female development and pathway manager Rachel Candy.

The girls’ have-a-go session was free for girls of all ages to attend and Clark said she was blown away by the response, with close to 20 girls making the most of the opportunity to attend and even more having indicated they’re keen to play this season.

“I’m really excited for the season ahead knowing that there’s more girls out there who couldn’t make it (on Wednesday),” Clark said.

With that in mind, there will definitely be more girls’ cricket coaching sessions coming up soon, she added.

“HAVE A GO DAY” GOLF CROQUET Sunday 29 September 2019 1:30pm - 3:30pm At the Waireka Croquet Club Phillip Street,Ashburton

Mid Canterbury cricket teams preparing for their first season as part of the Canterbury Country cricket scene now have a clearer idea of what their debut season holds.

Allenton and Tech have both entered teams in the Canterbury Country senior grade, which will be played in a North and South section, with five teams in each, starting in just over two weeks.

Over the course of the 15 rounds of 40-over matches, each team will play the other four teams in their section three times, as well as three of the four teams from the other section in cross-over matches, which all count towards the points table.

When the two Mid Canterbury sides meet North Canterbury sides, a neutral venue at Brookside Park in Rolleston will be made available.

The draw for both the senior grade competition and the CRV Ambreed Premier competition, has now been released ahead of an October 5 start for the premier grade, and an October 12 start for the senior grade.

In round one, Greendale will host the renamed Peninsula Harbour – the club formerly known as Diamond Harbour-Kaituna – who will play their matches on a new grass wicket at Tai Tapu once it’s ready.

Weedons get the first crack at Mid Canterbury’s Tech, while the first cross-over game sees Allenton up against Swannanoa at Brookside Park.

The North section sees Ohoka A up against Oxford and Cheviot-Scargill at home to Ohoka B. Allenton will get their first home game of the season in round two, up against Weedons, while in round three the first of three allMid Canterbury derbies will take to the field, with Allenton hosting Tech.

When the Allenton and Tech sides get their seasons under way, it will signal the start of a new era in Mid Canterbury Cricket, with no Mid Canterbury senior club cricket competition being played on a Saturday afternoon this season.

Instead, a mid-week competition of 18-over cricket will get under way after Labour Weekend.

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Ladies hit the court again Taking the ball up the court during the opening night of Basketball Mid Canterbury’s women’s A grade competition on Tuesday night was Kirsty Naish.

This year’s competition, which will run at the EA Networks Centre, has attracted 10 teams of mixed ages and abilities, and organisers are looking to fit in 10 to 11 weeks worth of games.

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Fast Five finishes up

Marc Gough looks to find a landing spot during the final night of Mid Canterbury Netball’s first shot at a Fast Five netball competition on Wednesday. Mid Canterbury Netball netball development officer Natalie Shaw said the five-a-side version of the game has been a big hit, and after the school holidays the next mid-week competition will get under way.

The annual summer league competition will start on October 16 with 40 teams ready to play, and even more on the waiting list.

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Thursday 10 October 2019 Regulation Hearing Committee at 9.00am

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NOTICE OF MEETINGS October 2019 The following meetings will be held in October, at Environment Canterbury, 200 Tuam Street, Christchurch:

First Farmers’ Market of the season West Street car park

Saturday, September 28, 9am - 12.30pm Produce, free range eggs, turkey products, baking, cheese (made in Ashburton), Staveley Sausage rolls, preserves, (pickles, relishes, sauces, jams and jellies).

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Daily Events FRIDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in the hall, 48 Allens Road.

9am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Zumba, 48 Allens Road.

SATURDAY 7.30am (sharp) RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Rise and Shine Saturday. Runners and Walkers, all welcome. Meet at Frontrunner, 28 Moore Street. Visit our facebook page for more details.

9am - 12pm ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh prduce, hot drinks and more.

North end West Street carpark.

9am - 12pm

September 27 & 28, 2019 9.30am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred St. 10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main St, Methven.

10am 50+ An interesting speaker. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares. Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10.30am - 11.30am

WALKING NETBALL. $2. EA Networks Centre, River Terrace.

10.30am ST STEPHEN’S PARISH CENTRE. Seniors’ coffee club, all welcome. Park Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily

with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street.

Closed most public holidays.

CRAFT MARKET. Woodwork, jewellery, Rawleighs products etc. West Street car park.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

9.45am - 3pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Association singles morning and doubles afternoon. Waireka Croquet Club, the Domain, Philip Street.

10am

MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 12pm VINTAGE CAR CLUB MUSEUM AND PARTS SHED. Open. Ashburton Vintage Car Club, Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

10.30am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf croquet doubles, new members welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, Philip

Street.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Golf and Association Croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

1.30pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Runners and Walkers, afternoon meet hosted from Morris Road, Ashburton.

1.30pm MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. Registrations at 1pm, start time 1.30pm sharp. Fords Road, Tinwald.

What’s on 36 Ashburton Guardian Every day Mt Hutt Memorial Hall 160 Main Street, Methven NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and Hall of Memories.

10am

Every Saturday The Ashburton Toy Library

106 Victoria Street, in the Triangle Open for toy exchange.

9.30am - 12.30pm Ashburton Farmers’ Market Ashburton carpark corner West and Havelock streets.

The Ashburton District Farmers’ Market is a regular, fresh, quality food market that promotes direct sales from producer to customer.

9am - 12.30pm Ashburton Aviation Museum Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future.

10am - 3pm

Every Sunday to Friday Ashburton Aviation Museum Ashburton Airport, Seafield Rd A great selection of many

aircraft from the past to the future.

1pm - 3pm

Every Wednesday Ashburton open coffee mornings

Plunket rooms, 222 Cameron Street If you are new to town or been living here all of your life, come and have a coffee and chat.

All welcome! Child-friendly location.

Please contact Adi 027 2208791 or Sue-ann 021 679-348 to register.

10.30am - 12 noon Art Addicts Art Addicts (AA) is the Ashburton Art Gallery’s weekly art space for kids.

Wrap up your Wednesday school day and head to the gallery to get creative and explore themes in art.

A great space for children to learn and interact with each other. Children of all ages welcome. Adult supervision is required for young children.

Donations appreciated.

3 - 4.30pm Mid Canterbury Line Dancers Tinwald Hall, Graham Street Learn to line dance (7pm), beginners/intermediate

September 27

October 5

Red Nose Day Raising money to help Cure Kids fund vital child health research.

For a $3 donation, get your red nose from Briscoes or Columbus Coffee in Ashburton.

Plants 4 U @ Rakaia St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Annual sale of plants of all varieties. This year’s special: a great selection of locally grown natives and shrubs.

Bargains for all gardeners and all under cover.

Produce stall, including baking and our popular marmalade.

Information 302 7595.

9am - 1pm

September 28 James Reid Songbook Tour – From the Feelers to Solo The Blue Pub, Methven James Reid – the man behind some of New Zealand’s most beloved songs – a nationwide solo tour of 14 intimate venues across Aotearoa. Full details at JamesReid.co.nz 8pm

October 2 Reducing Our Household Rubbish: The Zero Waste Approach Ashburton College The Rubbish Trip returns to Ashburton to deliver their popular presentation on zero waste living, kindly hosted by Soil and Health Ashburton.

Join Hannah and Liam, the Two No-Waste Nomads behind The Rubbish Trip, for an introduction to the practicalities and philosophy of waste reduction.

Drawing on their own research and over four years of experience living zero waste, Hannah and Liam will guide you through the whys and the hows of life without a rubbish bin.

7pm - 9pm

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October 5 - 6 The Extravaganza Fair Ashburton Domain Roll up. Roll up. Roll up!

Welcome to Season 5 of New Zealand’s largest and newest travelling event!

The Extravaganza Fair!

The Extravaganza Fair is a family affair, free entry, a fun day out with something for everyone.

9am

October 6 The Plains Railway Complex 12 Maronan Road, Tinwald Enjoy a Vintage Railcar Ride and explore the museum village displays, working blacksmith, vintage machinery and more.

Browse through the Ashburton Fire Museum, the Ashburton Woodworkers and the Lynn Woodworking Museum.

Take a miniature train ride with the Ashburton Model Engineers, view craft displays

(8pm-9pm). Instructor Annette phone 307-7138 a/h.

7pm - 9pm

Every second Friday of the month In Colour, art and craft club In Colour is the Ashburton Art Gallery’s monthly programme for unleashing your creativity.

Bring along your art and craft projects to share with others over morning tea once a month. These are social sessions which encourage you to connect with others through creativity. Be inspired to learn a new creative pastime. Sessions are free and all are welcome to attend.

The gallery will supply basic colouring-in sheets and materials, along with tea and coffee. Those attending are encouraged to bring along their own materials and projects.

10.30am - 12 noon

Every last Sunday of the month

October 12 - 13

golf. Equipment provided.

Social time to follow.

2.30pm

October 9 The Keys Are In the Margarine Ashburton Trust Event Centre Dementia and Alzheimer’s affects many New Zealand families and it’s a condition none of use can ignore. This play is created from interviews with people with direct experience of dementia and Alzheimer’s, caregivers family members, doctors and support workers.

OPEN HAT NIGHT. 6pm

October 11 Ashburton High School Old Pupils Annual lunch in Ashburton and all old pupils are very welcome to attend. For details please contact Margaret Phone (03)308-1996.

12 noon

October 11 - 13

FrenchFest Akaroa Escape to picturesque Akaroa Nor’Westers Musos’ Club and immerse yourself in Feeneys Lounge, Devon French culture, entertainment Tavern, Ashburton and romance as you celebrate Monthly open mic afternoon.

Akaroa’s unique history All the gear set up, just bring (French, German and Maori) at your talent, all welcome, any the Akaroa FrenchFest. style of music.

Settle in on Friday evening and 2pm - 6pm relax with seaside dining.

On Beach Road watch the waterfront come alive in the function room.

Inflatable fun, hot food, snacks with entertainment and music featuring Mundi and and coffee available from the Dangerbaby.

Popup Playground.

Facebook: The Plains Railway A traditional Maori powhiri will open the festival. and Historical Museum.

2pm 11am - 4pm Ashburton Speedway Seafield Road, next to the Ashburton Airport Double points challenge.

Adult and youth mini-stocks, stock-cars, street-stocks, side chairs, C grade, saloons and productions.

Racing starts 12.30pm Gate prices Adult - $15, Senior with gold card - $10, Children 14yrs and under – Free with paying adult.

12.30pm Mid Canterbury Choir Sinclair Centre, Ashburton Let Us Entertain You Door sales $10.

Join us for songs from the shows – My Fair Lady, Les Miserables, Abba, Oklahoma, The Music Man and more.

2pm Ahburton Golf Club Brandon Links - Open Day Main Road, 2km north of Ashburton All ages - all stages. New to golf or getting back into it.

Come and check out our beautiful course, driving range and facilities. Have a hit with members or learn from our professional coach.

Matt Davis will teach you the basics to get you started with

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October 12

St David’s Church Fair Allens Road, Allenton Children’s games, bouncy castle, face painting, baking, jams, pickles, plants, cards, white elephant stall and garage sale.

Silent auction.

BBQ and morning tea.

9am to 11am

Methven Mud & Steel Carneys Road, Alford Forest Get your gummies ready!

Methven Mud & Steel will be a NZ1 Winch Challenge two day event.

Watch the competitors tackle impossible slopes, bottomless mud holes and all against the clock!

Get up close and personal with these 4wd beasts and their crews.

Proceeds will be distributed to Kidzmethven and other local projects via Lions. Tickets are limited due to capacity and on sale now!

8am to 4.30pm

October 19 Jackson Holmes Salmon Run Rakaia Domain Jackson Holmes Salmon Run has something for everyone, competitive and non-competitive, individual or teams.

With seven events and several categories there is plenty of choice.

All events are staged around the splendour of the Rakaia River and its riverbed, with every event starting and finishing at the Rakaia Domain.

The choice is yours: 1/2 marathon, duathlon x2, multisport, run or walk x2 and MTB. 9am

November 3 The Homegrown Garden Tour and Fete Coskeries Rd, Montalto, Mayfield Enjoy a day out in the Mayfield countryside visiting four stunning gardens, and then browse, shop and relax at a country fete.

10am - 4pm

November 5 Waste Free Living Workshop with Kate Meads Ashburton Resource Recovery

Park, Education Centre At the workshop Kate will: • Show you lots of ways you can reduce waste at home • Introduce you to sustainable household products • Show the environmental impact of the choices you make • Dispel the myth about what happens to your waste.

6.30pm - 9pm

November 6 Waste Free Living Workshop with Kate Meads Mt Hutt Memorial Hall, Theatrette At the workshop Kate will: - Show you lots of ways you can reduce waste at home - Introduce you to sustainable household products - Show the environmental impact of the choices you make - Dispel the myth about what happens to your waste.

6.30pm - 9pm

November 7 Geraldine Summer Fete 220 Main North Road, Geraldine The Geraldine Summer Fete is a day of indulgence and elegance.

Wander around Stover’s stunning garden while listening to live music, enjoy the friendly, fun relaxed atmosphere.

A unique shopping spree with an amazing selection of over 200 stalls of gorgeous wares you will not be able to resist, showcasing products from around NZ. 9.30am - 4pm

November 10 Simon O’Neill in Concert with Woolston Brass Ashburton Trust Event Centre The unique blend of Simon O’Neill’s outstanding tenor voice and the brass sounds from one of New Zealand’s finest brass bands is a treat for the ears and an opportunity not to be missed!

2pm

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Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): To tune into your intuition, you need your busy mind to hush down to library-level quiet. Focus on your breath, and let the wild information settle and organise itself into a sanctuary of shelves.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Your possessions take up a lot of your time today, not because you’re materialistic but because you understand that ownership always comes with the responsibility of maintenance.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You can send messages with your subconscious. It’s not exactly telepathy, but people read you all the same. Don’t let that stop you from asking directly for what you want, which will be the No. 1 tactic.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You’re feeling pulled in different directions at once internally, and this makes it more challenging to decide how best to spend your hours. Just remember that you don’t have to do anything.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’ll look at what’s causing you stress and reassess your reasoning. Why are you doing the thing? Is it loyalty, preference, love, logic, economic sense... or has it really just become a habit?

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’ve an unrelentingly positive attitude, and yet you feel the need to mix in a little mischief to keep it interesting.

After all, no one can relate to people who are all one way. Every human is a mixed bag.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): There’s a quality of attention you give that could only come from you. This is what your loved ones crave when they miss you, and what they sometimes take for granted when they have you.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You’re worried you might offend. Well, these days, it’s hard not to. You may as well say what’s on your mind and prepare to sort through the feedback, which you’re certain to learn something from.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You can’t control the entire picture of life, but you do get to control how you frame your part of it – that is, unless you give someone else control of the frame, which is not advised.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Relationships are like the transmission of a car – built to cruise in different gears. If you stay in one gear for too long, you can wear things out. It’s healthy to periodically adjust the speed.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Keep putting yourself in a situation to meet new people. You’ll learn something from each interaction. You’ve yet to meet the one who can help you and who needs exactly what you offer in exchange.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Availability can be such a funny thing. You’ll want the thing you can’t get to, and you’ll be most desirable to someone else when you’re unreachable.

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27Sep19

DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast ’n’ Loud PG 7:30 Wheels That Fail PG 7:55 Wheels That Fail PG 8:20 Gold Rush – White Water PG Diving Deeper.

9:10 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 11:40 Evil Lives Here M Blood Atonement.

12:30 Murder Comes To Town M Trailing the Devil.

1:20 Killer Instinct With Chris Hansen M Kill or Be Killed. 2:10 Wheels That Fail PG 2:35 Wheels That Fail PG 3pm Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Gold Rush – White Water PG Diving Deeper.

5:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 6:35 Outback Opal Hunters PG 7:30 Aussie Lobster Men PG 8:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 9:25 Railroad Australia PG 10:15 BattleBots PG The Rematch.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M From the Ashes.

11:55 How It’s Made PG

Saturday

12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Weather Top Tens PG 1:35 Gold Rush PG 2:25 Bering Sea Gold PG 3:15 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 4:05 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:45 Gold Rush PG

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Friday, September 27, 2019

Sport

40 Ashburton Guardian

Radical plan for Thefixer

Back on the court

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READY TO HIT THE ROAD

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

When the Tinwald Cycling Club’s summer cycling season kicks off on Sunday, it’s hoped there might be a few new faces at the starting line.

The club’s summer road racing programme will kick off with a 36km graded scratch race around the Christy’s Road block on Sunday afternoon and club spokesman Rob Hooper said members were chomping at the bit to get back out on the road.

A Saturday afternoon Social Wheelers series held over winter had attracted good, solid num-

Scenes like this will be seen on the roads around Mid Canterbury on Sundays again from now on, with the Tinwald Cycling Club’s summer season about to get under way.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN bers and it’s hoped that that momentum will carry over into the summer series.

“We would really like to encourage new riders who can participate in division two, or the open races,” Hooper said.

“That’s what we are about – development and providing an environment where people can experience cycling.”

Yes, they hold races and they’re competitive, but it’s about more than just crossing the finish line in first place, Hooper said. There’s

a real social aspect to the club, and they’d welcome new members with open arms.

“The huge majority of our races are handicapped races, so it gives everyone an opportunity to pick up the prizes,” he said.

Hooper said in recent years they had experienced a boost in the number of multisporters using the club to help with their cycling legs, including many people preparing to take part in the Coast to Coast.

Hooper said riding in Tinwald

Cycling Club races helped prepare people for that up-tempo riding, and bunch riding.

As well as the weekly Sunday afternoon races in summer, the Tinwald Cycling Club also held a mid-week series on a Wednesday night on Fords Road, which will get under way in a few weeks.

They also host a Friday night track session at their Tinwald velodrome which is for all ages, including the young whiz wheelers.

That will also start in a few weeks’ time.

The club’s summer programme will take a break over Christmas, with the last Sunday race of the year being on December 15, and it will restart on January 5.

The weekend racing season will come to an end on March 14, with the Mid Canterbury Championships event around the Beach Road block.

All information on when and where races are and how to go about entering, can be found on the Tinwald Cycling Club’s website www.tinwaldcycling.co.nz.

Sorting out the All Blacks’ midfield conundrum

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