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Almost 150 sheep were killed when the driver of a sheep truck and trailer lost control and crashed into a hedge and power pole, tipping the trailer on to its side.

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A large number of sheep died following a stock truck crash on Moorhouse Road in Ruapuna yesterday.

The crash occurred around 10.45am and involved a single truck and trailer unit containing approximately 500 sheep.

The trailer of the vehicle, which contained 300 sheep, flipped, with approximately 150 sheep dying as a result of the crash, while the remaining 150 were

unharmed and were released into a nearby paddock.

The other 200 sheep located at the front of the truck were unharmed, while the driver of the truck was assessed at the scene for minor injuries.

The truck came to a stop in a large hedge on the left-hand side of the road, damaging a power pole, causing live power lines to fall on to the trailer.

The road was blocked for most of the day, with a crane required to remove the truck.

Fire crews from Ashburton, Mayfield and Geraldine attended the crash.

“We had to cut the crate open because it had become detached from the trailer,” station officer Robbie Maw said.

“It is pretty rare but we have been to a few.”

It has been an unfortunate week for stock in the district after a number of cows were killed after a train collided with a herd of approximately 50 cows early Tuesday morning.

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■■MOSQUE MASSACRE

Armed presence continues at Masjid

By Susan Sandys

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Ashburton’s Masjid will host its regular scheduled prayer meeting today, but there will be an armed police officer outside.

It will be the first time the town’s mosque, which was a secondary terrorist target for a gunman who opened fire at two Christchurch mosques, returns to its normal Friday routine.

Muslims worshipping at the facility two weeks ago to the day had a horrific end to their Friday prayer meeting, when news filtered through of the city attacks.

The Masjid was closed afterwards, but re-opened last week.

Ashburton Muslim Association president Mohamed Diab said prayers were not held last Friday, with many of the community’s members in Christchurch supporting victims and their families.

Evening prayers had continued to be held each day.

The association had sent its prayer schedule to police on request and an armed officer was guarding the premises for each meeting.

Diab said worshippers continued to feel the trauma of the attacks.

“We can’t stop this idea coming to us, normally we used to open

the outside door, but now we try to close it when we are praying,” he said.

He applauded the police for providing security which gave worshippers a sense of safety.

“At this stage it’s good for the community in Ashburton, so they can feel more safe, but I think after time people will feel safe and it’s not needed,” he said.

Secretary Rajab Mzee echoed the president’s comments, and said in addition the support of the community was making Muslims feel safe in Ashburton.

“One of the reasons makes me safe is the reaction of the New Zealand community. We felt it’s not only Muslims that’s been attacked, it’s the whole New Zealand, we feel everybody is there for us,” Mzee said.

A New Zealand Police spokesperson said police did not have a timeframe for how long an armed presence would remain nationwide at mosques.

It was being provided for the safety and reassurance of the community.

“The national threat level remains high, and our vigilance and visible presence will continue at this time,” the spokesperson said.

Friday prayers resume at the Ashburton Masjid today.

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■■ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

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Stepping into the world of live streamed meetings has forced Ashburton’s district councillors to take a fresh look at their communications policy.

While many local authorities now live stream meetings on Youtube or Facebook, the council opened its meetings to the world for the first time last week.

But in doing so, councillors have had to grapple with the potential for members of the community to have input into debates or to sway councillor votes by email or text.

A live stream is delayed by up to one minute, but councillors are concerned that delay is not long enough.

“This delay could still allow people to be in touch with council members during a meeting; is it possible to wait until a decision is made before it is live streamed,” Selwyn Price asked at Thursday’s by law and policy sub committee meeting.

Yes it was possible, communications manager Ruben Garcia said, but that would no longer be live streaming, it would be recording and then broadcasting and the council did not have the

equipment needed to do this, he said. Councillors also wanted to know whether a committee chairperson could terminate a live stream part-way through a debate.

Doing that would be against the whole philosophy of live streaming, council chief executive Hamish Riach said.

“Unless there was an extraordinary thing in here almost unrelated to the meeting the chair won’t be able to stop it. You can’t stop live streaming just because you don’t like the debate or where it’s heading. Live streaming is just that – live streaming,” he said.

There was no difference between watching a meeting online and sitting in the public gallery or at the press bench. The only thing that was different was the ability for someone to influence a councillor during a debate, Riach said.

“And we’re trying to put processes in place to prevent text messages unduly influencing debate.”

The council is trialling live streaming for six months and may, at the end of that trial opt to invest in the equipment needed for delayed broadcast.

Only council and standing committee meetings will be streamed.

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■■DISTRICT COUNCIL

Public transport must be on 30-year plan – Favel

By Sue Newman

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Good crowds have been attending the South Island Agricultural Field Days in Kirwee.

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■■ SOUTH ISLAND FIELD DAYS

Visitors flock to field days

By Tim Cronshaw

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Farmers were window shopping and often bringing out their wallets among “hundreds of millions of dollars’’ of farm machinery at the three-day South Island Agricultural Field Days at Kirwee ending today.

Spending was most visible for smaller items judging by visitors’ shopping bags and exhibitors were doing the groundwork for future sales of heavy machinery.

Among the massive display of farm machinery were combine harvesters worth more than $500,000.

A farmer, who had his hands in his pockets, had just bought one before the field days.

He said the machinery was expensive, but necessary to ensure crops worth $1 million were safely harvested.

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equipment. Organising committee spokesman Dan Schat said it was always difficult to judge how sales were performing as often farmers would like what they see at field days and return home to consider their finances before making their purchase.

He said the total value of all the machinery would be in the “hundreds of millions of dollars’’ and that was outside of the intellectual property for software and other technology also exhibited.

“That John Deere combine harvester would be up there as one of (the most expensive pieces of farm equipment) and they are upwards of $550,000 and it’s not the only one here.There would be about four combine harvesters of that size being exhibited and even more silage choppers which are similarly priced, but of slightly less value.’’

Schat said it would be difficult to estimate how much it cost exhibitors to attend but after they factored in staffing, transport and other costs, it would be a “significant part’’ of their marketing campaign.

He said the event was the South Island’s premier field days for this year and farm machinery exhibitors coming for market presence had increased their site size from the last event two years ago.

“The big sales are usually more about referrals. There will not be five combine harvesters sold today, but there might be referrals for people to go away and make their choice.

“There are a lot of Swanndri, Stoney Creek and Swazi bags around though. Farmers are buying the small ticket items and grabbing that deal because that is what field days is all about.’’

He said technology was a

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growing category at the field days and drone demonstrations had been added to displays.

The latest technology was necessary for farmers to run their business and meet today’s regulatory requirements for the environment, he said.

Still at the forefront of the event were the machinery displays which continued to pull crowds at the large site and visitors gravitated to the dusty drama, in particular for the modified tractors in the tractor pull.

A promising payout for dairy farmers and a hot summer for arable farmers was expected to find them in a spending mood at the field days.

Organisers expect to know the final turnout by the close of the event later this afternoon.

Clearing skies after initial showers helped keep the turnstiles moving on the first day and settled weather was expected to keep visitors coming today.

Ashburton might not be on the public transport hot list, but it cannot be pushed off the radar, says Ashburton Mayor Donna Favel.

She’s long been an advocate of a regular public transport service between Ashburton and Christchurch and for an uber style bus service in urban Ashburton, but neither project has won the heart of Environment Canterbury.

When Ashburton was missed off the speakers’ list for submissions on the Canterbury land transport plan for the next 30 years, Favel was quick to complain.

And that earned her and councillor Stuart Wilson an apology and an opportunity to put the case for Ashburton to be on the public transport list for the future.

“I understand them not thinking about us in five or 10 years but absolutely in 30 years we’d expect to be part of their thinking,” she said.

It was important with central government’s thinking around reducing carbon emissions that thinking around public transport continued for Ashburton and that meant bus and train services had to be in the mix, she said.

“We’re definitely not going away on this issue.”

Favel believes that a regular bus service between Christchurch and Ashburton would open up new opportunities not just for commuters but for recreational travel.

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■■ RETIREMENT

Getting by and living well

By Sue Newman

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For many retirees in the Ashburton District, living a no-frills retirement is a reality, one with some discretionary spending, an impossible dream.

Figures released by Massey University show there is a significant gap between New Zealand Superannuation and the cost of just getting by each week for reitirees.

The retirement expenditure guide puts the cost of a no-frills budget in provincial New Zealand for a one person household at $569.43; and $630.03 for a couple.

If a retired person wanted a lifestyle with choices, a single person will need to spend $834.27 a week and a couple, $1118.92. Costs are higher in metropolitan areas.

Currently a single person on an M tax code receives super at the rate of $400.87 a week after tax and a couple $616.72.

The gap between what is needed and what’s provided through super is significant even for a budget lifestyle – $168.56 for one person but a couple can almost get by on their pension if they live frugally; just $13.31 extra is needed.

For a lifestyle with choices the extra money needed rises to $433.40 for one person and $502.20 for a couple.

And that’s money a group of Ashburton seniors say few have managed to save during their working lifetimes.

Each Thursday about 20 women gather at Ashburton’s Seniors Centre for an exercise class. At $4 a session it’s an outing they say is affordable and it’s one that comes with the benefit of not just exercise but it also provides valuable social contact.

Some say retirement’s a breeze, they’ve managed to save while working and don’t have to think too much about what they spend; others live from pension pay-day to pension pay-day.

“It all comes down to how well you manage money because out of that pension you still need to save for necessities such as dentist and doctors’ bills,” one woman said.

“We get by – just.”

Others said life would be pretty lean if you didn’t have a little extra saved.

They all agreed that it was much tougher for a single person than a

couple. The living alone allowance wasn’t enough to bridge the gap because rates, insurance and power bills were all the same for one person or two.

When she was faced with trying to live on a pension with little in the way of savings, Jo Evans came up with a novel solution. She took in a flatmate. A friend she’d known for 30 years who did not own her own home was finding life pretty tough and the two women now share her home and share expenses.

“I couldn’t manage on my own without a flatmate,” Jo said.

And there were stories of retirees who rarely went out for a meal and others who could not afford tickets to even modestly priced events.

Life as a pensioner with little in the way of savings meant you had to think seriously about every cent you spent, the women said.

The retirement expenditure report showed that most retirees had a mortgage-free home, that many continued working for several years post-retirement but virtually all agreed that the pension alone was insufficient to live on.

Enjoying exercise and a social outing without blowing their budget, a group of reitrees working out at an Ashburton Age Concern class.

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■■ PRINCES COURT

Resthome changes hands

By Sue Newman

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Change is continuing in Ashburton’s aged care sector with the sale of Princes Court to Heritage LIfecare.

That sale means the end of an era for the Greenvale Group after a 14-year involvement with residential aged care in the district.

Business manager Vicki Green said the decision to sell was tough, but the group wanted to focus its energies on its large retirement village in Invercargill. This covers the entire spectrum of care from retirement village through resthome, dementia and hospital care.

“We’ve had Princes Court for 14 years but we’ve decided it’s time to move on,” Green said.

The complex will change hands in May to the same care group that bought Coldstream House last year. This was also owned by the Greenvale Group, Green’s company bought Coldstream House in late 2007.

Over many years, as owners of retirement complexes, Green said she had never lost her enthusiasm for working with older people.

“I still love this industry and it’s a real privilege to look after people in their retirement years,” she said.

The industry was a tough one to be in however, she said.

Princes Court is solely a dementia complex, with 35 beds. Across Ashburton three complexes provide dementia beds, with about 60 of these available and that number means needs are currently well met, Green said.

Heritage already owns 30 care facilities in provincial areas and across New Zealand has more than 2100 care beds and 600 independent living units.

Princes Court has been sold.

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The plough, which has been in place for more than 10 years, was first noticed to be missing at the start of the week.

Dorie Community Trust member Vicki Webster said it was a shame that the plough had been taken.

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“Their boss found it on the property and made them return it and apologise,” she said.

“I am not sure if that is the case this time as there has been no other damage done.

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■■MOSQUE MASSACRE

Muslims welcome Prince William visit

By Susan Sandys

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Ashburton’s Muslim community members are welcoming a visit from Prince William to Christchurch as they recover from this month’s terror attack.

The Duke of Cambridge will visit New Zealand next month on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen, to honour the victims of the horror that unfolded at two Christchurch mosques on March 15.

This will follow a national remembrance service today at Hagley Park at 10am, which will feature performances from artists including Yusuf Islam and Marlon Williams, live-streamed and televised live by TVNZ. Ashburton Muslim Association president Mohamed Diab struggled to find the words to express just how much a visit from the prince meant to him and his fellow Muslims in Mid

Canterbury.

“It makes us as a Muslim community feel very, very happy, when we see all these people come to support,” Diab said.

“We feel we are part of the community.”

The support and love shown since the attacks had been unifying, and had led to Muslim community members feeling society was more inclusive and respectful than they had ever felt before.

Diab said many of Ashburton’s Muslims had been in Christchurch for much of the week as they supported their friends and relatives affected by the attacks.

Some would no doubt be at the national remembrance service today, where it would be fantastic to hear well known Islamic songs performed by Yusuf Islam, the English singer-songwriter formerly known as Cat Stevens.

For Diab himself, he will be at his job at Silver Fern Farms, where he would be able to see the televised service.

Secretary Rajab Mzee said he would also hope to see the live broadcast as he works at his job as a dairy farm manager on Hinds Arundel Road.

“Definitely I will follow it during my break,” Mzee said.

In announcing Prince William’s visit yesterday, Prime Minister Jacinda Adern said the Duke of Cambridge had a strong connection with the people of Canterbury since his visits following the Christchurch earthquakes.

“I’m really pleased that he can make a short visit to support those affected by the attack and pay tribute to the extraordinary compassion and solidarity that New Zealanders have displayed in recent weeks,” Adern said.

The visit would be in late April.

Cadets test their hiking skills Members of the Ashburton Cadet Unit were out and about on the weekend, testing out their hiking skills. Nine cadets and three staff members tackled the Mt Somers walkway. Cadet unit commander Cezarne Rodgers said they are always happy for new people to come along and join, either by contacting the group through their Facebook page or turning up to parade nights every Thursday at 254 Cameron Street.

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■■ITALY

Migrants hijack rescue ship Migrants hijacked a cargo ship that rescued them in the Mediterranean Sea and forced the crew to put the Libya-bound vessel on a course north toward Europe, authorities in two European countries said.

Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, identified the ship as the Turkish oil tanker El Hiblu 1. He said the tanker had rescued about 120 people and described what was happening as “the first act of piracy on the high seas with migrants” as alleged hijackers.

The new route put the ship on a route to Italy’s Lampedusa island and the island nation of Malta. The governments of both countries vowed to keep it from their territorial waters in the Mediterranean.

There was no immediate word on the condition of El Hiblu 1’s crew. Other information about the reported hijacking was unavailable or difficult to confirm while the vessel remained at sea.

A private group that operates a rescue ship and monitors how governments treat migrants, Mediterranea, urged compas-

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini at the Italian Senate, in Rome. Minister Salvini said the ship, was carrying around 120 migrants, but Italian authorities vowed they would not allow it into their territorial waters.

PHOTO AP sion for the group on the hijacked vessel and said it hoped European countries would act “in the name of fundamental rights, remembering that we are dealing with human beings fleeing hell”.

The Armed Forces of Malta said military personnel were standing by and the tanker still was in Libyan territorial waters mid week.

A Maltese military official told

Maltese media the ship was carrying 108 migrants.

The official also said Malta would not allow the hijacked tanker to enter the country’s waters.

Italy’s Salvini said weather conditions were not good and it was unclear if the tanker would end up approaching Malta or Lampedusa island. But he had a message for the pirates: “Forget about Italy.”

Mass migration to Europe has dropped sharply since 2015, when the continent received one million refugees and migrants from countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

The surge created a humanitarian crisis in which desperate travellers frequently drowned and leading arrival spots such as Italy and Greece struggled to house large numbers of asylum-seekers.

EU members “alert the Libyan coast guard when refugees and migrants are spotted at sea so they can be taken back to Libya, despite knowing that people there are arbitrarily detained and exposed to widespread torture, rape, killings and exploitation,” Matteo de Bellis, an international migration researcher for Amnesty International, said.

European Union member countries, responding to domestic opposition to welcoming immigrants, have decided to significantly downscale an EU operation in the Mediterranean, withdrawing their ships and continuing the mission with air surveillance only.

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Jolie to make Marvel debut Angelina Jolie is getting ready to make her first foray into the world of superhero movies. The Oscar-winning actress is in talks to star in Marvel Studios’ The Eternals – a superhero team adventure feature.

Jolie has chosen the Marvel project title about superpowered and near-immortal beings known as Eternals and a more monstrous offshoot known as the Deviants that were created by the cosmic beings called Celestials. While details about the movie are being kept under wraps, sources say that one aspect to the story involves a love story between Ikaris, a man fueled by cosmic energy, and Sersi, who relishes being amongst humans.

■■ BOEING

Boeing unveils 737 MAX fix Boeing Co says it has reprogrammed software on its 737 MAX passenger jet to prevent erroneous data from triggering an anti-stall system that is under mounting scrutiny following two deadly nosedown crashes in the past five months.

The plane-maker says the anti-stall system, which is believed to have repeatedly forced the nose lower in at least one of the accidents, in Indonesia last October, would only do so one time after sensing a problem, giving pilots more control.

It will also be disabled if two airflow sensors that measure the “angle of attack”, or angle of the wing to the airflow, a fundamental parameter of flight,

offer widely different readings, Boeing said.

“We are going to do everything that we can do to ensure that accidents like these never happen again,” Mike Sinnett, vice president for Product Strategy and Future Airplane Development told reporters near Seattle this week.

The anti-stall system ­known as MCAS, or Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System ­has been pinpointed by investigators as a possible cause in a fatal Lion Air crash in Indonesia and another fatal crash in Ethiopia on March 10.

Existing 737 pilots will also have extra computer-based training, following criticism that MCAS was not described in the aircraft manual. Boe-

ing has previously said existing cockpit procedures would cover any example of runaway controls caused by MCAS. The changes were drawn up in response to the Lion Air crash but are seen as crucial to regaining the trust of pilots, passengers and regulators after the Ethiopia crash prompted a worldwide grounding Boeing 737 MAX planes.

Ethiopian officials and some analysts have said the Ethiopian Airlines jet behaved in a similar pattern before crashing shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, but that investigation is still at an early stage.

Boeing executive Sinnett told reporters the software had been through extensive testing, including flights with US

Holmes, Foxx still a couple Federal Aviation Administration regulators.

However, he said he could provide no timeframe for when the 737 MAX jets would return to service, saying the new software upgrade and training protocols must be approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration and regulators around the world.

However, the FAA denied on Wednesday that it had granted provisional approval for the anti-stall software upgrade.

The aviation regulator said it had worked with the company throughout its software change and “we have not received the completed software enhancement for review and certification”.

– AAP

Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx have been at the centre of breakup rumours after the actor supposedly ‘declared himself single’ at an Oscars after party last month. But the couple put on a clear show of unity with a romantic stroll through Central Park this week. It was a very rare outing for the pair, who are fiercely private about their relationship.

The actor was said to have described himself as ‘single’ while performing at the Entertainment Studios Gala Supporting Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles last month. A source said: ‘It was very nonchalant, while he was referring to married and single couples, he just dropped the line, ‘I’m single’.”

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Indonesia busts Komodo dragon traffickers Indonesian police arrested nine men suspected of trafficking Komodo dragons, the largest living species of lizard, as well as other endangered birds and wild cats destined for use in traditional medicines.

An environment ministry official said it was the first time he had heard of the trafficking of Komodo dragons, which are only found in the wild in eastern Indonesia, and which have become a tourist attraction.

The men detained in the city of Surabaya told police they had sold more than 40 Komodo dragons for 500 million rupiah ($NZ52,000) each, said Rofiq Ripto Himawan, a police commissioner in East Java.

“These animals are sold for traditional medicine. Komodo dragons could be used to make an antibiotic,” Himawan said.

Police seized five Komodo dragons along with other animals mostly from eastern Indonesia including pangolins,

a wild cat and birds including cockatoos.

Police were working with vets and conservation and wildlife agencies to ensure

the animals are cared for, Himawan added.

Environment ministry official Wiratno also said traffickers were using new tactics by turning to social media to advertise animals.

Indonesian law prescribes jail for up to ten years and a fine for trafficking endangered animals. Despite the penalties, the trade is still widespread across parts of the Indonesian archipelago.

– AAP

Sex and the City follow-up One of the most iconic comedy series of the past two decades, Sex and the City, is getting a follow-up, which examines love and dating after 50. In a competitive situation, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s upcoming book Is There Still Sex in the City? to develop as a TV series. Bushnell will write the pilot script and serve as an executive producer on the project. Is There Still Sex in the City? is set to be released by Grove Press on August 6, 2019.

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Townhouse in beautiful setting 7 Park Lane, Ashburton This sun filled spacious three-bedroom town house is virtually within the Ashburton domain.

Quiet westside location within easy walking distance to main shopping centre of Ashburton.

DOMAIN SETTING Actually borders the Ashburton Domain

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Buying As our cities grow and property becomes more expensive, the age-old Kiwi dream of a standalone property with a quarter-acre section looks like it’s going out of fashion. Apartment living is becoming the choice for a greater number of New Zealanders, whether they’re first-home buyers looking for a starter property, older people looking to downsize or just people who want to live in a lowmaintenance home in the middle of all the action. Whatever your reason for buying an apartment, you need to do your homework first, says Real Estate Authority (REA) chief executive Kevin Lampen-Smith.

“When you buy a stand-alone property, you need to consider its certificate of title, its physical state and geographical location and any issues presented by nearby properties or plans for the area. Those issues are magnified when you’re buying a property that’s legally and physically linked to its neighbours,” Lampen-Smith says.

Apartments, units and townhouses in New Zealand are usually unit title properties. This means that when you buy the apartment or unit (and any ‘accessory units’ such as garages, car parks, private courtyards and storage areas included in the record of title) you’re also buying an undivided share of the ownership of the common property - lifts, laundries, lobby areas, driveways and gardens.

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“Lots of people like the idea of buying an apartment because they want a property that they’ll never have to worry about maintaining,” LampenSmith says. “However, you will have to pay for insurance and management expenses, plus any services that the body corporate arranges like rubbish collection and gardening or cleaning of common spaces.”

In most cases, you’ll also have to contribute to a long-term maintenance fund (LTMF). If a lift in a multi-unit property needs replacing or repairs, most people would agree that all the members of the body corporate should contribute (through the LTMF) to make this happen.

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AN APARTMENT problem in an apartment (that belongs to an individual) rather than a defect in a common or shared area,” LampenSmith says.

“A recent Court of Appeal decision about a 12-storey Mount Maunganui apartment complex found that the repair works to several units affected the overall weathertightness of the whole building. The court found that some of the costs should be shared between all the owners, because they related to an ‘interlinked and indivisible’ weather-tightness issue.”

In other words, if you’re looking to buy Apartment A, but Apartment Z has some issues that could affect the whole building, Apartment Z’s woes may be your problems too.

Of course, when you’re looking at apartments you’re unlikely to have the will (or even the opportunity) to knock on the doors of would-be neighbours and ask if their places are sound. But Lampen-Smith says you can ask the real estate agent if the building has any weather-tightness issues and about its current earthquake rating.

“If the answers to either (or both) of those questions are vague, or unsettling, dig deeper,” Lampen-Smith says.

“In any case, you should ask the real estate agent or the seller to give you copies of the complex’s long-term maintenance plan, and at least the last 12 months’ worth of body corporate

meeting minutes.

“You can also request a copy of the complex’s contingency plan (which will show you if there are other costs on top of the body corporate fees). Remember to ask for a copy of the building’s insurance policy, too. Get your lawyer to check through all these documents and identify any potential issues or concerns. Getting as much information as you can about a property before you make an offer on it will set you up for much better decision making.”

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Townhouse with a generous double garage in an extremely tidy condition throughout with near new floor coverings, drapes and with a neutral decor. The private courtyard is an ideal place to relax.

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Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 2pm, Wed 24 Apr 2019 201 West St, Ashburton View Sat 10.30-11am or by appointment Ray Knight 027 434 0139

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Netherby 41 Brucefield Avenue

Ashburton 24 Peter Street

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Bedrooms each having built in wardrobes. Heated by a compliant log burner and floor mounted heat pump. A low maintenance large 1,012m2 section.

For Sale offers invited over $348,000 View Sat 12-12.30pm or by appointment Sarah Everist 021 0828 5816 Eliza Waszczak 021 039 1770 WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED REAA 2008

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French Farm 262 Wainui Main Road 3

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Where history and architecture combine A wonderful 0.4097m2 property on an elevated site with panoramic views over Akaroa Harbour and the historic Onawe Peninsula. Originally the schoolhouse for a bustling French Farm settlement, it now blends seamlessly with a modern architecturally-designed home that is a perfect blend of old and new and enhanced by beautifully landscaped grounds. A lovely property in a sought-after location.

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Tinwald 68 Grahams Road 4

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Often admired, now for sale Beautiful modern family home set amongst attractive manicured lawns and easy care gardens on a 8,358m2 title. Built in 2007 by Des Millar Construction Ltd, the home features open plan kitchen, dining, living with separate lounge and four bedrooms. A magnificent four bay implement shed compliment this property.

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Mayfield 104 Baxters Road Deadline Sale (unless sold prior) 12pm, Thu 11 Apr 2019 201 West St, Ashburton View by appointment Mike Preston 027 430 7041 mike.preston@bayleys.co.nz Austen Russell 027 441 7055 austen.russell@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008

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Well developed, 75.3669 hectare bareland property Approximately 71 hectares irrigated with Mayfield Hinds Valetta scheme water via a lateral irrigator Sound cattle yards plus four bay implement shed and two silos Fenced into 14 paddocks with reticulated stockwater and central lane

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What about my tulip and hyacinth bulbs that I chilled and then planted last year? Do I need to re-chill those ones?

By Paul Hoek

Yes – but only tulips and hyacinths.

And it’s only essential if you experience fewer than five frosts a winter. But even if you do get enough natural chilling in winter, fridge chilling can still give benefits – taller stems and earlier flowering.

Tulips and hyacinths are native to areas which experience quite cold winters and they need this cold period for the bulb to complete the development of the flower bud deep inside. Sure signs you should have chilled your bulbs are if they produced unusually short stems or the bulbs failed to flower at all.

Done correctly, chilling your tulips and hyacinths will result in perfect spring flowers.

I haven’t got my spring bulbs yet, is there still time?

There’s still plenty of time, mid-April to mid-May are ideal planting times as the soil cools and we get some rain.

Visit our web shop at www.nzbulbs. co.nz to view and order from our extensive range of not only tulips and hyacinths, but anemones, ranunculus, freesias, daffodils and more.

Don’t have room in your fridge for bulbs? For a small fee of $5 we can perform the full refrigerated pre-chilling of tulips and hyacinths for you and ship them in mid-May. This will pop up as an option on our online store when you add either tulips or hyacinths to your cart.

How and when do I chill my tulips and hyacinths? And can I put them in the freezer?

1. Early to mid-April is the perfect time to start chilling your bulbs. Too early and you’ll stunt the flower bud development because the bulb is not ready for it yet.

2. Use a paper bag. It’s very important the bulbs can breathe and plastic bags cause sweating and rot may develop.

3. Keep the bulbs to the side of the fridge, not at the back where the cooler plate may ice up and damage them, or where condensation may cause mould to develop.

4. Never put bulbs in the freezer! The freezer is too cold and will kill your bulbs.

5. Keep fruit out of the fridge while you’re chilling your bulbs. Ripening fruit releases a gas called ethylene which can cause severe damage to the developing flower bud in the bulb. If you can’t keep fruit out of the fridge, include an ethyleneabsorbing sachet in the bag with the bulb. This will prevent ethylene damage and suppress mould growth (they’re actually really good in the vege compartment too, to make your veges keep longer).

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Ideally, you will have harvested them during December/January and left them in an airy place for some weeks until you start chilling them now.

However, if you didn’t lift your bulbs and they’re still in the ground, it’s best to leave them there now.

Areas that have had rain may have caused roots to start already and we don’t want to disturb that. In December/January you can lift them and follow the above instructions.

It’s that time of year again – when everyone starts talking about spring bulbs. Do I need to chill my bulbs? Do I put them in the freezer? Should I plant them in patterns? And the list goes on.

Fortunately, we’ve got some experience with this. Our family business (which includes New Zealand’s largest and longest established mail order bulb supplier NZ Bulbs) has been growing bulbs for over 62 years. That’s a lot of experience with bulbs! As well as more than 20 acres of bulbs, we produce over a million stems of cut flowers annually. Here are the answers to the spring bulb questions we get asked the most.

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Before you plant, work the soil with a fork to a depth of 25cm. This is deeper than the bulbs need to be planted but will allow their new roots to easily push further into the soil. Then plant your bulbs around 15cm deep – it’s cooler down there. Once planted give your bulbs a light watering.

In cooler parts of New Zealand you can plant tulips and hyacinths successfully in pots, but because pots warm up so quickly, even in winter, I don’t recommend them for warmer areas.

Apply a bulb fertiliser (available from your local garden centre) once the shoots emerge, and water it in well.

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If I plant my bulbs in a pattern or a straight line will they stay in that pattern?

Yes, they will stay in that general shape, but as they naturally increase in numbers over the years the sharp lines and edges will become a little fuzzier.

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reating an entirely new and modern take on the Ferrari sports prototype concept is both an ambitious and complex undertaking.

But it was in this spirit, and with very specific input from the client, that the new Ferrari one-off, the P80/C, was conceived.

The Ferrari Styling Centre, under the direction of Flavio Manzoni, and the engineering and aerodynamics team worked hand-in-glove with the client, sharing principles and visions in order to create a new “Hero Car” with an absolutely unique and authentic soul.

The client, a great connoisseur of the Ferrari world, comes from a family of long-time Prancing Horse enthusiasts and admirers, and is himself a highly knowledgeable, discerning Ferrari collector.

He was thus the perfect partner with whom to craft such a demanding project which required the highest level of interaction as well as emotional involvement.

The client’s basic brief was to create a modern sports prototype inspired by iconic models from Ferrari’s history: the 330 P3/P4 on the one hand and the 1966 Dino 206 S on the other.

The P80/C thus set the Ferrari Styling Centre an ambitious target: to develop a new kind of product that simply did not exist in the current Ferrari range: a sports prototype inspired by the cars that essentially wrote their own styling rules becoming, in the process, famous icons that, although conceived as track cars, also went on to influence a whole series of elegant road cars.

A case in point is the very close relationship between, for instance, the Dino 206 S racing car and the production Dino

206/246 GT. Both versions share a common DNA despite having a different styling lexicon: Ferrari racing elements appear in the case of the former while the latter have the more sober, refined lines of the road cars.

The Ferrari Styling Centre’s goal was to create a resolutely modern car that made no major concessions to the past, apart from attempting to recreate the sensual shape of those iconic models through more muscular wings formed by the intersection of concave and convex surfaces.

Kicked off in 2015, the P80/C project had the longest development time of any Ferrari one-off made to date.

This highly intense gestation period was the result of in-depth styling research and lengthy engineering development, with meticulous analysis of performance parameters as well as scrupulous aerodynamic testing, all with a different approach than taken by Ferrari with its one-off cars in the past.

Normally speaking, this kind of car tends to be a stylistic reinterpretation of models in the current range – a new concept or basic idea that marks a departure from the donor car is built on existing running gear.

The glorious history of Italian coachbuilding is just that: a wealth of exceptional cars based on the same chassis, but bodied by different coachworks.

The P80/C, however, is radically different. It is a track car, which means that performance is a major factor so this not only pointed the design team in the direction of a design that was absolutely unique, but also forced them to make radical changes to the running gear of the donor car.

This involved introducing specific features required to guarantee a captivating

marriage of style, technical prowess and aerodynamics.

The decision was made to use the 488 GT3 chassis as a basis, not only for its performance, but also for its longer wheelbase (+ 50 mm compared to the 488 GTB) which allowed more creative freedom. With respect to the Ferrari 488’s classic layout in which the cockpit tends to be placed centrally, the GT chassis allowed the designers to emphasis a cab forward-effect in which the rear is elongated, lending the car a more aggressive, compact character.

This was one of the cornerstones of the P80/C’s styling from the early stages of the design process.

A decisive wedge shape dominates the side view at the front of the car.

The muscular forms of the front and rear wings with the cockpit set in between are emphasised by very broad buttresses that expand towards the side air intakes.

This gives the impression that the cabin is completely fused with the body, and is accentuated still further by the wraparound windscreen which references the iconic look of sports prototypes of the past.

The flying buttresses converge towards the roof underlining the visor effect of the greenhouse.

All of these features are references not only to the 330 P3/P4 but also homage to the Dino and the 250 LM berlinettas.

The side windows merge graphically with a wide pocket created by the side air intakes giving a dynamic downward movement to the rear flanks.

This disruptive line balances the wedgeshaped front flanks.

Aerodynamic development was based on the experience gained with the 488 GT3, but was not governed by the restrictions imposed by international regulations. Thus the front splitter is specific and, while

the expansion curve and vortex generators of the rear diffuser are the same as those used on the GT3, the external surfaces are all unique to the P80/C. The result is an improvement of around 5 per cent in overall efficiency, required to make full use of the unrestricted engine.

The objective was to balance the upper bodywork’s downforce evenly over the two axles, making full use of the 488 GT3’s underbody.

The front of the car has a catamaran-style formal geometry.

The jutting effect of the nose is underscored by its almost wing-like shape which the interplay of voids highlights very effectively.

The large radiator air vents are located just behind this wing-like structure and these outlets over the front bonnet underline the powerfully muscular wings.

The fact that the P80/C is homologated only for track use meant that it could do without components that would be deemed vital in a road car, and which would also heavily influence its styling.

Classic head lights have essentially disappeared, or rather reduced to mere slits set into niches at the front of the car reminiscent of the air intake housings in the grille of the 330 P3/P4.

The same styling element reappears at the rear of the car.

The rear spoiler is very wide to meet aerodynamic requirements and incorporates the two signature tail lights in a way that makes them look like air vents, thus perfectly reflecting the design of the front.

Even the rear fascia, which leaves the running gear fully visible, has a catamaran-type architecture.

This allowed the inside to be completed devoid of bodywork.

The adoption of a concave rear windscreen and aluminium louvres on the engine cover, a reference to the 330 P3/P4, gives the P80/C’s tail an instantly recognisable and unique look.

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Carriages for the wealthy Bernard Egan MOTORING

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roups or clubs are formed by people who share a common interest, providing wide-ranging benefits for their members.

These include forming friendships, seeking advice and sharing experiences.

Modern forms of communication, especially via electronic means, have made this easier.

Take for example a recent communication from the Vintage Car Club.

From time to time local Vintage Car Club secretary Peter Jacob receives requests from members from all around the country seeking advice about, or maybe parts for, restoration projects.

Sometimes members are looking for information about a particular vehicle.

Using the internet, Peter is able to instantly pass on these messages.

A recent request for information which came from a new member in Oamaru is quite interesting.

This member wrote “I have Italian Vintage cars. An Ansaldo and a Diatto [both of 1923 vintage] and would like to meet the owner of a Vintage Ceirano which I understand is in NZ.” It’s not every day one hears of these cars, and hopefully the request leads to something.

One thing it has led to is a quick google search, which produced the following details.

The Ansaldo was an Italian automobile manufactured by the armaments concern Gio. Ansaldo from 1921 to 1931.

The company entered car manufacture with an OHC 1847cc (112.7 cu.in) in-linefour engine model which could develop 36 bhp (27 kW) at 3600 rpm.

A sports version with 1981cc (120.9 cu. in) engine was offered, as was a six-cylinder version of 1991 cc; later six-cylinder motors of 2179 cc capacity were offered.

Among the company’s last cars was an OHV straight-8 of 3532 cc (215.5 cu.in).

Ansaldos were generally of good quality and modern design, and competed in many races.

The Diatto manufacturing company was founded in 1835 in Turin by Guglielmo Diatto to make “carriages for wealthy customers”.

In 1874 Guglielmo’s sons, Giovanni and Battista Diatto, began building railway carriages for Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Litsand the Orient Express.

In 1905 Guglielmo’s grandsons, Vittorio and Pietro Diatto, began Diatto-Clément, a co-operative venture making motor-vehicles under license from French manufacturer Clément-Bayard.

By 1909 they had full ownership of Autocostruzioni Diatto and began developing their own motor-vehicles and exporting them worldwide.

From 1905 the company built two- and four-cylinder cars based on the Clément-Bayard, a leading contemporary French manufacturer.

By the 1920s, Diatto was making quality cars of its own design, including race cars with supercharged eight-cylinder engines.

Diatto also supplied frames to Bugatti which used them for their own race cars.

Some Diatto racers were prepared and raced by Alfieri Maserati, who left Diatto in 1926 to establish the Maserati marque with his brothers.

Diatto cars were known for their innovative engineering and as early as the 1920s they were equipped with four-wheel brakes and four-speed gearboxes.

Diatto ceased production in 1929.

The Ceirano brothers, Giovanni Battista, Giovanni, Ernesto and Matteo, were influential in the founding of the Italian auto industry, being variously responsible for Ceirano; Welleyes (the technical basis of FIAT); Fratelli Ceirano; STAR Rapid (Società Torinese Automobili Rapid); Itala and SPA (Società Piemontese Automobili).

Giovanni’s son Giovanni “Ernesto” was also influential, co-founding Ceirano Fabbrica Automobili (aka Giovanni Ceirano Fabbrica Automobili) and Fabrica Anonima Torinese Automobili (FATA).

In 1888, after eight years apprenticeship at his father’s watch-making business, Giovanni Battista started building Welleyes bicycles, so named because English names had more sales appeal.

In October 1898 Giovanni Battista and Matteo co-founded Ceirano GB & C and

started producing the Welleyes motor car in 1899.

The plant and patents were sold to Giovanni Agnelli and produced as the first FIATs – the Fiat 4 HP. Giovanni Battista was employed by Fiat as the agent for Italy, but within a year he left to found Fratelli Ceirano & Co. which in 1903 became Società Torinese Automobili Rapid (STAR) building cars badged as Rapid.

In 1904 Matteo Ceirano left Ceirano GB & Co to create his own brand – Itala.

Matteo left Itala to found S.P.A. (Società Piemontese Automobili)with chief designer, Alberto Ballacco.

In 1906 Giovanni founded Società Ceirano Automobili Torino in Turin. In 1919 Giovanni and Giovanni “Ernesto” co-founded Ceirano Fabbrica Automobili (aka Giovanni Ceirano Fabbrica Automobili) and in 1922 they took control of Fabrica Anonima Torinese Automobili (FATA).

The cars were branded as Ceirano.

The launch of the type N 150 in 1924, formed the basis of production until the end of the 1920s.

Nicknamed the Ceiranina, the model used a 1458 cc 4-cylinder engine with side valves.

Curiously, this car had a body that was similar in size and appearance to the former Ceirano GB & Co. employee, Vincenzo Lancia’s Lambda.

Later in the year came the 150 S, with the engine now producing 40 horsepower.

The final derivative of the model, the VVV, had independent front suspension.

In 1926, the type 250, was introduced.

It was powered by an in-line four-cylinder 2297 cc engine.

This car was the last model produced by Ceirano.

Financial problems in late 1929 led to the acquisition of Ceirano by FIAT. The name lived on under the control of FIAT until 1932.

Thereafter, the name Ceirano was no longer associated with any new models of automobiles, although various trucks were produced up until the war under their name.

A definitive history of the Italian automobile industry records many of these family names are repeated throughout the initial period of Italy’s industrial automotive history.

Most were involved in one way or another, with the rise of virtually every prestigious automotive brand born in Italy before the Great War. The Vintage Car Club member from Oamaru is the owner of two unusual and probably rare cars.

It will be interesting to find out if he locates a Ceirano in this country.

Let’s hope he does.

The enquiry from the Oamaru Vintage Car Club member is a good example of the benefits of belonging to a club.

Chances are he never thought it would up in story form, but when there’s an opportunity to delve back in the mists of time, think about the origins of motoring and record exotic and splendid sounding names who can resist?

Speaking of things vintage the tally of vehicles entered for the Vintage Car Club National Easter Rally taking place here has now reached 171, which means there will be a lot of fabulous automobiles around town.

The rally will include a chance for the public to view these vehicles on Easter Sunday.

Left – By the 1920s the Diatto company was making some very advanced motor vehicles.

Above – The powerful Ansaldo Tipo 14 Sports was very popular on the racetracks.

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he Volvo 440 was presented for the first time in June 1988.

This was a five-door family car that shared its technology with the 480 sports coupé.

Volvo now demonstrated in earnest that front-wheel drive was the way forward.

Work on what later became the Volvo 440 began back in 1978.

This was a new project that would lead the company to the Volvo cars of the future. Free thinking and aiming for the stars were the name of the game – and so the project was dubbed Galaxy.

In September 1980, the first frontwheel drive prototype was ready.

Although its primary aim was to test the various functions, in terms of appearance it resembled what later became the Volvo 440. The G4, as the prototype was called, displayed the attributes that Volvo was looking for.

It had front-wheel drive, and it was fun to drive. Interior spaces were good, while external dimensions remained compact.

The Galaxy project later culminated in the launch of two model series. The big 850, which was presented in the summer of 1991, had the greatest impact, but the 400 programme actually came about several years previously.

That part of the project was taken over by Volvo subsidiaries in the Netherlands in 1992, and this was where

development work continued.

The first of Volvo’s new front-wheel drive models was the 480 sports coupé, which was officially launched at the Geneva Motor Show in 1986.

This distinctive niche product paved the way for the 440, which was presented two years later and ended up battling in earnest for car buyers in the mid-range class.

The Volvo 440 was a modern hatchback model with a practical rear seat that was split into two sections.

The centre panel on the dashboard faced the driver, making it easier for him or her to access the controls. The arrangements linked this model programme with the 700 series, with its smooth sides and low, almost vertical side windows.

All the engines were four-cylinder models with a single overhead camshaft, from 1.6 litres to 2 litres, including a 1.7-litre turbo model.

Of course, safety was a prime consideration and anti-lock brakes, ABS, were available as an optional extra as early as 1989. Seatbelt pretensioners and airbags were fitted as optional extras from model year 1991 onwards, and Volvo’s integrated side impact protection system, SIPS, was introduced to the model in 1994.

Production of the Volvo 444 60 was discontinued in November 1996: successors, the S40 and V40, had been in parallel production for more than a year at that time.

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Praying for a safe return to prayer T

he wounds have begun to heal, but the scars of the tragic events in Christchurch are still very much visible across the Canterbury region two weeks on from the event that changed the face of our country forever.

For most, normality is back into our lives.

Yes, there are moments where we stop and reflect, but those moments are becoming more and more fleeting and, eventually, will only occur on the rarest of occasions.

That’s great news for the majority of us.

We are continuing to live our lives without too much pain.

But the truth is that the battle is still very real for so many.

Milestones, both big and small, are still huge to deal with emotionally and genuine fear and concern is still etched on many a face.

Today, two weeks on from the terror attacks, a huge step forward will be taken by members of our Muslim community and again they will need our support to get them through what will surely be a testing time.

For the first time since the attacks, members of the community will return to the Ashburton Masjid on a Friday for their traditional, Jumu’ah – Friday, or congregational – prayers.

It’s hard to imagine what it will be like for those who do attend.

Walking in the doors of the once seemingly insignificant building perched on the side of a busy highway, they will no doubt feel something different.

Aesthetically, it will look to be the same building it always was.

But the emotion surrounding the building will see it forever changed in the eyes and minds of those who are frequent visitors.

A place of peaceful serenity

for so many – a quiet location in which they can gather their thoughts and follow their religious beliefs, it was supposed to be a safe haven – away from the rest of the world.

A place where one can head without fear.

But that description has been cruelly torn away from a special part of our community and it will take some time before it even remotely starts to feel like that place again.

What will offer some solace is a lone figure standing outside.

In order to allow those who attend today’s Jumu’ah, a police presence will be noticeable outside the Masjid – a welcoming sight for those who are attending but they may still have some

trepidation about being there.

But what would really hammer home the point that things are going to be okay going forward is public support. A gentle smile, a warm greeting and a friendly wave can change the world for someone who isn’t feeling all that safe.

We’re a good district. Full of good people from all walks of life. We tend to stand together when the going gets tough and that is what is required today.

Part of our community is taking a huge step forward after a massive knock-back and the more we are there and seen to be supporting that progress the better that difficult step is going to be to make.

followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders.

In 1973, the last United States combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1974, eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on federal charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University.

In 2017, Britain filed for divorce from the European Union as Prime Minister Theresa May sent a six-page letter to EU Council President Donald Tusk.

Ten years ago: A gunman killed

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Five years ago: Two Spanish journalists, Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, were freed after being held captive for six months in Syria by a rogue al-Qaida group.

One year ago: Russia announced the expulsion of more than 150 diplomats and said it was closing a US consulate in retaliation for Western expulsions of Russian diplomats over the poisoning of an ex-spy

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Malala Yousafzai returned home to Pakistan for a four-day visit, the first by the 20-year-old Nobel laureate since she was shot by the Taliban five years earlier for speaking out in support of education of girls.

Today’s birthdays: Author Judith Guest is 83. Former British Prime Minister Sir John Major is 76. Comedian Eric Idle is 76. Composer Vangelis is 76. Singer Bobby Kimball is 72. Actor Bud Cort is 71.

Actor Brendan Gleeson is 64.

Actress Marina Sirtis is 64. Actor Christopher Lambert is 62.

Rock singer Perry Farrell is 60.

Comedian-actress Amy Sedaris is 58. Model Elle Macpherson is 56. Actress Annabella Sciorra is 55. Movie director Michel Hazanavicius is 52. Rock singermusician John Popper is 52.

Actress Lucy Lawless is 51.

Country singer Regina Leigh is 51. Country singer Brady Seals is 50. CBS Actor Sam Hazeldine is 47. Actor Chris D’Elia is 39.

Rhythm and blues singer PJ Morton is 38. Actress Megan Hilty is 38. Pop singer Kelly Sweet is 31.

Thought for today: “If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now.” – Russian proverb. – AP

Matt Markham

EDITOR

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Friday, March 29, the 88th day of 2019. There are 277 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On March 29, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted in New York of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

On this date: In 1638, Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware.

In 1867, Britain’s Parliament passed, and Queen Victoria signed, the British North America Act creating the Dominion of Canada, which came into being the following July.

In 1901, the Skippers Bridge opened – at 96m long and 91m above the river, the suspension bridge over the Shotover River near Queenstown in Central Otago is one of the highest and most spectacular in New Zealand.

In 1912, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, his doomed expedition stranded in an Antarctic blizzard after failing to be the first to reach the South Pole, wrote the last words of his journal: “For God’s sake look after our people”.

In 1942, during World War Two convicted conman Sydney Gordon Ross duped New Zealand’s intelligence service into believing that Nazi agents were planning to carry out sabotage in New Zealand.

In 1943, World War Two rationing of meat, fats and cheese began, limiting consumers to store purchases of an average of about two pounds a week for beef, pork, lamb and mutton using a coupon system.

In 1962, Jack Paar hosted NBC’s Tonight show for the final time.

In 1971, Army Lt William L Calley Jr was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female

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A diamond dog Phill Hooper OFF THE AIR

W

ho would have thought the most stressful part of getting a puppy was naming it?

Not me, that’s for sure.

We have been on the lookout for a new addition to the family for a number of weeks now. Both Manda and I were keen on a black lab or lab cross.

I’m not sure if it’s Murphy’s Law kicking in but from the time we both said yep let’s go for it, 90 per cent of the lab puppy listings on TradeMe were in the North Island, 4 per cent were located in the Nelson area and 4 per cent in Southland.

The 2 per cent from the area between Kaikoura and Dunedin were snapped up faster than Oprah changes her diet plans.

I had to fight the urge not to check the new listings emailed from TradeMe each morning before prepping my show, otherwise they would have been ‘winging it’ shows. Yes, I know they sound like that most mornings anyway!

When my wife has her heart set on something, she goes after it full bore. She was checking TradeMe for new puppy listings on the hour every hour and her persistence paid off. Three black lab boys were for sale in Waimate.

Contact was made and a viewing arranged for the next day.

The seller told us the next day she had received 12 emails in less than 24 hours.

I had a flood of emotions driving into the big smoke of Waimate. Yes, the big cement horse is still sitting on top of the hill in the distance. As kids we used to look out for it when mother was dragging us there for a tap-dancing competition.

Bowie

A warm glow swept over me when I saw the horse, it was familiar, like sitting down to a bowl of porridge on a winter’s morning.

Then a shudder of fear cascaded down my spine as I relived the thought of belting out Rhinestone Cowboy while tapping my way round a stage with a face full of whale blubber and fish scales.

I have always been a fan of the dog picking the owners and that certainly happened on Tuesday afternoon in Waimate.

The three black lab boys were put on the lawn with their mother for us to peruse. Two of the boys ran straight to their mum while the other wee fella bee-lined it straight for us, well straight for Maddy to be honest.

Maddy had a good wander

around the lawn with her new puppy-shaped shadow. He made the choice for us!

Now the tough bit. What are we going to call the wee man?

Truth be known we had been trawling the internet for name suggestions for several weeks.

Since our visit to Graceland a few years ago I thought Elvis would be a good name for a black lab. Labs, like Elvis, start out trim and good looking (see 1968 comeback concert in the black leather) but end up eating everything in sight and blowing up, just like the king before his sad demise. Both have hearts of gold too.

Manda wasn’t that keen, she really liked Denzel. I thought it was OK for a puppy but thought it sounded a bit dumb (good

civic centre was virtually a done deal, with a price tag of $33-35 million but after the election, the councillors and the mayor who were voted in under the Citizens’ Association banner, decided that they couldn’t trust the outgoing council and had to revisit it all again.

With building costs rising over 10 per cent per year, and with a

three-year delay, that $33-35 million becomes $43 million.

It’s all very well for the urban ratepayer to pay $1 per week more as quoted in your paper, but as a rural ratepayer, who doesn’t receive water, sewerage, refuse services and all the other things that urban ratepayers expect as norm, I envisage we will be paying $1000 per year extra to the

adjective) for an older dog.

We both liked Memphis as it brought back great memories, unlike Waimate, of our visit to the city. But you can’t shorten it.

Memph? Phissy?

Presley was a front-runner for a while, but it didn’t really pass the back door test – yelling the dog’s name out the back door to see how it sounded.

I thought this would make a good wee talky bit on social media, but after over 300 name suggestions on Facebook, we were no closer to a name.

Cooper was the most popular suggestion, but we couldn’t get our head around Cooper Hooper.

HAM (Hoops Amanda Maddy) was another, but we didn’t want the pooch thinking he was a pig.

We had talked about Bowie before but Manda had read that you need to take care that names don’t rhyme with commands. Bowie would probably be shortened to Bo and we were worried with that and “No” being confusing for him.

What about if we were to say “Stop” instead of “No”?

Yes!!! Bowie it is.

A wave of relief, similar to what I experienced as each tap dance finished, washed over us.

Job done. Maddy’s wee puppy shaped shadow is Bowie (Bo) Hooper.

Till next week Hoo Roo Phill Hooper David Bowie Fan Phill Hooper is the breakfast host of Ashburton’s Hokonui radio station. The views expressed in this column are his and do not reflect the opinion of his employer or the Ashburton Guardian.

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YOUR VIEW Civic centre I would like to say how horrified I am with the reports that I’m reading in your paper relating to the new civic centre and listening to a few councillors and the mayor saying that no-one is to blame for the blowout, in my opinion that is not correct.

At the last council elections the

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■■ AIR NEW ZEALAND

Air NZ cuts targets, costs Air New Zealand has downgraded network growth targets and delayed the delivery of new aircraft following a two-month review prompted by its reduced earnings guidance.

The dual-listed carrier, which also launched a fresh $60 million cost-cutting initiative and an overhaul of its long-haul economy cabins, yesterday said it was planning for network growth of 3 to 5 per cent over the next three years.

That’s down from the previously planned 5 to 7 per cent.

The carrier launched the review in January after downgrading its full-year pre-tax earnings guidance to between $340 million and $400 million, from between $425 million and $525 million.

Chief executive Christopher Luxon said the airline, which last month reported a 35.4 per cent fall in first-half profit, would improve revenue growth, capital efficiency, operating costs and the customer travel experience into 2020 and beyond.

“The actions we are announcing today are focused on re-aligning our business to ensure a return

to earnings growth in the lower growth environment,” Luxton said.

“Air New Zealand is experienced at adapting to changing macro environments, and the actions outlined in the business review today will ensure the business is more dynamic, increasingly competitive and financially resilient for the future.”

Air New Zealand has delayed, by between one and at least four years, the delivery of six new aircraft.

However, it will launch new direct services between Auckland and Seoul in November and increase the frequency of Auckland-Taipei and Auckland-Chicago flights to up to five times per week from December.

Luxton said Air New Zealand was ensuring that each of its international aircraft were directed at strongly profitable routes.

“We are putting extra effort into lifting the performance of some routes that we feel are not meeting their potential, while refocusing our assets on those routes which are performing ahead of expecta- Air New Zealand has downgraded network growth targets and delayed the delivery of new tions,” Luxton said.

- NZME aircraft following a two-month review prompted by its reduced earnings guidance.

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■■OPINION

Compiled by

NEW ZEALAND SHARE MARKET

Source: NZX and Standard & Poors

1422 247 2705 126 128 815 590 672 2174 1552 495 423 820 319.5 475 169 414 161 229 148 3590 387.5 417.5 485 205 99 536 153 192.5 310 885 1199 680 489 210 131 380 382 201 648 1075 471 641 661 354 489 216 2689 627

Daily Volume move ’000s

+25 +5.5 +13 –1 +2 –5 +13 +7 +18 –7 +12 +1 +9 +7.5 +5 – +4 – +2 – +20 –5.5 +9.1 +4 +2 –1 –2 +1 –1.5 +3 –2 +19 +10 +9 +1 –3 – +0.5 –3 +7 +19 –3 – +18 +6.2 –1 –0.5 +9 +6

804.6 1.6m 9.03 378.2 187.5 1.3m 186.5 648.7 29.41 195.8 648.4 241.0 106.0 948.2 27.87 890.7 245.9 111.5 178.5 678.9 43.94 500.1 1.3m 784.2 121.5 103.1 124.4 401.8 138.3 2.0m 139.8 224.3 23.31 247.6 535.5 425.9 264.3 2.4m 147.5 693.4 45.58 39.52 150.7 531.8 131.8 58.43 165.4 15.10 698.4

9790

9586 9484 9382 9280

The market week in review T

9688

28/3

1422 248 2728 126 129 820 590 672 2179 1552 495 424 830 319.5 480 170 414 162 230 149 3590 393 417.5 490 206 99 543 155 193.5 313 885 1200 689 489 210 133 382 382 202 660 1075 473 642 661 354 489 217 2700 627

Last sale

22/3

1409 247 2682 125.5 128 812 587 665 2160 1505 479 423 820 318 473 169 413 160 227 148 3570 384 412 485 205 98 536 153 192.5 307 876 1180 680 485 209 131 379 380.5 200 648 1062 471 641 655 352 486 215.5 2651 626

Sell price

15/3

a2 Milk Company ATM Air NZ AIR ANZ Banking Gr ANZ Argosy Prop ARG Arvida Gr ARV Auckland Intl Airpt AIA Chorus CNU Contact Energy CEN Ebos Gr EBO F&P Healthcare FPH Fletcher Building FBU Fonterra Share Fund FSF Freightways FRE Genesis Energy GNE Gentrak Gr GTK Goodman Prop Tr GMT Infratil IFT Investore Property IPL Kathmandu Hldgs KMD Kiwi Property Gr KPG Mainfreight MFT Mercury NZ MCY Meridian Energy MEL Metlifecare MET NZ Refining NZR NZX NZX Port of Tauranga POT Precinct Properties PCT Prop for Industry PFI Pushpay Holdings PPH Restaurant Brands RBD Ryman Healthcare RYM Sanford SAN Scales Corp SCL Skellerup SKL Sky Network TV SKT Sky City SKC Spark SPK Stride Prop & Inv SPG Summerset Gr Hldgs SUM Synlait Milk SML Tourism Holdings THL Trade Me Gr TME TrustPower TPW Vector VCT Vista Gr Intl VGL Vital Hlth Prop Tr VHP Westpac Banking WBC Z Energy ZEL

Buy price

S&P/NZX 50 Index Gross

8/3

Company CODE

At close of trading on Thursday, March 28, 2019

1/3

S&P/NZX 50 Index Gross constituents

p S&P/NZX 50 Gross

9,766.19 +67.29 +0.69%

p S&P/NZX 20 index

6,485.29 +38.13 +0.59%

p S&P/NZX All Gross

10,569.66 +70.13 +0.67%

p Rises 69 q Falls 40 Top 5 NZX gainers Company

Geneva Finance Wgn Drive Tech Barramundi TrustPower King Salmon

daily % rise

+7.27% +6.82% +3.45% +2.80% +2.77%

Top 5 NZX decliners Company

daily % fall

Metro Perf Glass –4.44% Abano Healthcare Gr –4.09% Templeton EM Inv Tr –2.65% Briscoe Gr –2.40% Sky Network TV –2.24%

METAL PRICES

Source: interest.co.nz

q Gold

1,316.30

London – $US/ounce

–3.25

–0.25%

q Silver London – $US/ounce

15.44

–0.08

–0.52%

q Copper London – $US/tonne

6,338.0

–23.0

–0.36%

NZ DOLLAR

Source: BNZ As at 4pm March 28, 2019

Country

TT buy

Australia 0.9769 Canada 0.9326 China 4.8792 Euro 0.6208 Fiji 1.4922 Great Britain 0.5269 Japan 76.86 Samoa 1.8277 South Africa 10.1145 Thailand 22.08 United States 0.696

TT sell

0.9441 0.8982 4.2824 0.5939 1.3722 0.5084 73.63 1.5983 9.7473 21.01 0.671

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he New Zealand sharemarket had a stellar week with a plethora of companies within the top 50 index hitting alltime highs.

Through the month of March, the index has closed at nine record highs, and at the time of writing, is up 10.1 per cent for the year.

On Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) held the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 1.75 per cent for the 16th straight meeting.

However, what really stole the attention was when Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr said that the likely direction of our next OCR move is down, given the weaker global economic outlook and reduced momentum in domestic spending.

He said employment is near its maximum sustainable level.

However, core consumer price inflation remains below the 2 per cent target mid-point.

The central bank said the global outlook has continued to weaken, in particular amongst some of our key trading partners including Australia, Europe and China.

Domestic growth slowed in 2018, with softness in the housing market and weak business investment contributing.

He expects ongoing low interest rates, and increased government spending and investment to support economic growth.

This caused the New Zealand dollar to tumble 1.6 per cent against the US dollar following the release.

In other economic news, New Zealand posted a merchandise trade surplus of $12m in February, beating expectations for a deficit

Jeremy Flood ON THE MARKETS

of $200m following the $914m loss in January. The rise in exports was led by milk powder, butter, and cheese, and a new record month for lamb exports.

In corporate news, Kathmandu came under pressure in the wake of its half year result.

The outdoor clothing and equipment retailer reported 1.3 per cent lift in net profit to $13.6m, however investors were left disappointed at the lack of outlook offered by the company.

The result beat Kathmandu’s January downgraded guidance that caused a near 15 per cent oneday fall in the company’s share price.

Synlait Milk announced it had switched on New Zealand’s first large-scale electrode boiler, located at its Dunsandel site in Canterbury.

The electrode boiler, which stands seven metres tall, provides renewable process heat to Synlait’s advanced dairy liquids facility in a bid to reduce the company’s energy footprint.

Outside the benchmark index, Abano Healthcare tumbled more than 23 per cent after reporting 12 per cent decline in net profit amid challenging conditions in Australia.

The company expects operating earnings for the year ending May 31 to increase by about 1.9 per

cent to $33m, but net profit to fall to $9m, compared to $10.3m in the previous year.

It was a mixed weak for global markets as investors debate the outlook for the global economy.

Late last week, an important part of the US yield curve (the threemonth–10 year) inverted for the first time since August 2007.

This phenomenon has proved a reliable predictor of a looming recession in the past, although the predictive timing is much less clear and the collapse in longerterm rates likely reflects an expectation the Fed will be forced to cut interest rates later this year.

Turning to the UK, Theresa May said she would quit as UK Prime Minster to get her Brexit deal over the line, allowing a successor to take the lead on future negotiations with the European Union.

However, the Northern Irish party which is crucial to getting the agreement through parliament were unmoved and said they would reject it again.

May’s gesture is the latest dramatic turn in the UK’s three-year Brexit crisis, but it remains uncertain how, when or even whether it will leave the EU. Although May’s departure would not alter the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, it could give Conservative eurosceptics who have opposed it a greater say in negotiating the terms of Britain’s future relationship with the EU. Jeremy Flood works for Craigs Investment Partners.

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d M3 Addington Dogs Today at Addington

2 3 4 March 29

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

47117 Canya Sniper 29.98 16814 Opawa Hop 30.29 22445 Know Pudding 30.68 14433 Eddie Hemi 30.25 72144 Cawbourne Taber 30.49 26443 Jaded Affair 30.56 45778 Opawa Al 30.53

Weather: Mainly Fine

2:57PM

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6

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PX # REC Greyhound Fastest time

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

8858 Tickel Up nwtd 778 Gotcha Bailey nwtd 76 Mr. Hardwick nwtd 38342 Vik Vikkers nwtd 67 Creasy Bear nwtd 34444 Dream Runner nwtd 58476 Smash Out nwtd 61 Jinja Lola 17.65 67873 Lucy Lingers nwtd 6778X Goldstar Dayton nwtd

12:20PM 1 2 4 3 3 4 5 6 2 7 8 9 10

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4 1 3

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 8 9 10

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

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1 68261 Goldstar Miley 30.25 2 15572 Our Brad 30.12

$1,600, C0f, 295m

J McInerney J M McCook M Grant A Lee C Roberts J M McCook B Dann A Bradshaw A Bradshaw C Roberts

$1,685, C2, 295m

J M McCook A Lee J McInerney L Waretini G Cleeve J McInerney R Casey M Grant A Joyce J McInerney

MY BRO FABIO DISTANCE

8

10

J & D Fahey R Wales R Wales J M McCook J & D Fahey Mitchell & Smith G Cleeve R Wales

COALGATE TAVERN DASH

$3,795, C1d, 645m

S & B Evans R Wales J McInerney S & B Evans J McInerney R Wales R Wales J McInerney J McInerney

FLAIR STAKES

$2,860, C2, 520m

C Roberts R Wales M Grant L Waretini J & D Fahey R Wales J McInerney J & D Fahey R Wales

FOX & FERRET @ THE PALMS SPRINT

16852 Culvie Lass 17.33 56552 Opawa Waihemo 17.33 24522 Justin Ryan 17.27 38434 Platonic Affair 17.47 15483 Jinja Cody 17.38 53677 Hi Ho Tonto 17.38 37173 Epic Boom 17.47 87571 Nicky Baxter 17.34 46268 Little Lottie 17.47 44764 Vasterbottenost 17.47

2:40PM

1

6

23556 Umbridge Bale 30.20 26451 Opawa Lara 30.10 78227 Smash Calling 30.56 35157 Little Secret 30.44 27323 Famous Lee nwtd 51325 Opawa Hilary 30.32 3F331 Chunk 30.88 27232 Sausage 30.16 45778 Opawa Al 30.53

2:22PM

$2,390, C0, 520m

THE FITZ SPORTS BAR MAIDEN SPRINT FINAL

46346 Galway Gal nwtd 55X34 Go Belle nwtd 61F67 Homebush Izzy nwtd 24563 Goldstar Sydney 38.36 52531 Ben Vane King nwtd 53464 Opawa Abbie Joy 38.34 67675 Opawa Hope 38.37 13428 Cosmic Stu nwtd 13646 Gotcha Rocky nwtd

2:06PM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STAKES

64416 Epic Mate 17.41 24315 Say Cheese 17.45 75211 Punch On Woody 17.58 47163 Hatfield 17.28 527X7 Cee Ash 17.60 42742 Homebush Carl nwtd 24434 Lisa’s Boy 17.24 33331 Smash Gator 17.39 68537 Whose He 17.44 78778 Homebush Maycee nwtd

1:46PM

4 2

R Wales R Wales L Waretini J & D Fahey M Dempsey J & D Fahey A Joyce R Wales

55332 Homebush Velma nwtd X7513 Tearaway Tara 17.43 42111 Smash Empire 17.36 35623 Don’t Cry Joni nwtd 46626 Raquel Allen nwtd 43624 Special As nwtd 17 Baccus 17.57 32221 Pacemaker 17.58 84673 Black Mags nwtd 38342 Vik Vikkers nwtd

1:30PM

R Wales C Roberts J McInerney A Bradshaw J McInerney Hart & Taylor M Grant M Dempsey J McInerney S & B Evans

$2,390, C0, 520m

4

5

$1,365, C0, 295m

COALGATE TAVERN STAKES

44255 Little Apple nwtd 25586 Opawa Roy nwtd 58646 Sefton Joy nwtd 245X4 Haze Adams nwtd 3X2 Opawa Rockstar nwtd 55558 Tonkawa nwtd 27677 Absent nwtd 53265 Our Bonnie nwtd

1:13PM

4 3 2

3

66777 Opawa Pauline nwtd 75755 Blushing Pete nwtd 84357 Jay Spencer nwtd 555 Sheza Looker nwtd 64433 Stumpy Bill nwtd Afridi nwtd 76543 Jinja Sneak nwtd 867X Our Sadie nwtd

12:56PM

2

M Dempsey J McInerney Hart & Taylor C Roberts D Voyce J M McCook M Grant D Roberts J McInerney S & B Evans

KAISA EARTHWORKS PH 0272073323 DASH

68848 Opawa Dani nwtd 88 Honey Dew Jewel nwtd 58 Gotcha Marshall nwtd 84673 Black Mags nwtd 23655 Homebush Diego nwtd 55 Culvie Ness nwtd Smash Burton nwtd F678F Knows No Better nwtd 67873 Lucy Lingers nwtd 6778X Goldstar Dayton nwtd

12:36PM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

2

$1,365, C0, 295m Trainer

$1,685, C2, 295m

Hart & Taylor R Wales S & B Evans L Waretini J McInerney A Lee J M McCook J McInerney Mitchell & Smith A Lee

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

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$1,685, C2, 295m

J McInerney A Joyce A Lee R Wales J M McCook B Pringle J McInerney G Cleeve Mitchell & Smith J McInerney

PROTEXIN DASH

75434 Epic Owen 17.48 17776 Cosmic Marty 17.65 71262 Goldstar Spotty 17.42 56553 Boston Powers 17.22 36671 Tubby Kevie 17.37 35422 Gracie Lee 17.30 13623 Cisco Reign 17.58 14235 Idol Georgie 17.31 68537 Whose He 17.44 44764 Vasterbottenost 17.47

$1,685, C2, 295m

d M9 Palmerston Nth Dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

J M McCook J McInerney S & B Evans A Bradshaw J M McCook J McInerney L Waretini J Rush A Joyce A Lee

March 29

5 6 7 3 8 9 10

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6 3:47PM OPT 330

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

PX # REC Greyhound Fastest time

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

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

2

75211 Electrical Storm 23.69 45X75 Limpy Jackson nwtd 38162 Luke Skywalker 23.72 62353 Three Amigos 23.65 26652 Mila Mila 24.06 31154 Bigtime Marley nwtd 23217 Cockney Rip Off nwtd 64232 Bigtime Jasmine 23.93 15755 Bigtime Doug 23.30 87464 Born Fab 23.84

4:06PM OPT 331

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

3 4

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

1 2 3 4 5 6 2 7 8 9 10

4 3 1

1 4 2 3

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1 3 2 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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S & B Evans J & D Fahey

4 1

1 2 3 4

7

$5,000, C5, 457m

L Cole L Cole L Cole G & S Fredrickson M Roberts L Cole L Cole L Cole M Roberts A Turnwald

$4,030, C4, 457m

M Olden M Roberts L Cole G & S Fredrickson M Roberts L Cole A Turnwald L Cole L Cole

STEVE ‘THE AUCTIONEER’ DAVIS DISTANCE C1/C2

25423 Diamond Geezer nwtd 13513 Nature’s Gent nwtd 65327 Kamada Park nwtd 64747 Cawbourne Palmer nwtd 37265 Rose And Crown nwtd 14563 Lady Jellybean nwtd X6588 Bigtime Chloe nwtd X4136 Vibe nwtd

6:13PM 336

OPT

6

L Cole J & D Bell L Cole E Duganzich A Turnwald L Cole L Cole L Cole D Edlin G & S Fredrickson

THE ALAN CLAYTON 5K BONUS QUADDIE C4

12353 Cossie Cooper nwtd 43162 Dyna Vernon 26.06 32113 Bigtime Tank 26.37 51173 Bigtime Chris 26.27 77418 Quistis Bale 26.15 57385 Bigtime Leads 26.03 25145 Roman Nose Zarr nwtd 48751 Bigtime Jetty nwtd 48557 Bigtime Rod 26.04

5:34PM 334

OPT

5

$3,325, C2/3, 457m

SILVER STAR TROPHY - BITCHES ONLY C5

41146 Bigtime Lilah 26.05 31111 Bigtime Shine nwtd F8361 Bigtime Mia 25.95 11275 Gazza’s Girl nwtd 23444 Cawbourne Liz nwtd 41624 Bigtime Acacia 26.09 71686 Bigtime Tears 25.87 42673 Bigtime Blackie nwtd 77418 Quistis Bale 26.15 26652 Mila Mila 26.42

5:04PM 335

OPT

4

L Cole L Cole L Cole A Turnwald L Cole L Cole A Turnwald L Cole A Turnwald B Mitchell

THANKS KEVIN PRATT C2/C3

11364 Bigtime Alfie 26.52 88517 Thrilling Eddie nwtd 11131 Awesome Quality nwtd 38576 Tuna Speed 26.15 85428 Party Every Day nwtd 18555 Bigtime Forest 25.97 17674 Bigtime Kiss 26.14 12241 Bigtime Rocco 26.05 56587 Jinja Flash 26.30 21152 Pick A Pascal nwtd

4:44PM 333

OPT

3

$2,705, C1f, 457m

$4,620, C1/2d, 660m

M Goodier A Turnwald A Turnwald A Turnwald M Goodier M Goodier M Goodier A Turnwald

$10,190, C5, 457m

A Turnwald A Turnwald L Cole A Turnwald

P Ferguson A Turnwald L Cole L Cole L Cole L Cole G & S Fredrickson S Clark A Turnwald G Hodgson

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6 5:11PM OPT 791

1

8:09PM 795

OPT

1 3 2 4

2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 1-2-3, 5-6-7, 9-10-11 2-3-4-5, 8-9-10-11 6-7-8-9-10-11 COMMODORE HOTEL MOBILE TROT

3

2 3 4 1

10 30178 Michelle (21) M Jones 42304 Jerry Garcia (u1) L O'Reilly

4 11

5:41PM OPT 788 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

2 3 4

2

S Tomlinson (J) L O'Reilly

Barrier

10 Dan Fernando (21) C & A Edmonds 11 75 Valiant Charger (22) T Bagrie 1 12 Montefalco (23) M Anderson 13 74242 Philadelphia Freedom (24) B Hill 14 03 Tiger Moth (u1) H Hunter

6:06PM 790

OPT

2 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

0 1 2 3

10 4 11 12 13 14 15 16

Bev K’s One (21) G & N Hope Dreamsinthe Mist (22) G & N Hope Tailored Elegance (23) Purdon/Rasmussen 29 One Majic Kenny (24) R Dunn 0 Rain Mist And Muscle (25) G Smith

2 3 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

4

30300 Cindy Bromac (21) G & N Hope 60648 Nurburgring (22) K Townley Tracksarefortrains 50607 Adam Patron (23) G & N Hope Christian Lady 52066 Ideologist (24) P Robertson 93076 Kardesler (25) G Payne

B Hope (J) M Williamson SCRATCHED R May SCRATCHED T Williams C DeFilippi

Barrier

5

Barrier

3 4

6

3 2

B Orange G Smith

HARAS DES NZ SIRES STAKES PRELUDE MOBILE TROT $17,500, 3YO., 1980m

111X1 Enhance Your Calm (1) Purdon/Rasmussen X1211 Tricky Ric (2) J & J Dickie 13 Baxter (3) G & N Hope 54156 Gil Favor (4) P Nairn 20521 Lotamuscle (5) P Nairn 60414 Swiss Miss (6) G Smith 03 Hide N Speak (7) J Harrington 95002 Aorangi (8) K Townley Barrier

M Purdon J I Dickie R May P Nairn B Butt G Smith J Harrington (J) S Ottley

S Ottley T Williams4 B Butt3 J Dunn2 G O'Reilly1 G Smith S Tomlinson (J) J I Dickie

10

XCM SPORT MOBILE PACE

$14,400, 3YO+ R62-R76., 1980m

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

11

VISIT @BLUESTARCHCH TO WIN MOBILE PACE

$12,000, 3YO+ R56-R61., 1980m

Myboylolliepop 00205 Locked Out Of Heaven (1) C Butt 80376 Pat Campbell (2) B Negus With The Band 27874 Anytime (3) R Dunn 30005 Clive (4) D Ross 5X513 Kiwis Are Flying (5) R Holmes 14674 Doctor Tim (6) G Dunn 10660 Stompem (7) D Thompson

SCRATCHED4 C Butt J Young SCRATCHED J Dunn3 B Munro R Holmes G O'Reilly2 M Anderson1

Barrier

10 Bringitonhome 1 11 1610X Gran Chico (21) N McGrath 4 12 0031P Sails (u1) S Smolenski

SCRATCHED B Orange G Smith

b M5 Palmerston Nth Harness Today at Manawatu Raceway

1 2 3 4

March 29

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 900m; Weather: Mainly Fine DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6 5:19PM OPT 863

1

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 ACCOMMODATION GATEWAY MOTEL HANDICAP TROT

$9,000, R40-R59 DiscrHcp, 2500m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver

4

2 3 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

7390P Shpeedy (1) M House 57009 Superfast Ninja (2) M House 82363 Leesa Castleton (3) S Doody 07526 Shona Mary (u1) S Dickson 30190 Mackali (u2) S Doody 98887 Dauntless (1) Ted & Brett Edwards 44415 Fira (2) A Donnelly 84248 Commando One (3) S Doody 01412 Phoebe Imperial (u1) N Chilcott

5:51PM 865

OPT

4 1 2 3

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

2

$9,000, R55-R60., 2500m

59018 Nanelle Franco (1) M House 94436 Racketeers Boy (2) D Butcher 51815 Sheikh Yabooty (3) P Fleming 18831 Westburn Yield (4) A Donnelly 35117 Von Richthofen (5) M House 52411 Lincoln Moment (6) D Gale 722X5 Sauchiehall (7) J Gameson Barrier

6:28PM 866

OPT

3 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 1 11 2 12 13

3 2

3

Barrier

47495 Contractual Issues (21) M Heaton 67374 Jakira (22) R Paynter 05365 Itsokbeingbetter (23) F Mitchell 59962 El Dinero (24) M House 21936 Dana Dawn (25) R Stuart 62227 Katamach (26) S Dickson

4

D Ferguson (J)2 D Butcher3 A Poutama A Harrison (J) J Curtin J Abernethy T Macfarlane K Marshall2 Z Butcher3

TOD SEEDS MOBILE PACE 4

Lincoln Lovely 60461 Sarabi (1) T Hall 00750 Atom Hanover (2) D Iremonger 24686 Uncle Drew (3) W Devenport Phillydotcom 98978 Arcano (4) M Pash 60344 Our Wicklow (5) P Fleming

7:18PM 869

OPT

T Macfarlane J Abernethy P Ferguson D Butcher A Poutama Z Butcher A Harrison (J) J Curtin D Ferguson (J)1

MANAWATU ITM MOBILE PACE 4

8 20509 Mustang GT (21) J Gameson 9 62251 Jetenara (22) S Dickson

$12,000, R55-R75., 1980m

M Anderson K Butt (J) J Morrison (J) R May D Butt C DeFilippi N Williamson A Lethaby J Harrington (J)

$14,400, FFA., 1980m

Barrier

10:07PM OPT 792

GARRY THOMPSON - FERNLAW MOBILE TROT

15P95 Ali Lindenny (1) D Thompson 6290X Rum In The Sun (2) M Palermo 56236 Agatha Tyron (3) P O'Reilly 06163 Missie Castleton (4) T May 12150 Maria Tsarina (5) D & C Butt 87643 Izmok (6) C & J DeFilippi 94275 Splash Cola (7) N Williamson 13278 Globe Trekker (8) J & A Lethaby 3572X Renezmae (9) J Harrington

9

R May

RM WOOLFORD BUILDERS LTD MOBILE TROT

B Orange T Williams

$10,000, 3YO+ R40-R55., 2600m

J Young B Laughton (J) J W Cox L O'Reilly B Butt T Chmiel B Orange S Ottley J Dunn

7:39PM OPT 794 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

R May C D Thornley M Purdon J Dunn G Smith

PLUMBING WORLD PAPANUI MOBILE PACE

10 31290 Alvira Hest (21) A Faulks 11 07675 Red Hot Rocket (22) G Smith

1 2

M Perriton R Holmes M Williamson S Ottley N Purdon (J) J Harrington (J) B Orange T Williams

480P0 Senorita Margarita (1) B Negus 41020 Myboylolliepop (2) S Blake 40360 B Mac C (3) J Cox X3922 With The Band (4) C McDowell 31000 The Dude (5) D & C Butt 71030 Bella Veloce (6) T & G Chmiel 22804 Artstanding (7) N McGrath 1X755 Uptown Lady (8) M Jones P5670 Pro Surfer (9) R Dunn

7:08PM OPT 787

4

$10,000, 2YO., 1980m

Barrier

6:34PM OPT 789 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

IRT - HOSPITALITY PACKAGES ON SALE MOBILE TROT

25 Dolly P (1) M Perriton 45 Kahress (2) R Holmes 66 Fighting Fire (3) J Harrington Bemus Point (4) R Todd One Guz Hall (5) M Purdon 8 Musculature Metro (6) J Harrington Chloe Rose (7) N McGrath 110 Chinski (8) S McCaffrey

9 10 4 11 3 12 13

0

3

J Dunn M Hurrell (J) M Anderson S Ottley H Hunter

12222 A G’s White Socks (21) G & N Hope

10 511X6 Mongolian Cavalry (21) P Court 1 11 63513 Supreme Dominator (22) B Purdon

$10,000, NON-WINNERS 3YO+., 1980m

R May R Close M Purdon C D Thornley B Weaver T Williams B Orange N Purdon (J) M Williamson

Barrier

M Williamson J Dunn SCRATCHED G Smith B Orange T Williams SCRATCHED S Phelan4 M Purdon3

R May R Houghton2 G O'Reilly T Chmiel4 M Williamson N Williamson S Phelan3 C DeFilippi J Dunn1

PEEK EXHIBITION MOBILE PACE

32053 Koromiko Eyre (1) B Hill 93 Smooth Debate (2) G Burgess 226X Bettathanfast (3) C Dalgety 43933 It’s Me (4) J McDonald 7900X Gotta Party Doll (5) B Weaver 46557 Glenthorne (6) K Chapman 6X Cullens Conspiracy (7) K Barron 22 Arden Roanoke (8) C Dalgety 32 Cullens Bet (9) B Hill

$50,000, 4-5YO., 1980m

1 43400 Belles Son (1) R Todd 2 10442 Valloria (2) R Dunn 3 42064 Quevert (3) P Nairn 4 D0117 Sundees Son (4) R Dunn 5 51716 Ronald J (5) P Nairn 6 86089 Destiny Jones (6) D Hunter 7 30900 Amaretto Sun (7) K Ford 8 31328 Speeding Spur (8) J & J Dickie

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1

122X6 Flying Mister Ideal (1) B Hill 6X621 Stars Tonight (2) R Dunn 26312 Enchantee (3) N Le Lievre 90633 Young Conqueror (4) R Todd 08224 Sweet Mary (5) B Mowbray 26925 Pats Dragon (6) W Robertson 11951 Double Rocket (7) A Donnelly 45885 Mikey Maguire (8) F Fletcher 82450 Kotare Cullen (9) R Dunn

2 4

Barrier

8

M Purdon R May SCRATCHED T Williams J Dunn1 S Ottley B Orange N Williamson

ALLIED SECURITY-KIA KAHA CHCH SUPERSTARS MBL PCE 2

Barrier

1

R May SCRATCHED R Close G Smith T Trathen B Hope (J) M Edmonds B Orange S Ottley

$22,000, 2YO Fillies., 1980m 4

345X1 Cullenburn (1) B Hill 64321 Henry Hubert (2) R Dunn Sheriff 16441 Alta Maestro (3) R Dunn 13322 Hail Christian (4) P Court 11835 Funatthebeach (5) Purdon/Rasmussen Eamon Maguire 71111 Jack’s Legend (6) B Purdon 17412 Thefixer (7) Purdon/Rasmussen

9:39PM OPT 793

3

010 She’s So Cool (1) S McMullan Unique Rose 07X06 BJ Lindenny (2) D Bennett 70700 Dolly Jones (3) D Hunter 93383 Speedy Command (4) T Trathen 21085 Easy Pickings (5) G & N Hope 14726 Chivasion (6) M Edmonds 201P0 Unique Marshall (7) M Edmonds 03212 Lone Star Lad (8) R Todd

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

9:09PM OPT 797

$10,000, 3YO+ R50-R54., 1980m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

MAGNESS BENROW SIRES STAKES SERIESMOBILE PACE

Barrier

2 10 March 29

7

1 253 Amazing Dream (1) Purdon/Rasmussen 2 2689 Woman In Gold (2) C Dalgety 3 I’ll Write The Story 4 21375 Gemma Mac (3) C Dalgety 5 Maharani (4) M Kerr 6 25 Miss Ruby Sunshine (5) M Jones 7 4 Longview Lady (6) K Barron 8 A Taste Of Honey (7) M Kerr

8:39PM OPT 796

1

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1193m Weather: Mainly Fine

OUTBACK TRADING CO. SUPPORTING THE CITY OF PN

74766 Waitohi 26.05 65345 Shallay Pallay nwtd 17248 You Can Be 26.01 41315 Diddilee 25.92

$28,000, INV, 457m

11315 Robson 26.20 22115 Fusion Cronulla 25.81 71421 Blazin’ Carter 25.95 15454 Ask King Jeff 25.78 77147 All About Space 25.84 11332 Bigtime Levi 25.75 18422 Big League Diva 25.95 51233 Pinny Mack nwtd 41315 Diddilee 25.92 34551 Buddy Loaded 26.23

Today at Addington

GRAEME HAYDEN-HOLMES MEMORIAL FINAL C1

21232 Bigtime Shadow 26.04 45343 Bigtime Benji 26.56 82234 Bigtime Hunter nwtd 46837 Mister Ebby 26.09 11111 Bigtime Homie 26.08 31357 Bigtime Paige 26.35 42X11 Turanza’s Terror 26.05 15286 Bigtime Bret nwtd X4136 Vibe nwtd 35842 Tuff Treasure nwtd

4:24PM 332

OPT

2

M Goodier J & D Bell L Anne Hunt J & D Bell A Turnwald L Cole M Olden L Cole L Cole S Maher

8

G Hodgson P Ferguson B Hodgson M Goodier A Turnwald A Turnwald

THE CITY OF PALMERSTON NORTH GOLDEN CHASE

b M8 Addington Harness

3 MONSTER FISH AT STUD C3 2 $2,035, C3, 410m Trainer

34551 Buddy Loaded 26.23 17767 Thrilling Billy nwtd 47333 Caveman Sam 25.88 22277 Fare Dodger 26.03 65433 Tommy The Jett 26.48 86372 Arden Emgrand 26.07

6:43PM OPT 337

Weather: Mainly Fine

AMBER CLEANING SERVICES STAKES $2,860, C2, 520m

ISLINGTON TAVERN SPRINT

78781 Homebush Sloan 17.53 45125 Jinja Cream Fizz 17.27 54145 Native Scout 17.39 11X25 Our Dazzel 17.44 58X18 Smash Lilly 17.29 X8487 Aroha 17.19 52711 Punch On Jessie nwtd 53436 Broken Penniless 17.45 46268 Little Lottie 17.47 67648 Homebush Indi 17.47

3:17PM

4

11

J & D Fahey R Wales G Cleeve R Wales C Roberts L Waretini R Wales

Compiled by

$9,000, R49., 2000m

SCRATCHED A Harrison (J) T Macfarlane J Abernethy1 SCRATCHED J Curtin P Fleming

D Ferguson (J)4 F Schumacher (J)3 K Marshall D Butcher A Poutama Z Butcher

GATTSCHE CONSTRUCTION MOBILE PACE

$9,000, NON-WINNERS 2YO+., 2000m

1 78 Rick Reilly (1) J Gameson 2 39322 Zip Code (2) Wallis/Hackett 3 54643 Notorious (3) S Dickson

2

T Macfarlane1 A Poutama D Butcher

GUARDIAN

4

4 72086 Downtown Babe (4) J Gommans 5 0624 Khal Drogo (5) P Scott 6 6470X Brooke’s Image (6) K Marshall 7 Nicky Jay (7) K Goss

P Ferguson J Curtin K Marshall D Ferguson (J)

8 78457 Beaudiene Emerald (21) F Mitchell 9 230X3 Mustang Sally (22) S Reid

A Harrison (J) Z Butcher

Barrier

1

7:48PM OPT 867 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1 2

5

CAFE JACKO MOBILE PACE

08853 Jack Bates (1) F Mitchell 09799 Geoff’s Legacy (2) F Mitchell 92436 Amaro (3) J Gommans 07879 Pure Desire (4) W Devenport 08600 Mister Mighty (5) M Heaton 00907 Rangi Rangdu (6) W Fleming 47493 Express Play (7) P Fleming

$9,000, R40-R43., 2500m

J Curtin K Marshall D Ferguson (J) A Harrison (J) J Abernethy D Butcher A Poutama

Barrier

8 Lincoln Lovely 9 45008 Phillydotcom (21) B Towers 4 10 00780 The Jandel Machine (22) M Nyhan 3 11 96363 Bettor Trenz (23) A Drake

8:19PM 871

OPT

4 3 2 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

2 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

6 PALMERSTON NORTH FESTIVAL GOLD CUP MOBILE PACE

$14,000, R60-R80,R81-R85 W/C., 2500m

52411 Lincoln Moment (1) D Gale 64244 Mister Harris (2) W Fleming 62723 Westar Sam (3) S Dickson 00532 Franco Hampton (4) J Gameson 30331 Patanjali (5) A Donnelly 82131 Alta Leonie (6) K Marshall 11141 The Night Hawk (7) S Dickson

J Abernethy D Butcher Z Butcher J Curtin A Poutama K Marshall F Schumacher (J,Cl)

Barrier

8:49PM 870

OPT

SCRATCHED B Towers T Macfarlane Z Butcher

7

OUTBACK TRADING MOBILE PACE

$9,000, 3YO+ R47-R53., 2500m

52158 T C Business (1) A Donnelly 16665 Waingaro Mara (2) F Mitchell 15562 Red River Dash (3) J Cossey 40303 The Kapiti Express (4) D Gale 45007 Scelta Uno (5) R Stuart 30071 My Patronus (6) M House 40919 Lord Santanna (7) M House

A Harrison (J) D Ferguson (J) J Abernethy T Macfarlane A Poutama Z Butcher K Marshall

Barrier

8 46137 Milner (21) S Doody 9 13344 J Bee (22) D Butcher 1 10 45462 Art Courage (23) M House 11 Atom Hanover

P Ferguson D Butcher J Curtin SCRATCHED

3

9:19PM OPT 868

4 3 2 1

1 2 3 4 5 6

2 3 4

$9,000, 3YO+ R52-R56., 2500m

9X958 Port Delight (1) M House 077X1 Stately (2) M House 52316 Ideal Tiger (3) S Doody 27213 Go Getta (4) M House 51815 Sheikh Yabooty (5) P Fleming 0X144 Motoring Major (6) J Curtin

J Abernethy P Ferguson A Poutama D Butcher P Fleming J Curtin

Barrier

7 J Bee 8 40508 Bubble Gum (21) A Drake 9 19682 Majorca (22) J Gameson

9:49PM OPT 864

1

8

T MARKET FRESH MOBILE PACE

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

9

SCRATCHED Z Butcher T Macfarlane

CARTOWN MOBILE PACE

$9,000, NON-WINNERS 3YO+., 2500m

PX357 Shezsomethinspecial (1) R Dickson 45666 Moniaive (2) W Devenport 80632 Shot In The Dark (3) M House 6 Barra’s Sovereign (4) J Gameson 04225 Ain’t Nothing Bettor (5) S Dickson 09433 Lady Ameera (6) P Green P0254 Karolyi (7) D Butcher

A Poutama D Ferguson (J) J Curtin T Macfarlane Z Butcher J Abernethy D Butcher

Barrier

c M4

March 30

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

2 3

2

LANDMARK HOMES PREMIER

S MacNab (a2) D Turner C Johnson J Parkes R Jones O Bosson SCRATCHED

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

4 3

3

$70,000, 3YO SW, 2000m

5

3:00PM 767

OPT

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

3 2

6

7

RICOH PREMIER

C O'Beirne (a3) S O'Malley (a3) J Riddell J Parkes C Johnson M Singh (a2) R Elliot (a1) O Bosson H Andrew (a2) S Collett L Allpress D Turner

RESONANT PREMIER

$30,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m

X2023 White Shield (12) 59 S Ritchie 73341 Cullen Bohannon (5) 58.5 G Vile 1 173 The Seagull (6) 58.5 G Haigh 25321 Lincoln Fury (10) 58 L Latta 1 85593 Altius (1) 58 T Chambers 75045 In Segreto (13) 58 K Gray 053X5 Kirkenes (3) 58 J Wheeler X3548 Lala Land (2) 58 R Manning 33130 Just Fabulous (14) 57.5 R Bergerson 1 2133 Lady Rudolph (4) 57 R Patterson

J Bayliss L Allpress S O'Malley (a3) D Turner Z Moki (a2) T Harris L Innes C Johnson O Bosson S Collett

D Turner C Johnson R Elliot (a) J Parkes H Andrew (a) J Riddell L Allpress L Innes C Grylls J Bayliss R Hannam Z Moki (a)

$30,000, 3YO SW+P, 1200m

S McKay Z Moki (a2) C Grylls D Hirini (a1) H Andrew (a2) J Parkes O Bosson SCRATCHED J Riddell L Innes C Johnson SCRATCHED S Collett

COURTESY FORD MANAWATU SIRES PRODUCE STAKES (G1) $225,000, 2YO SW, 1400m

12311 Yourdeel (5) 56.5 J Richards 151 Equinox (1) 56.5 J Richards 12. The Fugitive (11) 56.5 J Bary 52 Holy Mongolemperor (8) 56.5 Baker/Forsman 253 Qiji Spirit (3) 56.5 N Tiley 24632 Aalaalune (7) 54.5 J McKay 313 Aretha (9) 54.5 Baker/Forsman 11X64 Bavella (2) 54.5 L Noble 314. Bella Mente (4) 54.5 S Ritchie 20X21 First Rock (6) 54.5 D Sweeney 272 Glinda Goodwitch (10) 54.5 S Marsh

3:40PM OPT 765

T Harris S McKay S Collett L Hemi

THE OAKS STUD / HONG KONG JC TROPHY PREMIER

1 01444 Cavallo Veloce (2) 58.5 P McKay 2 3116X Atenartin (3) 58.5 M Eales 1 3 89630 Bit Lippy (9) 58.5 W Hillis 4 21516. Satu Lagi (8) 58.5 P Campbell 5 60212. What A Smasher (4) 57.5 K Gray 6 01370 Princess Amelie (6) 57.5 L Latta 1 7 60143 Mr Universe (5) 57.5 J McKay 8 Somewhere Man 4 9 21444 Maria Dior (10) 56.5 P Campbell 3 10 2X181. Maison Roxanne (11) 56.5 Ramsay/Ritchie 2 11 2X1 Heart Of Stone (1) 55.5 J Bary 12 Lady Lira 13 00X62 Sweet Elvira (7) 54 J Guilford

1

O Bosson J Parkes C Johnson T Harris J Riddell R Jones C Grylls L Innes S Collett R Hannam L Allpress

S MacNab (a) T Harris C Johnson R Elliot (a) C Grylls D Hirini (a) L Allpress L Hemi C O'Beirne (a) R Hannam S Collett

$100,000, OPN-SW&P, 2000m

1 16766 Saint Emilion (5) 58 Baker/Forsman 2 24084 Authentic Paddy (8) 58 L Latta 1 3 41441 Sampson (6) 56 H Mathews 4 19020 Rock On (2) 56 G Vile 1 5 03502. Dolcetto (7) 55 S Kay 1 6 X4603. Giovanni Canaletto (9) 55 O'Sullivan/Scott 2 7 42303 Shadow Fox (1) 55 S Gulliver 3 8 25711 Hunta Pence (11) 55 P Campbell 9 66305. Jacksstar (3) 55 G Vile 1 10 49539 Kamanda Lincoln (10) 55 L Latta 1 11 42557 Hank Moody (4) 55 R Bergerson 1

J Riddell R Hannam J Parkes S McKay R Elliot (a) J Bayliss C Grylls S Collett C Johnson L Innes D Turner

LJ HOOKER PREMIER

$30,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1400m

1 11852. Miss Contessa (9) 59 G Vile 1 2 18427. Windsor (2) 59 R Bergerson 1 1 3 211 Deerfield (11) 58 C Bambry 4 45113 Mikjene (8) 58 T Keegan 5 16388. Abacus (13) 57.5 J Wheeler 6 3440X Farce (4) 57.5 K Buttimore 2 7 211X5. Jewel Of Patch (6) 57.5 O'Sullivan/Scott 8 0X041 Lincoln Hills (15) 57.5 L Latta 1 9 0248X Razors Edge (1) 57.5 C Bothwell 10 57352 Divine Power (3) 56.5 K Gray 4 11 34724 Saignon (16) 56.5 TeamRogerson 12 66361 Castani (7) 56.5 H Renall 13 62133. Bridal Veil (5) 56 Moroney/Gerard 3 14 3113 Euka Lady (10) 56 S Dravitzki 15 03524 She’s A Ripper (12) 56 J Bary 16 14217 Bellissimo (14) 55.5 B Marriott

Z Moki (a2) S O'Malley (a3) J Parkes D Hirini (a1) S MacNab (a2) J Bayliss C Johnson D Turner H Andrew (a2) R Elliot (a1) L Allpress S McKay C Grylls S Collett L Hemi

c M2

Ellerslie Races Tomorrow at Ellerslie

March 30

Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Good; Direction: Righthanded; Length: 1876m; Straight: 382m; Rail: Out 9.5m; Weather: Few Showers DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6 12:20PM OPT 743

1

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 VODAFONE EVENTS CENTRE 2400

$22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2400m PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer Jockey

2 3

1 66453 Jimmy Rocket (1) 59 James/Wellwood 2 00671 Thousand Stars (10) 56.5 D Guy

C Lammas E McCall (a4)

71666 Vee Cece (3) 56 Baker/Forsman 57165 Delle Quartza (7) 56 J Price 66224 Sweet Treat (6) 56 TeamRogerson 10087 The Midnight Shift (9) 56 P Mirabelli 0X873 Arite Guru (8) 56 J Williams 00X09 Freewheeler (4) 55 K Dell 09387 Prior Engagement (2) 55 R Manning 55806 Rocanic (5) 54 C Stevenson

12:55PM OPT 742

2

T Yanagida (a3) S Spratt T Thornton A Calder J Fawcett (a1) C Dell

M Hashizume (a4)

SKYCITY AUCKLAND MAIDEN 1400 $10,000, MDN, 1400m

1 9432X Dalmar (7) 58.5 S Rees E McCall (a4) 2 22036 Rusavy (2) 58.5 C Wood T Yanagida (a3) 3 00X69. Shackeltons Edge (3) 58.5 D Weatherley L Satherley 4 07X05 Go Go Goal (11) 58.5 M Da Cruz M Hashizume (a4) 5 Mr Incredibull SCRATCHED 6 0X69 Super Bullet (4) 58.5 A Oliveira S Spratt 7 609X Trump That (10) 58.5 S Ralph 2 8 862 Wild Like (5) 58 T Pike D Mansour 1 9 99344 Senor Moss (1) 58 TeamRogerson S Johnson (a4) 10 Johnnie Redmond SCRATCHED 11 68. Flyingflynn (6) 58 N Kelly J Fawcett (a1) 3 12 528X3 Palamedes (12) 56.5 P & D Williams V Colgan 13 Supertramp SCRATCHED 4 14 X6474 One Way Street (8) 56.5 R Manning A Goindasamy (a3) 15 66 Nothinbraxlykahart (9) 56.5 T Donaldson T Thornton 16 0X66. Valhexa (13) 56.5 S Ralph

1:30PM OPT 744

1 3 2 4

3

BEKO APPLIANCES 1400

$30,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1400m

1 89460. Excalibur (7) 60 S Ritchie A Goindasamy (a3) 2 224X3 Midnight Runner (3) 57.5 P & D Williams M Coleman 3 X1211. Griffin (1) 57 J Richards N Bakar (a3) 4 55675. Magic Of The Sun (5) 56 S McKee S Spratt 5 11231 Monaco (4) 55.5 S Ralph T Thornton 6 02212 Dama Zorro (6) 55 D Greene K McCulloch 7 82113 Its Destinys Child (2) 55 J & B Vance V Colgan 8 18395 Ladynadel (8) 55 Baker/Forsman L Satherley

2:05PM OPT 745

4

100% APPLIANCES 2YO 1300

$22,500, 2YO SW+P, 1300m

1 32 The Green Dragon (6) 57 Moroney/Gerard 2 Boutonniere 3 53 Shakespeare (7) 57 Benner/Wynyard 4 5 Destination (8) 57 P & D Williams 5 Might (9) 57 S McKee 2 6 126 Rainbow Dash (2) 56.5 J Mahoney 3 7 1253. Last Sight (3) 56.5 James/Wellwood 4 8 36 Rendition (1) 55 P & D Williams 9 9 Tears Of Jupiter (4) 55 P & D Williams 10 6 Nothing Compares (5) 55 S Autridge

1

2:40PM OPT 748

3 4 $50,000, OPN HCP, 1400m 1

8 CITY OF PALMERSTON NORTH AWAPUNI GOLD CUP (G2)

9

3 4 1 5 6 7 8 9 10

4

BRAMCO GRANITE & MARBLE FLYING HANDICAP

1 11626. Overtheriver (2) 60 K Myers 2 3319X Tomelilla (6) 58 Baker/Forsman 1 3 82943 Beefeater (9) 55.5 R Bergerson 1 2 4 32477. Magnum (5) 55 L Brennan 5 24354 Calligraphy (3) 53 R McCarroll 4 6 92088. Scandalo (1) 53 P Campbell 3 7 32042 Sweepstake (4) 53 M Breslin 1 8 41485 La Bella Rosa (10) 53 T Egan 9 51706 Bring To The Block (8) 53 S Brown 10 52966 Monrecour (7) 53 F Auret 11 72139 The Bandito (11) 53 J Bary

$30,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1600m

1 24531. Gorbachev (12) 61 B Newman 2 2 09X64 Sergeant Blast (3) 61 S Lennox 3 3 715X7. Ambitious Winner (2) 60 Baker/Forsman 4 64290. Balham (10) 60 D & E Haworth 4 5 71511 Beauden (9) 60 TeamRogerson 6 377XL Strolling Vagabond (1) 59.5 G Innes 7 416X1. Rock On Wood (11) 58.5 L Elliot 8 42257 Henree Winkler (6) 57.5 L Latta 1 9 25155 Cutting Up Rough (8) 57 R Manning 1 10 X1315 Paisley Park (5) 55.5 Richardson/Parker 11 15440 Ruby Love (7) 54.5 J Millar 12 34112. Real Beach (4) 54 Lowry/Cullen

1:15PM OPT 763

2:23PM OPT 766

5:00PM 761

1 34398. Chic (3) 61.5 K Myers 2 36111 Trending (4) 60 B Newman 3 40242 Amorata (7) 58 R Bergerson 1 4 55144 Korakonui (8) 58 R Manning 5 09428 Vittachi (2) 58 J McKay 6 73331 Hoist (1) 57.5 A Sharrock 7 24321 Cottoneva (6) 55.5 A Sharrock 8 Jimmy Rocket 9 00671 Thousand Stars (5) 54 D Guy

12:40PM OPT 762

HIGGINS CONCRETE MANAWATU CLASSIC (G3)

1 22470 The Chosen One (10) 56.5 Baker/Forsman 2 30015 Langkawi (9) 56.5 P McKay 3 40X02 Blue On Black (17) 56.5 A Herbert 1 4 2321 Cover Drive (8) 56.5 K Myers 4 5 215 Deels Done (7) 56.5 S Marsh 6 62421 Don’t Know Jakk (3) 56.5 M Oulaghan 1 7 1 Galway Bro (18) 56.5 C Rauhihi 3 8 6413 Gehrig (21) 56.5 James/Wellwood 9 22182 Nordic (13) 56.5 Baker/Forsman 10 85241 Trouble (16) 56.5 M & K Murdoch 2 11 18533 Lord Arthur (19) 56.5 Baker/Forsman 12 01438. Mighty Connor (11) 56.5 J McKay 13 35540 Roc Ya Sox (4) 56.5 J Wheeler 1 14 22101 Spring Delight (2) 54.5 Baker/Forsman 15 45313 Taming The Shrew (20) 54.5 O'Sullivan/Scott 16 4521 Decadence (14) 54.5 S Marsh 0 17 83430 Cleaver (5) 56.5 J Wheeler 0 18 22987 Nerve Not Verve (12) 54.5 Moroney/Gerard 0 19 64224 Golden Age (15) 56.5 J Richards 0 20 08303 Iridessa (1) 54.5 Moroney/Gerard 0 21 665 Brawler (6) 56.5 C Isdale

OPT

$30,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 2200m PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer Jockey

4

4

J Riddell H Andrew (a2) L Hemi C Grylls J Parkes

4

Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Dead; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1700m; Straight: 350m; Rail: True | 3mm rain overnight; Weather: Mainly Fine

1

1:50PM 768

OPT

4:20PM 764

Tomorrow at Awapuni

1

11 10X42 Robusto (8) 57 Baker/Forsman 12 33645 Satin Belt (11) 57 K Gray 13 30190. Remarx (7) 57 J Wheeler 14 45417 Birdie Blitz (15) 56 M & K Murdoch 15 41773 Colorado Miss (9) 56 R Bergerson 1

OPT

Awapuni Races

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6 12:05PM OPT 760

WEEKEND RACING GUIDE

2

5

ELECTROLUX SPRINT OPEN HANDICAP $35,000, OPN HCP, 1200m

1 2070X Kingsguard (5) 60 J Richards 2 18108. Stratocaster (2) 56 E & D Browne 3 200X6 Go Nicholas (1) 55 S Hale 4 11107. Media Sensation (7) 54 P & D Williams 5 03237 Yearn (4) 54 K Fursdon 6 24952 Rikki Tikki Tavi (3) 54 Gibbs/Bradley 7 630X5 Power O’Hata (8) 54 Baker/Forsman 8 1111X Te Toro Pearl (6) 54 J Miller

3:18PM OPT 749

6

2 3 1 4

7

S Spratt A Goindasamy (a3) A Calder C Lammas J Fawcett (a1) T Newman (a3) C Campbell (a2) K McCulloch D Mansour M Hashizume (a4) M Coleman T Yanagida (a3) T Thornton SCRATCHED

BEKO APPLIANCES MILE

$25,000, 3YO SW+P, 1600m

8

C Lammas A Calder T Thornton D Mansour T Yanagida (a3) M Coleman SCRATCHED

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES PLACE 6

1

4 2 1 3

4 2 1 3

9

$22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m

1 035X7 Reevederci (9) 60 L Noble 2 2 41 Copper Fox (10) 59 Gibbs/Bradley 3 3 46351 Holy Loch (7) 58.5 M Falconer 4 X2441 Running Man (11) 58.5 S McKee 5 91387. Takeitlikeaman (2) 58.5 S Ritchie 1 6 31336 William Tell (8) 58.5 D Waddell 4 7 94330. I See Red (6) 57.5 S Wenn 8 45573. Aniceta (4) 56.5 K Zimmerman 9 X00XL Tuscan Whistler (3) 56.5 S Crawford 10 X86X4 Stella Noire (5) 56 T Pike 11 0X875 Morris Lass (1) 54 K Morton

M Coleman C Lammas L Satherley S Spratt A Goindasamy (a3) T Yanagida (a3) T Newman (a3) V Colgan A Calder D Mansour C Dell

31008 Lady Zara (1) A Kyle 00890 Spurred By Success (2) M Anderson 77360 Our Foxy Lady (3) P Williamson 04560 Abby May (4) L Durham 731X7 Horse Of Course (5) P Williamson 00P09 Veneto (6) E Swain X0078 Thunder Buddy (u1) B C Wallace 8367X Humble Ladd (u2) P Williamson

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

2

M Hurrell (J) S Tomlinson (J) J Morrison (J) J Campbell (J) T Dewe (J) K McNaught (J) E Barron (J) C Faithful (J)

SOUTHLAND HARNESS AWARDS LADYSHIP FINAL PACE

$12,000, 3YO+ F&M R55., 2200m

9505 Opal (1) D Baynes 00567 Betterthanspraying (2) B Gray 9250 Luvtahavtime (3) Barclay/Ellis 22P66 Miss V C (4) K Moore 32420 Delight (5) T Stratford 664 Rakabeach (6) C Barron 23952 Hans Ideal (7) R Wilson 428 Southern Rain (8) G & C Lee Barrier

1:40PM

3 AUTOSURE PACE

B McLellan N Williamson J Morrison (J) B Barclay M Williamson B Williamson C Ferguson G Lee

$10,000, NON-WINNERS 3YO+ MR40–MR42., 2200m

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

45705 Dreaminsover (1) S Lock 70080 Snowy Dana (2) G & C Lee 25880 The Last Straw (3) D Broadhurst 95756 Thisexcusebetterbeit (4) C Barron 80090 Swift Robyn (5) R Wilson 76X08 G T Reactor (6) B Morris 90960 Jaffie J (7) D McLachlan 69705 Tact Denzel (8) S Lock

B Williamson C Lee M Hurrell (J) E Barron (J) C Ferguson B Morris J Morrison (J) A Beck

9 10 4 11 12 13

38874 Delight N Gold (21) E Swain 86668 Be Inspired (22) S Armour 780X0 She’s Outstanding (23) M Saunders 609X0 Articulate (24) R & E Drake 005X0 Days Of Change (u1) S Lock

E Swain A Armour N Williamson K Larsen M Williamson

1 2

3

Barrier

2:13PM

2 1

4 MAGNUM AUTOMOTIVE GROUP PACE

$10,000, NONWINNERS 2YO+ MR46–MR51., 2200m

1 649 Play Ball (1) B Gray 2 Kiwi Jewel (2) B Shirley 3 Montefalco (3) M Anderson 4 42433 The Great Buzz (4) C Barron 5 8 Jaccka Ted (5) W Adams 6 X409X Ideal Ron (6) B Morris 7 679 Melton Mafia (7) G & C Lee 8 5890 Verdlea (8) M Kerr Barrier

9 Major Bond (21) K Larsen 10 2006 Finn The Belligerent (22) B Shirley 4 11 8X425 Love The Blues (23) R Swain 12 080 Tommys Reactor (u1) C Barron

3

2:52PM

1 3 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

5

1 2 3 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Barrier

6

Barrier

7

41860 Cast A Shadow (1) B Nicol Classie Reactor 28155 Bettor Enforce (2) A Beck 91921 Ardent Lustre (3) I Court 95412 I’mallaboutthebase (4) S Baucke 35634 Please Shuddup (5) M G Brown 21451 Born To Boogie (6) B Gray 32201 Sagwitch (7) S Breen

2

9 X1723 Vintage Cheddar (21) A Black

Barrier

4:48PM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

8

S Walkinshaw SCRATCHED A Beck J Morrison (J) M Williamson S Tomlinson (J) B Barclay M Hurrell (J) E Barron (J)

ALL PURPOSE ENGINEERING/S/LAND BATTERIES MBL PCE

54522 The Doorman (1) J Cox 36957 Nightmarch (2) M Kerr 40022 Black Ops (3) C Barron 70600 Lady’s Lass (4) T Robertson 21088 Kagee VC (5) D McLachlan 95006 Honour Scroll (6) K Norman 70888 Tad Lincoln (7) A Wohlers 55946 Coolhand Easton (8) S Breen

$8,000, R40-R46., 2200m

Barrier

9 00000 Shindal (21) S Lock 10 00X77 Jingles Bromac (22) M Saunders 4 11 79904 Kansas City Jim (23) S Lock

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B Barclay C Ferguson M Hurrell (J)

$10,000, R58-R77., 2200m

3

1 3 2

M Williamson J W Cox N Williamson A Beck J Morrison (J) B Williamson P Hunter S Tomlinson (J)

COLLINGWOOD FOODCENTRE MOBILE PACE

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

4

N Williamson B Williamson B McLellan SCRATCHED

$9,000, 3YO+ R53-R57., 2200m

9 12X9 The Empress (21) R Swain 10 00850 Annie Fitz (22) R Wilson 11 75900 Donegal Carrickfin (23) D Broadhurst

1

B Barclay M Williamson K Larsen A Beck E Barron (J) J Morrison (J) S Walkinshaw G Lee

SOUTHLAND CAR & COMMERCIAL PAINTERS PACE

12382 Ansett Flight (1) P Hunter 52138 Diego (2) J Cox 05163 Triroyale Brigade (3) N Williamson 08418 Raffy Roo (4) D Baynes 72200 Zenola’s Art (5) Barclay/Ellis 1503 Huntaway (6) B McIntyre 6486X Unloaded (7) P Hunter 15042 Son Of Lana (8) M G Brown

4:08PM

K Larsen B Williamson R Swain S Walkinshaw

$9,000, 3YO+ R47-R52., 2200m

78623 Triple VC (1) M G Brown 888P0 RnR Windermere (2) J Tither 47964 The White Rabbit (3) K Larsen 40X09 Ideal Breeze (4) D Baynes 71768 Calico Hill (5) R Austin 46138 Franco Huntington (6) D McLachlan 22310 Bound To Be Bettor (7) S Walkinshaw 03051 Magnate Mara (8) G & C Lee

3:28PM

M Williamson N Williamson M Anderson E Barron (J) J Morrison (J) A Beck G Lee K McNaught (J)

FINAL TOUCH/DOMINION ELECTRIC MOBILE PACE

9 41840 Shuzi (21) B Shirley 2 10 60249 Dallas Grimes (22) M G Brown 11 09054 Jabali (23) R Hope 12 I’m Sick Of Excuses

WESTINGHOUSE MILE

THE RISING FOUNDATION 1400

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

1:05PM

3

5:19PM OPT 746

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 STIRLING AUTO REPAIRS/CLEAN-BIZ JR DRIVERS TROT

12:30PM $9,000, 4YO+, W/C JUN.D, 2700m PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver

$25,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1600m

1 64749. Mental Telepathy (1) 63.5 Baker/Forsman N Alam (a4) 2 14432 King’s Cross (4) 61 S Marsh T Yanagida (a3) 3 14391 Tightlign (11) 60 S Marsh S Spratt 4 X0X78 Project (12) 59.5 T Cole C Dell 5 11273 Whenharrymetsaddle (9) 59.5 B Revell V Colgan 6 36004 Jake The Muss (5) 59 Gibbs/Bradley K McCulloch 4 7 03813 Lucky Sweep (6) 59 S McKee 8 120X4 Cossack Warrior (7) 58.5 C Cameron A Calder 1 9 11747 Owen Patrick (13) 58.5 S Ritchie A Goindasamy (a3) 10 Stacey Ann SCRATCHED 11 23315. Masu (15) 57.5 S Marsh J Fawcett (a1) 12 42773 Red Sky At Night (3) 56 M Falconer L Satherley 13 152X9. Sacred Delight (2) 56 T Pike D Mansour 2 14 13145 Vichy (8) 55.5 Richardson/Parker M Coleman 15 X1239 Alesund (14) 54 Gibbs/Bradley C Lammas 16 7109X Clapathunda (10) 54 S Houston C Campbell (a2)

March 30

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

VECTOR WERO WHITEWATER PARK 1200

1 90011 The Buzz (5) 58.5 M & K Murdoch 2 665 Brawler (2) 56 C Isdale 3 612X3 Jip Jip Rock (3) 55.5 P & D Williams 4 31 Evana Rahma (6) 55.5 S Ritchie 5 X71X6 Ignored (1) 55.5 Baker/Forsman 6 761 Intrigue (4) 55.5 T Pike 7 Red Beach

4:38PM OPT 747

N Bakar (a3) V Colgan G Cooksley M Coleman D Mansour S Spratt T Yanagida (a3) C Lammas

Tomorrow at Ascot Park

$22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m

1 41332 Breezon (8) 60 S McKee 2 02565 Stand Tall (1) 60 R Manning 3 48X28 Wekaforce (12) 59 T Pike 4 12X Von Trapp (14) 59 R Collett 5 9X1X7 The Dom (4) 58.5 M/Rogers 6 63369. Bravissimo (5) 58 K Fursdon 7 188X Lock It In (2) 58 W Hillis 8 3605X Retallick (13) 58 D Clark 9 4120X Skaaboom (11) 57.5 T Pike 3 10 23624 Walkin’ By (9) 57.5 T Pike 4 11 7920X Alvins Dream (10) 57.5 M Forbes 2 12 75612 Markle (3) 57 L Noble 1 13 440X2 Nulli Secundus (15) 56.5 N Bishara 14 02108. Fastellie (7) 55.5 A Fuller 15 Almarie 0 16 X86X4 Stella Noire (6) 56 T Pike

3:58PM OPT 750

SCRATCHED V Colgan D Mansour S Spratt K McCulloch C Lammas T Thornton M Coleman A Calder

b M7 Invercargill Harness

Compiled by

J W Cox R Swain E Barron (J) T Robertson C Ferguson A Milne S Walkinshaw B Williamson J Morrison (J) N Williamson M Williamson

Sport www.guardianonline.co.nz

Friday, March 29, 2019

Ashburton Guardian 29

■■METHVEN

Country cup king to be crowned

By Matt Markham

matt.m@theguardian.co.nz

The competition leader won’t be there, so the door is slightly ajar for someone to sneak in at the 11th hour and claim the Canterbury Country Cup championship from Airpark Flyer at Methven on Sunday.

Sunday’s Mt Hutt Trotting Club Cup is the final race in the Canterbury championship and therefore carries double points for those competing meaning that Airpark Flyer, who currently holds a 15 point lead over his nearest rival, Di Caprio with a further five points back to the third placed Johnny Eyre, has one hand on the trophy, but can’t quite grab with the other just yet.

Di Caprio is missing from the nominations for Methven on Sunday as well leaving realistically just four horses who could beat him; Gore Bay, Mogul and My Wee Man. Johnny Eyre could usurp Airpark Flyer by running second on Sunday while Gore Bay could draw level if he did the same.

Outside of those results, a win for any of the quartet would put them in the lead.

The winner of the championship gets $6000 and a dress rug while there are also cash prizes to the connections of those who finish second and third.

Both the North Island and South Island championships won’t be decided until late in April.

The championship has been running in Canterbury since the Westport Cup on Boxing Day which was incidentally won by Airpark Flyer.

His trainer, Trent Yesberg had designs on being at Methven this

Airpark Flyer and trainer Trent Yesberg. weekend but after Sunday’s Waimate Cup he pulled the pin on the plans.

“It was going to be a bridge too far,” Yesberg said.

“Getting off those handicaps when they’re running along in front, it’s just too much to ask of him so he’s in the paddock for eight weeks.

“And I’m pretty excited about being able to do that with him because he’s been up for a long time

and come a long way at the same time.”

Despite being well beaten on Sunday, Airpark Flyer still ran the fastest time of the race – adding credence to Yesberg’s comments about having to come off handicaps.

Since lining up first for Yesberg in September last year, Airpark Flyer has had 13 starts for six wins and three minor placings.

“He’s effectively gone from be-

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ing a struggling one-win horse to all but open class in one campaign, he’s come a long way.

“And now, with a good break ahead of him hopefully he can come back even better.

“We’re going to give him the best possible chance and also give him the opportunity to take on the good ones too.”

Yesberg said the Methven Cup in October, a race in which Airpark Flyer appeared very unlucky

in last season, would be the first main aim.

Sunday’s meeting is the last grass track meeting for the season at Methven.

As per usual the day features big fields with wide open betting opportunities.

Former Methven man and legendary horseman, Maurice McKendry will be in action at the meeting with a number of drives throughout the day.

■■ROSEHILL

Madison County gets a second shot at glory

Madison County in winning form with Matthew Cameron aboard.

It will be take two for multiple Group One-winning three-year-old Madison County at Rosehill on Saturday when he lines-up in the Gr.2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m).

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained gelding was withdrawn from last week’s Gr.1 Rosehill Guineas (2000m) after a float incident.

“He basically just rubbed himself in the float and had a bit of an abrasion around his hip area,” Forsman said.

“It just took the skin off, it was a little bit raw.

He was vetted when he got on course and he wasn’t lame, but it was probably moreso not a good look to send the horse out to race.

“He was second favourite, so there was a bit of money invested, they couldn’t take the risk to let him start, but he hasn’t missed any work and seems fine, so we are all good to go and hopefully he travels sensibly on Saturday.”

Last Saturday’s withdrawal has continued Madison County’s bad spate of luck in recent times.

“Nothing has gone right,” Forsman said.

“The pending sale fell over and because of that he missed a run in the Herbie Dyke (Gr.1, 2000m) and missed the run leading into the Randwick

(Guineas) and now he’s missed the run in the Rosehill Guineas. It certainly hasn’t been plain sailing, but all that being said, he is very well.”

Madison County is likely to be met by similar wet track conditions to last weekend at Rosehill on Saturday, but Forsman is hoping the track will improve a bit before they jump.

“It was very testing that track last Saturday and hopefully it improves a little bit throughout the week and isn’t such a holding sort of track,” he said.

“I’m a little bit unsure as to how he will handle it, but he has worked up well on wet tracks before.”

The son of Pins has drawn the visitor’s barrier in the ten horse field, but that doesn’t overly concern Forsman who is expecting a strong showing from his talented galloper.

“It is a bit awkward (the barrier),” Forsman said. “His pattern of racing is to get back and just to find his feet a little bit, but I guess it is only a ten horse field and it will be interesting to see how the track plays.

“The Kiwis are probably the ones to beat and outside of that it drops away.

“We would be pretty disappointed if he wasn’t running top three.”

- NZME

Racing 30 Ashburton Guardian

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Friday, March 29, 2019

■■AWAPUNI

In brief

No worries with Yourdeel Matamata trainer Jamie Richards said he has no reason not to give even-money favourite Yourdeel his chance to complete his set of domestic Group One two-yearold wins in Saturday’s Courtesy Ford Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni.

Concerns were raised after it was reported Tuesday that stablemate Equinox had the better of the last-start Sistema Stakes winner in training.

However, Richards was satisfied with Yourdeel’s trackwork yesterday and the Dundeel gelding will take his place in Saturday’s field.

“Yourdeel worked well on Thursday morning,” Richards said.

“The horse is well.

“He’s had a long season and he’ll have a break after Saturday.

“We’ve spoken to the owners and it’s all go for Saturday. He wouldn’t be there if I thought he wasn’t going to be competitive.

“It’s a concern when they don’t gallop as well as they usually do but that’s just it – one gallop that wasn’t as good as what it normally is. We’re not worried.”

TAB bookmakers have held firm on Yourdeel’s $2 opening quote for their Sires’ final field market, even drifting Equinox from $7 to $7.50 in the wake of strong support for the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Holy Mongolemperor ($12 into $9.50) and Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) runner-up Aalaalune ($6 into $5.50).

Exceed And Excel colt Equinox has drawn barrier one and Dundeel gelding Yourdeel barrier five, with Richards hoping to get cover for both youngsters stepping up to 1400m for the first time.

“Equinox did work very well on Tuesday.

“We just don’t want to see any rain for him.

“He’s got a good barrier and

Our Abbadean pleases Our Abbadean pleased her connections with her exhibition gallop at Matamata racecourse on Wednesday, her last hit-out before next weekend’s Gr.1 Fibre Fresh NZ Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m). Our Abbadean worked with race rival Supera and clocked her 1000m in 1:00.9 under jockey Craig Grylls. “It was beautiful work,” Grylls said. “She was nice and relaxed down the back, quickened up, was doing it easy and she feels really good in her action. I can’t fault her and she’s heading in the right direction.”

- NZME

Coleman returns Less than two months ago Michael Coleman packed his riding gear away and started thinking about what to do with the rest of his life, after suffering blood clots. At just 49 years old the thing Coleman loves doing the most, the thing he is best at, was taken away from him. But the Waikato jockey has had to unpack that gear because at Ellerslie tomorrow he returns to the saddle he thought that he would never use again. “It’s great to be coming back, especially when I thought I had had that taken away from me and there was nothing I could do about it,” says Coleman.

- NZME

Bavella ready to run

Trainer Jamie Richards is happy Yourdeel will acquit himself well in the Produce Stakes. hopefully he can settle just in behind the speed and be a good chance,” Richards said.

“Yourdeel has drawn well and he’ll be ridden in behind the speed.

“We’d like to get cover for him the first time at 1400m.

“He drew the outside at Ellerslie and we had to ride him forward in the Sistema all things taken into account.”

Meanwhile, Richards is re-

signed to promising Savabeel stayer Golden Age missing a start in Saturday’s Gr.3 Higgins Concrete Manawatu Classic (2000m) as the third emergency.

“He probably should have won his maiden by now, he’s had a bit of bad luck on the way through,” Richards said.

“If he had, he’d be in the field and had to be a good chance.

“We’ll probably take him to Pukekohe on Sunday week now

for their three-year-old 2100m race.”

At Ellerslie, Richards will produce Griffin and Kingsguard, a Gr.3 Hawksbury Cup (1600m) winner in Australia that returns to New Zealand racing in the Electolux Sprint (1200m).

“He’s trialled okay and the (co-owner) Windsor Park boys are pretty confident he’s better right-handed on his Sydney leg,” Richards said.

- NZME

Trainer Lance Noble is pleased with smart two-year-old Bavella heading into Saturday’s Gr.1 Courtesy Ford Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni and he is hopeful the weather will play its part. The daughter of Snitzel, raced

by Cambridge Stud proprietors Brendan and Jo Lindsay, was an impressive winner of her first two starts, including success in the Listed Splice Construction 2YO, before being thwarted by rainaffected going in her past two starts. Bavella finished sixth in the Matamata Breeders’ Stakes on a Slow7 and fourth behind Saturday’s rivals Yourdeel, Aalaalune and Aretha in the Sistema. “She has done really well and we are happy with her,” Noble said.

- NZME

■■SUPER STALLION

Novara Park secures Staphanos Group One performer Staphanos will join the stallion ranks of Novara Park Stud, just outside of Cambridge, in the new season.

A winner as a juvenile, the son of Deep Impact went on to record a trio of victories as a threeyear old, defeating subsequent Japanese Horse of the Year and stallion Maurice at Kyoto before rounding off his campaign with victory in the Gr.3 Tokyo Fuji Stakes (1600m).

As a four-year-old he was runner-up in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin before returning to Japan to finish runner-up in the Gr.1 Tenno Sho (2000m) at Tokyo.

His five- and six-year-old seasons yielded a further three placings at Group One level, in-

cluding the Gr.1 Hong Kong Cup (2000m).

The acquisition of Staphanos follows on from the loss of promising young sire Jakkalberry, who was the foundation stallion for Luigi Muollo’s Novara park Stud in Waikato.

“We were on the lookout for a highly-ranked Group One racehorse to replace Jakkalberry who died last year,” Novara park manager Ray Knight said.

“We looked at a large number of stallion prospects for 2018, but none ticked all the boxes, so we decided to wait for the right one.

“Staphanos fits all the criteria we set when selecting a stallion performance, pedigree, physique and commercial appeal.

“His ranking in Japan as one of

the best three, four, five and sixyear-olds is unmatched. He was a multiple Group One performer in Japan and represented his country as a multiple Group One performer in Hong Kong.

“Staphanos is an outstanding and correct physical type and full of quality.”

Staphanos is a son of Deep Impact, one of the world’s great stallions, having sired 39 individual Group One winners and 10.4 percent stakes winners to runners.

The entire’s three-time winning dam Kokoshnik is by successful Japanese stallion Kurofune, who hails from the immediate family of New Zealand-raced mare and Gr.1 Great Northern Oaks (2400m) winner Catania.

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Celtic Celtic may be heading into the 2019 rugby season as the defending Mid Canterbury Rugby champions, but they know they’ll have a job on their hands to defend that title.

Coach Shane Enright said of the 25 players who made up the squad which lifted the Watters Cup aloft for the first time in many years last season, 14 had not returned for the 2019 season.

Celtic had lost 10 backs and four forwards from last year’s squad, and all for a variety of reasons. Some were overseas, some were injured or simply unavailable, and others had decided to chance their arm up in the Christchurch Metro competition.

For a coach, it wasn’t an ideal scenario.

He had just 16 fit players at the start of this week ahead of their opening match of the combined country cup competition against Prebbleton at Celtic, and the start of the season at least was going to be a real juggling act with the seniors having to rely on help from players in the club’s B and colts sides.

It was going to be a challenge, but Enright was still confident – you had to be, he said.

“The goal is always to win the Luisetti Cup and the Watters Cup, and we’re not going out to defend the Watters Cup, we’re going out there to win it,” Enright said.

They knew they’d have their work cut out for them, but the players who would form the team known as the ‘green machine’ this season were not lacking in determination.

They wanted to do their best, and hopefully retain Mid Canterbury Rugby’s biggest prize at the end of the season.

“We’ll be turning up every week and we’ll try our best, and if our best is good enough then that’s great, and if it’s not we’ll reassemble or reassess,” Enright said.

Celtic started the season down 14 players from 2018, and the list has just kept growing. Ryan Greenslade – a new player who had come to Celtic after three years with the Timaru Boys’ High School first XV – broke his ankle in the final minute of their first pre-season game against Geraldine, and in their most recent pre-season clash on Saturday against Mackenzie, they lost Alex Hooper to a dislocated shoulder.

The list went on – one player had required finger surgery, another had ruptured his achilles, and one had his feet run over in a car park, the most unusual cause on the walking wounded list.

Enright said Celtic did have experience and they’d be relying heavily on the likes

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of Hamish Finnie, Angus Lindsay, Shepherd Mhembere, Nick McKain and Uma Tu’uga in the forwards, while Paovale Sofai would go from one of the young guns in the backline in 2018, to one of the more experienced players in a youthful looking backline in 2019.

Enright said it was just one of those things – players came and went. This year Celtic had just had a lot go, and not a lot of new blood coming in.

Last year’s captain Danny Hurley wasn’t playing this year in order to spend time with his young family, while last year’s firstfive Nathan McCloy was overseas, as was Kirk Chettleburgh. Willie Hintz was out due

to a few too many concussions, while Matt Miller was not playing in order to focus on his new business, and Scotsman Owen Gemmell had returned to his homeland and any plans of returning had been halted by a torn hamstring.

Two of Celtic’s standout backs last year had decided to try their luck in the Christchurch Metro competition – Brian Matoramusha had gone to Lincoln University, while Isireli Masiwini had gone to High School Old Boys, as had Celtic’s hooker from last year, Joel Leo. Celtic’s pool C draw is: March 30: v Prebbleton

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Hampstead Hampstead’s senior rugby side finished the 2018 season in a better head space than they’d arguably been in for many seasons.

Now, the key for coaches Shaun Bovey and Craig Dwyer was working out how to ensure that their players started the season with their heads back in that same sort of confident space.

It had now been 10 years since Hampstead last won a game in Mid Canterbury’s local competition, the Watters Cup, but last year they came agonisingly close. They led both Rakaia and Methven with only a minute left on the clock, only for a try with time up to snatch that long-awaited win out from under their noses.

It hurt then, and it still hurt now, but those losses had driven Hampstead to work harder and smarter ahead of the 2019 season. They started training earlier than most clubs, and due to the fact that a lot of their players were on night shift, had been holding training three times a week in the lead-up to the season – Tuesday and Thursday nights, and Saturday afternoons.

Bovey said Hampstead had good numbers on paper this year, but it hadn’t been easy getting them all together at the same time, and in their pre-season matches it showed.

But, one thing that always showed in Hampstead’s performances, was their passion, desire and drive.

Bovey said Hampstead wasn’t expecting to go out there and win every game this season, but if they could pick up the odd one they’d be happy.

“Obviously we want to do well in the Luisetti Cup, but in reality we are using the Luisetti as a building platform as we did last year, to hit the Watters Cup as hard as we can,” Bovey said.

But, if they could pick up a couple of wins early in the combined competition, they knew that they could potentially be in the mix and finish far higher than they had in recent seasons.

Over the past few years Hampstead had picked up some Luisetti wins, mainly in the latter stages when they found themselves playing off against teams in a similar position to them, but wins in the local competition – the Watters Cup – had eluded them.

This year, they were determined to change that.

“It’s not just to win a game. We want to be in the play-offs in the Watters Cup. Just two minutes in two different games last year, it would have been a different story,” Bovey said.

But that would come later. First, they had the combined competition to think

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about, and they had a new leadership team in place to take them through. Lofi Lapa would captain the side, with Petelo Milo, Kennedy Faalavaau and Ioane Kasiano set to form the side’s leadership group.

“We are pretty hopeful. We think that we have got a reasonably favourable draw in the sense that we don’t really have a lot of travel to do, obviously we have got last year’s champions Waihora in there, but if you put that aside we’ve really only got Kaiapoi and Hornby as our biggest away trips,” Bovey said.

When you had a team made up predominantly of meat workers, many of whom were on night shift and also working Saturday mornings, it made life hard when it came to filling seats on the bus for away games, as well as getting the whole group together to train as one.

Bovey said they might only get a dozen or so players at their Tuesday and Thursday night trainings, but they’d been getting up to 50 players to Saturday trainings. That was also a good sign for the club’s B team, which had to pull out part-way through their com-

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The senior squad was simply aiming to take things one game at a time.

“We’ve got our targets set and we believe that we can beat over half of the others in our pool, it’s just about getting the boys functioning the way we want them to,” Bovey said.

It was about getting them in the right head space. They needed to start the season with their heads up, because it was hard to bring heads back up when they were down.

Facing Darfield in game one tomorrow – a team usually there or thereabouts at the business end of the competition – Bovey said his side would take to the field full of hope, respect and confidence. There was no other way to be.

They were missing a few key players from last year, with some like Taufa Touli having gone to the Christchurch Metro competition to try their luck. He was one of four Touli brothers Hampstead had been hoping to have the services of this year, but another – Elama Touli, who made the Cru-

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sader Knights last year – was also playing in Christchurch, leaving just Romeo Touli and Ao Touli wearing the blue and gold of Hampstead.

Bovey said Hampstead’s strength this season would be their ability to carry the ball strongly, and their always solid defence. But they needed to be more intelligent with what they did with the ball when they had it in hand.

He said Hampstead needed to start this season the way they finished the last one.

“You don’t need to dig that far down to find that passion,” Bovey said.

Hampstead’s pool A draw is: March 30: v Darfield April 6: v Burnham-Dunsendel-Irwell April 13: v Ashley April 20: v Southern April 27: v Kaiapoi May 4: v Waihora May 11: v Hornby Hampstead’s squad was not available in time for printing.

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Southern Southern won a fair chunk of their games on the rugby field last year, but in the ones that really mattered, they failed to fire.

This year, that would not be the case, coach Andrew Carr said.

Southern just missed out in the combined competition finals last year, and then lost Mid Canterbury Rugby’s Watters Cup final to Celtic, and they were still hurting from both.

That meant there was no shortage of determination in the ranks and the side coached by Carr, Geoff Frew and Mike Spence was excited about what the season ahead held.

It was set to be a big one for Southern, being their jubilee year, and Carr said that added to the pressure to perform.

Their build-up hadn’t been ideal, though. A couple of teams pulling out of planned fixtures left Southern with just one pre-season game, which they lost last Friday night to Pleasant Point under the lights at Hinds.

“It should’ve been our last hit-out instead of our first, so we are probably a week or two behind where we should be,” Carr said.

With some players unavailable for that game, it meant Southern had not been able to have a run as a full team ahead of their season opener against Burnham-Dunsandel-Irwell tomorrow.

But, the biggest things on Southern’s side heading into the season, were their numbers, depth and experience.

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Among the most experienced set to lace up their boots for another season were Jon Dampney, James Carr and Scott Vessey, who was returning to seniors after a couple of years with the Bs. “Between the three of them they all play loose forward, so that’s pretty experienced,” Carr said.

They’d also picked up another handy loose forward in the form of Finn Cleary, who played senior B for Mt Somers last season and made Mid Canterbury’s initial

Heartland Championship squad, while Atu Takubu – a centre/wing who played sevens for Mid Canterbury last season – had also come on board.

Southern had a few players from overseas on their books last season and while they hadn’t returned, they had secured the services of some new international players.

Carr said they had American winger Brian Hazel who played in North Otago last year and was part of the North Otago Heartland squad, and Iain Taua, a

New Zealand-born Samoan who played schoolboy rugby for Australia and was a Melbourne Rebels age group player.

Among the side’s new homegrown players were the brothers of two existing players – Matt McAtamney who had switched to Southern from Mackenzie, and would be joining his brother Josh McAtamney, while Hamish Mackenzie was re-joining the side which had featured his brother Will Mackenzie at halfback for a number of seasons.

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Southern’s pool A draw is: March 30: v Burnham-Dunsandel-Irwell April 6: v Ashley April 13: v Waihora April 20: v Hampstead April 27: v Darfield May 4: v Hornby May 11: v Kaiapoi Southern’s squad is: Aaron Chudleigh, Brad Tarbotton, Angus McKenzie, Ben Naylor, Adam Williamson, Scott Murphy, Eric Duff, Logan Bonnington, Scott Martin, Caleb Harrington, Hamish Mackenzie, Finn Cleary, Jon Dampney, Scott Vessey, Will Mackenzie, Jake Pariama, Richard Fridd, James Hastings, Hamish McCulloch, Iain Taua, Josh McAtamney, Atu Takubu, Dean Malcolm, Bryan Hazel, Gideon Lambrechts, Joe Raratabu, Daniel McAtamney, Matt McAtamney, Nick Gilbert.

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a player to watch; an openside flanker, he was also more than capable in the backs, and that versatility was a huge bonus.

They still had a few players under injury clouds from last year, including James Carr, Scott Martin, James Hastings and Aaron Chudleigh, who injured his knee in last year’s Watters Cup final loss to Celtic. It was hoped they’d slowly trickle back on to the field in the opening few weeks.

Carr said the 2018 season was a tough one for Southern. They played well, but didn’t get the rewards.

“I was pretty proud of the style of footy

we played last year. We scored a lot of good tries, and a lot of them were out wide, which wasn’t like Southern,” Carr said.

“We won the fair majority of our games, we just didn’t win the right ones.”

It came down to mental toughness, and getting the job done when it really mattered, and Carr and his crew were determined to do things differently this year.

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of whether they could put it together on the park.

“There’s a bit of youth there and obviously a lot of experience, so we will take a week or two to probably get into gear, but hopefully we can get a couple of Ws early,” Carr said.

Their first up opposition was Burnham-Dunsandel-Irwell, in Hinds, tomorrow.

“We’ll be taking it week by week. You play these teams enough times to know who their key players are, so we’ve got a rough idea what to expect, but personnel do change,” Carr said.

Southern Rugby Club celebrates 25 years in May. Jubilee celebrations on May 10 and 11 will mark the occasion, with the official opening of the extended clubrooms and club day, with teams across the grades turning out at Hinds.

Southern was an amalgamation of the Hinds and Mayfield Rugby clubs and the two districts have existed harmoniously since 1994.

A special commemorative playing strip will be worn by the senior side for the jubilee weekend match and the jerseys will later be auctioned.

The club wants players who have turned out for Southern over the years to register for the celebration.

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For the third season in a row, they have the services of Finnish player Kalle Valimaki for 2019, but when Methven run out onto the field for their opening match of the combined country competition on Saturday against Southbridge, Valimaki wouldn’t be there.

That was because he would instead be in Vienna, turning out for his native Finland against Austria.

While they’d miss him on the field tomorrow, the Methven Rugby Club was immensely proud of the powerful Finnish forward – so much so that there was talk of putting his photo on the clubrooms wall.

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“We have the same challenges that any country rugby team has around recruiting players,” Kjestrup said.

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Rakaia When the opening whistle sounds on Rakaia’s first rugby game of the season against Glenmark tomorrow, it will signal the start of a new era for the club’s senior side.

The side had spent years under the watchful coaching eye of Wayne Foxcroft, and his departure at the end of the end of the 2018 season left some pretty big boots to fill.

Taking on that challenge was Kyle Gray, who joined last year’s co-coach Terry Murray to form a new coaching duo that they hoped would help take Rakaia far.

They knew the pressure was on. Rakaia has been one of Mid Canterbury’s most consistent performers in the Luisetti Seeds Combined Country Cup competition in recent years. But, over the past couple of seasons it had been a case of so close, yet so far.

In 2017 they made the final but lost to Southbridge in a heartbreaker, and they had a chance at redemption last year, making the final against Waihora. But again, they lost.

Getting so close, but not quite finishing it off, hurt. And while they’d love to get another shot at the title, Gray and his team weren’t getting too far ahead of themselves.

They didn’t have a goal to make the top four, or the final. They were just taking things one week, and one game, at a time.

“We’ve probably got more internal goals at this stage. We are just looking to build a good team environment,” Gray said.

Rakaia had lost a couple of key players from their backline at the end of 2018. Nete

Caucau had moved from Rakaia to Methven, while Tom Hanham-Carter was set to try his luck in the Christchurch Metro competition.

There had been rumours during the off-season that Rakaia loose forward Seta Koroitamana may have also been on the move, but he had returned to Rakaia and would again be a vital link in their forward pack with his strong ball carrying ability.

Gray said Rakaia was doing alright for numbers, but they weren’t turning prospective new players away. They’d lost players, but hadn’t welcomed many new ones in, and hooker Jackson Donlan – the captain of Mid Canterbury’s Heartland Championship side – was set to miss the opening few weeks of the season as he was away on his big OE. Gray was no stranger to rugby in Rakaia – it was only a handful of years since he last pulled on his boots and took to the field in the blue jersey. But his playing days were well and truly done, Gray said.

He started his playing career for Darfield but had lived in Rakaia for the past 15 years, and after switching allegiances to the Rakaia Rugby Club went on to play 100 games for his new club. A hooker, Gray’s last official game for the Rakaia seniors was in 2015.

A couple of players he played alongside were still in the side, and a lot of the younger ones had played under him as a coach. Gray started coaching with the

combined Rakaia/Methven colts side when it began in 2016, and had coached them for the past three seasons before taking on the seniors role.

It was a role that he knew would be a step up and a challenge, but he was looking forward to sinking his teeth into it – hopefully starting with a win in tomorrow’s first round.

Gray said Rakaia had planned on having two pre-season games heading into the combined competition, but with games cancelled the weekend immediately following the recent terror attack in Christchurch, they only ended up with one.

That game was against Temuka on Saturday, and while they didn’t win, pre-season games weren’t about winning. They were a chance to test things out before the competition got under way.

“A lot of things have changed so we were hoping to get some clarity and understanding around some of our new systems, and we probably half achieved that,” Gray said.

It was hoped the other half of the plan would fall into place with some hard work this week, so Rakaia could start the season the way they hoped it would continue.

Rakaia’s pool B draw is: March 30: v Glenmark-Cheviot April 6: v Rolleston April 13: v Springston April 20: v Methven

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Friday, March 29, 2019

■■CRICKET

In brief

Massive Mankad u-turn The MCC, as custodians of the laws of cricket, have shifted emphasis by pronouncing that Ravichandran Ashwin’s running out of Jos Buttler, when backing up, was not “within the spirit of the game”.

Following the incident in the Indian Premier League match between Kings XI Punjab, led

by Ashwin, and Buttler’s team Rajasthan Royals, MCC’s original statement had implied more criticism of Buttler than Ashwin: “With batsmen now being deemed in or out by millimetres

by TV replays on quick singles, it is right that they should remain in their ground at the non-striker’s end until it is fair for them to leave.”

However, MCC’s manager of the laws, Fraser Stewart, told The Daily Telegraph yesterday: “Having extensively reviewed the incident again and after further reflection we don’t think it was within the spirit of the game.

“We believe the pause was too long between the time Ashwin reached the crease and the moment it was reasonable to expect the ball would be delivered,” Stewart added, referring to Ashwin’s pause in the crease before pulling out of his delivery and running out Buttler, who was backing up.

“When Buttler could have reasonably expected the ball to be delivered, he was in his ground.

“It is also unfair, and against the Spirit of Cricket, for non-strikers to leave their ground too early.

“All these debates wouldn’t be necessary if non-strikers remained in their ground until the ball is on its way down the pitch,” Stewart said.

“Buttler, it is fair to say, did not make a concerted effort to get back into his crease after Ashwin had delayed his delivery, and didn’t help himself in that respect.”

Buttler, instead, was furious as

Socceroos midfielder Aaron Mooy’s Huddersfield could reach a new low in their woeful English Premier League season if another loss combines with results elsewhere. If the Terriers lose to Crystal Palace this weekend and Burnley and Southampton win against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Brighton & Hove Albion respectively, relegation will become a certainty. Such an outcome would mean Huddersfield equal an unwanted record, with only Derby County having been relegated before the end of March in the EPL era, in 2007-08.

- AP

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Tinwald Golf Club Ravichandran Ashwin has caused a storm in the cricket world with his run-out of Jos Buttler. he walked off after being given run out backing up, or “Mankaded”.

“We didn’t come down either way [in the original statement],” Stewart went on, rejecting the accusation that MCC had changed course.

“We now think at the key moment Buttler was in his ground.”

Critics might argue that the ground has shifted.

MCC’s original statement was on the lines of caveat emptor –

that the non-striker had to take full responsibility for not backing up too far.

Now the most telling argument seems to be: what would happen to the game if every bowler did the same as Ashwin?

Come to a standstill, would be the answer, and create intense animosity.

“Ultimately the game is for the players and they’ve got a responsibility to work out how they want to play it and set an exam-

ple to grassroots cricketers as role models, by upholding standards to preserve the game and particularly the Spirit of Cricket for future generations,” Stewart said.

“The Spirit of Cricket [the preamble to the laws] is as relevant now as it has ever been.

“It is important that cricket is played in accordance with the spirit of the game as well as within the laws.”

- AAP

Trbojevic cleared to take on Warriors their season back on track.

Hasler predicted Trbojevic’s comeback would have a palpable impact on his side as they look to rebound after losses to the Wests Tigers and Sydney Roosters.

“You only have to look at his pedigree,” Hasler said.

“He’s an Origin player; he’s an Australian player — he brings a lot of confidence to those around him.

“That’s probably one attribute that doesn’t get mentioned enough.”

The Sea Eagles are preparing to meet an inspired Warriors in Christchurch just two weeks after the mosque terrorist attacks where 50 people were killed.

The club has organised a series of community appearances in an

effort to reach out to locals, including junior league clinics and charity events.

Hasler said they had worked closely with the Warriors and local council to engage with the community.

“What we’ve done is reach out and find out how the clubs could help,” Hasler said.

“We thought by gravitating to the community and just letting them know they are not alone, and the people are thinking about them and what they’ve had to endure, and tie in with what Prime Minister (Jacinda Ardern) with her message of they are us.

And that’s true.

“In our short time we are there we will reach out as much as we can.”

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Manly star Tom Trbojevic has been cleared to return in a massive boost for the winless Sea Eagles as they look to kick-start their season against the Warriors tomorrow.

After missing the opening two rounds of the NRL season with a hamstring strain, Trbojevic has been declared a certainty by coach Des Hasler to take on the Warriors in Christchurch.

“Tom’s had a really good recovery and rehab and we’ve been really impressed with what he’s done and it’s been very thorough.

And it needed to be,” Hasler said.

“He’s excited.”

After their stuttering 0-2 start, the return of the NSW and Australian outside back could be just what Hasler’s side need to get

Relegation looming

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The South Island Secondary Schools’ championships begin today on Mt Hutt.

■■MOUNTAIN BIKING

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Close to 500 young mountain bike riders will take to Mt Hutt over the course of the next few days for the South Island Secondary Schools’ championships.

The event, which begins today, is expected to bring more than 1000 people into the Ashburton District for the weekend with teachers, supporters and family members expected to travel alongside competitors.

Bike Methven’s Clare Harden said that preparations for the event were well under control ahead of today’s opening events and that a huge base of supporters and volunteers from around the district have made that possible.

“It has been a huge process, but we’ve been incredibly lucky,” Harden said.

“We’re shaping up really well and the weather is starting to play ball too which is great.

“We just need a really good

drying day today (Thursday) and we’ll be ready to go.”

The championships begin today with the enduro event which will see almost 300 competitors being ferried up to the top of Scott’s Saddle to race their way down the mountain before the downhill stage of the competition on Saturday.

Harden said running the event would also require a large amount of volunteer work and there would be more than 50 volunteers across the course over

the weekend doing marshal work to ensure competitors are going in the right direction.

“Bike Methven has a huge member base which has helped a lot with getting people on board to help and we’ve had some people from the Mid Canterbury Mountain Bike Club helping us out as well which has been a big help.”

The competition is run under Cycling NZ rules and Harden’s role over the weekend will be ensuring that everything runs

smoothly and working alongside the judges to ensure all requirements are being met.

The championships are open to the public for viewing and a free shuttle will be running from the information booth up the access road of Mt Hutt to ferry people to the best vantage points.

Racing begins today around 1pm through until 4.30pm and then tomorrow from 9am until 4.30 with a short break in the middle for lunch.

■■TENNIS

Barty cracks world top 100 Ashleigh Barty has celebrated her entry to the world’s top 10 with a hoodoo-busting quarter-final triumph over Petra Kvitova at the Miami Open.

Barty overcame a two-hour rain delay to down Kvitova 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 6-2 and notch her first win over the dual Wimbledon champion in five meetings.

In reversing her Australian Open quarter-final loss to the Czech, Barty sealed her place in the world’s top 10 for the first time.

The 22-year-old joins fellow Queens-

lander Samantha Stosur as only the second Australian in the past decade to reach such lofty heights in the rankings.

Lleyton Hewitt and Alicia Molik are the only other Australians in the past 15 years to crack the top 10.

Barty’s breakthrough win also scuppered world No.2 Kvitova’s hopes of claiming the No.1 ranking for the first time.

The 29-year-old needed to lift the trophy to usurp Naomi Osaka, who lost in the third round.

Barty, who is now slated to rise to No.9 in the world in next week’s rankings, said it was important to attack Kvitova’s serve as much as possible if she was to snare the breakthrough win.

“I think I knew that I had to take her serve away from her as much as possible,” she said. “It’s one of her biggest weapons. I knew if I could get into a lot of her services games I could back myself in on serve.”

Barty will face Anett Kontaveit in the semi-finals.

- AAP

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Friday, March 29, 2019

■■RUGBY

In brief

Blues in rare territory

By Patrick McKendry The Blues are on the brink of their third win in a row – foreign territory for them – and so perhaps not surprisingly their head coach Leon MacDonald has taken a softly, softly approach in terms of his selections.

Which isn’t to say that’s an approach the Blues will take against a Stormers team which will attempt to bash them into submission from the opening whistle at Eden Park tomorrow, just that MacDonald hasn’t changed much this week.

Blues wing Rieko Ioane retains his place for another week as predicted, and Ma’a Nonu stays at No12 despite the return of Sonny Bill Williams, but perhaps the most significant selections as the Blues attempt to build on their win over the Highlanders are in the front row.

After making a big impact from the reserves bench at Eden Park last weekend, that’s where All Blacks props Karl Tu’inukuafe and Ofa Tuungafasi will once again find themselves.

Sione Mafileo and Alex Hodgman are tasked with starting the job against what is a huge Stormers pack, and Tu’inukuafe and Tuungafasi with finishing it, along with fellow big hitters Dalton Papalii and midfielder Williams.

The Blues came through in the final quarter against the Highlanders – a rare achievement for a team which hadn’t beaten a Kiwi rival since round one of 2016 – and it’s this finishing ability that head coach Leon MacDonald wants to keep.

If he and his team can turn a weakness into a strength it will improve them significantly and he said the message throughout what had been an excellent training week was about the need to improve in all areas.

during the week.

With fellow wings Caleb Clarke and Matt Duffie returning from injury via the Blues’ second team, Ioane could miss next weekend’s visit of the Waratahs.

MacDonald said of Ioane: “We just felt consistency of performance was critical and he’s obviously a big part of that.”

Otere Black starts at No10 – a nod to his sounder kicking game – with Nonu staying in the midfield along with TJ Faiane, who was excellent last week.

“It was a tight call, a really tough call,” said MacDonald after the return of Williams from Christchurch. “I thought Sonny was one of our better players against the Sunwolves, especially with his leadership.

“And then Ma’a gets an opportunity and his leadership was fantastic and he put in his best performance of the year.

“The most pleasing thing is we’re definitely not happy with where we are at,” MacDonald added.”

- NZME

Rieko Ioane is a fixture on the wing for the Blues.

“There are two things; who starts the best and how do we close out the game and win it at the end,” MacDonald said.

“We saw the benefit of having a powerful bench [last week].

“It’s probably an area where historically we have lost a lot of games in that last 20 minutes but having that quality off the bench was a deciding factor in our win.

It’s hard to ignore that, especially when we rate Sione and Alex really highly as well.”

Not surprisingly, lock Patrick Tuipulotu, so good off the bench after half an hour last week, is

starting against the Stormers, a selection made easier for the fact Josh Goodhue is out with a shoulder injury.

All Black Tuipulotu, a co-captain with Blake Gibson, was at his powerful best against the Highlanders, and, after announcing a one-year contract extension with the Blues and New Zealand Rugby, is steeling himself for another big one against Springbok rival Eben Etzebeth.

Ioane, who has now scored six tries in two matches but due for an All Black rest week, was always going to start after training

The Blues team to play the Stormers at Eden Park on Saturday at 7.35pm is: 15 Melani Nanai, 14 Tanielu Tele’a, 13 TJ Faiane, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 Rieko Ioane, 10 Otere Black, 9 Jonathan Ruru; 8 Akira Ioane, 7 Blake Gibson, 6 Tom Robinson, 5 Gerard CowleyTuioti, 4 Patrick Tuipulotu, 3 Sione Mafileo, 2 James Parsons, 1 Alex Hodgman. Reserves: 16 Matt Moulds, 17 Karl Tu’inukuafe, 18 Ofa Tuungafasi, 19 Scott Scrafton, 20 Dalton Papalii, 21 Augustine Pulu, 22 Harry Plummer, 23 Sonny Bill Williams.

Stormers: 15 Damian Willemse, 14 Sergeal Petersen, 13 Daniel du Plessis, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Dillyn Leyds, 10 Jean-Luc du Plessis, 9 Herschel Jantjies, 8 Jaco Coetzee, 7 PieterSteph du Toit, 6 Siya Kolisi (c), 5 Chris van Zyl, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Bongi Mbonambi, 1 Steven Kitshoff. Reserves: 16 Scarra Ntubeni, 17 Corne Fourie, 18 Frans Malherbe, 19 Cobus Wiese, 20 Juarno Augustus, 21 Justin Phillips, 22 Josh Stander, 23 SP Marais.

ABs breaking rules Instagram photos showing Beauden Barrett and Damian McKenzie pouring champagne have been found to be a breach of alcohol advertising rules. The photos, posted on the All Blacks’ Instagram accounts during the ASB Tennis Classic in January, have been removed after the Advertising Standards Authority Complaints Board ruled that they were “alcohol advertisements”. They showed Barrett, McKenzie and Spanish tennis player Pablo Carreno pouring Moet & Chandon champagne as part of the champagne company’s sponsorship of the tournament.

- NZME

Business as usual Will Genia says it’s business as usual for his Melbourne Rebels halves partner Quade Cooper, who will return to Brisbane this Saturday night for his first Super Rugby match against the Reds since his acrimonious departure. Cooper joined Melbourne this year after being sidelined for an entire season by Queensland coach Brad Thorn, who said the 118-game veteran no longer fitted with their culture. While the Rebels dropped their last two games in South Africa, Cooper has been instrumental in their muchimproved attack this season and has been lauded by his new club and team-mates for his off-field influence.

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Papalii, Tuipulotou re-sign The Blues and New Zealand Rugby have landed two key player signatures with All Blacks Dalton Papalii and Patrick Tuipulotu committing their immediate futures to the Super Rugby side and NZR. 21-year-old loose forward Papalii, who made his All Blacks test debut on the Northern Tour last year, has extended his stay at the Blues to at least 2022, while Blues co-captain and lock Tuipulotu has committed for a further year until the end of 2020. “It’s great news for the Blues and for us that both Paddy and Dalton have re-signed with New Zealand Rugby,” All Blacks Head Coach Steve Hansen said. - NZME

Crusaders give knights and horses a yellow card The Crusaders will tone down the swordwielding knights and horse imagery next weekend but consultation into a possible name change is some time away in the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Next Saturday the Crusaders will play their first home game since the Christchurch mosque attack on March 15 that killed 51.

Grant Jarrold chairman of the Crusaders told the Mike Hosking Breakfast that changes will be made to the pre-match entertainment.

“It’s been a terrible thing that has happened in our city with this terrorist act.

“From our perspective, we need to respect the victims, the families and the community. And if some of the traditions that we’ve held in the past have been seen to be not appropriate for the future and in particular this next game, we will make changes in order to show that level of respect from our organisation back to the community,” Jarrold said.

“Certainly we’re planning on some other form of pre-match entertainment or tribute more so than anything for the horses for this next game coming up against the Brumbies.”

Historically, the crusades were a series of religious and political wars between Christians and Muslims fought in the 11th and 13th centuries.

The Crusaders’ team name and imagery, which some say evoke those wars, has sparked controversy with many calling it offensive and insensitive, especially after the targeted killings in Christchurch.

Jarrold said that franchise will look at whether permanent changes to Crusaders’ imagery will be made once the public has been consulted.

“We will go to the public for some consultation and members of the community for what the future of the Crusaders’ brand and imagery and tradition is like.

“Once we’ve done that piece of homework and gone back to our organisation,

our board and the New Zealand Rugby Union, who are connected with us through Super Rugby, then we’ll be in a position to make a future decision about what we look like and how we are perceived and show ourselves off in the future.”

Previously the Crusaders held a tribute match for the families affected by the Pike River disaster while hosting special events following the 2011 earthquake and 2016 Kaikoura earthquake.

“We don’t want to offend anybody.

“We’re all about the community anyway and we’ve had a number of instances in the past where we’ve had tragedy or events in this city that we’ve responded to the fans by doing something a little bit different,” Jarrold said.

“What happens in the future…traditions have to change with the changing society.

“If some things we do aren’t deemed appropriate for the future, then we’ll make the right changes in a professional way.”

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SITUATIONS VACANT

Vital win for Thunder Paul George wasn’t interested in losing to his former team again.

Oklahoma City’s All-Star forward scored seven of his 31 points during a decisive 24-0 run, and the Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers 107-99 yesterday.

The Thunder slogged through the first half and trailed by nine at the break.

By the end of the third quarter, they led 76-69.

“We knew it wasn’t enough coming into the half,” George said. “We needed to change things and we came out and executed.”

Paul George Steven Adams had 25 points and 12 rebounds for the Thun- points in the first half for the der and Russell Westbrook Thunder.

The Thunder closed the gap added 17 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds for his 29th tri- early in the third quarter.

A floater by Adams cut Inple-double of the season.

It was a reversal of the pre- diana’s lead to one, then a vious matchup, when Indiana 3-pointer by Jerami Grant finalrallied to stun Oklahoma City ly put the Thunder ahead midway through the period. George 108-106 on March 14.

This time, the Pacers scored and Westbrook followed with 3s at 10:48 of the third quarter and to put Oklahoma City up 66-58.

By the end of the run, the didn’t score again until the 3:57 Thunder led 72-58. mark.

George made a high floater They missed 14 consecutive and was fouled. shots during that stretch.

He made the free throw with “That was the game,” Pacers just under four minutes recoach Nate McMillan said.

“We knew they were going to maining to put the Thunder up come out aggressive. Paul and 10.

The Pacers made one last Westbrook came out aggressive, attacking the basket, scor- surge, but a layup and a 3-pointing. They made their run and er by Grant kept the Pacers at a were able to get the momen- safe distance heading into the tum and just really take control final minute.

The Thunder felt they got of the game.”

It was a critical win for the good shots in the first half Thunder, who had lost five of but were not converting. That changed in the third quarter. six.

“Keep shooting,” Ferguson Bojan Bogdanovic scored 28 points and Domantas Sabonis said. “It’s as simple as that. First added 18 points and 10 re- half got to us. We have a 48-minute game. We stuck together bounds for the Pacers.

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Cattle, bobby calves, horses and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

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Daily Events FRIDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in the hall, 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 - 12.30pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FARMERS’ MARKET.

Lots of produce, products, hot and cold drinks and much more. See

Mar 29 & 30, 2019 9am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Zumba, 48 Allens Road.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture you there! West Street Car Park.

9am - 12.30pm CRAFT MARKET.

Children’s clothing, jewellery, Rawleighs, toys and more. West Street Car Park.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY.

Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP.

Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP.

Open for research, visitors welcome. Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

Club. Cavendish Street.

MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL.

ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB.

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

Museum and Parts Shed Open, 86 Maronan Road Tinwald.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB.

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

Association club days, new members welcome. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

1.30pm (sharp)

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP.

Open Thursday and Saturday mornings for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

Open for research, visitors welcome. Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

10am

10am - 12pm

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future.

Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10.45am ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB.

Golf croquet club days, new members welcome. Allenton Sports

RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON.

Afternoon Meet. Mt Somers Hall, leave from Ashburton Post Office, East Street at 12.30pm (sharp).Visit our facebook page for more details.

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Mt Hutt Memorial Hall 160 Main Street, Methven.

NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and Hall of Memories.

10am

Every Saturday

Farmers’ Market West Street car park, Ashburton Farmers’ Market - local produce fresh from farmers Fruit, vegetables, wine, meat, fish, eggs, crafts and more.

9am - 12 noon The Ashburton Toy Library 106 Victoria Street, in the Triangle.

Open for toy exchange.

9.30am - 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

March 30 Arrowsmith 2019 Hakatere Lake Heron Rd, Methven, Ashburton.

Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

Mid Canterbury Line Dancers

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future.

1pm - 3pm

Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

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 027 220 8791 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 gallers 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.

Pop hits live.

From 7.30pm

March 31

Hakatere Lake Heron Rd, Methven, Ashburton.

42.2km High Country Marathon 17km Trail Run 11km Trail Run 42km MTB Race or Ride Duathlon 4km MTB, 11km Run. 7am - 4pm Ashburton Club & MSA feature Timaru’s own Livewire band playing their wide range of Classic Rock and

Trott’s Garden Shakesperience Trott’s Garden, Ashburton The Big Little Theatre Company will be presenting a delightful afternoon and early evening celebration of late summer and Shakespeare’s work. This promises to be a very special evening to

Arrowsmith 2019

Learn to line dance (7pm), beginners/intermediate (8pm9pm). 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

Donations appreciated.

3 - 4.30pm

Ashburton Electronic Organ and Keyboard Club Tinwald Memorial Hall, Graham Street, Tinwald Concert Tickets $10.00 Door Sales Available.

Contact John 308 1562 or Ann 308 0333 2pm

42.2km High Country Marathon 17km Trail Run 11km Trail Run 42km MTB Race or Ride Duathlon 4km MTB, 11km Run. 7am - 4pm

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spend walking around this exquisite garden whilst being entertained with live music, dance, song and of course Shakespear’s best bits, being bought to life by Big Little Theatre Company actors.

This is a fundraising venture for the students to perform on the Globe Stage in London, July 2019.

Tickets available from Denim Den and BLTC facebook page.

2pm - 5.30pm wet or fine Country Gospel “Hoedown” St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Rakaia.

By the 2 Big trees.

Celebrating the end of the Harvest Time, with toe tapping singing from Lanae and Bruce Hill also featuring Sammy Mackle.

April 7

Followed by with a Harvest Tea. A Community event, so a big Welcome to all.

No admission, but welcome a can of food for the Rakaia Winter Pantry.

4pm - 6pm

Get Coloured By CanInspire Colour Fun Run Lake Hood, Tinwald This will be our third Get Coloured by CanInspire colour fun run to be held here in Ashburton at Lake Hood with the proceeds going to help the CanInspire Charitable Trust help our local Mid Canterbury community.

The Get Coloured colour fun run is a great community event for people of all levels of fitness and will be a fantastic day out for the whole family.

Come and ‘Get Coloured!’

10am - 12pm

April 4 Fundraiser with Scott (Razor) Robertson Hotel Ashburton Mid Canterbury Rugby Union is proud to host Scott Robertson as our guest speaker at the annual JAB (Junior Advisory Board) Fundraiser for 2019.

Join us for a great evening featuring a buffet dinner, fundraising auction and Razor himself!

Respected as a successful and inspiring Crusaders coach, admired for celebratory break dancing and an exuberant personality, Scott (Razor) Robertson is one of a kind.

Razor will be sharing some of his thoughts about leadership in a Q&A style session.

6pm - 10pm

Symphony On The Lake Lake Hood, Tinwald The Symphony on the Lake will bring the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, leading soloists Amati Pati of Sol3Mio and award winning Isabella Moore into the heart of Canterbury at beautiful Lake Hood, (for some an easy hour’s drive away).

Book now, and choose your gourmet hamper by The Picnic Company, to enjoy whilst experiencing classical music at its best whilst wrapped in the beauty of Lake Hood with the Southern Alps as its backdrop.

Ticket only $135 Ticket plus Hamper $160.

5pm - 8pm

April 5 Rakaia Toy Library brings you Peter Rabbit Drive in Movie!

Rakaia Domain This is a family friendly event.

Picnic’s welcome. Popcorn and hot drinks are available to buy on the night.

There will be a complete glass and alcohol ban. Children under 14 years must be accompanied by an adult.

If the weather is wet this event will be held in the Rakaia Community Hall.

7pm - 10pm

April 15 Cats Event Centre, Ashburton One of the world’s best-loved musicals, CATS will embark on its most extensive tour of New Zealand.

With a cast of mainly Australians alongside a few New Zealanders this will be a truly magical production.

Tickets on sale now. Tickets from $79.90 plus fees.

7.30pm

April 6 Twilight in the Vines 22 Laings Road, Tinwald Enjoy a lazy Saturday afternoon and savour the flavour of wine from Ashburton’s ONLY vineyard, listen to live music and tuck in to an alfresco dining experience with your hosts Charlie and Esma Hill along with their family.

3pm - 7pm

April 18 Rhythms of Ireland Event Centre, Ashburton Celebrating their 10th Anniversary, New Zealand is

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Event Centre, Ashburton Australia’s brightest new singing star Bloom brings to you the songs of two amazing artists, Adele and Amy Winehouse. Both have amassed a legion of fans the world over, and have sold in excess of 20 million albums between them.

7pm - 9.30pm

May 4 Vintage Car Club Swapmeet Maronan Road, Tinwald Experience the atmosphere of the annual swapmeet with over 300 stalls – something for everyone.

No dogs allowed. Catering by Ashburton Lions Club.

Site bookings to Karen 021 0243 1955.

Gates open 7.30am

May 18 Hororata Night Glow 61 Hororata Road, Hororata Balloonists from all over New Zealand are travelling to this event providing a unique opportunity to experience hot air balloons lighting up the night sky, glowing in unison to music.

Surrounding the Night Glow will be an autumn festival including live music, children’s entertainment and an amazing array of street food, this unique autumn festival will entertain the whole family.

Please note the car park will open at 2.30pm. Selfcontained motorhomes are welcome to park overnight. $20 per person, 16 years and under free with a parent or guardian 3pm - 8.30pm

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Variety Theatre Ashburton brings you this amazing musical smash hit based on the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film. Gloriously funny and a sparkling tribute to the universal power of friendship.

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Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You’re giving a performance of sorts, and you’re not sure how well it’s going.

If you ask too many questions, it might tip the other person off to your insecurity. You can afford to ask one or two. Make them count.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): With your vast projects, deep thoughts and complicated ventures of late, it may feel like the way you’re living is unsuitable for small talk. But when you’re with the right people, all flows naturally.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The friendlier the environment, the more you worry someone is about to sell you a timeshare. And there are the shark tanks. If you seem like you don’t belong, they’ll eat you alive. Act like you’ve been there.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): People do different things to get through the tension of a workday. Some joke around. Some socialise. You’ll have the easiest time when you isolate, turn on some tunes and focus in your own little bubble.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Rumination is unhelpful. But if you never think about the past, how can you learn from it? You’ll split the difference. Think it over until you come up with one thing you could have done differently, and then move on.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Remember the time you heard of someone’s good fortune and didn’t feel the least bit happy? It’s something to consider before sharing your own good news. Shield yourself from the repercussions of jealousy.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You want to give voice to your admiration but are apprehensive about doing so, as you’re afraid your flattery will sound foolish. The more specific and reasoned your compliment, the better it will land.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Some people can’t write because they are blocked. You feel blocked in another area of life, and you’ll write your way out of it. Getting your feelings down, if only to be read by you, will liberate you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): While no one is against you, there are those adamantly for themselves who happen to be positionally opposed to you. Someone will have to move to the side.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Persuasion is a subtle art. When the point of influence is detected, it ceases to work. You are most persuasive when you don’t even realise it’s what you’re doing.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): It’s time for another you-toyou review on the topic of caring for yourself.

It’s easy to forget, with so many people around wanting and needing things from you, that self-care is your No. 1 job on the planet.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Top lawyers don’t build their entire case in the opening statement and neither should you. Your audience will stick with you today as you present your information in a thoughtfully ordered way.

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Northerlies rising to severe gale.

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ROWING FOR GOLD

Grace Adams (left) and Emma Stagg claimed second in the C Final of the Under 18 Double Sculls at the Maadi Cup. PHOTO NZ ROWING

Grace Adams and Emma Stagg scored second place in the C Final of the under 18 double sculls yesterday.

With the competition closing in on its final two days of racing, some Ashburton College rowers are in a good position to push for podium finishes at the Maadi Cup. The annual secondary schools’ championships, which are this year being held on Lake Karapiro,

head into the penultimate day of racing this morning and the contingent from Ashburton have made sure their names are up there with the big guns and shooting for medals.

The Ashburton effort looks set to be led by the strong under 18 girls’ coxed quad sculls team

consisting of Emma Stagg, Mollie Gibson, Aidan Elvines, Grace Adams and Harriet Leverton, who yesterday put themselves into the A Final with a dominant semi-final victory.

They will row for gold on finals day on Saturday, but two members of the foursome will already

have had a shot at glory when Gibson and Elvines row in the final of the girls’ under 18 coxless pair oars just after lunchtime today.

Gibson will also take her place in the final of the girls’ under 18 single sculls after finishing second in her semi-final following victories in the heats and quarter

PHOTO NZ ROWING

finals. Elvines finished seventh in her semi-final, the same race as Gibson, and will now contest the B Final.

Stagg and Adams got themselves a finals placing yesterday when they picked up second placing in the C Final of the under 18 double sculls.

England’s issues challenged Compromise strikes at the heart of any global league proposal but as along as the Six Nations remain resistant to change, as long as self-interest to protect their patch persists, the south will continue to be shutout of a sustainable financial future.

World Rugby’s Nations Championship is far from perfect.

Valid concerns have been raised by all parties around scheduling,

player welfare and availability; genuine pathways to benefit tier two nations and sacrifice that change inevitably brings.

But from the moment promotion-relegation was mooted, many Six Nations unions laced up the trainers and prepared to run a mile.

This is the fundamental barrier to progress on this proposal.

Truth is the Six Nations have

long opposed opening their borders – just ask Georgia.

Ireland, Scotland and Italy want no part of World Rugby’s promotion-relegation concept.

And while Wales are open minded and France are on board, acting England chief Nigel Melville made his thoughts clear yesterday, despite standing accused of hypocrisy due to his polar opposite views when it comes to rele-

gation in England’s Premiership competition.

National unions have until April 5 to sign a letter of intent to support the Nations Championship.

By that point, it does need a near-united commitment to work towards a model in time for the World Rugby council meeting in May. Broadcast negotiations are pending in both hemispheres

and, so, time is pressing.

With a unanimous front needed from the Six Nations, agreement looks increasingly tenuous.

Over the next week, World Rugby will hastily meet the Six Nations unions to try provide last-minute financial assurances and, ultimately, attempt to convince them that relegation is not the catastrophic fall into the abyss, as Melville so pointedly suggested. - AP

Warriors likely to be facing Tom Trbojevic tomorrow

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