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The plaque commemorates 162 yeas since the first horse race at Orari. Payne also emphasised the importance of the Orari and Waimate runs to horse racing in the area, with horses first brought to the area for agriculture. Payne pointed out that the racing clubs in the area predated the formation of the South Canterbury Rugby Union by 19 years. Payne has a personal connection to racing in the area, as his father was a trustee of the horse racing club for 25 years, and his grandfather ran horses in the area before him, winning the 1947 Timaru Cup, an achievement that is itself noted on a pla...

The 2021 Queen Elizabeth Stakes: A celebration of great 2,000m WFA horse racing A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size How good will Saturday’s $4 million Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes be? One only has to go to recall last year’s edition when the English horse Addeybb thrashed Verry Elleegant with the very good Japanese horse Danon Premium third. Share Having been a keen racing enthusiast since my late teens, I argue that the top 2000m WFA races are the highlights of the racing season ...

In the Herald: April 7, 1932 We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Phar Lap dead Phar Lap, Australia’s wonder racehorse, died of colic on Tuesday afternoon at Menlo Park (California). “Rumours that the horse has been poisoned have been strenuously denied.” The suggestion has been made that the horse’s skeleton should be brought to Australia and preserved at the Institute of Anatomy at Canberra. “The news comes as a great shock, not only to the race-going public but to all Australians.” De Groot fined Francis Edward d...

The Dry. Director Robert Connolly’s crime drama has taken an impressive $20.4 million at the box office to become the 13th highest grossing Australian film in this country ... closing in on Red Dog and The top earner for 35 years now is still Crocodile Dundee, which took $47.7 million in 1986. But these types of achievements always ignore the impact of inflation. They raise the question: what would be the most successful Australian films in today’s dollars? This masthead took Numero’s box office statistics for more than 1100 Australian films released in the past 50 years and adjusted...

Peter Garrett “once had a penpal in Gisborne. There’s your Kiwi connection, so that’s it.” OPINION/SATIRE: This week Facebook, helmed by Mark Zuckerberg, the apparent evil twin of Marvel’s Peter Parker – a passing-for-teenage man bitten by a radioactive spider but who instead of using his powers for good spins a worldwide web of dopamine-inducing likes, cat memes and fake news – locked tentacles with the Australian government. It was a battle described by commentators as “Wait, what – is coal-loving 2020 bushfire scarperer ScoMo the goodie in this? Give me a moment to proce...