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In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a bird perches on barbed wire fence at the Camp Delta detention compound, which has housed foreign prisoners since 2002, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, June 6, 2008. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday, June 12, 2008, that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- A prisoner who escaped from the Jefferson County courthouse while awaiting a hearing remains at large.
Sheriff's Lt. Randy Christian said police agencies, including federal marshals are searching for 37-year-old Marlon Tall of Ensley.
He escaped Wednesday shortly after 10 a.m.
Tall had been scheduled appear before a judge on failure to appear for several criminal charges, including three counts of attempted murder. He was being held without bond.
Christian said Tall made his getaway after he was allowed to go the bathroom unsupervised. He said the prisoner's jailhouse clothing was found on the bathroom floor.

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Señora Osborn Speaks about her Battle with Cancer and her Future
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Margie Osborn's return to teaching this semester marked not only the homecoming of M-A's much beloved Spanish teacher but also her triumph in her valiant battle with cancer.
Osborn left the school last April after diagnosing herself with breast cancer, and Francisco Cipriano took over her Spanish classes in her leave. The change was abrupt, as former students may recall, but at the time "it was [all] a matter of survivability."
She explained that 30% of mammograms that register negative "are indeed positive. The technology falls short of the mark, and I was one of them."
Although she had received all her checkups at the appropriate times, it wasn't until the cancer had reached "a very serious stage" that she herself identified it. At that point, she had to "go to whatever resource [was] available" in order to survive.
After returning midyear, Osborn must take on the task of ensuring her students are prepared in time for the AP exam and learn just much as they would have any other year. And while students worry that the transition from Cipriano to Osborn might be a little more rough, Osborn has confidence that, with hard work, her students will be fine.
When asked about the transition, senior Angela Lai said, "I definitely feel there will be a time crunch… I think [Osborn] will be able to cram it all into second semester because she is a very good teacher, but I think it will definitely be a lot more work for us."
Osborn herself feels the same way, saying that she thinks "Mr. Cipriano did a good job of speaking in Spanish so that the students are clued in when I talk."
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Having taught AP Spanish and Spanish III, Osborn has a certain method of teaching and, due to limited time, she is having to slightly modify her style. Despite these changes, she remains confident and hopeful in both her and her students' abilities.
After these challenging times, Osborn comes away with the lesson that it is necessary to have time for ourselves–to "build in a lot of rest time, and [time] to have fun."
This message is entirely a reflection of her positive outlook. Despite her hard times, Osborn is back with her same spirit, setting a great example of perseverance and optimism for all her students.


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Steven Spielberg in a conversation with Amitabh Bachchan which took place at Taj Lands End, Bandra. Present also were an electic mix of directors like Rajkumar Hirani, Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra, Sudhir Mishra, Nagesh Kuknoor, Madhur Bhandarkar, Homi Adajania, Abbas- Mastan,Rohan Sippy, Prabhudeva, Kunal Kohli and many more.
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The old hometown looks the same as they kick me off the train
It's the same I just left yesterday
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Down the road I look and there runs Mary no wonder she's in such a hurry
I always chase her through the green green grass of home
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I tried to smoke some of that stuff once
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DENVER—Mushroomhead, Emmure and Miss May I were the 10th through 12th opening acts at Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival's A Taste of Mayhem, on July 13. The Panoramic, King 810, Erimha, Islander, Wretched, Upon A Burning Body, Veil Of Maya, Darkest Hour, Ill Nino and Suicide Silence were also the opening acts. Texas Hippie Coalition was the direct support and Cannibal Corpse was the headliner.
Jeffrey "Nothing" Hatrix is the clean vocalist, Steve "Skinny" Fellton is the drummer, Tom "Shmotz", Jason "J Mann" Popson is the unclean vocalist, Rick "St1tch" Thomas is the DJ, sampler and custom percussionist, Waylon Reavis is the other unclean vocalist, Tommy Church is the guitarist, Ryan "Dr. F" Farrell is the bassist, Robbie "Roberto Diablo" is the drummer and percussionist of Mushroomhead.
As soon as all of the drums came into play, the crowd erupted with cheers. Audience members soon clapped their hands to the rhythm of the drum beats. Members were caught up in the rapture, as they went onto crowd surf. They were then welcomed to the festival and mentioned it was not like the other festivals where everyone held hands and sang "Kumbaya, My Lord". After their 25 minute set came to an end, the crowd wanted more and chanted for an encore.
Frankie Palmero is the vocalist, Mikael Mulholland and Jesse Ketive are the guitarist, Mark Davis is the bassist ad Mark Castilo is the drummer of Emmure.
Emmure kicked off their performance with "Nemesis". Afterwards, Palmero insisted on taking the crowd to another level and requested everyone to raise their hands up. Granting his request, the crowd did as they were instructed. After noticing how much crowd control he had, he encouraged the crowd to jump with him and his band mates. Shortly after, he tested how loud they could cheer and asked for them to cheer a little louder each time. They clapped their hands rhythmically above their heads, soon after.
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Fan Voice: Love or hate the Miami Dolphins' new Nike uniforms?
The Miami Dolphins' new Nike uniforms were unveiled Tuesday morning in New York at an unveiling of all 32 NFL team uniforms.
The event created a buzz on Twitter as most fans with any NFL interest were glued to the hashtag #nikelaunch. Arguably the Seattle Seahawks created the biggest stir with their newly designed uniform.
Images of new Nike apparel including gloves, shirts and jackets served as an appetizer for the main event.
At first glance, the Dolphins uniforms appear very similar to past uniforms. Diehard fans could probably pick up on the subtle changes.
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I have a basic question regarding the ramifications of P vs NP. If P=NP, then SAT would be in P. If I understand the definitions correctly, this would imply that there is a Turing machine which decides SAT in polynomial time. However, does this mean that there would actually be a polynomial-time algorithm for producing a solution of SAT? For instance, what if there were some mysterious polynomial-time computation one could do to a given instance of SAT which would tell you whether or not it was satisfiable, without actually producing a solution (I'm thinking of primality-testing, where for arithmetic reasons it can be easier to verify prime-ness than to actually exhibit a factorization)
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The answer is Yes. If P=NP, then not only can you solve the decision problem of SAT, but also you can find the satisfying solution. The reason is that given an instance of SAT, you first ask if it is satisfiable. If so, then consider the first propositional variable. Append this variable and ask if the new system is satisfiable. If so, keep that variable as T, otherwise, you know it must be F. Now move the next variable and so on in turn, asking the two questions of whether the new current system remains satisfiable with that variable being true, and if not, append the negation. This algorithm overall still takes polynomial time, but a higher degree, and leads you to a satisfying solution when one exists.


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Dancing on Rocks
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Karen Godwell isn't as much ashamed of her mountain heritage as of what she had to do to preserve it.
She reinvents herself at college and doesn't look back till her clan's historic farm is threatened. The gutsy New York Metropolitan Museum curator returns to the mountains only to come face to face with who she was and what she did.
Decendants of the early settlers still have a grip on the farmlands deep in the folds of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, but the ground is shifting beneath their feet. Cousin Bruce, the town historian, sees life through the family's colorful two-hundred-year past; Tom Gibbons, a local conservationist, keeps one eye on the mountains and the other on Karen; Karen's nine-year-old daughter, Hali, is in the throes of the mission her dying father sent her on; and Karen is hiding the ugly secret that drove her away.
As she wrestles her dangerously cunning brother for the farm, Karen straddles the divide between the staunchly independent mountain culture she comes from and the sophisticated world she has become part of.
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immering beneath the skin and hiding around every corner are a family's painful memories of a child who disappeared in the middle of the night 25 years ago.
Nursing her mother back to health wasn't all that drew Georgie Haydock back to the mountain tourist town of Chimney Rock. The summer roils as her mother thrashes in her bed, insisting that the strange woman stalking her store downstairs is Georgie's missing sister. Georgie aches to reunite with the hometown boy she never forgot; yet, she fears all the turmoil will force her to unveil the secret that she's kept since she was six. But naturalist Ron Elliott doesn't care what Georgie did all those years back. She's the one creature he's always yearned to possess. Rose talks about this book on the
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Home Builders Drooping as Tax Credit Nears Expiration
While analysts debate whether or not the housing market has bottomed, building stocks seem to be signaling that another drop in activity is on the way. (We're not saying double-dip, but we kinda just did.)
The decline follows builder Meritage Homes Corp., which said Tuesday that the home-buyer tax credit didn't jump-start sales as much as hoped, while Credit Suisse downgraded a trio of companies.
Credit Suisse lowered its ratings on KB Home and NVR to neutral from outperform, and cut PulteGroup, the nation's largest builder, to underperform from neutral. "We think that much of the 'spring trade' has played out and we expect a slowing in housing demand after the April 30th expiration of the home buyer tax credit," analyst Daniel Oppenheim wrote in a note to clients.
Industry watchers have long warned that the tax credit, offering first-time purchasers up to $8,000 and move-up buyers $6,500, has pulled demand forward and the market will soften once it ends.
However, it's unclear how many buyers even acted. Steven Hilton, Meritage's chief executive, said the spring selling season started off better than last year, but it "didn't appear to positively impact our sales in the first quarter as much as we'd hoped." Abnormally wet and cold winter weather, he said, took a toll on sales and closings.
Even so, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Meritage still expects to be profitable for the year.
It expects to report $201 million in closing revenue on 808 homes at an average price of $248,000 for the first quarter. The cancellation rate was 18%, as fewer buyers abandon signed contracts. That compares with $231 million, 932 homes and the same average price a year earlier. The cancellation rate then was 26%.
Meritage builds homes in six states, including Nevada, California and Florida, which were battered by the housing downturn. It also has a big presence in Texas, which hasn't been as hard hit.
As of Tuesday afternoon, KB Home leads the sector with a 2.83% decline, while Meritage and Pulte each down more than 2%. NVR showing a 1.52% loss.
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Ms. Brooke: Ok... (She was writing something down on a note pad) your brother, Mr. Tribal, referred you and your wife to this session. Do you understand why you are here today?
Paine: Because he won't wear any damn pants.
Kuja: (His eye twitch but he merely examined his nails as he crossed one leg over the other) I have an inkling.
Ms. Brooke: Your brother, Zidane, stated in his letter that you and your wife fight every other week. Is this true?
Kuja: That's correct.
Ms. Brooke: May I ask Mr. Tribal...
Kuja: Kuja is fine -.-
Ms. Brooke: I'm sorry (clears her throat) Kuja, how long have you and Paine been married?
Kuja: Three years.
Paine: It'll be four next Saturday.
Ms. Brooke: Ok... (Takes note) and are you two the same age?
Paine: No. I just turned 22 yesterday.
Ms. Brooke: Alright then. I presume you are the elder partner?
Kuja: I'm not old >:/
Ms. Brooke: Of course your not (chuckles softly) I meant---
Kuja: 28
Ms. Brooke: Huh?
Kuja: I'm 28 years old -.-
Ms. Brooke: Oh, right
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They would always tell me, during my reign of engagement, how the first year of marriage is always the hardest. To expect a lot of bickering, adjustments, headaches... basically, in the risible words of my younger brother: the kind of drama you save for your mama.
I, for one, can't really vouch to that notion since I had a marvelous time.
From chocobo Hot and Cold to Sphere Break, canary and I did everything together. Though the trip we took to Mt. Gagazet wasn't at all to my liking, since freezing winds and wet snow does nothing for my swag, the experience ended up euphoric once we reached the springs.
Even now I find myself dazzled whenever I reminisce on that moment since when my canary is in the mood to tango, those sessions are always the best.
One of the things I adored about Paine is the fact that I could travel long distance with her on my Silver Dragon. All the other girls that I had dated would scream their heads off when we'd take to the skies but not my canary
AmusedSo as I was browsing through Tumblr, since I like to collect pictures, I stumbled across some interesting conversations going on. Some folks were talking about me along with the Kuja x Paine couple - I guess cause I'm pretty much the only one around here who commissions & writes about them since others who supposedly ship the pair is either too lazy to chip in or would rather make the claim on my commissions to "look good" but not own up to it - and I couldn't help raising an eyebrow at all the gibberish they had the nerve to say O__o
Not once have I not implied or stated that the Kuja x Paine pairing is odd because it is. It's not just because they come from different games given fans were shipping the Kuja x Sephiroth couple before Dissidia even existed =/ I'd say they are odd more so cause of who they are and not what the stereotypes or fandumb has to say about their characterization.
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Clancy Yeates reports on banking and finance and is a former Canberra business correspondent.
CBA tightens home loan rules
Clancy Yeates Australia's biggest bank is taking further steps to tighten credit policies for home loan customers, as lenders face pressure to slow growth in the mortgage market.
Westpac asks Gen Y to help it find the next fintech start-up
Clancy Yeates As banks grapple with the impact of huge technological shifts, Westpac hopes to get an edge over rivals by tapping into the ideas of bright, young non-bankers.
ANZ No.2 Graham Hodges says planning industry must 'significantly lift its game'
Clancy Yeates ANZ deputy chief Graham Hodges says the financial planning industry had more work to do to restore its reputation.
Investment housing loans soar, and set to rise further after Reserve Bank's rate cut
Gareth Hutchens and Clancy Yeates Loans for investment housing skyrocketed almost 20 per cent in the the year to December, and economists warn they will surge higher after the Reserve Bank's surprise interest rate cut to a record low...
Cheap money fires home loan competition
Clancy Yeates and Jonathan Shapiro Australia's big banks are fuelling their hot competition in the home loan market by ramping up their use of cheap global financing, raising $125 billion on wholesale funding markets in the last...
Houses, dollar to fall warns Reserve Bank
Clancy Yeates and Peter Martin The Reserve Bank has warned home owners that "people should not assume that prices always rise" when deciding to buy property.
Home prices outpacing earnings: IMF
Clancy Yeates Australian homes are among the most expensive in the world when household incomes and rents are taken into account, International Monetary Fund figures show.
Government will help Qantas but won't rescue it, says Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Clancy Yeates Prime Minister Tony Abbott has left open the possibility of easing foreign ownership restrictions on Qantas as he warned management to take responsibility for the airline's future, saying it is...
Home buyers borrowing more money with less of a deposit
Clancy Yeates Banks are writing more home loans to borrowers with relatively small deposits, as first-home buyers and investors go head-to-head in the rush to snap up properties.
Credit card defaults on the rise along with job losses
Clancy Yeates A growing number of Australians are failing to pay their credit card bills, in a potential warning sign more households are struggling with their finances as the economy weakens.
Commonwealth Bank $7.8b profit 'a good thing' for all, says chief
Clancy Yeates Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev has defended the bank's run of record-breaking profits as good for the economy after the lender's earnings exceeded $21 million a day last financial year.
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Clancy Yeates How can the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) post a record $7.8 billion full year profit, when consumer borrowing remains low? Business reporter Clancy Yeates explains the reasons behind the...
Mortgage experts say it's time to go for a quick fix
John Collett, Clancy Yeates With interest rates at a 53-year low, those paying off their home should be considering whether to take advantage of very low interest rates on fixed-rate home loans.
Record low rates but no such move on credit cards
Clancy Yeates, Esther Han Big banks have failed to pass on most interest rates cuts to their credit card customers, despite the Reserve Bank cutting them to their lowest level in more than 50 years.
Credit card providers to cut hefty surcharges
Glenda Kwek, Clancy Yeates Visa and American Express the first credit card companies to restrict unpopular surcharges.
NAB thinks small to cut costs
Clancy Yeates NAB will aim to cut the average size of its bank branches by a quarter as part of a cost-cutting drive.
Welfare group identifies $6b in possible cuts
Clancy Yeates Australia's main welfare group is urging federal Labor to make a $6 billion budget saving by clamping down on superannuation tax breaks, health insurance rebates, and the tax treatment of trusts and...
ACOSS: cut tax breaks, health rebate and save $6b
Clancy Yeates Australia's main national welfare group is urging federal Labor to cut nearly $6 billion from the budget by clamping down on superannuation tax breaks, health insurance rebates and the tax treatment...
Banks 'have wrong aims'
Clancy Yeates Former Reserve Bank governor Bernie Fraser says the big banks have room to cut their home loan rates but are failing to do so because they put their shareholders' interests ahead of customers.
Jobless rate tipped to rise as mining boom loses steam
Clancy Yeates AUSTRALIA'S economic growth will slow to well below its long-term average in the coming year, pushing up unemployment to levels not seen since the global financial crisis, leading economists predict.


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The 90s have become the norm this summer, and even warmer air is on the way.
Saturday was the 34th time we've hit 90 degrees or warmer. We'll add many more days to that tally in the coming week. The record for the most 90 degree days was set back in 1983 with 58. We'll more than likely come close to, if not beat that number this year!
Highs will reach the mid 90s today with partly cloudy skies. There's a 10% chance of an isolated shower or storm, especially in our Northern viewing area. Most spots will stay absolutely dry, so don't count on rain.
Tonight, temps drop to the low 70s with partly cloudy skies.
Monday, the heat is on. Highs will reach the upper 90s, but feel like 100 to 105 thanks to the humidity. The day looks dry with a chance of showers and storms late Monday night.
The mid 90s stick around for the rest of the work week with a 30-40% chance of showers and storms through Thursday. Some storms may be strong to severe, so check back with the forecast often!
Isolated showers and storms may remain Friday and Saturday, we'll keep an eye on the rain chances that won't be drought busting, but will help Central Indiana.


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All prices are per room/apartment per day, on Bed only basis.
Bed & breakfast, Half board (breakfast and dinner) available on additional payment.
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The price includes: free use of swimming pool, parasole and lounge around pools in the complex, parking.
Hotel rating:9.2/10 based on 21 reviews
The official category of this hotel in accordance with the Bulgarian tourism law is 3 stars.
Special offers - hotel accommodation discounts and holiday package deals
hotel overview:
The residential scheme includes 80 3- and 4-stoirey villas with apartments of various sizes as well as a wide range of services and facilities. The villas are arranged in an amphitheatric manner along the bay providing for breathtaking sea views from most of the properties. The complex is built in the distinct architectural style of the Bulgarian 19th century National Revival period. 70% of the overall resorts area of about 100,000 sq. m. is dedicated to gardens, park alleys, parking and service facilities.
Santa Marina Holiday Village is a property development project by one of Bulgarias most respected investment companies FairPlay International (FPI) and was awarded the Holiday Village of the Year award in 2006 at the National Building of the Year Contest.
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Santa Marina is a beach-front resort the concept of which emphasizes on services and comfort. The famous Kings Beach is just underneath Santa Marina, and the surrounding pine forests make the village even more cozy and pleasant to live in.
With the unique facilities, excellent living conditions and exclusive servicing, Santa Marina guarantees an inimitable accommodation and recreation style. The large number of pools, restaurants, bars, children attractions, leisure and additional facilities make Santa Marina the ideal place for family vacations, long-term accommodation and even permanent residing.
Santa Marina Holiday Village enjoys an excellent location on the Bulgarian Southern Black Sea coast: it is just above the famous Kings Beach, 2 km north of the ancient town of Sozopol and 34 km south of the city of Bourgas.
Address: Sozopol 8130, Bulgaria, Sozopol
Distance to beach:
Distance to center: 1.6km
Distance to airport: 45km to Airport Bourgas
Distance to bus station: 2km
Distance to railway station: 35km
Distance to cash machine: in the complex
Distance to exchange office: in the complex
Distance to restaurants: in the complex
hotel facilities:all facilities
3 swimming pools (1082 m³)
Sun terraces with chaise-longues
3 Restaurants (100 150 seats)
Family Club with kindergarten and animation in several languages
Pool bar
Lobby bar
Piano bar
Live cooking
Massage room
Convenience store
Tobacco and alcohol shop
Medical centre
Travel agency and rent-a-car services
Bicycle rent
Transfers from and to the Bourgas and Varna Airports and other tourist attractions
Laundry and dry cleaning
Postal services
Airconditioning in the hotel:
Safe at the reception: yes, on payment
Safe in the rooms: no
Wi-Fi internet in the hotel: yes, free, WiFi
Wi-Fi internet in the rooms: yes, free, cable
Reception: 24 hours
Elevator: no
Rooms and Accommodation:rooms details
In Santa Marina, you may choose from apartments of different sizes and views.
There are 4 basic types of properties: studios, one-bedroom apartments, two-bedroom apartments and split-level mansard studios. All properties offer nice terraces, most of which offer unforgettable sea views.
Studios are 44 56 sq. m. big. Their space is separated into a living and a sleeping corner. The kitchenette is located close to the bathroom.
One-bedroom apartments vary between 56 89 sq. m.
Two bed-room apartments are 82 165 sq. m. large. Apart from larger living and dining rooms, these apartments also enjoy larger terraces and fascinating sea views.
Mansard studios are 62 and 73 sq. m. big. Located on the top floors of villas, mansard studios enjoy excellent sea views.
Studios are 39 56 sq. m. big. Their space is separated into a living and a sleeping corner. The kitchenette is located close to the bathroom.
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82 165 sq. m. and has living room and one bedroom. These apartments also enjoy larger terraces and fascinating sea views.
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Mansard split-level one-bedroom apartments are 87 sq. m. big. Located on the top floors of villas, mansard apartments enjoy excellent sea views.
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+ Review by Anne
23.08.2015 10:34
I would recommend to a friendSanta Marina Residential Village
+ Review by Dronova Anastasia
17.08.2015 09:22
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I would recommend to a friendSanta Marina Residential Village
Best place for family stay
+ Review by PODDUBSKAYA YULIYA
14.09.2014 06:33
I would recommend to a friendSanta Marina Residential Village
+ Review by Ozer Karalar
19.08.2014 10:28
I would recommend to a friendSanta Marina Residential Village
+ Review by Yuliia Grytsenko
14.07.2014 11:17
Type of traveller:
family with children
I would recommend to a friendSanta Marina Residential Village
Very clean territory, like a botanic garden, 4 swimming pools. Good hotel beaches with sand. 2 shops on the territory of the complex, where you can buy everything food and drinks, and several haberdashery shops, several restaurants. The rooms are accompanied ...
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While Hook is trying to jog Emma's memory and get her to remember her life and family over the last year she's been living life in New York with Henry, the two of them will be getting pretty close. While Emma can't seem to remember who she really is because of the curse reversal that Regina did to save them all from being under Peter Pan's reign of what would surely have been terror, she doesn't seem to be minding the new company she is keeping.
Other spoilers for the mid-season return promise that wicked is coming, in the form of a witch named Zelena, and with her will be her flying monkeys. The second half of season three of "Once Upon a Time" will explore the Land of Oz, however, fans aren't sure yet as to whether or not we will actually be seeing the Land of Oz or just the characters from it. So far, only the Wicked Witch, the flying monkeys, and Glinda the Good Witch will be featured.
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Feb. 7, 2013
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SEATTLE - The biggest weekend of the Dempsey Indoor season is at hand, as Friday and Saturday brings some of the top athletes in the NCAA and the world of track and field to Seattle for the annual Husky Classic. Considered the premiere indoor meet for distance running, the fields for the Classic are a who's-who of NCAA title contenders from 800-meters up to 5,000-meters. As usual, the intrigue does not stop there, as the sprints and relays, jumps and throws also feature the most competitive fields of the Dempsey regular season.
The Husky Classic begins Friday evening at 4:00 p.m. and will feature some of the best 5,000-meter races in the NCAA this year starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday picks up again right at 8:00 a.m. and continues all day. The fastest heats on the track are grouped together into Invitational Sections, which begin at 3:05 p.m. and continue through the end of the meet at around 6:00 p.m.
Sunday is another packed day of competition as well, as the UW Indoor Open takes place from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., with fields comprised mostly of smaller colleges and high school entrants though several Huskies will be in action Sunday as well.
To reach the NCAA Indoor Championships next month in Fayetteville, Ark., many distance runners view a trip to the Husky Classic as a necessity, looking to run their season-best times in the Dempsey that will qualify them for the national meet. That prompts schools across the country to send anywhere from a couple select individual up to full squads to this weekend's meet.
Among the more than 1,300 athletes entered this weekend include representatives from over half of the teams ranked in the USTFCCCA Top-10. On the men's side, No. 1 Arkansas, No. 2 Florida, No. 4 Oregon, No. 5 Arizona State, No. 8 Minnesota, and No. 10 Arizona will have athletes in action. Looking at the women's top-10, No. 1 Kansas, No. 4 Arkansas, No. 5 Oregon, No. 7 Florida, Washington at No. 8, and No. 10 Georgia will be mixing it up.
The depth of the meet is impressive, with several other major programs heading to Seattle such as Air Force, BYU, Duke, Florida State, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Penn State, South Carolina, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas, Villanova, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wisconsin. Washington State will send its biggest contingent yet this season, as will Stanford, California, UCLA, Colorado, Oregon State and Utah.
For perspective on the strength of the fields in the distance events, one just has to look at the top finishers at the NCAA Cross Country Championships last fall. Seven of the top-10 individuals from that meet will be competing in either the 3,000m or 5,000m this weekend. Six of the top-20 women's finishers from NCAA XC will also be in attendance.
Several Olympians will be in action on the track, including Evan Jager, Lopez Lomong, Geena Gall, Jemma Simpson, Donn Cabral, Keshia Baker, and Diego Estrada. One of the highlights of the field events will be a chance to watch U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Brittney Reese in the women's long jump. In London, she jumped 23-4 ½ to take home the gold for Team USA.
There will be plenty to watch in purple and gold this weekend. In the sprints, Maurice McNeal opens up at his signature distance in the top invite heat of the 400-meter dash, and in the corresponding heat on the women's side, Jordan Carlson will try to out-do her school record once again, running in the same heat as Keshia Baker, who ran on the U.S. Olympic 4x400m relay team in the prelim heats in London last year. Carlson broke a meet record previously held by Baker two weeks ago. Kayla Stueckle and Gianna Woodruff will also get a chance at some PRs in the open 400m before helping the Dawgs in the 4x400m relay to close the day. Pac-12 Champion James Alaka will run the 60-meter dash for the first time this season, and freshmen Chris Williams and Daje Pugh will lead the Husky hurdlers. Williams came close to breaking the eight-second mark two weeks back, and will have Dempsey facility co-record-holders Johnathan Cabral and Ronald Brookins to compete with.
Washington as usual will have several runners at the center of the distance bonanza. Friday night, All-American and NCAA runner-up Megan Goethals will run the 5,000-meters for the first time this indoor season. Lindsay Flanagan will join Goethals in that top 5k heat. In the men's 5k, sophomore Aaron Nelson steps up to the distance for the first time on the track.
Senior Christine Babcock is in the top invitational flight of the women's mile run, with Justine Johnson and Maddie Meyers in the second invitational section. Liberty Miller makes her indoor debut in the 3,000-meters, while Baylee Mires runs the open 800m for the first time this winter.
On the men's side, freshman Hap Emmons and junior Gareth Gilna will be in one of the top men's mile flights, competing against Nike's Charles Jock, the NCAA 800m champ last year and Olympic Trials finalist. Brad Whitley will make a go of 800-meters. The 3k will be a thrilling battle, with senior Joey Bywater and sophomore Tyler King both in the first invitational section, and Aaron Beattie opening up in an earlier flight as well.
Looking to the field events, vaulters J.J. Juilfs, Jax Thoirs, and Chris Williams have another shot to reach new heights, as will A.J. Maricich in the high jump. Women's vaulters Georgia Reynolds and Kristina Owsinski will have Logan Miller competing with them for the first time this year, though she will be unattached, as she comes back from a foot issue. In his second Dempsey appearance, Kasen Williams will focus on the triple jump this week.
The young group of Husky throwers produced several personal-bests two weeks ago and can gauge their progress again this weekend. Bev Coleman had a top-10 mark in the weight throw and will look to surpass the 50-foot mark. She'll also be in the shot put along with Alyx Toeaina, while Danny Shelton and Jack Scheideman aim for PRs in the men's shot.


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After two years on the Fort Worth side of the Metroplex, Wags and Waves is coming back to Garland this year on September 13, 2014. This year, the money raised from the biggest doggie swim event in the area will go to Cat Matchers, Dallas Companion Animal Project, DFW Rescue Me, Feral Friends and Legacy Boxer Rescue. As always there will be a costume contest, pet tricks, agility and retrieving contests. Also like last year there will be many vendors selling dog items and providing samples of tasty dog treats. The wave pool, the lazy river and all of the other pools will be available for the dogs. And this year there will be separate pool areas for large and small dogs.
This is the Sixth Annual Wags and Waves in the Dallas Fort Worth Area. Attendance has grown from the first year when 200 people brought their dogs to the event to 2010 when over 2,000 people brought their dogs to Hawaiian Falls to go swimming. The event raises approximately $15,000.00 for animal rescue groups every year.
I have been attending this event with my own dogs for the last four years. I remember the first time I let my husky, K2 and my border collie Cody loose at the Hawaiian Falls Waterpark. K2 dove right into the first pool she saw and swam in right up to her neck in water to cool off. Meanwhile, Cody took off for the wave pool where he rode the waves like a real surfer dog, barking all the way. The entire park turned into a huge dog park where dogs were running and splashing everywhere you looked. Going to the lazy river, I grabbed a tube and dove in while my dogs paddled along behind me following the current. After a few laps around the river, they decided to abandon me for the excitement of the wave pool and all of the other dogs surfing the waves and barking.
Two years ago, I brought Kadie, my foster dog from Texas Husky Rescue along with me to Wags and Waves at NRH2O in North Richland Hills. Kadie, being a shelter pup, was at first overwhelmed by the expanse and the activity at this huge waterpark. She meekly followed my dog, Cherokee to the first pool. While Cherokee, my water dog, who spend endless hours swimming at White Rock Lake and at the pond at the Northbark Park in North Dallas, dove right in, Kadie shyly stuck her paw in the water and slowly entered the pool. After cooling off, Cherokee took off for the lazy river with Kadie in tow. Following the river the two dogs eventually found the large wave pool and joined a pack of dogs enjoying the waves. Kadie was a little bit afraid of the surf at first, but again after watching Cherokee and a group of water loving retrievers, she started riding the waves and was soon following the rest of the pack into the deep end of the pool. Then Cherokee took off again, and Kadie followed as he ran to the far end of the park to investigate the water slide. By the end of the day, both dogs were tired from all the swimming and exploring. Kadie has since left my foster residence for her forever home, but I'm sure she will remember that her first day at the water park.
Last year I brought two of my dogs, Nubia, a recent foster failure, and Cody the border collie, a veteran of many doggie splash days. This time, Nubie took off for the sand of the volleyball courts where a large pack of Siberian Huskies were chasing each other in the sand. Cody ran for the wave pool and joined a pack of border collies chasing frisbees and various other water toys being thrown about in the water. They spend most of the day running in packs with other dogs of their breed, stopping towards the end of the day to follow me down the lazy river.
I haven't yet decided which dogs I will bring to the next one this September. But I can't help but believe that my dogs have great memories from the times they spent exporing the waterpark.
Hawaiian Falls is at 4550 North Garland Avenue in North Garland.
Mark your calendar now for this end of the summer doggie splash event and watch this column for a full calendar of doggie splash events this summer.


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HOUSTON -- It took one swing for Mark Saccomanno to make a name for himself.
Pinch-hitting for Houston, Saccomanno homered on the first pitch he saw in the major leagues to help the surging Astros beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 on Monday night.
"I went up there very nervous. I don't even remember it, my legs were so weak," Saccomanno said. "It was a great feeling to hit it out. It was like a dream."
Saccomanno hit a solo shot in the fifth inning, becoming the fourth Houston player to homer in his first big league at-bat. The Astros have won three straight and 11 of 12 to move 10 games over .500 for the first time this season. They are five games behind Milwaukee, which leads the NL wild-card standings.
Called up from the minors earlier in the day to help fill in for injured third baseman Ty Wigginton, Saccomanno batted for pitcher Alberto Arias in a scoreless game and drove Ian Snell's pitch into the right-field bullpen.
"He walks up there like he isn't nervous at all. And he just hits it out," Houston manager Cecil Cooper said.
Saccomanno was in Austin at 2:30 p.m. on Monday when he got the call to join the Astros. He hopped a flight to Houston at 4:30 and arrived just in time for the game.
"I didn't get a chance to get any swings before the game," Saccomanno said. "So I went down to the batting cage in the second inning with [coach] Dave Clark. I was thinking about what to do and I said if I got in I might take a pitch. He said, 'If you do, I'll fine you,' and I knew he would."
The homer triggered a three-run inning for the Astros. The next four batters got hits, including RBI singles by Miguel Tejada and Lance Berkman.
"Who would have thought that a guy coming off the bench would do that?" Snell said. "I threw him a fastball down and away and he went and got it."
Saccomanno batted .297 with 27 homers and 84 RBIs for Triple-A Round Rock this season.
"He showed up about 6:30 and jumped in a uniform and had a pretty good start," Cooper said. "He really made it big. We were looking a little stale until he got that hit."
Saccomanno became the 22nd player to hit a home run on his first pitch in the majors.
The last Houston player to homer in his first career at-bat was Charlton Jimerson on Sept. 4, 2006, at Philadelphia.
Kevin Kouzmanoff was the last player to hit a home run on his first pitch in the majors. He did it for Cleveland on Sept. 2, 2006, becoming the first big leaguer to hit a grand slam on his first pitch.
Arias (1-0) gave up two hits in five impressive innings. It was his first major league start after 18 relief appearances with Colorado.
"He gave us a real solid start," Cooper said. "He threw hard and he pounded the bottom of the zone. That's what we wanted out of him."
Arias started strong, striking out five of his first six batters. He didn't allow a hit until Nyjer Morgan led off the fourth with a single to right.
Moments later, Arias threw wildly past Berkman trying to pick off Morgan at first. Morgan nearly circled the bases, but Berkman threw him out at the plate.
Arias walked three and struck out six. He started in place of Brandon Backe, who was scratched because of soreness in his arm during a bullpen session Saturday.
LaTroy Hawkins pitched a scoreless eighth. He has not allowed a run in 16 games since coming to the team in a trade with the New York Yankees on July 30.
Jose Valverde pitched the ninth for his NL-leading 41st save in 47 attempts. He has recorded saves in a club-record 14 straight appearances.
Snell (6-11) went six innings, allowing three runs and six hits. He walked three and struck out nine.
"He threw the ball well," Pirates manager John Russell said. "He had one bad stretch, but he gave us a chance. He was aggressive. Hopefully, he can build off of this."
Ryan Doumit and Adam LaRoche hit consecutive RBI singles for the Pirates in the sixth.
Game notes
The Astros plan to call up right-handed reliever Dave Borkowski from Round Rock on Tuesday. Borkowski was with the team at the start of the season and went 0-2 with a 7.45 ERA in 22 appearances. The Pirates lost for the first time in four games at Houston this season. Pittsburgh is 9-4 at Minute Maid Park the last two years after going 11-42 in the stadium's first seven seasons. ... Wigginton (left groin strain) is expected to miss another seven to 10 days, Cooper said. ... Injured slugger Carlos Lee (broken left pinkie) of the Astros told television station KRIV that he won't be back during the regular season. Lee said he still hopes to return if Houston makes the playoffs. "Put it this way," Cooper said, "we'll be playing in October and I plan on having him."


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Champion Jockey who started a racing dynasty ...more
The oldest of five jockey brothers from Greymouth, Bill Skelton began his successful career in the South Island, moved to Levin in 1964 and continued to pump out the winners at just as high a rate. He won seven premierships spread across three decades – four in the 1950s, two in the '60s and one more in the '70s – and was either first or second leading rider in each of those three decades. His winning tally of 124 in the 1967-68 was a record until headed by David Peake, with 127, in 1982-83. Skelton was the first New Zealand jockey to ride 2000 winners and retired with a then record tally of 2156. He rode successfully as well in Australia, where his best win was the VRC Derby on Daryl's Joy.
Bill Skelton is sponsored by Bloodstock PR Ltd a company associated with NZRHF director - Phillip Quay. Phillip is an internationally acclaimed independent journalist and can be contacted at 07-846-4507.
Raced into equine immortality in the race of the century ...more
44 starts, 18 wins (nine Group One, six of these in Australia), five seconds, 12 thirds; NZ$674,225, A$1,679,495.
Champion NZ 3YO Bonecrusher can count amongst his home wins the NZ Derby and Air New Zealand Stakes, followed up with stunning Australian wins in Sydney including the Tancred Stakes and AJC Derby.
In the following spring Bonecrusher won the most memorable Cox Plate duel with Waverley Star – being described as the "race of the century". In this career defining race, Bonecrusher's name continues to live on in equine immortality.
Bonecrusher beat At Talaq in the Australian Cup, again displaying a huge will to win and continued on to win another Air New Zealand Stakes at five, despite having injury problems.
An International Jockey Star ...more
Brent Thomson showed remarkable maturity as leading apprentice of his time.
He won the 1976 Auckland Cup on Perhaps when only 17, and finished third on Kythera in the Melbourne Cup in the same year.
Brent moved to Colin Hayes' stable in Australia and, over the next eight years, won just about every major Australian race except the Melbourne Cup.
Based in England for the next seven years (and then in Hong Kong for four), Thomson wound up his international career the winner of more than 3000 races, 53 of them at Group One level.
Sponsor: Swettenham Stud
Renowned champion who won 5 derbys over 50 years ...more
The trainer known as much to his friends as the racing public as "Jillo" handed in his trainers licence in 2004. He had held that licence for an amazing 54 years.
Regarded as a master trainer of stayers, he trained 1327 winners in total, 703 of those in partnership with fellow trainer Richard Yuill.
Often referred to as "racing's gentleman trainer" and respected and admired by his peers, Jillings was renowned for his ability to set a horse for a race after mapping out the target a long way out.
Saddling his first winner, Lawful, while still aged in his 20s, to win the Great Northern Derby in 1958, Jillings was to go on and win a Derby in each subsequent decade up to his retirement.
As well as training five New Zealand Derby winners, he trained three New Zealand Oaks winners, and won four Auckland Cups, a Wellington Cup and two New Zealand Cups.
His versatility as a trainer were also demonstrated in jumps racing where he won three Great Northern Steeples and two Great Northern Hurdles.
Associated with many memorable horses, some of his best performers included Uncle Remus, McGinty and The Phantom Chance, who won the WS Cox Plate from the Jillings/Yuill stable as well as the New Zealand Derby.
Champion trainer of 11 premierships - producing a racing dynasty ...more
The only apprentice to salute the judge before a young Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Ellerslie meeting of 1953 – not a bad win, either: the Railway Handicap on Te Awa – O'Sullivan rode for less than a decade (125 winners) before weight problems forced him out. Setting up as a trainer at Matamata, he first became known as a successful mentor of apprentices. Roger Lang, Peter Johnson, Shane Dye and eventually his son Lance were just some of the top riders who came from the stable. Equine winners also came off the property in a steadily expanding stream until (ultimately in partnership with his son Paul) O'Sullivan found a regular place at the top of trainers' list. Dave O'Sullivan retired in 1998 with a lifetime tally of 1877 wins (at present the New Zealand record), 1613 in partnership with Paul. Dave won the premiership on his own in 1978-79, another 10 titles in partnership with Paul. Oopik, Golden Rhapsody, Sharivari, Waverley Star, Paul De Brett, La Souvronne, Blue Denim, Mapperley Heights and champion mare Horlicks were among the many Group One performers to wear the O'Sullivan polish.
Dave O'Sullivan is proudly sponsored by TRAC racing consortium which consists of the racing clubs in the Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Te Aroha and Matamata regions.
Worldwide Ambassador for the NZ thoroughbred ...more
Graeme Rogerson has had stables in many parts of the racing world – including New Zealand, Australia, and even Dubai – as he set upon a campaign to take NZ racing to the world.
Fierce determination and hard work enabled "Rogie" to overcome early stoushes with officialdom to then reach the pinnacle of his profession.
By the time he trained his 2000th New Zealand winner, in 2010, he had won 12 NZ premierships, and one in Sydney, where he had operated a separate stable for years.
His major wins in Australia include the big three:
the Golden Slipper,
the Cox Plate, and
the Melbourne Cup.
Rogie was and is a tireless and enthusiastic ambassador internationally for the New Zealand thoroughbred.
Sponsor: Max Whitby
Honorary New Zealander –Melbourne Cup's King ...more
Bart Cummings is the New Zealand Hall of Fame's first honorary inductee.
James Bartholomew "Bart" Cummings has never raced a horse in New Zealand, but no overseas trainer has done more to promote the New Zealand stayer through the success he has achieved with the New Zealand thoroughbred.
Bart saddled an astonishing 12 Melbourne Cup winners, with eight of these being New Zealand-bred.
An astute judge, Bart has been a major buyer at New Zealand yearling sales since the early 1960s.
A legend of the Australian turf in Australia, Bart was awarded the Order of Australia and was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Cambridge Stud
Bart Cummings is the New Zealand Hall of Fame's first honorary inductee.
James Bartholomew "Bart" Cummings has never raced a horse in New Zealand, but no overseas trainer has done more to promote the New Zealand stayer through the success he has achieved with the New Zealand thoroughbred.
Bart saddled an astonishing 12 Melbourne Cup winners, with eight of these being New Zealand-bred.
An astute judge, Bart has been a major buyer at New Zealand yearling sales since the early 1960s.
A legend of the Australian turf in Australia, Bart was awarded the Order of Australia and was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Cambridge Stud
The Pumper is King! ...more
A record-breaking apprentice in New Zealand, where he won the 1981-82 jockeys' premiership in just his fourth full season. After his famous 1983 Melbourne Cup win on Kiwi; moved to Australia where he was to perform at top level for the next 30 years. One of only seven jockeys to win the Australian "grand slam" (Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, Cox Plate and Golden Slipper). On Derby Day 2013 he became one of just three Australasian jockeys to win 100 Group Ones.
International trainer of great gallopers and jumpers ...more
During his hay day, John Wheeler was more successful in Australia than any other New Zealand trainer of modern times.
In Australia John trained three near-champions – Poetic Prince, Rough Habit, and Veandercross and won many major Australian races (including a dozen Group Ones) with all three horses.
John has dominated the Australia's jumping scene for many years (winning seven Great Eastern Steeplechases at Oakbank) and won what is arguable the greatest jumping race in the world – the Nakayama Grand Jump in Tokyo with outstanding jumper St Steven.
A leading trainer at home John continues to be a great ambassador for his country.
NZ's most successful championship winning jockey ...more
At the end of the 2002-03 season, Lance O'Sullivan retired from race riding at the top (three winners at Tauranga from his last three rides) and with every record in New Zealand flat racing safely in his saddle bags. With a New Zealand tally of 2358 he held the record of wins by a New Zealand jockey – and that was without adding the wins in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Singapore and, yep, one in Turkey which brought his lifetime tally to 2479. In 2001-02 he rode 193 winners to reclaim the New Zealand record for wins in a season which a young Michael Walker had briefly taken from him the season before. O'Sullivan retired with 12 New Zealand premierships to his credit, having broken Bill Broughton's long-standing record of 11 premierships. All of these records placed O'Sullivan firmly at the head of his profession at the time of his retirement. What makes them a testament to character, professionalism and determination as much to innate ability is that they were achieved – or at least completed – after a horrendous race fall at Moonee Valley in which O'Sullivan's left leg was so badly smashed that it took three years, three operations and unguessable grinding pain before he could return to race riding in 1998-99. O'Sullivan was born on August 28 1963 into a racing family. His father Dave, a good journeyman jockey who became a champion trainer, was followed into a training partnership by Lance's brother Paul; Lance rode 181 winners while apprenticed to his father. Over two decades the O'Sullivan trio – trainers and jockey – became the most formidable team in New Zealand's racing history. Lance won 50 Group One races, perhaps his most memorable being the 1989 Japan Cup on Horlicks, the W.S.Cox Plate on Surfers Paradise and that remarkable third ARC Railway Handicap win on Mr Tiz, on whom he won six Group Ones. Since his retirement from the saddle, Lance O'Sullivan has seamlessly turned his talents to training.
Lance O'Sullivan is sponsored by Highview Stud. Highview Stud stands an excellent line up of stallions including exciting young sires - Johar, Align and Danbird, and well established sire - Kashani. Highview welcomes your enquiries. Please phone Brent Gillovic on 07-825-2649.
Up to Australia's Best ...more
A champion jockey in the 1920s and 1930s, Maurice McCarten won two NZ jockey premierships, aged 20 and 21, and moved to Sydney, where he rode three winners at his first appearance on an Australian course. He won many major races in Australia and turned to training in 1942, winning four Sydney trainers premierships and then finishing second 10 times to T.J. Smith. Delta, Todman and Wenona Girl were among the champion horses he trained.
The most famous horse ever to race in Australia ...more
The last generation who saw him race, even as youngsters, are pretty much gone now. Yet the big chestnut gelding's name still has power. The son of Night Raid and Entreaty, who lifted hearts and spirits during the depths of the Depression years, remained a measuring stick long after his deeds had passed into history. Phar Lap won 37 of his 51 starts, ran three seconds and two thirds. Most of his misses were at the outset of his career, before trainer Harry Telford got "the hang of him" and his capacity for work. Phar Lap developed from a wonderful three-year-old into a virtually unbeatable older horse. Consider his four-year-old spring in 1930. In four days at the Melbourne Cup carnival, he successively won the Melbourne (now MacKinnon) Stakes, Melbourne Cup, Linlithgow Stakes (then at a mile, or 1600m) and the C.B.Fisher Plate, at a mile and a half (2400m). Before that he'd won five races in Sydney, plus the Cox Plate. Nightmarch, who'd beaten a hard-pulling, three-year-old Phar Lap in the previous year's Melbourne Cup, trailed him home four times in the chestnut's four-year-old spring campaign in Sydney before his connections gave up and brought Nightmarch home. Nightmarch, who'd been unable to keep Phar Lap warm in Sydney, won the New Zealand Cup under 9st 6lb (about 60kg). Four days earlier Phar Lap had cruised to a three-length victory in the Melbourne Cup under 9st 12lb (nearly 63kg). Though he never raced in New Zealand, Phar Lap drew discerning eyes to the land of his birth and undoubtedly contributed to the progress of the then fledgling National Yearling Sale at Trentham, from whence he'd been purchased for 160 guineas. The first horse to earn the indisputable "champion" tag in Australian racing, Carbine, was bred in New Zealand. So, 40 years later, was the next, Phar Lap. And so, nearly 30 years on, was the next: Tulloch.
Race Record:
51 starts, 37 wins, 3 seconds, 2 thirds
It is very fitting that Phar Lap should be sponsored by our sister organisation - The Australian Racing Hall of Fame. The Australian Racing Museum - Champions has honoured Phar Lap is in a very special way at their site in Melbourne.
Weight-carrying Marvel ...more
Raced 86 times for 32 wins and 20 placings.
A good horse in New Zealand, Redcraze became a great horse in Australia.
Sent to Tom Smith as a five-year-old, he became a superstar in the spring of 1956.
After winning three races in Sydney, including the Metropolitan, he won the WFA Caulfield Stakes, then the Caulfield Cup with a record 9st 13lb (63kg).
Under 10st 3lb (65kg) in the Melbourne Cup, Redcraze failed by a half-neck to overhaul the lightweight Evening Peal, to whom he was conceding the equivalent of 15kg - an outstanding performance.
Sponsor: Northfields Stud
The 1st horse to win the spring grand slam ...more
Controversy was to haunt Rising Fast for much of his career, yet this son of Alonzo and Faster was undoubtedly one of the best stayers and middle-distance gallopers that ever graced the Australasian turf. Bought at a Trentham sale by a Whakatane accountant, Leicester Spring, Rising Fast was put with Cambridge trainer Jack Winder and, after a quiet three-year-old season which yielded four wins and a couple of placings from eight starts, he was set as a four-year-old for the Royal Auckland Cup of 1953. Then trainer, jockey and indeed the horse were put out after he was allegedly not ridden on his merits in the Te Awamutu Cup. And, though the horse was reinstated on appeal, he never raced in New Zealand again. Trained now by Ivan Tucker, Rising Fast was set for the 1954 Melbourne Cup. He won three of five lead-up races in Melbourne, then successively won the Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate, MacKinnon Stakes and, under 9st 5lb (59.5kg), the Melbourne Cup. For good measure, on the final day at Flemington, he added the C.B.Fisher Plate to his tally.
The hoodoo struck again when Rising Fast returned home and Ivan Tucker was suspended after one of his team returned a positive test. Rising Fast was sent to Melbourne trainer Fred Hoysted. His lead-up form in the spring of 1955 wasn't as good as the previous year – until he charged to victory under 9st 10lb (61.5kg) in the Caulfield Cup. Rising Fast was an odds-on favourite to complete the never-achieved "double-double" – two Caulfield Cups and two Melbourne Cups. He struck all the interference going in a rough-house Melbourne Cup and still went under by only three-quarters of a length to Toporoa, carrying 34lb less.
Toporoa's rider, Neville Sellwood, was afterwards suspended for two months for failing to prevent Toporoa boring out on the champion. Rising Fast tried the Melbourne Cup one more time, the following year, and ran a valiant fifth under 10st 2lb (64.5kg).
Multiple super sire producing stud master ...more
At the forefront of the thoroughbred industry as proprietor of Cambridge Stud for the past three decades, Patrick Hogan was recognised for his services to racing with a knighthood shortly before that title was removed from the New Zealand honours list. Born in Auckland in 1939, the young Patrick Hogan became involved in the breeding industry in the 1960s with his father Tom and brother John at the relatively low-key Fencourt Stud near Cambridge, where Blueskin II was a successful sire.
Wanting to operate on a bigger and more commercial scale, Patrick set up Cambridge Stud on his own in 1972. His entrepreneurial and marketing/promotional skills quickly brought him prominence. With the National Yearling Sales his focus, his "Melbourne Cup," he moved staff and yearlings to Trentham (then the home of the sales) on a previously unknown scale, was a pioneer in the hospitality tents which became a sales feature, and became a renowned presenter of yearlings. Leading his own yearlings into the ring in those days, as brisk and well presented as the young thoroughbreds, he knew where the buyers were positioned (the Australian market was his target from the outset) and made sure the main players got a good look at the youngsters he led.
Sir Tristram, the stallion who was to build Cambridge Stud into a showplace and an unquestioned market leader, arrived in 1975 and, though greeted with lukewarm enthusiasm at first by the market and by some of Hogan's established clients, made sensational progress from the time his oldest progeny turned three and included the likes of multiple Group One winner Sovereign Red. When he died, 22 years after coming to Cambridge Stud, Sir Tristram had been Australian champion sire six times (only once at home, where relatively few of his best-bred progeny raced) and had won five Dewar Awards (for combined Australian-New Zealand progeny earnings). He was second in the world for individual Group One winners (45). Sir Tristram founded a sire son dynasty (Grosvenor, Kaapstad, Marauding and Military Plume notable among them) but it was not until late in the great stallion's life that Sir Patrick acquired a Sir Tristram son, the well-performed and well-bred Zabeel, to stand alongside his ageing father and take up the mantle. Zabeel was to outshine the other sons of Sir Tristram and rival his father (as at October 2005, two Australian championships and always in the top two or three; three New Zealand championships; a remarkable nine Dewar Awards; 33 individual Group One winners) and keep Cambridge Stud in a pre-eminent position. With his wife Justine Lady Hogan, Sir Patrick has been four times Mercedes Breeder of the Year and in 1991 received the Mercedes Award for Outstanding Contribution to Racing. A past president of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association and a major racing sponsor (especially at Te Rapa), he has been a large-scale racing owner in recent years. Going into the 2005-06 season, he had an interest in 46 racehorses, including a dozen two-year-olds.
Sir Patrick Hogan is sponsored by the internationally acclaimed hospitality lodge - Huka Lodge of Taupo. Huka Lodge is a NZ business icon and we are delighted to have this association. For further information on Huka Lodge and its facilities please call 07-378-5791.
New Zealand's mare of the world ...more
This wonderful mare captured the hearts of the public at the beginning of the new millennium like few other horses in post-War years. Tough-minded if not bloody-minded, she had a physique to match and was able to race competitively at top level from two to seven years. Sunline raced 45 times for 32 wins, eight seconds and two thirds and an Australasian record $11 million in stakes. She raced in four countries and won in three; she twice won the Southern Hemisphere's weight-for-age championship, the Cox Plate (on the second occasion by a stunning seven lengths) and was narrowly beaten by Northerly going for a third. She twice won Sydney's toughest "metric mile," the Doncaster Handicap, and was second on another occasion when conceding 6kg to her conqueror, Over. Her optimum distance was probably 1400m, at which she was unbeaten, yet she was able to stretch her high cruising speed to the 2040m of the Cox Plate, and to hold out the redoubtable Fairy King Prawn in the tough Hong Kong International Mile. At home, where her races were usually in preparation for another overseas campaign, she was unbeaten in seven starts. Sunline was twice elected Australian Racehorse of the Year and three times New Zealand Horse of the Year. In 1999 the authoritative Timeform publication named her the best turf mare in the world.
Race Record:
48 starts, 32 wins, 8 seconds, 2 thirds
$13million, a record for her time.
Sunline is proudly sponsored by Dunstan Horse Feed - New Zealand's leading horse feed suppliers. Dunstan is a major sponsor of horse sports and racing events and we appreciate their involvement in our event. For further information please call Dave Smith at 0274-931-580.
Tommy Smith's universal yardstick for equine excellence ...more
In the inaugural series of Hall of Fame inductees, two thoroughbreds that raced almost entirely outside their country of birth made the list. Carbine, who raced in New Zealand only as an unbeaten two-year-old and achieved fame across the Tasman, and Phar Lap, who was sold at Trentham as a yearling and never raced in his homeland, were champions of such quality that it was felt they deserved to be honoured by the country where they were bred, born and raised.
One other New Zealand-bred horse, in the opinion of the HOF Historical Committee, also merits that special recognition.
Tulloch, the swampy-backed little colt who attracted the attention of top Sydney trainer Tommy Smith – and not many others – at the 1956 Trentham yearling sale, had that extra dimension, that near-freakish ability, which stamps the handful of greats.
He won 36 of his 53 starts, was only once out of the money and set a then Australasian stake-earning record of 108,293 pounds, a record for 11 years. Yet he lost nearly two years of his career – his four- and five-year-old seasons when he should have been at his prime – through a debilitating and recurrent stomach illness which nearly killed him.
You probably had to be around in the late 1950s to appreciate the excitement, emotion and controversy Tulloch aroused.
He was a star at two years, his defeat of the Victorian champion Todman in what was virtually a match race, the AJC Sires' Produce Stakes, a sensation. Todman, winner of the inaugural Golden Slipper, turned the tables at a shorter distance a week later but they never met again, Todman breaking down as a three-year-old. Meanwhile Tulloch made non-stop headlines through the first half of his three-year-old season, not only for the quality of his form (his wins in the AJC Derby, Caulfield Guineas and Caulfield Cup were all stunning performances) but for his highly controversial scratching from the Melbourne Cup. Tommy Smith rated the colt a Melbourne Cup certainty but was unable to persuade his sick and elderly owner, Evelyn Haley, to start him after a media campaign, spearheaded by the Ezra Norton-owned newspapers, against the "cruelty" of running a three-year-old in the two-mile Cup.
In Tulloch's absence, Straight Draw won the 1957 Melbourne Cup. Who owned him? Newspaper tycoon Ezra Norton. Who ran second to Straight Draw, beaten only a neck? The three-year-old Prince Darius, whom Tulloch beat by eight lengths in the VRC Derby and, in the autumn, by 20 lengths in the AJC St Leger.
Robbed of his four-year-old season by the recurring gastroenteritis, Tulloch resumed in the autumn as a five-year-old and won each of his five comeback starts. The first of these involved a hard-slugging stretch-long duel with Victorian weight-for-age star Lord which Tulloch won by a short head. Not bad for a horse considered by most to never quite regain, after that long illness, the height of his three-year-old powers.
Tulloch was handicapped at top weight for four Melbourne Cups and raced in it only once, in the 1960 Centenary Cup (after winning the Cox Plate and Mackinnon Stakes). It was the only time he was unplaced, and Neville Sellwood received no plaudits for his ride. Under 10st 1lb, Tulloch was 25 lengths off the leaders at the half-mile and he made ground for seventh behind longshot New Zealand mare Hi Jinx. Tulloch wound up his career in Queensland, where he won the O'Shea Stakes and Brisbane Cup and was given an emotional farewell by a 33,000-strong Brisbane crowd.
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Followed his great sire Sir Tristram at Cambridge Stud and in some respects outshone him. Still alive and active in 2013 aged 27, he has achieved four NZ and two Australian general sire premierships; 15 Dewar Awards (NZ and Australian progeny earnings combined); 43 Group One winners (two behind his sire) and 148 stakeswinners (Sir Tristram 130). He has sired three Melbourne Cup winners, four Cox Plate winners, successful sire sons and grandsons, and is an outstanding broodmare sire.