Pembrook Playboy would never be sold because of the special link the horse had with his family, Alcock said. After Colleen told him to buy a horse he worked out who Southland’s leading trainer was and went to visit him unannounced. The trainer was Nathan Williamson and he had not met Alcock previously.
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Nathan Williamson drives Pembrook Playboy to victory in the Invercargill Cup in January. The Christchurch yearling sales were a month away and the two men, with input from Christchurch trainer Colin de Filippi, picked Pembrook Playboy as the horse to buy. “I was surprised how cheap he was – $28,000,” Alcock said.
Driver fled the scene after flip crash in Lincoln
He abandoned the crashed car in the middle of the road
Police were called to Broadgate at around 3am on Monday morning after a car had flipped onto its side.
A driver who crashed their car into a central reservation in Lincoln, causing it to flip onto its side, was nowhere to be found in the vehicle.
Police were called to the incident on Broadgate at around 3.15am on Monday morning, when a silver Nissan collided with the central reservation as the driver was heading uphill.
The crash caused the car to lose control and roll onto its side, but when emergency services arrived at the scene, the driver was not there.
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Four men sentenced after vicious Lincoln High Street attack
Two jailed for over five years
Adrian Johnson (L) and Mark Guest (R) will serve over five years in jail. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Two men have been jailed and two received community orders for a violent attack on Lincoln High Street in 2019.
On the morning of July 20, 2019, a 38-year-old man was attacked by two teenagers as he was walking near High Bridge in Lincoln.
The victim was kicked and stamped on after being dragged to the floor, and received face and body wounds from a bladed article.
Within minutes of the first assault, the victim was approached by Adrian Johnson, 34, and Mark Guest, 38, who began a second attack.