Review: The Armed Man - an ambitious project for Whanganui
3 May, 2021 04:00 PM
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Whanganui choirs and Brass Whanganui rehearsing for the Anzac Day concert. Photo / File
Wanganui Midweek
Review:
I would never have believed that when I moved back to New Zealand I would be sitting in a concert of The Armed Man by the Welsh composer Karl Jenkins in my home town of Whanganui.
Just like the remarkable fact of seeing Bill Bailey here just a few weeks back, this place continues to punch well above its size. Unlike the latter, this concert was a case of local talent and ambition wonderfully on display and how appropriate that this was arranged to be part of the Anzac Day commemorations.
Bella Bellini became the fastest three-year-old trotter in North America so far in 2021 with a 1:53.1 win on Thursday afternoon (April 29) at Harrah’s Philadelphia.
Dexter Dunn kept the Bar Hopping-Bella Dolce filly in the pocket behind Worthy Of Honor early through fractions of :28.1 and :57.4, then angled her out to challenge the leader nearing the 1:25.3 three-quarters. Bella Bellini cleared to the lead before reaching the homestretch and tacked on her own second successive :27.3 quarter to win comfortably by 5-3/4 lengths over the pacesetter for trainer Nifty Norman and owner David McDuffee.
Bella Bellini s 1:53.1 mile broke a seasonal standard for sophomores which had lasted all of 22 minutes, set in the previous race at Philly, when Mister Boinga caught pacesetting favourite Shinkansen to lower his record to 1:53.4. Tim Tetrick handled the Bar Hopping gelding, now 4-of-9 lifetime, for trainer Jill Roland and owner Bernard O’Brien in the richest race of the day, which went
At the helm of the NYPD, the nation’s largest police force, which is acknowledged as an international model for its cutting-edge crime-fighting techniques and facing down terrorist threats, is Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, a former Marine who likes a challenge.
Ray Kelly recalls how when he was only seven years old. he’d often hop on the subway and travel down the West Side of Manhattan alone to have lunch with his mom who was a coat check girl at Macy’s, the nation’s biggest department store.
His dad, James Francis Kelly, spent twenty years as a milkman, first driving a horse-drawn carriage over cobblestone streets and later upgrading to a standup motorized half wagon.
Prize winners meet a racehorse they will own for a year on The Late Late Show.
Following a competition by electronics firm Toshiba and The Sunday World, four people have been declared the winners of a racehorse.
The winning four Edward Valentine from Tallaght, Teresa Browne from Kildare, Christopher Taylor from Mallow, County Cork, and Bernard O Brien from Tuam in County Galway were on The Late Late Show to meet their prize.
These four people are going to own a horse for a year.
They will own the horse for the duration of one year and if it wins during that time, they take the winnings. The cost of keeping the horse is paid for by Toshiba.
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