grass wonder ( japanese グラスワンダー , foaled 18 february 1995 ) is an american-bred , japanese-trained thoroughbred racehorse and sire .

in a racing career which lasted from 1997 until 2000 he won nine of his fifteen races including four grade i races .

he was the leading juvenile colt in japan in 1997 when he was unbeaten in four races , culminating in a victory in the asahi hai sansai stakes .

he missed most of his second season with injury problems but returned in autumn to win the arima kinen .

he reached his peak as a four-year-old when he won the takarazuka kinen and a second arima kinen .

he failed to win in three races in 2000 and was retired to stud .

he has had some success as a breeding stallion .

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grass wonder <EOT> i can ' t help but wonder elisabeth by the grass roots on 1969 abc - dunhill lp .

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special week ended his racing career when he met grass wonder for the second time in the arima kinen at nakayma in december . the race produced a four - way photo finish in which special week was beaten a nose by grass wonder , with t m opera o and tsurumaru tsuyoshi just behind .

grass wonder made almost $ 6 million in his 15 - race career , and he is a full brother to multiple us grade 1 winner wonder again . he was smoked by silence suzuka and el condor pasa , even with the weight concession .

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what love is made of by the grass roots on 1969 abc - dunhill lp .

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so could well suit australian conditions and his not entirely fashionable pedigree offers a valuable outcross for many mares although his roberto ( hail to reason ) line sire screen hero ( grass wonder ) is out of a sunday silence ( halo ) mare .

, who is getting great results with mares by sunday silence and his sons ) . screen hero is doubly vulnerable in this respect : not only is he a son of grass wonder , but his dam is the sunday silence mare running heroine .

did louganis act properly ? : diving : some wonder whether he should have revealed he was hiv - positive during ' 88 games .

the next day , cutting grass around the douglas fir with the swing in it , i caught walter watching me . i killed the engine , walked over , and squatted down near where he sat in the grass . we were both silent , studying one another through the waving stalks of oxeye daisies .

nike has announced reforms in its asian factories . wonder if this means they ' re going to discontinue the " take your parents to work " day .

grass wonder ( usa ) ch . h , 1995 { 12 - c } dp = 6 - 6 - 25 - 0 - 1 ( 38 ) di = 1 . 81 cd = 0 . 42 - 15 starts , 9 wins , 1 places , 0 shows career earnings : ¥691 , 646 , 000

with a son of roberto as his sire and a daughter of danzig as his dam , temple city is bred along similar lines to that successful stallion arch and to the japanese stallion grass wonder , whose g1 japan cup - winning son screen hero is currently responsible for one of japan’s most outstanding older horses , maurice .

. born in kentucky in 1995 , grass wonder was bred at darby dan farm by john phillips , whose grandfather john galbreath had bred and raced roberto and had then stood him at the property . sold to nobuo tsunoda for $ 250 , 000 at keeneland’s september yearling sale in 1996 , grass wonder was brought to japan and did all his racing there . he enjoyed a splendid career there , winning nine of his 15 races under the care of mitsuhiro ogata . he was a grade one winner at ages two , three and four , and his haul of victories including the arima kinen in both 1998 and ’99 . descending from the swaps mare

silver hawk ' s record is certainly not short of group one performers . his best runners include the 1997 epsom derby hero benny the dip , 1996 musidora stakes heroine magnificient style , 1989 prix de diane winner lady in silver , red bishop , hawkster and japanese superstar grass wonder , who earned nearly $ 6 million in prize money .

bid at the hidaka selection sale for 8 . 4 million yen to train at jra ' s yearling training facility , and then resold to his current owner at jra ' s " breeze up sale " in april , seiun wonder began training under masazo ryoke and quickly reached the starting gate for his debut in june . the grass wonder colt broke his maiden in his second start with an overwhelming six - length margin and followed up with his first grade - race victory in the niigata nisai stakes ( 1 , 600m ) in september .

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resuming his racing in august after an 11 - month break , the grass wonder colt was conditioned by first - season trainer yuichi shikato , who took over after susumu yano ' s retirement , and won his 2008 season debut , then followed up with two runner - up efforts before scoring his first grade race victory in the copa republica argentina ( 2 , 500m ) .

proves that gray horses are also good on the turf as this horse became great when he hit the grass . cozzene was bred and owned by hall of famer john nerud and was trained by his son jan . he won 10 races in his career of which seven came on the grass . his victory in the 1985 breeders’ cup mile earned him the 1985 eclipse award as champion turf horse .

san francisco , california , where work on the new ballpark is unearthing a lot of nineteenth century artifacts . wonder what the chances remains of strom thurmond ' s first west coast tour will surface ?

marv albert signs a five year contract with wonder bra and named co - host with susan molinari on the cbs saturday morning show . in a tearful first stab at journalistic ethics , molinari quits .

jockey tetsuzo sato guided earnestly to victory for owner koji maeda and trainer shozo sasaki . bred in japan by north hills management , the bay horse by 1999 takarazuka kinen champion grass wonder improved upon his third - place finish in last year ' s event . participants , which numbered 16 in this year ' s race , are selected by the public who made buena vista the number one selection in the field .

now the dam of three stakes winners , parlez is a granddaughter of the renowned producer halory ( halo ) , who was the dam of five graded stakes winners , including blue grass stakes winner halory hunter .

* a warm season grass likes to grow in warm weather . before it will show signs of life in the spring , the soil must warm up , and be warm for possibly as long as two weeks .

pedigree illustrates that wonder again hails tail - female through four generations of mares bred and raised on darby dan land beginning in 1960 with her fourth dam , the swaps mare soaring . through 24 starts and four seasons of racing , wonder again amassed grade one wins at ages 3 and 5 , was grade one stakes placed at age 6 , and was in the money in 15 of 24 races . with three foals of racing age on the ground , wonder again has yet to produce a foal possessing talent matching her own but it is only a matter of time before those classy bloodlines find the way back into the winner’s circle .

a drug ring was found to be operating out of the gary , indiana government building . i wonder if the feds were suspicious when everybody who received a key to the city also got a pound of cut .

san francisco , california , where washington square is nowhere near washington street . union square is not even close to union street and there ' s no beach in north beach . no wonder this town is so screwed up .

leaving behind not only a beautiful farm and superior bloodstock , galbreath’s grandson , john phillips , remains committed to this heritage . the late 80’s saw two top grade 1 winners in champion , sunshine forever , and florida derby winner and subsequent leading japanese sire , brian’s time . the 1990’s added an impressive list of grade 1 winners including japanese two year old champion colt grass wonder , and fillies and mares tribulation , plenty of grace , memories of silver and 1999 champion turf mare soaring softly . in 2004 , darby dan was represented by grade i winning turf mare wonder again . most recently , the popular multiple grade 1 winner winter memories added to the tradition of breathtaking winners . current star performers include recepta and time and motion .

seiun wonder won three out of four starts , including the 2008 two - year - old championship race , the asahi futurity stakes ( 1 , 600m ) , to earn the jra award for best two - year - old colt of 2008 .

some wonder if the national football league shouldn ' t be embarrassed by such sudden success , but realists see the precocious two - year - old toddlers for what they are : good organizations with good personnel evaluators , good coaches and good players .

special week began his third season in the grade ii american jockey club stakes at nakayama on 24 january and won from silent hunter and mejiro steed . on 21 march at hanshin he added another grade ii win when he defeated mejiro bright in the 3000 metre hanshin daishoten . the grade i spring edition of the tenno sho over the same course and distance saw special week matched against eleven opponents including mejiro bright ( winner of the race in 1998 ) , matikanefukukitaru , seiun sky , stay gold , silk justice ( arima kinen ) . special week recorded his second grade i win as he defeated mejiro bright by half a length with seiun sky two and a half lengths back in third . [ 10 ] in the takarazuka kinen over 2200 metres at hanshin on 11 july , his final start before the summer break , special week was matched against grass wonder a colt who had been the best of his generation in 1997 but missed most of the 1998 season before returning to win the arima kinen in december . special week was beaten three lengths into second place by grass wonder but finished seven lengths clear of the other ten runners .

grass wonder , who finished eight and a half lengths back in this race under just 121 pounds , returned to win a grade 1 at 13 / 1 odds next time out . this was followed by a grade 2 win , a nose defeat in a grade 1 , a three - length win in a grade 1 , a nose win in a grade 2 , and a nose win in a grade 1 . that adds up to five wins and a nose defeat in his next six starts , four of them at the grade 1 level and two at the grade 2 level .

grass pollen is implicated in most hay fever allergies in ireland and britain , as up to 90 % of people with hay fever are allergic to it . a person with hay fever may simply be allergic to grass pollen , or they may be allergic to a number of other varieties of pollen too . only allergy testing will establish what a person is actually allergic to . pollen allergies seem to relate to the climate and vegetation of the country . in scandinavia birch pollen is the most common allergen , while in parts of spain pollen from the olive tree is the most prolific cause of hay fever .

trained by susumu yano , grass wonder ran adequately in his two starts as a two - year - old in 2006 without winning . having finished fourth over 1600m at tokyo and second over 1800m at nakayama as a juvenile , then then got off the mark at the first attempt at three , winning an 1800m maiden race at nakayama early in the year . he won again over 1600m at the same course later in the winter , and then in the spring a switch from dirt to turf helped him to make further improvement . he did not win again that year , but he ran some good placings , including when second to

life responds to these interannual patterns and others as yet unknown to us . in wet years , the differences among my exlosure plots is muted , perhaps because the grass growth keeps up with herbivory . after the el nino rains , there was a great increase in hibiscus , especially in and near the black cotton glades .

yes , the jaguars are fortunate to be here . if atlanta ' s morten andersen had kicked a last - second 30 - yard field goal instead of slipping on slick grass , the jaguars would have lost their season finale and been out of the playoffs . but now they have won twice in the playoffs , impressively .

there in the meadow with walter , i was close to crying . i closed my eyes , and when i opened them again , walter invited me to sit beside him . for a long time we hunkered down there in his nest of grass and daisies , watched dragonflies and monarchs drift above us in the meadow breeze .

now i wonder at my son , your grandson . the four of us make maps of the homestead — the cabin , the meadow , the nearby woods . walter grits his teeth and draws , with a seriousness that belies his actual drawing ability , the cabin on its stilts , the miner’s orchard full of gnarled apple trees , the tall douglas fir with the board swing hanging from a high branch , the meadow grass in three shades of green . and , of course , to keep everything straight and true , he includes , as is his wont , a compass rose with a red arrow labeled n pointing to the top of the page .

shows she was bred in 1995 as a homebred for the farm by kris s . and is similarly bred , but not closely related , to wonder again as both are by roberto - line stallions and trace to soaring through their dams and granddams . bred to some of the most fashionable sires , the best runner out of

bred and owned by teruya yoshida of the shadai group , the grass wonder colt was winless in his two starts as a two - year - old but broke his maiden in his kick - off race of his three - year - old campaign and added another win two starts later before making his first grade - race attempt in the spring stakes ( 1 , 800m ) in which he finished fifth to flying apple ( usa ) . winless but steadily progressing through his 2007 season , screen hero earned a ticket to the kikuka sho but was found to have fractured his left foreleg and was turned out for the remaining season as well as the first half of 2008 .

joanna symons you can always tell when you ' ve come up against a real wonder of the world . no matter how often you ' ve seen it plastered across calendars or mouse mats , no matter how tightly it ' s girt about with trinket shops and tourists , it sweeps you off your feet and into another time and place .

after marrying soon yi , woody allen is now literally his own father - in - law . wonder if he asked himself for her hand in marriage . of course the first ring he gave her , she probably teethed on . now he ' s writing a play for her . or he could remake the old sitcom , " father knows best " .

fusaichi pegasus had his most success as a sire with his first crop , foals of 2002 , which included roman ruler ( haskell and norfolk stakes ) and bandini ( blue grass stakes ) among 11 stakes winners from that crop . with 12 percent stakes winners from that crop , fusaichi pegasus would have been a very serious sire if only he had managed to maintain that trajectory .

malawi ( sunvil - 0208 232 9777 , urltoken ) , once , briefly , our home , represented another step back in time . there can ' t be many other places where you can spend the morning crunching across the frosty grass of a dazzling 7 , 000ft escarpment and , within three hours , be steaming gently in a riverside gamepark and eyeballing a crocodile from your hammock .

in fact , witte says , in every homestead , at every interview , she would look at the surviving children and wonder : who will make it ? which child will die ? " and you have to question what this does to the bond between mother and child . do mothers cherish the children more because they may die ? or is it harder to become attached to your child if you know you may lose him ? "

in ireland , the high pollen season begins sometime in june , depending on which part of the country you happen to live . obviously , there is seasonal variation and the exact start date will depend on what the weather is like throughout march , april and may . the warmer weather in south west cork means that the grass pollen season tends to start there in mid - may . in dublin and the midlands the high season usually begins at the start of june and in north west donegal a fortnight later .

the toughest job in washington dc these strange days isn ' t the president ' s or even his battery of lawyers but rather that of the first lady whose smile is so tight you can hear the enamel cracking during extreme close ups . she ' s always been a rock next to her sliding mound of liquid bubba gel , but now she makes the rocky mountains look like everglades mud . i can ' t help but wonder how clinton ' s other paramours would have fared in her place .

sounds of earth ( jpn , h5 , by neo universe ) and gold actor ( jpn , h5 , by screen hero ) , whom toho jackal had beaten to second and third , respectively , in the kikuka sho , both have proven to be of high quality by finishing second and first , respectively , in the 2015 arima kinen ( g1 , 2 , 500m ) . sounds of earth ( jpn , h5 , by neo universe ) , after scoring just two wins out of 15 career starts , more recently has finished second in two g1 and three g2 starts , plus a close fifth by 0 . 3 second in last year’s japan cup . gold actor was sidelined for eight months following the kikuka sho but has been undefeated in all four starts since his comeback , including as a g1 winner in the 2015 arima kinen . his sire , screen hero ( jpn , by grass wonder ) , also made late but rapid improvement to claim the 2008 japan cup in his four - year - old season .

today walter and i woke early , before liz and edie , and in the mountain dark we ate peanut - butter toast , then pulled on our hiking shoes and took our poles and hiked down the mountain slope to the river . it was early , still chilly and damp in the shadows . i’d brought a thermos of coffee , and whenever we stopped , walter did jumping jacks , though he claimed the cold didn’t bother him . we hiked on , dropping down through forest , then flood grass , then boulder field and sandbar .

i knew your anger . it’s one of the strongest memories i have of you . you were bloated and bald by then , yellowed from all the chemicals the doctors were pumping through your brain . i wanted to wear to school a pair of jeans with holes in the knees , which i thought were cool . you told me to take them off . knowing , without really knowing , that you were fading from my life — you , the burden that was father , my sick and needy father — i refused . you swore at me , said i looked like trash , said if i wore such clothes i was trash and no son of yours . i ran for the safety of trees . i hid in the tall grass and took the grass in my hands and pulled until it cut the undersides of my fingers . the worst part , i think now , was that i already felt so distant from you , hadn’t felt for a long time like a son of yours . after you’d yelled yourself out , i went back in , ate my cereal , and left for school dressed the way i wanted .

who , like the aforementioned wonder again , is a phillips homebred and grade one winner on turf sired by silver hawk . bred in 1993 , memories of silver represented a third - generation darby dan bloodline tracing back through her granddam java moon by graustark . a theme of heartiness runs through many of the darby dan female families as many of its mares not only race but win in top quality races over multiple seasons . memories of silver and her best runners winter memories and la cloche were all turf graded stakes winners their final season on the track .

the colosseum in rome , which i visited this year , opened a window straight into the gorier side of the roman world . looking down into the arena , i swear i could hear the roar of lions , the baying crowd ; smell the blood and dust . seeing rome with my children was an education for all of us . we adults can try so hard to cram in all the sights that we lose out on the spirit of a place ; the children ' s wonder , and oblique view of the city was - happily - infectious .

" grass pollen is the most common allergen in ireland without a doubt " , says dr paul dowding , a senior lecturer with the trinity college dublin botany department . " herb pollen is less common and tree pollen is not a great factor in ireland because it is not a heavily wooded country . the highest pollen count levels within ireland are usually found in lowland country areas , especially agricultural areas where there is likely to be a lot of grassland . levels in cities would be a half or quarter of that and in coastal areas pollen levels would be lower again " .

already an accomplished star jockey in nar regional public racing before debuting under a jra license in 2006 , it wasn ' t long before yasunari iwata elevated his status in the jra . attracting increasing offers from big owners for major g1s , he responded with impressive results and boosted his purses . among his 13 grade - race wins during 2008 were four g1 titles , which he won with admire jupiter ( tenno sho spring , g1 ) , vodka ( yasuda kinen , g1 ) , black emblem ( shuka sho ) and seiun wonder ( asahi hai futurity stakes ) .

we have seen two complete population cycles of jackals . in the early 1990s they were abundant . by mid 1990s , they had all but disappeared . they returned in force after the el nino year ( 1997 - 8 ) , but have recently declined again . by 2003 / 4 , they appeared to be making a comeback . the el nino year had myriad cascading effects . first the grass grew tall and thick , raising the specter of uncontrollable bush fires . the rodents responded , and these usually shy creatures were seen daily . on their heels were the predators , the jackals and the snakes .

last summer , witte lived in a hotel with no running water , no oven for the chef to cook food , and the only phone in town . now , settled back into her life as an emory student , witte is far removed from her sojourn to kenya - but not its impact . " it gave me hands on experience . i learned first - hand about a grass roots community project . and i came away from the experience committed to continuing my education . also , i have a new understanding about why it is so important to rigorously evaluate public heal th programs and find out what really works . "

he missed one start in november due to an infection in his foot before being sent to post favorite for a grade - one attempt in the asahi hai futurity stakes . despite appearing overexcited in both the paddock and the post parade prior to his first start in three and a half months , seiun wonder took a ground - saving route from stall three . from racing well off the pace , jockey yasunari iwata steered him off the rails between the third and last corner and then split horses for the final stretch , from where the big colt of more than 500 kilos burst into gear to outrun the leaders and then held off the late chargers for a head - margin victory .

by the time the sun burned away the clouds , i was already drenched in sweat and itching , spears of grass and burs stuck to my legs , a blister boiling up in the center of my hand . yet i had a luxury you didn’t : we’re here only for a season , and my work this morning at the pond wouldn’t make or break us . i was only halfway around the longer western edge of the pond , but anyway i stabbed my shovel into the mud , pulled off my hat and shirt , and dove into the green water . i surfaced and swam over to walter and edie , who proudly showed me all the wriggling , bulb - eyed newts they’d caught .

go ahead , have a drink . today is the darkest day in america . a stain on the calendar . april 15th . the day we part with our hard earned money and give it to the government . i ' m talking about perfectly good money that could be used to buy beer . and what nice little sheep we are to just give it al away . " here mr . pentagon : take three months of my take home pay and buy yourself a hammer " . you pay taxes and i pay taxes . the difference is you don ' t pay enough and i pay way too much . and i ' m sure you feel the same . even the president pays taxes . for 1997 , the clintons had a gross adjusted income of $ 569 , 511 and paid $ 91 , 964 in federal taxes and $ 19 , 745 in state and local taxes , about half of what they paid last year , mostly because hillary ' s book " it takes a village " tanked from the best seller lists like a boxer wearing trunks made out of quaalude patches . they ' re getting a refund of $ 3 , 040 from the irs and gave away $ 270 , 725 to charities but refused to say who got the contributions . i don ' t know about you but i have a feeling the national rifle association saw about as much of that money as you and i did . wonder if copies of " leaves in the grass " were tax - deductible ?

they held them up to me in their fists , the newts pawing at the rough air . then they let the newts loose and rinsed their hands — the amphibians’ skin harbors quite a poison — and i helped them snap on their life jackets . we floated for an hour in the pond with the newts , who , back in the green water , swam and dove around us like we might all be family , their wide snouts rippling the surface here and there for air . a gust of wind danced through the crowns of the nearby firs and pines . the grass bent in the wind , even broke — i heard the crackling . the wind died down then , and a phalanx of red - gold dragonflies veered above us , snapped and whirred .

michael , 15 months old , visits the locker room after the game , in the arms of his father ' s brother hank , 24 , who along with another brother , dane , 30 , spends a lot of time in vancouver babysitting his nephew and helping mike keep track of his schedule away from basketball . watching the affection mike showers on michael makes an observer wonder about mike ' s estrangement from his father , henry , a former nba player who even after his retirement spent long stretches of time away from the family . henry , now usc ' s coach , could be helping his youngest son adjust to nba life , but it ' s obvious that he won ' t have the chance to do that anytime soon . mike doesn ' t answer questions having to do with his father .

dynaformer thoroughly merited his promotion , going on to sire well over 60 group / graded winners , but even he was not guaranteed to sire an heir apparent . as many as 14 of his 23 grade i winners were fillies and two of the others–perfect drift and vergennes–were geldings . that left just seven grade i - winning sons . one , the exciting gi kentucky derby winner barbaro , met an untimely death . a second , the gi shadwell turf mile winner purim , died in 2012 , before his progeny had had much chance to prove themselves . however , he left the grade i winners twilight eclipse and undrafted among his legacy of only 218 foals . a third grade i - winning son of dynaformer , the gi blue grass s . winner brilliant speed , was killed by lightning earlier this year at the age of eight .

there is a common misunderstanding that rainfall in laikipia can be described as long rains in march - may and short rains in october - november , separated by two dry seasons . people come in the summer and wonder where all the rain is coming from . although much of the area to the south and east of laikipia does have a simple bimodal rainfall pattern , laikipia ( and many areas to the west ) also get a set of rains in july - august . these are sometimes called the lake rains or the continental rains . these blur into the long rains that preceded them , and the short rains that follow . the net result is a fairly predictable dry season from december to mid - march , and a weakly trimodal distribution of rain thereafter , with a distinct peak in april - may , and perhaps minor dips in june and september . the long - term records for mpala suggest that august is the third wettest month at mpala .

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these months we’ve spent in isolation on this mountain were my choice , my responsibility , just as our family’s life in the badlands of montana was yours . did you ever try to figure the escape paths we might have taken out ? did you wonder which way you would run with us when the river dried up ? when smoke filled the sky ? when the grasshoppers fell across the fields like a plague ? and what sudden plans did you make when you woke one morning and had your wife feel your belly , which was by then nothing but a mass of tumor ? you’d left behind a stable job with the u . s . forest service , left a pension and healthcare benefits , left access to a good hospital — where a doctor perhaps wouldn’t have misdiagnosed your cancer as ulcers for so long — left it all for a life you’d known would be hard . and it was hard , even harder than you’d reckoned . in response i have chosen a life of relative security : a good job , a house in town , decent savings . this mountain sojourn of ours is , i know , only a hint of the trial you lived and knew .

before you were a farmer , father , you were a forester , a ranger in glacier national park and the backcountry of the bob marshall wilderness , then later in mount rainier and mesa verde . and i imagine you did your share of christening seasonal creeks with the names of long - ago girlfriends or naming hard - to - cross fields of scree after disfavored politicians . you must , i am sure , have picked a rock to sit on along the ridge , one with a view of the river , and then rifled hungrily through your pack for lunch . in your later life as a farmer , the life in which i knew you , you were a man of order : the fields irrigated for so many hours three times a summer ; the lambing tally inked in blue ballpoint in spiral notebooks . i’ve seen them , you know , in the bottom - right drawer of your old roll - top desk , those tattered notebooks , their pages stained with iodine and afterbirth , the mess of delivering lambs . you favored red for the covers and always kept a pen poking out of the metal coil . as a boy i’d open them and trace with my finger the loop of your scrawl , wonder at the workings of this hand i’d only briefly known .

you can call us many things here in the golden plated state of california , but we ' re about as predictable as a rhinestone canoe in a freight elevator . our democratic gubernatorial suitors spent $ 64 million cozying up to us for tuesday ' s primary , and what do we do , but go and nominate the goober who bought us a corsage the size of a golf ball dimple . grey " and that ' s a gross exaggeration " davis , beat both al " checkbook with a smirk " checci , and jane " i am a woman dammit " harman for the honor of facing dan " darth " lungren in november ' s race for governor of us , the world ' s seventh largest economy . now , of course , the next five months is going to be easy . the two of them will stomp each other like daisies on a fifty yard line claiming that all important moderate middle as a fumble recovery and blast the other for being so far out of the mainstream , they got grass stains on their butts . according to which playbook you ' re reading , it ' ll either be mister compassion versus the steel nazi or mister responsible versus the stone hippie . or another way of putting it , for us in california , its $ 64 million down and a bajillion to go .

" monica talks ! " not quite " garbo talks " , but you and me and hard copy are going to have to settle for it right now . still don ' t know what ms . lewinsky said . but you can bet your ass that our boy bill is going to know exactly how many times she coughed and how many separate particles of spit expectorated from her mouth when she did cough before he testifies on august 17 . wonder if monica ' s voice is squeaky or smokey or seductive ? hard to believe we ' ve lived with this lady for so long and still haven ' t heard her speak . also hard to believe the only way to tell the difference between the jerry springer show and cbs evening news these days is dan rather doesn ' t wears glasses . hardest of all to believe is mr . starr ' s witch hunt has gone on longer than the civil war . you really got to feel sorry for the 23 men and women on the grand jury who for six months have been hearing the most salacious things possible about the leader of the free world , the leader of the leader of the free world , an intern and her best friend . wouldn ' t blame any of those grand jurors who responded to their public service by moving to the yukon interior .

summer . barefoot at a barbecue . sinfully skinny tan lines . sand under the elastic of your underwear . men obviously bereft of mirrors naked from the waist up . ice cream dripping down the sugar cone onto your fingers . lemonade so tart it makes your toes pucker . the tinny mantra of a baseball game on an am radio . it started sunday but not really . oh sure the solstice ostensibly began at 10 : 03 am edt father ' s day , when the sun was at its furthest point from the equator . solstice : from the latin for " stand still " , featured the longest day of the year . yes , this may be the astronomical beginning of the season of summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere , but we ' re already a goodly way into it ' s clammy depths . we ' ve just been experiencing that weird cuspal convergence of summer and spring : sprummer . because true summer is not a fixed date , it ' s a state of mind . an altered state of mind . as an adult , it means memorial day and the ability to wear white shoes sans impunity not to mention lawn furniture . it means fresh cut grass and the soft stirring of a hammock complete with snoring noises . it means the smell of burning flesh , both from barbecues and the shoulders of the pigmentally challenged at the beach .

- radio news while i slice potatoes , slick the cast - iron pan with bacon grease , and tuck thick pats of butter and slices of garlic inside the fish . you rise , even though you’re tired — i realize you’d be seventy - three this year — and join me on the porch , bringing the beer i left inside . while the fish grill , the oil dripping and popping in the flames , we talk politics . we argue . we might for a moment turn away from one another . you’re a southerner raised on tobacco and jim crow , a poor boy who enlisted , made good with the help of the gi bill , and missed out on most of what we think of when we say “the sixties . ” i am my mother’s son — my mother the social worker and teacher , the idealist who stored her joan baez records in the same box as your waylon jennings albums . but i’m not after a reckoning here , not by a long shot . what i want to do is turn the blackening fish , lean against the log rail by you , with you , and take a deep swallow of suds . what i want is to touch your elbow lightly and point down below the old shed , near the oak tree , where a doe and a yearling fawn slip like ghosts through the grass in the dusty light of evening .

at & t , god ' s phone service , has figured out the best way to attract young consumers who would rather chew gravel than align themselves with a corporate behemoth like ma bell ' s favorite son . wear a disguise . in offering their new dial around service , they ' re posing as a hip and fun company called lucky dog in a naked attempt to appeal to the young and anti establishment . at & t is posturing as anti establishment ? now that ' s sacrilege . isn ' t that a lot like bob dole skateboarding in cut offs ? or alan greenspan with a mohawk wading into the mosh pit of a primus concert . called " stealth branding " , this wolf in chihuahua ' s clothing stuff is nothing new . miller brewing , which is to microbrew what godzilla is to guppies has been cashing in on the small is better craze for years with a boutique label called red dog . makes you wonder if matt damon is really just tom hanks with a lot of makeup . and in the same vein , german media conglomerate bertlesmann ag is paying $ 200 million for a 50 % stake in barnesandnoble . com even though they ' re still running their own online service . i ' m not sure i get this whole competing with yourself strategy . not only do you lose even when you win , but often not only do you lose but you also lose as well . nothing stockholders love more than a lose lose situation .

today is fat tuesday . the day we cast aside restraint , and drink till we puke on our shoes and then laugh . as my dad always used to say , " moderation in everything . including moderation " . your response to today is probably dependent on your geography . in san francisco , it ' ll be a much bigger deal than it will be in pierre , south dakota . but to be fair , california coyote festivals don ' t even begin to measure up to theirs . our stages end up littered with at best , half the shredded chicken carcasses as theirs and most of our coyotes aren ' t even quadrupeds . of course , san francisco ' s mardi gras celebration is to new orleans ' like dick york was to dick sergeant . a pale imitation at best . and i ' m sure the folks at carnaval in rio de janeiro will tell you that new orleans is the second darrin . isn ' t it funny that nobody wants to be the second darrin . i wonder when some fancy psychological think tank is going to do a highly funded useless study on the " second darrin syndrome . " dicks who fill other people ' s shoes , badly . they say that mardi gras is just a state of mind . of course so is the second darrin syndrome . all i know is , this is the only holiday we have where pure unadulterated excess is expected and encouraged . until aerick ' s day , that is . which is almost 3 whole weeks away .

don ' t get me wrong . i ' m no fan of hooters ' restaurants . ate there twice . both times i felt like i had felt someone up without their consent . and the wings were just okay . did not agree when hooters waitresses sued , saying they knew the uniforms were provocative , but didn ' t expect the sexual harassment . the hell did they expect ? true love ? macarthur genius grants ? carefully formulated queries about sub atomic particle research ? it ' s called hooters , for crum ' s sake . it might as well be " tits r us " with a giant nipple on the backwards " r " . oh yeah , the logo is owl eyes . " owl eyes " capable of lactation . now a federal appeals court is considering the case of 4 chicago guys whose applications for waiter positions were turned down . i ' m thinking , if guys with really tight buns who looked good in cut off t shirts filled out applications , they might have been hired . some battles are worth going down for . this case rates a . 0001 on that list . do we really want to set a precedent allowing dr . ruth westheimer to file a discrimination suit for being denied the opportunity to start as chicago bulls point guard ? does anybody foresee a grass roots campaign petitioning playgirl on behalf of ernest borgnine ' s bid for a photo spread ? next thing you know , michael bolton is going to demand grammy award accreditation in the male singer category . does crowbarring the lid off of pandora ' s box have any meaning here ?

as a public service , i watched the impeachment hearings so that you didn ' t have to . and i got to be honest here . you owe me money . oh , it was riveting television . a lot like listening to golf on the radio in mandarin . like watching varnish harden on a closet baseboard by a ten watt light bulb . i don ' t mean to say kenneth starr was boring but his own staff was nodding off behind him . he has to be the whitest human on the face of the planet . beyond white . he ' s translucent . a man to whom the term " pasty " is but a dream . envious of diaphanous . and it ' s an absolute wonder how he ' s able to be so incredibly patient with us . because we are so stupid . don ' t we get it ? my god , it ' s like trying to explain quantum physics to a rabbit hutch . not only did the man lie , but then he lied about lying . yeah , sure , maybe his staff intimidated monica lewinsky by a threat of 27 years in jail if she tried to talk to her lawyer . he was just following normal prosecutorial procedure . and sure , he can ' t remember a lot of stuff . so what ? didn ' t clinton use the same ruse ? and don ' t give me that birds of a feather crap , there ' s a big difference between the two of them . it ' s so obvious . starr is on the side of right .

we tried everything to get him out . we banged on the wheel well with a lug wrench so loudly that it would have deafened an animal that actually had ears . we poked it with sticks that were uncomfortably short , but it just retreated deeper . we even poured petrol on it . nothing worked . i figured i had a couple of choices . i could leave the vehicle there and hope that when i came back in a few hours , the snake had left . but that seemed to give the snake too much credit . instead , i decided to drive off . perhaps the snake would drop off or be shredded by the axle . ( its amazing how your concern for animals declines when there is a puff adder in your wheel well . ) i had two unsettling images . the first was of taking the snake all the way home and inadvertently delivering it to my five - year - old son ' s backyard . i had decided that i would park a kilometer away , and walk the rest . my other image was even more disturbing . old land rovers are miracles of low - tech engineering , and i could not be sure that the puff adder could not find a way from the wheel well into the cab . i imagined driving along and feeling the dry coarse rasp of its scales against my leg just before the lightning strike . i searched the car , and found no obvious route , but was little reassured . i finally did just drive off , with another vehicle spotting behind . sure enough , the puff adder was flung off within the first couple of hundred meters , and slithered off into the long grass .

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ditrigona sacra is a moth in the drepanidae family .

it was described by butler in 1878 .

it is found in japan and korea .

the wingspan is 11.5-17.5 mm for males and 14-19.5 mm for females .

the fore - and hindwings are weakly lustrous and white , the forewings have the costa white or very pale buff .

the fasciae are brownish buff , the antemedial fascia angled at the posterior edge of the cell , the postmedial fascia lunulate .

there is a brown spot at the distal end of the cell and at the ends of each vein .

the hindwings are as the forewings , except that there is no antemedial fascia .

ditrigona sacra

ditrigona sacra <EOT> leucodrepanilla strand , 1911 ; gross - schmett . erde 2 : 198 ; ts : corycia sacra butler

leucodrepanilla strand , 1911 ; in seitz , gross - schmett . erde 2 : 198 , ts : corycia sacra butler

corycia sacra butler , 1878 ; ann . mag . nat . hist . ( 5 ) 1 ( 5 ) : 404 , tl : yokohama

ditrigona sp . ; holloway , 1998 , moths of borneo 8 : 22 , pl . 6 , f . 28

ditrigona moore , 1888 ; descr . indian lep . atkinson ( 3 ) : 258 , ts : ourapteryx triangularia moore

? ditrigona sp . ; holloway , 1998 , moths of borneo , 8 : 22 , pl . 6 , f . 28

ditrigona wilkinsoni holloway , 1998 ; moths of borneo 8 : 21 , pl . 6 , f . 26 ; tl : sarawak , gunung mulu nat . park

ditrigona wilkinsoni holloway , 1998 ; moths of borneo , 8 : 21 , pl . 6 , f . 26 , tl : sarawak , gunung mulu nat . park

ditrigona paludicola holloway , 1998 ; moths of borneo 8 : 21 , pl . 6 , f . 27 ; tl : brunei , daerah belait , badas , swamp forest

ditrigona paludicola holloway , 1998 ; moths of borneo , 8 : 21 , pl . 6 , f . 27 , tl : brunei , daerah belait , badas , swamp forest

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ourapteryx triangularia moore , [ 1868 ] ; proc . zool . soc . lond . 1867 : 612 ; tl : bengal

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leucodrepana hampson , [ 1893 ] ; fauna br . india ( moths ) 1 : 327 ( key ) , 333 , ts : leucodrepana idaeoides . hampson

ourapteryx triangularia moore , [ 1868 ] ; proc . zool . soc . lond . 1867 : 612 , tl : bengal

leucodrepana idaeoides hampson , [ 1893 ] ; fauna br . india ( moths ) 1 : 333 , f . 231 , tl : sikkim


smoken up is an australian champion standardbred race horse bred in new zealand .

he was the first pacer outside north america to record a mile in under 1:50 .

he was known as trigger .

smoken up

smoken up <EOT> hrv will celebrate smoken up’s farewell with a special smoken up race night at the september 6 meeting .

" it’ll be up to him , " justice said when asked how long smoken up would continue racing .

bitobliss and trainer / driver scott stewart take out the smoken up sprint at melton .

smoken up - won ' t be a starter in the 2012 new zealand cup .

harness race horse smoken up has beaten blacks a fake in the miracle mile at menangle .

restrepo ( $ 1 . 60 favourite ) initially held the early battle for the lead before handing up to smoken up .

smoken up ' s his post - race swab was found to contain unacceptable levels of dmso .

champion pacer smoken up defied his age to set a mile track record in ballarat last night .

controversial . . . harness horse of the year smoken up wins the len smith mile race .

lance justice and smoken up will team up on friday night in the shire of melton sprint , both resuming from lengthy layoffs .

smoken up on his way to a 1 : 53 . 4 win in the shire of melton sprint

bitobliss waltzed to victory in the james & son smoken up sprint last night at tabcorp park melton .

smoken up was contesting his fourth final , having earlier run third in 2008 and again last year .

former cambridge pacer smoken up leads a powerful australian assault on the cup today . photo / gary wild

the miracle mile was smoken up ' s biggest triumph after finishing second in the race last year .

that night victorian warhorse smoken up hit the line first in what felt like a truly great racing moment .

the smoken up team could possibly take their case further but they are getting into legal miracle territory now .

smoken up was the headline act of sunday ' s grand opening of tabcorp park and he didn’t disappoint .

smoken up’s early speed from a wide barrier was responsible for a 26 . 3 - second opening 400m .

lance justice and smoken up arriving in - new zealand this morning ( tuesday november 2 , 2010 ) .

result : lost ! never looked likely after trailing smoken up . great to see the old boy win .

the superstar son of sundon is up against gun mare make mine cullen , ultra - consistent grand circuit pacer smoken up and buzz gelding villagem .

the night will feature a special smoken up video package on the big screen , souvenir racebook , rug presentation , smoken up poster and mini - flag giveaways and more . full details will be announced in coming weeks .

smoken up had been favourite since betting opened early in the week and was sent out the $ 2 favourite .

smoken up is first past the post in the interdominion grand final from themightyquinn at alexandra park . photo / nzpa

smoken up steamed in over his final 800m in 55 . 3s and his final 400m in 27 . 9s .

smoken up will start from barrier six , while blatant lie will start off the back row in barrier nine .

looks like a big quaddie on the cards so going wwwwiiiiidddddddeeeeee here & relying on smoken up to get home .

“smoken up is a victorian harness racing icon and renaming the legends in his honour will acknowledge that into the future .

of course , those who backed smoken up for a win got paid out and those who backed themightyquinn did not .

smoken up will this weekend make a last - ditch attempt to snatch 2007 / 08 barastoc grand circuit champion honours .

this 7yo doesn ' t win out of turn too often but i was really impressed with its run against smoken up last start . first up for a few

a winner of 73 races from 150 starts , smoken up’s achievements have thrust harness racing into mainstream and social media channels .

evergreen 11 - year - old karloo mick came along the inside and briefly looked as if he would head smoken up .

but smoken up responded and beat his rival by a metre with im themightyquinn another 1 - 1 / 2 metres third .

three true racing heroes with earnings over $ 11 million completed the trifecta : smoken up , themightyquinn and blacks a fake .

smoken up heads to the spelling paddock a winner of 22 of his 45 starts for $ 539 , 000 in stakes .

smoken up claims his third sa cup from four attempts with ease as a $ 1 . 05 favourite . photo by arclight photography

" i’m pretty keen to get out there , " justice said . " he’ll ( smoken up ) look after me . "

but most important of all in justice ' s view is smoken up ' s return to his favourite track : menangle park .

he then waited until well into the straight to make his winning surge leading up and running past smoken up who kicked back but was held on the line by a neck .

in number eight was recorded at bendigo 13 days later when smoken up worked from a second line draw in finding the lead role .

“smoken up’s eight , themightyquinn’s six and blacks a fake’s 10 . they’ve had years of hard grand circuit racing , ” he said .

smoken up , the nz - bred son of tinted cloud , was a deserving winner for ebullient victorian trainer - driver lance justice .

it was len smith mile night and smoken up ' s winning time of 1 . 48 . 5 gave justice his career highlight .

monkey king finishes brilliantly to beat bettor ' s strike and smoken up in the new zealand trotting cup at addington . photo / simon baker

standing a term at stud while sidelined , caribbean blaster joins past greats gammalite , shakamaker , sokyola and smoken up as multiple vhoty winners .

the quote about smoken up being in career best form isn ' t exaggerated either . he has won seven of his last eight starts . six of those eight starts have come in this campaign so it ' s a very fit smoken up that will go to war next tuesday .

smoken up has his own facebook page , with fans kept abreast of the horse’s life at home as well as his on - track performances .

victorian warhorse smoken up won his second miracle mile at menangle on saturday night to give trainer driver lance justice his fourth win in the race .

so , with not a lot of leeway to move on that particular point , the jca disqualified smoken up and themightyquinn was promoted to first .

smoken up had won the miracle mile and south australian cup but it was controversy that followed his interdominion success in new zealand , and that had justice fired up at menangle on april 30 .

i was so close to picking smoken up to win but caribbean blaster may have taken the next step . both are a level up on the rest of these & the quinella looks like easy money

“to illustrate the changing nature of engaging with the public , smoken up has generated an enormous following on social media which has enhanced his appeal . ”

there were four across the track coming to the first turn with lonestar legend , kiwi ingenuity , smoken up and melpark major all keen to lead .

hile smoken up looks to be well on his way to wrapping up one spot it must be noted that the ' four - time ' derby winner in divisive should already be assured of one spot .

karlsruhe ( barrier four ) and tanabi bromac ( six ) , runner - up and fourth respectively behind smoken up last weekend , are the other victorians engaged in the race to be run at 10pm .

smoken up is a 13 - time group 1 winner who still holds the record for the fastest mile rate in australasia – 1 : 48 . 5 .

justice hasn’t driven in a race since a horrific fall in december last year , while smoken up was spelled after his len smith mile triumph in april .

after kicking off his 2011 / 12 term with three straight successes , smoken up suffered agonising defeats in the queensland pacing championship and new zealand trotting cup .

as the countdown to smoken up’s farewell race at tabcorp park melton continues , harness racing victoria has announced it will rename a race in the champion pacer’s honour .

he gelding encounted his toughest test to date when smoken up faced the starter for the running of the 4 & 5yo championship at moonee valley on june 1 .

his trainer lance justice swears he never uses the drug and a subsequent judicial control authority panel believed him but the dmso was in smoken up ' s system .

the win in the olympus feeds smoken up sprint further swelled bling it on’s seven - figure career stakes and come much to the joy of driver luke mccarthy .

australasian icon and grand circuit champion smoken up has added further to his overflowing trophy cabinet by being named victorian horse of the year for a second successive season .

for the second year running smoken up was named nsw horse of the year based on scintillating performances in the len smith and miracle miles at tabcorp park menangle .

at nine years old , justice said smoken up would be out to make the most of all his opportunities this time in as it may be his final campaign .

victorian speedster smoken up had so often been the bridesmaid but finally had his moment to shine with a record - breaking win in saturday night ' s miracle mile .

justice is working out his plan with smoken up for the coming months , which will centre on defending his miracle mile at menangle at the end of the november .

result : lost ! went rough before the turn after sitting behind smoken up but no excuses . it ' s not good enough to beat this class now it seems

“the smoken up sprint will commemorate the wonderful career of the lance justice trained pacer , whose achievements on the racetrack have captivated audiences throughout australasia , ” mr anderson said .

they ran the first quarter in 26 . 2 seconds and only backed off to 29 . 4 when smoken up finally found the front with melpark major on his outside .

rom gate four smoken up led throughout in accounting for captain kalahari by 2 . 2 metres while lenny bromac was a further 2 . 9 metres away in grabbing third .

smoken up , who maintains his speed longer and smoother racing right - handed at auckland , according to justice , was always travelling like a winner after finding the markers .

justice said smoken up’s successful return , combined with the lure of grand circuit glory in blacks a fake’s absence from the trans tasman prompted connections to make the trip north .

on the plane with smoken up will be the horse he narrowly beat in last week’s bold david free - for - all , the andy gath - trained blatant lie .

result : miles off . jodi quinlan throws in a head scratcher and chilli palmer wins well . with the help of a stablemate but was too good for smoken up .

loved its last start 2nd to smoken up when not suited over the sprint trip but finished off extremely well . draws to take the sit behind smoken up who just maybe suspect over the longer journey these days but geez it ' s flying at the minute , especially when leading . happy to be on mah sish with the soft run .

result : lost ! i was getting bloody excited when it got to 3 back the pegs but then five star anvil handed up to smoken up & that was the end of wartime . it ' ll win one soon at odds

sugars nursed the favourite until straightening and then allowed smoken up or ‘trigger’ as known around the stable to hit top gear and power home in 27 . 7 second last quarter .

smoken bones cookshack for ken hueston’s barbecue place , 2009 was “filled with new directions and angles of thought . ” he hooked up with natural pastures cheese co . in courtenay to smoke their boerenkaas and has expanded into commercial catering . biggest news of all : smoken bones is opening a second location .

the legends , previously named the legends mile , will become the smoken up sprint ( to be run on november 7 ) to honour the lance justice - trained superstar pacer’s career .

victoria ' s new zealand trotting cup hopeful smoken up touched down in christchurch this morning ( tuesday november 2 ) along with his faithful harness racing companion and stablemate earl of mot .

but he’ll encounter stiff opposition from the other finalists , including smoken up , who was the other victorian to top $ 1 million in stakes during the 2009 / 10 racing year .

“he ( smoken up ) is the definition of a champion , he’s never beaten , he never gives in and he’s definitely earned his place among the greats of australian harness racing .

result : 2nd . again started way too short for me at $ 1 . 70 . wowee , i could get smoken up beaten vs c0 class at the minute . no bet

barring accidents , he looks a moral to win here . i think it leads early & potentially hands up to smoken up . with the master on board , i expect the run to come & it be far too good for these .

smoken up has now had 104 career starts for 56 wins and 34 placings for a staggering and rapidly increasing stakemoney record of excess of $ 2 . 89 million . closing in on the $ 3 million figure , smoken up heads towards the 2012 interdominion in western australia while justice is on the road to a speedy recovery to be able to be at the reins .

justice highlighted smoken up’s first - up record and acknowledged the front - row draw was ideal for the champion nine - year - old , who has earned over $ 3 . 1 million in stakes during his 61 - win career to date .

an 11 - year - old , smoken up ( $ 4 . 90 ) was always in charge once melton trainer - driver lance justice found the lead in a hectic early charge .

still sailing on cloud nine following smoken up ' s career defining miracle mile victory at menangle last month , candid harness racing trainer lance justice is seeing the world though rose coloured glasses .

blacks a fake holds sway on 12 points entering the event , but smoken up is lurking ominously on 10 points and victory on saturday night would carry him to a three - point win .

bitobliss proved that form to be very strong after it destroyed a strong field here a fortnight ago . back to the front line draw , smoken up will be up front where it likes to be and i just can’t see it being rolled from there .

ince arriving from the ' land of the long white cloud ' with two wins and six placings from his 10 engagements , smoken up has hit the victorian scene with a string of exciting displays .

in white hot form at the minute & if it ' s ever going to be the top notchers tonight is the night with smoken up , melpark major & bitofbliss very early in there preparations . smoken up will ensure a very fast pace especially if melpark major finds the front early . that ' ll suit have a bender perfectly and also bitofbliss but at the odds have a bender looks big value

despite sitting three - wide without cover from the 900m , the paul rowse - trained gelding loomed alongside smoken up upon straightening and it wasn’t until 30 metres from that his tough run took its toll .

smoken up made it three sa cup scalps from four attempts putting him one win behind legendary pacer gamalite who was the sa cup king between 1982 and 1985 . with his best racing still in front of him , smoken up heads towards another tough season on the grand circuit but will no doubt , justice will have the 2013 sa cup on his radar for the following season to equal the sa cup record .

smoken up is my best bet of the night . it ' s going to have a huge advantage on the blaster here , who is also first up , being on the speed first . again throw in the blaster & motu crusader for a knockout if you want .

he finished 1 - 1 / 2 metres from smoken up with ti vogliobene ( $ 18 ) making the most of a cushy trip on the favourite’s back to claim third placing a further four metres away .

smoken up is only half of justice ' s len smith mile team with sokyola sprint third placegetter our malabar , who won the inter dominion consolation at menangle on march 7 , to start from the pole .

smoken up sat outside blacks a fake at the head of the field in australia ' s premier harness racing sprint at menangle park and showed plenty of determination in the straight to win by half a head .

yet again , the hitcher had great pace to lead the fleet around . this time phantom tried to squeeze through smoken for second place at the

( 8 ) and rejuvenated 2008 victoria cup winner melpark major ( 6 ) will each be forced into making early arrangements in the 2555 - metre feature and all will be at the mercy of justice on smoken up .

the field did not quite break that mark but smoken up ' s winning time of 1 : 50 . 30 still set a miracle mile record and also bettered the australasian mile record of 1 : 50 . 50 .

narrow defeat in the much - hyped ballarat cup battle against highview tommy and sushi sushi would follow but three inter dominion heat wins and a third len smith mile success ensured this would be smoken up’s greatest ever season .

the consistent form of victoria’s smoken up nz has enabled it to take a handy lead on the progressive points for the barastoc pacers grand circuit series . blacks a fake went into sunday’s group 1 event with just two points , but with ample opportunities in coming weeks to build up further points .

after coming along way in a short period of time , smoken up will commence his charge towards the ' big time ' when the former kiwi heads to geelong on tuesday night ( july 17 ) for his next assignment .

of mot a little who took some " bark off " in transit but hardy traveller smoken up " travelled over well " , according to trainer lance justice and is ready to run the race of his life next tuesday .

getyawingsout was smashed from start to finish last start after leading . shouldn ' t cop the same pressure here tonight & i expect it to spear to the early lead & win . smoken up just looks far too good for tonights opposition . as much as i like chilli palmer , it ' s unproven against open class . smoken up , 5 starts at the track for 4 wins & a 2nd against much , much better than these . .

smoken up , who didn’t race until four , began his race career with cambridge trainers , john and david butcher . he was sold to clients of the justice stable after winning twice and running six placings in eight nz starts .

smoken up might have won the biggest races of the 2010 - 11 season but one night in april will always stand out , admitted trainer - driver lance justice after his star was named harness horse of the year this week .

result : 3rd . was held up 3 pegs but did get out with plenty of time to catch up but just plodded home . collect $ 75

not many in better form . ran a super quick last half vs smoken up on friday after being held up and had excuses the start previous . back in class tonight in a race that has plenty of speed which will suit . loves bendigo using the camber turns to it ' s advantage . looks the winner

has been tearing up the trials & looks ready to win first up . i would ' ve doubled the bet if it hadve drawn the front row .

smoken up is rated by his trainer - driver lance justice as his next star performer following the retirement of the former glamour horse sokyola and the four - year - old has drawn the second row for his upcoming assignment over 2100 metres .

our blackbird , now trained by ross olivieri , has won at 15 of his 64 starts . he faces a stern test from the outside of the front line , even though he has been performing soundly against quality opposition in victoria . four starts ago , in the 1720m sokyola sprint at melton , he finished fourth behind five star anvil , smoken up and chilli palmer and three starts before that he was third behind chilli palmer and smoken up in the group 3 geelong cup .

smiling shard , the best of the nz - trained runners , was game finishing only 2 1 / 2 lengths from the strong front - running winner smoken up , who held other seasoned aussie grand circuit stars , themightquinn and blacks a fake .

smoken up won the horse of the year award in front of champion three - year - old sushi sushi , which was unbeaten in 13 starts for the season . his consolation was the three year old colt / gelding of the year award .

in 2009 smoken up and justice took the challenge to the kiwis and fought doggedly for their third placing . this year justice is determined to do better and be the first aussie to win the christchurch casino nz trotting cup since lightning blue in 1987 .

caribbean blaster has opened $ 2 . 10 favourite in saturday night ' s race at tabcorp park . warhorse smoken up is a $ 4 . 60 second favourite while bitobliss is on the third line at $ 5 . 50 with tab fixed odds .

result : lost ! got stuck behind tiring horses after the 3 handed up ( no cot ! ! ! ) & it ended up 4 back the pegs . .

photo : smoken up and lance justice are holding themightyquinn ( gary hall jun ) with 100m to run in the skycity – inter pacing grand final . blacks a fake , smiling shard ( nearest markers ) and mr feelgood ( yellow colours ) are next .

the bad news for victorian harness racing fans is that smoken up will also miss that state ' s two biggest races , the $ 375 , 000 sew - eurodrive victoria cup on december 20 and the $ 400 , 000 hunter cup on february 7 .

i think the one maybe risky first up especially if it leads . if it hands up to rogers passion it ' ll be hard seeing it miss 2nd but on a positive if it does hand up to rogers passion . rogers is a cert .

even congupna trainer scott stewart , who prepares bitobliss , was in awe of his star pacer’s blistering finishing burst , when he came from last at the 400 mto mow down a field of talented rivals , including the great smoken up , in the home stretch .

this weekend and gath says his stable star is more than up to the challenge .

result : lost ! crossed early & ended up 3 pegs . no hope from there

result : 4th ! ended up 3back after the fav couldn ' t lad . .

sorry ! ! missed up the quaddie legs . adjusted below @ 6 . 30pm :

despite boasting several key runners across friday night’s huge program at tabcorp park , justice will only pilot smoken up , leaving others to steer earl of mot and just a cracker in the trotters’ cup and magnificent art in the group 1 vicbred 2yo c & g final .

trained and driven by james rattray , beautide recorded the fastest mile rate ( 1 : 50 . 2 ) after winning the event last year , bettering the mark set by smoken up ( 1 : 50 . 3 ) in 2010 . interestingly , smoken up is the last horse to win the miracle mile consecutively ( 2010 / 11 ) , and also set an australasian record mile rate of 1 : 48 . 5 in winning the len smith mile at menangle in april 2011 . with a slick field engaged on saturday night , that record looks in danger , especially if conditions are perfect and they go crazy up front .

hrv ceo john anderson said renaming a race such as the legends in smoken up’s honour made sense due to the horse’s phenomenal record at sprint trips – having won four len smith miles and two miracle miles , as well as a bevy of other short - course features .

of mot isn ' t in new zealand purely as a travel companion for smoken up either . the new zealand - owned trotter is looking to bring his strong australian form to the cup carnival in both the seelite windows & doors nz trotting ffa and the hellers dominion .

throw in safari , smoken up and possibly melpark major from victoria , changeover , gotta go cullen , monkey king and - fingers crossed - auckland reactor from new zealand , plus us raiders bono bests and mr feelgood , and divisive has some stiff opposition in coming months .

* after running second the other night in melton , smoken up has been sent back to the spelling paddock . andrew bensley reports , via twitter , that trainer lance justice stated there are no suitable races upcoming so any chance of another new zealand cup tilt has been dashed .

result : lost ! crossed early and ended up in the death seat . dear oh dear

result : lost ! never looked comfortable and ended up galloping down the straight . sin bin

result : lost ! pulled up . . . . . good way to lose $ 100

result : blingiton never looked in doubt & hezarealgem just wasn ' t up to them .

the bettor ' s delight 5 - year - old out of the purdon trained mare scuse me , broke now - retired australian star smoken up ' s track record at menangle by more than 0 . 8 seconds to make her the fastest recorded standardbred over a mile in australasia .

smoken up missed his shot at barastoc grand circuit victory in 2009 / 10 , but friday night ' s ( april 23 ) $ 100 , 000 tabcorp len smith mile is his best chance to snare a harness racing group 1 title this season according to trainer - driver lance justice .

local star ohoka nevada ( mark billinger ) ran a solid second , following smoken up from start to finish after drawing the prime alley in gate one and got within 3m on the line while rising star heza trick ( daryl douglas ) flashed home late to finish third a further 3m away .

justice is excited about returning to steer his stable champion , who is arguably to harness racing what black caviar is to the gallops . in fact smoken up has recently even acquired a black caviar - style compression suit , which he sported on a recent photo shoot for his personal facebook page .

justice , hemmed up in traffic early from his back row draw , moved up parked at the 1800m before wresting the lead from four - time inter champ blacks a fake at the 1400m .

the gelding was a narrow runner - up in both races during the 2007 / 08 season .

' ' it was the best night because of everything that led up to it . ' '

result : lost ! they did finish top 3 but chilli palmer was simply amazing first up .

result : lost ! handed up the lead & that was race over . not happy jan !

meeting result : that well & truly makes up for last night . won $ 1422 . 60

result : lost ! ended up 4 pegs & was no chance from there . ran on ok

the crowd somewhat waiting for the sugars salute as he put his name on the honour roll alongside his father ross sugars back in 1981 aboard murdock miss seemed as if he was restricted by the power still in his hands as smoken up crossed the line ready to travel another lap at that speed .

result : lost ! stiff . . mach doro leading folded up like a pack of cards and leaders back and rochnroll were badly held up . hit the line strong but was never a chance after that

19 units outlay for 26 . 24 unit return . should ' ve put up the suggested bets !

result : 4th . led early & handed up to the 3rd fav but we didn ' t need it to hand up as well . end 3 pegs and was too far back to have an impact

short n sweet tonight . i ' ll be concentrating on a big miracle mile write up for followers

result : 4th by a whisker . ended up 4 back the pegs & was never winning from there

with no provision for a countback , should smoken up run second on saturday night he and blacks a fake would be declared joint winners . the only time in the 31 - year history of the championship that two horses finished on the same points was in 2003 when double identity and young rufus both collected 17 points .

whilst i don ' t think he can win , he certainly looks an attractive place bet at big odds . first up at melton a fortnight ago he copped a check early on and settled at the tail of the field . rounding the home turn on the back of abettorpunt , he rushed up to the leaders and looked a chance , only to have his run end short of the line . 2nd up from gate 2 , he will be the first to the pegs and will more than likely take a sit on smoken up . that ' ll give him every opportunity via the sprint lane , hopefully enough to snag a placing

result : winner ! a nice end to a frustrating day . up to $ 10 offered up on fixed odds early but i missed that . still very very happy with the $ 8 i got . can ' t believe it paid that much . finished up $ 4 fixed s - tab . collect $ 200

safari still turned in a splendid staying effort . re - handicapped to 10 metres , gath as expected wasted little time after the field had been dispatched in taking his horse forward to sit outside the leader smoken up nz . justice , probably expecting such an aggressive move , in the following two laps every now and then allowed his horse on the inside to surge , seemingly then preventing gath from dictating tactics up front with safari .

waiting for them will be the glenn douglas - trained bold cruiser , who travelled up on tuesday afternoon .

meeting result : another poor result today . got some ground to make up this week ! lost $ 128

result : winner ! sneaky alright . snuck up right along the pegs to blouse them . $ 185 collect

smoken up attracted a crowd of 5000 people , the largest since the 2007 interdominion and although they had to wait an extra hour for the most anticipated race on the local racing calendar the $ 100 , 000 sky channel sa pacing cup due to power problems plagued globe derby park , there was no fan disappointed when leaving the course .

the start is critical for his chances but my early memories of him have him flying the gate early , ideally crossing bitobliss . even if he can ' t cross he ' s likely to settle on the back of smoken up which isn ' t the worst place to be . at $ 11 on bet365 , that seems crazy value

this 6yo gelding would be out of place lining up in the miracle mile field tonight . had to work extremely hard 3 wide the trip vs beautide in the newcastle mile 2 starts back & had the audacity to kick on & finish 2nd . last start he had a good smothered 3 pegs but had to peel 3 wide to get into clear running and wasn ' t disgraced running 3rd to smoken up in very quick time . he ' s going

not real keen on this meeting with plenty of sa visitors arriving at mildura . hard to match up the form

result : 3rd . ntd ! cant take a trick . astronaut hands up the lead & ruins everything . .

forget last start at mt gambier . go back 2 starts where in challenged for the lead early eventually ending up with a 1x2 sit . wobbled a bit when rounding the final turn but once balanced up , finished really well to finish 2nd . draws to lead today and if he runs up to its run 2 back , it wins .

one of the most improved pacers in the country over the past 2 years . i remember losing my cash on him in a c1 event just over a year ago at melton but tritton has certainly found the key and i ' d love to see it win . has amazing early speed and looks likely to cross smoken up early . looked to be one level below group 1 class when leading in his previous 4 races before taking a sit last start and what improvement he showed . he handed up to smoken up and was only beaten 1 . 2 metres in a slick 1 . 49 . 9 second mile rate . he certainly had his chance to win last week and whilst it ' s hard to see him winning here tonight , with the perfect sit likely to be his , is a strong place chance .

huge day of harness racing with great fields to boot . nothing but value tips below . we ' ll need some luck but based on the odds , i ' ll only need one to get up to end up even :

while smoken up nz was playing its cat - and - mouse game with safari , anthony butt was having a dream run on the back of the leader with report for duty nz , with gavin lang on its back with advance attack nz . following safari in the one - out line was manwarra goforgold , then reba rajah , with divisive then running ninth .

australia ' s premier sprint race will be run without australasia ' s fastest pacer following today ' s shock news that lance justice has aborted plans to contest the miracle mile with smoken up . the melton trainer - driver confirmed that the six - year - old was still suffering from an injury that had hindered his entire campaign and even if he was offered one of the remaining two invites for $ 500 , 000 grand circuit feature he wouldn ' t be taking it up .

result : winner ! a horse that ' s going places that ' s for sure . up $ 51 . 50

result ; lost . not a bad run , just not up to these . run 6th not far off them .

result : 4th . up to $ 35 around got the perfect sit on mind the wire ' s back and then nathan jack decides to hand up to cramp . . . runs a good 4th . frustrating , very frustrating for the punter

but that was forgotten when the best horse in australasia lined up with lance justice and the defending champion taking centre stage .

“he pulled up well after friday night’s race and has done well since , so there’s no reason not to go . ”

result : winner ! handed up the lead which gave us some nervous moments but got the job done . collect $ 194

result : winner ! opened up at close to $ 2 but was smashed in late . won easily . collect $ 130

put up a huge effort to win the nz cup last start after missing away from the stand start . he was sent

result : 4th . no it wasn ' t . was an ok run & im tipping will run better 2nd up .

it ' s always a risk backing horses first up but this fella has had 4 good trials in the lead up to this race and has run well in all of them . this is an extremely weak race and he has won against much better . from the draw should either lead or be sitting with cover up on the lead . looks a good ew chance .

lawn derby awards for pacers . aged horse and gelding of the year : smoken up ; aged mare of theyear : make mine cullen ; three year old colt / gelding of theyear : sushi sushi ; three year old filly of the year : bellas delight ; two year old colt / gelding of the year : three over three ; two year old filly of the year : sensational gabby .

months it followed smoken up everywhere over the unsuitable 2240 metres and stuck to it ' s guns well only being beaten 5 metres . tonight he draws perfectly to follow favourite five star anvil over the sprint trip , the distance he races best . if the favourite holds the lead , garnet river will be sitting right behind it awaiting the sprint lane . at the big odds , worth a go

" we had her x - rayed on saturday and it showed up to be a broken sesamoid bone , " purdon said .

result : 4th . never got a proper crack at them after the 1 broke and dentona ended up 4 pegs . good run

result : lost ! favourite gallops in front of it , ends up stuck out 3 wide the last lap & dropped out .

went super against some smart types first up from an unsuitable draw . gets gate 1 here . leads and wins for mine .

has the superior speed from the front line and shouldn ' t be handing up today . looks perfectly suited on this track .

should lead now with the early scratching from this race . put up a great effort at melton when leading from a wide draw

result : 2nd ! ! finally a collect . . $ 8 offered up on bet365 thanks very much . . collect $ 255

ran some quick times in a recent terang trial suggesting it ' ll be ready for this first up . if it was a

meeting result : horrific night of punting . time to pick myself up & get it back tomorrow . lost $ 367 . 50

result : winner ! opened up at $ 3 and smashed into $ 1 . 80 fixed & won easily . collect $ 100

result : winner ! opened up $ 2 . 5 & smacked into $ 1 . 9 . won easily . collect $ 95

result : lost ! never put into the race & my ticket was screwed up a long way out after the leaders walked .

the presense of dmso on its own is very surprising . everyone in this industry knows that it is tested for and to present a horse with dmso in its system in 2011 would seem like professional suicide by lance . it just doesnt make sense unless the trace amounts found were present in something else that lance gave to smoken up . i am aware that dmso is present in trace amounts for instance in itpp to mention just one possability . that would seem far more likely than the random contamination explanation being offered up at present

3rd up here and is a sneaky chance . 1st up run was just average after only getting out late from 5 back the fence beaten 24 metres in r2 - 4 class . followed that up with a good 3rd to freemason who is running very well atm , in c4 / 5 class beaten 8 metres after again being buried 4 pegs . has enough gate speed to hold the 1 ' s back here but that is likely to hand up . if the 1 does hand up , that will probably put pay to sunrise ' s winning chances but i think shes a big place chance at odds from the draw and small field suits .

this is a huge step up in class from last week where they did run the last half slowly to allow it to sneak up the sprint lane to win but i can ' t ignore the $ 16 . 80 available the place . potential collect $ 168

has been trialling very well for this first up tilt & should be suited by some early speed and the fact it ' ll position in front of the favourite . it ' ll hold all the aces & if it runs up to it ' s trial form

has been unlucky since resuming . 1st up was attacked and ran a 27 second 3rd quarter only to get run down late in a 56 second last half . not bad first up . @ nd up got polaxed & still managed to run 3rd , albeit beaten a fair way . leads here tonight & with it ' s dangers drawn wide over the short trip , looks a good thing .

looks like getting the gun run behind modern mary & there looks to be a fair bit of pressure in this race . if there is she will be the one smoken the pipe awaiting the sprint lane . i just hope her sprint is good enough to get the money .

took a while to wind up last start but once it did hit the line very strong . gets the same draw here today and the 1 shouldn ' t be handing up the lead today so behind the leader scenario should pan out and the extra distance suits .

result : lost ! never put into the race after getting held up in the middle of running . . just one of those horses

looks very well suited in c1 class today . put up a great effort against eliseos falcon last start & this looks much weaker .

looks the leader today & should get every opportunity to bring up it ' s first win in victoria today , as long as it settles . led from a wide gate over the longer trip a month ago & just got too fired up . hopefully he settles today

result : lost ! got stuck in the death and put up a big effort , not beaten far . will win one soon .

wa form has held up very well in recent years . his run in the chariots of fire in march where he finished on the

result : lost ! got smashed in front & wouldn ' t hand up in a very quick first 3 quarters . weakened right out

result : 2nd ! just not good enough to pick up the well backed fav . thought she had it with 200 to go .

result : lost ! had me worried when it was refusing to score up but in the end got a flyer to lead . just got too fired up in front and went too quick and was left a sitting shot . never really wanted to be on in the run

jekyll and hyde horse who wins this race easily if he runs up to his win a few starts back when leading and winning in 1 : 53 seconds . he can mix up his form so expect anything but i ' m happy to have a small go against these

result : lost ! started $ 41 . led early , handed up & i thought had a massive chance on the turn but hung like ron jeremy and wouldn ' t take the sprint lane run . . just sums up my luck at the minute . another loss !

" it is a great way to bring up my 50th group one and i still think there are more big wins in him . "

up to yesterday nathan jack , under suspension , was in fifth place in the victorian drivers’ championship with a career - best 165 winners .

just eats up mile racing and showed that it can ' t just lead from leading last week after blowing them away from the 1 x 1 . will lead here tonight with rogers joy likely to hand up . i can ' t see anything running him down from there .

result : lost ! broke after the start & ended up 5 back the pegs . never likely from there but did well to finish 5th

result : 4th . thought it was a massive chance on the turn but wasn ' t up to these . only just missed the place

result : 2nd . ended up 3 pegs & got out too late . with a better draw next start it wins . collect $ 51

result : lost ! disappointing run . got fired up after douglas drove it out hard early & pulled for the remainder of the race .

he has had little luck against victoria ' s best in it ' s past 2 starts but has still finished just out of the prizemoney . you only have to go back 3 starts at this track and distance to see the talent he has where he gave smoken up an almighty fright when he just peaked on his run late finishing 2nd . he steps back a grade in class here and is a great each way bet .

tinted cloud 1 : 51 . 2 , sire of almighty smoken up 1 : 48 . 5 $ 3 , 603 , 415 , jaccka clive 1 : 53 . 8 $ 483 , 263 , richard henry 1 : 49 . 6 $ 453 , 305 , nemisis 1 : 48 . 2 , one of only a handful of sires represented by three 1 : 50 a / nz performers . by sire of sires in the pocket .

headline act of the locals will be last week’s gold coast cup winner be good johnny ( barrier 10 ) , while runner - up good lookin girl ( five ) will also back up with atomic ark ( eight ) and be diligent ( rodm – 11 ) the new blood .

justice paid tribute to decorated jasper after the race but never doubted his stable star would rack up win number 30 at his 58 th start .

i liked it ' s run last start when it was held up 4 back the rail & never really got racing room . should ' ve

leds again tonight & i don ' t think it ' ll hold up . if that happens is a very sneaky chance of knocking them off

result : lost ! the 1 doesn ' t hand up as expected & the 2 left to sit parked . that was all she wrote .

fired up for this race with a win over the pacers in a trial during the week , a very good indicator on how well he ' s travelling . draws to follow stent every here , most likely to end up 3 pegs , but with late luck , is right in this .

5 : smoken up : i love this old fella for the fact that he gives his all every time he races . probably holds the key to the race . if he can ' t lead early and settles in the death , it ' s going to take on every brave driver to try and wrestle that position away from him . wasn ' t disgraced in the miracle mile last week but showed that he finds the best of the best a little