Saturday, April 19, 2025

Sport

Superbike Championship no certainty, says Rees

Mitch Rees knows the final two rounds of the Star Insure New Zealand Superbike Championship will be no easy road to success. The current superbike...

Walks: Exploring the Whitford Bridle Trail

Keen walker David Mallowes offers suggestions about fun and interesting routes people can take to get some exercise and enjoy the area in his...

Waiuku teen to represent NZ at Aussie athletic champs

Waiuku College student Charli Gardiner-Hall is heading off to Perth as part of a three-person tour representing New Zealand.  The 17-year-old has qualified to compete...

Of high-goal hopes

Many a sport involving horses is referred to as ‘the sport of kings’ but, considering its right regal pedigree, polo is perhaps the most...

Raising the standard (breds)

In simple terms, when it comes to the 'gee-gees', success quite literally begets success. But ensuring the right begetting is being done often comes...

Eagle-eyed golfer still in the swing

While some of the world’s best female golfers faced tough conditions during the recent McKayson NZ Women’s Golf Open in Auckland, New Zealand selector,...

Riding on the chain gang

A local Garland may not have secured garlands in Europe recently, but it hasn’t halted this master cyclist from pursuing a sport which continues...

Jim Coe – Glenbrook’s man of steel

It’s been said that one dare not ‘hassle the Hoff’; but one look at the six foot six and around 110 keg frame of...

Local flyer’s life in the ‘Skylane’

The quickest birds should win any race but, although Dee Bond’s crate (a Cessna Skylane 182R) wasn’t necessarily the fastest through the air recently,...

A code of their own

From playing and coaching Auckland’s women to victory, claiming two World Cups with the Black Ferns and, last season, the Farah Palmer Cup for...