Maxine off the mark over fences in style

Friday, December 13, 2013

Twenty-one-year-old Maxine OSullivan rode her first winner over fences with a highly competent display aboard Pals Leg, trained by her father, Eugene, in the Follow Us On Facebook Beginners Chase at Tramore yesterday.

Jockeys making a presentation to Shay Barry to mark his retirement from race riding at Tramore yesterday. Picture: Healy Racing

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Said Ms OSullivan: That was brilliant, hes lovely. It was his first time over fences and he looked at the first three a bit, but after that was brilliant.

Favourite, Sugar Bullet, made most of the running, but Pals Leg eased past coming away from the second last and kept going well for his pilot to easily hold Classic Event.

It is a great pleasure to win with Maxine riding, remarked a proud father. Hes been an unlucky horse all his life. Ive been running him on the wrong ground and he kept getting beaten by good horses.

He won a point at Dungourney on bottomless ground for Derek OConnor and Derek told me to never run him on that again, he wanted better ground. I took his advice, but its soft ground he wants.

Davy Russell, lucky to survive serious injury when taking a crashing fall off Sir Des Champs at Punchestown on Sunday, showed no ill effects when guiding well-backed Sunday Serenade to victory in the Buy Tramore Race Tickets Online Mares Maiden Hurdle.

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Maxine off the mark over fences in style

Fences is divided into two acts. Act One is comprised of four scenes and Act Two has five. The play begins on a Friday, Troy and Bono's payday. Troy and Bono go to Troy's house for their weekly ritual of drinking and talking. Troy has asked Mr. Rand, their boss, why the black employees aren't allowed to drive the garbage trucks, only to lift the garbage. Bono thinks Troy is cheating on his wife, Rose. Troy and Rose's son, Cory, has been recruited by a college football team. Troy was in the Negro Leagues but never got a chance to play in the Major Leagues because he got too old to play just as the Major Leagues began accepting black players. Troy goes into a long epic story about his struggle in July of 1943 with death. Lyons shows up at the house because he knows it is Troy's payday. Rose reminds Troy about the fence she's asked him to finish building.

Cory and Troy work on the fence. Cory breaks the news to Troy that he has given away his job at the local grocery store, the A&P, during the football season. Cory begs Troy to let him play because a coach from North Carolina is coming all the way to Pittsburgh to see Cory play. Troy refuses and demands Cory to get his job back.

Act One, scene four takes place on Friday and mirrors scene one. Troy has won his case and has been assigned as the first colored garbage truck driver in the city. Bono and Troy remember their fathers and their childhood experiences of leaving home in the south and moving north. Cory comes home enraged after finding out that Troy told the football coach that Cory may not play on the team. Troy warns Cory that his insubordinance is "strike one," against him.

Troy bails his brother Gabriel out of jail. Bono and Troy work on the fence. Bono explains to Troy and Cory that Rose wants the fence because she loves her family and wants to keep close to her love. Troy admits to Bono that he is having an affair with Alberta. Bono bets Troy that if he finishes building the fence for Rose, Bono will buy his wife, Lucille the refrigerator he has promised her for a long time. Troy tells Rose about a hearing in three weeks to determine whether or not Gabriel should be recommitted to an asylum. Troy tells Rose about his affair. Rose accuses Troy of taking and not giving. Troy grabs Rose's arm. Cory grabs Troy from behind. They fight and Troy wins. Troy calls "strike two" on Cory.

Six months later, Troy says he is going over to the hospital to see Alberta who went into labor early. Rose tells Troy that Gabriel has been taken away to the asylum because Troy couldn't read the papers and signed him away. Alberta had a baby girl but died during childbirth. Troy challenges Death to come and get him after he builds a fence. Troy brings home his baby, Raynell. Rose takes in Raynell as her own child, but refuses to be dutiful as Troy's wife.

On Troy's payday, Bono shows up unexpectedly. Troy and Bono acknowledge how each man made good on his bet about the fence and the refrigerator. Troy insists that Cory leave the house and provide for himself. Cory brings up Troy's recent failings with Rose. Cory points out that the house and property, from which Troy is throwing Cory out, should actually be owned by Gabriel whose government checks paid for most of the mortgage payments. Troy physically attacks Cory. Troy kicks Cory out of the house for good. Cory leaves. Troy swings the baseball bat in the air, taunting Death.

Eight years later, Raynell plays in her newly planted garden. Troy has died from a heart attack. Cory returns home from the Marines to attend Troy's funeral. Lyons and Bono join Rose too. Cory refuses to attend. Rose teaches Cory that not attending Troy's funeral does not make Cory a man. Raynell and Cory sing one of Troy's father's blues songs. Gabriel turns up, released or escaped from the mental hospital. Gabe blows his trumpet but no sound comes out. He tries again but the trumpet will not play. Disappointed and hurt, Gabriel dances. He makes a cry and the Heavens open wide. He says, "That's the way that goes," and the play ends.

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Third to stablemate Champagne Fever in the champion bumper at the 2012 Punchestown Festival, Mozoltov was subsequently unbeaten in two starts over timber, most recently seeing off Drinmore winner Don Cossack in the Grade Two Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle in February.

The seven-year-old has been off the track since then and now embarks on a career over the bigger obstacles, with Davy Russell taking the ride for owners Gigginstown House Stud.

Mullins said: "Mozoltov is in good form and schools well at home. The ground should be fine for him and if he brings his hurdle form over fences, he probably sets the standard. Hopefully he has a safe round of jumping."

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The Gold Coast City Council is today expected to reject a Tugun foreshore land grab Source: Supplied

THE controversial Tugun foreshore fences that inspired violent protests could be removed within six months.

The council is today expected to officially reject applications by Golden Four Drive residents to buy sections of public beachfront land behind their properties to prevent an extension of the Oceanway.

In a blow to Mayor Tom Tate, who wrote to residents advising them how to buy up the land, the council's city planning committee yesterday unanimously voted to "strongly oppose" the applications, which will now go to the State Government for a final decision.

If the Newman Government rejects the land sale, the council will remove encroachments along the Tugun foreshore in June.

The vote received applause from a packed public gallery at the council's Nerang headquarters.

"We must protect the ability of residents as well as the council to access the foreshore areas between Bilinga and Tugun," she said.

"If we allowed this land to be closed off, it could seriously detract from our ability to protect the rock walls along the foreshore.

"To replace this public land would cost us an incalculably large amount of money so I certainly hope the council will support this recommendation because it is important we make a stand on this."

Supporters of an oceanside walkway along Tugun and Bilinga, led by Friends of Currumbin group, marched along the Tugun foreshore in protest of the proposed land buy up by beach front land owners. Source: News Limited

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The show: August Wilson's "Fences" at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven

What makes it special?: The revival is directed by Phylicia Rashad, who has starred in and staged several of Wilson's works.

First Impressions: It's been near 30 years since Wilson's work had its dazzling premiere in 1985 at Yale Repertory Theatre and time has done nothing but give this play an even deeper and richer sheen. Long Wharf's thrust stage gives the production an intimate look at the Maxson home and backyard, bringing family conflicts up-close and personal.

Though Esau Pritchett is a physically towering figure as Troy Maxson, the bitter middle-aged sanitation worker at the center of the play, he doesn't quite measure up to the description of him as a man so big he fills up the tenement house just by walking through it. Though there's dignity, humor and strength in his characterization, the sense of combustable danger is lacking.

But that also goes for much of the production in general with direction so low-key or stiff that there doesn't seem to be much at stake, despite Wilson's powerful words to the contrary. So the play's big moments are dramatically diminished, Wilson's arias are nearly asides, and the fierce phrases that the characters use to strike each other with stunning force, are now whiffs.

Still, the story and the characters that Wilson had created remain vivid, moving and unforgettable.

What's it about?: It seemingly centers on the father-son struggle in the best family drama tradition but it's so much more.

Like..?: The changing dynamic of race in mid-20th century America. Set in the Hill neighborhood in Pittsburgh in 1957, 53-year-old Maxson has received no breaks in life. An extraordinary baseball player, Maxson's talent was confined to the Negro Leagues and he was too old to play when the color barrier was broken. Now his high school-age son Cory has the opportunity to get a college sports scholarship but the resentful Maxson demands his son take a useful trade and lead a dutiful, responsible life, such as he did. But Cory sees his generation's future differently than his father's does.

This conflicting view of race, identity and values is at the heart of the narrative and Wilson's richly-drawn characters, dramatic set pieces and dialogue and storytelling that is elevated with touches of jazz, blues and poetry will keep audiences engaged throughout.

And the performances?: Fine, true and human even if some lack the depth of passion that can make a scene pop.

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Sprinter Sacre's absence from the BetVictor Tingle Creek has made the race a more competitive but less appealing prospect and Saturday's best action comes over the National fences at Aintree.

The feature is the Betfred Becher Handicap Chase and despite a long absence of 959 days, there is plenty to like about the chances of Nigel Twiston-Davies' BABY RUN.

Twiston-Davies has won the Becher Chase five times previously, including two of the last three renewals with Hello Bud, and this former winner of the Fox Hunters' over these unique fences looks overpriced.

His time off the track is obviously a worry, but on the plus side he's always gone extremely well fresh and his trainer is happy with his well being. Now 13, his advancing years are also of little concern in a race where experience counts for a lot (indeed, Hello Bud was 14 when he won it last year).

Another positive is his prominent style of racing and bold jumping, a combination that works well over the National fences given you tend to stay out of the trouble that can often be the scourge of a hold-up horse around here.

If the forecast rain comes it will be no concern to this fellow, his stable has just started to fire again in the last week and, all in all, 28/1 looks a very fair price indeed.

With 24 runners (I can't remember a more competitive Becher) I want another one onside and the one that appeals the most is Philip Hobbs' CHANCE DU ROY at 20s.

He looks a very well-handicapped horse given he's dropped 15lb to 135 in his last four races and though there is a reason for that, his spin around these fences in the Topham two starts ago wasn't too bad (ninth of 29).

That suggests that these fences can reignite his spark now he has dropped to his lowest mark since he won at Chepstow in January 2011 and this is a track he likes given he was runner-up to Always Waining in the 2012 Topham (off 148).

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