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LOL, but wait there is more... You will recall all the great TV1 coverage of Horse racing. 1000's of hours. NZ Racing never got the copyright and if you want to use any then it will cost you are arm and a leg to ever use!!!! Hence it is never used on Trackside! or even by the Hall of Fame. There is a small amount put up on Youtube that hasn't been ordered to be taken down!

Brian Rudman: Fairfax's photo nightmare - I told you so By Brian Rudman 15 Apr, 2015 09:28 AM4 mins to read Fairfax Media's decision to ship up to eight million historic New Zealand news photographs and negatives to Little Rock, Arkansas, for "digitising" has proved perilous. Two years on, the digital archiving is yet to be completed, an unknown number of the photographs have turned up on eBay.com for sale and Rogers Photo Archive (RPA), the company involved, is now in receivership facing at least 10 lawsuits totalling more than $94 million. Fairfax Media has gone to court to recover the archives - which also include the photographic records of the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, and other Australian publications. Observing from the sidelines is the Ministry of Culture and Heritage which allowed the export of this taonga, even though, under the Protected Objects Act, it had the power to refuse the export of photos more than 50 years old. In documents filed in the Circuit Court, Arkansas on December 19, Fairfax argues that from the time the agreement was signed in May 2013, "there were numerous issues raising concern for Fairfax that RPA could not or would not perform". Under the deal, Fairfax agreed to sell the photographs and negatives to RPA for no charge, and in return RPA would provide separate digital libraries for both Australia and New Zealand. After the Herald revealed Fairfax's plans in May 2013, the ministry intervened and RPA and Fairfax agreed that no item created prior to 1973 could be sold or disposed of without the ministry's approval. However, it issued "a temporary export certificate" for the whole archive saying it would check for "protected objects" once the collection was digitised. After months of "concern" for Fairfax, including RPA being raided by the FBI in January 2014 as part of an ongoing probe into fraud in sports memorabilia trading - another of Rogers' interests - the media company wrote to RPA in late November, terminating the contract - and demanding the return of the archives before December 4. Instead, Fairfax told the court, the New Zealand archive had been transferred to another organisation in Newport, Arkansas. Fairfax spokeswoman Emma Carter says the archive is now "in the possession of the court-appointed receiver" and that "work continues to digitise the archive". She says "the majority of New Zealand images have already been scanned". Also, the court has ordered no further Fairfax images be sold or transferred, and she says Fairfax is "exploring our recovery options" for those already sold. Two years ago, when the Herald first revealed Fairfax's plans to ship the photographic archives of 72 New Zealand publications overseas, I expressed my disquiet about exporting such a huge part of our cultural heritage. The disquiet has turned into a scary nightmare. This massive pictorial heritage stretching back into the 1800s and illustrating the lives of 72 New Zealand cities and towns, is now in the hands of a receiver, while a horde of creditors clamour for any penny they can claw back. We can only pray that Fairfax's claim to ongoing ownership holds up in court. Defending the deal in May 2013, then Fairfax group executive editor Paul Thompson argued it was the only way to rescue newspaper archives suffering from years of neglect and decay. He said it would have cost $2 to $4 an image to have them digitised in New Zealand, which added up to a possible bill of $32 million. "It was just prohibitive," he told the Marlborough Express - one of the papers whose historic photos are now trapped in Arkansas. At the time, Mr Thompson said it wasn't the original image or "artefact" that was as important as the usability and accessibility of an image. "The real benefit is being able to search and find and retrieve and use them. It's no good having millions of photographs that are impossible to access, poorly stored and scattered to the four winds." Or in Arkansas. Related articles

Untangling the Fairfax archive saga as more found scattered in North Island 9:38 pm on 26 January 2024 Share this Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share via email Share on Reddit Share on Linked In Peter de Graaf About 1.4 million historic photos from leading New Zealand newspapers were shipped to the US as part of an ill-fated digitisation project. Photo: Duncan Miller Gallery It is one of the great debacles of New Zealand history-keeping - an irreplaceable collection of more than a million photos capturing key events and people in the nation's history almost ended up in a rubbish dump in America. The photos were part of the Fairfax archive shipped to the US in 2013 in an ill-fated plan to digitise the media company's vast image collection. They included pictures from leading newspapers such as The Press, The Dominion and The Waikato Times. However, not long after the prints arrived in the US, the company contracted to digitise the photos, Rogers Photo Archive, ran into financial and legal strife. The firm was placed in receivership while the photos were left to moulder and almost taken to the tip. Eventually, a photo gallery specialising in historic images bought them from the receiver, and now they're being sold, bit by bit, back to New Zealand. But it turns out not all of Fairfax's photos were shipped to the US. For reasons unknown, part of the collection never left Aotearoa and instead ended up scattered around the country. One such case is The Northern News archive, a treasure trove of photographic prints, negatives and newspapers dating back to the Kaikohe newspaper's first edition in 1919. Although still published once a week by Stuff, its current owner, The Northern News has not had an office or staff of its own since 2015. None of its last three editors knew where the archive had ended up. At least one feared it had been lost forever, most likely at the bottom of a landfill. Enquiries by RNZ have, however, revealed much of the newspaper's archive survives, split between Kerikeri and Auckland. Diana, Princess of Wales, hongis a young woman at Eden Park during a royal visit in 1983. Photo: Duncan Miller Gallery The saga goes back to 2012 when Kaikohe photographer Debbie Beadle had a verbal agreement to digitise The Northern News photo archive. Beadle did not charge for her work but was allowed to retain, sell and display digital copies. The negatives were returned to The Northern News after scanning. That was in contrast to the deal struck between the then-Australian-owned Fairfax and Rogers Photo Archive, in which the US company retained and was permitted to sell the original prints - in fact, some photos started turning up on Ebay even before digitisation was finished. Beadle said she was motivated by a fear the photos would be lost as the newspaper downsized, and a desire to preserve local history and make it available to Northlanders. Many of the photos lacked caption information so she set up a Facebook page where the public could identity people or events. She had scanned 43,000 negatives, starting from 1972 and working her way towards the present, when she was contacted by Fairfax's then general manager for Northland and ordered to "cease and desist". Beadle was told the images had been sold overseas and that a staff member would arrive within half an hour to collect the negatives and her scans. She believed the Northland photos were to have been sent to the US in a second shipment but that never happened. It is not clear if that was due to controversy about the plan or because Rogers Photo Archive was by then already in financial trouble. Surf lifesavers march during the national championships at Ōakura Beach, near New Plymouth, in 1981. Photo: Duncan Miller Gallery When Northern News editor Malcolm McMillan retired in 2012, Fairfax management told him the archive would be looked after. As well as folders of negatives and boxes of sports photos, his office held bound copies of every edition of the newspaper dating back to 1919. "I was given an assurance the archive was going to be well taken care of, because it was so unique … But then the whole lot just disappeared," he said. At one point Shaun Reilly, a former Northern News photographer, took the photo collection to the Pioneer Village, a local history museum, because he believed that was the safest place. He also wanted the images to stay in Kaikohe if the newspaper closed down. He was, however, over-ridden and the images were returned. The Northern News office closed down in 2015, with the newspaper subsequently run from the office of its sister paper in Kerikeri, The Bay Chronicle. The Northern News archive was reportedly shifted to Kerikeri but Keri Molloy, The Bay Chronicle's editor at the time, said she had not seen it since the Kaikohe office closed. Fairfax, by then rebranded as Stuff, shut the Kerikeri office and laid off its remaining Far North staff in 2018. RNZ contacted Daniel Miller, the gallery owner in Los Angeles who now owns the Fairfax archive, to ask if he had The Northern News' missing photos. Miller said newspapers included in the collection were The Press, Sunday Star Times, Manawatu Standard, Southland Times, Taranaki Daily News, Timaru Herald, Waikato Times, The Dominion and The Evening Post. As far as he knew, no Northland photos were shipped to the US, but it was possible some were mixed up with images from bigger papers. RNZ did, however, find part of the archive at Kerikeri's Procter Library. Far North Libraries local history specialist Fiona Jenkins with part of the Fairfax archive which has ended up at Kerikeri's Procter Library. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf Fiona Jenkins, local history specialist for Far North Libraries, said she was offered copies of The Northern News going back to 1919 when the Kerikeri office closed down. "We would've dearly loved to take them, but we just don't have the room," she said. What she could take was about 10 boxes of photos - mostly of sporting events with little identifying information - as well as negatives in paper bags and indexed contact sheets. Jenkins said she was gradually digitising the photos and sharing some on the Procter Library's Facebook page in an effort to identity them. The most significant photos were posted on library's history portal, Recollect. Picture of Phil Tataurangi from the Fairfax Archives, which was among the collection shipped to the US. Photo: Fairfax Archive / NZ Golf Jenkins said she accepted the photos because she wanted them to stay in the region. "There are so few places in Northland now where you can access local history because it gets sent away to the big cities. It's sad." The Procter Library, however, has only a fraction of the collection. Shaun Reilly, the former Northern News photographer, believed the rest had been sent to Auckland Museum. Museum staff told RNZ said they had received a donation of negatives from Fairfax's Auckland-based newspapers in 2016, but they didn't have any images from Northland. They suggested RNZ try Auckland Libraries instead. There, principal photographs librarian Keith Giles told RNZ he had been contacted in 2018 by a Stuff employee about a folder of historic photographs. He was told the folder was part of The Northern News archive transferred to Kerikeri when the Kaikohe office shut down. The staff member was concerned the heritage photos, along with negatives and vintage newspapers, would be dumped if the Kerikeri office could not find a home for them. Auckland Libraries staff made three trips to Kerikeri, picking up three filing cabinets full of prints, a large number of negatives dating back to the 1970s, copies of The Northern News from 1919 to the 1940s, and a handful of glass-plate negatives. "We thought it was important to preserve these items rather than see them disposed of," Giles said. The folder of historic photos could not be found. A Fairfax Archive photo of Stephen Scahill and Michael Campbell, which NZ Golf bought from the Duncan Miller Gallery. Photo: Fairfax Archive / NZ Golf Giles said Auckland Libraries planned to catalogue and digitise the images, as resourcing allowed, but the immediate priority at the time was to ensure they were saved. While The Northern News archive did not end up in the US, many photos of prominent Northlanders did, via the collections of larger newspapers - including photos of land rights campaigner and "Mother of the Nation" Dame Whina Cooper. They are among more than 5000 images of Māori purchased by the National Library from the Los Angeles-based Duncan Miller Gallery and now back in New Zealand. The images are currently being sorted through and catalogued. Dame Whina's daughter, Hinerangi Cooper-Puru, of Panguru, said she was pleased the photos had been returned, and was looking forward to seeing pictures of her mother that had come so close to being lost forever. She was, however, concerned they had been sent overseas in the first place, without permission from iwi or whānau. "I'm concerned that they ever left our country, Aotearoa … This must not happen again," she said. Prominent historian Vincent O'Malley said the Ministry for Culture and Heritage should never have allowed the photos to be sent overseas. "This is 1.4 million photos that constitute an incredible photographic record of New Zealand's history, and it's really tragic that it's been lost to the country in this way," he said. At the time, Fairfax executive editor Paul Thompson - now chief executive of RNZ - said digitising the collection in New Zealand would have been prohibitively expensive, and the photos were deteriorating because they could not be stored properly. Some had already been lost in the Christchurch earthquakes. Each image would have cost $2-$4 to digitise locally, resulting in an overall cost of millions of dollars. At the time he said the key thing was not the physical photos themselves but having access to digital versions that could be searched for in a database and used. However, O'Malley said the physical photos themselves were historic artefacts of great significance. "That's obvious from the fact they are being sold off, piece by piece. It's wonderful the National Library has secured 5300 images but that's less than 1 percent of the total collection. It still represents a vast loss of our cultural heritage." Fairfax Media obtained much of the photo archive when it bought Independent Newspapers Ltd in 2003. Sending the archive to the US was part of a bigger project by the Australian-owned company to digitise its image collections on both sides of the Tasman. Millions more prints were sent to Rogers Photo Archive from leading Australian newspapers such as The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Stuff said digitisation of the New Zealand archive had eventually been completed in the US, as directed by the receiver, and electronic versions had been returned.

The Centaur wrote "Also did you notice at some tracks photos would come out far clearer with more depth. e.g. Matamata and Foxton.?" Good question! Its were the sun is shining from. SUN brings out the best results for horses photos, 100%. The key to that is to have Strong sun coming over your right shoulder for a left handed track! and over left shoulder for right handed track. Hence Trentham is the BEST track to take photos at by 100 miles and that is why more 'historical shots' have been taken there and printed and used for publications. The worse track to take photos at on sunny day is Wingatui, I was there on Monday (I've put some up on my facebook page f you want to have a look), the sun in coming from inside of the track. Its way better now using digital cameras and you can then twink them way better that the old school film. Hence very few historical photo used from that track, Riccarton is the same, sun from the inside. and of course there are changes depending on what time of the year, The arc changes as the season change. Re up North, it was that long ago that I worked there and didn't really work long enough up there to make a proper comment. My Fav Track by a Million miles be Trentham!

The Cetur wrote "Perhaps you might have the answers. How far back do photographing operators (not photofinish) keep their negatives or prints for reproduction if connections of winners etc. wish to place an order. ? " Hi, it really depends on which district you are talking about. The best collection that is held together is the one now in in the hands of Peter (the wanker) Rubry (as two face as you get) at Race Images in PN. That collection was started by Ken Lush, originally Photopress, then ken sold out to a bloke in Chch, Kennard, who brought out Colin Berry in the Chch, and Grant Peters in North, Race Images was formed. Then he sold them back. Sitting here now, doh, cant recall the date Ken started, kens father Pat started Friday Flash and the Trainers Assoc. After that, it gets a bit complicated! as in each district people came and went. You had Clarry (doh forgot is last name) who use to take photos in CD and produced a monthly? Tipping Booklet. When he retired, he burnt his lot (lol, that what I think about doing one day with my lot) If you go to the dep south, just this century, about 5 photographers have come and gone... all using the wrong business model! all folded. Talking NZ Newspapers and photos, different papers have collections. And of course there was the scandal around the Fairfax Collection that was sent to USA to be scanned and the company went bankrupt! and the collection was sold off in their ligation sale! that lot have been slowly auctioning off various historic photos, charging a arm and a leg. I will post more on that later. There are some photos in the late (great) Peter Bush collection, one of his daughters manages those now a days. And of course there was the scandal around the vandalism of the great collection at the ARC!!! bad storage! sigh.. Hope that is of help, am slightly tire here just now, If more come to mind I will post.

yip, and recently I was in contact with a key worker there, I ask what sort of feed back they had be getting around running all the successful trials etc! Lots of positive comments and support from jockeys and trainers and owners. 0% from 'head office'. Just another example of 'procedural politics', just pretend that they don't exist...

@Chief Stipe thanks for that! in one post it so shares why some of us have such passion for the great horses and the people behind them!

'cookie' as in the 'iceman' Or in more general intellectual skills? as in intelligence quotient? Or jockey specious 'skills, intellectual capital that they posses' that each has to fall back on?

i did note that horses from another track with lots of sand, Foxton, had some success.

A flood of tread encompassed me when my mind flashed back to my first go at photography at that track. (blush) I had been transferred to the northern branch of RI, the goal being to firm up that branch! My first meeting was at this track! My first go and driving the cameras with the horse running to the line from the Right! (this was the days of 'no motor drives, one camera on a tripod for the action shot, another camera in the other had for the finish shot) A very nervous wait for the negatives to come back from the processor! OH NO! Oh dear me! (blush! blush!)the actions shots were ok! but I so didn't transfer over that well to the Finish camera! all over the place! as if I had be drunk! Very humbling! Thankfully I did find some form!

yip, it was that early spring race where lots of good horses were early in their campaigns and you could get some of the better winter horses being kept in work playing on a wet spring!

Again, interesting to see people close up on the inside rail, never allowed in nz

its always been a 'horses for courses' track, sand based. nice to know prerace that your horse can...

Pulls a chair in the cheap seats

@Chief Stipe any way to post this better? https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7hcALLpMMq/

Still true today? or does 'science', the vet more in play than his days? Federico Tesio (17 January 1869 – 1 May 1954) was an Italian breeder of Thoroughbreds for horse racing. He has been called "the only genius ever to operate in the breeding world" and "the greatest single figure in the history of Italian racing".[1] Born in Turin, orphaned at 6 years of age, Federico Tesio obtained a degree from the University of Florence. He served in the Italian Army during World War I and in 1939 was appointed to the Italian Senate. In 1898, he and his wife Lydia Tesio purchased a silk worm farm complete with thousands of Mulberry trees. These were removed and a guest residence, stallion stalls and stallion master's house were established on the Dormello Stud's 19 hectares of today in Dormelletto, Novara on the banks of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. This has always been where mares with foals and Stallions of the day reside. By the 1930s the complex of stables attributable to Villa Tesio, the largest in Italy, included, within it, several farms in the municipal area that - over time - were established by Tesio: those of "Surga", the "Montaccio", the "Route", the "Moretta", the "Cucchetta", the "Torbera", the "Motta", each complete with a manager's house, stables and necessary stabling. One was for pregnant mares, one for barren mares, one for yearlings, one with a nearby huge dirt track within the treed forest in a flat over the top of the mount for horses in training and so on. These farms were all part of a stretch of land which took in most of the Dormelletto of today. The Tesio property stretched from the flats of the lake about 4 km to the west and up the mounts of about 1500 metres and spread to the South for about 1.5 km. The successor to Tesio's property, The Marchese Niccolo Incisa della Rochetta, has sold off much of the original estate, but, for example, still owns several of the farms established by Tesio and an occupied two storey house directly behind the Dormelletto railway station, only 150 metres from the lake, but 1.5 km from the main villa. Tesio is given credit for the breeding successes of his farm, while his wife is identified as playing an important role in the social and business aspects of the operation, being responsible for bringing in Marchese Mario Incisa Della Rochetta as his partner in 1932. She kept the records of the stud until 1942. An owner/breeder who also always trained his own horses, Tesio's horses have influenced the breeding of the Thoroughbred internationally. He bred several champions including Nearco, Ribot, Braque and Cavaliere d’Arpino, whom he considered the best horse that he ever bred[2] Cavaliere d'Arpino sired Bellini the sire of Tenerani which in turn was the sire of Ribot, who won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe twice. Nearco sired Nearctic, sire of Northern Dancer. Donatello II won the Prix du Jockey Club but in his only defeat for Tesio, the jockey was instructed to take the lead, and lost. Donatello then immediately went to stud in the UK. Tesio bred, owned and trained 22 winners of the Derby Italiano. In 1947, Ulrico Hoepli of Milano published a book by Federico Tesio which he had titled Puro-Sangue - Animale da Esperimento. In 1958 a book was published titled "Breeding the Racehorse" accredited to Tesio and as having been edited and translated by Edward Spinola. In 2005 an English translation of the original Tesio Puro-Sangue - Animale da Esperimento translated by Maria Burnett was published by Russell Meerdink Co. Ltd (ISBN 978-0929346762) and was titled Tesio: In His Own Words. The Federico Tesio Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland is named in his honor. The Premio Lydia Tesio race at the Capannelle Racecourse in Rome is named for his wife and the Premio Federico Tesio for him at San Siro Racecourse in Milan and also the registered Group 3 Australian race Tesio Stakes in Melbourne. He died in 1954, shortly before the debut of Ribot, a horse who has been described as his "masterpiece".[1] In 1999, nearly half a century after his death, he was named at number 18 in the Racing Post's list of 100 Makers of 20th Century Racing.[1]

(cut and paste, from some who does know) to someone who claimed it was the northern riders who complained "Track was unsafe for all Jockeys not just the north islanders!! Same thing happened last time they moved rail out at Wingatui at the same place, as this part of track never gets chipped out and irrigation (during summer) doesn't go out that far. This concern was brought up by leading south island female rider!!" again i ask, how was the track safe for early races?? was damaged dun during those early races and it played out in the 5th...

join the cue... happy to report I'm trained and Ready!

Thinking about this from a Southern perspective? Anyone at the grassroots worth getting behind? " The future leaders and rising stars of the New Zealand racing codes will come together for an awards night in late July for the inaugural Industry Excellence Awards, powered by Entain Australia and New Zealand. Nominations are now open for the awards, which have been developed by Entain, the operators of New Zealand’s TAB, as a way to acknowledge the talents of Kiwis up to the age of 40 in the three racing codes. “We see these awards as a rare opportunity for all our future leaders in racing to gather together and celebrate what has been a huge year for the New Zealand racing industry,” Entain’s Managing Director – New Zealand, Cameron Rodger, said. “Each code already does a tremendous job of recognising the elite performers in their world, and this represents a chance to add to that, and reward the very best of our many great young people involved in New Zealand racing – including across some of the unsung areas that don’t always get the spotlight but are so critical to its success.” There are awards for a total of nine categories, with a supreme winner chosen from the category award winners. Category winners will receive $10,000 with finalists in each category receiving $2,000. The supreme winner will receive an extra $5,000 on top of their $10,000 category win, and a $5,000 educational package. The award categories are: Leadership, Equine Handling (Stud or Stable), Greyhound Excellence, Dedication to Breeding, Dedication to Racing, Administrative and Ancillary Services, Care and Welfare, Newcomer and National Racing Woman of the Year. Several racing stakeholders have also come on board to support the awards. “It’s outstanding to have IRT, Windsor Park Stud, Waikato Stud and Breckon Farms join us in supporting our young New Zealand talent,” Cameron Rodger said. Entain Australia and New Zealand Deputy Chief Executive Lachlan Fitt said the quality of the people involved in the New Zealand industry was a strong influence behind Entain entering the strategic partnership, which began almost one year ago on 1 June 2023. “We were very intentional in including the establishment of these awards as part of our plans,” Lachlan Fitt said. “The current strength and future potential of the New Zealand racing industry and its people was such a strong selling point for us, and we wanted to make sure there was an opportunity to recognise those who contribute today, and who will lead its future tomorrow.” The awards ceremony will be held in Auckland on 28 July, with flights and accommodation supplied for the category finalists. The finalists will be announced and contacted on 4 July. Information on the awards and the nomination process is at entaingroup.co.nz/industryawards. For more information, contact: Matt Smith Senior Manager, Communications Entain Australia and New Zealand M: 027 228 5423 E: matt.smith@entaingroup.co.nz "

Actually TAB, it could be summed up very easy in three words Core Periphery Model

looks like you two are heading for one of those Fight Nights! ps. if that sort of thing happens! I want one with Leo!!!!!

tick! To me, its how leaderships acts when after many years of alienating key players! They more and more play the game of 'procedural politics', slowly over time the costs of speaking up gets heavier and heavier! I could continue on this vain...

The people down their are V Conservative, generally they don't trust the media! Their normal approach is to internalise and mull over. Compare and contrast that with Sean, a rather gregarious fella! He has good relations with the local community and media down there! He not be afraid to stick his head above the trenches! They be lucky to have him! I bet on their bank balance be a lot healthier than most clubs! More power to him I say!

This article was in a recent New Zealand Thoroughbred Marketing mail out, anyone share insight into this sort of thing? Snow Patrol’s staying days on ice Snow Patrol’s (NZ) (Contributer) days of being tried as a stayer are over with genetic testing confining the Gr.2 Autumn Stakes (1400m) winner to sprinting trips. Co-trainer Michael Kent Junior said the stable’s disappointment in Snow Patrol’s latest run in March when well beaten in the Gr.2 Alister Clark Stakes (2040m) was eased following a genetic test of his probable preference for shorter trips. “He is by Contributer and we were hopeful that he would get 2000m,” Kent Jnr explained. “We did one of those DNA tests to determine his best race distance and it’s proven what we were suspicious of, and that he’s actually genetically proven to be a sprinter-miler as he came back as a CC. “Often it’s obvious, you would never test horses like Profiteer, you just know those types of horses to be flying machines. “But those middle ones, like Snow Patrol. Being by Contributer, you hope he’d get 2000 metres but there you go, he’s best being over shorter distances. “Many times it (the DNA test) will tell you exactly what you thought but sometimes its good information like that and worthwhile doing.” Snow Patrol is being readied for the G3 Fred Best Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm next Saturday, where he will be ridden by Blake Shinn

Well Done her! ps.I wonder how many jockeys have won a race in the long history of racing NZ, sadly a impossible question to answer. What with head office data base being very unhelpful for that sort of thing..