General News
With
2007 moving at a rapid pace, and already
heading into the Autumn season, we present to you the March edition
of our monthly newsletter. We would like to welcome our new clients
to the Intervest team, and we look forward to working with you
this year.
Please
don't forget that if you have any new ideas regarding the topics you
would like to read about in our newsletters, to please contact
Courtney at the office with your thoughts, until then we hope that
you continue to enjoy receiving and reading them.
The Golden Slipper
Stakes was the brainchild of then committeeman of the Sydney Turf
Club, George Ryder. The race is traditionally run on the
Saturday before Easter at Rosehill racecourse.
His idea was for a race
exclusively for two year olds run at special weights - being 8 stone
7lbs (54 kg) for colts and geldings and 8 stone (51 kg) for
fillies. Ryder believed that the fillies needed the extra
allowance to ensure they would have a reasonable chance of defeating
the colts and geldings.
To date the Golden
Slipper has been run 54 times with colts and geldings winning 27
times and fillies 17.
The first Golden Slipper
was run in 1957 with 11 runners and the champion colt Todman (by
Star Kingdom) raced away to win. Over the next four years the
winners were all sired by the champion sire Star Kingdom whose
sirelines can still be found in the breeding of many of today's
winners.
Golden
Slipper winners Todman, Baguette, Vain, Marscay and Marauding have
also gone on to sire winners of this race. The 90s have seen
the dominance of the shuttle stallion, Danehill, who has sired four
winners in that decade. The most successful trainer was the
late T J Smith with six winners followed by J B (Bart) Cummings,
Clarry Conners and Lee Freedman with four winners
each.
The most
successful jockeys have been Ron Quinton and Shane Dye with 4 wins
each, followed by Mick Dittman, Kevin Langby and Athol Mulley with
three each. Two apprentices have won the Slipper - Wayne Harris
and Darren Beadman.
The inaugural Golden
Slipper was worth 20,000 pounds compared to the Slipper of 2000
which carried prize money of $2,500,000 with the winner receiving
$1,500,000 and trophies. The Golden Slipper is now the richest 2YO horse race in the
world.
General
Interest
Last month
Intervest featured a Trivia Pursuit Challenge for all to tackle!
Please find below the answers and the lucky
winner!
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1 |
What animal linked name describes someone who
always gets
blamed?Scapegoat |
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2 |
How many James Bond movie titles have just one
word in the title?
5 |
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3 |
Which is the lowest whole number, when spelt
out, is in correct alphabetical order?
Forty |
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4 |
What is the only word in the English Language
that ends in AMT?
Dreamt |
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5 |
Who was the largest (i.e. fattest) ever Prime
Minister? Robert
Lange |
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6 |
According to Tina Turner, what is the speed
limit in Nutbush? 25
MPH |
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7 |
Which movie was released in Venezuela as
'Vaselina'?
Grease |
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8 |
Which band had an album cover that had a prism
with spectral lines coming out of it?
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the
Moon |
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9 |
How long in yards is a furlong?
220
Yards |
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10 |
At which racecourse was the first totalisator
installed - hint it was in New Zealand?
Ellerslie, New
Zealand |
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11 |
Which Creature has the largest eyes?
Giant
Squid |
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12 |
Which planet is known as The Red Planet?
Mars |
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13 |
The
name Phar Lap is from a Thai phrase meaning?
Lightening |
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14 |
What is the most widely spoken language in the
world?
Mandarin |
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15 |
In what part of the body are the smallest bones?
Ears |
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16 |
Who won the 2002 Rugby Union Super 12's?
Canterbury
Crusaders |
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17 |
What do you do when you nictate?
Blink |
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18 |
What is the official language of Nigeria?
English |
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19 |
What is a capon? Castrated
Rooster |
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20 |
What was the D-Day invasion password?
Mickey
Mouse |
Out
of the group of people that completed the Trivia Pursuit Challenge
there were 3 contestants with a final score of 19 out of a possible 20 correct
answers.
These
entries were then placed into a box and a winner was drawn. The
winner of $100 into their TAB Account is.
Mick
Cole
Congratulations Mick of Western
Australia.
Joke
of the Month
Did
you hear about the guy who went to the races and while there he
observed a Roman Catholic priest who went over to a horse and
sprinkled it with holy water. The horse went on to win the race,
streaking ahead of the opposition. Before the next race he saw the
priest go over to another horse and sprinkle it with holy water.
Like the first horse it went on to win its
race.
The
guy said to himself that if the priest sprinkles another horse with
holy water I am going to bet every penny I have on that horse. Sure
enough, the priest went over to another horse and sprinkled it with
holy water. So the guy went to a bookie and bet every penny he had
on this horse.
Then
the race started and the horse that the priest sprinkled with holy
water dropped dead about 100 yards after the start of the
race.
The
guy was devastated. So he went over to the priest and said, "What's
going on here? The last two horses you sprinkled with holy water
went on to win their races, and this last one you sprinkled dropped
dead after only 100 yards. I had put every penny I had on it's
nose!"
The
priest replied, "You're not Roman Catholic, are you?" The guy
admitted that he was not and asked, "But, how do you know
that?"
The
priest said, "Because you don't know the difference between giving a
blessing and administering the last rights."
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Technical Tip
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The Kokoda
Challenge
The Kokoda
Challenge is designed to reflect the key elements of the Spirit of
our nation; endurance,
courage, sacrifice, mateship.
The Challenge is a cross-country, bushwalking team event over 96kms
which represents the distance of the Kokoda Track, to be completed
within 39 hours which symbolises the 39th Militia Battalion, the
first of our Australian troops to arrive at Kokoda, on 15 th July
1942.
Intervest Global is
entering a team in the Kokoda Challenge to help raise money for
KCYP, we believe it is a very worthwhile cause. If you would like to
support the IGL team and this worthy cause, please contact Gina at
our office by telephone or via email on gina.winsor@intervestglobal.com
To find out more please
follow this link www.kokodachallenge.com
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If you
would like to feature in one of our 2007 newsletters and share your
stories with existing Intervest clients, please do not hesitate to contact Courtney.
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