Selwyn Times: December 01, 2021

Selwyn Times Wednesday December 1 2021
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RACING/SPORT
Jones tastes success
at trots and gallops
• By Jonny Turner
FROM PACERS to gallopers,
from Christchurch to Cromwell,
Mark Jones was training winners
all over the South Island at the
weekend.
Burnham-based Jones’ winning
run started at Addington
on Friday night when his star
mare Stylish Memphis returned
to her best by reeling off sizzling
sectionals to score.
The horseman then produced
Selsey Bill in conditions far from
sizzling – on a wet track as the
rain came down at Geraldine.
On Sunday, Jones enjoyed more
success with Southern Storm
winning at Addington before his
thoroughbred Phelan The Power
also won at Cromwell.
Though in the galloping code,
Phelan The Power has a harness
racing connection. Northern
trainer Scott Phelan races the
four-year-old with group of owners
including his partner Emma
Anderson and father, Frank.
Jones didn’t make it to Cromwell,
having commitments at
Addington where he produced
Southern Storm for a deserved
maiden victory.
“We actually had him sold, but
the buyer pulled out so that was
why he was scratched last week,”
Jones said.
Samantha Ottley had Southern
Storm in the trail for much of
race 2 before angling him for his
winning run along the passing
lane.
There was no way Selsey Bill
was going to be in the trail in his
maiden win at Orari on Saturday.
Blair Orange was determined
to hold the lead early in race 3
with the two-year-old.
Selsey Bill shrugged off his
early work, with Orange rating
him to perfection as he went on
to a powerful maiden win in testing
conditions.
Jones’ winning run started at
Addington on Friday night where
Stylish Memphis returned to
her best form. The four-year-old
didn’t show her true worth earlier
this season, leading to her New
Zealand Cup campaign being derailed
and the reset button being
pushed on her campaign.
Stylish Memphis showed she
had put that well behind her
when unleashing a smart last
800m split of 54.6sec to win.
“We had a lot of issues with her,
gave her a freshen up and she has
come back up really good,’’ Jones
said.
Stylish Memphis headed to
Auckland soon after her win
at Addington. She will start in
next month’s Northern Breeders
Stakes and the Queen Of Hearts
before returning to Sydney to
defend her Ladyship Mile crown.
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Uni student picks up trophy
for Canty’s strongest woman
PHD STUDENTS carry a heavy
workload at times, and none
more so than Brittany Graham
of Lincoln University.
Graham, of Prebbleton, has
been named Canterbury’s
strongest woman after winning
the strongman/woman title open
division at the Canterbury’s
Strongest Man and Women 2021
competition in Christchurch
recently.
Graham was thrilled to have
won the title. She said she had
only decided to try her hand at
the sport after being convinced
by her friend and fellow PhD
student Katie Pitt. Pitt has been
Canterbury’s strongest under-
73kg female for the past two
years.
“I got swiftly convinced to
compete at my first competition
in February where I came second
and caught the bug,” she said.
She said her new passion had
made her more productive when
it came to her study, due to the
physical benefits making her feel
more clear-minded. She trained
four days a week with heavy
strength sessions and some
conditioning work.
“I try to have a good work/life
balance, so do uni work through
the day and generally around
POWER: Brittany Graham on her way to becoming
Canterbury’s strongest woman.
4pm I clock off and head straight
to the gym.”
Her success in the sporting
arena is matched by that in
academia.
Graham was recently among
six postgraduate and postdoctoral
researchers awarded
$2.4 million in Jobs for Nature
funding to help efforts to eradicate
pests.
She is studying toward a PhD
in conservation and ecology,
specifically pest control. Her
work involves investigating the
integration of control tools, such
as traps and bait stations, and
attractants, such as audio, social
and food-based lures, to optimise
ground-based pest control.
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