Matt Smith

@AnnieLennox Just a warning, Annie: everybody's looking for something. Some of them want to use you, some of them want to get used by you.

@JimmyRob2110 Or 2.5 beers if it's a former school colleague of yours.

NGL I thought the answer to this was "Skull a beer". Turns out it's "Hold your breath".

@GuerinSports @AndrewNJHawkins Lovely bloke to have a yarn with in the rustic, draughty "media room" at Oamaru Racecourse and oppositethe winning post. Unfailingly polite and happy to lend a hand for someone like me who was no natural with a camera.

Colin Berry, the NZ photographer who took one of racing’s most amazing pics, died on the weekend. He took this incredible photo of the 1961 NZ Free-For-All being run while the Addington grandstand burned down 50m away, Colin was a wonderful bloke and his images will live on.

@GuerinSports @oats_and @marshracing @GregORacingNZ I recall the standfirrst on the 12 Questions interview with you a decade or so where your preference for Michael seemed quite clear so I've stuck with Michael ever since. And occasionally MG.

@oats_and @marshracing @GregORacingNZ Yes that was the Herald’s idea and it kinda stuck. Bit more catchy than Michael on Monday 😂😂

Mick On Monday: Not happy with being just the $6 million man, Stephen Marsh on verge of record season ⁦@marshracing⁩ nzherald.co.nz/sport/racing/m…

@brettcoffey The judges give it 1.47 out of 7.

Athleticism personified

@shortflyslip I'm amazed my old school of Logan Park still has a first XI. Pretty sure they dipped out of genuinely competitive cricket for a while.

The Otago qualifying tournament for the boys' 1st XI Cup began today in Dunedin. St Kevin's beat Logan Park (Hamish Fowler 61 & 3-14) and King's beat Waitaki BHS with Ryder Guthrie taking 4-22. Wakatipu's Liam Clarke scored 142 in the win over Mt Aspiring (Sam Harper 121 off 86

@heyxie I (well, me or one of my sisters) used to have that on cassette. A great little compilation album.

“And it's something quite peculiar Something shimmering and white It leads you here, despite your destination Under the Milky Way tonight…” Various Artists, Hits Alive: 12 Monster Hits of ‘88 (1988) #NowSpinning

@JamieWall2 And after all that, he gave it the Izzy Dagg dead-ball line flirt.

Holy shit

@SweatyJester That's incredible!

Decided to follow this guy just so I can keep track of all the mayhem he's causing due to the lack of a sincere apology.

@AidanRodley @HaydenMeikle I was at the Oamaru Mail when Allegro Agitato was winning Group 1s in Australia from the Williamson stable. Roni was unfailingly lovely to deal with.

Saddened to hear of Roni's passing. She encouraged me to follow a career in journalism when she was the editor of the Oamaru Mail and I was playing rugby there. Not the only one in my journalism class she had a strong influence on, right @HaydenMeikle?

@bengrimstone Weirdly I was contemplating a Petone Kmart run last night. Glad I didn't go.

Me being the betting man I am. If someone put up under 30.5 cars in the Petone Kmart carpark at 10:25pm on a Sunday. My inheritance plus everything to my name goes on at the very least. Unfortunately I’m now broke. That car park is jammed, 70 at least. Each to their own I guess

Umm....

@joshthomson116 @TTaylorTAB 60% at an absolute max.

@TTaylorTAB Its a great point. What % of a pies price do you think a sausage roll should be?

I'd like to talk about the price difference between pies and sausage rolls and how there isn't one....unprecedented times..

@JamieWall2 You joke, but I attended a wedding where someone wore an alternate white All Blacks jersey as their dress "shirt". He paired it with some black slacks, which was the tipping point for me deciding it was their "nice top". And no, the ABs weren't playing that night.

Feel like the Highlanders' away jersey has real versatility/cult status potential...like that's something someone from Invercargill can wear to a wedding

And then Afire's 3/4 sister in blood, Inflamed (by Ghibellines and out of Ortem Fire, a half-sister to Afire's dam Inferno) wins the open handicap at Wingatui, also over 1400m. The drums are beating... #MelbourneCup #MelbCupCarnival

Smokin' Romans' full sister Afire wins easily over 1400m at Wingatui this afternoon. Two wins for the dam in the space of two hours? Probably not, but you never know...

Big weekend for Proposition Joe, with his full brother Franco Motu winning a Group 2 in Perth on Friday and Joe remaining unbeaten with his win over Indulge Me today.

Much respect for the people of Whanganui. Up here for my grandfather's funeral this morning. We had the funeral convoy from the funeral home to the crematorium, and so many cars heading in the opposite direction pulled over to the side of the road until our convoy passed.

@GarrickRKnight @turnitupnz I'm just happy to be hanging onto his coat tails. Attn: @tobymckinnon711

Agents, ringing @turnitupnz after Proposition Joe made a winning debut today.

@AndyMuir22 It's a beautiful physical metaphor for the Stags' last couple of weeks.

Name another stadium that has a giant maroon and gold anaconda watching over the scoreboard...

@shortflyslip That prompted him to head to Italy full-time to play for boot money, I think. Won the final on the Saturday and at 5.30am on the Monday, he was off to work. I need to peruse my copy of John Kirwan's Rugby World when I get home tonight for Green's exact take.

@MataiGG haha, dunno if true but a great shout. Green spoke of being back at work on the Monday after the World Cup final.

First All Black with a roofing background since . . . Craig Green? stuff.co.nz/sport/36081585…