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News.com.au
21-06-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Brave One's impressive performance at Randwick highlights a promising future for the Team Hawkes gelding
Brave One proved plenty in his 1300m romp around Royal Randwick on Saturday. The Team Hawkes -trained three-year-old proved you can travel wide and still win, proved he's not just a wet-tracker, and proved he's a promising young sprinter. This all took a tick over 67 seconds as Brave One put paid to his rivals with a consummate ease in the Quayclean Handicap (1300m). • Hall of Fame trainer John Hawkes wasn't concerned when jockey Dylan Gibbons was trapped three-wide from an outside barrier. 'It's all about tempo. They didn't go hard and Dylan had the horse in a nice rhythm,'' Hawkes said. 'If they ran long at a fast tempo, then he had a chance to get over but if they go hard and you are trapped out wide then it is more difficult. 'But Dylan rode the horse how I asked him to – just have the horse where he was comfortable. 'Brave One was a class above them, he's better than this grade.'' With Gibbons wearing the racing colours synonymous with the Hawkes stable's former champion sprinter Chautauqua, the emerging Brave One ($4 favourite) raced away to win by one-and-a-half lengths from Secure ($5) with Lunaite ($5) nearly a length away third. Gibbons, who missed four months over summer with a shoulder injury but has been in brilliant form of late, didn't panic when he could get closer than three-wide on Brave One early. 'You probably couldn't tell but the first half of the race I had actually cover and it wasn't until the 700m that Kerrin (McEvoy, Lunaite) dropped in,'' Gibbons said. A very brave win for Brave One at Randwick! ðŸ'° @HawkesRacing @djgibbons22 @aus_turf_club â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 21, 2025 'The pace slackened and it landed us in free ground so I just had to trust his ability late.'' Gibbons admitted it is usually frowned upon in Australian racing to be three-wide but the jockey was also factoring in the race tempo with his riding tactics. 'Sometimes being three-wide is better than being one-one or three-back, one-off in a slow race and over-racing. From those wide alleys you can really only beat yourself,'' he said. 'I have been doing a bit of work for the Hawkes team at home and they are very easy to ride for. 'They've got one instruction and that's to ride the horse and keep the horse happy. It is pretty easy when your only plan is to do exactly that. They make it easy on you. 'There were no instructions from out wide. I trusted the horse and it paid off. I gave him a chance to go and win it and he did just that. 'It obviously helps when you've got a horse with ability but I think that showed today because he was able to cruise across, have cover for the first half and then from there on in it was a matter of point and shoot.' Brave One, who is by Team Hawkes former Group 1-winning sprinter Exceedance and cost $300,000 at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, improved his record to two wins (and two seconds) from just six starts and took his earnings to nearly $260,000. Get the latest on Brave One after his win at Randwick! @djgibbons22 @HawkesRacing @aus_turf_club â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 21, 2025 Gibbons and Hawkes were in agreement that the best is yet to come from Brave One. 'I think he will keep improving,'' Gibbons said. 'What I really liked today is when I rode him last start he was keen, he still travelled up well and probably got beaten by a handy one (Kerguelen). 'But today, he was beautiful, relaxed right in my hands, and he was tough. There is a lot of ability there and I'll be excited to see where he goes from here.' Brave One continues what has been an outstanding season for the Hawkes stable who has prepared 60 winners of a career-best $11.1 million prizemoney including Group 1 wins from exciting trio Briasa (TJ Smith Stakes), Nepotism (Champagne Stakes) and Devil Night (Blue Diamond). Hawkes, who trains in partnership with his sons Michael and Wayne, said Brave One has a 'bright future' but he was not sure how much longer into winter the young sprinter will keep racing. 'We will see how Brave One pulls up,'' Hawkes said. 'We might look to give him one more run, we will just play it by ear. 'But he's not just a wet-tracker as he showed today. He's a nice horse and will be even better next time around.''
Los Angeles Times
13-06-2025
- General
- Los Angeles Times
Dreamers built a 1920s utopia in the Palisades. How remnants of that Chautauqua movement survived the fire
On a recent walk through the charred and twisted remains and scraped-flat plateau of the Pacific Palisades, local historian Randy Young paused a couple of hundred yards into the mouth of Temescal Canyon, above Sunset Boulevard, to let the eerie randomness of the January flames sink in. So much was erased in so little time, leaving the lasting impression, whether from afar or close-up, of a wasteland — a place almost wiped off the map. But here, in the narrows of the canyon, where Temescal Creek tickled the roots of sycamores and cooled the air beneath the heavy branches of valley oaks, Young lighted up with the enthusiasm of an amateur botanist. 'The oak trees took all of the fire's embers. They caught them like catcher's mitts,' said Young, who grew up in adjacent Rustic Canyon and until recently lived in a Palisades apartment near Temescal. Those trees, and the green (and thus less flammable) edges of the creek, helped to save a row of small, wooden cottages and a cluster of wood-shingled, pitched-roof buildings that were the remains of the 77-acre Chautauqua Assembly Camp, once the thriving nucleus of a 1920s effort to shape the Palisades as a spiritual and intellectual lodestar on the California Coast. The Chautauqua movement — founded in 1874 at Lake Chautauqua, N.Y., to better train Sunday-school teachers — swept the country in the late 19th century, blossoming into a network of assemblies drawing rural and working-class Americans hungry for education, culture and social progress. While short-lived, the local camp would form the blueprint for Pacific Palisades to this day. Young, who has co-written books about the Palisades and its surrounding communities, stepped onto the short boardwalk fronting a modest wooden structure. 'This was the grocery store and meat market,' he noted. Rounding the slope at the back, he pointed to an old Adirondack-style dining hall — now called Cheadle Hall but originally Woodland Hall — its simple post-and-beam and wood wainscoting preserved from the early 1920s. He also spoke of what had been lost over the decades: Across the glade had stood a barnlike, three-tiered auditorium. Nearby, he said, had been a log-cabin library. Up and down the canyon were dozens of river-rock cottages and timbered casitas, and 200 canvas tents raised on wooden platforms. South of Sunset Boulevard (then known as Marquez Road), on a site that now includes Palisades Charter High School, was the Institute Camp, containing an amphitheater carved out of a natural bowl, where thousands of summertime campers would hear the likes of Leo Tolstoy's son, Illya, speaking on 'The True Russia,' or Bakersfield-born Lawrence Tibbett, who would become one of the country's greatest baritones, perform selections from his Metropolitan Opera repertoire. The Institute Camp also housed the Founders Oak, a tree that marked the site of the community's 1922 founding ceremony, and lots for independent groups, like the WE Boys and Jesus our Companion (J.O.C.), Methodist-affiliated clubs who made a former Mission Revival home into the Aldersgate Lodge (925 Haverford Ave.) in 1928. In the sylvan canyon, the Palisades Chautauqua offered a bewildering array of ways to lift oneself up: hiking and calisthenics, elocution and oratory, homemaking and child psychology, music, history, politics, literature and theater. Tinged with piety, these were, in their own words, 'high class, jazz-free resort facilities.' The official dedication of the Palisades Chautauqua on Aug. 6, 1922, would be the last of its kind in the country. It was spearheaded by Rev. Charles Holmes Scott, a Methodist minister and educational reformer who dreamed of creating the 'Chautauqua of the West.' The influence of the movement was so central to the Palisades' identity that in 1926, one of its main thoroughfares — Chautauqua Boulevard — was named in its honor. Scott, inspired by the Chautauqua tradition's ideals of self-transformation, envisioned Pacific Palisades as a place where character would matter more than commerce. 'Banks and railroads and money is always with us. But the character and integrity of our men and women is something money cannot buy. We will prove the worth of man,' Scott declared. Residents signed 99-year leases to ensure the community's cooperative nature. The leasehold model was also meant to prevent speculation, fund cultural facilities and events, and uphold moral standards. Alcohol, billboards and architectural extravagance were all prohibited — as was, alas, anyone who wasn't Protestant or white. The Palisades Assn., under Scott's guidance, purchased nearly 2,000 acres of mesa, foothills and coastline. Pasadena landscape architect Clarence Day drew up the first plans, establishing a new axis, Via de la Paz, or Way of Peace, eventually home to Pacific Palisades United Methodist Community Church (1930) and terminating at a neoclassical, Napoleonic-scaled Peace Temple, atop Peace Hill. He laid out two tracts: Founders Tract I, a tight-knit grid of streets (now known as the Alphabet Streets) for modest homes above Sunset Boulevard, and the curving Founders Tract II, closer to the coast with larger lots for more affluent residents. Soon after, Day was replaced by the renowned Olmsted Brothers, who refined the layout to follow natural contours, planted thousands of trees and designed a stately civic center in which they wanted to include a library, hotel, lake, a park with a concert grove and a far larger, permanent auditorium. Only one major element of that center was realized: Clifton Nourse's Churrigueresque-style Business Block building at Swarthmore and Sunset, completed in 1924. By the end of 1923, it seemed as if the Palisades was destined to become a boom town, with 1,725 people making down payments totaling more than $1.5 million on 99-year renewable leases. In early 1924, demand slumped, never to revive. To preserve the dream, in 1926 Scott abandoned the lease-only model and began selling lots. That same year the association borrowed heavily to purchase 226 more ocean-view acres from the estate of railway magnate Collis P. Huntington, installing underground utilities and ornamental street lighting in an area that would become known as the Huntington Palisades. Debt soared from $800,000 in 1925 to $3.5 million by the end of 1926. As the 1929 stock market crash hit and revenue dried up in the Great Depression, the association collapsed. Its assets were sold off. Grand plans, like the Civic Center and the Peace Temple, were abandoned. The dream withered. 'There wasn't a moment where they said 'we're stopping,'' Young said. 'It just sort of petered out.' Yet fragments endured, stubbornly. In 1943, the Presbyterian Synod purchased the Chautauqua site and operated it as a retreat. In the late '70s and early '80s, local activists fought off a plan to extend Reseda Boulevard right through Temescal Canyon (though buildings like the library and assembly hall had already been torn down in anticipation of the roadway). In 1994, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy acquired the land. Today, it survives as the city-run Temescal Gateway Park, its board-and-batten cabins and rustic halls weathered but largely intact. The Business Block — since January a fire-blackened shell awaiting its undetermined fate — narrowly escaped demolition in the 1980s when a developer proposed replacing it with a concrete and glass mall. A preservationist campaign under the slogan 'Don't Mall the Palisades' saved the structure. But by then, the character of the Palisades had begun to shift. Faint echoes of the quiet, rustic past remained, but modest bungalows had given way to mansions. The artists, radicals and missionaries were largely gone. 'It's not Chautauqua anymore — it's Château Taco Bell,' Young quipped, of much of the area's soulless new built forms. Today, thanks to the fire's brutality, the original Chautauqua sites offer something unusual: a landscape where past and present momentarily coexist. Slate roofs held firm. Ancient oak groves performed better than modern landscaping. For Young, the fires stripped away modern gloss to reveal what continues to matter. 'When you go through a fire,' he said, 'you get down to the basics.' He added: 'The fires brought us back to 1928.' Pacific Palisades is one of a long list of failed California utopias. Like Llano del Rio, the socialist settlement in the Antelope Valley, or the Kaweah Colony, a cooperative in the Sierra foothills, it was a high-minded gamble dashed on the shoals of capitalism and human nature. The idealistic outpost lingers, etched into the land, embossed in the Palisades' deeper memory. The dream may no longer be intact, but its traces are still legible.
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
SUNY Orange men's golf places 11th at NJCAA Division III championships
Liam Parker finished 52nd overall to lead SUNY Orange golfers at the NJCAA Division III championships held at upstate Chautauqua Golf Club. The Colts finished last among 11 full teams, with 1,431 strokes, 295 behind champion Sandhills Community College, which shot 16-under-par over four rounds at par-72 Chautauqua Golf Course in western New York from June 3-6. Advertisement Parker posted seven pars and nine bogeys on day one; one birdie, seven pars and four bogeys on day two; two birdies, seven pars and seven bogeys on day three; and, two birdies, five pars and nine bogeys on day four. In all, Parker shot 49 over par. Daniel Conrad finished in 55th place, at 54-under. kmcmillan@ X / Twitter: @KenMcMillanTHR 2025 NJCAA Division III nationals SUNY Orange golfers: 52. Liam Parker 83-89-81-84 - 337 (+49); 55. Daniel Conrad 88-89-81-84 - 342 (+54); 65. Alex Miller 102-92-86-84 - 364 (+76); T70. Garrett McGovern 104-95-93-96 - 388 (+100); 72. William Siebert 105-97-93-102 - 397 (+109) Advertisement SUNY Ulster golfers: 59. Austin Uhl 89-88-86-84 - 347 (+59); 66. Jessie Rodriguez 89-86-90-100 - 365 (+77) This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: SUNY Orange competes at 2025 NJCAA Division III men's golf nationals
The Independent
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased' by maximum sentence for attacker
Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is 'pleased' that the man who stabbed him multiple times on stage received the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the 2025 trial about the 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, which left him blind in one eye. US citizen Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February and sentenced this month. He was also sentenced to seven years for wounding another man who was on stage with the writer at the time of the attack. On Monday, Indian-born British author Sir Salman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'I was pleased that he got the maximum available, and I hope he uses it to reflect upon his deeds.' He also spoke about working with BBC producer Alan Yentob, who died on Saturday, on a 2024 BBC Two programme that featured an artificial intelligence (AI) creation, based on his fictional conversation with Matar that he recalled in his autobiography Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder. Sir Salman said: 'I thought if I was to really meet him, to ask him questions, I wouldn't get very much out of him. I doubt that he would open his heart to me. 'And so I thought, 'well, I could open it by myself. I'd probably do it better than a real conversation would'.' He added: '(The AI animation) was very startling. I have to say it really certainly made a point.' Sir Salman called former BBC executive and TV presenter Yentob not just an 'unbelievable champion of the arts', but someone who has a 'real gift for friendship'. 'He's one of the giants of British media in the last generation,' he also said. 'I think he will be remembered as a maker of great programmes and as an enabler of great programmes as well.' Sir Salman recalled Yentob gave him his first break with a programme that saw Sir Ben Kingsley read his book Midnight's Children before he won the Booker Prize, and the publication of his 1988 book The Satanic Verses. It was The Satanic Verses that saw Sir Salman accused of being blasphemous by hardline Muslims and prompted then Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa calling for his death in 1989. He later spoofed himself and Yentob, when they appeared to arm wrestle on the BBC satirical programme W1A. Sir Salman also said that it was 'horrendous' that the Kids Company controversy made him resign as the author added: 'I think it needs to be said, repeatedly, (he was) completely exonerated, and so were all the other directors.' Yentob served as chairman of the board of trustees for Kids Company, founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh, from 2003 until the collapse of the charity in 2015. He always insisted there was no conflict of interest in his decision to call Newsnight about its investigation into Kids Company and had not 'abused my position at the BBC'. During Yentob's tenure at BBC2, Absolutely Fabulous, starring Jennifer Saunders and Dame Joanna Lumley, arts series The Late Show and Have I Got News For You, were commissioned. He also launched CBBC and CBeebies, commissioned Colin Firth-starring Pride And Prejudice, and in 2024 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the King for services to the arts and media.
BreakingNews.ie
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased' by maximum sentence for attacker
Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is 'pleased' that the man who stabbed him multiple times on stage received the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the 2025 trial about the 2022 attack at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, which left him blind in one eye. Advertisement US citizen Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February and sentenced this month. Hadi Matar walks into Chautauqua County court in Mayville, New York. Photo: Adrian Kraus/PA. He was also sentenced to seven years for wounding another man who was on stage with the writer at the time of the attack. On Monday, Indian-born British author Sir Salman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'I was pleased that he got the maximum available, and I hope he uses it to reflect upon his deeds.' He also spoke about working with BBC producer Alan Yentob, who died on Saturday, on a 2024 BBC Two programme that featured an artificial intelligence (AI) creation, based on his fictional conversation with Matar that he recalled in his autobiography Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder. Advertisement Sir Salman said: 'I thought if I was to really meet him, to ask him questions, I wouldn't get very much out of him. I doubt that he would open his heart to me. 'And so I thought, 'well, I could open it by myself. I'd probably do it better than a real conversation would'.' He added: '(The AI animation) was very startling. I have to say it really certainly made a point.' Alan Yentob, a former BBC executive and TV presenter (Jonathan Brady/PA) Sir Salman called former BBC executive and TV presenter Yentob not just an 'unbelievable champion of the arts', but someone who has a 'real gift for friendship'. Advertisement 'He's one of the giants of British media in the last generation,' he also said. 'I think he will be remembered as a maker of great programmes and as an enabler of great programmes as well.' Sir Salman recalled Yentob gave him his first break with a programme that saw Sir Ben Kingsley read his book Midnight's Children before he won the Booker Prize, and the publication of his 1988 book The Satanic Verses. It was The Satanic Verses that saw Sir Salman accused of being blasphemous by hardline Muslims and prompted then Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa calling for his death in 1989. Advertisement He later spoofed himself and Yentob, when they appeared to arm wrestle on the BBC satirical programme W1A. Sir Salman also said that it was 'horrendous' that the Kids Company controversy made him resign as the author added: 'I think it needs to be said, repeatedly, (he was) completely exonerated, and so were all the other directors.' Yentob served as chairman of the board of trustees for Kids Company, founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh, from 2003 until the collapse of the charity in 2015. Entertainment Andrew Garfield's outspoken grief helped with loss... Read More He always insisted there was no conflict of interest in his decision to call Newsnight about its investigation into Kids Company and had not 'abused my position at the BBC'. Advertisement During Yentob's tenure at BBC2, Absolutely Fabulous, starring Jennifer Saunders and Dame Joanna Lumley, arts series The Late Show and Have I Got News For You, were commissioned. He also launched CBBC and CBeebies, commissioned Colin Firth-starring Pride And Prejudice, and in 2024 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the King for services to the arts and media.
