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West Australian
5 days ago
- Sport
- West Australian
Faithfull lands two more winners at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Racing Club
Natasha Faithfull's pursuit of jockey of the year honours at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Racing Club remains on track after she booted home two winners at Sunday's meeting. Faithfull opened the seven-event card with victory aboard the Stephanie Bakranich-trained Stryker's Gal ($2.50 favourite). She followed-up in the next race with Think Lika Winner ($3.50), for trainer Ted Martinovich. It boosted her season tally at the KBRC to 10 points — three clear of Lucy Fiore, who scored with the Peter Fernie-trained On Just Terms ($6) in the last race of the day. Also on Sunday, Helen Harding runner Ultimate Paradise (Zephen Johnston-Porter) won at $31 over 1200m. Harding is second, behind Fernie, for trainer of the year. Action at the KBRC resumes on June 15.
West Australian
02-06-2025
- Sport
- West Australian
Madame Magic stays distance no worries to land $100,000 WA Day Cup at Northam
Madame Magic may finally be delivering on some early Oaks promise with a taking win in the $100,000 Swan Draught WA Day Cup (1600m) at Northam. From the inside barrier, the $13 TABtouch hope tucked away three back along the rail with Idyllic Ruler ($20) and Snazzler ($11) ahead. Shuffled back to midfield through halfway, Tash Faithfull niggled the five-year-old along passing the 600m when the tempo increased. But by the 400m mark, Madame Magic was again travelling and as both Idyllic Ruler and Snazzler shifted off the inside, Faithfull shot the daughter of Real Impact up the fence. 200m later, Madame Magic had burst to the front with Ton Of Grunt ($11) – who had covered her every move from the outset – becoming the nearest pursuer. However, Dan and Ben Pearce's mare showed no signs of flagging and ate up the extended journey to win by almost a length from Ton Of Grunt. It was only the second time Madame Magic had seen 1600m with her previous effort a closing fifth on New Year's Day after having her momentum checked early in the straight. After the victory, Ben Pearce suggested she could now be destined for even more enduring targets. 'Going back to early on in her career, we thought she was an Oaks filly coming through,' he said. 'We've never really had a chance to get big preps into her and get her up to that trip. 'This time in, she's been up to go straight through 12, 14, to the mile. 'We're excited to see it and she did well. 'She's had a lot of bad luck throughout her career but she's been consistent and finally got the luck she needed.' Faithfull had ridden the mare at two of her three prior runs for the preparation for fourth places, missing the victory on May 3 when riding at Kalgoorlie. 'She was just travelling so beautifully underneath me. We got into a really nice rhythm and the flow of the race just suited me to perfection,' she said. The rider, who sits fifth on the WA jockey premiership with 108 wins, said Madame Magic went to the line with something left in the tank. 'I thought she ran it out really strongly and she gives me a feel like she'd get even further,' she said. Faithfull has formed a formidable alliance with the Pearce brothers across the season, guiding home Art Session, Rally The Troops, Famous Dain and Wineaclocksumwhere for them all inside the last month. 'They've been great. Big supporter of me and I can't thank them enough,' she said of their combination. + Across town, greyhounds Aston Maddox and Night Lighter took their respective heats of the Avon Valley series. Aston Maddox ($3f) scored by two and a half lengths from Weave The Ring ($10), while Night Lighter ($1.10f) clung on by three quarters of a length from Ruby's Rocket ($21).
NZ Herald
24-05-2025
- Politics
- NZ Herald
Māori will have nothing to fear from me when I'm Deputy Prime Minister
Seymour said Act is not an anti-Māori party and Māori have nothing to fear from him. Being Māori Act has been a driver of policies some people have criticised as divisive - like the scrapped Treaty of Waitangi Principles Bill and the Waitangi Tribunal Review. National, Act and NZ First all wanted the Māori Health Authority - created to address health inequities faced by Māori - scrapped. Labour MP Willie Jackson once labelled Seymou r a 'useless Māori and New Zealand's most dangerous man because of his policies.' Seymour though, said he's proud of his whakapapa - which he received through his late mother, Victoria. 'There are people who try to paint me as anti-Māori, despite me being Māori. I'm very proud of my heritage,' Seymour told the Herald. 'My maternal grandmother's McKay family came to New Zealand last century and arrived in Gisborne in about 1907. The Faithfull's, on my mum's dad's side, lived in the Dargaville area,' he said. 'The Faithfull's were related to descendants of Maraea Te Inutoto from Waimate North. She was a high-status member of Ngāti Rēhia. We understand that she and her husband Stephen Wrathall settled near Taipā. She's my great-great-great-grandmother. That's my Māori whakapapa.' Defending Act Seymour said Act is a party of open minds and open arms. 'Act is the party of tino rangatiratanga. That's the ability for each of us to self-determine and not be put in someone else's box,' he said. 'People have these empty slogans about me, but when I ask them to tell me an example of something I've said or done to support their view that I'm racist, they can't,' Seymour said. 'Despite protesting that they have to move on from the past and be more respectful of diversity, the media often report Māori are one homogenous group who think as one and speak with one voice.' he said. 'That's not true and quite offensive to say that about any group.' Asked about the scrapping of the Māori Health Authority, the promotion and then demise of the Treaty Principles Bill, the review of the Waitangi Tribunal and the minimisation of Te Reo Māori for teachers and public servants, Seymour said: 'As New Zealander's of any ethnic background, you have equal rights, based on your needs. Nothing has been taken away, except for institutions that attempt to divide us into homogeneous groups of people based on race. 'New Zealand is made up of people from a mosaic of backgrounds. 'My colleague Karen Chhour is a Māori. She is also European and has a husband who was a Cambodian refugee. She can draw on all those heritages. 'But it seems bizarre that Karen and her children should have to choose between a Māori Health Authority or a non-Māori Health Authority. She is as representative of New Zealand's whakapapa as anybody. Needs not race ' Needs Not Race, which is an Act Party policy and adopted by the Government, says that we should be focusing on the need of each person" Seymour told the Herald. Seymour said there are many Māori who do very well and don't need government support or assistance. 'So let's help the people in need and not focus on their ancestry.' In September a New Zealand Medical Journal editorial in the name of six public health academics said the 'needs not race' directive was 'an affront to scientific and public health knowledge' and 'requires explicit rejection' from health professionals and scientists as it was not evidence-based. Lead author Dr Belinda Loring, a public health physician at the University of Auckland, said ethnicity was an evidence-based marker of need within the health system. The editorial noted that New Zealand's bowel screening programme was initially based on age, which failed to recognise that more than half of Māori cancers occurred before the screening threshold of 60 years. 'Suggesting ... 'colour-blind' variables may be better proxies for health need than ethnicity is blatantly untrue and misleading, and encourages weak analytical science and will likely lead to greater waste of public resources due to less effective targeting of resources towards groups with highest need,' the editorial said. 18 months in Government Looking back over the first 18 months of the coalition government, Seymour said his best and worst moments of being a Māori MP came at Waitangi when he tried to speak at the marae. 'I had an amazing 24 hours in February, when people took away my microphone at Waitangi and were afraid to let me speak,' he said. '24 hours later, I spoke as a associate education minister at the opening of the St Stephens that was reopening as a Māori charter school. 'Through charter schools we are giving Māori a choice to go to a Māori school or to the state school.' Asked why Māori would consider voting for Act, Seymour said it was simple. 'Because you are a person with hopes and dreams and you want the opportunity to realise those dreams. You don't want to be typecast or tied up in red tape. 'You just want a chance to use your time on earth the best way. 'You want a job, good education for your children and a thriving economy. 'I have no reason to believe that a person with Māori heritage is likely to want that less than anyone else.'
The Sun
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Singer and Mick Jagger's ex Marianne Faithfull left just £35k behind after she died aged 78 without writing will
SWINGING sixties icon Marianne Faithfull left just £35,000, newly released documents show. The singer and actress, who died aged 78 in January, had no will. 9 9 Her only child, Nicholas Dunbar, has been appointed to administer her estate worth £43,000 gross and £35,000 after expenses. Documents show her registered address was a residential home in London for members of the theatrical profession. Faithfull was known for hits like As Tears Go By, which reached the UK top 10 in 1964. She also had starring roles in films including 1968's The Girl On A Motorcycle. Faithfull was famously the girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger in the 1960s. She inspired songs such as Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want. When she died the Rolling Stones legend led tributes to her saying: "I am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull. "She was so much part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. "She will always be remembered." Bandmate Keith Richards added he was "so sad" following Faithfull's death saying that he "will miss her". After a period of heroin addiction in the 70s she resurrected her career with the classic album Broken English. In recent years, she teamed up with songwriters like PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, who each cited her as an inspiration. In 2009 she received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women's World Awards. She was made a commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. 9 9 9 9 9 9
Daily Mail
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Twist in death of Marianne Faithfull as records show pop icon and Rolling Stones muse died without a will and left tiny estate to her family
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull who was the lover of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger for four years in the 1960s left an estate worth just £35,000. Faithfull who died aged 78 on January 30 this year became the ultimate rock chick, inspiring Stones songs such as Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want. She also had flings with two other Stones – Keith Richards and Brian Jones – as well as David Bowie, but she resisted the advances of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. Her life spiralled out of control due to heroin addiction and homelessness in the early 1970s before she resurrected her career with a string of new albums including Broken English in 1979. Probate records revealed today that Faithfull who was married and divorced three times died intestate without leaving a will. Under intestacy rules, her entire estate of £43,000, reduced to a net figure of £35,000 after deduction of liabilities, will be inherited by her only son Nicholas Dunbar. Faithfull died after years of suffering multiple health problems, including bulimia, breast cancer and emphysema caused by decades of smoking. She was hospitalised for 22 days when she contracted Covid-19 in 2020 and was not expected to survive, but she pulled through, releasing her 21st album, She Walks in Beauty, a year later. Faithfull's grant of probate revealed she was living at the time of her death in the Denville Hall care home for members of the theatrical profession in Northwood, north west London. She reportedly moved into care in 2022. The singer was born in Hampstead, north London, on December 29, 1946, little more than a year after the Second World War. Her mother Eva was a Hungarian, half-Jewish baroness and former ballet dancer who had fled the Nazis, while her father Major Robert Glynn Faithfull was a colourful character who had been a MI6 agent before becoming a professor of Italian literature. It was often suggested that Faithfull's free spirit came from her childhood at a country house called Braziers Park, in Oxfordshire, which her father turned into a commune where promiscuity reigned. Her mother later moved with her to a terraced house in Reading and sent her to a Roman Catholic boarding school. It was during this time that she started pursuing a singing career, performing in coffee bars in Reading. Her big break came in 1964 when she was just 17 and attended a Rolling Stones party where she was spotted by the band's producer Andrew Loog Oldham who helped her to release her haunting debut single As Tears Go By in the same year. The wistful ballad had been written by Jagger and his songwriting partner Keith Richards, but Oldham gave it to her because he did not think it was suitable for the Stones. Faithfull went on to release a string of captivating singles including Come Stay With Me, This Little Bird, Summer Nights and a cover of The Beatles' Yesterday. Despite having turned down Bob Dylan when he came to London in 1965, she began a high-profile four-year relationship with Jagger in 1966. One of the Rolling Stones' most famous songs, Sympathy For The Devil, was inspired by a Russian novel called The Master And Margarita, introduced to Jagger by Faithfull. As a couple, they epitomised the Swinging Sixties and attracted huge interest in the media, including lurid headlines. Faithfull was aged just 20 when police found her wearing nothing but a fur rug during a drugs bust at Richards' luxury Sussex home Redlands in 1967. The raid prompted a less than salubrious rumour that Jagger had been performing a sex act on Faithfull at the time, involving a Mars bar. Faithfull always insisted that the story had been made up, describing it in her autobiography as 'a dirty old man's fantasy'. Her popularity was enhanced by acting roles which starring in the Chekov play Three Sisters alongside Glenda Jackson at London's Royal Court in 1967 Faithfull was credited with being the first person to say 'f***' in a mainstream film, when she appeared in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's'isname. Her most famous screen role was in the lead tole of the 1968 film The Girl On A Motorcycle in 1968, which was noted for being America's first X-rated film. But drugs took a toll on her and her relationship with Jagger disintegrated as her pop career hit the buffers. Her decline was documented in the Stones' song Sister Morphine which she co-wrote with Jagger and Richards for the band's 1971 album Sticky Fingers. Faithfull lost custody of her son and went into a coma after a suicide attempt as she remained in the grip of heroin addiction which led to her being effectively homeless and living for two years in a squat in Soho. But her fighting spirit helped her make a musical comeback in 1979 with her album Broken English, and its signature song The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan. Her years of hard living, as well as severe laryngitis and drug abuse had left her voice sounding raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. Critics described her tone as 'whisky soaked', and helping to capture the raw emotions expressed in her music, drawing on jazz and blues in particular. Her other albums included Dangerous Acquaintances in 1981, which ended with the searing song Truth, Bitter Truth. Marianne pictured in 1968 on the set of The Girl On A Motorcycle She also played God in two episodes of the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, and the devil in William Burroughs' and Tom Waits' musical, The Black Rider. Faithfull's final album She Walks In Beauty in 2021 featured her reciting the works of British romantic poets to music arranged by Warren Ellis, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Vincent Segal. She received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women's World Awards in 2009, and was also made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. Faithfull was first married briefly to artist John Dunbar in 1965, then Ben Brierly of punk band the Vibrators from 1979 to 1986, and actor Giorgio Della Terza from 1988 to 1991 Jagger paid tribute to her after her death, describing her as 'a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress', and saying he was 'so saddened' by her loss. Richards also posted that he was 'so sad' following her death while Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood posted pictures on Instagram of himself with her, along with captions saying: 'Farewell dear Marianne', and 'Marianne will be dearly missed. Bless her xx'. Faithfull's long-time friend, the BBC Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris, called her an 'encapsulation of the sixties'. He said that 'people began to see her as an artist, as a creator', although she was initially known as Jagger's girlfriend.
