<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:54 i'll have <.>to oh yeah well you've been um going out so much on friday nights you wouldn't have taken much notice of that friday <&>1:00 night meeting it's always auckland anyway auckland always meets on fridays it's a <.>very only the very odd occasions someone else works you know <.>actually <,,><&>5 someone else actually um tut what was i going to say actually races at night at kennedy park or something laughs yeah <{1><[1>the cat can't understand what we're doing he's trying to sniff the tape voc <.>that that's what the funny sniffing sound is in the <{2><[2>microphone if you're wondering <[1>probably word <[2>that was on FAR side that was one of the things on far side have i told you that one before <,> one of <{><[>my favourite columns on the far side <[>when <.>i oh the cat <{><[>no? <[><.>the the dog looking up at the human? YEAH YEAH blah blah <{><[>blah blah blah <[>blah blah laughs cosmos? this <.>is this is what the human says <{><[>this is what the dog understands laughs <[>yeah he looked up at me before you know as much to say well i know you're saying my name but i don't know what else you're doing laughs <,,><&>6 <&>2:00 jane's drink's nice laughs well you told her the risks <,> she'll probably come back and go all snotty now cos you drank her fucking tea <,,><&>7 well anyway franco ice is having his first start for the month off fifty metres in the twenty two hundred metre race so it's got <.>no <.>it <.>no no chance of winning the <.>record i actually know this strangely enough the <.>stran one of the strangest things you'll ever know that the sumo way is the horse that's won off the biggest handicap over twenty two hundred metres in auckland it was only twenty metres won eh no it got second in the heat no it won a heat won the heat sumo way i think it's in america now <&>next utterance close to microphone did you see the list of um won a heat didn't it oh yeah i've got it <.>i i've got in <.>the in the bedroom i can go get it for you but there's a list er i've got of recent <.>horses exported for the united states and the mile times i've got and <{><[><.>bolt bolt charter's gone one fifty two point six there you go <[><.>it's i wouldn't <{><[>back a horse word <&>3:00 <[>and <.>mercur mercury they reckon <.>mercury remember mercury do <.>you remember that at all nah <{><[>no <[>i <.>be i bet you you don't <{><[>it was <.>a it was a top three year old about four seasons ago right i mean it was when race ruler was winning races like the great northern derby and that mercury would get fourth or third that sort of thing right that's how good a horse it was it was sort of <.>a a you know reasonably good three year old but not up with <.>the you know not godfrey or race ruler which are the two you must remember from that year sort of approach i remember you taking five dollar trots it was race ruler that time remember that aussie race went over ? anyway that's beside the point the er <[>no tawa ? oh that was <.>way it was WAY back we were living in dunedin ah that was just before i left dunedin i'd say it would've been that's a long time ago <,> well i <.>h can't remember lots of punts word oh it was only a little one only cost you thirty dollars you only took um six <.>hor three horses behind or something laughs i like doing that <.>one three horses <&>4:00 behind oh well whatever must get your results but anyway the er <,> anyway that's the horse mercury <{><[>was <[>you forgot what you <{><[>said <[>no well anyway this joker blanchard that chap <.>who's <{><[>caught <.>for yeah that chap who <.>was yeah i do that a lot for some reason <[>been caught with it laughs well that <.>chap you know that chap blanchard who was caught for milkshaking up north for what <.>milksh you know giving the horses bicarbonate of soda <.>oh oh was he yeah you know blanchard and simpson they're both jokers who train sort of a hundred winners a year <.>they they're the <.>s they're <.>the the people who er <,> won some quite good races with some real <.>sh shit horses well they never won at a group one race i heard of blanchard yeah well anyway <.>he's so he's the biggest seller of horses to the united states and he sold this <{><[>thing mercury he's just been over there for three weeks and that's what this article's about and he <.>s and he says that mercury is the fastest horse he reckons it could be the fastest horse in america that new zealand ever sold to america which means it's got to go one fifty one point something and this thing <.>wa it's seven years old now a <&>5:00 fucking hack in new zealand so i don't reckon the old the <.>ameri yank horses can be that good their two year olds run at one forty nine i reckon we could probably do that if we had their sort of tracks and conditions probably <[>oh yes they run one forty nine yeah two year olds ran one forty nine point eight the other day a two year old that's fucking fast yeah it's not the fastest ever though it's bloody fast i'll go and get the article it's <.>probably because <.>you you didn't believe horses ran those sorts of times all the time in <{><[>america <[>no i still don't believe it word they always tell you the ones that do that's why you think there's more than there actually <{><[>is you know <[>oh they break two minutes almost every race but that <.>doesn't i mean you can do that in new zealand now <&>next two utterances close to microphone if you assemble the right sorts of fields they have that sort of metropolitan <,> country structure they have in australia hang on i'll go and get it <,,><&>12 right i've got it this is the most precious possession of all the <{><[>race word press <[>coughs coughs i hope that thing's taping all right the bloody cat sat right in front of the cord it must know there's something going on <,,><&>3 coughs i suppose i didn't bring home that particular page is gonna be <.>the <,> oh here we are there you go i DID bring it home read that u s still strong market for new zealand yeah that's the one all right it doesn't mention blanchard's in <.>for coughs <,,> blanchard's in for <,> screwing a horse up <,> i'll just turn that off for a second i'll start it <{><[>again <[>cos janey's back now yeah i know <&>tape turned off then on all right are you ready to finish this tape off <,,> how far through are you <,,> finished so what do you think now do you believe me now well about what about <.>the no them going that sort of times all the time <&>7:00 no <,> <{><[>makes me believe it less <[><.>they're why is that <,,> yeah but they're dicker horses <,,><&>5 where's the two year old article that's in here too they ran one forty nine eight MILSON though milson race yeah i mean he's just a dick that's what i'm saying imagine if we send <{><[>something decent over there MILSON wasn't that good <[>milson was good voc milson won heaps no never won a group one race <.>i look i'll get one of those booklets from <.>the <,> that list all the <{><[>big races and i bet you there's no milson on it <,> none of those horses are on none of <.>them oh except oh <.>bol yeah no bolt charter never won anything did he <,> won the interdominion consolation that's nothing that's not a group one race <[>coughs still aren't <.>they not really it's not the new zealand cup or the derby still big laughs <&>8:00 <,,><&>3 that's what the yanks do that a lot race the series <.>they they race <.>their <.>their the meadowlands i mean you've got to be sort of a one fifty one miler to be allowed to race in the meadowlands that horse won't be allowed to go in the meadowlands but anyway the um they race two heats like with the two year old that ran one forty nine the other day ran one fifty one to qualify for the final and the semi final you had the quarter final and the semi final on the one night and then the finals two <{><[>nights later sort of approach that's how they do it <[><&>whistles sneezes it has to <.>be a strong horse oh not really not for a mile three miles in three days <.>doesn't it's not hard no it's not that hard apparently <{><[>word <[>oh gotta be pretty tough man three miles in three days well there's <.>only there's only five or six in the race it's not as if they're <.>racing going up three wide <.>ra round fields of eighteen they're only going round fields of six they race sort <.>of there'll be one in the front one <&>9:00 on the <.>e one on <.>th the trail and one on the outer behind the horse on <.>the on the trail not facing the breeze they let the <.>winners leaders bowl along in front <,> so you know how hard's that remember that dork that <{><[><.>i <[>it's still miles remember that dork at calbury that er <.>s class two horse borderline that <.>won that <.>we oh that was the <.>most one of the most disgraceful things <.>i it won <.>us it went in out in the class one race and got nowhere got about twelfth and came out in the <.>s the first leg of the double in <.>the in the sort of three year old feature at word laughs in the mile that was amazing what were <.>they that was one of allie malcolmson's things that was one of the dirtiest things i've seen in a long time laughs <,> he did it intentionally oh i don't know if he did it intentionally but it certainly did the punters they went and paid forty odd dollars to win ALLIE yeah he won er that big four year old final with eye for the lad at sort of seventy six to one <,,><&>4 that might've been um he's a hard driver isn't he <&>10:00 allie malcolmson yeah oh isabel's father always reckoned he um <,> <.>he he wasn't very good in a big race he tended to get a bit nervous oh but he <.>w he <{><[>word <[>he's got a brother that does word <{1><[1>he's not very good <{2><[2>his brother <[1>malcolmson <[2>yeah something like that <,,><&>3 isabel said <,> her father hired him a couple of times <,> word yeah <{><[>gave him a chance <[><.>her <.>her her father's done pretty well cos he only ever <.>had half a dozen mares and he got a horse <.>that i didn't <.>reali i didn't know cos i <.>never didn't realise malcolm had isabel and isabel and i <.>invited her father invited me and i mean he's only raced one season and then he <.>was oh out of action but he won the ashburton flying stakes word chance flying man was a good horse fuck yeah it placed third in the derby in his year <,> and fourth in the great northern derby i mean that's not bad got to the open class not many get to the open class <&>11:00 that's right it's a good horse and he's <.>had there's several others that have got class three or four so he's done all right really scotts blue chuck yeah and matthew's lead that's won three or four races has <{><[>it won three or four now <[>there's <.>lots yeah fuck got second remember it got second in that <.>race mm on <.>n new <.>year on er queens birthday laughs trifecta pays sort of a zillion thousand dollars yeah fuck who needs it <&>11:25 <&>section where speakers talk about tape recorder not transcribed <&>12:27 oh yeah no they didn't play very well did they nobody remembers who gets second in the f a cup <&>12:29 <&>section where speakers talk about tape recorder not transcribed <&>12:57 they'll all think we're sexist pigs now do they yeah laughs i'll make my <.>c but i want to make my comment now and if they call the football off tomorrow <{><[>on february nineteen er on february twentieth on what is it oh it's july twentieth on <.>j july twentieth if they call the football off the new zealand the wellington rugby football union are a bunch of girls and i reckon i can prove that they are <[>word laughs so there you go <&>13:21