Heartland - Riverton Races

Television (Full Length Episode) – 1994

Occasional Heartland host Kerre Woodham visits the annual Easter races at Riverton in Southland. Riverton is New Zealand's second oldest town, and the close knit locals have a big passion for horse-racing. Woodham talks to owners, trainers (one of them at his freezing works job), jockeys and punters, as well as the judges of Best Dressed Lady at the Races, who are looking for a nice line in matching hats, bags, shoes and gloves. The documentary contains some good examples of the Southland rolled 'r' from some of the locals.

We're racing for peanuts, aren't we? So by the time you breed a horse, and rear it and break it in and educate it, it costs you $20,000. You see that's why (there's) so many syndicates. Make it cheaper.
– Trainer Cecil Beckett