agister

Each Agister takes responsibility for a different area of the Forest.

Agister has the advantage of racing experience, while Crossbow is making his debut.

'This year has been particularly bad,' head agister Jonathan Gerelli said.

Agister did everything right when he scored at Rosehill on July 3 but rises 1.5kg.

Each Agister has his own "tail-mark", indicating the area of the Forest where the owner lives.

Comment: Agister and Raceway, crossing from wide, will ensure the speed is on.

When I first encountered it as a child, it was from the agister for the district who referred to the place as the "Killing Bushes".

Comment: The veteran McClintock should set the speed with Eucumbene and Agister also going forward.

The marked animal's tail is trimmed by the local agister (Verderers' official), with each of the four or five forest agisters using a different trimming pattern.

After the allowance for Spriggs, Crossbow will have only 52kg and receive 6.5kg from Agister, which has the services of Corey Brown.

An early test case today will be Crossbow, with Spriggs up, against last-start winner Agister in the Upstream ''Print Less'' Handicap.

Herd share advocates maintain that the dairy farmer operating a herd share is merely an "agister" who holds the cows in bailment for the cow's owners, the shareholders.

Agister (UK), an official of the New Forest Verderers who controls grazing on the Forest by New Forest Ponies and other livestock.

In the United States and Canada, the term agister is used in raw milk herdshare agreements to refer to the person hired to provide agistment services for owners of the herd animals.

For example a complaint once received by an agister was from a lady infuriated to find that a number of bulls had been turned out on the Forest to the evident danger of the visiting public.

He pays the agister the due marking fee and the agister marks the tail of the pony which is then led into the Forest where it takes a bite of grass.

The ponies are gathered annually in a series of drifts, to be checked for health, wormed, and they are tail-marked; each pony's tail is trimmed to the pattern of the Agister responsible for that pony.

WARWICK FARM THE BEST BET: Under The Sun (race 6) resumed with an excellent second, beaten narrowly by Agister at Rosehill three weeks ago.

Unannounced visitors are likely to find every available inch occupied by the Clerk and her assistant tackling piles of paper, the Official Verderer dictating letters, an agister or two and even the odd dog completing the hive of industry.

The ancient Forest offices of verderer, regarder and agister had 'become merely nominal and.bestowed rather as Marks of Favour and Distinction upon Gentlemen of Consideration in the Neighbourhood, than as Appointments of real Use or Responsibility.'