By Jonny Turner Craig Ferguson has a cups double-double in his sights at Riverton on Sunday. Last month the trainer-driver bagged both the Forbury Park pacing and trotting cups on a highly successful trip to Wingatui. On Sunday, Ferguson will link up with the same cup-winning horses in Nutcracker and Moment Of What at another venue well known for its rich history in the thoroughbred code. And the pair look legitimate winning threats again. Nutcracker is coming into the Carriers Arms Hotel Riverton Cup in arguably the form of her…
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Methven get their season underway
By Mike Love The vibrant atmosphere at Mt Harding Racecourse is set to come alive today as Clubs of Canterbury Race Day kicks off the club’s 2025 season. Featuring an impressive lineup of eleven thrilling races, the first race is scheduled to start at 11:40 AM, in what promises to be a day filled with excitement for racing enthusiasts and local supporters alike. This year’s event boasts large, competitive fields, with many local trainers and drivers taking center stage. Notable names to watch include renowned driver Ricky May and the…
Two Eye See in the winning circle at Cambridge
By Brigette Solomon Logan Hollis and Shane Robertson scored a brilliant win with long shot Two Eye See in the TAB Provincial Pacers Final Mobile Pace at Cambridge last night. “It was a really good win, he went well” said Hollis “I was really happy with his run last start when he finished second behind Doo You Want Me and heading into the race I thought he was capable of finishing in the first three.” Driven by Logan Hollis, Two Eye See started the 2200 metre race from barrier nine…
Lakelsa shines in Mares Championship
By Michael Guerin When you watch Lakelsa bolt to Group 2 glory at Addington on Friday night you could easily wonder how it took her so long to make to the big time. But see her closer up in real life and it becomes a bit more apparent. The Regan Todd-trained mare started her five-year-old season with an easy all-the-way win in the $60,000 Garrards Premier Mares Championhip at Addington. She boomed straight to the front for Robbie Close and when she wasn’t attacked her closing 800m in 55.1 seconds…
Hackett happy to be aboard Doo You Want Me at Cambridge
By Brigette Solomon Junior driver Crystal Hackett has three drives tonight at Cambridge for Palmerston North trainer Stephen Doody including promising three year old Doo You Want Me who starts in the $35,000 TAB Provincial Pacers Final Mobile Pace. “He’s a nice horse and I’m just lucky to be able to drive him” says Hackett “It’s not often as a junior driver that we get to stick with nice horses as they progress, so I’m stoked to be driving him.” The Captain Crunch gelding has won his past four races…
Applications for The Race and the TAB Trot
Applications for Slots in both “The Race” and the “TAB Trot” will close next Wednesday, January 29. Information surrounding the slots, including copies of Slot Holder Agreements can be found here. Slot holders will be announced on Friday, January 31. Any enquiries to dave@cambridgeraceway.co.nz, or by calling Dave on 027 202 7778. The 2025 Night of Champions will be run on Friday April 4.
All You Need Is Me is back in feature race at Addington
By Michael Guerin Don’t be surprised to see the real All You Need Is Me back in the winner’s circle at Addington tonight. The highly talented mare returns in the $60,000 Garrards Premier Mares Championship, a race robbed of one of its favourites with the scratching of Princess Meritaten. That leaves All You Need Is Me versus Treacherous Baby off the front line of the 1980m mobile, with neither having raced since finishing third and sixth respectively in the NZ Oaks on November 29. Even more remarkably All You Want…
Back to back wins for Gotta Elect Bill
By Brigette Solomon The wins keep coming for Junior driver Harrison Orange and Canterbury based trainer Michael House with the pair combining to clinch the Wellington – Otaki Cup double after Gotta Elect Bill took out the Grant Plumbing Ltd Otaki Cup Mobile Pace yesterday. “It was pretty cool to get back to back wins on him in these country cups” said Orange “I thought we’d possibly get a similar run to what we did on Sunday given the field and draws were pretty much the same but he was…
Harness success for Anderton
By Jonny Turner Jovial Jay notched a first for one of Otago racing’s most well-known sets of silks with his win at Oamaru on Wednesday. The pacer prevailed in a hectic affair with driver Jonny Cox wearing the colours of champion thoroughbred trainer Brian Anderton. The white, red and green silks have won hundreds of races in the thoroughbred code and been carried by many of Anderton’s outstanding gallopers. “I thought I would get them registered and that was only the third time they have been out there in a…
Team Teal Ambassadors 2025
Teal Pants is back for 2025 and we have six driver ambassadors who will wear teal silks throughout the campaign. For six weeks (February 1 – March 16) the Teal Pants campaign will be run, increasing awareness of ovarian cancer, and raising funds towards research. It has been held in this country since 2018, after originally starting across the Tasman in 2014. Every time a female driver, in their distinctive teal pants, wins a race $100 will be donated to the cause by Harness Racing New Zealand and individual clubs.…