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NZ Sires’ Stakes Board Confirms Unchanged Stakes Commitment for 2026/27 as Second Half of Season Begins. We knew this would happen. It’s August already — and you know what that means. Last month of winter. Spring around the corner. And before you can kick the hopple shorteners, it’ll be Cup Week or close to it. […]
We’ve known The Lazarus Effect (Lazarus) is a rising star, but today he confirmed it when he demonstrated a will to win and a toughness that points to him being a genuine Cup chance next year. However his next test in the $100,000 Group One Ascot Park Invercargill Cup at Ascot Park in a fortnight […]
If The Dark Horse winner Eurostyle makes next months Renwick Farms Dominion Handicap, trainers Derek and Adele Jones will be looking for a change of luck. They trained Majestic Lavros which started in the 2022 Dominion won by Sundees Son, but he broke at the 700, finishing thirteenth. If Eurostyle’s usual driver Kim Butt takes […]
A scary crash just after the start of the Dunstan Horsefeeds NZ Sires’ Stakes Two-Year-Old Fillies series opener ended with the race abandoned, harness racing driver Benjamin Butcher sidelined with a broken shoulder, and horses spooked with minor scrapes. A day after the crusher dust settled back onto the Alexandra Park racing surface, a think […]
Last season’s champion New Zealand harness racing juvenile trotting filly, Empire City (Volstead), announced her arrival back as a sophomore with an emphatic fresh-up victory tonight at Addington Raceway in the IRT Sires Stakes 3YO Trotters Prelude. Having been unsighted in public since winning the Group One Ace Of Hearts on the same track in […]
This Friday Addington Raceway holds its “Road to the Cup” harness racing race night. But it also marks the official start of the prestigious 2023 Nevele R Fillies series which will culminate in the $140,000 Group 1 final at Addington on IRT NZ Cup day, Tuesday November 14. “You look back at past winners and […]
