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Today’s meeting at Motukarara will bring to a close the grass track season for the 2025-26 season. The nine-race programme gets underway at 12.15pm and features Heat 5 of the Canterbury Plains Challenge Series (3.14pm). The series culminates in a $40,000 final at Addington on May 15. So how has the grass track season been? […]
Monday’s Motukarara meeting was an all-time record-breaker. The 13-race programme had total turnover of $1.994m, the highest ever for a grass track meeting in this country. The figure eclipsed the previous record of $1.92m set at Westport’s Boxing Day meeting in 2020. “That’s brilliant,” says Banks Peninsula Trotting Club President Chris Brown. “I’ve always thought […]
As the in-form Jake heads back to Motukarara on Sunday, owner/breeder Grahame Scurr is hoping his golden run is far from over. The Bettor’s Delight eight-year-old has won two of his last three starts and is gunning for career win number six in the Clubs NZ Race Days January and February 2026 Pace (Race 7, […]
West Melton harness racing trainer, Barry Ward usually has a small army around him when it comes to a Banks Peninsula meeting on the grass, and this Sunday afternoon (17 March) is no different with four runners engaged across the twelve-race programme. No mean feat when you consider the training caper is a hobby and […]
With a surname like his, Maurice McDermott’s partial to a St Patrick’s day celebration and on Sunday Motukarara will embrace all things green. When McDermott, a life member of the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club, realised their March harness racing race meeting just happened to be on March 17 – the same day the world celebrates […]
Welcome to today’s segment from our harness racing analyst. Providing you with free expert tips and selections for harness meetings run in New Zealand. Harness racing hits Motukarara again today with eleven races on the card. The racing starts at 12:10pm and we highlight some specials and value runners we think can give you a […]
Rising Country Cup pacer Lester (Bettor’s Delight) looks to be ideally placed for the $20,000 Akaroa Cup on the grass at Motukarara on Saturday. Trained by Warren Stapleton, from just ten starts Lester has won four times including once on the grass. At his last start at Timaru he broke briefly at the start and […]
Welcome to today’s segment from our harness racing analyst. Providing you with free expert tips and selections for harness meetings run in New Zealand. Harness racing hits Motukarara again today with twelve races on the card. The racing starts at 12:30pm and we highlight some specials and value runners we think can give you a run […]
Grass track harness racing has a knack for throwing up plenty of surprises, and that’s exactly what happened for the Cummings family when their homebred filly Sonadora (Betting Line) cleared maidens in her first attempt at yesterday’s (Apr. 10) Banks Peninsula Trotting Club meeting. The Robert and Jenna Dunn trained three-year-old filly was given a […]
Canterbury harness racing returned to the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club at Motukarara on Sunday afternoon (19 March.) for its penultimate race meeting before the seasonal changes get the better of the grass surface. When the Canterbury weather plays its part like it did yesterday, few meetings can turn on the atmosphere that epitomises what racing […]
Welcome to today’s segment from our harness racing analyst. Providing you with free expert tips and selections for harness meetings run in New Zealand. Harness racing hits Banks Peninsula again today with eleven races on the card. The racing starts at 12:10pm and we highlight some specials and value runners we think can give you a […]
Welcome to today’s segment from our harness racing analyst. Providing you with free expert tips and selections for harness meetings run in New Zealand. Harness racing hits Addington again today with eleven races on the card. The racing starts at 3:21pm and we highlight some specials and value runners we think can give you a […]
Race sponsorship is an integral part of making the overall harness racing landscape a good one. And many committee members of clubs around the country will tell you that attracting new sponsorship is only getting tougher by the day. The Banks Peninsula Trotting Club do a fantastic job of selling their race sponsorships at their […]
Grass track harness racing returned to the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club this afternoon (Sep 25.) with the Moutukarara track awakening from a six-month hiatus. While the weather was cold, the racing promised to be anything but with the feature of the day being the 58th running of the time-honoured D G Jones Banks Peninsula Trotting […]
