Alta Meteor has been the biggest mover in this week’s rankings for the IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup, to be held at Addington Raceway on Tuesday, November 11.
The Steve and Amanda Telfer-trained pacer made it back to back wins this campaign when he was victorious in last Friday’s Avon City Ford New Brighton Cup.
As the race is an automatic qualifier for the Cup Alta Meteor is guaranteed a place in the $1m race, if nominated
He is now fifth in the rankings, up eight places from last week.
The rest of the leaderboard is largely unchanged.
In the Renwick Farms Dominion Trot, Oscar Bonavena is guaranteed a start after his emphatic win in last Friday’s Ordeal Cup, one of three automatic qualifiers for the race.
He is ranked third behind Bet N Win and Arcee Phoenix while Midnight Dash, who was runner-up in Friday, moves up three places from 10th to seventh.
The next automatic qualifier for the Dominion is the Worthy Queen (October 10) and then Canterbury Park Trotting Cup (October 17), both at Addington Raceway, while the next automatic qualifier for the New Zealand Cup is the Holmes DG at Alexandra Park on October 3, followed by the Canterbury Classic at Addington (October 17).
Both the NZ Cup and the Dominion will be limited to 15 starters.
Rankings will be updated weekly with the final rankings coming out after the Kaikoura meeting on Monday, November 3.
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