Dual IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup winner Swayzee and Renwick Farms Dominion Trot favourite Jilliby Ballerini headline the Aussie stars tuning up for NZ Cup Week this weekend. Adam Hamilton takes a look at the must watch races. SATURDAY NIGHT : 10.03pm (NZ time) – MENANGLE It’s D-Day for Swayzee. It’s been a less than ideal campaign for the big beast, but the team insists he’s back on track and will show it this weekend. The punters agree with Swayzee a $1.25 favourite despite an outside draw (he will start…
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Whale Watch – Alexandra Park
Craig “The Whale” Thompson is back with his best for Alexandra Park
Kaikoura meeting – Liftout
Kaikoura’s two day meeting has extra significance in 2025. The South Bay course will host the two opening rounds of the World Driving Championship and Monday will see the 100th running of the Kaikoura Cup. It promises to be a spectacular two days of racing so we have prepared a special lift-out to provide you with vital information on and off track. To see the liftout click here
Ranger and Rewiri Hill look to go back to back at Cambridge tonight
By Jordyn Bublitz Northern junior driver Monika Ranger has been in sparkling form of late, and this evening at Cambridge Raceway she’ll be looking to continue her winning roll when she partners last-start winner Rewiri Hill in the Race Ready With Betavet Handicap Trot (7:06 p.m.). It’s been a standout season for the talented reinswoman, who is enjoying her most winningest season to date in the sulky. From just 98 drives, Ranger has recorded 19 wins, 12 seconds and 14 thirds, returning an impressive UDR of .3095. In the last…
Kaikoura through the years – Part 6
The Kaikoura Cup will celebrate its 100th running this year. To mark the occasion Kaikoura Trotting Club historian Phil Gourdie is looking back at the history of the great race. This is the sixth and final part – The Kaikoura Cup / New Zealand Cup double. By Phil Gourdie In Cup number 43 in 1968 Humphrey was off a handicap of 36 yards over the 12-furlong journey (2400m). A solid pace was set, W E Lowe and Humphrey were required to cover the 12 furlongs in 3min 6.1seconds, the last…
Kingman’s NZ Cup bid to be known tomorrow
Presenter-driver-trainer Brittany Graham knows a thing or two about racing on both sides of the Tasman and now that the Queenslander is working for Trackside in this country she’s (reluctantly) agreed to write a weekly column. By Brittany Graham Is Kingman coming? That question will be answered tomorrow (Thursday) by his owner Mick Harvey on whether the $28,750 late payment is lodged for the IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup. Another hurdle was jumped today, however, at Club Menangle when the four-year-old stallion safely negotiated the tapes to gain his standing…
Two more announcements for THE ASCENT and THE VELOCITY
And now there are eight. Four more trotters and pacers have been announced for the two big Show day slot races at Addington Raceway on Friday, November 14. Habibti Pat (Habibi Inta) and Rogue Hero (Ford Contracting) will join Tarragindi and Meant To Be in the field for the Majestic Horsefloats THE ASCENT while Fate Awaits (Solid Earth Pty Ltd) and Greased Lightnin (Diane Reilly) are the two latest additions to the Hill Lee and Scott THE VELOCITY alongside Got The Chocolates and Marketplace. Habibti Pat is a filly in…
Moves keep coming in latest Cup day rankings
The withdrawal of the two Keayangs has seen a reshuffle in this week’s rankings for the Renwick Farms Dominion trot, to be held at Addington Raceway on Tuesday, November 11. The firm favourite in the TAB market Keayang Zahara was withdrawn from the race by her Victorian trainers Margaret and Paddy Lee last week, as was stablemate Keayang Chucky. That has seen their stablemate Jilliby Ballerini go from seventh to sixth, the Greg and Ben Hope-trained Mr Love move up two places to seventh after his third in Monday’s Tactical…
Kaikoura Cup through the years – Part 5
The Kaikoura Cup will celebrate its 100th running this year. To mark the occasion Kaikoura Trotting Club historian Phil Gourdie is looking back at the history of the great race. This is Part 5 – Driver/Trainer records By Phil Gourdie The five winningest drivers at Kaikoura are: Blair Orange 35, Colin DeFilippi 34, Maurice Holmes 23, John Dunn 21 and Mark Purdon 19. Blair drove his first winner at Kaikoura in 2000. He overtook DeFilippi when he landed a treble last year. He also won the Kaikoura Cup with Harnetts…
Republican Party’s stocks continue to rise ahead of IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup
By Michael Guerin The argument is over, now the real fight begins. That was the undeniable feeling after Republican Party again thrashed most of our best pacers in the $60,000 NZBS Flying Stakes at Ashburton on Monday. The little pacer with the oversized motor recorded his third straight comprehensive victory over our pacing elite and in more or less in the same style. Step safely, settle then launch, spending the invaluable currency that is respect to wrest the lead and from there play catch-me-if-you-can.At the moment, they can’t. Northern star…