Category: Punting

With the new National Bureau starting on Monday, Harness Racing New Zealand would like to advise of a temporary arrangement regarding nominations,driver engagements and scratchings. The protocol will be in place for the next fortnight until a new National Bureau Hotline is established. In the interim, trainers are encouraged to continue using the online system for nominations and driver engagements.  “While we acknowledge that some users are experiencing issues with the mobile app, our IT team has confirmed that these issues are not present on the web-based system,” says HRNZ’s…

By Jonny Turner  Big brother showed Merlin how it’s done just a day out from $1m The Race by betcha. In slightly quieter surrounds to Friday’s Night Of Champions at Cambridge, Durrant ran to career win number eight at Ascot Park on Thursday for trainer Ross Hope and driver Nathan Williamson in the Final Touch / Clean-Biz Mobile Pace. After facing trickier draws in his recent starts, Durrant made full use of barrier 4 when Williamson found him a perfect trip in the trail, turning around an unlucky last start…

By Michael Guerin Who Sunnys Sister is at Addington tonight and who she is in a month time could be two vastly different things. Which is driver John Dunn’s way of warning you to be careful when the Group 1 winner returns in the opener, the IRT.Your Horse.Our Passion Mobile Trot  tonight (5.21pm). While the Addington card plays the supporting role to the very serious stuff at Cambridge it does see the return of a high class trotter who could well be taking on some of those in tonight’s TAB…

By Michael Guerin  The Boys Get Paid group are putting their punting syndicate money behind their shared slot horse in the $1million Race by Betcha. The BGP are co-owners of the slot which Miracle Mile winner Don Hugo will race in at Cambridge tomorrow night and they also have one of their famous punters’ clubs running at the meeting. They placed their first bet on their own horse on Wednesday night when having $40,000 to win on Don Hugo at the boosted price of $3, a BGP spokesman saying they…

Cambridge’s Night of Champions is one of racing’s biggest, and it promises to be another epic trans-Tasman battle.  Friday’s 10-race card will be highlighted by the $1m Race by betcha and the $600,000 TAB Trot plus a support card that includes the Dorothy Cutts Invitational. To mark what will be a huge occasion we have produced a special Liftout with previews, tips, opinion pieces and more. To view the Liftout please click here  

By Brigette Solomon   No stable is winning races like Michael House is right now. On Tuesday at Manawatu his runners won five of the night’s seven races – it’s the third time this year that he’s had five wins at the same meeting. The previous five-fors were also at Manawatu on February 11 and February 13. Four of the five winners were driven by son Wilson House, who is second in the drivers’ premiership with 43 wins this year, 10 shy of seven time champion Blair Orange.   “It…

Nina Hope’s record-breaking final training tally, an increase to the minimum wage,  and plenty of chat about Cambridge’s Night of Champions all feature in this week’s News Briefs.  Nina Hope’s final training tally This country’s most successful female trainer Nina Hope is leaving the training ranks with 903 career wins. As announced last week Hope is not renewing her trainers’ licence, with son Ben joining Greg in partnership from yesterday, April 1. The Woodend-based husband and wife combo of Greg and Nina Hope have been a huge successful training operation…