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There are a total of 24 eligible stallions for next Friday's Woodlands Stud Sires' Stakes Harness 7000 Mobile Pace at Addington (September 12).

Sires' Stakes foal nominations, yearling sustaining, and three-year-old sustaining payments all close on Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

The NZ Sires' Stakes Board congratulates the winners over IRT NZ Cup Week

The NZ Sires' Stakes Board wishes everyone racing over IRT NZ Trotting Cup Week all the very best of good luck.

After a false start last week, the NZ Sires’ Stakes harness racing series revs up this Friday with two races in Auckland and Christchurch, including a new event at Addington.

Almost 900 standardbred foals and an increasing number of yearlings have paid up and signed on for an unprecedented schedule of New Zealand Sires’ Stakes racing starting this spring and summer.

As executive of the NZ Sires' Stakes Board, Martin Pierson has a message for what he calls any "paddock fence-sitters".

We have been working with HRNZ on an exciting package of stakes and programme enhancements that will be announced on Friday 5 July.

The NZ Sires' Stakes Board wishes everyone racing over IRT NZ Cup Week all the very best of good luck & especially to those with horses in the: