News

The sale of a spectacular horse made from recycled materials, a new race at Addington and Blair Orange's highly successful 2024 all feature in this week's News Briefs.

Despite having a highly successful last few months, Red Rackham proved his doubters wrong in last night's 2024 Connie Stewart Sotheby’s Int Realty Wairarapa Cup at Manawatu.

It's on again -  a date has been confirmed for the NZB Standardbred Harness Racing Awards in Christchurch.

Classy Kiwi pacer Tact McLeod has joined the Mark Jones stable and will bring some Kiwi flavour to the Inter Dominions in New South Wales.  

Last week will live long in the memory of northern race caller George Simon.

Every month HRNZ picks at random an owner and breeder of the month. The only proviso is that their horse must have won a race during the month.

A detailed review will be held into New Zealand Cup week with industry leaders saying initial signs have been largely positive.

Success on and off the track continued for Southland breeder-owner Megan Reidie when Macandrew Markup completed back-to-back wins at Winton on Sunday.

After all the Group 1 action and the prestige of Addington's biggest carnival of the year there's a change of pace for the next week, though no shortage of harness racing action.