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A great day is planned when the Wyndham Harness Racing Club celebrate their centennial with a race meeting at Young Quinn Raceway in Wyndham on Saturday (18 March).

One of New Zealand’s training greats thinks his star three-year-olds could be playing catch-up in the features at Alexandra Park tonight and it could be his brother who inadvertently benefits.

Commentator Justin Evans called it a "dazzling win on debut" but Princess Meritaten's victory at Timaru yesterday was not without incident.

A huge autumn of Sires' Stakes racing gets underway at Alexandra Park on Friday night.

Tony Thomas, Chair of the Seddon Harness Racing Group, was delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Trainers Championship which includes five clubs in the top of the South, being Kaikoura, Marlborough, Nelson, Westport and Reefton.

Don’t expect to see Mark Jones in the sulky too often in the coming weeks despite the reinsman reminding everyone of his skill with a winning double at Timaru on Wednesday.

Horowhenua trainer Murray Gibbs has had a lifelong passion for harness racing, which was acknowledged at the North Island Harness Racing Awards at Cambridge last week.

This weekend marks 100 years of harness racing at Wyndham.

It's been two awards in two weeks for Luk Chin.