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When Lamarli ran at Ashburton last month it wasn't just another horse making her race day debut.

Waikato Bay of Plenty Harness Inc. has launched a sweepstake with a prize pool of $100,000 for The Race by Grins on April 14, at Cambridge Raceway.

Trevor Wilkes is being remembered as a well-respected and universally-liked man who "lived for racing. "

They're an unusual combo - an unraced Peak six-year-old who had no interest in being a racehorse and Anthony Slaney, a 24-year-old electrician from Cambridge.

Rugby will always be Phil Beveridge’s first love, but he has found a sport that is now a close second – harness racing.

It was a night of upsets at Cambridge Raceway on Thursday night and the meeting’s feature, the Bay of Plenty Cup (2700m), was no exception.

There are words of warning around the two pacing superstars returning at Alexandra Park tonight but such is the class of Akuta and Copy That it may not matter.

Jonny Cox paid Ohoka Connor an incredible compliment after the pair combined to win yesterday’s Southern Supremacy Stakes Series heat at Oamaru.

Conrad H will head to Cambridge Raceway in a fresh state on Thursday and will bid to record back-to-back wins at the track in the Garrards Horse And Hound Handicap Trot (2200m).