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Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) is proposing significant changes to the number of venues at which it will be holding meetings for the 2020-21 season.

Harness Racing New Zealand has welcomed today’s decision allowing trainers to return to work when the country moves to Alert Level Three next Tuesday as a “massive boost for the industry”.

The announcement from the government today that New Zealand would move to Level 4 of the COVID-19 Alert System in 48 hours means that all racing will cease for the next four weeks from Tuesday 24 March.

The latest update from HRNZ in regards to Covid-19

The third annual Team Teal campaign has now topped $50,000, more than ten thousand over its target.

The 2020 Norwood NZ Rural Sports Awards were announced this evening at Awapuni Racecourse in Palmerston North.

International equine airfreight company IRT have shown their support for the harness racing industry by becoming the major sponsor of the IRT Harness Jewels 2020, to be held at Cambridge Raceway on May 30.  

Harness Racing New Zealand along with the Westport Trotting Club, Reefton Trotting Club and Banks Peninsula Trotting Club are excited to announce that during the 2020 Team Teal Campaign we will see some ladies only races as we did on…

Craig Wiggins, on behalf of the May family has expressed their thanks for the outpouring of concern from the harness racing community regarding Ricky May’s condition after the incident at the Omakau meeting yesterday.