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Classy trotters are the order of the week for driver Mark Hurrell.

It's Alexandra Park's big night.  On Friday night the country's best pacers and trotters will guts it out over 3200m in the Trillian Trust Auckland Cup and the Reharvest Rowe Cup.

The sulky-go-round leading into Friday’s $400,000 Trillian Trust Auckland Cup has stopped with Natalie Rasmussen to now drive hot favourite Self Assured.

The connections of in-form trotter Musclyn are starting to reap the rewards for their patience with their four-year-old mare and they are hoping her purple patch of form continues in the Goodwin Contracting Trot (2000m) at Rangiora on Sunday.

Port Pegasus is at the right place to break his run of second placings at Ascot Park on Saturday.

The trainers behind two of the biggest names stepping out at Addington on Friday night hope things go a lot smoother for their horses than in their latest visits to the track.

Champion horseman Mark Purdon has a very special desire to want to win the main pace at Alexandra Park tonight but fears his superstar pacer Self Assured could spend much of the race chasing.

Harness Jewels star Double Delight is still rated a chance to make next week’s Northern Trotting Derby even after missing the obvious lead-up at Alexandra Park this Friday.

Evergreen trotter Madeleine Stowe has returned to form in her recent starts and her connections are hoping that continues at Addington Raceway on Tuesday when she contests the Faulks Investments Trot (2000m).