Racing: Cool Boy on verge of hat-trick
A return to tried and true methods has Mr Cool Boy on the verge of completing a winning hat-trick. The 7-year-old is in career-best
A return to tried and true methods has Mr Cool Boy on the verge of completing a winning hat-trick. The 7-year-old is in career-best
It was a day of anything but luck for Irish jockey Chris Meehan on Sunday.
A key man in an organisation responsible for integrity matters in the New Zealand racing industry has stepped down.
A freakish recovery could see standout trotter Speeding Spur back racing in time to defend his title in Australasia's richest trot.
Michael Mitchell earned his money aboard Mr Mor yesterday when the veteran jumper successfully defended his Hawke's Bay Steeplechase title.
Former southerner Silhouette Noire showed her penchant for left-handed racing when she turned her form around at Te Rapa.
The Pukekohe couple had the recent misfortune to lose their promising mare A Tad Leica, who had to be put down after an incident in the tie-up stalls at Awapuni.
There are still those recovering from broken legs rushing to the tote to collect off Tavis Star seconds before he was beaten in the last bound at Avondale last start.
Miss Cover Girl's win at Eagle Farm has wrapped up the group one season in Australia.
Trainer Peter Lock did not have a panic button on him at the Tauranga races on Saturday but if he had he would certainly have pressed it.
The performance of Summer's Day in the Listed Team Wealleans Tauranga Classic lit up the gloomiest of days and capped her fast rise through the grades.
A trip across the Tasman for a romantic rendezvous might yet spawn racetrack spoils for Cambridge mare Gesemi.
A flagbearer for one of New Zealand's most successful syndications might be on her last chance at Tauranga today.
The Tauranga track passed muster yesterday morning to continue with today's racing with possibly heavy rain due later this afternoon.
A bizarre judder bar may not halt Waikiki Beach's path to the rarest number in New Zealand racing.
Harness racing bosses are hoping an Australian betting bonanza on the Jewels helps increase premium coverage of the industry there.
Tony Pike's early introduction to racing came at the highest level and it's a standard he's still living up to.
Top colt Xtravagant will be heading directly to Australia next season.
Champion jockey Opie Bosson hopes his days of riding at all but the best New Zealand meetings are over.
In the day of Australia plucking most of our young riding talent - unthinkable 25 years ago - it's lovely to see potential in the apprentice ranks.
The 24-year-old didn't miss a beat when he guided the dual stakes winner Shezhardtocatch to an upset victory in yesterday's Ford Ranger Handicap.
Trainers Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards believe it is only a matter of time before Shillelagh makes her mark at stakes level.
It was Fannin's 16th win of the season to give him a buffer of five on the reigning champion Michael Mitchell.
Robert Dunn hasn't given up on winning harness racing's national premiership, even though he might have to train 25 winners in six weeks to pull it off.