By MICHAEL GUERIN
Some creative field composition has saved tomorrow night's Cambridge harness meeting.
The meeting, under threat after light nominations on Monday, will go ahead with nine harness races, a far better result than could have been expected on Monday night.
That will allow for an extra greyhound race, adding to the 10 already carded by the Waikato Greyhound Racing Club.
But while happy to get the meeting off the ground, Cambridge officials have been able to card only one race for the New Zealand junior drivers' champs instead of the two programmed.
"I could have run two fields with nine in each but that would have meant three of the juniors missed drives and that would have been unfair on them," said club secretary Kerry Wells.
The Auckland Trotting Club will also hold a nine race meeting on Friday, again hosting only one championship race for the junior drivers.
* The status quo will remain on the executive of Harness Racing New Zealand after elections results were announced yesterday.
Cambridge's Ray O'Connor, Wellington's Gary Allen and Invercargill's Peter Burns have all been re-elected to executive.
President Ralph Kermode and Denis Nyhan will both retire from the executive after the upcoming annual meeting.
Racing: Creative Cambridge works the numbers
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