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After sitting back in the field and giving punters who took the $1.20 shorts a few nervous moments, John Dunn cut Crackaheiny loose on the home bend and powered on by to win easily by ¾’s of a lenghts over Montenegro and K C Pedro in...

Smart types Libertybelle Midfrew and Sheemon both look set for big seasons after not only winning in emphatic style at Timaru’s Phar Lap raceway today, but also posting track records in the process.... More...

Last season’s 3YO Trotting Jewels champion Prime Power produced a faultless performance to win his resumption at Alexandra Park tonight.... More...

The adrenalin which makes Prime Power one of the most exciting trotters in the country is the biggest concern on his comeback to racing at Alexandra Park tonight.... More...

The New Years Eve day meeting at Alexandra Park will see the running of the PGG Wrightson Open Final for an estimated $250,000, along with the Alabar Sires Stakes Fillies Final for estimated $160,000, up $10,000.... More...

Congratulations to Anthony Butt, Blair Orange, Ken Barron, Mark Jones, Mark McNamara, Justin Le Lievre, and last but not last, myself, who all tipped out winners during our Cup Week special.... More...

Alan Galloway and Graeme Henley of Alabar are pleased to report that Alabar sires will serve a near record number of mares this season.... More...

If you are new to racing, but want to back a few winners over the weekend I have got one bit of advice for you – Back all the horses trained by Nigel McGrath.... More...

World Driving Champion Mark Jones has answered an S.O.S from good friend Shane Tritton and will travel from New Zealand to Australia to drive Mach Beauty in Saturday night’s Cordina Sprint at Tabcorp Park Menangle. Jones won the 2003 World...

World Driving Champion Mark Jones has answered an S.O.S from good friend Shane Tritton and will travel from New Zealand to Australia to drive Mach Beauty in Saturday night's Cordina Sprint at Tabcorp Park Menangle. Jones won the 2003 World Drivers'...

On a relatively placid day of racing at Invercargill on Sunday, the Inter-provincial Drivers’ Challenge will be the clear highlight.... More...

One of the north's best pacers has been lost to Australia for the summer as the exodus of talent grows.... More...

While there were plenty of highs to come out of Cup Week, there were also a few lows, and one of them was the retirement of ‘crowd favourite’ Highview Tommy, who ran well down on his best in the New Zealand Cup on Tuesday.... More...

Christen Me’s Miracle Mile assault is definitely on and trainer Cran Dalgety believes it could be the perfect race to restore the troubled pacing star’s confidence.... More...

Despite not measuring up to the best three-year-olds in the country in the Sires’ Stakes final last Tuesday, the Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen trained Nota Lada was able to set a track record on Sunday.... More...

Impressive individual Hughie Green backed up some stout trial form with an effortless win in today’s Auckland Reactor @ Alabar Morrinsville Juvenile Stakes at Cambridge.... More...

Roughly two and a half decades ago Ken Webber played an instrumental role in setting up the stellar driving career of Peter Ferguson.... More...

She may not have won the Christchurch Casino New Zealand Cup but for Kerryn Tomlinson, the Daily Freight Kidz Kartz Cup is the next best alternative.... More...

Former World Driving Champion Mark Jones today became the third generation of Jones to win the Dominion, emulating the deeds of his father Peter Jones and late grandfather Derek Jones.... More...

If there was a horse that deserved a Group One win in New Zealand it was today’s $200,000 Woodlands Stud New Zealand Free-For-All winner Pembrook Benny.... More...