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Franco Marek has a big reputation that could increase tenfold with victory in the Timaru Summer Cup on Saturday.

Hot And Treacherous made it back into the winner’s circle for the first time this campaign at Alexandra Park on Friday but that pathway is about to get a lot steeper.

Robert and Jenna Dunn have taken the early lead in the new Seddon District Harness Racing Group Trainers' Championship.

A key figure in the New Zealand standardbred breeding industry Alan Jones has died, just months shy of his 100th birthday.

The little mare that could finally did, with Abby May breaking through for her first victory in three years at Winton yesterday.

Rarely does a pacer who has been unplaced in two of his last three starts look as good a thing as Hot And Treacherous does at Alexandra Park tonight.

Michael House continued his dominance at Manawatu Raceway on Thursday when posting another five-win haul, while his son Wilson House wasn’t to be outdone, bookending the seven-race meeting for the stable.

There are a lot of fingers being crossed in South Canterbury this week, as the Timaru Harness Racing Club prepares for one of its biggest meetings of the year on Saturday.

He'd heard plenty about it beforehand but visiting harness racing personality Paul Campbell says New Zealand Cup and Show Week far exceeded his own high expectations.