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Blair Orange leads the way to get a Prostate Cancer check

Trainer Jeremy Young can’t wait to head south with Lady Of The Light to try and avenge her defeat in the Group 1 Northern Oaks (2700m) at Alexandra Park in March.

A slimmed-down Alta Wiseguy showed he is ready for the races when beating some of pacing big guns at the Rangiora trials on Wednesday.

Pacing’s pocket rocket is both bigger and stronger for his return to racing at Alexandra Park tonight and Merlin is going to need to be as a mammoth back-end to the season looms.

The Methven Trotting Club committee is busy preparing for its rapidly approaching spring meeting on Sunday September 11.

Blair Orange won 13 races last year as a Blue September ambassador and raised $3,100 for the campaign.

Tickets for harness racing's premier event, New Zealand Cup week, go on sale this week.

This will be an emotional one for Chris Lewis.

The road to the IRT New Zealand Cup begins for two Derby winners at the Rangiora trials on Wednesday but only one of them is certain to still have the great race on his radar in a couple of week's…