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Spectators back at race meetings, betting turnovers,  and looming deadlines for licence-holders!

Harness Racing New Zealand is encouraging all trainers and drivers to renew their licences as quickly as possible.   

On Monday 8th June 2020, the Prime Minister announced that the country would move to Alert Level One from midnight 8th June 2020.

ONE of Australia’s most exciting pacers Poster Boy has been retired to stud.

As the country embraces the freedom of Alert Level One there may still be a reminder of COVID-19 on our racetracks in the years to come.

Champion reinsman Ricky May is set to make arguably the biggest comeback in New Zealand harness racing history when he drives at Addington on Friday.

He was an unfashionably bred pacer with an odd-shaped head but Rainbow Springs won over Pip Gerard.

Ricky May has heard the three words he wanted to from his specialist – “everything is perfect”

The two fast-class trots at Ascot Park on Saturday were family affairs and not just because they were taken out by half-siblings Rydgemont Milly and Rydgemont Son.