By MATT MARKHAM

An in-form stable is a punter's best friend, and at the moment trainer Shane Kennedy is pretty popular.

Matt Markham

Paul Harris has a knack of bringing home lucrative dividend winners.

By MATT MARKHAM

You would think Dexter Dunn was living the quiet life.

By MATT MARKHAM

While the weather at the Rangiora Harness Racing Club's meeting yesterday was upsetting, the biggest upset of the day came in the feature race, the Nat Hall Memorial Handicap Pace.

By MATT MARKHAM

Leading reinsman Ricky May owned his Methven home track yesterday, walking away with a winning treble – including the feature race with Second Wind.

W P (Billy) Walsh has been a Buller harness racing identity for more than 50 years. He continues his reminiscences with David McCarthy.

By MATT MARKHAM

Speed and grass track racing are not something that usually go hand in hand.

By TIM BARTON

The Palmerston North jockey is just one win behind premiership leader James McDonald after a winning treble at Trentham on Saturday.

By MATT MARKHAM

Falling over was the only way Rioch looked like it was going to lose yesterday's Grand National Hurdles at Riccarton, and unfortunately that's exactly what he did.

By MATT MARKHAM

Canterbury racing trainer John Parsons etched his way into the history books yesterday when training his 1000th winner.

By MATT MARKHAM

Blair Orange would not complain if he got a few more catch drives like Rangataua Ray.

By MATT MARKHAM

The survival of harness racing in Canterbury could be decided today when a Christchurch City Council regulatory and planning committee meets to consider Addington Raceway's application for 18 gaming machines.

A few gaming machines will not save a Christchurch racing club, the Problem Gambling Foundation says.

The bookmakers cannot see it, but trainer Graeme Nicholson will not be shocked to see his knighted gallopers, Sir Time Keeper and Sir Slick, quinella the Group One A$500,000 (NZ$614,000) Doomben Cup in Brisbane tomorrow.

Astute jumping trainer Mark Oulaghan is pleased with the condition of Yourtheman, which will attempt to win his second Waikato Hurdles at Te Rapa tomorrow.

The marquees are up, the form is being studied and the raincoats have been put to one side – for a few hours at least – as Kumara prepares for one of the highlights of the country's racing calendar.

By BECK ELEVEN

Forget haute couture, the most fashionable accessory at the Motukarara Trots was family.

By MATT MARKHAM

Sandcastle, confidently ridden by Terry Moseley, ran the field ragged, bolting home a comfortable winner at odds of 40 to one in the open handicap at Ashburton yesterday.

By TONY SMITH

The Australian invasion was repelled in a classic case of monkey business in yesterday's New Zealand Trotting Cup.

By BECK ELEVEN

The weather is overcast but the clothes are anything but dull for Christchurch's Cup Day.