Waskakie set an Australian and New Zealand mile record of 1.50.5 when he won the $A50,000 Cordina Sprint at Menangle on Saturday night.
David Butcher featured in a winning combination for the second time in an Oamaru driving series yesterday.
Dundee Three is proven on the grass and in form for race 8 at the Oamaru Harness Racing Club meeting today.
Trilogy has been nominated for the $1 million Auckland Cup at Ellerslie on March 9 after advancing from winning a maiden race at Gore two months ago to success in a $30,000 premier event at Riccarton on Saturday.
The win of King's Rose in the New Zealand One Thousand Guineas on Saturday gave Jason Bridgman his first group one win after three and a-half months as a trainer.
Showcause won the New Zealand Cup at Riccarton on Saturday on the track where his great granddam, Show Gate, excelled almost 40 years ago.
Mitchell Kerr, who drove Soak It Up to win at Addington yesterday, is headed to Sydney today to drive Auditor General in the Newcastle Mile tonight.
Stylish Monarch took 2.4sec off the New Zealand 3200m record for a trotter when he won the $200,000 Dominion Handicap in 4.02.9 at Addington yesterday.
A win for Victorian galloper Kerdem in the $225,000 New Zealand Cup at Riccarton tomorrow would cap a return to her home town for strapper Stacey Lawrence.
Christchurch: Springbank Richard (Dominion Handicap) and Monkey King (New Zealand Free-For-All) are in line to repeat their wins of last year at Addington today.
We Can Say It Now looked ready to justify her favouritism for the New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas when she worked at Riccarton yesterday morning.
Principals of the major sponsors of New Zealand racing were on the receiving end at Riccarton yesterday.
Mark Harris, who renewed his trainer's licence three weeks ago, won the $50,000 Canterbury Breeders' Stakes at yesterday.
Trainer Steven Reid described the win of Gold Ace in the $180,000 final of the Sires' Stakes series for 3yr-olds as his most exciting day in harness racing.
Vincent Mangano is hard to go past in the Stewards' Handicap at Riccarton today after his impressive win in the Pegasus Handicap on Saturday.
He came from last at the 400m to win the Pegasus (1000m) going away by a length.
He was not liable for a re-handicap and his 52.5kg, 1kg less than he carried on Saturday.
Ricky May rated Monkey King the best horse he has driven after the pair combined to win the New Zealand Trotting Cup for the second year in a row at Addington yesterday.
I Am Legend, an impressive winner at Forbury Park on Saturday night, will back up in a race for junior drivers at Ashburton on Thursday, his co-trainer, Graeme Anderson, said.
James McDonald has replaced Opie Bosson on San Bernardino in the Pegasus Handicap at Riccarton today with a view to the Stewards' Handicap on Wednesday.
Lord Forbes has entered the field for the $750,000 New Zealand Trotting Cup on Tuesday with the scratching of Second Wind.
Twilight Savings has rider Opie Bosson as an additional factor in her favour for the $1 million New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas at Riccarton tomorrow.