Chris Dell has the mount.
Dell has ridden 39 winners.
Innovation is the topweight with 62.5kg in the $25,000 metric mile for 3yr-olds tomorrow.
The daughter of Keeper-Miss Grosvenor won the listed Tauranga Classic, a weight-for-age 1400m at Tauranga on a heavy track on June 23 at her last start when ridden by Jason Collett. She carried 55.5kg.
Her three previous wins were over 1600m at Ellerslie (twice) and Wanganui on dead and slow tracks.
Innovation has been entered for the $100,000 Winter Cup at Riccarton on August 4.
Jason Collett is riding the other Manning 3yr-old runner, Wanabefamous.
Zennista is a $4 favourite in final field betting on the Opunake Cup. She is back to 1400m after wins over 1600m in three of her last four starts - the Challenge Stakes at Wanganui, Rangitikei Cup and Mufhasa Cup at Trentham. She ran second to Oak Park over 1400m in the Rotorua Stakes two starts back.
Her trainer, Lisa Latta, also has Sasha and Tick Tock Turbo in the Opunake Cup.
Sasha ran third to Bruce Almighty and Bases Loaded in the race last year.
I Am Sam, who finished fourth, is the topweight tomorrow with 59kg. He was a last-start winner over 1400m at Awapuni on July 7.
David Walker, who has won the Opunake Cup four times, has the mount on King Victor.
Leading jockey Lisa Allpress is aboard Art Beat. Allpress, as Lisa Mumby, won the Opunake Cup on Arigna (1999) and Zabeel's Angel (2001).
The Opunake Cup winner is guaranteed a start in the Winter Cup with transport paid. Zennista, I Am Sam, Worthing, Rememba Howe, Tick Tock Turbo, and Cosabella are Winter Cup entrants in the field.
• Allpress is now on 156 winners for the season, three ahead of Matthew Cameron, after a win at the Hawkes Bay meeting yesterday.
Allpress has a mount in every race on the nine-race card at New Plymouth tomorrow. Cameron has eight rides.
• The Paeroa Racing Club resolved at a special meeting of members this week to cease racing.
The closure will take effect after the race meeting on Wednesday.
It was decided the 137-year-old club was not financially viable.
New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing is working to secure alternative venues for the race meeting scheduled for Paeroa.
There were eight meetings scheduled for Paeroa in the new season commencing on August 1.
Race meetings have been transferred from Foxton. The course is unavailable due to fire damage to the grandstand.
The Stratford Racing Club has taken over the Foxton meeting scheduled for August 2. The Foxton RC meeting scheduled for August 23 will now be conducted by the Woodville-Pahiatua RC at Tauherenikau.
• Dr Alan Jackson has succeeded Michael Stiassny as chairman of New Zealand Racing Board.
Mr Stiassny held the position for two years. Dr Jackson is a sitting member of the board.
Greg McCarthy (thoroughbred representative), Rod Croon (harness), Graham Cooney and Alistair Ryan have been appointed to the board by Racing Minister Nathan Guy.
