The Invercargill Harness Racing Club's Christmas meeting featuring the Group 1 Ascot Park Hotel Invercargill Cup is on tomorrow.
With a quality field ready to take on the Cup over 2700m with a stake of $100,000 it is a great day of racing, with the Group 3 Brendan Franks Farrier David Moss Stakes Trot with a stake of $50,000, the Canada Stakes for a purse of $30,000, the SBSR Sires Stakes Southern Solstice Mobile Pace also for $30,000 and the Diamond Creek Farm/SBSR Robin Dundee Crown for stakes of $25,000.
On-course patrons over the age of 18 can win the opportunity to place a bet of up to $1000 on the Cup by dropping their losing tote tickets or a coupon from the race book in one of the labelled buckets around the course with their name and phone number on the back.
The draw will be made before race 5 and each ticket or coupon drawn will receive a runner in that race.
Should your runner finish first in race 5 you receive $1000 to bet on the Ascot Park Hotel Invercargill Cup.
Second in the race 5 competition gets $300 to spend on the Cup and third $200.
Ladies Fashion In The Field, supported by Elegance 148 On Elles Restaurant, McLeay Jewellers and Craig Heyrick of Harcourts Real Estate, Invercargill, is back with entries open on course until race 3 on the day, with some great prizes.
Details will be in the race book.
The race meeting is a twilight event, due to start at 3.30pm.
- By Lindsay Beer
