Beaumont and the Forbury Park Trotting Club are again joining forces, after having a year off, for a dual-code meeting at Wingatui on Sunday.
The card features eight gallops races and four harness races.
"We’re really pleased because it’s something we ran successfully for seven years," Beaumont chairman Phil Williams said yesterday.
"The TAB took the trots away last year but Entain have come on board and they’ve brought it back.
"It’s great. It brings more people. And it just makes for a good, entertaining day.
"The races are only 25 minutes apart, so it’s an action-packed day."
Williams said the clubs were grateful for the help of the Otago Racing Club.
Beaumont and Forbury Park were clubs with a good relationship, strengthened when Forbury chairman Lex Williams got his unrelated namesake involved with completing the sale process for the trotting club’s former base.
"We work really well together," Phil Williams said.
"We welcome Forbury Park to Wingatui, and we’d like to see them race there more.
"It adds to the day in a lot of ways, having the harness racing people there."
Williams hopes the reinstated dual-code meeting will become a permanent part of the calendar.
It is the Beaumont club’s sole racing day of the year.
The feature is again the $35,000 Publicans Beaumont Cup, and there is also the running of the Lindsay Moyle Memorial.
Williams said the card might shift to a seven gallops-five trots split next year.
Nominations were "really good" for the Beaumont meeting.
Wingatui was getting a right soaking yesterday morning but Williams noted the forecast looked decent for Sunday.
There will be plenty of entertainment, including the always popular kids carts, which might be taken over temporarily for a jockeys versus drivers race.
The Beaumont punting competition will offer a $1000 prize.
