Yachting: Aussies stay on top

Australians Nicky Souter and Katie Pellew continued to set the pace at the New Zealand women's match racing yachting championship at Auckland today.

Souter and Pellew won their three races today to improve to 13 wins overall and remain atop the leaderboard.

They are one win ahead of New Zealand's Stephanie Hazard, who also posted three wins today.

Points table: Nicky Souter (Australia) 13 wins, Katie Pellew (Australia) 13, Stephanie Hazard (NZ) 12, Sam Osborne (NZ) 10, Silja Lehtinen (Finland) 9, Sara Winther (NZ) 5, Danielle Bowater (NZ) 4, Anita Trudgen (NZ) 3, Katie de Lange (NZ) 1, Kim Stuart (US) 0.