The horse with an unusual name, Neorion Bay Poros, recorded a deserved win in a maiden race at Oamaru yesterday.
Zac Butcher, the Hamilton-based reinsman, won the 2009 New Zealand Junior Drivers' Championship which concluded at Addington last night.
Counter Punch, bred at White Robe Lodge stud, North Taieri, won the $50,000 Wellington Hurdles on Saturday.
Dream By Day, who won the $15,000 Waimate Cup yesterday, has been entered for the South Island Sale in Christchurch on August 7.
Christchurch jockey Lance Robinson will make the trip to Trentham today for one ride, Finian's Rainbow, in the $45,000 Parliamentary Handicap.
Riccarton trainer Michael Pitman is hoping to extend his fine record in the Waimate Cup when he lines up Jotilla and Quick Time in the $15,000 feature at Waimate tomorrow.
Timeless Perfection, who made a splendid impression when she won her only start, looks an anchor for the $100,000 TAB Pick6 at Addington tonight.
Star Son had his price for the Winter Cup at Riccarton next month reduced from $31 to $18 in TAB betting, after a convincing home-town win in the Winter Cup Trial at Ashburton yesterday.
Clydevale standardbred breeder Bruce Stirling will be hoping his 3yr-old filly Isinbayeva can show some of the ability of the Russian champion pole vaulter after whom she was named.
Colin Harvey, the Kuri Bush horseman, is back race driving for the first time in 10 years at Oamaru today.
The former American pacer Genuwine has drawn the outside of the front line (7) in the seven-horse field for the $100,000 Taylor Mile at Alexandra Park on Friday night.
The owners of Auckland Reactor will make a decision today on a driver for the 4yr-old in the $A1 million Interdominion Final at Parklands on the Gold Coast on Saturday night.
The Dennis brothers yesterday scratched The Pearler from the South Island Breeder's Stakes at Riccarton today after she was off colour.
Junior drivers Mitchell Kerr and Regan Todd hold centre stage at the Invercargill Harness Racing Club meeting today behind talented 3yr-old pacers.
Heart Space looks set to record his fifth win from his last six starts at Oamaru today.
Unique Star signalled a bold showing at Nelson tomorrow, after success in the 1-2win heat for trotters, for his new trainer Mark Jones, at the Ashburton trials yesterday.
Double Bundy created a fine impression when he qualified as a trotter at the Orari trials on Saturday.
Bush ran his last 800m in 56 to win a workout at Ashburton yesterday.
Dont' Say Clang looks the best of eight Winter Cup hopefuls down to contest the $12,000 Winter Cup Trial at Washdyke tomorrow.
Lizzie Maguire, the Gareth Dixon-trained 3yr-old, has drawn one on the second row for the group one $A75,000 Australian Oaks 2575m (mobile) at Moonee Valley tomorrow night.