Matt Smith

Attention stylish ladies and suave gentlemen - there are double the prizes for Fashions on the Field at Melbourne Cup Day at Wingatui next Tuesday.

Michael Pitman hopes his team of thoroughbreds can appeal to his sense of timing during New Zealand Cup week.

Titan Banner handled the 3200m of yesterday's Tuapeka Cup just fine.

The 3200m trot at the Tuapeka Harness Racing Club's annual meeting at Forbury Park offers a different challenge for trotters.

Kelvin Tyler already has one black-type metric mile from Riccarton in his keeping but now he is chasing another.

The duck eggs in the form line tell one story, but the form before that should tell the right yarn for two of Peter Rudkin's runners at Wingatui today.

Gallant Defender looks set to deliver on the promise he showed last season judging by his jumpout win at Wingatui yesterday.

New Years Jay might have finally switched on to being a racehorse - and that could be bad news for her race rivals over the spring.

A rollicking start at the top and a century from Sean Eathorne ensured Carisbrook-Dunedin's first win of the season at Culling Park.

Close but not close enough is how Sophie Price describes her flirtation with the cups held at her home track of Winton.

Andrew Carston will know a lot more about the spring prospects of several of his stable runners after the South Canterbury Racing Club meeting at Timaru today.

Unlike the plot of a Quentin Tarantino movie, there is no nasty twist with Pulp Fiction's preparation for his spring target in Kaikoura next month.

This year's Melbourne Cup day at Wingatui is set to be a big one if mini marquee sales are the barometer.

The Southern United board will be doing everything it can to make sure the South's flagship side features in a revamped ASB Premiership.

The record books will show it as a comfortable loss, but there were no downcast heads in the Otago Spirit camp after its 39-5 loss to the Auckland Storm at University Oval on Saturday.