The Interdominion Trotting Championship is set to rise from the dead.
The pinnacle of Australasian trotting was thrown on the scrap-heap in 2013 when sweeping changes were made.
But harness racing leaders will soon need to dust off the Interdominion trotting trophy - last won by I Can Doosit in 2012.
The interdominion council accepted a request from authorities in New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand to revive the series.
The result is regarded by Harness Racing New Zealand chief executive Edward Rennell as a major victory.
"We are delighted with it," he said.
NSW, Victoria and New Zealand have the rights to the next nine interdominion carnivals and their support guarantees the Interdominion Trotting Championships will be run each of those years.
The demise of the trotting series came after it was allowed to detach from the pacers' final in 2009, Rennell said.
That year the pacers raced on the Gold Coast and the trotting final was held in Melbourne.
The series split twice more in its last three editions, the last of which was run in Auckland in 2012.
Harness Racing New Zealand said it understood the constraints that caused the race to be canned.
"It wasn't ideal that the trotters were held in a different state to what the pacers were," Rennell said
It could be argued that the return of the final, which is expected to be run for a $150,000 purse this year, puts open-class trotting in a better position than before its demise.
When the race was canned, Alexandra Park launched the Anzac Cup, Melton staged the Great Southern Star and Menangle launched the Australian Trotters Final.
