That is the call from the Otago Kidz Kartz club as interest in its programme continues to grow.
The popularity of the scheme, which takes school-aged children and teaches them about hands-on skills with harness racing horses, is rising and that is putting pressure on the club.
The organisation has 15 children enrolled in its programme, which consists of tutorial evenings at Forbury Park once a week and trips to compete in Kidz Kartz events at local race meetings.
The club has plenty on its wish list to keep up with the demands of training the next generation of harness trainers and drivers.
Man or woman power is at the top of the list. The club is looking to recruit more adults to help supervise its lessons and races, for safety reasons, club volunteer Nora Bishop said.
''We are struggling.
''We really need the numbers on course for safety.
''We have got to have so many parents per group of kids out on the track.''
Adults who may be interested in lending a hand do not need extensive harness racing experience, as there are a number of ways they can contribute to the running of the club, Bishop said.
The next item on the club's wish list, like many sporting or community organisations, is financial assistance.
The club maintains a group of pint-sized ponies that children learn to drive. While parents and instructors from the club absorb the maintenance workload, buying the animals was the biggest financial outlay, she said.
That meant the organisation was on the lookout for sponsors of any kind, she said.
The donation of used racing silks and other gear rounds out the top three items on the club's wish list.
Though normal harness racing gear was designed for much bigger racehorses, it could be adapted for Kidz Kartz ponies and was also a helpful learning tool.
Aside from those three main challenges, the feeling among the organisation is largely positive.
All of the children involved were getting plenty of enjoyment and gaining knowledge from their participation, she said.
The Otago Club started up later than most of the country's other clubs, which means it has been behind them in some areas.
One of those has been the ability for one of their drivers to compete in the four-race national Rising Stars Kidz Kartz series, which is run annually at Cambridge and Auckland.
15-year-old Kavanagh College pupil and club driver Temika Bishop has been selected as the first Otago representative to compete in the series, which will be held in late April.
Another result of the Otago Club launching after its regional counterparts is it has not yet turned its students into fully fledged horse people yet.
That has been the case in other areas, where the scheme has been seen as a good success, Harness Racing New Zealand education and training manager Natalie Gameson said.
Regular Forbury Park visitors Sheree Tomlinson, John Morrison and Chelsea Faithful were all examples of horse people who had come through the Kidz Kartz programme before going on to gain racing licences as adults, she said.
-By Jonny Turner
