Golden Crowns, who is trained at Foxton by Christine Eagles, won a maiden hurdle at Washdyke on July 13 at his third start over hurdles.
Gary Walsh, who rode the Brilliance gelding, has retained the mount.
• Numero De Lago, winner of his two starts over hurdles and three on the flat, has been sidelined with an injury to his right front leg.
He sustained the injury in a flat race at Oamaru on Monday.
"He is quite lame and has ligament damage. I would say it is 50-50 that he would race again," Michael Daly, his Washdyke trainer, said.
"He will have a good spell and we will hope for a miracle." Numero De Lago has won over hurdles at Oamaru and Washdyke this winter.
• Conserves La Foi, a last-start winner at Waverley and a nominee for the National meeting, is now trained by Michael Pitman at Yaldhurst.
The Keeper mare, owned by Judge Clapham, won four races when trained by Kevin Myers.
Zlato and Our Jackman are newcomers to the Pitman stable.
Zlato, a rising 8yr-old, has won five races but he has not been successful for three years since he won over 2100m on a slow track at Awapuni when trained by Paul Duncan.
Our Jackman, a last-start third at Tauranga, was a winner last year when trained by owner Toni Croon.
Coat Of Arms has been in the Pitman stable since he finished second to Propel in the Whyte Handicap at Trentham at his last start on July 14.
Formerly trained by his Invercargill part-owner, Sabin Kirkland, Coat Of Arms won a race for 3yr-olds on a slow track at the National meeting 12 months ago.
• The prospect of a heavy track at Riccarton has resulted in the running rail being shifted out 8m for Saturday.
The Canterbury Jockey Club made the decision to shift the rail in view of torrential rain in Christchurch on Monday and the experience of 2006 and 2008 when the National meeting, scheduled for three days, was reduced to two due to a rain-affected track.
The shift of the rail has reduced the size of the Winter Cup (1600m) field by two to 16.
• Trainers Brian and Shane Anderton plan to start Cee Gee Jay and High Forty next in the New Zealand Grand National Hurdles on Wednesday.
Cee Gee Jay has had three wins and a third in four starts over hurdles.
High Forty has won twice from four starts. Both horses began hurdling this winter.
Stewart Moir rides Cee Gee Jay and Ross Doherty has been engaged to ride High Forty.
The National Hurdles is also the next scheduled race for Kidunot.
The Ellis Winsloe-trained Kidunot has mixed hurdles and flat racing in eight starts this winter after 12 months away from racing.
Winner of the 2009 Great Northern Hurdles, Kidunot has finished second in each of his three starts over hurdles this campaign. Now 11, he finished a distant fifth in the 2008 National Hurdles.
• Electronic Motion, who cleared maiden ranks at Oamaru on Monday, was unplaced in three starts in Hong Kong.
He was gifted to his present owners, who put him into work with Aaron Taylor at Riccarton.
The Snippetson rig was having his fourth start for Taylor on Monday. Electronic Motion won well after racing three- and four-wide.
Cash Card, who joined the stable of Mel and Warwick Coles two weeks ago, displayed ability to win a 2200m maiden.
The D'Cash filly settled second last, improved three-wide from the 1400m, joined the leaders at the 700m and came clear in the run home.
• Cash Card had done nothing of note in three starts for part-owner Thelma Foley.
• Claire Anderton was suspended for two riding days until August 25 and fined $100 for careless riding on Wagonwheel, who was relegated from first to second in the race for amateur riders. Wagonwheel shifted in on Hydrogen in the closing stages.
• Jack McKenzie attended the meeting with the whip carried by Lisa Cropp when she won on Bus Us at Oamaru on the last day of the 2004-05 season, becoming the first female rider to win the jockeys' premiership. (Cropp has won it three times).
McKenzie, of Oamaru, was keen for Lisa Allpress, who sealed the premiership on Monday, to use the whip but that was ruled out as whips are now padded.
Allpress gave her goggles to McKenzie as a memento.
Gallop South made a presentation to Allpress to mark her New Zealand title achievement.
