It was a big day for the Otago Racing Club at Wingatui today where the Dunedin guineas, the Dunedin Gold Cup and the White Robe Lodge Stakes (group 3) were all run, worth a combined total $350,000.
On the day after the sale of Forbury Park was announced, two of the track’s biggest achievers were in the winner’s circle much further south at Ascot Park.
Often the naughty boy, Jimmy Carter was picture perfect when delivering driver John Morrison his first group race victory in the Southern Lights Trot at Ascot Park yesterday.
A North Canterbury harness racing trainer faces an assault charge after an altercation with another industry member inside a toilet block following a Westport Trotting Club meeting.