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    Te Akau to the fore at home trials

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    • How can you not get excited at the thought of being able to take a Dr Luk Chin quinella and trifecta in race 8 at Auckland. 
    • Turns out even if you put your bets on and it comes in they find a way to fuck you up the arse. Yes I am pissed off! They did me out of over $1000 in that one alone. How many other times has this happened.  
    • Check out this week’s The Box Seat with Matt Cross and Greg O’Connor       View the full article
    • By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk  One of the country’s top drivers Sarah O’Reilly has been dealt some more bad news. Out of action since a trackwork accident at Ashburton Raceway last July, the Mid Canterbury-based driver has been told this week that she requires an operation on her arm and will be months away from resuming race day driving. “I got the result from the CT scan and it has not healed properly and they are going to put a plate into the arm,” O’Reilly says. It had been hoped that the arm will ultimately mend itself and that she’d be back driving by the end of last year.  “There is still a gap in the fracture,” says O’Reilly, “the movement in the arm is ok it’s just when I will try and put weight on it.”  Now she’s awaiting a date for surgery at Christchurch Hospital. “They say that it will take three months after that before it’s back to normal.” It’s just the latest “pretty annoying” blow for the 24-year-old. “I’m bored,” she admits. In July 2024 O’Reilly broke the arm and suffered a broken cheekbone and jaw after a horse “jumped” into her cart. At the time she had recorded 32 wins in her first year as an open driver after being a star in the junior ranks. She won the junior drivers’ premiership in 2022 and 2023 and was the Junior Drivers Championship winner four times in five years between 2019 and 2023. For someone used to chasing the drives, especially all around the South Island, it’s clearly been a frustrating time. “I try to keep busy but really there’s not a lot to do.”     View the full article
    • Timaru Harness Racing Club president Gary Moir has got April 2 circled on his calendar – and he can’t wait. “It’s going to be a bit of history isn’t it?,” he says. The reason for his excitement is that it’s been agreed that the club will hold its first meeting on the grass track usually reserved for the gallopers at Phar Lap Raceway. Records show there hasn’t been grass track racing at Timaru since the original track was turned into an all-weather (grit) one in the late 1960s. “It’s something different,” says Moir, “we have seen how popular grass track racing is around the country and we have been keen to give it a go.” After many discussions with Harness Racing New Zealand and other parties the midweek April 2 date was sealed and Moir is confident the gallops track will cope with the sulkies just fine. “The pylons will be set out three metres and the gallops don’t race there till June so we will be all good.” “Historically weather wise it is also one of the better times of the year and anyway we had 40 mils of rain the other day and you would have known – the surface was perfect.” Eight races have been programmed for the Wednesday meeting. “We are hopeful there will still be some good grass trackers wanting to race in April,” says Moir, “the likes of the Dunns and Hopes and others.”   “It’s what they call an “industry day” but we think it will get some good support.” View the full article
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