Timaru Cup News Today

Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every week brought to you by Garrard’s Horse & Hound. Stingray Tara on top Stingray Tara (Bettor’s Delight), a Menangle winner last weekend in 1:51.2, after coming from worse than midfield, has now won 16 races and $246,824 and

On North American harness racing tracks it’s all about speed over a mile trip, in Australia it’s a mix of both standing start and mobile features across a range of track sizes, in New Zealand it could be about an extreme two-mile contest or a grass track race featuring non-race winners and in Europe

A roundup of the week's racing.

JOHN BISSET/Stuff Live Drama, ridden by Tina Comignaghi, crosses the finish line, to win Race 3 of the South Canterbury Racing Clubs annual Christmas holiday meeting on Monday. The racing community has paid tribute to a Timaru horseman who died earlier this month, after a 28-year training career, during South Canterbury’s biggest race day of the year. A remembrance race honouring 54-year-old Michael Daly and other “racing icons” who died this year was introduced at the South Canterbury R...