With New Zealand set to remain under COVID-19 Alert Level 4 restrictions until at least 11:59pm this Friday, racing will not resume until Saturday at the earliest.
On the basis that New Zealand, with the exception of Auckland, enters level 3 on Saturday, scheduled race meetings will be conducted as planned at Te Rapa and Awapuni on Saturday, and Matamata on Sunday.
The race meeting initially scheduled for Ashburton on Thursday will now also take place on Saturday.
The Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m), which was initially scheduled to be run at Ruakaka on Saturday 21 August, will now be run at Te Rapa on Saturday.
New Zealand thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) is currently exploring viable additional racing opportunities over the coming weeks to help compensate for the abandoned race meetings.
Since nearly two weeks of race meetings, trials and jumpouts will have been abandoned, NZTR is also looking at the calendar overall, and assessing the need to alter future race dates.
