Banks Peninsula TC Competitions kick off for 2022/23 30 September 2022 No sooner have we celebrated last season’s on-track successes at Motukarara than a new grass track harness racing season is upon us. Banks Peninsula [...]
Mataderos goes back-to-back in DG Jones By Joshua Smith, HRNZ 26 September 2022 Mataderos joined a select group of trotters when taking out the Group 3 Majestic Son DG Jones Banks Peninsula Cup (2810m) at [...]
An increase in distance to a mile and three quarters occurred when Banks Peninsula’s premier event for trotters took place on the second Saturday of October 1970. The resumption of racing at Motukarara followed [...]
Banks Peninsula Trotting Club’s premier contest of 1969 included several notable features including an incremental stake increase, lifting prize money to $2,150 in support of the event’s expanding profile. A modest form of sponsorship [...]
With stake money in 1968 consolidated at $2,000.00 following last year’s conversion to decimal currency, Templeton horseman Wes Butt eyed today’s prize with quality stallions, Johnny Gee and Victorian reared trotter Tony Bear. [...]
Those with greatest recall will remember a long held belief, that to be most effective at New Zealand Cup time, pacing stars needed race encounters in early spring. A requirement to have built that [...]
Anticipation of a pending season highlight was expressed by journalists within Christchurch Star’s racing department, when previewing Banks Peninsula’s 1966 Trotting Cup. Principal recipient of the inaugural spoils Bill Doyle remained true, donating a [...]
Following an inaugural equalisator meeting in December 1951, Banks Peninsula Trotting Club was described by Hoof Beats magazine as “highly likely to gain a permit to conduct totalisator meetings. Enthusiasm runs high in the [...]
Sponsor support outstanding for new season of grass track harness racing 5 August 2022 On behalf of owners the Strappers Syndicate, Chris Morrison accepts the award for Motukarara's Colleen Breen Memorial Best Filly/Mare of [...]
Junior Drivers' competition: Sam Thornley in a photo finish 8 May 2022 Following the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club’s Easter Monday meeting, the Motukarara grass track racing season is done for another year and our club [...]
