The big guns are coming.
Nominations for the IRT Nieuw -Zeeland Trotting Cup and the Renwick Farms Dominion Prote closed today at 3 p.m. (NZT).
There are a total of 34 Harness Racing -Nominations for the New -Zeeland Cup and 41 for the Dominion -Both Group 1’s will be held on Addington Raceway on Tuesday 11 November.
Headlining the Nominations for the Cup are the two pistol Australians, jumping to fame and two -time champion To wave While another characteristic of the latest nominations are the four Lee-trained runners from Victoria, including Trotting Superstar Universal Zahara.
The Grant Dixon trained and driven jump to Roem is the undoubtedly star of Australasian Harness Racing with 56 career victories and more than $ 4.6 million in commitment.
The New Zealand cup is about the only large race he has not won. His only earlier appearance in this country was a record -breaking victory in the $ 1 million the race by Betcha in Cambridge in April. He is an impressive $ 1.60 favorite.
His half -brother To wave ($ 4.60) Meanwhile, compete for a lot of cup history. If he is successful, he will only be the fourth horse that once wins three new -Zeeland cups in a row, causing Indianapolis, false step and fear of love.
Both are guaranteed a start in the cup – To wave As a title defender and jumped to Roem after his Inter Dominion Triumph this year.
Two ex-Kiwis, (Gee) Nice Sport and Minstrel that are trained by Greg and Skye Bond in West -Australia have also been nominated.
The best kiwis in the mix include Merlin, Republican Party and Hill And don’t stop dreaming and Acutethat finished second To wave in the past two years. Hill Sealed a start in the cup by winning last week’s Maurice Holmes vase at Addington.
Participate in the impressive Universal Zahara Stablemates will be in the Dominion Universal Chucky (20 wins from 53 starts) and Libyy DancersThat seven has won from 19.
2025 Tab Prot Winner in Cambridge, Arcee Phoenix has also been nominated. He is a second of $ 3.60 favorite Behind Big Kiwi Hope Bet N Win ($ 3.50). Both are guaranteed a start in the Dominion if nominated – Arcee Phoenix for his Inter Dominion Win and Bet N Win after removing the Rowe Cup.
He leads a strong kiwi quotent that includes Oscar BonavenaMuscle Mountain and last year Dominion Runner-Up Mighty Logan.
The nominations for both the cup and the Dominion are open on 11 August.
The first rankings for both are made available on Thursday 4 September and updated weekly.
| Irt New -Zeeland Trotting Cup -Nominations | Renwick Farms Dominion Proto -Nominations |
| Acute | Arcee Phoenix* |
| High meteor | Beautiful snow |
| American me | Wed |
| Professional* | Cody Banner |
| Kidle | Confessional |
| Boudica | Courmayeur |
| Hunt a dream | Eurostyle |
| Cold chisel | Paternity |
| Da Vinci | Fiery bandit |
| Dalton Shard | Gold |
| Don’t stop dreaming | Gus* |
| Franco Marek | Halberg |
| (Gee) Heza Sport * | Hidden talent |
| Here is Herbie | Highgrove |
| Jeremiah | |
| Jolimont | Jiliby Ballerini* |
| Moriars Tokyo* | Jimmy Carter |
| Lacquer | Julie Jaccka |
| Jump to fame* | Kawhi |
| Peak | Keyang Chucky* |
| Merlin | Zaharan’s father* |
| Minstrel* | Love the port |
| Hill | Crazy jacket |
| Pinseeker | Maui |
| Rakero Rocket | Melsadele |
| Survivor | Midnight Dashboard |
| Republican party | Mighty Logan |
| Rather the gambling | Mr. Love |
| Swayzee* | Bastard |
| The surfer | Mystic Max |
| Vessem | Nellie Doyle |
| Wagster | Generally |
| We walk past faith | Oscar Bonavena |
| Who is pleasure | Parisian Prince |
| Parisian artist* | |
| Roydon -Spier | |
| Hast | |
| Tectonic | |
| Humanity | |
| Tyron Eros | |
| Zoltan Boscik |
By Harness racing new -zeeland
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