The Wyndham HRC will make a decision on Monday on whether they will race at their home track or elsewhere on Sunday the 16the November.
Their main stand was damaged by recent high winds in the province, and the club are expected to announce their decision on Tuesday.
Trees next to the float entrance have also been bulldozed, but this will not affect access to the stalls and boxes.
The colors of Mason Bloodstock were in the foreground last night during Time For Change (Lazarus) won at Alexandra Park.
The two-year-old filly, trained and ridden by Zachary Butcher, got the perfect ride from her driver and won by a distance.
Time For Change is owned by Trent and Kristie Mason and Butcher’s partner Laura Dalgety and is out of Super Change, a daughter of Chaangerr who is a half-sister to Changeover.
The Masons, from Waitoki north of Auckland, have invested heavily in the standards industry and Time For Change is their first winner in their newly minted colours.
Myrtle McCarthy, a sister of the late Jim Dalgety and aunt of Cran Dalgety recently died in Canterbury aged 89.
She bred her first foal in 1976 and her last foal arrived in 2020. Myrtle often sent her foals to the yearling sales.
Her horses were always considered well bred on the rich Kakanui soil and one of her mares Heather Lady left several handy performers including Lady Loch who produced Mach Three filly Irish Loch.
Although Irish Loch did not excel on the track, she produced a prolific winning filly named Shez All Rock while breeding in Australia.
In a performance that few racing mares could replicate, Shez All Rock won the Group One New South Wales Oaks, the Group One Victorian Oaks, the Group One New Zealand Oaks and the Group One Three Year Old Diamond as a three-year-old filly, earning almost $450,000.
Another colt from that breed was Black Loch, by Holmes Hanover who won the Group Two Sapling Stakes as a two-year-old and was second in the Group Two Kindergarten Stakes.
Myrtle often said that the love of horses and breeding was a disease and that once people were infected they were unlikely to get rid of them.
Myrtle’s daughter Pauline O’Connor continues her mother’s legacy with her husband Mark, under the Denario banner.
Wins by Jacka Ace (Father Patrick) and Julie Jacka (Father Patrick) at Winton yesterday served to highlight the great work Janine Jackka has been doing for Northern Southland breeders Charlie and Ailsa Smaill.
The descendants of Janine Jacka and her daughters have now won sixty-five races and earned $761,532.
Her top earner was Jacka Justy, winner of the 2014 Dominion Handicap, with $236,467.
American bred mare I’m In Heaven (Huntsville) has produced her first foal in New Zealand: a filly by Confederate.
The North American breeders Diamond Creek Farm sent their first mares I’m In Heaven and Easter Island (Captain Crunch) to Arden Lodge in Western Otago.
John Stiven of Arden Lodge says Easter Island could have a foal at any time.
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