Animal welfare and the work of the Horse Ambulance Trust will be firmly in the spotlight at Addington Raceway on Friday evening.
Global horse transporter IRT is sponsoring the meeting with their “IRT Supports Horse Welfare Race Night”.
The aim of the evening is to spread the word about the trust and also raise money for its running. They will be collection buckets at the Spectators bar on track and will also hopefully raise money through a series of bets on chosen racing media personalities. They receive betting vouchers worth $300 that they can spend on their own sponsored races.
Noted racing journalist Michael Guerin has named his race the Janice Guerin Memorial, after his late mother, and has matched the $300 with $300 of his own money. All proceeds will go to the Horse Ambulance Trust.
The varieties are:
IRT Thanks Craig Thompson, aka “The Whale”
IRT Thanks Matt Cross
IRT Thanks Jason Patterson
IRT Thanks Nicole Sims and Marc Cookson
Janice Guerin Monument
IRT Thanks Greg O’Connor
IRT Thanks Brittany Graham
IRT Thanks Aaron White
IRT Thanks “Champion Sire” Bettor’s Delight
The Horse Ambulance Trust has 10 specialist ambulance units across the country.
To learn more about their work click here
IRT’s Managing Director Richard Cole, and wife Sheena, as well as Jo Starr from the Horse Ambulance Trust will all be on course on Friday evening.
To see the fields for Friday’s meeting click here
By Harness Racing New Zealand
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