Horse racing in New Zealand
Horse racing in New Zealand consists of two forms:
- Thoroughbred racing or galloping where the horse is ridden by a jockey, and
- Standardbred or harness racing where the horse is driven from a cart called a sulky.
Harness racing is sometimes referred to as "trotting" in New Zealand, although there are actually two types of standardbred races based on the type of gait or running style:
- trotting where the horse moves its two diagonally opposite legs forward at the same time, and
- pacing where the two legs on the same side of the horse move forward at the same time.
The majority of standardbred races in New Zealand are pacing.
Famous New Zealand thoroughbred horses
Notable thoroughbred racehorses from New Zealand include:
- Horlicks, which won the 1989 Japan Cup
- Balmerino
- Carbine
- Phar Lap,
- Nightmarch
- Il Tempo
- Sunline
- Grey Way
- Desert Gold
- Tulloch
- Rising Fast
Famous New Zealand standardbred horses
The most famous New Zealand Standardbred is the pacer Cardigan Bay. Stanley Dancer drove Cardigan Bay to $1 million in winnings in 1968, the first harness horse to surpass that milestone in American history.[1] Dancer and Cardigan Bay appeared together on The Ed Sullivan Show.[2]
Other top Standardbred horses have included:
- Robalan,
- Young Quinn
- Christian Cullen
- Lyell Creek, a trotter which also raced in Europe and North America.
- Lazarus
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