In-form jockey Jason Waddell has been confirmed as the rider for Dragon Leap in the Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie on February 29.

While rugged Queenslander Alligator Blood may have taken out the first skirmish with classy New Zealand contender Catalyst, Kiwi trainer Clayton Chipperfield is confident his star can still win the war when the pair clash again in the Gr.1 Australian Guineas (1600m) in a fortnight.

Otago Volts captain Jacob Duffy has won the toss and decided to bat first at Auckland's Eden Park Outer Oval in The Ford Trophy Grand Final, where conditions are fine but overcast.

The 2020 New Zealand Grand Prix will feature an all-Brazilian front row after an epic qualifying session that saw Igor Fraga take the top spot from Caio Collet.

2019 World Surfing Champion Carissa Moore has confirmed that she will compete in the inaugural Corona Piha Pro in New Zealand.

Just two days after winning the Sky Sport Emerging Talent Award at the 57th ISPS Handa Halberg Awards, New Zealand Alpine ski racer Alice Robinson (Queenstown) has claimed the second World Cup win of her career. The eighteen-year-old skied to Giant Slalom victory in Giant Slalom in Slovenia.

It might not have been as dramatic as the last one but it was no less significant as Peter Burling and Blair Tuke won their sixth 49er world title in Geelong today.

Brazilian Igor Fraga fired the first shot in the battle with Liam Lawson for the 2020 Castrol Toyota Racing Series title by dominating the first race of the weekend at the New Zealand Grand Prix meeting at Manfeild.

Promising three-year-old Lightning Jack made it back-to-back victories at stakes level when he produced a gritty effort to take out the Listed ILT Ascot Park Hotel Southland Guineas (1600m) at Invercargill.

Andre Heimgartner has won the first race of the weekend at round three of the BNT V8s Championship at Manfeild this afternoon.