Gemma Flitz won wearing the Cure Kids colours thus earning $1000 for the charity.
- Riccarton Park’s 31st and last raceday of 2024/25 was brilliantly promoted by Cure Kids and the Red Nose Raceday. A substantial sum was raised for this wonderful charity that looks after those young people who may one day be fans of this great sport of racing. Huge praise to Will Hall and his colleagues, friends, sponsors, and supporters.
- On the track the Michael & Matthew Pitman team made a late charge up the ladder of South Island based stables to record 40 wins for the season with a treble. PURE ARTIST and ENTERPRISE GEM won the first two races and JET STREAM race four. These winners were not enough to head off the South Island stable of Te Akau Racing’s Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson who ended the season with 45 wins.
- Sprinter GEMMA FLITZ won the Rating 75 sprint to guarantee herself a start in the $100,000 Polytrack Championship race at the Grand National Festival. Apprentice Donovan Cooper rode the mare for Yaldhurst based trainer Ross Beckett.
- The Rating 75 mile resulted in another last gasp win for the Andrew Carston trained DELMONICO who had won by a similar nose margin at his previous start on the course.
- Whilst Riccarton Park trained horses won the first nine races TAP’N’GO, the winner of the last, proved being trained on the Polytrack is not completely necessary having travelled from Omakau for Nikki White to do so.
- That ended 2024/25 and we now look forward to Saturday 2 August and the first day of the 2025/26 season at Riccarton Park with the Group 3 Winning Edge Presentations Winter Cup.