Kenny Moore and Akshay Balloo with Manzapeal post race.
- The final Wednesday of the national twilight racing season took place under pleasant conditions after a rainy morning.
- The eight race Industry programme was bookended by Rangiora trainer Kenny Moore who won the opening event, the 1400 metres maiden, with MANZAPEAL and the last, the rating 65 over the same distance, with IN HER PRESENCE.
- Both were ridden by Akshay Balloo who along with Michael McNab and under-rated Wingatui rider Corey Campbell rode two winners on the programme.
- One of Campbell's winners was the MOUSSAIEFF a most promising stayer who took his record to four wins from ten starts winning the Drug Alcohol Testing Specialists Rating 75. The six-year-old is trained by Riccarton Park trainer Kezia Murphy who shares in the ownership with Canterbury Jockey Club Treasurer Phil Blacktopp, Commercial Manager Chris Rowe and previous trainer John Blackadder who entrusted the gelding to Murphy to iron out some kinks, which she has done admirably.
- The days Rating 75 sprint saw another quality training performance with Anne Herbert presenting CONTEMPLATION BAY to the races for the first time since November with a winning performance the outcome. Tina Comignaghi rode the mare.
- The Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson partnership prepared two winners to give them 36 winners on South Island racecourses this season. Five of these were fleeting visits for the NZ Cup meeting with 31 coming from the Riccarton Park stable giving Te Akau the edge in the title of leading southern stable for 2024/25.