Riccarton races

One of the biggest days on the New Zealand domestic racing calendar, New Zealand Cup Day at Riccarton, was abandoned after race three on Saturday due to ...

[More New Zealand horse racing news](https://horsebetting.com.au/category/news/nz/) “We really tried (to save the meeting) and with daylight saving hours available, we might have been able to put the meeting back, but with the length of the grass and the amount of moisture in it, it just isn’t going to dry out. “On the firm surface underneath, the fact that the grass is quite long and with a little bit of rain overnight, it just hasn’t dried underneath which means that there is an area of the track that is unsafe,” she said.