{"id":563903,"date":"2026-08-09T16:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/563903\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:22:21","slug":"wilson-house-takes-out-nz-junior-driver-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/563903\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson House takes out NZ Junior Driver Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wilson-HOuse-trophy-blog-Junior-drivers-2026__ResizedImageWzYwMCwzNDdd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" class=\"ss-htmleditorfield-file image\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wilson House has claimed his first McMillan Equine Feeds NZ Junior Driver Championship after two more wins in Sunday&#8217;s second day of heats at Ashburton.<\/p>\n<p>After Friday&#8217;s three heats at Alexandra Park House had a two point lead going into the final four heats.<\/p>\n<p>At one stage he was actually headed by Harrison Orange by one point after his win in Heat 5 with the Robbie Holmes-trained Adamas.<\/p>\n<p>But House rallied to win the seventh and final heat with the Peter and Mitchell Robertson-trained Heaven to finish with 79 points. He also won Heat 4 with Majestic Monkey, trained by Coaster Howe.<\/p>\n<p>Overall he won three of the championship&#8217;s seven heats.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s other heat (Heat 6) was won by Seth Hill with the Mark Jones-trained Kowhai Star. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>House finished 16 points clear of Emily Johnson (63 points) who made a late charge after starting the day in equal fifth position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orange was third one point behind (62) with defending champion Carter Dalgety fourth (60).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilson House has claimed his first McMillan Equine Feeds NZ Junior Driver Championship after two more wins in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-563903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}