{"id":221317,"date":"2025-10-23T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221317\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:39:08","slug":"poised-for-racing-with-repairs-at-hastings-racecourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221317\/","title":{"rendered":"Poised for racing with repairs at Hastings racecourse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The work is being carried out by TW Group under the management of Australian racetrack and sports grounds specialists Evergreen Turf.<\/p>\n

Balcombe said that once the replacement turf is laid, a turf settlement process before horses can be worked on the bend and jump-outs can be held to test the condition of the track before racing can restart.<\/p>\n

It will enable racing for approximately three seasons until a new racing facility<\/a> is established on a new site on the southern fringes of Flaxmere. <\/p>\n

The major Spring Carnival races have, since the sudden cancellation last year, been run at other tracks, including $550,000 Group 1 feature the 2025 Livamol Classic, which was run at Ellerslie<\/a>, in Auckland, last Saturday.<\/p>\n

Problems for racing in the Central Districts and Hawke\u2019s Bay-Gisborne, including the shutting down of racing at Waipukurau, Wairoa and Gisborne five years ago, have been exacerbated by the troubled reopening of premier Palmerston North track Awapuni.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s recommissioning after a closure of 19 months for reconstruction lasted just one race and one slip of a horse in April.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, racing will return to Hawke\u2019s Bay on November 16<\/a> with the first of three cup meetings on the Waipukurau track, which has not seen the gallops since the track\u2019s licence to race was cancelled in 2020.<\/p>\n

It has continued being used for training and jumpouts, but the licence is being reinstated as a temporary measure for the upcoming $35,000 Waipukurau Cup meeting, the Wairoa Cup meeting on February 15, and the Hawke\u2019s Bay Cup meeting on April 26.<\/p>\n

Doug Laing has been a newspaper reporter for more than 50 years, most if it in Hawke\u2019s Bay covering most aspects of news, sports, and, occasionally racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The work is being carried out by TW Group under the management of Australian racetrack and sports grounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1841,94504,86099,94505,436,42994,76531,28256,94501,3004,29932,50661,94503,101,94502,56,54,55,3674,1942],"class_list":["post-221317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-at","tag-bend","tag-expected","tag-finished","tag-for","tag-hastings","tag-poised","tag-racecourse","tag-racecourses","tag-racing","tag-rebuilding","tag-repairs","tag-southland","tag-sports","tag-troublesome","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-with","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}