Amberley Trotting Club is a North Canterbury Based Harness Racing club, that races on Waitangi Day.
Amberley Trotting Club is a North Canterbury based Harness Racing organization, we have a yearly race meeting which is held on the 7th of February, Waiatngi Day,this is held on the grass track of the Rangiora racecourse, this is a great fun filled family race day with free entertainment and activities for the children and a spectacular day of Harness racing. New members are always welcome, only $1
06/02/2026
Wow what a great day! Thank you to everyone that turned up and we hope you all had a great day.
Congratulations to all our winners, and thank you to the racing community for rallying around this little once a year race club and supporting us.
Best Bets…
Listen in to hear what the drivers have to say about their chances!
Good luck l
05/02/2026
25 Degrees…. First race is 3.10
Make sure to bring the sun hat and sunblock were are in for a beautiful day. See you soon!
One more sleep ….
Listen in to President Ross Rennie talk all things Race Day.
Keep a look out tomorrow before the first for a whip around of drivers best of the day.
03/02/2026
3 Sleeps to go …..
We have lots on offer for our owners, trainers, drivers and helpers.
Starting with each race stake is a min of $11.5k with our cup race being $25k.
Each winning horse will receive a bag of feed for the trainer courtesy of Kristie Hill at Dunstan Horse Feed.
Each winning ownership group will receive a trophy hamper(pictured below) and an owners momento courtesy of Robbie Close.
The club is also putting on a stable BBQ nearing the end of the day run by the wonderful Nigel and Brenda Harness Racing Unhinged
Public holiday so a great day to bring the family and owners along pack your deck chairs and picnics.
First race starts at 3.10pm
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Hi team
Noms are out for Amberley on Friday and we are light on noms right across the board, but desperately light in our cup .Noms have been held open until 9am Tuesday morning. We have Addington and Hororata either side of our day which hasn't helped and the rating band for the cup especially is not ideal and I can understand trainers going for the other 2 options where the band is not as restrictive ,but if you do have a horse that's eligible please nominate, it's a great chance to race for a $25,000 stake in what's more than likely going to be a small field, if it gets off the ground . Obviously I'm desperate to hold the cup for the clubs sake and hoping that we can do so . If not ,we'll still have a great race day and looking forward to hosting all of the owners and trainer's involved on Friday.
Cheers everyone
Ross Rennie
If you didn’t get a chance to hear Ross this morning on Compass FM here it is for you to listen to him in your own time. Great burst of information about our race day. Thanks again Compass FM for giving us time to promote our day once again!
Ross Rennie our club president was just on SENZ with Greg talking all things Amberley Trotting Club be sure to have a listen!
Nominations for our race day close at 12 noon tomorrow, it’s not to late to have your horse be apart of a great Grass track race day with min stakes of $11.5k and our Rangiora Equine Services ‘Amberley Cup’ of $25k.
We look forward to seeing you all there the weather is looking like a beautiful 20+ North Canterbury day ☀️
31/01/2026
Not only do we have lots of kids entertainment as mentioned previously but we have a number of things for the adults-
😊Frocks at the Trots
😊Draw of NZ Cup winning photo from 2025 singed
😊Punter Club $10 a ticket
😊Heads and Tails game win a $250 prezzy card thanks to HRNZ
😊Telfer Electrical Mystery Envelopes- fill out the form in your race book and go into the draw to win one of 5 amazing prizes including a TV and sound bar 😍(pictured below) worth $2.5k
Look out on our page this week for a video Update from our President Ross Rennie.
Also he will be on with our friends at Compass FM at 8.10 Monday morning if you want to listen out.