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Jumping Legends Return to the Track!

SUNDAY, 13 JULY 2025

Get ready for an action-packed day of jumps racing at Woodville Racecourse on Sunday, 13 July - made even more unforgettable by four legendary guests!

We’re rolling out the red carpet for retired jumping superstars Chocolate Fish, Kick Back, Kipkeino, Volkswagin, and Zed Em as they return to the track to be honoured in true style.

Come along and meet these fan-favourites up close - give them a pat, snap a photo, and watch as they proudly lead out the jumps races throughout the day.

It’s a celebration of jumping legends, and a day you won’t want to miss!

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Jumps Racing Season is Here!

MAY - SEPTEMBER 2025

As the temperature drops, our jumps racing stars are just warming up! With nerves of steel and a taste for adrenaline, watch our lionhearts go to battle this winter.

Steeped in courage, bravery and determination, there’ll be slogging finishes, gallant performances and heroic triumphs.

It’s time to celebrate jumps racing this winter! Dig out your tweed, your tartan and your trilby and get amongst the action track side.

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Upcoming Racedays

Hawke's Bay Hurdles and Steeplechase Raceday
13 JULY 2025

Woodville-Pahiatua RC, Woodville

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July Raceday
27 JULY 2025

Racing Te Aroha, Te Aroha

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Winning Edge Presentations Winter Cup Raceday
2 AUGUST 2025

Canterbury JC, Riccarton Park

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Experience the joy of Jumps Racing this winter

If you’ve never been to a jumps raceday, you’re missing out on one of New Zealand’s most unique and exhilarating sporting experiences. Set against stunning rural backdrops and full of heart-pounding action, jumps racing combines athleticism, courage, and community spirit in a way few other events can match.

Whether you’re a seasoned racing fan or someone simply looking for a great day out, here’s why you should get involved in jumps racing and get along to a raceday this season.

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WIN a trip for two to the Grand National Festival of Racing!

9th & 10th August 2025

There are few sights more spectacular than watching jumps racing at Riccarton Park, and the Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge 150th Grand National Steeplechase Raceday offers a front-row seat to a phenomenal afternoon of racing.

Enter now for your chance to win a trip for two to the final day of the 2025 Grand National Festival of Racing - including flights, accommodation, meals, transfers and raceday tickets.

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Inside Jumps Racing

Woodville celebrating former jumping stars

Woodville will wind back the clock when staging this year’s running of the Glenanthony Simmentals Stud Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase and Te Whāngai Romney’s Hawke’s Bay Hurdles, with a number of retired jumping stars joining the festivities.

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Mrs Browne’s lasting legacy in jumps racing

Ann Browne, widely known as Mrs Browne, is a trailblazer and heroine in New Zealand racing, and would be the first to share her passion for jumpers.

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Nelson paving his own way into racing history

Paul Nelson is one of the most respected identities in New Zealand jumps racing, and it wasn’t all that long ago that he was a polo player who simply decided he might like to have a racehorse.

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