Trainer Cran Dalgety has confirmed speedy mare Bonnie Joan, and last season's Auckland Group race-winning filly, Bettor Joy, for the Auckland premier carnival next month.
Grass track racing will return to Ascot Park next year for the first time in 48 years. The galloping track will be used or the entire meeting on 3 March 2018 and it is planned to run all the races over 2100 metres.
Shane Walkinshaw was released from hospital on Monday and is back home resting and recovering, following a fall from Jennys Rose shortly after the start of race two at Ascot Park last Friday.