Cup Day Goes Ahead – But With Restrictions

The Invercargill Harness Racing Club’s Ascot Park Hotel Invercargill Cup Day will still take place at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill on Saturday but will do so in accordance within the rules and guidelines set out in the Covid-19 Protection Framework (Red Traffic Light setting).

That means that a very limited number of the public can attend but must stay in their bubbles on course ensuring that they social distance. However much of the entertainment and competitions organised for the day will be curtailed as a consequence of the traffic light settings.

Industry participants and essential workers with a reason to attend the event plus owners, ticketed guests, sponsors and members who can be housed in separate bubbles of under 100 people can also attend.

Anyone that can attend must do so by producing their vaccine passport at the gate which will be manned all day long.

The day will feature the prestigious Group 3 Ascot Park Hotel Invercargill Cup to be run over 2700 metres for a stake of $30,000, the Arden Lodge Robin Dundee Crown plus a heat of the Alabar Southern Supremacy Stakes, highlights in a great day of racing scheduled to begin at 12.20pm.