Orange back to earth and headed for Cambridge tonight

It’s already been an action-packed couple of days for the country’s leading harness racing driver Blair Orange as he heads to Cambridge today to drive at the new Tuesday meetings.

Today’s meeting will feature seven races, starting at 4.57pm, to be followed by Winton on Thursday, Auckland and Addington as the venues for Friday Night Lights and then the annual Blue September fund-raiser will kick off at Ashburton on Sunday.

Orange has four drives tonight. He drove three winners at Rangiora on Sunday to go to 114 for the year. The six-time New Zealand champion driver has an 11-win in 2024 over closest rival John Dunn.

He then headed to Auckland on Monday with fellow Blue September ambassadors Robbie Close and Jonny Cox, only to jump out of a plane at 18,000 feet.

The skydive, a first for all three of the high fliers, was all about increasing awareness of prostate cancer and raising funds for the New Zealand Prostate Cancer Foundation.

By all accounts the trio, and Orange in particular, were fair buzzing afterwards.

In Race 6 at Cambridge tonight, the Dunstan Horsefeeds Mobile Pace (7.16pm) Close will drive Victor Bravo, while Blair Orange will go head-to-head with his son Harrison Orange, who has sprinted out of the blocks with three wins from his first eight drives. Blair will partner up with Blue Chip Lou while Harrison will drive the favourite, Potter.

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From Harness Racing New Zealand