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East Coast Bays' defence of the Chatham Cup is over after losing a dramatic penalty shootout 7-6 to Manurewa in the third round of the football competition. Goalkeeper Albon Houston ...

Attendance figures for the National Agricultural Fieldays are down 11% on last year. The show opened in heavy rain and cold temperatures at Mystery Creek near Hamilton on Wednesday.

Sea The Stars won the 230th Epsom Derby on Saturday, becoming the first horse to complete the Guineas-Derby double since 1989.

More than 200 Kaimanawa horses have been rounded up in the annual muster near Waiouru, a larger number than previous years as the Department of Conservation carries out a plan to reduce the herd size.

The New Zealand cricketers say they're happy to be dark horses for the Twenty20 World Cup, which begins this weekend in England. They completed their preparations on Wednesday with a ...

Movement of racehorses around New Zealand is to come under more stringent control from Monday, to guard against any outbreak of equine influenza.

The Court of Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a man convicted of two high-profile sex crimes.

The two time Olympic champion Mark Todd has won his first international eventing competition in ten years, taking out the Houghton International Horse Trials in England. Todd, riding Walk the ...

Controlling the movement of racehorses around New Zealand is to become more stringent to help guard against the outbreak of viruses.

Rachel Alexandra, ridden by Calvin Borel, has won the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of United States horse racing's Triple Crown. The champion filly held off by a length a late ...

Friday's papers: Burgled students find $800 "conscience money" under their door; Government to spend $50 million on national cycleway; Waterloo Wharf in Wellington to close for safety reasons.

Australian racing is bracing itself for a decision today which could end 150 years of jumps racing in Australia. Jumps racing, which is held in only South Australia and ...

The Department of Conservation says it makes financial sense to permanently reduce the number of wild horses in the Kaimanawa ranges from about 500 to 300.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government was under pressure on Sunday as new polls showed his party had lost yet more ground amid a scandal over claims made by MPs on expenses.

New Zealand riders are well down the field after the first day of dressage at the Badminton Horse trials with Caroline Powell on Lenamore the best placed at 15th. Dan ...

An environmental group claims kiteboarders have driven dotterels out of their nesting sites at the Ruakaka wildlife sanctuary in Northland. It wants a ban on them. Audio

There's been a massive upset in the 135th Kentucky Derby with a 50-1 longshot gelding from New Mexico easily beating the cream of American racing. Mine That Bird exploded down ...

Champion New Zealand mare Sunline has been put down because of severe laminitis, a disease affecting the hooves.

No New Zealand athletes are among the six to have returned positive drug tests in the wake of re-testing samples taken at last year's Beijing Olympics. Of the almost 5,000 ...

The International Olympic Committee has discovered seven more positive drugs results from re-testing samples taken at last year's Beijing Olympics. The IOC says 948 samples were analysed and seven…

New Zealand's double Olympic equestrian champion Mark Todd has withdrawn from next month's Badminton Horse Trials in Britain because of an injury to his horse Gandalf. Todd says the horse ...