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Doing our bit for the planet 

The Age of Reason Over the holiday period my thoughts – and some of my reading – turned towards how we as a nation are levelling with the requirement to dampen down the quantum of…

Thanks to Shelley

Cambridge High School  – 1973 – 1976 Shelley Blair, pictured at Waterworld, Hamilton, during this month’s Special Olympics National Summer Games.  Photo: Roy Pilott. “For me, my disability is a part of who I am, not…

Church music fest planned 

A Festival of Church Music at St Andrew’s Church is being brought to Cambridge for the first time. The Auckland and Waikato branches of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) event will run over…

Cambridge race gets bigger 

The Race by Grins at Cambridge Raceway will join the thoroughbred code’s Karaka Million races and New Zealand Derby as the country’s richest races in April. Waikato-Bay of Plenty Harness committed to a $1 million…

Double success for White

Waipā driver Matthew White bookended wins on Cambridge Raceway at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023 with three-year-old filly Mhai Surfer Girl and veteran gelding Sly Punter. White trains Mhai Surfer Girl…

Racing – all in a mow

When Tony Gosnell of Hamilton is not servicing lawn mowers, he is racing them, and he needed all his skills on Sunday at Bay Waikato Mower Racing Club’s inaugural Cambridge meeting at the Pony Club…

Racing colossus leaves unparalled legacy

The passing of thoroughbred racing colossus Sir Patrick Hogan draws a line under the life of one of Cambridge’s most celebrated sons. The 83-year-old icon, whose successful Cambridge Stud found fame on a global scale,…

Hogan’s support continues

When Sir Patrick Hogan heard there was opposition to Cambridge Riding for the Disabled’s plans to build an arena to provide therapeutic riding under cover, he penned a letter for the local newspaper. In an…

The News grows online

Online visits to the Cambridge News website last year smashed all previous records and were 105 per cent up on 2021. The home page cambridgenews.nz came in at number one with 14 per cent of…

Sir Patrick Hogan dies

The thoroughbred world is mourning the death of Sir Patrick Hogan, 83, who passed away in Waikato Hospital after a period of ill health. From humble beginnings and with a determination shared by his wife…

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