Kaikōura

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It was big day harness racing at Kaikoura earlier in the week as well.

Oh, yes.

And the beautiful Kaikoura race course there.

So a couple of multis from there, actually.

First one, a six-leg $1 multi.

All right, time to catch up with our Changing Worlds Claire Concannon now.

And this week, Claire's going to share stories from her time with a marine ranger on a boat off Kaikoura.

Tell us more, Claire, please.

Hello.

Oh, kia ora, Jesse.

Yeah, I mean, this is a good work story, right? I'll say.

Yeah, beautiful Kaikoura.

You've done your time in

What is the dream here?

Well, the ultimate dream, and we're getting closer by the day, Ingrid, is to create an extraordinary 170-kilometre cycle trail, walking trail, from the beautiful township of Waitai-Picton all the way to the beautiful seaside township of Kaikoura.

And at the moment, is it dangerous the way it's set up at the moment?

Yes, well, at the moment, we've got about 155 kilometres completed and we're in this precarious situation where we can't send riders safely up from Waitai Picton up to the top of the elevation because they... have to share a very tight stretch of state highway with about 1.2 million ferry passengers traffic.

We set our eyes across the ditch.

Today is Kaikoura Cup Day and Captain's Mistress will take centre stage in Kaikoura.

There are already three races down at this stage.

The next goes in about 11 minutes.

We'll see if we can't get a couple of good things over the line today at Kaikoura.

So that's free for all.

A really, really important Kaikoura Cup that will be running our time on the eastern seaboard, particularly in Sydney, 1.24 local time.

It's a good field.

And Paul Mawadi, it's a day.

It's Kaikoura Cup Day, by the way, people, for those of you who love your harness racing.

But it's all about tomorrow, Paulie, and There'll be a lot going on behind the scenes there as the bookies try to keep a pace with global markets and we all try to figure out who wins the Melbourne Cup and the holy grail of racing betting, trying to pick a first four in a Melbourne Cup.

So what have you got for us? Give us a first four, let's go.

So you are $23 into $12 in the Melbourne Cup.

Very well-known horses in the South Island stables at least.

Pauline Kaikoura today, captain's mistress, favourite for the Kaikoura Cup.

It's won its last five straight.

So we're catching our breath for just a couple of days before we start cutting next year's season.

But in this particular programme, which is on Ashworth High Country Station in Kaikoura, the Kaikoura range and it's within sight of Blenheim from the tops of these ranges you can see the township of Blenheim but there are some magnificent drone shots in there captured by Steve Fisher and you couldn't have captured them with a helicopter because the sheep are just there doing their thing these merino weathers heading up over the pass and these shots crane up and you know it does exactly what our show can do which is take you to the corners of the country that you just wouldn't otherwise get to go.

Oh, it is.

It's an absolute window into some beautiful places.