Typically, bookmakers will offer bonus bets for running second or third in the major races. 

The NZ 1000 Guineas was inaugurated in 1973 when the New Zealand Oaks and Derby were moved from Riccarton. In return, the 1000 and 2000 Guineas races were added to the New Zealand Cup Week program. 

A race only for three-year-old fillies, the NZ 1000 Guineas is worth $300,000 and it’s the main target for the age-group fillies. Quality winners have been rife among the winners’ list and they include Tycoon Lil, Seachange, Katie Lee and King’s Rose. 

Form out of the NZ 1000 Guineas typically stacks up in New Zealand and Australia, with age-group winners in New Zealand attracting big attention with stables looking to buy cups horses down the line. 

The Filly of the Year title is often awarded to the NZ 1000 Guineas winner and it remains one of the bigger Group 1 races in New Zealand. 

The NZ 1000 Guineas field contains the best middle-distance fillies in New Zealand.  

We will have the confirmed field for the NZ 1000 Guineas when it’s released by NZTR. 

Due to the timing of the race in November, punters get a long look at the form for the NZ 1000 Guineas, which includes racing throughout the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival. 

There has been a good mix of favourite and upset winners in recent history, but the winners typically go on to brighter and better things. 

Winners such as La Diosa, King’s Rose, Katie Lee and Seachange all used the NZ 1000 Guineas as a stepping stone and punters should took at the fillies which could mature into handy middle-distance mares.