Champions And Celebrities To Parade Through Newmarket Today

This year's Auckland Cup Week Parade Of Champions through Newmarket will include some famous faces from TVNZ’s hit series Dancing With The Stars. The annual parade which celebrates Auckland Cup Week will take place today from 12noon - Sunday 7 March.

In addition to well known stars and dancers from Dancing With The Stars, the parade will include former Auckland Cup winning jockeys and horses, fashion floats showcasing many of Newmarket's designers, marching bands, circus stilt walkers, Newmarket Primary school children as clowns and in racing silks, polo ponies, pipe bands, and the Stella Artois Auckland Cup itself.

"Newmarket is a proud sponsor of this event which is only getting bigger and better. It's great for everyone that the parade's again on a Sunday. It gives more people an opportunity to see it, helped by the fact that Newmarket is such a weekend shopping destination," says Lea Worth, Marketing Manager of the Newmarket Business Association.

The parade will travel down the length of Broadway from midday, starting from Clovernook Road under the motorway viaduct and finishing on George Street near the Auckland Domain.

Winning designs and designers from last year's Newmarket Young Fashion Designer Award will also be showcased.

Mrs Worth says traffic disruption will be kept to a minimum with a 'rolling closure' to take place along Broadway as the parade passes from 12.00pm.

"The parade's a great fit. Newmarket is the fashion capital of New Zealand and Auckland Cup Week is a fantastic celebration of sport, fashion, and glamour. Newmarket offers the ultimate in race-wear shopping and so we are delighted that Newmarket is again "The Official Fashion Precinct" for Auckland Cup Week.

"We're encouraging families to come and enjoy the festivities. In its fifth year, the parade has become a key fixture in Auckland Cup Week, with the Stella Artois Auckland Cup itself being raced on Wednesday 10 March," says Mrs Worth.

The Newmarket Business Association believes the Auckland Cup Week Parade of Champions will continue to grow as has been achieved with the Melbourne Cup parade which takes place through Melbourne's central city every year.

"What a great chance to see horses parade down a main arterial road in Auckland. It's quite a spectacle and we are thrilled to again be associated with all the glitz and glamour of Auckland Cup Week," says Cameron Brewer, CEO of the Newmarket Business Association.

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