Won't happen. The Te Awamutu course no longer has a liquor license. I believe the above poster is right about Tauranga being ushered out by the gallops which struck me as unusual because I am fairly sure the trotting club has a stake or at least entitlements to the track and could have raced there rent-free once they merged with Cambridge.
Thames was the favourite for a return in the last few years but it's seriously in a state of disrepair. The television cabling all got ripped up, the barn suffered a fire, the track is grown over and unkempt and there are cows grazing all over it. In its favour is a passionate local committee and a general willingness from the powers that be to run a summer series there.
The latest chatter though is a return to racing on the grass at Ruakaka, which has a hugely popular January gallops date that gets very small numbers. It used to be a dual code before the Northland HRC got bullied out of its date by Auckland and was wound up. The Horseman's Association is definitely pushing for either that early January date or a two-day meeting perhaps later in January.