Festival fever snowballing

Excitement is snowballing at Coronet Peak as the ski area gears up towards the 36th Queenstown Winter Festival, which starts on Friday.
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The festival's longest-running event is the Speight's Dog Derby, which will be held on July 1.

Dogs and their owners have to go up the mountain on the chairlift before hurtling down on foot to the base building. The first pair to make it down together wins. MORE>>