Four of the state's leading reinswomen will spearhead Harness Racing Victoria's Team Teal campaign across the next six weeks.

Jodi Quinlan, Kate Gath, Kerryn Manning and Jackie Barker are once again ambassadors for HRV's joint venture with the Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group.

Starting with today's Horsham meeting and running through until March 14, all female drivers in Victoria will wear teal pants to raise awareness and much-needed funds for ovarian cancer research and programs.

For every winner they pilot, HRV and wagering partner Tabcorp commit $200 each to deliver $400 towards key initiatives.

“Harness Racing Victoria is proud to partner with ANZGOG again in 2021 as a major supporter of the Team Teal campaign,” HRV CEO Dayle Brown said.

“HRV has been aligned with Team Teal since its inception and it is enormously pleasing to see it grow every year.

"Our whole industry embraces this important campaign and HRV will again be donating $200 for every Team Teal winner during the campaign period.

"I thank our wonderful ambassadors in Jodi Quinlan, Kate Gath, Kerryn Manning and Jackie Barker, as well as all the female drivers in the promotional teal pants this year, and everyone in the industry who is supporting the Team Teal message.”

The Team Teal campaign was created by Duncan McPherson OAM who lost his wife Lyn to ovarian cancer in 2010. In failing health, Lyn and her family began fundraising for ovarian cancer research and nurses supporting women in the research units. It was an effort that Duncan McPherson connected with his passion for harness racing, co-founding Team Teal with fellow owners and trainers Michael Taranto and Jim Connolly.

After beginning with HRV in 2014, the campaign expanded from Victoria to New South Wales in 2016, to all Australian states in 2017 and internationally to New Zealand in 2018.

Last year, 260 Aussie and Kiwi reinswomen competed across the six-week period and clocked up 451 wins to raise $164,600.

A spokesperson from WomenCan said the organisation was excited to once again partner with the harness racing industry to help females with ovarian cancer.

"Over 1,500 women will be diagnosed this year and last year 1,064 women died from this insidious disease," the spokesperson said.

"The funds, raised through the Team Teal campaign again in 2021, directly support ANZGOG’s Survivors Teaching Students program. (This is) a ground-breaking education and prevention program that brings ovarian cancer survivors into the classrooms of medical and allied health students to share information about ovarian cancer symptoms, a women’s path to diagnosis and their challenges of living with this cancer.

"The funds further support the ANZGOG Research Nurse Grant program. This program builds capacity of research nurses in under-resourced sites to enable more women across Australia to have access to new and innovative clinical trials."

More information about gynaecological cancer and its symptoms can be found by visiting womencan.org.au/gynae-cancers.