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The latest Blog harness racing news, results and features.
The countdown is on to one of the biggest weekends on the North American harness racing calendar, with champions, record-breakers and rising stars gathering at Scioto Downs in Ohio this weekend for the eliminations ahead of the $8 million Breeders Crown championship weekend on October 23–24. Eliminations take place on Friday and Saturday (October 16–17), […]
Sometimes the most spectacular victories come from horses who appear to have absolutely no chance turning for home. That was certainly the case at Dayton Raceway on Saturday night (October 10), when New Zealand-bred Alta Revelry N produced a breathtaking last-to-first performance to capture the $30,000 Open Pace. With a fierce battle for the lead […]
Australian Glenn Holland was on the buyers bench at the recently held Lexington Sales in America where he paid $75,000 for a Captaintreacherous colt out of the American Ideal mare Jk Fineandandy. Holland raced outstanding trotter The Locomotive which won 25 races including the 2024 Inter Dominion Trotters Final. There are two feature races on […]
This Sunday Marburg harness racing club will have stage their annual trotters day and following last year’s intro, the club is hoping for another bumper meeting. The main event is the Goldbet Graham Harriott Memorial which honours the memory of Graham who was instrumental in getting the trotters back to Queensland. He was also club […]
The sensational unbeaten youngster Verbici and Arete Virtue, who won their respective $75,000 Yabby Dam Farms 2YO Classics at Menangle last Saturday, are members of the same harness racing family. Verbici, who has won all eight starts to date for $184,204, is a gelding by the leading percentage sire Orlandi Vici out of the Listed […]
The New Zealand bred gelding On The Cards posted his 50th lifetime success when he took full advantage of a pocket trip to overwhelm his rivals in 1:51 in the $12,000 Open at Rosecroft Raceway on Monday (October 5). ON THE CARDS N REPLAY The following night, ANZAC bred pacers won seven of the […]
The spotlight will shine on Indiana harness racing on Friday night (Oct. 9) when more than $2.4 million in purses will be up for grabs during Indiana Sire Stakes Super Finals night at Harrah’s Hoosier Park. The 15-race championship program will feature eight $250,000 Super Finals for two and three-year-old pacers and trotters, with seven […]
The Bettor’s Delight mare Let’s N Joy lowered her lifetime mark to 1:49.2 winning the $44,000 Mares’ Open at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday (October 2). After settling in second last position, the four-year-old sprinted brilliant to win by 1-1/2 lengths from the ex-Aussie Sensationalize. Let’s N Joy has won 13 of her 23 starts […]
Trotting bred yearlings fetched the top dozen prices at the record-setting opening session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale in Kentucky on Monday (October 5). Chapter Seven, the leading North American trotting sire for four of the last five years, and his world champion son Walner, left 11 of the top 12 highest priced youngsters […]
At Methven on Sunday Vertigo (Peak) produced a stunning finish to claim the Yabby Downs Farm-sponsored race for the fairer sex. With a capacity field of 17 runners, the Lawrence McCormick-trained mare looked an unlikely winner as she turned for home near the rear of the field. But driver Wilson House had other ideas, unleashing […]
The first three home in last Friday night’s Western Australian Derby Prelude at Gloucester Park were SBSR horses. Im Stealthy (Downbytheseaside) bred by Macca Lodge won the race while Havtimeformiki (Always B Miki) bred by Murray Little and D Mac (Downbytheseaside) bred by the Morris family, filled the minor placings. Im Stealthy is trained by […]
Harness racing history will be made this Saturday evening when South Australia’s first slot race the $100,000 Radiant is staged at Port Pirie’s circuit Phoenix Park. It’s a real coup for Port Pirie which outside of Globe Derby has regular meetings in South Australia along with Mount Gambier and Gawler. And its exactly the shot […]
It’s a huge weekend of harness racing across North America, with the $575,000 Kentucky Futurity taking centre stage on Saturday Hambletonian champion Apex renews his rivalry with Big Ranger in the 134th Kentucky Futurity. Apex starts from post seven for Marcus Melander and Dexter Dunn, while Big Ranger has post nine with Tim Tetrick. Melander […]
This week’s Race of the Week comes from Pocono Downs, where two-year-old pacer History (Downbytheseaside) produced a breathtaking finishing burst to break his maiden in 1:52.1. The Downbytheseaside colt looked to have plenty of work ahead of him approaching the final turn. Driven by Jack Pelling for his father, trainer Brett Pelling, History was sixth […]
Don Hunter (Huntsville), the winner of an opening round heat of the NSW Breeders Challenge two-year-old series at Menangle and who has won five of his seven starts, is a son of Miss Halfpenny, who won the Breeders Challenge 2YO Final herself in 2018. Furthermore, Miss Halfpenny is a half-sister to the 2021 Breeders Challenge […]
A trio of ANZAC bred pacers in Soho Spectre, Carrera Sunset and The Falcon clocked identical miles in 1:49.4 in North America last week. SOHO SPECTRE N REPLAY Soho Spectre, a five-year-old Art Major harness racing gelding bred by Perth breeder-owner Robert Watson, won the $23,000 Open at Plainridge Park on Thursday (September 24), […]
Haley Jaccka’s (Always B Miki) win at Gore on Sunday was her tenth, she’s become Charlie Smaill’s most successful pacing mare. The Northern Southland owner has been racing horses since the early 1980s and since Account won at Gore in December 1983 he’s won 230 races – the majority of those carrying the Jaccka name. […]
Just when Palladium looked to have the Carousel Pacers Final safely in his keeping, Nymbal produced a devastating late burst to snatch victory at Menangle on Saturday night. The New Zealand-bred son of Lazarus found himself hopelessly boxed in four back on the pegs as favourite Palladium took control and reeled off a blistering 26.9-second […]
Two full brothers – three year old Zanda Man and two year old Baystyle won consecutive races at Melton last Friday. Both are by Art Major out of the Big Jim mare Miss Atlanta. Zanda Man is trained by Jack Barker, while Baystyle comes from the Geoff Webster barn. They were both bred and are […]
It’s a massive week of harness racing in North America, with two million dollar races taking centre stage and some of the sport’s brightest young stars preparing for their biggest assignments of the season. Two million-dollar showdowns at Mohawk Unbeaten Shalom Hanover (Papi Rob Hanover) will put his perfect seven-from-seven record on the line in […]
Ezra Kai (Tennotrump), the winner of the Trotters Carousel at Menangle, and who now been successful in three of his last 10 harness racing starts, has a pedigree of more than usual interest in that he represents a doubling up of the blood of the Hall of Fame broodmare Maori Miss. Bred by central Victorian […]
The six-year-old Huntsville mare Jensville, who was bred by Peter and the late Lesley Medhurst, became the fastest ever female bred in Australia with a 1:47.8 victory in a $16,000 race at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday (September 18). She is the fifth Aussie bred to better 1:48. After leading then handing up to the 2024 […]
A huge night of juvenile trotting is set for Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday, with almost $1 million in stakes money on offer across two Grade 1 features. The $475,100 Peter Haughton Memorial for two-year-old trotting colts and geldings and the $483,350 Jim Doherty Memorial for two-year-old trotting fillies headline the 15-race card. Unbeaten Indiana […]
It’s been quite a fortnight for Central Southland breeders Todd and Fleur Anderson and John and Katrina Price. Faith Not Fear (Captaintreacherous-Imaginary Bet) bred by the Andersons and full-brothers Tour Party (Bettor’s Delight) and War Party (Bettor’s Delight) both bred by the Prices, have each had impressive wins. Democrat Party, the dam of the “Partys” […]
