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“It wouldn’t have been hard to bail out and scratch him, but it was well worth it,” said Stephen McNally after driving his 500th winner Harry Belafonte, (A Rocknroll Dance) in the mud at Methven yesterday. McNally settled Harry Belafonte three back on the inside and waited for the passing lane. He then came up […]
John Morrison takes some proven racehorses plus some fresh faces to the Kurow meeting at Oamaru tomorrow. Let’s hear what he has to say about each of his starters. Race Three: Just Amazing (Always B Miki) – Driver John Morrison (FR9) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Race Four: Don’t Think Just Do (Rock N Roll Heaven) – Driver […]
The Invercargill Harness Racing Club is offering a nine-race card at Ascot Park tomorrow. See below, are six horses you might want to consider. Race Four: The Bricklayer (Art Major) – driver Peter Hunter (FR 7) Hasn’t raced since May and has been given one quiet workout (2nd) to fine tune for tomorrows race. Trained […]
Southern harness racing trainer Nathan Williamson will be watching his team race at Winton tomorrow from Auckland as he awaits Group One duties on Friday with Indulge Me. Shakedown (Majestic Son) is a new trotter to the barn and is a ‘project horse’ for stable junior Ollie Kite. He starts in Race Three at Winton. […]
Invercargill HRC will host nine races at Ascot Park tomorrow and local harness racing trainer Kirstin Green should have a part to play. Five year old gelding Shergar (Bettor’s Delight) is getting close to winning. He ran a solid fourth at Riverton on Sunday and Race One tomorrow looks like a winnable race for him. […]
The Rocknroll Hanover horse A Rocknroll Dance (1:47.4), who is standing at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms near Brisbane, has sired the harness racing winners of a hefty $36million worldwide to date. The total includes a record $10.6million in the closing season, of which $4.3million was earned by his progeny in Australia. He sired […]
Two horses named after movies quinellaed today’s $25,000 Shannon Farm Cromwell Cup at the Wyndham HRC meeting at Cromwell. At the finish Hacksaw Ridge (A Rocknroll Dance) held on by half a length to beat fast finishing The Big Lebowski, with a brave Tempo Warrior a length and a half back in third. HACKSAW RIDGE […]
Burnham harness racing driver Mark Jones will have a large team at the Wyndham HRC meeting tomorrow at Cromwell with nine runners across the thirteen race card. In Race Two Mighty Flying Miki (Always B Miki) represents the stable. The giant young pacer had had five starts for five fourths and appears to lack speed, […]
What was expected to be a confidence building run turned into a winning one for nine year old pacer Deny Everything (A Rocknroll Dance) in the Peter Heyrick Memorial Mobile Pace at Ascot Park today. From the outside of the front line harness racing driver Kirstin Green watched the early action unfold and with Sky […]
Wyndham trainer Ricky Gutsell will have his entire team at tomorrow’s Wyndham HRC meeting at the Young Quinn Raceway and uniquely, all four of his runners are out the same mare Insar. Thirty four start maiden Baltic Star (Always B Miki) fronts up in the first. “She keeps on finding an excuse. She’s got all […]
The Diamond Creek/SBSR Southern Surge Finals at Gore tomorrow are the winter finale for Southern Harness racing. Kirsten Green has prepared nine runners for the event and Winton horseman Tyler Dewe has three entered. All surge finals are worth $25,000 and most fields are full and competitive. Raspalia’s (Johny Rock) form has dropped away after […]
Swannanoa trainer Bennie Hill has some nice stock around him and last night at Addington Rockingood (A Rocknroll Dance) added to the early season feats of Renegade (Captaintreacherous) and Arthur Shelby (Bettor’s Delight). Last night driver Ricky May eased the Brendon Hill trained Rockingood off the gate and took the lead going into the first […]
Tisbury harness racing trainer Kirstin Green takes strong numbers to the Invercargill HRC meeting at Ascot Park tomorrow. Raspalla (Johny Rock) won three starts ago before being outclassed in the Southern Oaks. She starts in Race Three. The three year old filly hasn’t been sited at any trials or workouts but gets a favourable draw […]
It’s not often you get a Robert and Jenna Dunn trained horse at really long odds, but that’s what harness racing punters got today in the Robin and Geraldine Wilson Rangiora Classic. Double Time (A Rocknroll Dance) was 12/12 in the betting with only two other horses in the fourteen horse field at longer odds. […]
Angus Finn (A Rocknroll Dance) provided Gore harness racing trainer Shayne Kelly with his first winner at Roxburgh today. The four year old has been knocking on the door to clear maidens and handled by Nathan Williamson, the gelding got the job done today, beating Dallas Dale by two lengths. “He’s tough and doesn’t take […]
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett A great story that had an amazing outcome in 2010 followed the above quote exactly when a man called Jim Mulinix went to the Harrisburg Yearling harness racing sale that […]
Queensland’s leading harness racing sire A Rocknroll Dance ended the year on a high note with winners right along the eastern seaboard. The Rocknroll Hanover double millionaire sired a winning double at Albion Park with Rocknroll Mama NZ (1:53.9) and Betty’s Gold Class (1:55.6). Bonnie’s Dance (1:54.1) also rung up number one at ‘The Creek’, […]
The Rocknroll Hanover double millionaire A Rocknroll Dance, who stands at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms west of Brisbane, will have a five-prong entry at the Inter Dominion at Albion Park starting on Friday (December 1). The harness racing quintet are Uptown Beachgirl and Kanena Provlima (first heat), L L Cool J (second heat), […]
Our Money Rocks, a six-year-old gelding by A Rocknroll Dance, who stands at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms in Queensland, alongside the brilliant, young Captaintreacherous horse Catch The Fire (1:46.8) and trotter Classic Connection, became his sire’s fifth 1:50 harness racing credit when he won in 1:50 at Menangle recently. OUR MONEY ROCKS REPLAY […]
The Rocknroll Hanover double millionaire A Rocknroll Dance, who stands at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms in Queensland, has cemented his position as a Top Ten sire with a spate of harness racing wins recently. With more than two months of the racing season left, A Rocknroll Dance has sired 153 individual winners and […]
The talented A Rocknroll Dance filly First Dance won the opening heat of the Victoria Oaks at Melton and will be among the leading fancies for the $150,000 Final next Saturday night (October 14). The NZ bred filly rolled to the front in the first lap and was never again headed, reeling off her last […]
Exciting, young Captaintreacherous stallion Catch The Fire and the Rocknroll Hanover horse A Rocknroll Dance, who both stand at the Somerset Farm near Brisbane of Peter and Chantal McMullen, created harness racing headlines in two different countries on Saturday (September 16). Catch The Fire, who is embarking on his first season ‘down under’, provided the […]
Talented harness racing mare Shez Got Bling, who came from last to win at the recent Albion Park midweek meeting (Jan. 24), is proving a splendid advertisement in Queensland for her sire, the dual world champion A Rocknroll Dance, who stands at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms stud. SHEZ GOT BLING REPLAY https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC24012310.mp4 Shez […]
The A Rocknroll Dance gelding Our Money Rocks is proving one of the harness racing stars of the summer racing at Menangle. The six-year-old made it three from three this season and boosted his stake earnings to $135,000 when he overcame a horror draw and a wide passage to beat a handy field on Saturday […]
