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In the Lincoln Farms Here For The Horse Mobile Pace at Cambridge tonight, northern junior driver Crystal Hackett achieved her 200th win driving the Andrew and Lyn Neal trained Merie Mary (Bettor’s Delight). MERIE MARY REPLAY Crystal told me earlier this week, “I was sitting on 198 for three weeks and I finally got up […]
Famous as a leader in global breeding, the Nagambie-based nursery Aldebaran Park, which is conducted by Melbourne breeder-owner Duncan McPherson OAM, has been a cornerstone of Australian trotting breeding since 2004. Over the years the farm has bred and raised countless winners at the diagonal gait. The list includes the Breeders Crown champions Aldebaran Zeus […]
A swag of harness racing winners in December has firmly established the Aldebaran Park sires Skyvalley NZ and Aldebaran Eagle USA among the top bracket of trotting sires in the country. Skyvalley NZ left 12 individual winners for the month to lift his seasonal tally to 43 with stakes totalling $918,720, while Aldebaran Eagle USA […]
October 2025 was a red-letter month for Aldebaran Park with no less than 10 winners bred and raised at the Nagambie nursery. Undoubtedly the standout performer was Keayang Brandy (Aldebaran Eagle USA – Im Princess Sophie), who has won five of her past seven starts including wins at Cranbourne in 1:59.5 and Shepparton during October. […]
Maharajah and Calgary Games, two of the greatest trotters ever produced in Sweden, will be available to Australian breeders via frozen semen this season from Aldebaran Park. Both standing at Menhammar Stuteri, near Stockholm, the celebrated duo represent the best bloodlines in Europe. Maharajah, a son of the Italian-bred star Viking Kronos, won 31 of […]
In a coup for the Australian breeding industry, Maharajah and Calgary Games, two of the greatest trotters ever produced in Sweden, will be available to breeders via frozen semen this season. The deal has been clinched by the Nagambie (Vic.) based nursery Aldebaran Park with the giant Swedish conglomerate Menhammar Stuteri, who are standing the […]
A trio of stud-sired trotters, Aldebaran Boyd (Aldebaran Eagle USA), Eagle Hanover NZ (Aldebaran Eagle USA) and Watch And Act (Skyvalley NZ), advanced their stakemoney tallies to beyond $100,000 during August. Aldebaran Boyd reached the milestone when he notched his 12th success at Pinjarra, while Eagle Hanover’s seventh win at Cambridge Raceway netted her connections […]
Aldebaran Zeus, Australia’s second richest trotting stallion of all-time and a former Australasian mile record holder, will make his final racetrack appearance in the Aldebaran Park Trotters Handicap at Melton on Saturday night. The seven-year-old’s fresh and chilled semen will be available to breeders in Australia and New Zealand from Aldebaran Park stud, Nagambie, where […]
Last month’s Rowe Cup in which Queen Elida (Love You) finished third, proved to be her last race. The champion trotting mare has now quietly slipped out of the racing spotlight. The New Zealand bred mare carved out a great career in Australia, competing at the highest level. This season Queen Elida became the richest […]
Aldebaran Park sired, bred or owned harness racing performers shone brightly on the biggest stages in three different States and New Zealand during April – both on and off the track. Arcee Phoenix, the Aldebaran Park slot runner in the $600,000 The TAB Trot at Cambridge Raceway, NZ, boomed home to beat a top field […]
The Aldebaran Park bred and raised Aldebaran Tucker (Helpisontheway USA-Aldebaran Takara) won the first two-year-old trotters’ race for the season at Bendigo. The gelding led from go to whoa to win by 30 metres. He was one of six Aldebaran Park bred winners in March. The others were Aldebaran Zeus (Muscle Hill USA-Zoia Boko Swe), […]
The Skyvalley gelding Patched and the Aldebaran Park bred and owned Aldebaran Jensen (Aldebaran Eagle USA-Endsino-Angus Hall USA) both achieved landmarks in their harness racing careers during February. Patched sent his stake earnings past the $250,000 mark when he overcame a 60 metre handicap and a capacity field to win at Gloucester Park on February […]
The Aldebaran Park harness racing stallions Skyvalley NZ and Aldebaran Eagle USA left the winners of two of the four divisions of the Vicbred Platinum Homegrown Classic at Melton in December. Alrighty, a two-year-old gelding by Skyvalley, was responsible for a terrific performance in winning his $25,000 Final, while Winnie’s Dream (by Aldebaran Eagle) and […]
Talented square gaiter Arcee Phoenix (Trixton) scored one of his best harness racing wins when he stormed down the outside to take out the $75,000 Group 1 Aldebaran Park Maori Mile at Bendigo last night and in doing so repeated his success in the same race 12 months ago. Backed into second favourite behind Queen […]
The Victorian-based Aldebaran Park stud had close breeding links to important harness racing winners in three different States in October. Aldebaran Zeus (Muscle Hill USA – Zoia Boko Swe), who was bred and is owned by Aldebaran Park and raced on lease with Tracey Cullen and Melinda and Danny Thackeray, won twice over the flying […]
Homebred harness racing winners in both hemispheres, a host of winners for resident sires Skyvalley NZ and Aldebaran Eagle USA and the Victorian Hall of Fame award for Aldebaran Park principal Duncan McPherson OAM were the highlights of a busy month in August. Generally Speaking Swe, a Swedish born three-year-old by Readly Express Swe from the Australasian trotting […]
The bonny Aldebaran Eagle USA mare Rockinwithattitude proved herself the top four-year-old trotter of the current harness racing season when she won the $150,000 The Great Square at Albion Park. It was her fifth success at Group 1 level, and she defeated the best three and four-year-olds in the country after being required to overcome […]
Aldebaran Park resident stallion Skyvalley NZ and Rockinwithattitude Tr 1:57.9 ($338,940), the leading harness racing daughter of the late Aldebaran Eagle USA, both were acknowledged for their outstanding feats at the 2023 Victorian Awards nights held recently. Skyvalley NZ was named the Trotting Sire of the Year by the Victorian Square Trotters Association and Rockinwithattitude the […]
Aldebaran Park, one of Victoria’s leading trotting nurseries, produced harness racing winners in three different countries in May. Topping the bill was the three-year-old gelding Generally Speaking Swe (Readly Express), who posted his third win at only his third start in a $14,000 race in 1:57.8 at Oak Grove Raceway, Kentucky on May 13. The […]
March was a month of achievement for harness racing’s Aldebaran Park – on and off the track! Heading the list was the homebred six-year-old Kyvalley Heist NZ (Muscle Mass USA-U Dream NZ), who made a clean sweep of the time-honoured Central Victorian Trotting Championship, capturing the heat at Boort and final at Charlton. Over in […]
The Aldebaran Park stallions Skyvalley NZ, the leading colonial sire for many years, and Aldebaran Eagle USA, the premier sire of harness racing three-year-olds last season, have started the new year with a bang. Skyvalley NZ has been represented by winners in three different States headed up by Flash Kyvalley – 18 wins, who hoisted […]
The Aldebaran Park bred and owned four-year-old Aldebaran Dexta (Aldebaran Eagle USA – Aldebaran Deegan NZ) established fresh track records for the 2230 metres and 2645 metres standing start at Globe Derby Park on his way to stringing together three more consecutive harness racing wins in December to take his winning streak to six in […]
James Herbertson’s early race decision to remain in the running line paid dividends when Shes Ruby Roo scored an upset harness racing win in the Aldebaran Park Need For Speed Princess Final at Melton on Friday night (Oct. 6). Having his first drive on the filly, Herbertson refrained from slotting three back along the pegs […]
Australasian harness racing fans and trotting breeders have been spoilt for choice in the last fifteen years with a huge variety of the best modern bloodlines from Europe and North America at their disposal. The impact on the breed has been immense seeing champions from French line sires such as Monbet, Queen Elida and Just […]
