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The Riverina Paceway staged their intial round of heats for the New South Wales Breeders Challenge for two year olds on Friday afternoon and it was the Victorians who cleaned up in both the colts and geldings and fillies divisions. The colts and geldings event was taken out by Boystrous (Tall Dark Stranger) who […]
Life has been busy for prominent Victorian trainer Alex Ashwood. Based near Bendigo, Ashwood campaigned a number of his stable stars at the recent Brisbane Inter Dominion series. “Just hours after that amazing Grand Final night at Albion Park (last Saturday week) I was down in Launceston driving. I flew out first thing the next […]
Jason Grimson landed a driving double when smart mare Bella Danza (Bettor’s Delight) scored a tearaway harness racing win in the Leading Edge Security Fleur De Lil Ladyship stakes at Albion Park on Saturday evening. But it was the nature of Grimson’s drive that was the main talking point. From the inside of the second […]
The road to another Inter Dominion harness racing campaign has been confirmed for classy Victorian trotter Parisian Artiste (Love You). The talented eight-year-old took another important step in his return to racing with a close third in a strong Shepparton trial on Thursday night – and trainer Alex Ashwood has declared he will line up […]
Consistent harness racing gelding Triple Rock Saint (Rock N Roll Heaven) finally had some luck his way when he led all the way to take out the Gordon Rothacker Championship at Melton on Saturday evening. Winning trainer Julie Douglas had four other runners in the race including the heavily backed favourite Hes No Romeo. Triple […]
The Launceston Pacing Club staged their major juvenile races and the three year old events brought together competitive fields for both the fillies and the colts and geldings. The $75,000 6TY Bandbox for Tasmanian bred three year old fillies was taken in out in fine style by favourite Barbary Tales (For A Reason) who defeated […]
Victorian trotter Parisian Artiste (Love You) in his third Inter Dominion campaign showed that his preparation is right on track when he led all the way in the fourth heat of the Second round of the Ladbrokes Inter Dominion Trotting Championships at Albion Park on Saturday evening. Brilliantly driven by Tayla French, Parisian Artiste commenced […]
Birthday cheer in Melton win HIGHLY-TALENTED Charlton harness racing driver Ryan Sanderson had an extra reason to celebrate his 20th birthday last Saturday (June 24)—thanks to a surprise win at the Tabcorp Park Melton meeting. Five-year-old gelding Vanquish Stride (Bettors Delight), raced by big Sydney owner Emilio Rosati and his wife Mary, snatched a narrow […]
Ashwood sets sights on Mildura Cup Mildura, in the far north-west corner of Victoria, has been a happy hunting ground for Bendigo harness racing horseman Alex (Alby) Ashwood for a good few years now. But come tomorrow night (April 22), Ashwood will have his eyes on the biggest prize yet—the $60,000 G3 Tasco Petroleum Mildura […]
Alex Ashwood knows better than most how to navigate his way around the Sunraysia’s harness racing headquarters. The hard working Ashwood is a regular participant at Mildura meetings and makes the long trek north with his talented mare Tay Tay (Rock N Roll Heaven), who is one of the leading chances in this year’s Tasco […]
Victorian harness racing trainer Joanne Franklin was over the moon with the win of her enigmatic square gaiter My High Peak (Peak) at Maryborough last week – but her visiting West Australian niece Maddison was even more ecstatic. “Maddison is horse mad, and she comes over from Perth a couple of times a year to […]
Harness racing seasons don’t come much better than 2022 for Victorian young driver Tayla French but later this week she’ll have the opportunity to add one – or maybe two – more highlights to her year. French will not only have her first Inter Dominion final drive on Saturday night (Dec, 10) but will also […]
One of country Victoria’s exciting young trotters and a “forgotten” superstar are being aimed for Group One glory when the harness racing spotlight turns to TABcorp Park Melton next Saturday (Oct 8). Formidable Bendigo four-year-old Parisian Artiste (Love You) made a timely bounce back to winning form for trainer Alex Ashwood and his partner driver […]
Harness racing reinsmen Alex Ashwood and David Smith are both back home from hospital after being involved in a horror fall at Mildura on Friday night (Jul. 15). Ashwood, 28, was left with a fractured wrist, nose and vertebrae as well as a bad facial laceration after he tumbled from Sandra O’Connor-trained Good Onya in […]
Emerging young Bendigo harness racing trainer Alex Ashwood has just notched up his 100th career training win – but he and partner Tayla French are looking forward, not back. The pair are not only working overtime at putting the finishing touches to their impressive new training base at Heathcote, but they’re eagerly anticipating getting the […]
Brilliant trotting mare La Serena, prepared at Bendigo by talented young harness racing team Alex Ashwood and Tayla French, has run her last race. The five-year-old had been unbeaten this season with three wins from three outings-highlighted by a last start sensational victory in the Group Two $30,000 VicBred Platinum Trotting Mares Sprint Championship at […]
Like many young squaregaiters, Parisian Artiste is far from the finished product. But that doesn’t mean he can’t step up and win a big race right here, right now. That’s the thoughts of his trainer Alex Ashwood, who says the son of Love You has the ability to strike a blow in this month’s Breeders […]
Emerging Victorian harness racing trainer-driver Alex (Alby) Ashwood put an exclamation mark on the passing of another milestone in his impressive career at Monday’s Cobram meeting. Ashwood, of Bendigo, chalked up his 100th driving winner for season 2021, and then went on to notch up a treble from only four drives for the day. “Getting […]
In a period when Long Forest harness racing trainer Andy Gath is searching for his next great squaregaiter, Monaro Maro reminded everyone of just how good she is with victory in a thrilling and action-packed IRT Australia Matriarch Trot. The race at Tabcorp Park Melton last night had been billed as a beauty since the […]
As Alex Ashwood ticks off a major career milestone in the sulky, he already has plans to give up driving and focus on life as a full-time harness racing trainer. The Hobart-born reinsman chalked up victory number 500 in the cart aboard Rocknroll Rhylee at Mildura this afternoon, and will kick-start his own training journey […]
