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Much improved filly La Cantatrice (Poster Boy) scored her third win on end and arguably her most impressive when she took out the first heat of the APG VicBred Super Series for two year old harness racing fillies at Melton on Friday evening. And her win was also due to a patient drive by Ewa […]
Victoria had a successful harness racing raid on South Australia claiming both the Pacing and Trotters Cups on Saturday night. The Sam Barker-prepared Ultimate Vinnie (Alta Christiano) gave the 26-year-old his first feature win while reinsman Allan McDonough claimed his second consecutive SA Cup. The reinsman claimed last year’s Cup with the then Emma Stewart-trained […]
The powerful Emma Stewart harness racing stable of Cardigan, near Ballarat, will make a rare visit to the far north-west corner of Victoria today (Aug 16). And if pre-post betting prices at the Mildura meeting are any indication, they are in for a huge day. Although the Stewart team is a regular visitor to Mildura […]
Northern Region Harness Racing Championship-winning reinsman Allan McDonough could be forgiven for wondering what his day would bring after setting off on the long journey from Ballarat to Ouyen early Sunday morning (Oct 9). “I got on the road for the four-hour drive at least 30 minutes later than we planned,” McDonough said. “Then after […]
Like A Wildfire (Big Jim) may have booked himself a ticket to harness racing’s Queensland Winter Carnival with a stunning final sprint at Ballarat on Saturday (Jul.16) that secured a third straight win. Reinsman Allan McDonough said the 16-metre win, created with a 26.4-second last quarter, would only further fuel plans for a tilt at […]
Cardigan harness racing trainer Allan McDonough says a short freshen up has Victoria Derby runner-up Blitzern primed to make a big impact in the Rock N Roll Heaven Vicbred Super Series for three-year-old colts and geldings. Blitzern returns to the races for the first time since his stand-out Victoria Derby campaign in early October in […]
It wasn’t so much the words Allan McDonough spoke after Blitzern’s upset Lather Up Victoria Derby heat success, but the emotion with which he delivered them that showed just how much the result meant. For all his successes as a trainer – and there’s been nearly 300 of them – few, if any, would have […]
After being humbled for just the second time in his career back in mid-June, brilliant squaregaiter Cover Of Darkness is back and ready to set the record straight this Saturday night. The Emma Stewart-trained four-year-old was run down by Sleepee in the Woodlands Stud Noopy Kiosk Trotters Free For All on June 19, with his […]
