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Tact Teva is being thrust into the big time at Addington this Friday. One of the country’s most in-form and promising intermediate grade pacers, he steps up into semi open class company in the $22,500 Garrards’ National Handicap. He faces a 10m handicap, the same mark as his better-performed stablemate Bettors Anvil, with Tim Williams […]
Team Telfer have made sure their junior driver Nikita Burton has got to know talented pacer J T Boe this week. Because fresh from a win in the Darren De Filippi Memorial last Friday, Burton will get one of the bigger opportunities of her young career so far when she partners J T Boe in […]
Record setting harness racing trainer Steve Telfer admits he may not have the horsepower to defend his premiership title this season. But that doesn’t mean he and training partner/sister Amanda won’t prove to be punter’s best friends at both harness racing venues of Cambridge and Addington tonight. The Telfers not only won the premiership last […]
Steve and Amanda Telfer take a small but strong team to Addington for today’s final June meeting. In Race 3, the Touchdown Car Rentals Pace over 2600m (1.25pm), Rock N Roll Dude ($3.10FF) returns to the races after a forced layoff. The three-year-old Rock N Roll Heaven gelding has not raced since debuting in August […]
Anthony Butt has been doing plenty of homework ahead of Cambridge’s meeting tonight. Having relocated from Australia earlier this year, Butt is now working at Stonewall Stud and is on duty up north with seven harness racing drives for the Steve and Amanda Telfer team, while Tim Williams has five for the stable at tonight’s […]
Redemption won’t be straightforward for Caught The Eye (Captain Crunch) in the Diamond Creek SBSR Silk Road Mares Final at Winton on Sunday (3.32pm). The harness racing series will culminate with the most even of contests over a mile at Central Southland Raceway. That evenness is set up by higher assessed runners all drawing the […]
Trainers Steve and Amanda Telfer have put together a strong team of four runners to tackle the Halswell Raceday at Motukarara today. Co-trainer Amanda Telfer was quietly confident of some forward performances from some, and improvements from others ahead of the 11-race meeting that starts at 11.50am. In Race 1, the Tim Williams and John […]
It may not have been the most glamorous way to break one of New Zealand racing’s toughest harness racing records but in some ways it summed up the importance and scope of Team Telfer. The brother and sister training team of Steve and Amanda broke the record for harness racing winners trained in a season […]
When Steve Telfer used to work for champion horseman Barry Purdon morning smoko was surrounded by a parade of champions. Telfer and the other staff would have their coffee break in Purdon’s humble-looking hut but one covered inside with harness racing greatness. There on the walls were photos of some of the great moments in […]
Tim Williams admits he doesn’t know what Miki Bennett (Always B Miki) will do when the tapes fly in the Placemakers Oamaru Cup (4.22pm) on Sunday. The pacer comes into the 2600m handicap after botching his last standing start before producing a huge recovery to win. That victory came down in the grades, and if […]
New Zealand’s leading stable has revealed their ultimate goal for the harness racing season and it falls well short of TAB expectations. The brother and sister training partnership of Steve and Amanda Telfer go into the weekend’s racing leading the national premiership by 40 wins, with 123 victories for the season compared to Michael House’s […]
Happy but not surprised was how co-trainer Amanda Telfer sums up one of the best training performances of her harness racing career. Because when Alta Meteor (Art Major) stomped past some very good horses on a soaked Addington home straight on Friday night, he was only showing Telfer what her team had been seeing at […]
Steve Telfer knows one of the hottest runs in New Zealand harness racing history has to end soon. But that may not be tonight. Telfer and his sister Amanda trained a staggering 18 winners harness racing winners in a 10-day space up to last Sunday, more winners than a lot of successful stables train in […]
Molly Belwin’s (Art Major) last start third at Ascot Park has only kept looking better ahead of her return to the harness racing track on Thursday. The four-year-old is among a three-pronged attack Stonewall Stud are sending south for Invercargill’s twilight meeting. Molly Belwin worked hard in the last lap of her last run in […]
The Team Telfer fightback goes up a gear at Alexandra Park tonight. And while senior harness racing trainer Telfer fightback goes up a gear admits winning the premiership won’t be easy he hasn’t give up on it yet. Telfer and training partner and sister Amanda go into tonight’s meeting on 74 wins, 22 behind the […]
Trainer Steve Telfer says x-factor makes Ohoka Connor (Sunshine Beach) the harness racing horse to beat in tonight’s $60,000 Coca-Cola Superstars at Addington. But he admits he still wouldn’t be surprised if one of his other two reps can beat him in the highlight of the strong premier meeting. Team Telfer also have Alta Meteor […]
The country’s leading harness racing trainers, Steve and Amanda Telfer send two additional horses south for today’s feature races at Manawatu and stable driver Joshua Dickie is confident of their chances. “There are several horses in our team that are capable of good performances but I’d say Joca’s Hill and Fernleigh Cash have strong claims,” […]
Oamaru harness racing trainer Phil Williamson and Steve and Amanda Telfer have a good spread of horses across the South Island in the next few days. Williamson lines up two young trotters at the Wyndham meeting on Thursday. Six start maiden Kenny’s Charm (Muscle Mass) gets her chance to win in Race Two. She started […]
Twenty seven year old Alicia Harrison’s harness racing journey has taken a few turns but being based at Stonewall Stud under the guidance of Steve Telfer has given her an opportunity many junior drivers would not get. Working at Stonewall for nearly a year now, she’s enjoying every moment of it. “Steve’s brilliant, a very […]
$20,000 Winter Reward races are spread across the harness racing card at Auckland tomorrow night and Steve and Amanda Telfer’s runners are expected to play a hand in the nine race card. The headline act is Aardiebytheseaside (Downbytheseaside) who resumes in Race Eight. The three year old filly has had three workouts in preparation for […]
Sweet Diamond (Sweet Lou) showed her excellent staying qualities in the Nevele R/Macca Lodge Southern Oaks heat at the Oamaru Harness Racing meeting today (Mar. 8). The team Telfer/Hayden Cullen trained filly sat parked for most of the trip but knowing he had a great staying filly on the end of his reins, driver Jonny […]
Few horses sum up the changing nature of New Zealand harness racing more than Darling Me, who should continue her huge season at Addington tonight. The daughter of champion mare Adore Me will start a warm favourite in the mares’ Uncut Gem, one of three races that dominate tonight’s meeting and give horses who have […]
It was a near perfect day at Methven on Sunday for harness racing trainers Amanda and Steve Telfer. They took just two runners to the grass track meeting and came home with a win and runner-up result courtesy of Aardie’s Express and Mr Perfect respectively. Aardie’s Express was having her first start in the South Island […]
