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Classy filly Willows Girl (Sweet Lou) appreciated the drop in class with a somewhat narrow but game effort to take out the first heat of the Henderson Hydraulics three year old fillies at Wagga on Friday afternoon. A winner of the Gold Bracelet Heat and Final at Bathurst and Heat of the New South Wales […]
The much improved Seasider (Downbytheseaside) notched yet another big race success when he was able to take an inside run to take out the Listed $100,000 Riverina Championships Final for four and five year old entires and geldings at the Riverina Raceway on Saturday night. Driven hard early by Amanda Turnbull Seasider crossed over from […]
THE lion’s share of the $75,000 prizemoney for last Friday night’s TAB Regional Western Championship Final stayed in Bathurst after Seasider was able to take out the feature. Trained by Amanda Turnbull and owned by her mother Jenny in partnership with Harvey and Shelley Kaplan, the four-year-old was given a peach of a drive from […]
Seasider (Downbytheseaside) confirmed his potential with a last to first harness racing success in the Listed $75,000 Western Regional Championship Final at Bathurst on Friday evening. The race was a wide open affair with Nathan Turnbull preparing two runners and Amanda Turnbull three including Seasider. She elected to drive the inform She The Devil. However […]
Local pacer Donegal Luther (Bettors Creek) shocked his more fancied harness racing rivals when he finished powerfully to take out the $40,000 Shirley Turnbull Memorial at Bathurst on Friday night. The race was considered to be a dead set match between the in form Captains Knock and Swayzee who was looking to return to the […]
Seventeen-year-old reinswoman Kirra Langelaar made the decision to switch from rugby league to harness racing two years ago, and is now celebrating the first win of her driving career. Langelaar steered Our George Boston (Betting Line) to victory at Bathurst (September 3) when the six-year-old gelding, trained by Nathan Turnbull, finished strongly up the sprint […]
I’m Bobby (Majestic Son) confirmed his status as the Nation’s most improved trotter with a sparkling harness racing display in an the way win in the Wards Accounting Group Trotters Mobile at Menangle on Saturday evening. The Victorian was going for his fourth win on end and was having his fourth consecutive driver in Amanda […]
CHAMPION Bathurst driver Amanda Turnbull doesn’t take too many drives outside of her family’s horses. Yet she was quick to agree to drive improving square-gaiter Im Bobby at Tabcorp Park Menangle on Saturday night when the harness racing gelding chases his fourth successive win with four different drivers. Im Bobby has drawn gate nine in Race 4, the […]
The most successful harness racing reinswoman in New South Wales Amanda Turnbull is hoping to return to race driving within a month after being sidelined with horrific injuries sustained during trackwork. “I’m pretty much all healed up, with the exception of my index finger on my right hand. It doesn’t stretch out properly – it’s […]
Champion harness racing reinswoman Amanda Turnbull, of The Lagoon, near Bathurst, was seriously injured while jogging a horse earlier this week. The 34-year-old, who is the most successful female driver in New South Wales, has been based near Tweed Heads for the past 10 days while campaigning a small team in Queensland. It’s believed the horse […]
For so many rusted-on, diehard New South Wales harness racing followers, Wednesday night has simply been a way of life, kicking back and enjoying quality pacing action at the Bathurst Showground and now the Gold Crown Paceway. In more recent times they have been able to enjoy watching the rise and rise of homegrown reinswoman […]
Outsider Windy Hill Tara (Betting Line) earned a spot alongside some of our greatest harness racing fillies with an upset win in tonight’s $200,000 John Gibson Memorial NSW Oaks final at Club Menangle. With betting for last week’s heat winner Kahlua Flybye dominating betting, Windy Hill Tara was sent out the amazing odds of about […]
They are some of harness racing’s finest gems that have won 10,664 races between them. ‘They’ are Kerryn Manning, Amanda Turnbull, Jodi Quinlan and Kate Gath, trailblazers of the female driving ranks in Australia. ‘They’ are all driving in Saturday night’s time-honoured Inter Dominion Pacing Championship Grand Final at Tabcorp Park Melton. Kerryn Manning received […]
Twenty-five-year-old harness racing driver Isobel Ross spent her early days growing up in Queensland, but her life in New South Wales is suiting her just fine. “I’m thoroughly enjoying it here in Bathurst. I’ve been working for Amanda (Turnbull) for nearly four years, and I feel I’m a little blessed,” she said. Ross, who has […]
Leading New South Wales female harness racing driver Amanda Turnbull has had a busy 24 hours. The Bathurst horsewoman competed in a heat of the Inter Dominion last night (Nov. 29) at Shepparton, Victoria, with her pacer Bundoran (Lincoln Royal) and fronts up at Bathurst in NSW tonight (Nov. 30) for 10 drives. Turnbull finished […]
Harness racing’s Canola Cup at Eugowra on Monday (Oct. 3) was one for the ages. After two years of missing the carnival in the idyllic central west town due to Covid-19, the feature on New South Wales’ harness racing calendar returned in a blaze of glory, aided by perfect weather, a huge crowd, and an […]
New South Wales’ leading female harness racing driver Amanda Turnbull made the first day of Eugowra’s TAB Carnival of Cups her own on Sunday afternoon (Sep. 25), winning five races including three heats of the Kriden Farms Canola Cup series. Two of her heat winners were fillies trained by her father Steve, who qualified three […]
Michael Boots is fast becoming one of the most recognised harness racing owners around Australia. The Leeton-based businessman has an undeniable passion for harness racing and an ability to find himself quality horseflesh, which are winning Boots many races. One horse that holds a special place in his heart is Bundoran (Lincoln Royal), who will […]
Breaking records is almost commonplace for star harness racing trainer-driver Amanda Turnbull these days. So, bagging five winners at Bathurst on Wednesday night barely raised a ripple for those who keep records. That’s because Amanda had landed five winners at one meeting an incredible 16 times before Wednesday night’s domination. And it was the eighth […]
Passed in at a harness racing yearling sale to winning a Group 1 – that is the story of Bathurst pacer Lyrical Genius. The Amanda Turnbull-trained son of Somebeachsomewhere has had a chequered path to the racetrack but all that was put behind him when the gelding won Wednesday night’s $100,000 Group 1 Regional Championships […]
Just like her grandfather and father before her Amanda Turnbull will get her chance at Inter Dominion glory next weekend. Her grandfather is the late A.D. Turnbull who won the Inter Dominion two years in a row with Hondo Grattan in 1973 and 1974. It was then in 2002 Turnbull’s father Steve Turnbull won the […]
Bathurst harness racing trainer-driver Amanda Turnbull has become accustomed to having busy nights wherever she races. Yet, on Wednesday night at Bathurst, the star driver will be really on the hop when she takes the reins behind eight horses on the 10-race program. Of those she is driving, six of them are short-priced favourites so […]
