Tag
APG to end on-site yearling sales as focus shifts to online marketplace Australian Pacing Gold (APG) has announced it will discontinue its traditional on-site yearling sales following the 2026 sales season, marking the end of an era that has shaped the Australian harness racing industry for more than 35 years. The decision, which takes effect […]
Established in 1965 by Geoff Easom, Wyndown Stud has long been one of South Australia’s most successful and respected breeding nurseries, producing winners across the country for more than half a century. Among the many standouts bred and raised at Easom’s One Tree Hill property are Bendigo and Stawell Cup winner Glamour Chief, dual Southern […]
Husband-and-wife breeders Shane and Michele Collins may operate on a small scale, but their support of the SA Australian Yearling Sale in recent years has been unwavering. The pair purchased the Real Desire mare Our Burning Desire—in foal to Major Secret—at the 2022 SA BOTRA Sale. Now, at the upcoming APG Adelaide Sale, the Collins […]
Leading reinsman Gary Hall Jnr was spot on when his elected drive Hez The Boss (Poster Boy) scored a comfortable all the way win in the Listed $125,000 APG WA 2YO colts and geldings final at Gloucester Park on Friday evening. Hall had to make the choice between Hez The Boss and the other Heat […]
Australian Pacing Gold has announced the appointment of former client services and account manager Anthony Essex as the new general manager. APG deputy chairman Peter Watkinson expressed the company’s enthusiasm for Essex’s promotion. “Anthony’s shown a lot of initiative in a wide range of areas since joining the company 20 months ago. He’s helped turn […]
Tasmania has been the birthplace of so many Champion Australian Pacers from Logan Derby, the first Inter Dominion winner in 1936, to Beautide who won two Inter Dominions in 2014 and 2015. As a breeding ground for producing outstanding Pacers, Tasmania “punches well above its weight“ compared to most other Australian States. Buyers at the […]
To say Kevin Seymour has a good eye for a horse is a massive understatement. Seymour has been involved in harness racing for 55 years and has raced some of the best pacers ever to grace Australian tracks. He bought reigning Interdominion champion Leap to Fame (Bettor’s Delight) for $47,500 at the 2020 APG Sydney […]
The Garrard family’s involvement in harness racing goes back a century but their foray into breeding and selling yearlings is a relatively new venture. Trainer Daren Garrard, 55, has 15 horses in work. He has trained 559 winners of more than $3 million. He had an outstanding 2023 season, training 27 winners of $367,000 in […]
It quality over quantity as the old saying goes, and as you look through this years sales catalogue you would be foolish to dismiss those vendors only bringing one yearling. Let’s check out some of the quality harness racing yearlings being offered by the boutique vendors in the Gold Coast Yearling Sale on January 28. […]
In horse breeding, the goal is often to produce individuals with desirable traits such as athleticism, conformation, temperament, and specific skills, like high speed. Breeders may carefully choose pairings based on the bloodlines and genetic backgrounds of the horses involved. Certain crosses may be valued for producing harness racing horses with a combination of strengths, […]
The first progeny of the champion harness racing NSW bred and owned pacer Lochinvar Art, now racing successfully in North America, will go up for auction at the Australian Pacing Gold sale at Oaklands Junction on Sunday, February 4. It is a bay colt, Lot 164 in the catalogue, out of the Albion Park winner […]
A pair of leading lights in the NSW harness racing breeding industry, Joanne Andersen and Dyanna Thommeny, will be represented for the first time at a Queensland yearling sale with a single entry in the Australian Pacing Gold sale at Gold Coast on Sunday, January 28. Andersen, a former president and life member of Harness […]
An exceptionally strong line-up of race-winning mares and winner-producing mares will anchor the Australian Pacing Gold sale to be held at the Magic Millions, Gold Coast on Sunday, January 28. Of the 85 lots to be presented, 55 are out of race winners and 45 are from winner-producers including a swag of ‘black type’ performers. […]
Intending purchasers at the Australian Pacing Gold sale at Magic Millions, Gold Coast on Sunday, January 28 will have the added incentive of rich bonuses being offered through the QBred scheme. Of the 84 yearlings listed in the catalogue, 81 are QBred eligible. More than $3.6million in QBred bonuses was paid to owners and breeders […]
Monarch Farm matriarch Margaret Donohue has seen a lot of smart youngsters after a lifetime involvement with harness racing and she is “very happy” with her draft of yearlings in the APG Gold Coast Yearling Sale on January 28. Monarch Farm has produced several good two-year-old winners in recent seasons, including Paleface Adios Classic Winner […]
Always B Miki is the U14 Champion pacer who retired as harness racing’s fastest horse of all time. Trained by Jimmy Takter, Always B Miki’s racetrack deeds moved him to state “I think this could be the greatest horse that ever lived.” As a younger horse, he raced mainly at Hoosier Park in Indiana but […]
Lindsay and Mary Vagg, the faces behind the Victree Standardbreds banner, are one of the many success stories of the Australian Pacing Gold sales-race series in Brisbane. The couple, who live on a 530 acre property at Southbrook on the Darling Downs, have already produced two winners of the Group 1 Brisbane APG Sales Graduate […]
The Muscle Hill horse Southwind Frank was one of the best young trotters in North American harness racing of his day. He won 17 of his 26 lifetime starts including 10 consecutive races at two highlighted by the Breeders Crown, was 2YO Trotting Colt of the Year in both America and Canada, set a world […]
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett A great story that had an amazing outcome in 2010 followed the above quote exactly when a man called Jim Mulinix went to the Harrisburg Yearling harness racing sale that […]
The Australian Pacing Gold sale at Magic Millions, Gold Coast on Sunday, January 28 features the progeny of 33 individual stallions including three exciting first season sires. The trio of newcomers are the 2019 USA 2YO of the Year and 2020 3YO Colt of the Year and Horse of the Year, Tall Dark Stranger (1:47.2), […]
The outstanding French horse Bold Eagle, Europe’s first sub 1:50 trotter and a dual Grand Prix d’Amerique winner. He will be represented by one of his first Australian crop at our Melbourne sale on Sunday, February 4. This outstanding progeny is sure to raise some eyebrows and some hands for any astute buyers in 2024. […]
The results of the NSW Breeders Challenge at Menangle on Sunday (October 29) proved a triumph for Australian Pacing Gold as sale graduates won four of the six Finals. AGP graduates won both divisions of the four-year-old series with My Ultimate Ronnie (Bettor’s Delight-Gifted Bliss) and Captains Queen (Captaintreacherous-Fususi). Bred by Ron and the late […]
