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In the hands of his trainer Tony Herlihy, the talented two year old Off Shore got his first win on the board at Cambridge tonight when he led and won with plenty in hand, the $25,000 Dinny Johnstone Two Year Old Mobile Pace. “He’s still on a learning curve and the guys have been patient […]
Gore trainer Chris Gerken has two runners in the eight race card at Winton on Sunday. Crackasky (Sky Major) gets a good draw at one, on the front line in Race Three. The four year old mare was solid in running fourth at Gore last Sunday. “She’s probably taken a bit longer to win a […]
Former Grand Circuit harness racing stars Zeuss Bromac and Auckland Reactor will join fellow Kiwi Highview Tommy at Mal Diebert’s Yanko Lodge, Yanco (NSW) for the upcoming season. They are a formidable trio of colonial bred stallions. Zeuss Bromac, a New Zealand bred son of Bettor’s Delight, competed with real distinction in elite company throughout […]
There was a buzz in the province in 2008 when harness racing trainers Mark Purdon and Grant Payne decided to bring Auckland Reactor (Mach Three) south for a tilt at the Southern Supremacy Stakes. The pin up pacer had been on a winning streak of ten which included two heats of the Supremacy at the […]
Former dual New Zealand Harness Racing Horse of the Year Auckland Reactor, who is now standing in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley, has sired the winners of $14,850,492 to date. The richest Australasian bred horse at stud in Victoria, Auckland Reactor’s progeny earnings this season alone are $1,838,775 – his fifth million dollar season in a row. […]
November is proving a red-letter month for former Kiwi superstar Auckland Reactor, now standing at harness racing’s Glen Alvie Stud, Undera near Shepparton, of experienced horsewoman Crystal Peacock. The Mach Three horse has left 11 individual winners in Australia and North America to date. Auckland Reactor sired winning doubles at Gloucester Park with Johnny Lombo […]
Jazzy Star, a son of former Kiwi harness racing champion Auckland Reactor, now standing at the new Glen Alvie Stud, of Crystal Peacock, Undera (near Shepparton), continues to fly the flag for his sire in Australia. The gelding led throughout in 1:51.8 at Menangle last Saturday night (October 15) to send his stake earnings over […]
Harness racing’s former New Zealand Horse of the Year Auckland Reactor, who is standing this season at the new Glen Alvie Stud, Undera (Vic.), of experienced horsewoman Crystal Peacock, sired a quinella at Menangle last Saturday night (Oct. 8). Jazzy Star, a NZ bred gelding, took full advantage of a pocket trip to cut down […]
Former New Zealand superstar Auckland Reactor will have a new home for the 2022/23 stud season. The $1.75 million-winning son of the great Mach Three is standing at the new Glen Alvie Stud, Undera, a 50 acre mainly irrigated property in the heart of lush Victoria’s Goulburn Valley. The stud is operated by Crystal Peacock, […]
Otematata owner-breeders Ian and Cheryl Munro enjoyed one of their biggest thrills in harness racing when Harrison (Auckland Reactor) produced a spectacular victory in the Kurow Cup at Oamaru yesterday. The pacer made a meal of the feature event’s standing start but he quickly put that behind him with trainer-driver John Morrison taking the six-year-old […]
Addington snippets. Smart pacer Arabian Blue gave his harness racing rivals a pacing lesson when winning on debut last night at Addington Raceway. The Auckland Reactor gelding was too big too strong for the opposition, after being driven a treat by driver Tim Williams in the 1980m mobile event. Williams had Arabian Blue out and […]
Auckland Reactor, the dual NZ Horse of the Year who is now standing at Tony Peacock’s St Fort Stud at Moama on the NSW-Victorian border, has sired 14 winners in three different countries during the past fortnight. Leading the vanguard was the champion racemare Soho Burning Love, the joint fastest Australian bred female pacer ever […]
Auckland Reactor left winners in both hemispheres in the space of 24 hours! Soho Burning Love, the fastest ever Australian-bred pacer, won a $14,800 Conditioned Pace for mares in 1:52.6 at Harrington Raceway, Delaware, USA on Monday (August 23). The six-year-old led from the outset and scored by open lengths. It was her 23rd lifetime […]
