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Australia Drivers Championship

Remembering Jack Rogers and the Weowna dynasty

By Terry Gange · 24 December 2024

When a farmer from the remote northwest Victorian Millewa district by the name of Jack Rogers purchased a harness racing broodmare in the late 1960s, he undoubtedly changed the course of his family’s life. The mare, Moving On (Camspring) was the foundation for the Rogers family’s famed Weowna moniker, and Jack’s achievements with Moving On’s […]

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Volstead youngster in hit and run Queensland mission

By Terry Gange · 28 August 2024

A successful hit-and-run mission to Queensland will almost certainly not be the last for the Victorian-based Ainsworth harness racing stable. While father and son Barry and Ashley, of Moyreisk, near Maryborough, fell just two metres short of their main mission, a $51K Qld Triad final with Singara Ted (Centurion), on August 17, it was nonetheless […]