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Captaintreacherous filly Jewel Melody secured her position as Australia’s richest two-year-old this season with a commanding victory in harness racing’s $156,000 Group 1 Albion Park Gold Final in Queensland on Saturday (Jul.16). The win in the feature pushed her earnings to $249,888 in her debut season. Jewel Melody has only had 10 starts this year […]
Well-earned rests await Catch A Wave and Just Hope after the pair produced barnstorming all-the-way performances to dominate harness racing’s APG Vic Gold Bullion finals for three-year-olds at Melton on Saturday. Connections of both said a tilt at Queensland’s lucrative winter carnivals were unlikely for their star pacers, who instead look set to be freshened […]
What a year it has been for Victoria harness racing driver Mark Pitt. After being sidelined for more than three years, the 28-year-old has come back with a bang and driven 64 winners since returning on February 2 this year. Pitt created history in Tasmania last month becoming the first driver in Australian harness racing […]
Promising two-year-old Mister Hunter gave his connections the ultimate harness racing dream at Melton on Saturday night. The son of Huntsville took out the $150,000 Australian Pacing Gold Bullion Final for the boys giving both trainer Vince Dicocco and driver Jack Laugher their first Group 1 success. “It’s quite unreal really,” said Dicocco who had […]
A Group 1 double at Menangle tonight has given premier Victorian harness racing trainer Emma Stewart 2600 winners. Heading to the races tonight, the 40-year-old horsewoman was sitting on 2599 winners. Stewart came out and trained both winners of the $210,000 Australian Pacing Gold Bullion Four-Year-old Finals with Tough Tilly and Beyond Delight at Menangle […]
Supreme harness racing driver Kate Gath and pacer Tough Tilly continued their strong alliance with another Group 1 victory in the $210,000 APG Bullion Final at Menangle tonight. Gath has driven the daughter of Captaintreacherous in all of her 11 victories to date as the pair race towards a special crusade of curing Epidermolysis Bullosa […]
With 26 Group 1 wins to his name premiership-winning harness racing trainer Paul Fitzpatrick is in search of another at Menangle tonight. Fitzpatrick has Captain Ritchie engaged in the $150,000 Australian Pacing Gold Bullion Final – one of the four Group 1 races at Menangle tonight. Captain Ritchie has won his last two starts and […]
A most triumphant evening is the ultimate goal for astute trainer Jarrod Alchin heading into Saturday night’s Club Menangle meeting. Alchin has runners in four Australian Pacing Gold Bullion Finals, including reigning champion My Ultimate Byron. ‘Byron’ will be joined throughout the program by his stablemates My Ultimate Levi, Madrid, Most Triumphant and the undefeated […]
The fairer sex dominated at Sydney’s Australian Pacing Gold Sale yesterday. Out of the six lots that reached a six-figure sum, five of them were fillies. Topping the sale was a Bettors Delight filly out of the American Ideal mare Super Deal purchased by trainer Paul Fitzpatrick for $120,000. An American Ideal colt out of […]
A striking yearling believed to be the world’s only registered pacing-bred Palomino is going along beautifully as he begins his pathway to a what a new group of connections hope will be a successful harness racing career. The colt, known as “Milky” was bred by Tourello Standardbreds in Tasmania, and attracted plenty of interest earlier […]
Harness racing’s Australian Pacing Gold sales and the Magic Millions complex on the Gold Coast have become a match made in heaven. The annual standardbred yearling sale shifted from Albion Park to the Glitter Strip for the 2022 edition of the sales on Sunday afternoon and all involved have been blown away by the positive […]
With $3,223,770 in two-year-old progeny earnings, Downbytheseaside is a sire making a massive splash in the harness racing scene already. Australasian trainers are impressed, and his debut crop in North America have performed so well that he only had Captaintreacherous $3,58,498 above him on the Leading Money two-year-old Winning Sires in 2021. Australasian breakers and […]
The video below could just be the most important three minute clip yearling buyers will ever see! As of next Wednesday (15/12/2021), Australia Post will have the massive responsibility of delivering the strongest APG sales catalogues seen in years. This will provide participants with details of the most amazing $3.25M game changing offering in APG’s 33 […]
As excitement mounts with the first of the NEDS-APG sales only three months away and the catalogues release pre-Christmas, interest has been expressed by New Zealand owners and trainers in the incentives on offer. NEDS-APG has been able to develop a series which is unique in harness racing sales in the Southern Hemisphere. The 2022 […]
The new paradigm established by NEDS-Australian Pacing Gold (APG) for juvenile racing in the Southern Hemisphere opens opportunity for international buyers. The enhanced offering for sale graduates from the 2022 APG yearling sales in Sydney and Melbourne provides access for buyers from two hemispheres to Australia’s best maternal families. The NEDS-APG 2022 race series offering […]
What does the rest of the season have in store for harness racing trainer-driver Jarrod Alchin? The Menangle Park horseman has a juvenile team many wish they had and has already collected two Group 1 races with them this term. At Tabcorp Park Menangle yesterday, another of Alchin’s juvenile team made a statement when his […]
The amazing opportunity to nominate your yearlings alongside the best breeders in the country for APG’s greatest ever sales season ends soon. Have we told you lately that we’re the only industry owned – not for profit – yearling sales company? Breeders looking to taking full advantage of this unprecedented opportunity will realise more benefits […]
Readied with deeper pockets than ever before, the Weeks and Rasmussen partnership were not going to leave the APG Brisbane Sales without the filly that would become boom youngster Cat King Cole. The Stanmore-based trainer and driver combination of trainer Darren Weeks and driver Kylie Rasmussen will usually shell out around $4,000 for a baby […]
