Tag
Oamaru horseman Matty Williamson is well used of travelling and this weekend is no exception, with his team split between Addington tomorrow night and Ascot Park on Sunday. Three of his trotting team head to Christchurch for the Uncut Gems. Two start maiden trotter New Mexico (Creatine) lines up in the non-winners mobile trot (Race […]
Southern harness racing trainer Nathan Williamson will be watching his team race at Winton tomorrow from Auckland as he awaits Group One duties on Friday with Indulge Me. Shakedown (Majestic Son) is a new trotter to the barn and is a ‘project horse’ for stable junior Ollie Kite. He starts in Race Three at Winton. […]
Leading Southland trainer Nathan Williamson likes to target Diamonds Day, especially the main features. This year he was two runners in the $40,000 Regent Car Court Southern Country Cups Final and a starter in both the G2 Macca Lodge/Nevele R Stud Southern Oaks and the Alabar Southern Supremacy Stakes. Dreams Are Free (Captaintreacherous) has had […]
Burnham harness racing driver Mark Jones will have a large team at the Wyndham HRC meeting tomorrow at Cromwell with nine runners across the thirteen race card. In Race Two Mighty Flying Miki (Always B Miki) represents the stable. The giant young pacer had had five starts for five fourths and appears to lack speed, […]
Southland horseman Nathan Williamson is gearing up for the busiest time of the year. Over the next four days he’ll start horses on Friday night at Addington, on Sunday at the Tuapeka meeting in Invercargill and on Monday will have six runners at Ashburton. Duchess Maria (Father Patrick) is the hot favourite in tomorrow night’s […]
This Sunday one of the feature races on the Oamaru harness racing card is the $40,000 Group Three Jasmyn’s Gift Fillies and Mares Stakes. The race is named after Jasmyn’s Gift which was bred by Phil and Bev Williamson and she was named after their daughter Jasmyn. Phil trained her to win seventeen races and […]
Leading Southland trainer Nathan Williamson is look forward to the next few months and has some serious horsepower for spring and summer racing. Star filly Captains Mistress (Captaintreacherous) will be back in the south next week. After winning the Group One New Zealand Sires’ Stakes Three Year Old Fillies Final in Auckland, she was taken […]
You couldn’t have scripted it better for Hidden Talent (Bacardi Lindy) in today’s Temuka Transport Limited Kurow Trotters Cup at Oamaru. The six year old mare shared the 40 metre handicap with Jimmy Carter so she was giving nearly all her rivals a good head start in the 2600 metre feature trot. The six year […]
The Southern Surge meeting at Winton on Sunday has attracted capacity fields and has been well supported by Oamaru horseman Phil Williamson who’ll bring six trotters south for the eleven race card. In Race One, Rangitata (Tactical Landing) and What’s The Whisper (What The Hill) represent the barn. Rangitata is out of a sister to […]
Southland horseman Nathan Williamson is in for a busy few days with nine drives at Winton tomorrow and a big assignment at The Creek at Albion Park in Brisbane on Saturday. At the Winton meeting he links up with the Stephen Balloch trained Sebastian Stark (Sebastian K) in Race One. “He’s got good ability this […]
Classy filly Captains Mistress (Captaintreacherous) has arrived safely at Grant Dixon’s Brisbane stables. “I had a report from Grant and she arrived in great order,” said the filly’s New Zealand trainer Nathan Williamson. On the back of her win in the Group One New Zealand Sires’ Stakes Three Year Old Fillies Final at Alexandra Park, […]
Quality harness racing filly Captains Mistress (Captaintreacherous) will head to Addington next week and that trip will be the decider as to whether she runs in the Great Northern Oaks in Auckland a fortnight later. The three year old was originally down to contest a heat of the Southern Oaks at Ascot Park. But that […]
Utah Jazz (Bettor’s Delight) leads a strong Nathan Williamson team at the Northern Southland TC harness racing meeting at Ascot Park tomorrow. The filly is a close relation to Chicago Bull (the winner of sixty two races and $2.4 million) and will line up in the Ascot Four Square Stella Frost Stakes (R3). “She went […]
Hail Mary (Bacardi Lindy) extended the grand record of her harness racing dam Juliana when she impressively won on debut at Cromwell today. The race was a bit of a messy affair with numerous breakers. But in the hands of Ollie Kite, Hail Mary remained calm and focused and got the job done, winning by […]
A daring drive by Wyndham harness racing driver Craig Ferguson gave him a win in today’s $25,000 Otautau Four Square Supermarket Wairio Cup at Winton. Ferguson, taking full advantage of Shepherds Delight’s (Sky Major) great standing start attributes, opened up some big holes in the eight horse field and made it hard for the two […]
Ex-pat Kiwis Craig and Tony (pictured on right) Jamieson have recorded their first harness racing win since crossing the ditch with five-year-old trotter Scootin Around (Bacardi Lindy) saluting at Geelong. And their second and third followed in quick succession. Scooting Around, a $12 chance, benefitted from an excellent drive from Greg Sugars, switching to the […]
