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Classy four year old Double Lou (Sweet Lou) enhanced his credentials for the Group 1 $250,000 Chariots of Fire in a fortnight with a narrow but deserved win in the Group 3 Biowarma Hondo Grattan Stakes at Menangle on Saturday evening. The winner of the 3YO Breeders Challenge last season, Double Lou has notably improved […]
Lightly raced youngster Showmethetanlines (Downbytheseaside) returned to form with a vengeance with an effortless win in the Listed Rod and Fran Fitzpatrick Tatlow Stakes at Menangle on Saturday evening. Returning from a spell Showmethetanlines was given a patient drive by Bailey McDonough who settled the brown colt in the one out and one back trail […]
Noted speedster Double Lou (Sweet Lou) ran his harness racing rivals off their legs in the $150,000 Group 1 Nutrien Equine New South Wales Breeders Challenge for three year old colts and geldings at Menangle on Saturday evening. He put the writing on the wall with an impressive win in the Semi Final. Confidently driven […]
Harness Racing New South Wales staged both finals for the juvenile trotters at Menangle Park on Saturday night and punters were on the mark when Miss Ohana (Art Major) and Gladiatrix (Elite Stride) won their respective finals. The $50,000 Group 2 Final for the three year olds was taken out in stylish style by the […]
Exciting young reinsman Bailey McDonough looks the man to follow at Menangle today with one of his best books of harness racing drives since making the move from Victoria about two months ago. McDonough cut his teeth working for a number of top trainers in Victoria, as well as his father Allan before deciding to […]
Bailey McDonough will soon join the New South Wales harness racing driving ranks after taking up a position with the powerful Luke and Belinda McCarthy operation at Cobbitty Equine Farm. McDonough, a Group 1 winner in the sulky earlier this year behind star trotter Just Believe, will leave his position with Jess Tubbs and Greg […]
The big thrills in harness racing come at all levels and Victorian couple Jess Tubbs and Greg Sugars experienced the full spectrum this past week. Their two interdominion heat wins at Ballarat grabbed the headlines last Saturday night (Nov 26), but a more modest two-year-old maiden victory at Warragul earlier in the week (Nov 22) […]
It wasn’t so much the words Allan McDonough spoke after Blitzern’s upset Lather Up Victoria Derby heat success, but the emotion with which he delivered them that showed just how much the result meant. For all his successes as a trainer – and there’s been nearly 300 of them – few, if any, would have […]
