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Elton J’s (Always B Miki) win at Oamaru was fitting for the Blue September harness racing campaign and a great thrill for the horse’s breeder Lester Paisley. Elton J was driven by Blue September driver Sam Thornley, one of eleven drivers wearing Blue September colours to raise funds for and increase awareness of prostate cancer. […]
At the recent Forbury Park Trotting Club meeting held at Wyndham in New Zealand, I spotted a horse cover that was 2,000 kilometres from home. The cover for the 1990 Bankstown City Council Four Year Old Cup was won by Almeta Boy (Inner Circle) and was being worn by one of Mataura trainer Lyndon Bond’s […]
Bankstown Harness Racing Club has a busy period during August highlighted by the running of two feature races for three-year-old pacers. Sponsored by the McDowell family, the Allied Express Couriers Derby and the Cheryl McDowell Oaks will both be keenly contested finals on August 25, each carrying more than $20,000 in stakes. Two heats for […]
Mulgoa-based horseman Lleyton Green has stamped himself as a star on the rise in harness racing in the Sydney basin, aided by his association with the McDowell family’s Allied Express Racing enterprise. Green enjoyed a successful 2021 season, driving 53 winners and 109 placings from his 411 race drives, an impressive tally by any reinsman’s […]
