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In the Lincoln Farms Here For The Horse Mobile Pace at Cambridge tonight, northern junior driver Crystal Hackett achieved her 200th win driving the Andrew and Lyn Neal trained Merie Mary (Bettor’s Delight). MERIE MARY REPLAY Crystal told me earlier this week, “I was sitting on 198 for three weeks and I finally got up […]
Lincoln Farms harness racing trainers Ray Green and Nathan Delany are on a roll and with the quality bloodstock they have in their barn it’s likely to continue. Success is not new to senior partner Ray Green. He’s trained 429 winners on his own account, 80 with Robert Mitchell, 67 with Delany and one with […]
While some of the country’s best horses were battling it out in Group races at both Alexandra Park and Addington, harness racing also had two big winners off the track at Palmerston North last night. Hall Of Fame trainer Barry Purdon and the country’s leading junior driver last season Wilson House both took away gongs […]
One of the legends of New Zealand racing will make a comeback to the track on Friday night to partner a horse 67 years younger than him. Hall of Fame harness racing trainer Barry Purdon will have his first race night drive since 2019 when he partners Higher Power in an intermediate trot (Race 4, […]
Katrina Purdon has been lucky enough to own some nice horsepower over nearly four decades. And her winning run is not over yet. Katrina grew up in Cambridge and got her first pony when she was four. “It was a big pony so you had to stay on because it was too far to fall […]
In the twilight of his harness racing career at start number 105, many presumed the Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan-trained Mach Shard (Mach Three) was simply making up the numbers in tonight’s Group One $110,000 Taylor Mile at Alexandra Park against a much younger crop of up and coming Open Class pacing talent. The two […]
Master trainer Barry Purdon is growing in confidence he can add to his fantastic Chariots Of Fire harness racing record. Purdon won three of the first five Chariots Of Fires at the old Harold Park track – Ginger Man (1995), Franco Hat Trick (1998) and Holmes DG (1999) – then added a fourth at Menangle […]
No harness racing trainer has played a bigger role in making the Chariots Of Fire the great race it is than Barry Purdon. Australia’s premier four-year-old race was first run in 1995 and Purdon immediately made his mark by winning three of the first five Chariots Of Fires with Gingerman (1995), Franco Hat Trick (1998) […]
Harness racing’s hottest new rivalry started way before punters had even heard of pacers Cold Chisel (Always B Miki) and Chase A Dream (Captaintreacherous). The pair clash again in the $200,000 NZB Standardbred Harness Million at Alexandra Park tonight, the richest race on the night headlined by the sales series horses and the ideal lead-in […]
The harness racing training partnership of Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan has two runners in tomorrows $140,000 Group One Dunstan Horsefeeds Sires’ Stakes Series Final at Addington. Both Ultimate Racy Girl (Ultimate Machete) and Kiss (Always B Miki) have drawn outside the favourite Coastal Babe (Downbytheseaside) which runs from barrier two in the two year […]
Star northern three-year-old Merlin (Art Major) is nearly ready to resume his harness racing battles with Don’t Stop Dreaming (Bettor’s Delight) even after missing a workout last weekend. But he faces going into the next round of their arch rivalry without a race under his belt whereas Don’t Stop Dreaming will be back on the […]
Twenty three year old harness racing junior Nathan Delany has come full circle having worked at Lincoln Farms when he first got started and now back, working under the guidance of Ray Green. “It’s good to be back there,” he said. His family is heavily involved in the sport. His mother Judith works for Jeremy […]
Forty five year old Swannanoa harness racing trainer Ross Houghton is having a great run with two closely related daughters of Vincent. But because he primarily breaks in horses, the fillies will soon be sent on to Woodend Beach trainer Bob Butt. Courtney Rose (Vincent) and Don’t Tell Jenny (Vincent) both of whom qualified recently […]
Junior harness racing driver Crystal Hackett is a star on the rise. The nineteen year old has come a long way in a short time and is currently third equal with Ben Hope, in the New Zealand Junior Drivers Premiership. In only her third season of driving she is honing in on her fiftieth winning […]
Legendary North Island harness racing trainer, Barry Purdon, claimed an unprecedented 11th win in the $63,000 G2 Cardigan Bay Stakes tonight (Mar. 24) at Alexandra Park with the Always B Miki colt, Cold Chisel. Purdon who trains in partnership with Scott Phelan from his Clevedon property also completed a hattrick of wins in the G2 […]
The 46th running of the G2 $63,000 Cardigan Bay stakes is being held on a bumper night of harness racing at Alexandra Park this Friday night (Mar. 24), serving as the penultimate feature race on the epic ten race programme headlined by the Great Northern Oaks and Derby. As far as supporting races go, the […]
New Zealand harness racing’s best early-season juvenile fillies will do battle on Friday night (Mar. 23) in the $63,000 G2 Delightful Lady Classic at Alexandra Park. The race memorialises one of the truly great race mares ever produced down under, with the dual Auckland Cup winner and 1981 NZ Harness Horse of the Year a […]
Last year’s exciting juvenile Merlin (Art Major) will be looking to resume his winning ways when he kicks off his three-year-old harness racing season at Cambridge Raceway on Thursday. The Art Major colt established a perfect record in his first eight starts, with his victories including the Group 2 Young Guns Cardigan Bay Stakes (1700m) […]
