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Invercargill HRC will host nine races at Ascot Park tomorrow and local harness racing trainer Kirstin Green should have a part to play. Five year old gelding Shergar (Bettor’s Delight) is getting close to winning. He ran a solid fourth at Riverton on Sunday and Race One tomorrow looks like a winnable race for him. […]
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 […]
Branxholme trainer Nathan Williamson took Dreams Are Free (Captaintreacherous) and stablemate Passchendaele (Betterthanchedder) to the Oamaru trials today to further their preparation for new campaigns. The stablemates were the sole entries in a 2000 metre stand. “They just rolled round and finished more or less together and went what (time) I wanted them to go. […]
Orari trainer Lionel Dobbs is a busy man but the 59 year old who still rides his own gallopers in track work and trains a small team of harness horses, has no plans to change down a gear. “I’ve got an aunty who’s eighty nine and I look after her place. My mother lives with […]
Branxholme trainer driver Nathan Williamson delivered a training double for Australian owner Mick Boots at the Wairio harness racing meeting at Winton today. Passchendaele (Betterthancheddar) was the first on the board when he won the Wilbur Ellis NZ Ltd Mobile Pace by a neck from a late charging Share A Dream. PASSCHENDAELE REPLAY “He’s been […]
It was his first race on a grass surface, but Australian harness racing gelding Better Eclipse (Betterthanchedder) handled it with ease and took out today’s $25,000 Group Three Methven 4 Square Supermarket Green Mile. “He was quite relaxed for the most part of it. He thought he was out having a stroll in the paddock […]
With the late afternoon sun casting long shadows over the Ashburton Trotting Club, Orari harness racing trainer, Lionel Dobbs scored an emotional first training success at start number 170. The dual coded horseman who has trained 22 winners in the Thoroughbred code since 2011 has waited almost a decade to secure his first victory with […]
Easter Saturday (Apr. 8) at Addington Raceway may no longer play host to the G1 Easter Cup, but when you look at the fields attracted at South Island harness racing’s premiere venue, it’s hard to argue that those tasked with revitalising the meeting hit the nail on the head. The two mile time honoured Easter […]
Harness racing driver Mike Merton and trainer Gaston Lareau had a night to remember at Tioga Downs on Friday (August 12). Merton drove five winners during the eight-race card. He combined with Lareau for wins with Crystal Sparkles ($12.40), PL Notorious ($4.30), and Reticent Hanover ($3.20). Merton got his other wins with Original Smokey ($3.70), and The […]
Ontario-sired three-year-old pacing colts and geldings visited Grand River Raceway on Friday (Aug. 5) for the fourth harness racing leg of the Prospect Series. Shadowmoon Rising, a son of Shadow Play, recorded a front-end first-division victory in a lifetime-best 1:54 with Tyler Borth at the lines. Shayne Barrington trains him for Rick Rier, Paul Beberich, […]
Trois-Rivieres, QC – “Chick-A-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It)” is a song written by Janice Lee Gwin and Linda Martin and performed by Daddy Dewdrop in 1971. Chikaboom (Betterthancheddar) is also the name of a three-year-old gelded pacer that is the favorite to win the $10,000 second leg of the Breeders Trophy Series at the Hippodrome […]
