Veronica Bennellick’s name stands out in the racebook because she’s a much-needed new face in the sport. The thirty three year old lives in Feilding on a 28-acre family farm with her partner Michael Hay and their five year old son Mason. And this is her first season of training. Veronica has been around horses […]
Rakadiamonds (Betting Line) was gifted to Invercargill trainer Matt Saunders. And today at the Riverton Trotting Club Meeting at Winton the three year old filly came out and won, providing the horseman with his first winner since 2020. “A big thanks to Brendan (Fahy) who gave her to us. Three syndicates own her and he […]
With twelve runners, Burnham trainer Bruce Negus will be the busiest trainer at tomorrow’s Waikouaiti Trotting Club meeting on the grass at Oamaru. Race One: Foveaux Gambler (Betting Line). “He’s been a consistently good horse when he’s been right. He went through a flat patch for a long time and I’m not a hundred percent […]
The quest of Burnham trainer Bruce Negus to have good numbers in the Harness 5000 races in Ashburton next month continues at Oamaru tomorrow. “It’s a great concept and it’s encouraging the studs not to put their fees up,” Negus said. With thirty six winners so far this season he’s also closing in on his […]
Branxholme harness racing trainer Kirk Larsen heads to Ascot Park tomorrow with some good chances on the nine race card. Lakelsa’s half-sister Evie Royale (Fear The Dragon) lines up for Larsen in Race One. She was run off her feet on debut but the run is expected to improve her. Shakedown (Majestic Son) resumes for […]
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 […]
Grass track harness racing has a knack for throwing up plenty of surprises, and that’s exactly what happened for the Cummings family when their homebred filly Sonadora (Betting Line) cleared maidens in her first attempt at yesterday’s (Apr. 10) Banks Peninsula Trotting Club meeting. The Robert and Jenna Dunn trained three-year-old filly was given a […]
Winners Bet (Walner) locked up a spot in the Mohawk Million as he flew down the stretch to capture the $665,000 William Wellwood Memorial for two-year-old harness racing trotters on Saturday (Aug. 27) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Dexter Dunn slotted the colt into fifth position and watched a front-end battle play out through :27.4 and […]
Bruce Negus is looking to get a head start on next year’s Country Cup Championship. Negus will line up Corravally Star (Washington VC) in Sunday’s Kurow Cup, a harness racing qualifying event for the 2023 Country Cup Championship at Addington. Negus’s four-year-old missed out on a start in this year’s $100,000 feature by just one […]
HONESDALE PA – Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes rules allow for a set of PaFSS races at every fair applying and qualifying, along with five “two-day Sire Stakes events” away from the actual fair harness racing dates. The Wayne County Fairgrounds in this northeastern Pennsylvania city has harnessed both possibilities together, with the 2-day meet having […]
HARVEYS LAKE, PA – The two-year-olds took center stage as the Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes circuit came to the Silver Springs Ranch, a harness racing training center in northeast Pennsylvania not far from The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, for a two-day event on Thursday and Friday (July 28 & 29), with the babies leading […]