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Bob Higgins

Francent - West Coast Princess

By Harness Analyst · 10 December 2025

West Coasters love their racehorses and they’ve recently uncovered another harness racing star to follow and rightly claim as theirs. Francent (Vincent) is from a family from which the Higgins family have been breeding for over seventy years and it began with Frank Higgins, the grandfather of the mare’s breeder Bob Higgins. “The story goes […]

New Zealand

Another win for the Coasters in Canterbury

By Harness Racing New Zealand · 2 April 2024

Chalk it up as another harness racing win for the visitors from the other side of the alps. Last week it was Westport trainer-driver Trevor Walsh who saluted at Addington with Sarasota Sunset and yesterday at Motukarara it was the Bob Higgins-trained Destiny Dance (A Rocknroll Dance) who won the Jonty’s Journey Mobile Pace. Higgins, […]