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Maitland reinsman Brad Elder has achieved quite a lot in the nine years he has driven in races boasting a career tally of well over 500 harness racing winners in the gig. But it would be fair to say that none of those multiple victories have been quiet as special as his win on Monday […]
Hunter Valley horseman Brad Elder has been making a name for himself as a harness racing trainer of late but he still has goals as a driver. Not only does he want to drive 100 winners in a season, the 24-year-old yearns to drive a Group 1 winner. Elder gets his next chance at Group […]
To outsiders, its possibly easy to become numbed to the impacts of the latest floods in New South Wales – but for each of the many harness racing families caught up in the devastation, there’s no measuring the upheaval they’re facing. But the scale of the operation rolled out by the Elder family of Maitland […]
New South Wales harness racing driver Brad Elder made the most of a weekend getaway to Tasmania, driving a winner at the Launceston meeting on Friday night and then again in Devonport on Sunday afternoon. His Launceston winner came in the way of Ultimate Me (Bettors Delight) for trainer Ben Yole, with the pacer leading […]
Chalking up 89 winners as a harness racing driver in a season is a significant effort in anyone’s terms. That was the tally for Brad Elder in 2021, his best result since the 2017-18 term, when he drove 82 winners. But Elder fell just short of the goal that he set himself at the start […]
Heats of harness racing’s New South Wales Breeders Challenge Regional Series will be held at Newcastle on Friday night for both sexes. East Maitland trainer Darren Elder and his son Brad will be chasing another win with their talented youngster, Flare Up who has drawn perfectly in gate three in the filly’s division. From eight […]
A quartet of wins at Newcastle on Monday pushed Maitland harness racing driver Brad Elder’s career wins to 400. The milestone was reached after he steered What Now Shannon, CC Jones, A Paradigm Shift and Its Allabout Alice to victory. See the results here. “Not a bad result for a battler,” said Elder. “And it […]
