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Driving his first Group One winner tonight, young Canterbury driver Seth Hill demonstrated that harness racing in this country is in good hands. “It sounds pretty good. It’s an amazing feeling. It was awesome,” Hill said after winning the $100,000 G1 Pascoes the Jewellers Northern Oaks with Cath, (Sweet Lou) who is trained by his […]
Seth Hill drove his first Group winner on Friday when Cath (Sweet Lou) trained by his father Brendon, won the $50,000 ‘Betavet’ Millwood Nike Fillies Classic at Addington. Hill is in only his third season of driving and has now won forty seven races – thirty five of them this season. Last Friday from barrier […]
Nineteen year old Seth Hill is one of the rising stars in this country’s junior driver ranks and with thirty wins on board and an association with very good pacer Arthur Selby, (Bettor’s Delight) there’s bound to be a few more before the season ends. Seth is the son of Swannanoa horseman Brendon Hill who […]
Swannanoa trainer Bennie Hill has some nice stock around him and last night at Addington Rockingood (A Rocknroll Dance) added to the early season feats of Renegade (Captaintreacherous) and Arthur Shelby (Bettor’s Delight). Last night driver Ricky May eased the Brendon Hill trained Rockingood off the gate and took the lead going into the first […]
Trainer Brendon Hill has no concerns about Arthur Shelby (Bettor’s Delight) stepping up in grade at Addington tonight. Because he knows where the exciting pacer is heading. Arthur Shelby has won three of his four starts and was brave beating Trump Card in a R50-60 race at Addington last Friday. He moves into R58-69 grade […]
Major Hipster (Art Major) who’s been with Woodend Beach harness racing trainer Matt Purvis for just six starts, achieved his second win for his new stable at the Banks Peninsula meeting today at Addington. Driver Seth Hill with a peach of a drive controlled the front and the four year old, too classy for the […]
Benny Hill has trained some very good harness racing pacers including Monkey King and Bailey’s Dream, so could Renegade, (Captaintreacherous) the winner of today’s $25,000 Cheviot Businesses Cup be his next good horse? “Ah yeah. He’s probably the best one in the barn. I’m giving him every chance. I’d rather have him in the New […]
Surprisingly Swannanoa harness racing trainer Benny Hill has never had a runner in the New Zealand Derby but tomorrow night that will change when he takes Renegade (Captaintreacherous) to Addington. “He’s had a great campaign this time. A great lead up for this race and I can’t fault him,” Hill said. Hill has trained 283 […]
The connections of Jimmy James Maguire (Bettor’s Delight) have a decision to make but harness racing trainer Brendon Hill thinks he knows what they should do. And he not just saying they should keep racing the talented five-year-old because that means he gets to keep training him. Hill pulled off a great training feat getting […]
Driver Ricky May admits Sunday’s $20,000 Garrards House And Hound Horotata Cup may not be the ideal harness racing comeback race for Jimmy James Maguire (Bettor’s Delight). But compared with what happened the last time he tried to go to the races the 3000m standing start at Methven will seem like a picnic. Jimmy James […]
A big week could get even bigger when Brendon Hill heads to Methven on Wednesday. The harness racing trainer takes two horses to a rescheduled meeting after producing Jimmy James Maguire to win the NZB Standardbred Sales Series Classic at Kaikoura on Monday. After brilliantly consistent form, the pacer finally nabbed a big race when […]
Swannanoa harness racing trainer Brendon Hill takes a strong pair to Addington Raceway tonight (Jun. 9). In race 2 Point Break, a three-year-old Bettors Delight gelding out of good mare Break Dance (by Art Major), has been turning heads in recent Canterbury trials and is not a surprise $2.00FF favourite. Hill says although the opening […]
