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Benjamin Butcher is looking forward to today’s Manawatu meeting where his two harness racing runners back up after a successful day on Sunday. I Can Too (Art Major) scored his maiden victory, in the Wendy Devenport Stables Mobile Pace, with father David Butcher driving while Benjamin was third with and Hearts N Aces (Captaintreacherous) just […]
Trainer and driver David Butcher heads to Manawatu today for the first time this season with several promising each way harness racing chances including one he trains in Brookside Girl (Downbytheseaside). The five-year-old mare starts today in the S & A Telfer Stables Mobile Pace over 2000 metres and is resuming after a lengthy spell […]
Lord Delmar (Downbytheseaside) is after a hat-trick of harness racing wins and just his second in two days when he lines up in Tuesday’s Peter and Wendy Ferguson Mobile Pace at Manawatu (5.44pm). The Downbytheseaside four-year-old was the standout performer at Sunday’s meeting taking out the City of Palmerston North Festival Cup for local trainer […]
The Pukekohe training partnership of Peter and Vaughan Blanchard have a team of four harness racing runners tonight at Cambridge Raceway, all with good each way chances. All four of the stable’s horses raced at Cambridge last Tuesday, with Ultimate Mach scoring his maiden victory and stable mate Always B Mine finishing second just 0.75 […]
Pukekohe-based harness racing trainer Greg Shirley was thrilled with the way his four-year-old mare Words (Downbytheseaside) took out Tuesday’s Night Of Champions Tickets On Sale Now Mobile Pace at Cambridge Raceway. Shirley has long been involved in the racing industry, originally in the thoroughbred code, but now is fully immersed in harness racing where alongside […]
Auckland based driver Tony Cameron heads to Cambridge today with two harness racing runners for his employer Tony Herlihy. “They both have the ability to be right in it tonight provided they get things right” says Cameron. The stable starts the evening off with Lovemeagain in the Corporate Marquee Tables For Night of Champions Handicap […]
He’s best known for his successful association with Self Assured, and now James Stephens is a race-winning harness racing trainer. Now Pukekohe based, James Stephens celebrated his first training success at Cambridge Raceway with Anna (Sweet Lou) who took out the EAC Animal Care Mobile Pace. “It was great, and Andre (Poutama) drove her really […]
The Hygain Revell Douglas Memorial Series for Junior Drivers gets underway today with heat one at Cambridge Raceway. The harness racing series, which was first held in 2022, is run in memory of the late Revell Douglas who tragically lost his life in an incident at Karioitahi Beach in 2021. The 46-year-old father of three […]
The wins keep coming for Junior driver Harrison Orange and Canterbury based trainer Michael House with the pair combining to clinch the Wellington – Otaki Cup double after Gotta Elect Bill (Auckland Reactor) took out the Grant Plumbing Ltd Otaki Cup Mobile Pace yesterday. “It was pretty cool to get back to back wins on […]
Ohaupo based trainer Jason Teaz starts three runners today at Otaki’s grass track harness racing meeting and is hoping that with a bit of luck they can feature amongst the placings. Teaz heads into the meeting fresh off the back of a winning double on Sunday, with both Major Break and Veronica Jane winning their […]
Hunterville based harness racing trainer Scott Dickson heads to Otaki today with a team of six horses hoping for luck after a raft of placings at Tauherenikau on Thursday. “They were all thereabouts on Thursday so hopefully they can get a bit of luck,” says Dickson. First up in the Wings International Mobile Pace is […]
Trainer Michael House and Harrison Orange combined to score a winning double at the North Island’s first race meeting of the New Year at Tauherenikau yesterday. “I rung Harrison three weeks ago to see if we could organise for him to come down and drive at these central districts grass track meetings and I’m really […]
2025 at Cambridge Raceway gets underway today, with local harness racing trainer-driver David Butcher confident his runners can feature. “They’re all fit and most have been racing well although they are in pretty level fields today, so it won’t be easy for any of them,” says Butcher. The first of the Butcher-trained runners is You […]
Junior driver Harrison Orange is hoping to get his harness racing season off to a good start at Tauherenikau races on Thursday (January 2) with four competitive drives for Canterbury based trainer Michael House. “I’ve never been to Tauherenikau before so I’m looking forward to racing on the grass there and the drives I’ve got […]
Cambridge harness racing trainer Nicky Chilcott has six runners engaged at tonight’s meeting including two newcomers to the stable from the South Island who start fresh up off the back of workout wins. Showtym (Sweet Lou) has her first start for Chilcott in race three, the Tote Burger Open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Mobile Pace over […]
Driver Jay Abernethy has already scored a winning double at Manawatu this week and hopes his luck will continue tonight with a handy book of five drives that include both Tuesday’s harness racing winners. Abernethy’s first win on Tuesday was with the Arna Donnelly trained Rough And Ready who took out the Hawera Harness Racing […]
Pukekohe based harness racing driver Andre Poutama heads South to Manawatu Raceway today with a full book of drives and confident he has at least two winning chances. Of his eight drives, seven are for local trainer (and uncle) Stephen Doody whose in-form team is always one to watch out for on their home track. […]
The brand new state of the art complex at Breckon Farms has been officially opened – and it’s “impressive”. Set in the heart of the Waikato at Ohaupo, Ken and Karen Breckon’s newly-completed showpiece was unveiled with friends, colleagues, and industry members this week. “We are absolutely thrilled with it, the whole process and the […]
The Waiuku based training partnership of Michelle Wallis and Bernie Hackett have a strong harness racing line up of four runners in the $35,000 NZ Staff – Northern Metro Series Trotters Final at Alexandra Park tonight. “They’re all well heading into tonight’s race although we’ll need some luck to go our way” says Wallis. Starting […]
After combining with local trainer Stephen Doody for four second placings on day one at Manawatu, junior driver Crystal Hackett looks well placed to go one better on several runners tonight. “It was pretty frustrating for both me and Stephen running four seconds on Tuesday, but they all raced well and some should have improved […]
Despite having a highly successful last few months, Red Rackham (Vincent) proved his doubters wrong in last night’s 2024 Connie Stewart Sotheby’s Int Realty Wairarapa Cup at Manawatu. Trained by Arna Donnelly at Cambridge Raceway, the harness racing four-year-old has been in exceptional form, with six wins and two placings, and only one unplaced run […]
Country Cups harness racing continues in the north and Cambridge trainer Arna Donnelly has a trio of runners set to contest the Connie Stewart NZ Sotheby’s Int Realty $20,000 Wairarapa Cup today at Manawatu. Her three runners Rough And Ready (Somebeachsomewhere), Bad Medicine (Bettor’s Delight), and Red Rackham (Vincent), all who have good form on […]
It was business pretty much as usual, and expected, for the House harness racingjuggernaut at Manawatu this week. “I’d anticipated they’d all go good races as most of them had been racing well and we had targeted this meeting for them,” says driver Wilson House, “but it was pretty awesome to get four winners.” All […]
It was a cracking start to the day for local Palmerston North harness racing trainer Stephen Doody who took out the first two races of today’s Manawatu meeting. “It was a good day, they all went pretty well and a couple should be well placed for next week after today’s runs,” said Doody. In the […]
