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Most nights of the week, Ashleigh Camilleri can be found with all the lights on down at the Broken Hill harness racing stables she shares with her father Tony in far western New South Wales. But her attention to the details is bringing the rewards, including most recently with a 100/1 shot winner at faraway […]
Eighteen-year-old Elley-May Adams is pumped and ready to go at tomorrow night’s (April 1) Mildura harness racing meeting. “I’m really excited and looking forward to it,” Adams, of Broken Hill, said. The teenager will partner five-year-old gelding Super Dry (Ultimate Art) in race two and six-year-old gelding Village Lover (Village Jolt) in race four competing […]
Victorian harness racing trainer Luke Watson didn’t take much convincing to jump at the chance to tackle his hometown cup with a promising new stable acquisition. Two months later it’s “mission complete” for Watson, with Keayang Moroccan (Captaintreacherous), who sustained a tough run to collect the $20,000 Rocky Baker Memorial Pacing Cup at Broken Hill, […]
Young up-and-coming harness racing driver Ryan Backhouse smashed the clock last week when he posted a runaway 48-metre victory at Australia’s smallest track. The 18-year-old, based at Horsham, took the drive on bay gelding Iambecauseofyou (Racing Hill) in the Workies Club Mile at Broken Hill last Saturday night (Feb 24). The circuit is officially 602 […]
Broken Hill hosted a five-event harness racing program on Saturday night with the main event being the Robert “Pup” Mitchell Memorial won by Overpowering (Changeover) and driven by his part owner Kaela Hryhorec. Overpowering had to sit outside the leader Dribblabil and despite over racing a fraction the son of Changeover won by 2.2 metres […]
Broken Hill might be in circumstance the smallest harness racing track in the country, but it has one of the hardest working committees and volunteers. Today club President Tracey Robinson announced their feature race of the season The Rocky Baker Memorial Cup on March 15 is worth $20,000 and all support races are now $12,600. […]
A little over 12 months ago, seven-year-old gelding Major Meister (Art Major) was a brilliant winner of the Cranbourne and then Bendigo Cup (earning a combined $99,750) – and for his latest win at last Saturday night’s Broken Hill harness racing meeting in outback NSW he collected $2100. But his owners Ross Weightman, of Mildura, […]
Much travelled young South Australian driver Corey Johnson has made a number of successful border hopping hit-and-run harness racing missions of late. “I guess I’m prepared to travel almost anywhere to drive at meetings at the moment—I’m just loving it and two recent trips took me to racetracks I’d never been before,” Johnson, of Penfield […]
He’s one of the real characters of harness racing in the far north-west corner of Victoria, but Boris Devcic and his stable supporters lit up the outback NSW town of Broken Hill at its famed St Patricks celebrations at the weekend. The weekend features the biggest harness and gallops meetings for the season in the […]
