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Swannanoa horseman Bronson Munro has a wider than usual smile on his dial last night. He made the call to buy recently qualified southern filly Easton Doll (Sweet Lou) from Gore trainer Brian Norman. “The beautiful thing about Brian is he’s no bullshit. He just said the horse wasn’t his cup of tea,” Munro said […]
A change of scenery is being credited with turning around the harness racing form of Dover Terrace at Addington last night. The Gold Ace six-year-old landed some big bets to give his Kaikoura-based trainer Sonny Jacobs his first win in 10 years of training. “It was a bloody beauty,” says Jacobs. Jacobs had recently been […]
Two New Zealand records were broken on the superfast Ashburton harness racing circuit yesterday. The Robert and Jenna Dunn trained Got The Chocolates (Art Major) time of 1-58.1 surpassed Franco Indie’s track and New Zealand record. Dreams Are Free (Captaintreacherous) won the Sophomore in 1-59.8, also a new track, race and New Zealand record. The […]
Three year old pacer Coaster (Downbytheseaside) is on the float tonight (Oct. 26) heading to harness racing’s pinnacle, Cup Week at Addington. Trained at Macca Lodge by Brent McIntyre the target is The Macca Lodge South of the Waitaki, a race he sponsors which is run on Show Day. Coaster was made favourite today on […]
