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This weekend the spotlight shifts to Menangle with the running of the $250,000 Group 1 Chariots of Fire and an excellent supporting card of quality racing. Despite being the main event on the program, the Chariots Of Fire looks to be at the mercy of the brilliant mare Captains Mistress. The New Zealand bred mare […]
Former brilliant Kiwi mare Captains Mistress (Captaintreacherous) is drawn to become just the fourth mare to beat the boys in Australia’s biggest four-year-old feature, the Group 1 Chariots Of Fire at Menangle this Saturday night. Unbeaten in five stunning displays since joining Jason Grimson’s stable, Captains Mistress should roll to the lead from gate three […]
Almost six weeks ago Southlander Nathan Williamson driving Captains Mistress, was involved in a horrific accident at Alexandra Park when the struts holding the seat on his race cart broke from the crossbar. He was tossed onto the track and suffered a major head knock. After a period in Auckland Hospital Williamson has returned home […]
Club Menangle is proud to announce International Animal Health as the Race Name Partner for the next three editions of the Chariots of Fire. First run in 1995, the Chariots of Fire is a marquee race held each year on Night One of the TAB Carnival of Miracles. The Livamol Chariots of Fire will see […]
Gun NSW reinsman Cameron Hart added a Chariots Of Fire to his burgeoning harness racing CV after he steered Frankie Ferocious (Captaintreacherous) to an all the way win in the 4YO feature at Menangle. A $2.70 second elect, Frankie Ferocious wasn’t challenged during the middle stages in a 56.4 first half of the last mile […]
Ignore this state’s leading harness racing reinsman at your peril at Tabcorp Park Menangle on Saturday night. Yet that’s exactly what Cameron Hart will be hoping for when he takes to the track with trainer Jason Grimson’s latest hotshot Frankie Ferocious (Captaintreacherous) in the $250,000 Cordina Chicken Farm Chariots Of Fire. Unbeaten since joining Grimson’s […]
Master trainer Barry Purdon is growing in confidence he can add to his fantastic Chariots Of Fire harness racing record. Purdon won three of the first five Chariots Of Fires at the old Harold Park track – Ginger Man (1995), Franco Hat Trick (1998) and Holmes DG (1999) – then added a fourth at Menangle […]
The quest to end New Zealand’s hiatus in Chariots Of Fire harness racing dominance is certainly in the right hands. Kiwis have won 11 of the 29 runnings of the Chariots and landed three on end – Lazarus (2017), Have Faith In Me (2016) and Our Sky Major (2015) – before the hiatus started. No […]
The harness racing win by Catch A Wave (Captaintreacherous) in the $250,000 Cordina Chicken Farms Chariots of Fire at Tabcorp Menangle on Saturday night (Feb. 18) was one for the ages. Driven by Kate Gath for her husband Andy, the four-year-old gelding did it the tradesman’s-like way by sitting without cover for the mile journey […]
Even ace harness racing reinswoman Kate Gath admitted she wasn’t overly confident at the top of the straight. Yet the Victorian star Catch A Wave (Captaintreacherous) scored the biggest win of his career, wearing down the mighty Captain Ravishing to win tonight’s $250,000 Cordina Chariots Of Fire. Captain Ravishing led easily from his inside gate […]
It is 25 years since hulking Kiwi pacer Christian Cullen blasted his way to the most memorable Miracle Mile by what seemed half the length of the old Harold Park home straight. There have been harness racing horses as good as him since, but none with quite the aura, charisma and presence … until now. […]
The nature and attitude of Shawn Grimsey’s star pacer mirrors his harness racing name. While Teddy Disco (Tintin In America) was named so after rugby league player James Tedesco, Grimsey’s wife Michelle thinks there is a little more to it than that. He is a favourite around their Tamborine stables. “He is like a big […]
Having his first look at Menangle in the sulky from a wide barrier won’t deter Aaron Dunn from driving race favorite Bondi Lockdown like he is the best horse in harness racing’s Group 1 Chariots Of Fire on Saturday. Fortunately, in some gloom amid the potential doom, the barrier draw delivered Dunn his pre-race wish […]
Sydney’s premier harness racing driver Luke McCarthy is shaping up for what could be one of his biggest weekends of his illustrious career. Coming off the back of winning the past two New South Wales metropolitan premierships, McCarthy is quite enthusiastic to be heading to Penrith on Thursday night where he will drive two Michael […]
There’s been plenty of action in TAB’s feature New South Wales harness racing markets this weekend. It’s a hot battle for favouritism in Saturday’s Chariots Of Fire at Menangle with Bondi Lockdown ($3.40) just in front of Krug ($3.70), although the favourite has been soft since opening $2.40. The biggest mover in the Chariots market […]
Punters dare not blink when the mobile releases the field in harness racing’s Paleface Adios Stakes at Menangle on Saturday night. With the two main chances Krug ($1.65 fav) and Act Now ($3.60) drawn alongside each other in barriers one and two respectively, the outcome to the Chariots Of Fire qualifier may be decided within 200 metres […]
In November last year, veteran Menangle Park harness racing horseman Glenn McElhinney was involved in a nasty fall at the Wednesday morning trials. The incident resulted in him sustaining a badly-fractured elbow, which required surgery. McElhinney was then forced to spend six weeks on the sideline, something that did not sit well with the keen […]
Club Menangle is pleased to confirm a significant increase in prizemoney offered for one of our pinnacle races in 2022 the Cordina Chicken Farms Chariots Of Fire. The 2022 edition, which will be run on Saturday 19 February, will see an increase of $50,000 from the previous year’s race, with $250,000 now on offer for […]
