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There’s no better advertisement for the NZB Standardbred Weanling Sales at Karaka than Burnham harness racing trainer Bruce Negus and it was in evidence yesterday at Rangiora. Both of his winners Monkee Major (Art Major) and Hoppy’s Smile (Vincent) were bought cheaply from the Alabar draft at the 2022 and 2023 Sales. In her race, […]
Trainer Cheree Wiggs has spent most of her training life buying and training hand me down horses. So she was understandably delighted when Helius (Downbytheseaside) whom she bred and trains, won at Addington last night. “He’s the first horse I’ve had as a young horse. Normally I buy them off Gavelhouse – the J Bee […]
Orari trainer Lionel Dobbs is a busy man but the 59 year old who still rides his own gallopers in track work and trains a small team of harness horses, has no plans to change down a gear. “I’ve got an aunty who’s eighty nine and I look after her place. My mother lives with […]
New Zealand harness racing representative Cheree Wigg has finished third at the world amateur drivers’ championships in Finland. The championships, featuring nine races at three different tracks at Teivo, Mikkeli and Jokimaa, concluded overnight with Wigg finishing on 69 points, just behind winner Ove Bakkevold Reime from Norway on 72 and Spain’s Antonia Vaquer Staschel […]
Going into 2024 Cheree Wigg had three targets. She achieved the first by being the top South Island amateur harness racing driver and qualifying for this week’s NZ amateur driving championships. Her second goal is to win that title, and then head to August’s world championships in Finland as the reigning national champion, and win […]
By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk Auckland trainer Cheree Wigg has her fingers crossed that Uncle Louis will bring his manners to Otaki on Wednesday when he contests the Grant Plumbing Wellington Trotting Cup (2700m). The seven-year-old gelding was stood down from standing starts after pacing away at Alexandra Park last month. He subsequently ran […]
