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After a deliberately quiet start to the year, Victoria’s powerhouse Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin stable is getting serious again. The Cardigan barn has two of the key runners in Saturday night’s $200,000 Group 1 NSW Oaks at Menangle along with two of the favourites in Melton’s feature, the $30,000 Melton Plate. But it is […]
Young Victorian reinsman Ryan Sanderson continues to rack up career milestones, with his first Melton Saturday night (August16) metropolitan treble highlighting an already impressive harness racing season. The 22-year-old, who sits just shy of 500 career victories (currently 477), partnered three winners for the all-conquering Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin stable. Sanderson, who made his […]
Outstanding two year old colt Loucasso (Sweet Lou) avoided race interference to take the lead and score a blistering harness racing win in the Group 1 $500,000 Protostar at Albion Park on Saturday evening. Punters considered it a match race between Cardigan Dan drawn the pole with Fire and Passion drawn next to him. However […]
A FEW years back, owner-breeder Peter Gleeson was left wondering what might have been with his then superstar pacer Ride High (Art Major). Ride High won 16 of his 18 starts from 2018-2020 but was cut down with injury and retired to stud before he got a chance to chase the biggest harness racing races. […]
Trainer Clayton Tonkin scooped the pool in the rich Alabar Bloodstock Nutrien Equine Classic (2YO) Finals at Melton. The Tonkin prepared The Highlight Reel (Poster Boy) served notice he is a harness racing star of the future when he led most of the way in the $250,000 2YO Colts & Geldings Final. The winner a […]
Leading harness racing trainer Emma Stewart is considering a bold move overseas to campaign a team of horses in the United States. Stewart, who is fresh from claiming yet another metropolitan and state premiership double, has revealed her desire to travel with partner Clayton Tonkin and tackle the competitive American industry. “Me and Clayton were […]
Emma Stewart’s place in Australian harness racing folklore was further ensconced at Tabcorp Park Melton on Saturday night (Nov. 12) with the trainer producing a stunning eight victories on Breeders Crown semi-finals night. Stewart was already without peer on Harness Racing Australia’s chronicles for most training wins at a meeting but tonight, racing some of […]
Star Kiwi-owned harness racing filly Amore Vita (Art Major) has a new home. Champion trainers Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin now have the three-year-old as she prepares for the rich Breeders Crown and Vicbred series’. The move came with regular trainer Nathan Purdon returning to NZ. Amore Vita could have returned for races like the […]
What a joy it has been having a front row seat to the rise and rise of harness racing’s Ladies In Red (Mach Three). It was almost a year ago I started to think she was the best filly (or mare) Australia had seen since Tailamade Lombo 20 years ago. Just the way she continued […]
Things are hotting up again for Victoria’s dominant Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin harness racing stable. Champion mare Ladies In Red, glamour stablemate Tough Tilly and last season’s Victoria Derby and Breeders Crown hero Act Now are all poised for racetrack returns. And the co-trainers have already unveiled an exciting juvenile in Petracca. In fact, […]
Emma Stewart has made no secret about her love for star filly Tough Tilly, but has spoken glowingly about the prospects of the stablemate she traded blows with throughout her two-year-old season. That horse is Ladies In Red, who won her first nine starts before being beaten in last year’s Vicbred Super Series Final at […]
Get ready for a Group 1 splurge from the powerhouse Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin barn. Banglez’s Group 1 victory at Kilmore on Saturday night, is set to kick-start a romp for Stewart and Tonkin with dozens of their best horses just weeks away from returning to the races for the plethora of Victorian major races […]
Forgotten glamour girl Ladies In Red will step-out at the Tabcorp Park Melton trials on Monday night. Joining her will be another of Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin’s brightest young stars, Major Moth. The superstar pair have not raced since their respective Vicbred Super Series finals at Melton last New Year’s Eve. Ladies In Red’s […]
The bargain buy of Nikki Louise is proving a masterstroke from the team at Summit Bloodstock as the mare leaves tongues wagging in her new-found home of harness racing in Victoria. The four-year-old’s form has leapt off the page since joining the Emma Stewart team, which picked up the daughter of Art Major after 17 […]
Co-trainer Clayton Tonkin’s confidence his sidelined harness racing superstar Ride High will make a successful racetrack return has soared. A “better than expected” scan of Ride High’s troublesome tendon last week thrilled Tonkin, co-trainer Emma Stewart and the vets looking after Australia’s most exciting pacer. “This is by far the most positive we’ve felt about […]
