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Cranbourne Gold Cup Night takes centre stage for Saturday’s harness racing best bets preview. The Group 1 Cranbourne Gold Cup features a trio of superstars as Kingman, Leap To Fame and Swayzee collide. In the Group 1 Cranbourne Trotters Cup, Keayang Zahara will look to add more silverware to her remarkable resume. Supporting the two […]
Saturday night harness racing will be run at four venues, headlined by Leap To Fame contesting the FFA at Albion Park. Along with Queensland’s Albion Park meeting, Victoria will see pacing and trotting action at Cranbourne, New South Wales has a meeting at Newcastle, and Albany is the venue in Western Australia. Here are our […]
Harness racing fans were treated to a dazzling performance by New Zealand’s premier trotter Oscar Bonavena (Majestic Son) when he demolished his rivals to take out the Group 1 $60,000 Blue Hills Rise Bruce Skeggs Memorial Cranbourne Trotters Cup last night. Trainers Mark and Nathan Purdon had targeted last week’s Great Southern Star at Melton […]
The Cranbourne Harness Racing Club held their harness racing meeting last night and the highlight of the evening were there two trotters events the final races on the seven event card. The Decron Trot saw the consistent mare Illawong Larajay (Sebastian K) patiently driven by leading driver James Herbertson finish too well with a perfectly […]
Emerging three-year-old Fighter Command (Always B Miki) launched his harness racing assault on the TAB Eureka with a stunning track record performance at Cranbourne. The Jess Tubbs prepared pacer sat parked for the final 1200 metres of the race, and with Greg Sugars barely moving a muscle, Fighter Command cruised to the line holding a […]
Brett Wahlstrom’s waited a long time to gear up his first winner as a harness racing trainer – but in the end, it took only three starts! Wahlstrom’s in his “second act” as a trainer in the sport and cheered home his first winner at Cranbourne on Sunday night (June 30) with 10-year-old gelding Kardesler […]
Former Tasmanian harness racing trainer Samantha Gangell has taken a little while to find her feet in harness racing on the mainland – but now she’s turned the corner, with back-to-back wins with handy new acquisition Im Eugene (Artspeak). Samantha and her partner Zeke Slater moved to Victoria at the end of 2022 for work […]
Rookie trainer Jamie Kirk landed the first double of his fledgling harness racing career at his home town track on Cranbourne Cup night. The consistent five-year-old Rakajed (A Rocknroll Dance) made it three wins from his past six starts when he led all the way in the Mark Gurry & Associates Pace. Rakajed ($3.20) appeared […]
A change of plans paid off when Mufasa Metro (Father Patrick) kept his unbeaten harness racing record at Cranbourne intact in the Bruce Skeggs Trotters Cup on Saturday (Feb. 10). Mufasa Metro settled at the rear of the field from his inside second row draw however driver John Justice made a mid-race move to sit […]
The south-east’s much lauded harness racing training centre may need to change its name to Cwanbourne with the facility raining ‘Ws’ in record numbers. The club will again be in the spotlight this Saturday night with an eight-race card that will see many of the local trainers hoping to add to that record tally. Since […]
Victorian hobby trainer Jamie Egan is no stranger to marathons – but getting his first harness racing winner has certainly been an endurance test of its own. Egan has loved horses and racing all of his life, and his passion has extended to gallopers, greyhounds and standardbreds, but his first winner as a harness racing […]
When Sri Lankan born Alan Ratnasingham got a call from some of his siblings to say harness racing was big in Australia, it was the start of a love affair that’s now been going strong for 25 years. “I’d been living in Germany, and they all had trotters. I just loved horses and had tried […]
Two years and one day since she first sat in a sulky behind a horse, Annalise Scott looked right at home recording her first harness racing driving winner at Cranbourne on Sunday (Aug 28). Scott, who began stablehand duties with the Chris Svanosio stables at Romsey in 2020, was convinced a few months into her […]
