Before last night Benjamin Butcher hadn’t trained a winner this year. But at Cambridge Barbarossa got him on the board in emphatic fashion as the combo cleared out to a…
After a “solid” trading session at Karaka, the NZB Standardbred National Yearling Sale moves to Christchurch today. And there are number of strong prospects to fetch big money. In Auckland…
Cam Bray doesn’t know where to look when it comes to potential sales toppers at the NZB Standardbred National Yearling Sales that start today. Around 300 yearlings will go under…
“No stranger to travelling,” accomplished junior driver Emily Johnson heads south this weekend as the annual Revell Douglas Memorial Series heads towards its conclusion. On Sunday she’ll drive at Motukarara…

After featuring in a “Win A Share in a Race Horse” competition last year, two-year-old filly Aaliyah has had her first public outing. In November breeder-owner Andrew Fry offered five…

Things have gone full circle for Mitchell Scheuber with his first ever training success at Rangiora yesterday. Three years ago he was helping out Sam Thornley with his then maiden…
Craig Thornley is literally hoping to go one better at Rangiora’s annual Waitangi Day meeting today. And that’s because three of the horses he’ll drive (Ma Belle Amie Franco, Waikaka…

Of the 17 wins Rodney Frampton has had since joining the training ranks in 2020 he rates Soul Artist’s harness racing performance at Cambridge Raceway last night as the most…

A southern harness racing legend, Lionel Sinnamon will be farewelled next week. A stalwart of the Central Otago Trotting Club, Sinnamon died in Omakau yesterday, aged 88. He was a…

Over half a century ago he was New Zealand’s champion junior driver and he went on to train an Inter Dominion winner in 1979. Now Peter Young is back driving,…

Respected breeder, owner and trainer Veronica “Roni” Lauren (above,right) is being remembered as a harness racing enthusiast who loved the sport and her horses. Lauren died in Cambridge over the…

At what is now essentially his local track, in-form trotter Racey Krusa (Peak) heads back to Oamaru this Sunday. The nine-year-old has turned into quite the “surprise package” since joining…