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All-time great Chris Alford has the opportunity to join the late Gavin Lang and Daryl Douglas as the most prolific winners of the Horsham Harness racing Club’s Decron Care Noel Smith Memorial Drivers’ Championship on Monday. Alford is a three-time winner of the series, first contested in 1990 to remember the contribution of past club […]
Lexton harness racing trainer Ashleigh Herbertson would like nothing better than to see stable veteran Im Shadow Boxer (Shadow Play) land a feature race. “He’s been a great horse for us and our number one for quite some time,” he says. “He’s a real favourite. We call him the king of the stable.” Herbertson gives […]
Sixth time lucky. Horsham Harness Racing Club president Terry Lewis is hoping he is just that in Sunday’s Group 3 $60,000 The Weekly Advertiser Horsham Pacing Cup (2700m). Kowalski Analysis (Roll With Joe) will be his sixth starter in his hometown feature, and hopefully his first winner. Produceatross started the journey in 2000 and has […]
Cardigan harness racing trainer Anton Golino knows it takes a special horse to win the Group 1 $300,000 Woodlands Stud Great Southern Star. He has just that in star mare Im Ready Jet (Quaker Jet) and Golino is hoping luck will be on her side when she tackles the unique feature at Melton on Friday […]
Ultimate Vinnie (Alta Christiano) has already given young Ballarat harness racing trainer Sam Barker plenty to be excited about. He has contested two Group 1s and been placed in a Group 3 as he has raced through the age classics. Now it is time for Barker to lift the bar, and he has chosen the […]
Amore Vita (Art Major) and Encipher (Captaintreacherous) left no doubt they will be at the top of their game when they renew their harness racing rivalry in the Group 1 $130,000 Always B Miki Vicbred Super Series final for three-year-old fillies at Melton on New Year’s Eve. The Emma Stewart-trained pair signalled they are primed […]
A mouth-watering clash looms in the Group 1 $130,000 Rock N Roll Heaven Vicbred Super Series harness racing final for four-year-old entires and geldings at Melton on New Year’s Eve. Better Eclipse, Narutac Prince and Act Now underlined the quality of this year’s four-year-old crop by making the Inter Dominion Pacing Championship Grand Final. While […]
Armstrong harness racing trainer Leroy O’Brien is returning to the big time. Blake Bolac (Sunshine Beach) led all-the-way for him in the opening Captain Crunch Vicbred Super Series semi-final for two-year-old colts and geldings at Melton on Friday night (Dec. 23), and now heads to the Group 1 final on New Year’s Eve. With Jason […]
West Australian Emily Suvaljko made the second day of harness racing’s Haras des Trotteurs Australasian Young Drivers Championships her own in Ballarat. She made a play for the title with a winning double on Wednesday night to move into second place in the series. New Zealand’s Sam Thornley, who drove a double on the opening […]
New Zealander Sam Thornley has made a sensational start to harness racing’s Haras des Trotteurs Australasian Young Drivers Championships. The South Islander completed a clean sweep on the opening night of the series with a double at Melton on Tuesday. Having his first drives in Australia, Thornley combined with the Andy Gath-trained Outlaw Man and […]
Pat Conroy, the matriarch of one of Australia’s best known trotting families, is making a rare visit to the harness racing at Tabcorp Park Melton on Saturday night (Nov. 19). She going to watch one of her favourites, ‘Connie’, step out in Group 1 company on one of the biggest race nights of the year, […]
From the moment he stepped on Australian soil to join Joe Pace’s Harkness harness racing stable Harry Stamper (Majestic Son) has shown himself to be a special trotting talent. At his second start for Pace the New Zealand-bred squaregaiter made a bold statement, producing an emphatic win in the Group 1 New South Wales Trotters […]
Five-time Group 1 harness racing winner Big Jack Hammer (The Pres CA) returns from an extended spell at Shepparton on Saturday night. The nine-year-old has his first start since August last year when he lines up in the Group 3 TAB Touch Merchant Trotters Free For All. It is a moment owner Domenic Martello was […]
Leeton harness racing trainer David Kennedy is selective when it comes to racing at Tabcorp Park Melton. It is a five-hour drive from his Riverina base in southern New South Wales, so when he decides to make the trip, it is clear he means business. Kennedy ventured to Melton last Saturday with four starters. Finding […]
High profile harness racing owner Danny Zavitsanos is a die-hard Melbourne fan in the AFL. So when the Demons last year won their first premiership since 1964, it was not hard to guess what the theme would be when naming his next batch of young standardbreds He went straight to the top of Melbourne player […]
Valerie Lane will be attempting to keep her winning record intact in the Group 1 $50,000 Aldebaran Park Vicbred Platinum Home Grown Classic Final for two-year-old trotting harness racing fillies at Melton’s Tabcorp Park on Saturday night. The Peter Manning-trained daughter of Father Patrick has made the perfect start to her racing career, winning on […]
Memories of one of Australia’s all-time great trainer/drivers will come flooding back for many long-time members of the harness racing community when Darkies Last makes his race debut at Bendigo on Friday night. The four-year-old is named in memory of G. D. ‘Dave Darkie’ Wilson, who was associated with some of the best pacers and trotters […]
Harness racing’s Durham Park ventures to a Nutrien Equine Standardbred Yearling Sale as a vendor for the first time at Oaklands Junction on Sunday, April 3. The Central Victorian nursery, established by Bruce and Vicki Edward in 2006 and located south of Ballarat, is putting five lots through the sale ring – headlined by a […]
Pat Driscoll has been vigorous in the pursuit of improving harness racing’s trotting bloodlines in Australasia over the past decade. Through Haras des Trotteurs, Driscoll has made a selection of Europe’s best-bred stallions and most successful bloodlines to Australian and New Zealand breeders. The Haras de Trotteurs’ “French Revolution” has been headed by the likes Love […]
Building relationships with buyers has been a big part of Denis and Jo Howe’s success in harness racing’s standardbred breeding industry. “We always follow up and touch base with buyers,” said Denis, who has been taking yearlings to sales for about 20 years after it started out as a hobby. “We’ve built some good relationships. […]
When Doug and Janet Moore decided to locate their harness racing standardbred breeding nursery Brooklyn Lodge from Aberdeen near Scone they looked long and hard for the right location. With their daughter Melanie and son-in-law Ben Settree working alongside them, the desire was to find a property closer to the heart of harness racing country in New […]
He has spent his life living with standardbreds. No surprise given his family bloodline. Picker’s mother Jenna is a sister of prominent New South Wales trainer-drivers Bernie, David and Mark Hewitt – all growing up in the industry as children of well-known horseman Tom Hewitt. Based at the small town of Bigga, located on what […]
Ballarat pacer Demon Delight has the credentials to be a surprise packet of harness racing’s TAB Summer of Glory carnival. He launches in the Group 1 $110,000 PETstock Ballarat Pacing Cup on Saturday night in many ways as a forgotten horse. Click here to view fields. Most of the focus is understandably on the likes […]
You can be guaranteed one thing on a visit to the Drysdale harness racing stable of Ash Warton, wherever veteran pacer Modern Bliss is, stablemate Trent From Punchy will be close by. They’re best mates and never too far from each other, including sharing the same paddock. And it will be the same story on […]
