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David Butcher’s hoping for a fitting finale for the well-performed You Little Beauty at Taupo on Monday. The Sweet Lou six-year-old, who’s won 13 races, will make her final race day appearance in the day’s feature pace, the Dunstan Horsefeeds Lake Taupo Summer Cup (4.17pm). After the race she will head to the broodmare paddock […]
Patience rather than panic is the key to finally getting the best out of frustrating trotter Pantani (Father Patrick). The four-year-old heads to Alexandra Park tonight for Race 2, the Garrards Pesticides Northern Metro Trotters Heat (6.19pm) that he would almost certainly win if he raced up to his best form. He did that for […]
Trainer and driver David Butcher heads to Manawatu today for the first time this season with several promising each way harness racing chances including one he trains in Brookside Girl (Downbytheseaside). The five-year-old mare starts today in the S & A Telfer Stables Mobile Pace over 2000 metres and is resuming after a lengthy spell […]
2025 at Cambridge Raceway gets underway today, with local harness racing trainer-driver David Butcher confident his runners can feature. “They’re all fit and most have been racing well although they are in pretty level fields today, so it won’t be easy for any of them,” says Butcher. The first of the Butcher-trained runners is You […]
With five harness racing drives at tonight’s Cambridge meeting David Butcher thinks most can feature in the top three. “Most of the horses I’m driving tonight have been racing well but they haven’t all drawn ideally to suit their abilities,” says Butcher, “so they’ll need some luck.” Butcher’s first two drives of the night are […]
When Zachary Butcher drove his 1,000th winner at Alexandra Park last week he joined his father David in the elite group of reinsmen who’ve achieved the impressive milestone. To add to it, in New Zealand harness racing history they’re the only father and son in the “1000 club”. To engage in a bit of banter […]
With just his third career victory since going out on his own accord, harness racing trainer Tate Hopkins fulfilled a lifelong dream of training a Group One winner with the success of Cyclone Jordy (Art Major) in the $110,000 Breckon Farms Young Guns Cardigan Bay Stakes tonight at Alexandra Park. The young man from Taupaki […]
David Butcher is always one to follow on his home track and lines up a number of good harness racing chances at Cambridge Raceway tonight (Dec. 7). But the Waikato-based trainer-driver is leaning more towards place chances with his runners, rather than outright winners. The first of Butcher’s starters is Changealot (Art Major) in Race […]
It is rare second favourites winning feels like a harness racing upset but the Butcher boys managed to make it happen twice at Alexandra Park on Thursday night. David Butcher and his son Zachary are no strangers to winning the best races of the night in the sulky but they both did it as trainers […]
By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk Waikato horseman David Butcher brought up a special milestone at Cambridge Raceway’s meeting on Thursday, reining home a treble, culminating in his 2500th driving win. Butcher began the night in good form, winning behind the Steve and Amanda Telfer-trained Riverman Sam (American Ideal) in the Chanelle Lawson Photography […]
