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David Murphy has pacing bred squaregaiter Perfidious Sue (Captaintreacherous) firing of late with back-to-back harness racing wins at Maryborough and Melton ahead of Saturday night’s APG four and five-year-old Trot at Headquarters. The five-year-old bred by high quality pacing stallion, Captaintreacherous has found her groove as a squaregaiter. “She is pacing bred and it is […]
The Luck of the Irish…or great horsemanship? Popular Ballarat harness racing trainer-driver David Murphy is downplaying a bizarre racing incident at his home track last night (May 3) that could have had more serious ramifications. Murphy was driving lightly raced square-gaiter Scar (Danny Bouchea) in the Del Re National Trot (race 11) when the horse’s […]
Perhaps it’s the luck of the Irish, but harness racing horseman David Murphy is making the most of his renewed acquaintance with regional Victoria’s tightest harness racing circuit at Boort. Murphy, who has 1400-plus wins as a reinsman and has passed 1000 as a trainer, was booked with his Irish band Old Melbourne Road for […]
Some horse’s names just resonate – and for Janet Exell, It’s A Good Feeling (Mr Feelgood) summed things up nicely, when her 40-start maiden finally saluted in the Battlers of the Bush pace at Swan Hill harness racing meeting last week (Sep. 29). “I got a winner; David Murphy who agreed to make the trip […]
Harness racing’s David Murphy was the man behind star pacer It Is I during a short but glorious career during the mid-2000s that netted 19 wins from 24 starts and more than $200,000 in prizemoney. And on Monday at Warragul, he landed a special victory with a horse sired by his old champ. The Dunnstown […]
