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Denise Swain

A Stirling effort

By Darin Gagne · 9 June 2026

HRNZ records show that M.B.(Bruce) Stirling of Clydevale has bred 246 horses over the fifty one years he’s been involved in harness racing. As a sixteen year old he tried to buy into the Dennis Brothers thoroughbred family but proving to be too expensive, he turned his attention to standardbreds. Shirling became interested in harness […]

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Vale Denice Swain

By Harness Racing New Zealand · 26 September 2024

Denice Swain is being remembered as a harness racing pioneer who had a “heart of gold” and whose horses were “always immaculate.” The oldest of seven children, and from a well-known Southland harness racing family, Swain trained 124 winners from 1986 to 2010. She died in Southland Hospital this week. Among her many achievements was […]

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